jtav wrote...
Nightwriter wrote...
Well I guess that would depend upon how well you write your Shepard. Based off of what the writers do with Shepard, yeah, he can get a bit dull, but real skill can transform anything.
True. But I am not skilled. Besides, it was Miranda that devoured my brain and made me pack up and come over to ME fandom. There are other characters and elements of the setting that interest ME, but she's the focal point. It's her head I want to get into, not Shep's.
How do you know what depths of skill you possess if you do not plumb them? You do have skill, we could tell you that.
Anybody can take someone else's character and write something. It's easy. I would write Shepard simply because it's a challenge. Lots of people use the other characters for fanfic, but how often do they make Shepard truly interesting? Not very often. Because there's actual writing involved there. Shepard is blank.
I tried fanfic once purely for that reason, to see if I could make Shepard interesting - and I did this by deciding to write the entire thing from Miranda's perspective, starting from Lazarus on, and never go into Shepard's head once. Not once. Your whole perception of Shepard is defined through Miranda. You don't know what he's thinking, what he's feeling, nothing. It was fun.