Meme

[brigdh]

I'm stealing a meme from, well, everyone, even though I've been bad and haven't answered anyone else's. Hypocrisy yay!

Pretend for a minute that the only contact you have ever had with me is through my fic. We've never exchanged LJ comments or emails, never hung out in chat or on YM, never talked on the phone or met each other in person, none of that stuff. The only thing you know about me is the kind of fic I write.

What kind of person would you think I am? How would you describe my attitudes and opinions about real-life issues? Or, to use the rephrased question:

Based on the way I write my characters, and the way they speak, think, and behave, what would that say to you about my attitudes and opinions about real-life issues?

Comments

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

I'd say you were a pessimistic person -- not in a gloom and doom sort of way, but as in 'things will not magically work themselves out just because you'd like them to.' It's hard to say, but I think I'd twig on to your lack of interest in gender, since your characters don't worry much about their sexual identities/orientations. I'm nearly certain I'd figure out that you're an observant person, someone who stops and takes the time to really experience things, since your writing has a lot of very specific detail, especially vivid sensory details. I'd say you feel being compassionate is important, since, underneath everything and despite the raw deal most of your characters have been dealt by the world, they still care about others, not blindly or reflexively perhaps, but because they aren't going to let the ugliness of the world dictate who they are and how they act. I'd say you admire courage and tenacity and fighting for what's important to you, not giving up. One thing I think I'd wrongly guess is that you'd be the sort of person who refuses to suffer fools or put up with idiocy gracefully, but that's just because you write characters like Hisoka and Sanzo, and are good at portraying that side of their personalities.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

because they aren't going to let the ugliness of the world dictate who they are and how they act

Aw, that's such a lovely way to put it. But yeah, completely true. I'm still impressed by all the interesting things people manage to say for this meme.