Fannish meme!

[nineveh_uk]

Courtesy of lilliburlero and legionseagle.

Comment with one of my fandoms and I'll tell you:

the character I least understand
interactions I enjoyed the most
the character who scares me the most
the character who is mostly like me
hottest looks character
one thing I dislike about my fave character
one thing I like about my hated character
a quote or scene that haunts me
a death that left me indifferent
a character I wish died but didn’t
my ship that never sailed

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you for asking :-)

the character I least understand
Koukol :-)

And Magda. For goodness sake, you can sew, you can cook, you’re good-looking, get a job somewhere your employer isn't sexually harassing you and the neighbours aren't blood-sucking monsters.

interactions I enjoyed the most
Graf von Krolock/everyone. Look, I just like the over-dramatic manipulative bastard in a big cloak, and Vor dem Schloss is not only one of my favourite scenes because the title reminds me how to use two-way prepositions. There was a review/blogpost I read somewhere that the Count offers himself to Sarah and Alfred as lover and mentor, respectively. And I thought, no he doesn’t, he offers both the lover and intellectual mentor option to each of them to see what they will take.

the character who scares me the most
The chorus. Von Krolock is an evil bastard, but his penchant for dramatic moments and deferred gratification might give you time to escape, and you don't have to accept the invitation to the ball. The graveyard vampires will just kill you.

the character who is mostly like me
Regrettably, probably the Professor. Especially his tendency to get lost looking at the bookshelves in the middle of doing something a lot more important.

hottest looks character
Herbert in the German production costume. It's the tights-clad long legs/frilly shirt/pony tail combo, it calls to my 80s/90s blood. Though I also appreciate the right sort of Count.

one thing I dislike about my fave character
Graf von Krolock doesn't pay his bills. Yes, it's a metaphor, but it is still an unnecessary evil and doesn't present a flattering picture of what he was like when still alive.

one thing I like about my hated character
To say I hate Chagal would be going too far, but he does lock up his daughter and sexually harass the maid. But though his character is basically summed up as Ye Comic Innkeeper, I like it that he gets his moment of genuine heroism, or at least heroic folly, when he runs off alone into the wolf- and vampire-haunted midnight wood to try and save his daughter.

a quote or scene that haunts me
Well, I’m currently writing a fic about the first verse of Die Unstillbare Gier, or as I like to call it Fields of Gold, the Sick Version. It’s a terrific song live, though I also like looking up various versions on YouTube to see how different people play it. The “haunting” version is, perhaps inevitably, that of the original Count, Steve Barton (who also created Raoul in Phantom of the Opera), who had suffered from serious depression, and does an all too convincing portrayal of miserable self-loathing.

a death that left me indifferent
Mine. I don't mind if the audience are slaughtered if I’m entertained.
I don’t exactly mourn for Koukol, either. He has insufficient character, though I do have a vague fic idea about how vampires employ hideously ugly hunchbacks, because if you have a servant everyone else fears and hates even if they don’t work for you, and who has few other job options, you have a much higher chance of personal loyalty.

a character I wish died but didn’t
Not applicable! Rocks fall, everybody dies. Not necessarily in that order.

my ship that never sailed
There is not nearly enough von Krolock/Alfred dub-con.

Also, Sarah and Magda should run away together to the nearest big city.