a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her. She is made of contrasts. And also, she wasn't appealing to me until Small Favor added the extra drama/tragedy to her story. I think in Death Masks, it's said that the knowledge is passed form mother to daughter at birth, while in Small Favor, it says that the Archive's knowledge is passed to the daughter usually after the daughter has already had a daughter of her own (yes, I do need to revisit my textev, but I think that was an actual contradiction - probably JB changed his mind), but the fact that it placed her as different from any other Archive before her suddenly appealed to me. Also, the stuff about her mother's suicide. Also, the fact that, summarily, Ivy-the-girl is pretty much almost broken down by what happened. I need to write her to flesh that out, but that was... fascinating.
Besides. She's cute.
b. One of his/her best traits. Courage - and resilience.
c. One of his/her worst traits. Not that much of a bad trait as a vulnerability - she's still a child. And, as recently discussed, she's facing adolescence in the near future.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character. Moderately. She's a bit too complicated to be easy to write, and I sometimes catch myself doing research before writing - because she's supposed to know. And I don't mean just scanning through things - actual in-depth reading up on stuff. But her voice is still... clear. And she likes kitties!
e. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character. The fact that she did come out of her veil for Harry, and would have for Kincaid too. Despite all the many reasons to stay safe. I still have to write something where I capture her character well.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future. Get to know her, first, and then figure out what she's doing next. But there's a lot to find out about her, before anything else.
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She is made of contrasts. And also, she wasn't appealing to me until Small Favor added the extra drama/tragedy to her story.
I think in Death Masks, it's said that the knowledge is passed form mother to daughter at birth, while in Small Favor, it says that the Archive's knowledge is passed to the daughter usually after the daughter has already had a daughter of her own (yes, I do need to revisit my textev, but I think that was an actual contradiction - probably JB changed his mind), but the fact that it placed her as different from any other Archive before her suddenly appealed to me. Also, the stuff about her mother's suicide. Also, the fact that, summarily, Ivy-the-girl is pretty much almost broken down by what happened. I need to write her to flesh that out, but that was... fascinating.
Besides. She's cute.
b. One of his/her best traits.
Courage - and resilience.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
Not that much of a bad trait as a vulnerability - she's still a child. And, as recently discussed, she's facing adolescence in the near future.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
Moderately. She's a bit too complicated to be easy to write, and I sometimes catch myself doing research before writing - because she's supposed to know. And I don't mean just scanning through things - actual in-depth reading up on stuff.
But her voice is still... clear.
And she likes kitties!
e. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
The fact that she did come out of her veil for Harry, and would have for Kincaid too. Despite all the many reasons to stay safe.
I still have to write something where I capture her character well.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.
Get to know her, first, and then figure out what she's doing next. But there's a lot to find out about her, before anything else.