homestuck -- characterization help needed

[askerian]

It's for the Hippie Commune fic (ie back to the garden.) Aradia is going to have a pretty big part next chapter and I have realized that I have no idea how she sounds, the rhythm of her speech and her vocabulary and her usual moods. (she is not stuck in a robot and dead anymore, so I gather she ought to have SOME.)

I'll be looking through logs I can find via the HS wiki, but if anyone has advice or knows of good fic out there with good Aradia voices for inspiration I'll also be very grateful.

I'll have to see how well I manage Sollux and Feferi for that same scene, but they shouldn't be half as hard. D: Still I haven't really paid as much attention to canon and read much fic where those characters took center stage so I haven't internalized them as much, I really hope the POVs will work. @_@;

(btw I love the Aradia/Sol/Fef tangle. No outsider knows who's matesprits/moirails with who, it's hilarious. XD)

Comments

[aikonamika.livejournal.com]

From my observations, when not dead Aradia is actually a pretty cheerful girl. Especially when it comes to dead things. >.> Her whole "death fangirl" bit, and all. She was excited and curious in the flashback to her pre-death about exploring the ruins all Indiana Jones style with her whip, and then when she came back to life at God Tier, you almost never see her not smiling. She's got a touch of the cheerfully mysterious "all-knowing prophet" about her at the end of things, too, at least as far as I can tell.

[askerian]

Hmmmm! That's a pretty good summary. thank you! I must now ponder it. u.u-b

[animetriplicate.livejournal.com]

Aradia is not loved in fic. There's only 126 fics with her tagged on Ao3, and that's total- including all the fics that include everyone (and she has a very minor role), and all the fics in which she's a ghost/sprite/robot.

Aikonamika has an excellent summary of what we've seen of Aradia since her revival. I've been digging through Ao3 for anything even remotely IC, and found... not much, to be honest. xD

http://archiveofourown.org/works/309209
This one is fairly accurate. There's something in her characterization that's a smidge off but I'm willing to bet that has more to do with the sheer lack of Aradia-focused moments we have in canon.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/305336
This one is set pre-game, with Aradia alive. I think her general attitude and chipperness are a perfect fit regardless. Plus it has a neat twist.

[askerian]

Ohh, thanks for the recs! I liked them both too, they were fun fics ^^ getting a better idea of Aradiavoice now, thank you ^^

[vehrec.livejournal.com]

Ok, well I dunno if it's necessarily accurate, but there's a pretty good Aradia Ask blog (http://askmaidaradia.tumblr.com/) which was the original source of the [S] Everyone: Have Sweet Rave Party (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsrCpRTSJ2E) thing that went around tumblur like wildfire before assembling itself into the form you now see.

She's really happy, nice and a great gall to be around and totally not occasionally creepy as befitting a psychopomp in the making, nope, nosir.

Oh, and she has MAGNIFICENT horns, going by the Handmaid. Seriously, she's giving Tavros competition in the big horns department if they've aged up a few years. I wonder if trolls with big horns get headaches.

[askerian]

heh, thanks for the links, hon ^^

I dunno, if her horns have been growing then so have Tavros'. XD I'm not sure anyone's ever going to catch up to him with that kind of head start.

[faibhile.livejournal.com]

I may just be a random passerby, but I found this filk a few days ago, that cemented my headcanon Aradia. It's an enter for the music competition, Made of Death by Hamsters (http://soundcloud.com/hamsters/made-of-death)

[askerian]

Random passersby are loved in this here lj, so no problem. XD Thank you for the link, that was really neat.