30 Days of Fanfic: Day 3

[john_amend_all]

3) For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favorite characters to write?

Doctor Who

As a rule, the characters I most enjoy writing are Jamie, Zoë, Victoria and their extended friendship circle. Sam in particular is always good for a forthright opinion or two and a shameless attempt to flirt with Jamie. The only difficulty is that sometimes they're more interested in winding each other up than helping the plot to progress.

Knightmare

Lord Fear. He gets to insult everyone he talks to, and he's powerful enough to get away with it... most of the time, at least.

Sapphire and Steel

I've only written three of the canonical Elements, and of those I think I prefer Silver. Where Lord Fear gets to bludgeon everybody with insults, Silver can drive them wild with teasing.

Macbeth

My version was hardly orthodox, but I have a soft spot for Duncan (as played by Yrcanos) and Macbeth (as played by Turlough).

Sherlock Holmes

I rather liked writing Irene Adler. So clever, so confident, so utterly mistaken and (in the end) completely oblivious to what just happened.

Doctor Syn

Talking of mistaken and oblivious... Cicely Cobtree. She thinks she's in a Mills and Boon historical romance and is going to find her way to the masked hero's dark heart and live happily ever after. Sadly for her, she's in a universe where the love interest who uncovers the hero's secret is invariably forced to sacrifice herself to save him. She'd probably have done better to hook up with Jamie.

Sarah Jane Adventures

Clyde. Unlike Cicely, he seems to have a good grasp on exactly what kind of story he's in, and from time to time lets us, the audience, in on the joke.

Jane Austen

The only two characters I've written at length were the modern-day equivalents of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth. And since I was writing Anne's POV, I think it'll have to be her. Even if she does have odd ideas about how to spell her surname.

Miss Marple

Again, I've only written a handful of characters. It's a toss-up between Mary Dove and Lance Fortescue; of the two, I think I'll pick Mary.

Torchwood

Ianto, I think. Given the situation, none of the characters was exactly their canonical self, but I had fun with his cameo as a snarky Welsh shepherd.