Two Memes

[browngirl]

I'm trying not to write a different post, so have a meme that's going around:

Ask me any fandom-related questions in the comments. They can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general.

Questions can be as wacky as you want and have as many subparts as you like. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want. [However, you may not ask what post it is I'm trying not to write.]

Fandoms of mine include: Babylon 5, DC Comics, Doctor Who & Torchwood (Nu Who), the Ancient Egyptians, Firefly, Heinlein novels, LOTR, Mary Renault, Mercedes Lackey Novels (back in the ‘90s), the Minoans of Bronze Age Crete, NUMB3RS, Pern, Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Reboot, Star Wars, and Bujold’s Vorkosiverse.

The first comment is the answer to another meme, of Five Questions which 6street gave me a really long time ago.

Comments

[marymack19.livejournal.com]

Tell me about Hikaru Sulu?

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Ah, Hikaru Sulu. It took me a little time to think my way into his head, and to decide on certain choices.

My Hikaru is mostly movieverse and has some dichotomies within him. He's a little quiet, stable and studious, but with an explosive quality. His family's been in the US for generations, and the language he knows best after English/Standard is probably West Coast Spanish. And he's a switch, mostly a dom; he spent some time exploring the venerable SF scene from his last year of high school onwards.

I'm not sure if there's any concrete reason why he loves being a pilot, anything more specific than liking control, speed and adrenaline. He sees Kirk as a pleasantly bad influence towards the rakish, romantic, adrenaline-junkie side of his character, and Pavel as a wonderfully good one towards inspiring him to be his smartest and his best.

After the Narada Incident he never had nightmares about the Romulans he killed. He worries about that sometimes.