Open to the floor - Memething

[wilderthan]

There's a meme going round that looks quite fun, so, voila.

Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

Feel free to ask about quite a few characters, it can't be that hard a meme to answer. Also, if you like, you could ask me this, too -- g. Why do you pair [character] with [character]? Obviously you'll have to give me the character name you want me to answer for and the character I 'ship them with that you want to ask me about.

Comments

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does help that I understand why Welsh people are the way they are toward English people. It... doesn't seem very logical to many people (particularly the Saeson), given that we've been a conquered country, one way or the other, for hundreds of years, and haven't even had a prince of our own blood since Llywelyn the Last in the 1200s! But at times I feel much the same way as Bran does about Wales (less so, because I was raised in England), so that part of his character is very easy to write.

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

The fact that you can and do capture that part of him is what makes your Bran feel so real to me. While I can understand it intellectually to get inside his head and really know how his passions is something I can't seem to do.

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

There's also the issue of hiraeth, with Welsh people, which is an untranslatable word for a feeling that, according to my parents, only the Welsh understand (certainly the English people I know don't). It sort of means homesickness, and it also means a love of the land, a longing to be in Wales. I can imagine Bran feeling hiraeth very strongly -- I should play with that more, too.

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

He is very connected to the land between working it and his heritage I would be surprised if that wasn't a big part of who he is.