Let the battles begin

I just did something I've never done before: wrote for the Porn Battle. I usually don't participate in these activities because the hardcore stuff doesn't come naturally to me at all, and softcore isn't that much easier. But, well, I saw this prompt and was totally unable to resist it.

There are a ton of Final Fantasy prompts, from several canons. Definitely worth checking out. There's even Paine/Nooj! Which I may also be unable to resist....

Title: Boundaries
Fandom: FFX-2
Rating: NC-17ish
Wordcount: 1448
Pairings: Baralai/Yuna, Baralai/Yuna/Shuyin/Lenne
Notes: Written for Porn Battle X. The prompt was "Baralai/Yuna/Lenne/Shuyin, the person I remember"

Link to commentfic / Link to AO3 version

30 Days of Writing: Characters, again

I'm starting to feel like a lot of these questions are about characters and characterization; I hope it's not getting too repetative.

Onward...

9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.

As a fanfic writer, for the most part I'm not "creating" characters as such: the names exist, and so do the faces, and in most cases at least the bare outlines of history and personality. Some require more fleshing out than others, of course, and as mentioned previously I do come up with original characters pretty frequently, especially in longer stories. How the process works depends a lot on where the particular character falls on this spectrum. I'd say there are four rough categories, with a lot of continuum space between them:

( The four kinds of fanfic characters )

What do you think, other fic writers? Do you agree with these categories, or do you see a different schemata? Any and all thoughts welcome.

30 Days of Writing: Complete list of questions