laeria | Memeing for nefarious purposes.

Indeed, surprise nefarious purposes. Exam-related surprise nefarious purposes for the Greater Good.

[Also because I'd like to redirect my brain from some stuff.]

Pick <s>any</s> several! characters from a fandom of mine and I'll answer the following questions:

1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her.

2) Is he/she important to the general plot?

3) Can you relate to this character at all? Does he/she grip you emotionally?

4) How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?

5) Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by his/her relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)

6) Is there anything about the character you would change?

7) If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how would you see yourself interacting with him/her? Would you get along well? Fall in love with him/her? Dislike? Have a friendly rivalry?

8) Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?

9) Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about this character (if you dislike) to someone new to fandom?

10) Is this character popular with the fanbase?

Also, come talk to me, o dreamcircle. How are you?

ETA: I take it back. It's just meme pour meme, because my recording equipment is, inevitably, dead. It was going to be this thing where I practice for my eventual Speaking English Like a Motherfucking Adult exam by answering the questions out loud, but I'm too impatient (you people* gave me excellent characters) and have no idea when the equipment will start working again. So, I give you my textual answers, but feel free to stew in soft anticipation of Hearing Chilla's Voice one day soon.

*people on LJ, one person on DW. I probably ought to figure out this crossposting thing one day.

ETA2: Link to the LJ equivalent, if you're curious about further characters and possibly a catfight about Gunn:
http://laeria.livejournal.com/1275.html?view=12283#t12283

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Topher - Note that we're talking about S1 Topher here, as I didn't finish watching S2, which is a trend you will see repeating in my relationships with Whedon shows.

1) I do like him, as much as it's possible to like anyone in Dollhouse. You could even say he's my favourite. I think I like his... utter lack of morals? Or just the fact that he, unlike the other characters, is totally easy to understand. There's no great mystery about him.
2) He's the chessmaster of a lot of plots and the pawn of many more. *lyrical*
3) I can't relate to him either. I don't generally relate to excessively intellectual and geeky characters. He's more intriguing than emotionally gripping, I think, except maybe in the birthday episode.
4) I know nothing about Dollhouse fandom except that Clair is accepted as asexual, which I approve of...
5) ... although I always thought Topher was asexual. Or aromantic anyway. Platonically, the Adelle-Boyd-Topher triumvirate astounds me.
6) I wouldn't change anything about him, although I'd expand on his relationship with Ivy.
7) Meh. We'd meet, he'd be distracted and disinterested, I'd be unduly paranoid of him stealing my memories. It'd be an unpleasant and brief date.
8) He IS my favourite on Dollhouse (well, barring Victor and Sierra), but not an "all time" contender.
9) I'd recommend him, with reservations. Some people apparently cannot like psychopathic bodysnatching Evil Scientist characters.
10) I dunno, is he popular?

Tara
1) I LOVE, love, love, LOVE Tara. She's my second favourite character in the show. I love her strength, her kindness, her courage, her completely consistent morality. Every time she's on screen, things feel just a little bit less fucked up. (Until the, ah, finale.)
2) Tara's plot significance seems to be "bad things happen to her and this leads to further bad things happening", which really stirs my resentment.
3) I don't relate to her (I'm not that serene, her problems aren't mine and vice versa), but she really does have a huge emotional impact on me.
4) Buffy fandom is immense. I like the bits of it I've seen but wouldn't like to see more, honestly.
5) I really ship Tara and Faith, because their backgrounds are similar and their worldviews so radically different and it'd be a really twisty ship initially but could grow into looove. Out of Tara's canon relationships, her friendship with Buffy is my favourite, and I could very easily ship that too.
6) Nothing, apart from that horrible horrible what the hell were you smoking end of her storyline.
7) I am pretty certain I'd fall in love with her somewhat. Also, if Tara was in fandom, she'd be the one who makes beautiful icons but barely ever comments.
8) I think she is in my pantheon of all-time favourites.
9) I'd probably gush about her in advance.
10) Yes? Well, the bits of it I'm in anyway.

Yeah, I realized belatedly that Topher was probably a bad character to ask about, since Dollhouse fandom is really, really small and I'm not that familiar with it. If you ever watch S2, you'll see he's definitely a pawn more than a chessmaster... but then, pretty much everyone is. (I don't want to spoil, but there is a MASSIVE game-changing plot twist in late S2.) I love him because I love nerdy boys, and because his fall from grace is heartbreaking.

Yay Tara! I love her as well. The end of her storyline actually made me yell "Noooo!" at my computer.

Unlike AtS, I am DEFINITELY planning to finish Dollhouse, so thank you for the intriguing teaser! <3

Oh, also, I meant to ask in my previous comment, but forgot - are you doing humanity majors too?

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