Character Meme

[selenak]

Meme, copied from various places:

Name a character in any of my fandoms, and I'll answer these questions:

1. Do you love/hate/don’t feel strongly about this character?
2. What’s your favorite trait of this character?
3. What’s your favorite moment/event involving this character?
4. If you could have one power/attribute/etc. of this character, what would it be?
5. Have you ever pictured this character naked?
6. When did you fall in love/hate with this character? I you don’t have any strong feelings toward them, why not?
7. Who’s your OTP for this character, if any?

Comments

[likeadeuce]

Queen Regina

[selenak]

1. I neither love nor hate her. I like her, and I find her interesting, but for some reason, it never came to love, whereas with her mother, a far darker character, I went there. I think it's because Regina does the Loki/Morgana thing of constantly blaming everyone but herself (well, almost), and Cora does not.

2. Despite what I just that: that she's such a child emotionally while also dangerous as hell in lashing out like a child. I do wish she'd be able to grow up, but she can be heartbreaking at times.

3. Regina makes Mr. Gold admit he knows he's Rumplestilskin. It's one of the few times when she manages something like that, though of course he's also still playing her. In terms of "oh, Regina, you are heartbreaking and appalling at the same time": letting Owen go. In the wilderness. A child whose father she just took prisoner. And yet, it's a heartbreaking thing on her part.

4. She's a far better cook than I am!

5. No.

6. See above as to why I don't love her though I like her.

7. I don't have any, but I can see Regina/Emma potential, absolutely.

[likeadeuce]

Oh, excellent. She's certainly a complex character. . .

5. No

this may set you apart from everyone I know in the fandom!

Also, I now want to make a list of evil or morally ambiguous characters who are canonically excellent cooks and set them up with a cooking school. It would either distract them from villainous hijinks or lead to a net increase in poisonings.... I'm sure there have to be some, though.

[selenak]

this may set you apart from everyone I know in the fandom!

:) I think it's not just that I'm not attracted to Regina, specifically, but that I don't get what the big deal with nudity is. Possibly because in my childhood and adolescence, we went on holidays to Sylt (island in the Northern Sea with nudist beaches), and as Mr. Stephen Greenblatt remarked recently in Venice, we visit the Sauna in the nude here in Germany. Also the Englischer Garten topless when it's very hot. Anyway, the point being: I don't see the human body, uncovered, as necessarily more alluring than in its clothed form, because there is nothing mysterious about the bodies of strangers to me. Otoh I can think of some very alluring sights that involve people in various stages of clothing.

[likeadeuce]

Hee, well, I was taking that question more as, "Have you had sexy thoughts about the character." (I was amused when somebody gave me this meme for Daenerys, though, because I was like NO NEED TO IMAGINE, REALLY, THANKS(?) HBO!)