One Sith, Two Sith, three Sith, more Sith! I very much like the idea of more Sith! Which fic was that that you wrote? I don't know if I've read it or not. My memory isn't as good as it used to be, alas.
I don't know how much influence my Tenebrous is influenced by other interpretations of the character beyond the Legends canon, though the few existing interpretations I've found are quite intriguing to me. You bring a lot of interesting qualities to your Sith characters, and I absolutely adore your story Centripetal for both its depiction of Tenebrous and little Hego, as well as his mother Tema. I think your takes on the characters are very distinctly your own (even when you draw on others for inspiration as I know you often do), and not something I could adequately replicate, and just in general I never exactly try to write like another author. Nevertheless, just because I don't explicitly try to do this doesn't mean that my writing doesn't end up with certain similarities from writers whose works I've enjoyed.
I think I often find it easier to think about difficult subjects in a fictional context as well. Sometimes I think that even helps me to think about such things in real contexts.
And yeah, I think both of us find mainline fandom's preoccupation with Jedi to be exasperating haha.
Regarding Voldemort, I was never drawn strongly to his character in the series, but I do think that there's a lot I could say that is critical of Rowling and her formulation of the character. My favorite character in the HP series was and remains Snape, even if I have quite a number of criticisms in how Rowling depicts him as well. The difference between the two characters, for me, then, is in the level of detail their characterization is given by the canon. I think there's enough on Voldemort that a person can extrapolate a character with a nuanced personality, but that he isn't actually presented as one in the canon. His characterization always seemed to have been given such cursory attention compared to nearly any other character in the story. This is despite the fairly decent amount of backstory he is given. I just don't think Rowling did a good job getting into his motivations. I think she decided 'well his motivation is he's evil' and called it a day. I mean, I think there's a lot Rowling fundamentally misunderstands about the human condition, but in a lot of cases I think she did a better job depicting it even if she didn't truly understand what it was she was depicting.
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Date: 2019-09-16 09:48 pm (UTC)I don't know how much influence my Tenebrous is influenced by other interpretations of the character beyond the Legends canon, though the few existing interpretations I've found are quite intriguing to me. You bring a lot of interesting qualities to your Sith characters, and I absolutely adore your story Centripetal for both its depiction of Tenebrous and little Hego, as well as his mother Tema. I think your takes on the characters are very distinctly your own (even when you draw on others for inspiration as I know you often do), and not something I could adequately replicate, and just in general I never exactly try to write like another author. Nevertheless, just because I don't explicitly try to do this doesn't mean that my writing doesn't end up with certain similarities from writers whose works I've enjoyed.
I think I often find it easier to think about difficult subjects in a fictional context as well. Sometimes I think that even helps me to think about such things in real contexts.
And yeah, I think both of us find mainline fandom's preoccupation with Jedi to be exasperating haha.
Regarding Voldemort, I was never drawn strongly to his character in the series, but I do think that there's a lot I could say that is critical of Rowling and her formulation of the character. My favorite character in the HP series was and remains Snape, even if I have quite a number of criticisms in how Rowling depicts him as well. The difference between the two characters, for me, then, is in the level of detail their characterization is given by the canon. I think there's enough on Voldemort that a person can extrapolate a character with a nuanced personality, but that he isn't actually presented as one in the canon. His characterization always seemed to have been given such cursory attention compared to nearly any other character in the story. This is despite the fairly decent amount of backstory he is given. I just don't think Rowling did a good job getting into his motivations. I think she decided 'well his motivation is he's evil' and called it a day. I mean, I think there's a lot Rowling fundamentally misunderstands about the human condition, but in a lot of cases I think she did a better job depicting it even if she didn't truly understand what it was she was depicting.