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04/28/2003 Entry: "Brains, tasty brains...."

Miaaaow...somehow work has gotten really boring recently. I need to get off my butt and find something useful I can do, other than reading fanfics and weblogs--which actually doesn't even count as useful, come to think of it. Bleh.

At least the writing is picking up again. I love writing Youji--even when I'm not actually in his PoV I love writing Youji because he's so insanely perceptive. He *gets* things. Granted, he can't fix his own life, but aside from that he's really sharp about figuring things out. And so far in the current story he's gotten the best zingers on Schwarz of any of Weiss. Hmm. I've actually been trying to figure out if there are any characters I write who are dumb, and I can't really think of one. Some are less clueful or perceptive than others. Jinpachi, for instance, is a big dork, but he's not actively stupid; once he gets hit by the clue-by-four, he pretty much always gets the idea. Issei was a lovely, alert, sensitive narrator, though the telepathy certainly helped there, and of course Rin was scary-brilliant. The Wing boys are all very bright. Nobody in Weiss is dumb--not even Ken, although sometimes he seems to think he is, but really he's perfectly well intelligent and capable. Farf is insane, not stupid, and Schuldig has to have a lot upstairs or he would've never been able to deal with his power as well as he has. Crawford, the manipulator--'nuff said. Seishirou's not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, but he's still not dumb either, while Subaru does dumb things, but he's usually quite aware that they're dumb. (Is it stupid to know you're doing something stupid and still to do it?) Kamui, for a hyper-powered squeeb with wings, is actually very normal, neither ingenious nor a mouth-breather, and of course Sorata is a helluva lot smarter than he often appears. Of course, I guess it's not that surprising after all that I tend to write for at least reasonably bright characters--the more intelligent and/or perceptive characters make it easier to convey information to the reader, not to mention they tend to be psychologically more interesting.

I have this strange feeling that I posted something on this subject to my weblog a long time ago. Have I? I can't remember.

Oh, and I finally realized that my Pitas archives link actually led to the Greymatter archive. Duh. Fixed that.

Okay, now it's time to do some actual work.