melliyna asked me some fandom questions in a meme last week, that I've only just got round to answering. Not least because she asks hard questions.

1. Do your favourite characters in your fandoms have a lot of traits in common?

I'm not sure I'd say a lot. But they all have layers - they're not just a case of what you see is what you get, there's actually a lot more going on than you see, or they let you see.

2. Is there a favourite parent/child relationship that you have?

Elrond & Aragorn. Probably because there's most angst there

3. Give me three story ideas you haven't written yet, but want to?

If I include in this story ideas that I've started but haven't finished then:

  1. A long LOTR fic about Gilraen's life from the time when she marries Arathorn to the time when he dies. And to make it a bit more interesting, if I read the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen slightly sideways, although he says that he loves her, it doesn't explicitly state that she loves him. So it'd be getting into why she does it, how she copes with it all and just what she's like. I have bits that I wrote a long time ago and a desire to go back to it one day, but that's it.

  2. Some Harry/Martha because I haven't yet and I want to. I do have plans to write something for an unprompted churchontime fic, if I can just get round to it.

  3. Some sort of murder mystery/crime thing. I love my cop shows and murder mysteries and crime novels, so it's almost strange that I've never written anything like that. I say almost because I'm not convinced of my ability to work it all out - my trouble with plots is that I can set the characters a problem, but not be able to find a solution. But I've tried quite a few genres, so that must be one of the few left to try, I think.

4. A character that the rest of fandom doesn't like, but you do?

Jo Grant doesn't seem to be well-liked. Yes, she does scream a lot, but she's just as good as Sarah Jane Smith. Who also screams a lot. Adric is hated quite a bit, but I think he was just under-used. Elizabeth Weir isn't terribly well liked for her lack of diplomatic skills. But since I know nothing about that area, I don't really care that much.

5. What would be five stories that you wish someone would write?

I don't really have anything specific, so this is a list of things I think there should be more of:

  1. Jack O'Neill/Elizabeth Weir because there is so little of it.

  2. Sarah Jane Smith & Harry Sullivan because they're so good together.

  3. Elrond & Celebrían.

  4. Time Trax fic - because there is so little of it out there.

  5. Doctor Who fic where no one has any vague romantic feelings towards the Doctor in any shape or form.

The end to this meme is: Reply to this post and I'll give you five fandom related questions to answer. Then if you wish, repost this and others can request questions.

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