30DoW: Day 17
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ravenswept17. Favorite protagonist and why!
If I had to guess (and really, I do) I'm gonna go with Rachael from the Noir story. Feels repeatitive, but I'll try to explain without repeating myself.
Part of it is that she's just fun to write for. The story is from her perspective, so figuring out how she views things is a hoot to think for. She very analytical, but keeps a very humorously cynical outlook. It helps when you're a crime boss.
It's also fun to figure out all the different crimes she plays a part of (not that I would ever do something like that) because she tries to keep everything as business organized as she can. Certain people handle certain "franchises", everything is reported back to her, and she is ruthless in hostile negotiations. She had always wanted to be a mafia don, raised by her grandfather and his love of crime cinema; her own collection is quite extensive. It was from these, and later from police reports and books, that she studied what they did, what they did wrong, and what she figured she needed to do to get to where she wanted to be. She started as a runner at fourteen, later becoming a cleaner, then hitman, up to enforcer, then broke off on her own, the whole time still going to school (she tried to . She was careful to avoid working specifically for any one family as she wanted to make as few enemies as she could.
When the story starts, she's dealing with backlash and fallout from an unnamed incident (unnamed because I don't know what happened, and anything you come up with is bound to be better than what I make canon) while at the same time starting a relationship with a police detective not specificially assigned to "her" case, but risky none the less. All this is fun to juxtapose in her thoughts and how she sees it all. Trying to keep the two separated, and keep herself sane, is a fun challenge.
If I had to guess (and really, I do) I'm gonna go with Rachael from the Noir story. Feels repeatitive, but I'll try to explain without repeating myself.
Part of it is that she's just fun to write for. The story is from her perspective, so figuring out how she views things is a hoot to think for. She very analytical, but keeps a very humorously cynical outlook. It helps when you're a crime boss.
It's also fun to figure out all the different crimes she plays a part of (not that I would ever do something like that) because she tries to keep everything as business organized as she can. Certain people handle certain "franchises", everything is reported back to her, and she is ruthless in hostile negotiations. She had always wanted to be a mafia don, raised by her grandfather and his love of crime cinema; her own collection is quite extensive. It was from these, and later from police reports and books, that she studied what they did, what they did wrong, and what she figured she needed to do to get to where she wanted to be. She started as a runner at fourteen, later becoming a cleaner, then hitman, up to enforcer, then broke off on her own, the whole time still going to school (she tried to . She was careful to avoid working specifically for any one family as she wanted to make as few enemies as she could.
When the story starts, she's dealing with backlash and fallout from an unnamed incident (unnamed because I don't know what happened, and anything you come up with is bound to be better than what I make canon) while at the same time starting a relationship with a police detective not specificially assigned to "her" case, but risky none the less. All this is fun to juxtapose in her thoughts and how she sees it all. Trying to keep the two separated, and keep herself sane, is a fun challenge.
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on 2010-08-18 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-08-18 03:21 pm (UTC)Yes, at some point I will, and you get to be first.
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on 2010-08-18 08:00 pm (UTC)