My old character book

[shadesong]

Omigod, some of these names are so totally embarrassing. No, I'm not telling. If you buy me a chai I'll tell you, though. I'm a mercenary little wench.

Omigod Shawn's original first name SO SUCKED. I'd forgotten I was gonna call him that.

Omifuck I can't BELIEVE I actually gave someone that code name. I'm so embarrassed. I was fifteen, but still, man. Ouch.

Holy shit, man, I gave a character the name Gary Callahan like 10 years before Transmet came out.

Out of, shit, um, a LOT of these things, let's see who's still in the story! Wow, Alanna's foster mother. Totally forgot about her. She so doesn't fit anymore. Anyway!

Mainstorytype Characters: Michael Cameron, Jr.; Jason (who used to have a last name); Hey! Aloka - now Amy - Blake!; Aisling "Napalm" Fisher; Tessa "Facade" Harlowe - who now goes by her birth-last-name of Stone; Trey ni'Tamra; Anais Rowan; Johnathan, whose last name used to be Valois; Annie Farrell; Tia Rosewood; Tony Lowell; Liana Farrell; Martin Telenias; Sara Tallart; Capri Donnelly; Daniel Stephen Halloran; Fletcher Kelly; Connor and Grace Spencer; Alanna - whose name *was* Allegra, but then they named a damn allergy medicine Allegra!; Corey - whose name is now Julia; Tyka; Cadell "Glitch" Brooks.Katrina and Trinacy Stone.

Tangentially: Trinity Benson; Michael Cameron, Sr.; Tim Crispin; Dr. Scott Daly; Jareth Randall; Daniel Calhoun; David "Crucible" Hammond; Ariana "Sonic" Lowell (this was pre-hedgehog); Chandra Tallart; Juliet Tallart; Kelly Tallart; Solange and Colin Telenias; Thomas and Zylla Malachite; Aneirin Tamson (yes, THers, before I discovered de Lint); Rose Red; Stiletto; Daniel and Gabriella Rowan; Megan and Chad Hammond; Nicholas Powers.

Out of loooots of characters. So many are missing from this book!

I've gotten rid of so much. The short story collections, the Project Chrysalis arc, the fantasy crossovers, the Nexus compound in NY, The Killing Game, the Silvergreen flashback...

Tessa, Napalm, Aloka-now-Amy, and Johnathan were a team from the very beginning.

Brendan crossed over from another novella. Which was, um, a zombie thing. Yup. I write horror, too. Badly, probably. Oooh, Keith Whittaker crossed over from a supernatural horror story. I read way a lot of horror as a teenager.

I'm digging through the file cabinet now. Jeez. Some of these title... *wince*

Oh, a horrible postapocalyptic wasteland story. Oh man. Oh, a King Arthur-in-modern-times story. Oh, I'm so sorry.

Oh, a Les-Mis-in-the-80s.

Oh, my very first story - science fiction - later expanded into a series.

So many characters-coming-back-from-the-dead or sticking-around-as-ghosts stories. I was such a Christopher Pike.

My first character with MPD/DID. Each personality had different powers.

Yay bad poetry! Except, well, NOT.

I have a "gratuitous sex scenes" folder.

I originally killed Annie on page one of book two of the storyarc that's now Shayara. Now I'm re-reading the prologue to book one. OMIGOD this sucks. I'm so embarrassed. It's almost as bad as the story Yendi MST3Ked. I was obviously so proud of my 50-cent words. I was 13, okay? Pellucid, trembling petals. On the talking flower. Minstrels set down their instruments, awestruck. Oh, this is horrible. Oh, man.

I still had my penchant for brutal murders, though. I was a bloodthirsty little kid.

Annie and Nicholas have been a couple since the very first story. Hee!

"This is an organization to fight evil, not a singles club!"

Okay, I'm just gonna sit down and read this shit now.

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

My first character with MPD/DID. Each personality had different powers

Aurora (from Alpha Flight) had that. Also, I think, one of the Wild Cards. It's /still/ kind of cool, in a twinky sort of way.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Amy - Lyric - originally had that too. And a really stupid code-name.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I mean twinky in the best possible way, btw. It's fun!

Read

[nishar.livejournal.com]

One of these days I am gonna have to read your graphic novels. *nods*

[docorion.livejournal.com]

I have discovered one of the rules of learning almost anything is that you have to get through (a lot of) suck in order to get to good. And how good you get is almost directly related to how much suck you have to wade through first. Haven't read any of your non-LJ writing, but I suspect it's pretty good.

One of the reasons fiction writing has never (yet) gotten off the ground for me is that I am (so far) unwilling to wade through the necessary amount of suckage.

On the other hand, I'm a very good doctor. And yes, there was suckage, indeed. One of the reasons more people don't die at the hands of new doctors is that there are old doctors there to hold their hands and help them through. (And now, of course, I *am* one of those 'old doctors'. Sigh. Waste of youth).

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're still a whippersnapper, I bet. *pets you*

Yeah. I went through a LOT of suck. Like a whole drawer of my file cabinet. And a bunch of notebooks.

I'm a little better now. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/shadesong/1480286.html)

You should write!

[docorion.livejournal.com]

You're right. You are a *little* better.

*ducks*

*pets you*
*purr*

[angryvixen.livejournal.com]

Katrina is always a good name for a character. And I'm not even biased! :-D

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Nooo, not at all...

[angryvixen.livejournal.com]

Hee. But the other commenter was right, it is usually a bad character. On the TV show "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", she had an evil twin named Katrina. How typical.

Although my sister's name, Vanessa, is often used as a bad character as well. I think Mom and Dad thought we'd be devious little girls. And, well, they were right! :-D

[katster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, too bad in most things I've encountered, it's the bad guy. ;) My sister used to have much fun pointing this out to me. (It's my given name.)

-kat

[angryvixen.livejournal.com]

Heh, my name is Katrina as well. And I, too, have noticed that we're often the bad guys. Funny you should mention your sister pointing that out to you - my sister's name is also used for bad characters. Well, either bad characters or slutty ones. I like pointing THAT out to her. :-D (Her name is Vanessa.)