Pretty much all the non-brits are difficult for me. Angel is boring, Xander and Willow too close-minded (esp after Jesse) and Buffy is very hard to identify with for me(except for the banter) (I was a tomboy and almost nothing she sees as important signifies with me) Spike is surprisingly super easy with and without the soul, good and bad and all the in-between shades. Giles and Wesley are easy too.
Willow and Early Spikeflightoffancy32February 19 2016, 20:05:48 UTC
In one of my stories I kind of played around writing at least one scene that focused on each of the main characters...Willow's head was the hardest for me to get into
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It depends. I can easily do Willow before season 5 but during and after it's harder. I never had any kind of addiction and I have problem understanding what being addicted to something would make you react.
Xander I can write well enough being a bit of a nerd but after he leaves Anya at the altar I usually have difficulties to keep him a good guy or not let him die.
Spike I think I can write him well but I barely can write in normal English, there is no way I can write his accent apart from the luv pet and bloody he'll here and there.
Buffy. I cannot write here in season one and two. She is to princess, still too shallow. I'm a tomboy never liked shopping or being popular or about having a boyfriend. It's hard to write that immature Buffy. If I write her in those season I need some events that makes her mature fast.
Giles. I like to write him ripperish but I stuggle with season 6/7 Giles and his British is confusing. To many big word XD
Anya. I love to write her in every way.
Tara. I have problem write her stutter but I think I can
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Oz is the hardest. He sooooo much smarter than I am and always comes up with something unexpected...which I can't expect, either. I like to write Drusilla, but I never take her POV, which is just too odd. I usually don't like even reading from the POV of mentally ill characters...such as Patricia Highsmith's sociopaths.
For the characters that I don't especially like, I find that writing from their perspective helps me understand them. I may not like them any more than before, but at least I can see where they are coming from. I'm not a fan of fics that bash characters, so it's important to me that they all get treated fairly. Although I do enjoy making fun of them, or puncturing their sense of self-importance.
According to Joss, even villains should think that they are doing the right thing.
I find it very hard to get into Willow's head. I can write really shallow things for her when she just throws out a line or two, but I'm hopeless when it comes to what actually motivates her in the long game
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It depends. I can easily do Willow before season 5 but during and after it's harder. I never had any kind of addiction and I have problem understanding what being addicted to something would make you react.
Xander I can write well enough being a bit of a nerd but after he leaves Anya at the altar I usually have difficulties to keep him a good guy or not let him die.
Spike I think I can write him well but I barely can write in normal English, there is no way I can write his accent apart from the luv pet and bloody he'll here and there.
Buffy. I cannot write here in season one and two. She is to princess, still too shallow. I'm a tomboy never liked shopping or being popular or about having a boyfriend. It's hard to write that immature Buffy. If I write her in those season I need some events that makes her mature fast.
Giles. I like to write him ripperish but I stuggle with season 6/7 Giles and his British is confusing. To many big word XD
Anya. I love to write her in every way.
Tara. I have problem write her stutter but I think I can ( ... )
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For the characters that I don't especially like, I find that writing from their perspective helps me understand them. I may not like them any more than before, but at least I can see where they are coming from. I'm not a fan of fics that bash characters, so it's important to me that they all get treated fairly. Although I do enjoy making fun of them, or puncturing their sense of self-importance.
According to Joss, even villains should think that they are doing the right thing.
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