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mare:
I just thought of a question lol

Who are some of your favorite villains you have either written or read and what in your mind makes a great villain?

FrickingKaos:
Best villian I have read is Howie in 00Carter :) he's so complex yet so simple. I love how he is written as an AU character because come on....can anyone imagine Howard being so evil?

As for villian I've written....I'd say Valerie hands down. She's just batshit crazy and was a lot of fun to play with.

Purpura Lipstick:
AJ:
Read: Sinister Devotion
Wrote: Widow's Walk

Nick:
Read: Rewind
Wrote: Amnesia

Kevin:
Read: The Garden
Wrote: Chronos Project

Brian:
Read: Mind Games
Wrote: Severed Identities

Howie:
Read: *coughs* I can't recall the ones I've read ... uhhhh poor Howie
Wrote: 00Carter


--- Quote from: mare on July 30, 2012, 10:23:25 PM ---
Who are some of your favorite villains you have either written or read and what in your mind makes a great villain?

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I love writing villains.  It sounds really bad but I have an easier time getting into the villains' heads.   I love writing Dr. Rough scenes for 00Carter, I quickly volunteer to write scenes with him in it.  But my favorite villain that I've written is Corin in Wulf's Bane.  He is just so evil I don't kno why I enjoy writing him but I do.  I am sure I've read some really great villains but I can't think of any in fanfic.   

Great villains make you wish they were defeated but you can't help but want to know what they are going to do next.  What more can they do to make themselves the villain.  I don't know how else to describe what makes a villain great. LOL

Rose:

--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 29, 2012, 11:38:07 PM ---I have a question for Saka-Steph, Mare, Rose, and anyone else who writes stories that alternate between all five guys' POVs:

When you balance the five POVs that way, do you find that some of the guys are harder to write than others?  If so, which are the hardest for you and why?  Do you think the ease or difficulty of writing the guys has to do more with how well you like them or how well you can relate to them?

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"Here We Stand" is my first attempt at writing all five POVs. (Except in Undead but it's AU and it had five original characters too). I usually go with Brian and Nick, sometimes AJ. I wanted to challenge myself and I loved the idea of a reunion story so when Mare mentioned it in a thread here I ran with it. Honestly it's harder than I realized lol. The biggest challenge is trying to make sure they each sound unique while still sounding like the Boys we know.

The easiest for me are Nick and Kevin. Kevin's role I know very well, I can relate to the big brother thing, I kind of write him like how my oldest brother is with me, the youngest of five siblings. So I can easily picture him. Nick is the same way, I get a lot of him from me. I can relate to him in a lot of ways. When I write him, it flows like it doesn't with any of the others.

AJ's not hard persay, but I like delving into his issues too. In that the biggest challenge is to make sure he doesn't slip into "Nick" as I write him. Usually it's remedied by his cursing or just how he'll say whatever the hell he's thinking. Sometimes I try to have him comedic or I give him emo on a darker level than I give Nick. It depends on the story.

Brian's not hard to write normally, but in HWS he is. I think it's simply because I find it hard to relate to him. I usually rely on his bond with Nick to get me through lol. It's why even though he's my fave with Nick, he's harder to write in stories and why I only have one Brian story lol. And even in that one I take everything away so I can write him better :P. I just have virtually nothing in common with Brian or his lifestyle right now so he's hard to write. In HWS I focused in on his Kevin bond because honestly, that's the one thing I can relate to lol - a family member who's like one of your best friends and in some ways closer than your siblings, but you never noticed growing up lol.

Howie's the other one I have a hard time with. But this isn't his fault. His sense of humor is really one that sneaks up on you. He's hilarious but it's just the kind that's hard to translate into words in a story. He's also in some ways similar to Brian. And so I run into the same problem I have with AJ/Nick, trying to make sure he doesn't start sounding like "Brian". I also can't relate to Howie much, except on the idea of having four "brothers" (in my case siblings) who seem to outshine you or get noticed, for both good and bad things. So usually I focus in on that because it's how I relate to him.


So the point of this long post is that yeah, it has a lot to do with how much I can relate to him as people.

Rose:

--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 30, 2012, 06:33:41 PM ---My favorites for each guy...

AJ:
read - Nowhere to Run
wrote - The World Will Know Your Name

Nick:
read - Cover Me With Dreams
wrote - Curtain Call

Kevin:
read - The Importance of Fly Fishing
wrote - Guilty Roads (I like my Kevin comatose LOL.  Really, I just don't write Kevin stories!)

Brian:
read - Mind Games
wrote - Secrets of the Heart

Howie:
read - He Had it Coming
wrote - 00Carter

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Awww I'm honored I wrote your fave Howie fic. It's only because he epically murders Nick huh? LOL.

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