A question!
7/15/14 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roxyFor 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?
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?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
7/16/14 05:06 am (UTC)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!