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So. I'm reading Kushiel's Scion and Kushiel's Justice and in the middle of Kushiel's Justice it hits me that my brain is casting the characters as the Avengers.
*facepalm*
Sidonie is very much the same template for the way I write Maria Hill: self-contained, responsible, cold to people who don't know her well, but with a ferocious drive beneath the icy surface and a great deal of passion that she mostly contains within herself.
Imriel isn't really Steve - the struggle for goodness isn't one that Steve's ever had - although maybe Imriel's own internal struggle to accept himself could be seen as comparative to Steve's struggle to reach his full potential with the serum, but ohemgee Mavros is completely Tony, and Eamonn is projecting Thor all over the page at me.
Eamonn even goes to one of the Longest Night Masques as Donar, Skaldic god of thunder, complete with hammer. (That year, Phedre is Freyya, Imriel goes as Baldur - the beautiful, and Ti-Philippe as Loki.)
And it has just occurred to me that I'd probably have enjoyed the second Kushiel trilogy if the story had been more about Sidonie than Imriel.
*facepalm*
Sidonie is very much the same template for the way I write Maria Hill: self-contained, responsible, cold to people who don't know her well, but with a ferocious drive beneath the icy surface and a great deal of passion that she mostly contains within herself.
Imriel isn't really Steve - the struggle for goodness isn't one that Steve's ever had - although maybe Imriel's own internal struggle to accept himself could be seen as comparative to Steve's struggle to reach his full potential with the serum, but ohemgee Mavros is completely Tony, and Eamonn is projecting Thor all over the page at me.
Eamonn even goes to one of the Longest Night Masques as Donar, Skaldic god of thunder, complete with hammer. (That year, Phedre is Freyya, Imriel goes as Baldur - the beautiful, and Ti-Philippe as Loki.)
And it has just occurred to me that I'd probably have enjoyed the second Kushiel trilogy if the story had been more about Sidonie than Imriel.
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It's a fun little mental exercise though, isn't it?
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Although then it becomes a problem because just how much am I writing the character as they are, and how much am I writing the character as I see them from another character perspective?
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Well, that makes sense. And. Hm. It's definitely something to consider but, at the same time, some characters are just similar. They share similar threads of personality, or similar points in their character arc. It's part of why crossovers are so much fun.
I think focusing on the events in their specific canon, and how they affect that character, is how you keep it straight. IDK, it's just always seemed to me that events have just as big a role in shaping a character as their personality - kind of a chicken/egg situation, you know?
But everyone has their own take on a character, so I don't think it's something you need to worry about too much.