A question!

[roxy]

For the J2 writers--or RPF writers in general! Mostly for those of you who have written the characters more than once.

Do you see them as the very same people each time out, or are they different folks each time? Do you see them as the actors playing the role of whatever in your fic?

I view them differently reading them than I do writing them. I generally tend to see them as actors playing the role of whatever I'm reading at the time, unless the story is incredibly AU. Also, the better written they are, the more I see them as the RL actors playing the part of whatever--love-crossed artists/baseballs players or thing.

No real reason for asking except for being my nosyparker self. I've only written them a few times and lawks, it's much easier writing J2 or Sam/Dean than Clex. Writing a SV AU required a *lot* of work, like, why was this boy super powered or why was he not super powered. We had to be inventive as hell to get around that if he wasn't. Sam/Dean was like a walk in the park compared to that, incest and stuff aside. *koff* Plus, if you wanted a super powered Sam, that was kind of canon-compliant. *G* We'll always love good old Powers!Sam. I'm forever tucking him into a fic, hah!

I think we know by this post who's putting off writing the next chapter of OTH, ah?

Comments

[meus_venator]

I love writing Mark Sheppard and Steve Williams, but whether I'm writing them in an SPN scenario or a RPF, I tend to make them the characters from SPN. I don't know much about either guy other than what I've seen on Supernatural, so that tends to be what's in my minds eye when I write them. Same with Jared/Jensen and Sam/Dean. I only really KNOW Sam/Dean and the personas the J's put on at conventions and little personal things that may or may not be true, like Jensen likes his coffee black and strong and loves to sleep in. So the little 'Con leaks' get added in to my J2, but I'm essentially writing Sam/Dean LOL
Does that make any kind of sense?
And I'm procrastinating from getting back to work : P

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Yes, it totally does. That's my SV RPS stuff--essentially writing Clark and Lex, with little tidbits gleaned from interviews tossed in for flavor. Interesting!

And I'm procrastinating from getting back to work : P

And nothing wrong with that at all! :D

[bt-kady.livejournal.com]

I don't see J2 as actors in fics unless the fics are non-AU and they are written as actors on SPN. If the fics are meant to be AU, then I see the guys as they look in RL, but the characters themselves I see as the writer wanted us to.Most of what I read is J2 AU, so I've gotten used to seeing them differently each time.

As for writing them, I generally write SPN, so I work hard to write them as much "in character" as I can, but sometimes my head canon slips in. Or, when I wrote Sam/Dean mpreg, that, of course, was wildly AU!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I sort of see them performing the roles, but not really being aware of them as the actors themselves--like watching the show kind of. And I realize that doesn't make too much sense, lol!

I'm always having head canon slip in when I write SpN. It's hard not to, for me--especially for demons.

[bubblesbrnaid]

NASCAR RPF (back before SPN kidnapped the writerbrain) was kinda weird, because in a way, you *are* dealing with roles/characters--a lot of those guys are pretty different in their personal lives than their on-track/in media personas. Or at least they claim to be; I have my doubts about a few of them. :)

Which may have been why I was able to handle it, come to think of it.

And, of course, *now* I know that a lot of my original stuff started out as basically extreme AUs of assorted RPF, but at the time, I'd never heard of any of this stuff. :) I'd take certain people and use them as physical templates, more or less. For the original stuff, knowing too much about the, er, character bases eventually backfired on me.

*sigh* Someday I'm going to have to finish that NASCAR/SPN thing I was working on....

(Also procrastinating, although in this case, I'm putting off work.)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

(Also procrastinating, although in this case, I'm putting off work.)

Yes, this is the service I'm trying to provide..lol!

For the original stuff, knowing too much about the, er, character bases eventually backfired on me.

I can see that being the case--I've found it so from time to time.

[gingersnap1224.livejournal.com]

As a reader, when I read Sam/ Dean, I always go into it with the established characters in mind and it kind of bothers me when they stray too far out of character, but with J2 all bets are off. Tentacles, drag queens, intergalactic miners, I'm in.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

That's what's great about SpN--there are no borders. We can pretty much do what we want, with who we want...it's like constantly opening birthday presents! :)

[gingersnap1224.livejournal.com]

I love that sometimes the more ridiculous it seems, the more I love it. Like the Tipsy kitty story where they are a gerbil and a chipmunk. I mean, really, WTF! and yet, I love it.

[keep-waking-up.livejournal.com]

Alright, I really liked this question, so here are my thoughts:

When I write characters from a TV show, like Sam or Dean, they remain the same characters. They only change if I'm writing a different version of events; like, say Sam didn't leave for Stanford. I would adjust both characters to compensate for that change, but they would remain , essentially, the same characters.

With RPF (by which I mean J2 since that's all I've written), I almost never write the same characters. Names are the same, faces are the same, but the rest will vary. Usually, I am inspired by one aspect of their RL personality and build a character off of that. Because I am inspired by reality, I also won't represent the Js a certain way. For instance: I would never write Jensen as the eternal optimist. Naive? Yes. Optimist, no, because that seems so far from his RL personality. So I have rules and guidelines for myself when I'm dealing with these boys.

I actually tend to think of the Js as sort of like my muses...

Sorry to ramble at you! Hope this is what you were looking for!

[tabaqui]

The few rps i've written...they're just different people who look like the actors, to me. Totally divorced from the Show and rl and whatnot.

But that's just me.
And procrastinating a fic by faffing around online is a *time honored* tradition. :)