I've written roughly as much Suigetsu as Zack, but the Suigetsu stuff is a bit ooc from my current interpretation, so I'mma gonna go with Zack. u.u
A. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her: That he was who Cloud had wanted to be so hard he had remade himself to match. (and even then Cloud ended up not being that much like him in the end. >___>)
B. One of his/her best traits: Faithfulness.
C. One of his/her worst traits: hard to say, he's got so little acual character in the origina game and I haven't played any other compilation stuff. Some people write him as super naive or bouncy like a four year old, but I'd think five years in a mako tube would have cured him of that, even if he could have become a SOLDIER while being borderline stupid >__>
D. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character: Easy enough for the moment, he's easy-going and he brings the good cheer, but he can also be serious when the situation calls for it. Now exploring his character in more depth... I don't know how i'll manage that.
E. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character (if I've written them): Hesitating between those two:
He'd been expecting casual friendliness -- that was Zack's default mode. He'd been expecting teasing. He'd been expecting smugness. They would have sounded true enough.
That quiet, almost gentle awkwardness felt truer.
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"He turned on you. Killed you," Tifa reminded him. Well, he hadn't -- not directly. But he'd tried without thinking twice, and he was the reason he and Cloud had been captured and experimented on, the reason they became fugitives, the reason Zack ended up getting gunned down. She didn't get it, how Zack could really mean it even now.
Zack nodded soberly. "Yeah. Pissed me off. I still love him. Hated him for a good long while, mind -- but even then I still loved him."
Cloud's back hunched a little more. Zack gave him a sad look, and rubbed gently between his shoulder blades.
"Sorry, blondie. I'm not happy with dumping this mess on your lap."
Cloud's voice came muffled, less by his position than by all those emotions he wasn't letting through. "Didn't stop you doing it."
"Yeah," Zack said quietly. "Yeah. Like I said, I'm a selfish bastard. I don't like to let go of my people."
The second one is mostly a fanon Zack because Zack has so little canon character, but it's also something I really love -- that "those are my people, now and forever, and i'll kill to keep them safe" attitude. People call Zack a puppy all the time in fandom (lulz he's silly and nonthreatening! dude, SOLDIER FIRST CLASS.), but to me he's closer to a wolf. A goofy, tamed wolf, who plays easily with his pack, who is tamed enough to be good with strangers and who considers all other military people friendlies anyway, but one who still has a pack and stands by them.
F. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future: Probably the Restore thing, though at the moment i'm kinda prodding at that jenova-cetra AU I mentioned a few replies higher.
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I've written roughly as much Suigetsu as Zack, but the Suigetsu stuff is a bit ooc from my current interpretation, so I'mma gonna go with Zack. u.u
A. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her: That he was who Cloud had wanted to be so hard he had remade himself to match. (and even then Cloud ended up not being that much like him in the end. >___>)
B. One of his/her best traits: Faithfulness.
C. One of his/her worst traits: hard to say, he's got so little acual character in the origina game and I haven't played any other compilation stuff. Some people write him as super naive or bouncy like a four year old, but I'd think five years in a mako tube would have cured him of that, even if he could have become a SOLDIER while being borderline stupid >__>
D. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character: Easy enough for the moment, he's easy-going and he brings the good cheer, but he can also be serious when the situation calls for it. Now exploring his character in more depth... I don't know how i'll manage that.
E. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character (if I've written them): Hesitating between those two:
He'd been expecting casual friendliness -- that was Zack's default mode. He'd been expecting teasing. He'd been expecting smugness. They would have sounded true enough.
That quiet, almost gentle awkwardness felt truer.
---
"He turned on you. Killed you," Tifa reminded him. Well, he hadn't -- not directly. But he'd tried without thinking twice, and he was the reason he and Cloud had been captured and experimented on, the reason they became fugitives, the reason Zack ended up getting gunned down. She didn't get it, how Zack could really mean it even now.
Zack nodded soberly. "Yeah. Pissed me off. I still love him. Hated him for a good long while, mind -- but even then I still loved him."
Cloud's back hunched a little more. Zack gave him a sad look, and rubbed gently between his shoulder blades.
"Sorry, blondie. I'm not happy with dumping this mess on your lap."
Cloud's voice came muffled, less by his position than by all those emotions he wasn't letting through. "Didn't stop you doing it."
"Yeah," Zack said quietly. "Yeah. Like I said, I'm a selfish bastard. I don't like to let go of my people."
The second one is mostly a fanon Zack because Zack has so little canon character, but it's also something I really love -- that "those are my people, now and forever, and i'll kill to keep them safe" attitude. People call Zack a puppy all the time in fandom (lulz he's silly and nonthreatening! dude, SOLDIER FIRST CLASS.), but to me he's closer to a wolf. A goofy, tamed wolf, who plays easily with his pack, who is tamed enough to be good with strangers and who considers all other military people friendlies anyway, but one who still has a pack and stands by them.
F. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future: Probably the Restore thing, though at the moment i'm kinda prodding at that jenova-cetra AU I mentioned a few replies higher.