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

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

rendering smartness without relying on intellectual trappings is more difficult and telling and whatnot.

I don't know about more difficult, but it's certainly telling. As in, strongly diagnostic of that whole thing where the writer is too smart to be able to write a stupid character. It's like, there you are, you've got a character who doesn't have any formal education or guided intellectual development, who is presented in canon as emotionally and intellectually young despite his vast age. So you consider his POV, you look around inside his mind, and you find -- well, come on, there's got to be something there, right? Something more complex than, food good, Sanzo pretty? So you find it and put it all there, because for there to be nothing complicated and perceptive is just -- it's not only not interesting, it's not even comprehensible.

I suppose I shouldn't say categorically that you can't write stupid characters, since I can't recall seeing you try. But I suspect you can't. And really, why should you? There are so many other people who can.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh. I suppose I'm just proving your point, because my first thought when reading this was Wait, there are people out there who don't have boggingly complex stuff going on under the surface all the time? Really? ...How does that even work?

Also, I feel like I should say thank you for the compliments. Everyone uses this meme to say such nice things!