X: A character you enjoy making suffer.
Any character I love is a character I’m willing to make suffer. I guess I take some kind of sick joy out of making them suffer in very specific and weird ways. Dean winds up fainting a lot. Cas gets thrown up on. Sam beats himself up for feeling awkward. Jimmy has anxiety. I don’t know why I do these things to them, but they seem to be a constant in my fics. Of course, they all get happy endings though.
There are a few characters I just like to make miserable for no reason, like Metatron. I pair him up with other characters I can’t stand and I enjoy the idea of him being absolutely miserable.
Y: A character you want to protect.
Charlie, Kevin, and Eileen for sure. I enjoy hurting some characters but these three are kind of off limits.
Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?
I have written MCD. It was kinda the whole point of Forget-Me-Not (Cas/Meg) and I really enjoyed writing that. I’ve also read a little MCD but I’m super picky about it. I need the death to really be felt and to be important. I need to see characters grieving and moving on (or not) with their lives. If you’re going to kill a major character, I better be feeling it the whole way through, basically. And I need some kind of hopeful ending, honestly. Forget-Me-Not ended with everyone dead, and there was a happy ending to it, so I figured it was worth it. No one is off the table for me, as long as their death is treated with dignity and given the weight it deserves.
I may end up breaking my own rules in the future. I have a plot bunny that won’t leave me alone and it would wind up ambiguous at best.
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