Hi! Can I ask C, L and P for the fanfic asks?
Sure! I’ve already answered L in far too much detail here, but as for the other two:
C. Who is your favourite character to write?
I have many, mainly because I have written for many different fandoms and I usually settle with a favourite for each of them., so have a list of my usual suspects:
Bleach: Yylfordt Granz. Starting it off with my disposition occasionally for minor characters, those of you who know Bleach might vaguely recall that one blond arrancar right at the start of the arc that curb-stomped Renji right up until Ururu got involved and then the limits got released and yeah. That guy. Got all of maybe an episode and a half at most, with one tiny mention again later with Szayelaporro revealing he was his brother and a Grimmjow flashback. Super minor, but I love him and I love writing him. This actually stems from a long-term RP session where I ended up controlling him and he quickly became one of my absolute favourites. Ulquiorra is also fun (I like arrancar, okay).
Naruto: Itachi Uchiha and Suigetsu Hozuki. I love writing most of the Uchiha, to be honest, including Itachi’s mother, Mikoto, and Shisui, but it’s just so easy to poke at Itachi and find cracks to play with. So, so, easy. Suigetsu is a good, breath of fresh air after all that Uchiha angst - instead we have a water boy who’s been imprisoned and experimented on loads who just loves to wind up other people (especially Karin and I admit I am a SuiKa shipper through and through).
One Piece: Shachi. And we stick with the minor characters. Shachi finally got named in the manga in the Wano Arc, but his first appearance was the Sabaody Archipelago, some many, many chapters before, and we only knew his name because Oda said so in an interview once. So Shachi is a bit of a cheat because I have written so much for him based on the very limited canon that we have that I’ve basically developed him as a character myself. We don’t actually know for sure that he’s anything like the character I write in my series Tales From The Heart but I like him, and a lot of people have told me they like him, so he’s staying like this in my fics. I do also love writing Law, though (Heart Pirates best crew).
Thunderbirds: Scott Tracy. What’s this? A not-minor character? One of the main cast? Scott’s unusual in that he’s actually a major character - a main character, in fact - that I default to. I usually stick with minor characters because they give me more wriggle room to play with, but Scott’s been an absolute favourite of mine since I first saw the original Thunderbirds back as a kid, to the point that those infant school playtimes were spent with myself and two friends (both boys, both older than me) running around pretending we were the Tracys and I was always Scott (M was Virgil and W was Alan; John and Gordon got left out, sorry boys!). He’s rash, impulsive, and the best big brother in the world. And TAG gives me even more excuses to break him to pieces :D
P. What are your favourite tropes to write?
Favourite tropes, hmm... this sort of question is stupidly difficult for me because my brain doesn’t often work in ‘tropes’. More genres, if anything. Hurt/Comfort (physical or emotional), Angst, Whump, Fluff, Family, Friendship. Those sorts of things, mainly. Hiding an injury/illness is one I like to play around with a lot. Don’t think I’ve actually written much kidnapping but my muse likes to toss those ideas around at me a lot. Same with things like Identity Reveal, I guess. Found family/Friends as family is satisfying, especially when I’m in a fluffy mood. ‘What if x character didn’t actually die’ is another one I toy with but don’t think I’ve actually finished or posted many.
But yeah, I don’t really think in ‘tropes’, so if there’s any prevailing tropes anyone’s noticed in my stuff, I’d be interested to hear what they are :D
