When I'm writing, or just thinking about a character, I don't want everything handed to me on a plate...I like to explore the small clues and expand them out.
Yes! Exactly! Me too. And the thing that I always find cool about secondary (or tertiary!) characters is that they have their odd little quirks (ie Major Lorne in SGA has this wry sense of humour that is subtle and underplayed, and I love it) that draw me in, often more immediately than the more established (and sometimes overplayed) behaviours of the main characters.
And I really enjoy thinking about the ways that these secondary characters fit into the day-to-day routines on the show, how they think about the primary characters. What do they do? What fills their time? What roles do they play that effectively support (or expand upon) the roles of the primary characters?
Sometimes it seems to me that without these secondary characters, the primary characters wouldn't be nearly as effective in their jobs/roles, and that makes me want to write about them.
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Yes! Exactly! Me too. And the thing that I always find cool about secondary (or tertiary!) characters is that they have their odd little quirks (ie Major Lorne in SGA has this wry sense of humour that is subtle and underplayed, and I love it) that draw me in, often more immediately than the more established (and sometimes overplayed) behaviours of the main characters.
And I really enjoy thinking about the ways that these secondary characters fit into the day-to-day routines on the show, how they think about the primary characters. What do they do? What fills their time? What roles do they play that effectively support (or expand upon) the roles of the primary characters?
Sometimes it seems to me that without these secondary characters, the primary characters wouldn't be nearly as effective in their jobs/roles, and that makes me want to write about them.
Also, yes - hotness *g*