30 Days of Fanfic meme: your "muse" character

Day 4 - Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?

Thankfully, this question is not actually about authorial "muses," because if it were, this post would be a rant rather than an answer. (Sneak preview of Days 18-20: expect lengthy bitching about the phrase "plot bunnies" and its equally annoying variations.)

No, instead it's about characters as muses, and that's one I can answer easily: it's the Doctor. This should surprise no one, what with him being the main character of the show. But I do sometimes have to keep him from turning up in or becoming the focus of stories that aren't really about him, and I try to be especially mindful of this in femslash, where the relationship should be about two women, not women involved with each other because they can't have the Doctor.

As to why he's become that "muse" character: well, it's probably because he's the one I've been watching for years and years, and I've absorbed his characterization and patterns of speech better than any other person on the show. It's why I usually write from his POV as well instead of the companion, the so-called "audience identification character"; it always takes me longer to get in a companion's head than it does for me to get in the Doctor's, so I suppose you could call this laziness on my part. I'm sure I'm supposed to be finding him alien and hard to relate to sometimes, but he's so familiar to me now that doesn't happen. Whether that's good or bad is debatable, but at least it means I think I can write him reasonably well.

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30 Days of Fanfic meme: your "muse" character

Day 4 - Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?

Thankfully, this question is not actually about authorial "muses," because if it were, this post would be a rant rather than an answer. (Sneak preview of Days 18-20: expect lengthy bitching about the phrase "plot bunnies" and its equally annoying variations.)

No, instead it's about characters as muses, and that's one I can answer easily: it's the Doctor. This should surprise no one, what with him being the main character of the show. But I do sometimes have to keep him from turning up in or becoming the focus of stories that aren't really about him, and I try to be especially mindful of this in femslash, where the relationship should be about two women, not women involved with each other because they can't have the Doctor.

As to why he's become that "muse" character: well, it's probably because he's the one I've been watching for years and years, and I've absorbed his characterization and patterns of speech better than any other person on the show. It's why I usually write from his POV as well instead of the companion, the so-called "audience identification character"; it always takes me longer to get in a companion's head than it does for me to get in the Doctor's, so I suppose you could call this laziness on my part. I'm sure I'm supposed to be finding him alien and hard to relate to sometimes, but he's so familiar to me now that doesn't happen. Whether that's good or bad is debatable, but at least it means I think I can write him reasonably well.

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