How did you choose your character's name? Their FC? If your character has ex-partners/current partners, did you find their FCs objectively attractive before the relationship?
OOC: (Keeping in mind that Teddy started out as a boy lol): I wanted an old-fashioned English name, and I liked that Theodore could be shortened to Ned or Teddy -- the idea of this pompous and unpleasant person with a name as sweet-sounding as ‘teddy’ amused me! I don’t recall why Aynesworth, but I like the sound of it. I’d just come off watching Hannibal and I liked that Will Graham looked so innocent but was actually kind of twisted, plus Hugh Dancy had done a good amount of work set in Victorian England onwards, so that was useful for Teddy’s age.
Once I changed Teddy to being a girl, the name was no problem -- she’s still Teddy -- and I chose Indira Varma because she’s fantastic, she’s played a ton of unpleasant characters, she’s fair-skinned enough to have passed and not had too much trouble navigating upper society in Victorian England, and she’s of Indian descent and so am I so I thought at this juncture it might be fun to make free use of my own background.
Teddy’s had two relationships of note: one ages ago with a selkie named Nate whose FC was George Blagden. I still haven’t seen Vikings and only took the faintest notice of him as Grantaire, but he’s pretty cute! And the second was with vampire professor Otto, whose FC was Ben Whishaw, and let me tell you -- I did NOT like Ben Whishaw. I didn’t find him attractive in the slightest. I had a viscerally negative reaction to him. But then Otto happened and now I love him and am riveted by his acting ahahahah OH RP












