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[beccaelizabeth]

You know, I really don't like Owen
yet I keep reading fanfic that leaves me wanting to write fanfic in defense of him
... some of the stuff out there is really viciously out of character, imho.
I mean Owen is a bastard, but he's not an empty bastard. He'll put himself in harm's way to do whatever he's convinced himself is right. Yeah, I was cheering Ianto on, but yeah, Owen had a point too, and if he was serious about it being duty that's his motive? That would explain why Jack even hired him. And make it really more difficult to totally hate him.
He's a bastard on a personal level, he's out of his depth once he's out of his field, but he's not empty spite. He's actually quite complex.

... not that it wouldn't give me a happy to write him some hurt, but there's ways and ways.



Also it's more fun when everyone's being in character because then they're snarky and sparky and pushing back whenever someone pushes and it's interesting.



Now if I can only find something to like about Gwen I'll have a complete set...

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[beccaelizabeth]

the thing with Gwen is I'm increasingly seeing her as someone more invested in doing the nice thing than doing the right thing. Or at least in being seen as someone who is a nice person.

I mean, the thing with Suzie... in what senses was that the right thing? Who's needs did that serve? Gwen's need to feel better about herself was pretty high on the list.

And she keeps equating her own norms and values with 'being human'. Like there's only one right way to do that.


Also, she is not kick arse. I know not every character can be, but with her combined her traits of whiny guilty empathy and freezing in crisis situations she ends up being a character I don't really want to spend much time with.


Looked at from the shiny side she does try to be all nice and empathising and understanding and stuff, she just seems terribly naive about it and a tad bit practice/preach divided.