[Meme] Ask a character a question

[runespoor]

Okay, so I've been tagged by mariagoner and I'm curious and possibly a masochist, so I'll do this.

Ask any character I write/have written a question.

It may be in the context of a fic or not, what you like. Also, I'll try to do this IC, which really means that if you asked, say, Hinata, a painfully embarrassing question, she may just clam up and bluuuuuuush - or if you asked Kabuto [whom I've never written, but that's for the example] 'SO WHAT WERE YOU THINKING IN [insert fic title here], RLY,' chances are that, on a 0-10 scale of honesty, 10 being the most sincere, he'd be at something like -150.

I'll try not to take too long on the answers but Internet =/= access at home, so it may take me a while. Otoh, if you find this, say, four days from now, you're welcome to ask anyway. equivalent trade, yo.

Comments

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Gah. There they are. I think after the end of the meme, I'm going to make a post with the answers, because that was fun and at least one of these is practically a fic and I know I'm never going to write it, so at least there'll be a trace of it. Also? The fics that didn't get written while I was slaving away on this meme and having a few of these look at me with a blank air and going "…"? I'm totally blaming you for it.

Oh, and while we're at it, you can ask for clarifications if you want. I know some of the characters *pointed look* aren't precisely renowned for their straight-forwardness.

[Celebrationverse. Answers totally contain things that could be construed as potential/implied spoilers. weeee, rhetorical precautions!]

[more-or-less Day in the Life time set.] Neji's reply: I have serious doubts about that ever happening.

But, on the off-chance that she ever gets well enough to open up that way, and foolish enough to fall for someone who wouldn't have the good sense to step back, my place wouldn't change unless Hinata-sama herself required it of me.

I have been told that she's compartmentalising in order to deal with things that have upset her, and particularly with her duties as a member of Interrogation, so I will, of course, still perform the same services – it is part of my duty as her shadow – unless her boyfriend takes these responsibilities over. Which, for a variety of reasons, is not happening. Premium among these reasons being that the boyfriend would never be Yakushi Kabuto. And that is enough to make the whole discussion pointless, isn't it?

She wouldn't be able to carry on with something as simple as 'a serious and loving relationship'. She would turn to me, or to who-knows-what-else, and after a while she would either feel too guilty to continue or she would be caught. She would separate even more the different parts of her life, and this would leave her even more vulnerable.

I would let her do as she chooses, and take her own decisions. Hopefully. I – my control is still not as foolproof as it should be.

Whatever my feelings for her are, they matter less than what I can do for her.

Hinata's reply: I-I have no idea.

I don't remember it all that well, really. Sometimes I have dreams, and – they're very realistic, it becomes a little difficult to differentiate if I'm not concentrating. I think they're dreams. They're not memories – at least I don't think so. I mean nightmares.

But apart from this aspect of the question, I – don't know. Everything he did – or may have done – gets blurred, in the sense that it was always Kabuto-san who did it – every single part of it, it didn't matter what, it was always him. I think that was much more important than what he did. It's the only reason to explain some of what he did, anyway, that he was Kabuto-san and I was a prisoner.

I suppose I must have amused him, otherwise he wouldn't have spent so much time talking with me, admitting it wasn't a genjutsu or merely to make me relax – or tense up. I must have been very entertaining a prisoner, because I can't ever remember not second and triple-guessing myself whenever he said something and I somehow reacted, and I know Kabuto-san was interested in the human psyche as well.

Oh, no, that's right, his goal was to study the Byakugan. Orochimaru wanted him to study it as extensively as possible so he might be able to copy it. It slips from my mind sometimes.

Kabuto's reply: Yes, of course. She's a very likable young woman. *smiles* I must say that I was more surprised by the desperation of her gesture. I didn't expect her to have shinobi instincts of ranking one's mission above one's life ingrained quite so deep. Obviously. I didn't imagine she would be quick and unpredictable enough to pull it off, either; it really is one of the things she had in common with Naruto-kun after all.

Sasuke's reply: I wasn't in Sound. Orochimaru attacked Konoha because I had left Sound and she was captured during the war. I'm sure it made sense to him.

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

::blushes:: Oh dear, I hope I didn't pour too much trouble on you with this request! But as a ficcer, I really found it actually helped to loosen up my slight writer's block very well! It's amazing how many kinks trying to answer a simple question can unwind, innit? ;)

And oh god, I want MORE of the celebrationverse now, especially from Hinata's POV! She's just so beautifully, wonderfully, intriguingly and achingly broken, as Neji obliquely points out. Like someone else once pointed out-- it's not tragedy that does us in, it's the messes that come afterwards. And your Hinata is more or less a living example of that.

And Kabuto... my god, please tell me you'll slate him into your fic sometime soon. Seeing her from his POV must be one HELL of a viewpoint as well!

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Less writer's block and more common laziness of the 'I know what's gonna happen, I just don't wanna write iiiiiiiit because it'll kick my ass'.

Your two other comments... Well, I'm just not saying no because Who Know When Inspiration Strikes, right, but for now... *sighs*

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I know what you mean. There are some things I want to write but don't quite know how and other things I know how to write but can't seem to find the will to put down on paper (or Microsoft word.) Here's hoping both of our muses get a little less testy soon!