OOC

[queenofmay]

Want to write paper, but not in mood. Neck hurts a lot (re: rear-ending in friends car yesterday I have not written about yet). Thus I leave me you meme and will try to work on my Jhumpa Lahiri paper anyway.

Comment with your character's name (past or present) and the name of one of mine, and I will tell you:

1) how my character's opinion of the named character has changed over time, or
2) why my character does or does not get along/like/other with the named pup.

Mine, for reference, are:

Maid Marian (queenofmay)
Allie Keys (grandsuccess)
Star (bright_daughter)
Lyta Alexander (vorlon_weapon)

Comments

[muji]

Pick a Reynolds, any Reynolds.

[queenofmay]

The first thing that comes to mind with Mal, albeit subconsciously now, is respect. Because the beginning was so starkly filled with presumed disrespect (from him to her(/Caspian)) and offensive disrespect (from her to him), that then mingled embarrassment and grief and anger.

(Which of course replicated into levels of her feeling like she disrespected Caspian.)

Marian likes Mal in a way she doesn't like many people, possibly because it started off with yelling and being wrong and settled into never being able to guess just what Mal would say after that. He has a crazy sense of humor that baffles her and keeps her amused, but she's also impressed by the depth of loyalty to his crew and those around her that she hears about him through.

[queenofmay]

On one hand Marian adores Sallie and on the other she's not sure what to do with her.

The second has a lot to do with the fact Sallie is a motherly/mothering person and Marian isn't quite sure what to do with that influence after not having one in her life for a very, very long time.

Sallie's a truly lovely lady, whom isn't like the ladies of court at all. She has a harsher way to her, that Marian's world does not identify with, but then shines refined suddenly out of the blue, too. She calm and kind and wry amused at turns, being good with horses and straight forward with knowledge.

It keeps Marian on her toes, while making her think, very quietly, that if she wants to be all the things she wants to be Sallie is a direct example of the fact it could happen. And be a good life.