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tempusfrangit) wrote2012-12-05 10:01 pm
tempusfrangit) wrote2012-12-05 10:01 pm
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Pick a character* I've written and I will give and explain the top five** ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.
* Try to make it someone I've written either often (fanfic, RP, whatevers) or recently in order for me to answer.
** May not actually be five.
* Try to make it someone I've written either often (fanfic, RP, whatevers) or recently in order for me to answer.
** May not actually be five.
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In the text of the Coraline novel, Neil often lists things that are there that Coraline notices and marks down. "There are four red flowers. There were two people arguing. There was one girl sulking." When I start an EP or start a piece of fiction I try to always start(and end) it this way as a throwback to the original text and to Coraline's curious and observant nature.
2. Abandonment issues
The Other Mother really hit it on the head with Coraline. She's a child who is often left behind, often forgotten, the odd kid without too many friends, the girl whose parents don't pay attention to. This has affected her whole life, it is part of who she is and her deepest fears. The island has compounded that feeling by taking her family away, by taking her friends away and leaving her alone. She always has that fear in her which is why she makes friends so easily, why she clings to those she knows, why she is so touchyfeelyhuggy with people. I reflect this a lot in my AU'S and fics as well.
3. She is an innocent.
In the books she's a child, on TR she's a teenager but she's an entirely innocent teenager. She might not be inexperienced in the horrors of life but she is still innocent to what the real world is like. Things that we would know about drugs, teen pregnancies, things that might affect a modern teen aren't what affect her. Her life on the island is fairly innocent which I try to show in things like the way she dresses, the way she doesn't understand why she can't sleep in a bed with Johnny, the way she acted say with Aidan as an adult. She doesn't understand that these are things that can be frowned upon by people because she doesn't have a modern reference point to match it to.
4. Coraline is curious.
Her curiosity has been tempered but she still asks questions. It still affects her taking on too much. What she does. How she acts. She makes friends fairly easily on the island because of that curiosity which makes her seem approachable where as at home made her seem odd.
5. Life isn't always black and white
But to Coraline it often is, it's something now that she grows older that she understands about shades of grey.
And not the weird kinky book kind.
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