Sylar - Gabriel Gray

Character Meme from paynesgrey:

1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows

She gave me 'M'.

1 - Malcolm Reynolds: I had no intention of liking Firefly. It was on FOX, so I knew it was doomed. But then I saw Mal kick Niska's minion through Serenity's engine, and I fell in love. He was like a more kick ass version of Han Solo, and Mal had much better taste in women. Inara trumps Leia any day of the week. I have RP'd and ficced Mal. He is one of my top favorite characters of all time. I think I rewatch Firefly a couple of times a year, and I know every single line by heart.

2 - Merlin: My favorite version of Merlin is from the Arthurian books by Mary Stewart. I read the Crystal Cave so many times when I was a kid. He was intelligent, mysterious and so messed up. His devotion to Arthur was incredible. Stewart's version ruined me for any other incarnation until Showtime's Camelot last year. While Stewart's was the Merlin of my childhood, Camelot's is my grown up version of Merlin. I wish the show hadn't been canceled.

3 - Moya: Moya was the living ship where John Crichton ends up after going through the worm hole on Farscape. Moya partners with Pilot to travel through space. She was a slave to the Peacekeepers and suffered at their hands. She's sentient, and if she doesn't want to go someplace, she won't go there. She's tough and cares about the fugitives who fly with her.

4 - The Master: The Doctor Who version not Buffy. I've watched the Doctor off and on since Tom Baker, and the Master was such an awesome villain even back then. The Harry Sims version is a delight to watch, and I still hear the drums. He's just so wonderfully bat shit crazy evil, but he's funny as hell too. I think Crowley on Supernatural owes a lot to the Master.

5 - Methos: Death, Death on a Horse. "I didn't do it for revenge. I did it because I liked it, and I was good at it." I was a big Highlander fan well before Methos joined the show, but once he did it was magic. Every single little glimpse we had of what made Methos who he was, was fascinating. When they brought in the Four Horsemen, and his relationship with Kronos, I was captivated. I think Methos was the first morally gray character to get to me. Before him you were either a good guy or a bad guy, but Methos taught me to love those who walk the balance. I miss the Old Man.

I've set a goal to edit 3 chapters in my novel and to write at least 500 words a day for this week. I'm done with my work, and it's play time now.

Pick a fandom and I'll tell you:

The first character I fell in love with:
The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
The character everyone else loves that I don't:
The character I love that everyone else hates:
The character I used to love but don't any longer:
The character I would shag anytime:
The character I'd want to be like:
The character I'd slap:
My five favorite characters:
My five least favorite characters:
My deep dark fandom secret:

My fandoms: LINK to the list

28 – Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your fic?

I’ve collaborated in the past with a few people where we’d write alternating chapters of a story. I suppose in a way these were really more RP than fanfic although we would write for each other’s characters, which is not done in RP. It’s fun to share a story, but usually the other person flakes on me. So I don’t do it anymore. I hate having a definite story die because my partner wandered off.

A friend and I are trying to write an original novel together, or we would be if I hadn’t had writer’s block for a few months. Now we’re both working on separate projects, but I know we’ll get back to the novel again in the future. Writing with someone else on that level is very different for me.

29 – What is your current project or projects?

I’m writing a multipart fic right now called Fire & Ice. I don’t usually do big fics. I much prefer to get a bunny and just whip that story out. Other than F&I I am writing one-shots and working on a couple of novels. One novel needs a final edit to go to the publisher, and the other needs to be written after a drastic change to the main character.

Play this here in my LJ. I don't want to deal with Captcha, so I've copied the details from memekingdom.
My thread on the Big Damn Meme.

My personal rules for this:
1 - Character LJs only.
2 - Crossovers are cool.
3 - If you mindfuck me enough, be prepared to pay the consequences, which means that I can hurt you right back.
4 - What happens in the meme stays in the meme. It does not effect RP or our characters anywhere else. Unless we are mutually interested in pursuing something that we've started here.

( This is so fucked up.. had to do it. )

23 – When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?

I post in my muses’ journals, my fanfic library fanficbylee, and I crosspost to the applicable fandom comms on LJ. I also post links on Twitter and on Get Glue. I have a ff.net account, but I always forget that it’s there. I used fanlib tons, and I was sad to see it shut down.

24 – Betaing – How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your fic? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?

Anyone who reads my posts when they first hit knows that I don’t have a beta. I write. I post, and then I see the errors that I didn’t see before I post and scramble to fix them. I have enough people betaing my real writing, and I want to just enjoy writing fic without that kind of pressure.

PS: Freelance job is pretty much done, and the muses are chattering. I should finally get some fic up soon.

22 – Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?

I think the biggest event I’ve participated in was the 100 Drabbles of Summer 2010. I completed 10K worth of drabbles before the end of July. I get on a roll with them, and I cannot stop. Sadly the mods for the comm didn’t give out a banner or even send out a congrats for completing it first. Yes, I’m bitchy about it. It’s the Leo ego that wanted some stroking, which is why I did not participate this year. It’s also why I always make sure that everyone who participates is an event on one of my comms gets something for it.

I’ve done a few fests, but I’ve never much liked them. I seem to get the worst prompts/pairings possible on the things. I had to drop out of Heroes Exchange because I couldn’t stomach the idea of writing Luke with anyone. I’ve wiped the character out of my mind, so I forgot that I want nothing to do with him. They wanted Luke/Nathan. *pukes*

I much prefer to ask people to request fics from me in small doses, and usually I get those done. Although the writers’ block was screwing that up until recently, but I’m back on track.

18 – Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?

I wish I could say I have a trigger, something that sets my mind off, but I really don’t. Usually I’m chatting with friends, and a bunny will bite. I’ve taken to calling the really pushy ones Rabid Plot Bunnies or RPB. Had one of those last weekend when we were discussing how to make a RP situation work out. In that scenario Gabriel has a twin, Michael. A couple of months ago,

Gabe’s player said, “Wouldn’t it be cool if Mike was all in Gabe’s head?”

I said, “Hell yes!”

Then last week I started pondering about the real Michael Gray. I was inspired in that scene by Gabe, who is nearly Sylar’s, murder of Isaac. He did it in a bathtub. Suddenly the image of the real Michael Gray in a bathtub full of blood when he was a teenager popped into my head. Gabe’s player and I chatted some more, and before I could do anything else, I had to write a piece for Michael about his suicide, and where he was today.

It was a blast. I love it when RPB’s bite.

If you’d like to read Michael’s story, you can see it here on heroesreduxrpg Group #1 Tag. I’m now playing headMichael who still looks like Gabe, and have had a nice RP with Chandra from Mike’s real account. I can’t wait until Gabe and Mike meet in the flesh.

Although this was a roleplay situation, it’s pretty much the same way my writing works whether it’s fanfic or my original writing.

14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?

I don’t rate my stories until they’re done. Then I can decide whether the violence, language or content needs that label. Smut always gets at least an R and a NSFW tag. That’s a given. But the rest is subjective. I don’t think I could count my G rated fic on one hand if only for the language.

I used to get sick to my stomach at the thought of writing smut. It terrified me. I had a huge mental block. I’d rather write about making kitten sashimi than sex. But I’m over that now in my fic, my RP and my real writing.

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11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?

I seem to gravitate towards Gen or Slash primarily. I like jackvelvet's answer. “I write drama.” That’s what I try for. The telling of a good story is the whole point. I do enjoy writing some funny stuff on occasion too.

12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?

I did a fic for a movie mashup event once that is one of my favorites. I retold Bedazzled staring the Winchester Brothers. I had a blast writing it. I’ll include the links, and please be kind. I wrote it a long, long time ago, so I’m sure it’s not the best written fic I’ve done. I did the movie poster art for it too.


If you click on the movie poster it will take you to my no longer in use Fan Fic library.



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