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Ok, so I've been thinking about my POTC fan fic. I wanted to write something about Jack. But you know what? That's gonna be hard! His personality is so....ummm....SOMETHING! He's charming, witty, funny...he reminds me of BC's infamous line: "loud and beautiful and poetic and dumb." Jack is so diverse yet so perfect and wonderful. His personality escapes me. Do you realize how hard that's going to be to write?!
If and when I do get this fic in motion, I can tell you already that it's either going to be great, or it's going to totally bomb.
I had some sudden inspiration for it in the car the other day. Here's what I came up with:
"I will call you whatever I wish, Jack," she said coolly.
Jack's face visibly fell, but, recovering, he grinned maliciously. "A man could strike a woman for saying something such as that and ne'er hear a word from the authorities."
"Of course he could," she replied evenly, "but you will not strike me."
Anger enveloped his features. He swiftly raised his hand and bent it down again; its target, her right cheek.
Instead of dodging the blow, she raised her own hand, her small fingers wrapped around the hilt of a small knife. Their hands made contact, and a string of curses issued forth from Jack's mouth.
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I'm not sure if I like it. 'Maliciously' isn't the right word right there (not for Jack's character, at least), but I didn't have my handy dandy thesaurus, so you're going to have to excuse that one.
My goal with this story is a tough one. I want to create a female character that is very similar to Jack in the aspect of 'diverse' personality, yet I want her to sort of be the opposite of Jack. Basically, I want two wild and crazy personalities, but I want them to clash majorly.
You might be wondering why I only seem to write stories in which the major interaction is between a male and a female. Simple: it's easy to do. I'm not sure why, but it is. Maybe it's because I have more guy friends than girl friends. I really don't know. So, yeah, now you know why.
Female and female is hard because I don't want them giggly and dense. Well, I think I could pull it off, but I've never really tried. I've been scarred by too many fan fics where mainstream female characters were dizty and naive. It ticks me off.
Male and male would probably work better than female and female. That's strange, though, 'cause I'm not a guy.
One thing I'm worried about is Jack's past. I don't want to have to create a whole history for him, but I may have to.
I'm also worried about my female character. I don't want her to be a Mary-Sue, but the plan I have is sort of edging on that. This isn't going to be romance, but that doesn't mean I won't end up with a stupid Mary-Sue character. She's going to have to have some kind of strange and perhaps rocky past to end up with Jack, though. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to avoid making the classic Mary-Sue mistake?