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call_me_snake) wrote2007-03-01 09:33 pm
call_me_snake) wrote2007-03-01 09:33 pm
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muse_playground OOC: Mun sound-off
Topic: 59. Mun’s Turn- Here’s your chance to sound off about that muse in your head that drives you crazy, makes you ride an emotional rollercoaster, demands things happen their way even if you wanted to do something different with their storyline and all those other things our little darlings do to us, their slavishly devoted typists. Remember to post this as OOC (out of character).
I have other muses but none are as demanding as Snake. Not only is it his personality but I think it is due to the fact his movie is one of the first I remember seeing (superseded by only Planet of the Apes and Roustabout, which really does little to help since Snake has a fondness for Elvis.) Snake actually started to speak to me before any other muse.
As a writer, I put Snake off thinking he was too masculine, too much for me to write or that I would never get his voice. I really dreaded not having his voice perfect because I adore the character so much. I put him off for almost a year after starting Adira (my first online muse) . His voice never quieted no matter how much I ignored him. I really wanted a test run and had an OC Centauri spy who masqueraded as a human. He had no avatar at the time and I picked up Snake’s image for that. I had the character in play for a few months before Snake himself became so loud in my head I felt crazy.
My first foray into writing Snake was a piece where the OC ran into him on Mars Colony. From there on he wasn’t going to be silenced. He was slow to open up. At first his voice was only telling me what I needed to know and never anything too deep. It was a weird feeling of needing to gain his trust, as strange and mentally ill as that sounds. That feeling didn’t die and ever so slowly I got more deeply into his psyche.
Now I wonder why I didn’t pick him up first. His voice comes just as easily as my own these days. He hardly ever shuts up. The commentary on my daily activities and the shows I watch can be annoying at best. Have you ever tried to watch a press event from the White House on CNN with someone as rebellious as he is upstairs? I was never a follower as it was, maybe that’s why he came to speak to me in the first place?
He has a lot of short comings. He’s demanding, arrogant and though it is not always obvious he adores being the center of attention. Don’t believe that go look at how many comms he’s convinced me to put him in. Despite his bad side, he is honorable, honest, forthright and down to Earth. It makes writing him very easy. There is no guessing about what he means or how something should be portrayed though trying to convince him it would be better changed is like going to war with a Dall Ram. (Remember the Mountain Dew commercials? Very appropriate.) He’s also a plotter, always watching what everyone else is doing. It makes his interactions with others all the more interesting. Sometimes he’s nice and others so reactionary I wonder if he’s lost his mind. No matter what though there is a point, a strong stance he wants to make a point of. I admire that straight forward attitude and brutal honesty.
I watched an interview once where Kurt Russell was talking about Snake. He said something to the effect of: America loves outlaws, we always have, we have a soft spot for them. Some men like to be islands, some prefer to be islands. Snake is that Island we want to be. Snake is such a great character because he is one of those “what if” characters. What if you could be like Snake Plissken? You’d love to kick ass like that, love to not have a care other than for yourself. We’d all love to be Snake Plissken.
I can tell you right now those words couldn’t be more on the money if you tried. He is the unpatriotic, patriotic American, a man of honor and a man who stands for what he sees as right no matter what. We sympathize with that, we all want to be that and writing him is just as much his voice as touching something deep inside we are all afraid to be in the real world.
Titania
Keeper and Personal Secretary to Snake Plissken
Crossposted tomuse_playground
I have other muses but none are as demanding as Snake. Not only is it his personality but I think it is due to the fact his movie is one of the first I remember seeing (superseded by only Planet of the Apes and Roustabout, which really does little to help since Snake has a fondness for Elvis.) Snake actually started to speak to me before any other muse.
As a writer, I put Snake off thinking he was too masculine, too much for me to write or that I would never get his voice. I really dreaded not having his voice perfect because I adore the character so much. I put him off for almost a year after starting Adira (my first online muse) . His voice never quieted no matter how much I ignored him. I really wanted a test run and had an OC Centauri spy who masqueraded as a human. He had no avatar at the time and I picked up Snake’s image for that. I had the character in play for a few months before Snake himself became so loud in my head I felt crazy.
My first foray into writing Snake was a piece where the OC ran into him on Mars Colony. From there on he wasn’t going to be silenced. He was slow to open up. At first his voice was only telling me what I needed to know and never anything too deep. It was a weird feeling of needing to gain his trust, as strange and mentally ill as that sounds. That feeling didn’t die and ever so slowly I got more deeply into his psyche.
Now I wonder why I didn’t pick him up first. His voice comes just as easily as my own these days. He hardly ever shuts up. The commentary on my daily activities and the shows I watch can be annoying at best. Have you ever tried to watch a press event from the White House on CNN with someone as rebellious as he is upstairs? I was never a follower as it was, maybe that’s why he came to speak to me in the first place?
He has a lot of short comings. He’s demanding, arrogant and though it is not always obvious he adores being the center of attention. Don’t believe that go look at how many comms he’s convinced me to put him in. Despite his bad side, he is honorable, honest, forthright and down to Earth. It makes writing him very easy. There is no guessing about what he means or how something should be portrayed though trying to convince him it would be better changed is like going to war with a Dall Ram. (Remember the Mountain Dew commercials? Very appropriate.) He’s also a plotter, always watching what everyone else is doing. It makes his interactions with others all the more interesting. Sometimes he’s nice and others so reactionary I wonder if he’s lost his mind. No matter what though there is a point, a strong stance he wants to make a point of. I admire that straight forward attitude and brutal honesty.
I watched an interview once where Kurt Russell was talking about Snake. He said something to the effect of: America loves outlaws, we always have, we have a soft spot for them. Some men like to be islands, some prefer to be islands. Snake is that Island we want to be. Snake is such a great character because he is one of those “what if” characters. What if you could be like Snake Plissken? You’d love to kick ass like that, love to not have a care other than for yourself. We’d all love to be Snake Plissken.
I can tell you right now those words couldn’t be more on the money if you tried. He is the unpatriotic, patriotic American, a man of honor and a man who stands for what he sees as right no matter what. We sympathize with that, we all want to be that and writing him is just as much his voice as touching something deep inside we are all afraid to be in the real world.
Titania
Keeper and Personal Secretary to Snake Plissken
Crossposted to
muse_playground
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Now, if I can just get caught up, over this bronchitis and stay out of any more ice storms that shuts down the power! ;)
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Don't worry. I'm drowning in papers though luckily there have been no ice storms for a little while.