Meme time

[bluflamingo]

Snagged from miss_zedem:

Name a character I've written or played, and I will tell you his or her...
01. Full name
02. Best friend
03. Sexuality
04. Favorite color
05. Relationship status
06. Ideal mate
07. Turn-ons
08. Last sexual experience
09. Favorite food
10. Crushes
11. Favorite music
12. Biggest fear
13. Biggest fantasy
14. Quirks in bed
15. Bad habits
16. Biggest regret
17. Best kept secrets
18. Last thought
19. Worst sexual/romantic experience
20. Biggest insecurity

Comments

[sabine-26.livejournal.com]

At first I was going to ask for Rodney McKay. Not because I like the character. The opposite, in fact. But I've always liked the way you don't whitewash his jerkiness or pretend that it's actually believable that the other characters find his selfishness charming (e.g. your recent kink-meme story which has forever ruined any McShep bondage story for me). But then I remembered how much I liked Dave Sheppard in Dreams We Never Expected, so this is a long of saying, Dave Sheppard please?

[bluflamingo]

01. Full name David Christopher Sheppard (the middle name is for his mother, Kathryn, since John, being older, already had his father's name)
02. Best friend His college room-mate, who manages Robertson Steel now. They live on opposite sides of the country and see each other maybe twice a year, but they still rack up huge phone bills
03. Sexuality Straight
04. Favorite color Blue
05. Relationship status Married for ten years, with two children, both girls
06. Ideal mate He thinks his wife is basically perfect, although she's much more like John than like him, more wild and rebellious and prone to dramatic flouncing ends to arguments. His father hated her
07. Turn-ons He loves Andrea when she's angry about something she's passionate about, all fiery eyes and waving hands
08. Last sexual experience He was away for two weeks at a satellite factory, and Andrea called one night after she'd put the girls to sleep.
09. Favorite food Ice cream, specifically black walnut
10. Crushes He's married, he doesn't have crushes. Except maybe a small one on the woman who plays Elizabeth Burke on White Collar, which is Andrea's current favourite show
11. Favorite music He likes old ballroom music. He knows how to dance to it, and Andrea thinks it's romantic
12. Biggest fear That he'll drive away one of his girls the same way his father drove away John. Or that one of his girls will run, the same way John did, and he won't know how to get her back
13. Biggest fantasy Retiring with Andrea to a place in the country to raise horses and spend summers with their grandchildren. It won't happen, because she loves her city life too much for him to take her away.
14. Quirks in bed It doesn't happen much now they have the girls, but he likes sex anywhere other than in bed. It still feels illicit and sneaky
15. Bad habits Saying the wrong thing to John. Not knowing how to say sorry. Pouring coffee over his ice cream
16. Biggest regret That he didn't try harder when John and Dad fell out, and spent years behaving like he didn't have a brother, and worrying that the next time he heard about John, it would be an announcement that he was dead
17. Best kept secrets He's fiarly sure Andrea doesn't know about the trip he's planning for her next birthday. Though he has told the girls, and they're not the best secret keepers in the world
18. Last thought That if he gets on with this last lot of paperwork, he might make it home for dinner, assuming the traffic isn't too bad
19. Worst sexual/romantic experience The time Denise walked in on him and Andrea when they were being unusually loud. Talk about gunshy, after
20. Biggest insecurity Being a bad father, or a bad husband, or a bad brother, even if it's for the right reasons.

[sabine-26.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're fast. I love the way you see Dave.
I especially like #12 - that Dave is smart enough to learn from his father's mistakes but not so arrogant or judgmental as to think he can easily avoid them.

[bluflamingo]

I'm developing an odd fascination with Dave, who I didn't much care about when he first appeared.

I especially like #12 - that Dave is smart enough to learn from his father's mistakes but not so arrogant or judgmental as to think he can easily avoid them.

I think being the one who stayed behind when John fled probably changed him as much as being the one who fled changed John, but maybe in ways that made then more alike than they had been before. Because now John's scared of losing his team, and Dave of losing his kids - both family, though

[skieswideopen]

I love this portrayal of Dave--so vanilla and normal and regretting his relationship with his brother and not knowing how to fix it. I especially love that his greatest fear is that he'll drive away one of his daughters; it's a nice comment on the character and both his regrets and the importance he places on family (which, I suspect, was one of the issues between him and John).

[bluflamingo]

both his regrets and the importance he places on family (which, I suspect, was one of the issues between him and John)

Though oddly, John's kind of come around to that in the end as well, with his team as his family and so important to him. I'm getting strangely fascinated with Dave

[skieswideopen]

I encourage your fascination, especially if it leads to writing. :D I love stories about Dave, as long as they don't paint him as a moustache-twirling, one-dimensional villain, because I really don't think he is. Even if he was, in some respects, quite awful to John at the funeral.

[bluflamingo]

He was definitely kind of horrible to John at the funeral, but I guess I can see Dave's side as well: his father died, he's probably dealt with most of the arrangements, he doesn't have hisown family or friends there, his estranged brother just showed up then disappeared... No wonder he's stressed out.