Fandom meme.
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(Why, yes, I'm doing stupid LJ stuff as a break inbetween writing senior project scenes, why do you ask?)
For no less than five fandae...
Star Trek: Voyager
1. The character you first fell in love with:
As of the series pilot? Kes. *Much* love for Kes. Though Suder gets points for my being totally obsessed with him from the moment I first saw the darned episode.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Seven. When she first came on, I was determined to dislike her. Disproportionate fanservice (I still can't find her attractive) and replacing my beloved Kes? Evil! But she grew on me, a lot. She's one of the few decently executed characterization jobs on Voyager, and Jeri Ryan is actually a good actress even if she looks like a Barbie doll. Go her.
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
Tom Paris. Okay, so compared to some Trek characters, he's interestingly conflicted, but there's something about the whole smartass troubled flyboy thing which just plain didn't appeal to me. Plus I don't actually think he's attractive, which undermines his character, since he's obviously *supposed* to be. I've wound up writing fairly extensively about the fellow, through a rather bizarre set of circumstances,
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
Neelix. Okay, so ninety-nine percent of the time he's an annoying idiot. But every once in a while a genuine shred of character shows through and we're reminded that he's a former soldier, a survivor of genocide, a denizen of the underworld, etcetera, and really generally much more interesting than we're usually led to believe. Plus his friendship with Tuvok has a few enlightening moments, and there's something delightfully unusual about a man who considers himself manly and attractive and yet sings silly songs while he cooks.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Chakotay. I used to think he was actually interesting. o.O And he was, a little, back in the day, but the acting was never convincing and the spirituality, which was a lot of what interested me, was never handled very well. (Then again, it was TV, and not particularly adventerous TV at that. Go figure.)
Harry Potter
1. The character you first fell in love with:
Draco Malfoy. *facepalms* Yes, I admit it, I went through a Draco period. Not just a Draco period, a fanon!Draco period. An H/D shipper period.
Fortunately, I discovered the appeal of Tom/Alastor and grew quickly out of it.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Dumbledore. First three books, he was just a random wizardly patriarch who I didn't pay attention to except when he made jokes. Fourth book, at the end, I started to realize the sheer power he has and become interested. Fifth book, by the end, I was infinitely intrigued. I think he's one of the most complicated, multi-layered, and interesting characters in the books. And, no, I don't think he's evil. He's not perfectly good, sure, but who is?
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
As Azalais pointed out in her version of this meme, the HP fandom is so broad and factioned that it's very hard to say "everybody" in this case. However, my answer is Snape. Not that I hate him, and not that I don't find him interesting in canon (he is), but I simply don't lavish the endless attention upon Snape that nearly everybody else with a brain in this fandom seems to find essential.
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
Perhaps Dumbledore is an entry into this category, but perhaps I'm just getting a skewed view of the fandom courtesy of the vocal Dumbledore-bashers on my fiendslist. I have in the past been very interested in speculation on the histories of Fudge and Quirrel, esp. Quirrel, so maybe that's my answer.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Lucius Malfoy. I just don't find him terribly interesting anymore.
Myst
1. The character you first fell in love with:
When I was first playing the games? I'm honestly not sure. I was, naturally, interested in Achenar from the start. When I first started writing fic? Tamra. Go OCCs.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Both Atrus and Catherine are entries into this category, actually. I have a (ever-decreasing) tendency to ignore protagonists. Atrus I grew to love through writing him, through exploring the sheer extent and depth of his life. Catherine I fell madly in love with through readingsepdet's writing.
A more recent answer to that question is Yannin. I wanted to smack her as I was playing the game, but writing her proved somehow irresistable and endlessly delightful, and I'm quite fond of her now. (Though I still want to plug my ears when she says "This is soooooooo not good." Stupid inappropriate language.)
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
Saavedro. Really, this is a subtle distinction. I don't dislike him at all; he's quite an interesting fellow, if a little lacking in the sort of subtle humanity that the characters in the Cyan games have. I simply don't have the same rabid lurve for him as most of the fandom.
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
There doesn't seem to be any widely reviled character in this fandom, so it's hard to say. Ignored characters, perhaps (Gehn!), but not hated. Though perhaps I am unusual in my fondness of Yannin, given how it came about.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
I honestly can't think of anybody who I've abandoned over the years. Saavedro, perhaps; I used to be a bit more interested in him.
Revolutionary Girl Utena
1. The character you first fell in love with:
Miki. Little angsty geekboy who plays the piano. How could I resist? Also Akio was a big obsession of mine early on, because he is Teh Sex.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Mikage. First few times around, I kinda ignored him, possibly because I couldn't figure out what the fuck was going on, but then he spontaneously morphed into the Character who Ate my Brain.
Oh, and Nanami. I hated her with flaming, raging passion, as I hate very few characters, right up until episode 31, at which point she suddenly became the most interesting thing in the universe and I wanted to adopt her.
A lot of the characters took a while to grow on me, really.
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
Um. Touga, probably. Though most of the people who love Touga do so because they don't understand that he's a slimy manipulative bastard who might possibly be redeemed by his love for Utena, rather than the prince in shining armor he'd like us to think he is. I have given a lot of thought to him over time, but he's one of the more elusive characters I've ever tried to deal with, and there are others in this universe I'm far more fond of.
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
Kozue. I love her madly (which is about the only way you could love her). Part of this rests in my fairly unusual interpretation of her. I do not, in fact, consider her the "female Akio;" rather, in my mind, she's Miki's opposite, pure emotion and desire, unpredictable, uncontrolled, irresponsible, and thus with neither the dedicated intellectualized cruelty nor the dishonesty required to manipulate and hurt in the way Akio does.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Um. Again, the no character falling very far from my interest thing. Possibly Akio. Then again, as a character he's *very* elusive, probably beyond my power to grasp at this point, and my initial obsession was not really with his character, but with his chest.
The Vision of Escaflowne
1. The character you first fell in love with:
Dilandau. Insane albino pyromaniac prettyboy. I was helpless to resist.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Folken. I pretty much ignored him until, oh, episode 22, and then there was the requisite OMG black wings!!1 and the requisite OMG he's actually interesting!!1. And now I consider him one of the best characters in all the series.
I'm also immensely fond of both of Allen's parents, and they were a very acquired taste. Ditto for Jajuka. He gets points for...wait, spoiler.
Oh, and Millerna.trickofthedark's fic helped a lot in this department. She's really a fantastic, tough, intelligent girl, but she's also very young and often immature. (That's another thing I like about Escaflowne. A lot of the characters are terribly young, and I think there really is some effort being put into showing the stress points of adolescents thrust into world-threatening situations.) Plus I'm convinced that she's kept on a prescription of ditz pills during any point when she's comfortable settled in Asturia. Probably her father's fault.
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
Um, I think the only character most everybody loves in this fandom is Dilandau. I don't love him so much anymore (see #5), so I guess that's my answer.
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
Allen. He's a fascinating and deeply flawed hero. A lot of people hate him because they see him as a poncy, self-obsessed, misogynistic idiot. I see his beauty as something he bears almost reluctantly and cultivates for the sake of civility (for civility is a crucial and utterly necessary defining point for this man), and his occasionally asshole behavior towards women as a perfectly understandable product of a society and a chivalry code that he is clinging to for dear life, because without them he is nothing but an abandoned child and a bratty bandit. I could go on, but I'll spare you.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Dilandau, again. Of all the main characters, I'd say he's the most outwardly dramatic and bizarre, but the least genuinely complex and interesting. I don't want to go into spoilers, but consider that there's only so far an artificial personality can go.
There. *pants* Don't quite have the energy to do Eva or Bebop or somesuch. Unless you're *really* curious...
ataniell93.(Why, yes, I'm doing stupid LJ stuff as a break inbetween writing senior project scenes, why do you ask?)
For no less than five fandae...
Star Trek: Voyager
1. The character you first fell in love with:
As of the series pilot? Kes. *Much* love for Kes. Though Suder gets points for my being totally obsessed with him from the moment I first saw the darned episode.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Seven. When she first came on, I was determined to dislike her. Disproportionate fanservice (I still can't find her attractive) and replacing my beloved Kes? Evil! But she grew on me, a lot. She's one of the few decently executed characterization jobs on Voyager, and Jeri Ryan is actually a good actress even if she looks like a Barbie doll. Go her.
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
Tom Paris. Okay, so compared to some Trek characters, he's interestingly conflicted, but there's something about the whole smartass troubled flyboy thing which just plain didn't appeal to me. Plus I don't actually think he's attractive, which undermines his character, since he's obviously *supposed* to be. I've wound up writing fairly extensively about the fellow, through a rather bizarre set of circumstances,
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
Neelix. Okay, so ninety-nine percent of the time he's an annoying idiot. But every once in a while a genuine shred of character shows through and we're reminded that he's a former soldier, a survivor of genocide, a denizen of the underworld, etcetera, and really generally much more interesting than we're usually led to believe. Plus his friendship with Tuvok has a few enlightening moments, and there's something delightfully unusual about a man who considers himself manly and attractive and yet sings silly songs while he cooks.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Chakotay. I used to think he was actually interesting. o.O And he was, a little, back in the day, but the acting was never convincing and the spirituality, which was a lot of what interested me, was never handled very well. (Then again, it was TV, and not particularly adventerous TV at that. Go figure.)
Harry Potter
1. The character you first fell in love with:
Draco Malfoy. *facepalms* Yes, I admit it, I went through a Draco period. Not just a Draco period, a fanon!Draco period. An H/D shipper period.
Fortunately, I discovered the appeal of Tom/Alastor and grew quickly out of it.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Dumbledore. First three books, he was just a random wizardly patriarch who I didn't pay attention to except when he made jokes. Fourth book, at the end, I started to realize the sheer power he has and become interested. Fifth book, by the end, I was infinitely intrigued. I think he's one of the most complicated, multi-layered, and interesting characters in the books. And, no, I don't think he's evil. He's not perfectly good, sure, but who is?
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
As Azalais pointed out in her version of this meme, the HP fandom is so broad and factioned that it's very hard to say "everybody" in this case. However, my answer is Snape. Not that I hate him, and not that I don't find him interesting in canon (he is), but I simply don't lavish the endless attention upon Snape that nearly everybody else with a brain in this fandom seems to find essential.
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
Perhaps Dumbledore is an entry into this category, but perhaps I'm just getting a skewed view of the fandom courtesy of the vocal Dumbledore-bashers on my fiendslist. I have in the past been very interested in speculation on the histories of Fudge and Quirrel, esp. Quirrel, so maybe that's my answer.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Lucius Malfoy. I just don't find him terribly interesting anymore.
Myst
1. The character you first fell in love with:
When I was first playing the games? I'm honestly not sure. I was, naturally, interested in Achenar from the start. When I first started writing fic? Tamra. Go OCCs.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Both Atrus and Catherine are entries into this category, actually. I have a (ever-decreasing) tendency to ignore protagonists. Atrus I grew to love through writing him, through exploring the sheer extent and depth of his life. Catherine I fell madly in love with through reading
sepdet's writing.A more recent answer to that question is Yannin. I wanted to smack her as I was playing the game, but writing her proved somehow irresistable and endlessly delightful, and I'm quite fond of her now. (Though I still want to plug my ears when she says "This is soooooooo not good." Stupid inappropriate language.)
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
Saavedro. Really, this is a subtle distinction. I don't dislike him at all; he's quite an interesting fellow, if a little lacking in the sort of subtle humanity that the characters in the Cyan games have. I simply don't have the same rabid lurve for him as most of the fandom.
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
There doesn't seem to be any widely reviled character in this fandom, so it's hard to say. Ignored characters, perhaps (Gehn!), but not hated. Though perhaps I am unusual in my fondness of Yannin, given how it came about.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
I honestly can't think of anybody who I've abandoned over the years. Saavedro, perhaps; I used to be a bit more interested in him.
Revolutionary Girl Utena
1. The character you first fell in love with:
Miki. Little angsty geekboy who plays the piano. How could I resist? Also Akio was a big obsession of mine early on, because he is Teh Sex.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Mikage. First few times around, I kinda ignored him, possibly because I couldn't figure out what the fuck was going on, but then he spontaneously morphed into the Character who Ate my Brain.
Oh, and Nanami. I hated her with flaming, raging passion, as I hate very few characters, right up until episode 31, at which point she suddenly became the most interesting thing in the universe and I wanted to adopt her.
A lot of the characters took a while to grow on me, really.
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
Um. Touga, probably. Though most of the people who love Touga do so because they don't understand that he's a slimy manipulative bastard who might possibly be redeemed by his love for Utena, rather than the prince in shining armor he'd like us to think he is. I have given a lot of thought to him over time, but he's one of the more elusive characters I've ever tried to deal with, and there are others in this universe I'm far more fond of.
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
Kozue. I love her madly (which is about the only way you could love her). Part of this rests in my fairly unusual interpretation of her. I do not, in fact, consider her the "female Akio;" rather, in my mind, she's Miki's opposite, pure emotion and desire, unpredictable, uncontrolled, irresponsible, and thus with neither the dedicated intellectualized cruelty nor the dishonesty required to manipulate and hurt in the way Akio does.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Um. Again, the no character falling very far from my interest thing. Possibly Akio. Then again, as a character he's *very* elusive, probably beyond my power to grasp at this point, and my initial obsession was not really with his character, but with his chest.
The Vision of Escaflowne
1. The character you first fell in love with:
Dilandau. Insane albino pyromaniac prettyboy. I was helpless to resist.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
Folken. I pretty much ignored him until, oh, episode 22, and then there was the requisite OMG black wings!!1 and the requisite OMG he's actually interesting!!1. And now I consider him one of the best characters in all the series.
I'm also immensely fond of both of Allen's parents, and they were a very acquired taste. Ditto for Jajuka. He gets points for...wait, spoiler.
Oh, and Millerna.
trickofthedark's fic helped a lot in this department. She's really a fantastic, tough, intelligent girl, but she's also very young and often immature. (That's another thing I like about Escaflowne. A lot of the characters are terribly young, and I think there really is some effort being put into showing the stress points of adolescents thrust into world-threatening situations.) Plus I'm convinced that she's kept on a prescription of ditz pills during any point when she's comfortable settled in Asturia. Probably her father's fault.3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
Um, I think the only character most everybody loves in this fandom is Dilandau. I don't love him so much anymore (see #5), so I guess that's my answer.
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
Allen. He's a fascinating and deeply flawed hero. A lot of people hate him because they see him as a poncy, self-obsessed, misogynistic idiot. I see his beauty as something he bears almost reluctantly and cultivates for the sake of civility (for civility is a crucial and utterly necessary defining point for this man), and his occasionally asshole behavior towards women as a perfectly understandable product of a society and a chivalry code that he is clinging to for dear life, because without them he is nothing but an abandoned child and a bratty bandit. I could go on, but I'll spare you.
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
Dilandau, again. Of all the main characters, I'd say he's the most outwardly dramatic and bizarre, but the least genuinely complex and interesting. I don't want to go into spoilers, but consider that there's only so far an artificial personality can go.
There. *pants* Don't quite have the energy to do Eva or Bebop or somesuch. Unless you're *really* curious...