I know from my own experience that chars like Martha, who are... I guess more 'saintly' than others... can be a lot harder to write (I was talking just the other day that 'Lawful Good' is really hard to make interesting. IDK if Martha qualifies as Lawful Good in your lights, but compared to DG and Dru she is definitely moreso, hee!), and in many ways a lot less 'fun' too. Like you've got a choice between writing DG on a motorcycle and Martha sorting medicines, WELL.
With the aftermath of Paul's injuries I hope we can stick in some Martha and Paul threads. :D
Bearing sort of on the difficulties of playing LG chars... I sometimes find that I still have a kind of a loose grip on Martha's character and personality. Full confession, I watched like one ep of DW in my life and it wasn't one that featured Martha, so everything I know about her is 10% fandom osmosis and 90% your Martha in Taxon, and sometimes I catch myself going, Okay, I know she's a doctor and very altruistic, I know she cares about people and wants to help them... and then I stop cuz I realize that is sort of all I know about her.
I'd love to see more of the meat of the character, flaws and all, if Martha has any ;). Things that would make her feel more like a person to me and less like, idk, messianic-saves-world-from-the-Master-in-running-for-sainthood, I guess? Although from my fandom osmosis that does seem to be who she is, idk!
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I know from my own experience that chars like Martha, who are... I guess more 'saintly' than others... can be a lot harder to write (I was talking just the other day that 'Lawful Good' is really hard to make interesting. IDK if Martha qualifies as Lawful Good in your lights, but compared to DG and Dru she is definitely moreso, hee!), and in many ways a lot less 'fun' too. Like you've got a choice between writing DG on a motorcycle and Martha sorting medicines, WELL.
With the aftermath of Paul's injuries I hope we can stick in some Martha and Paul threads. :D
Bearing sort of on the difficulties of playing LG chars... I sometimes find that I still have a kind of a loose grip on Martha's character and personality. Full confession, I watched like one ep of DW in my life and it wasn't one that featured Martha, so everything I know about her is 10% fandom osmosis and 90% your Martha in Taxon, and sometimes I catch myself going, Okay, I know she's a doctor and very altruistic, I know she cares about people and wants to help them... and then I stop cuz I realize that is sort of all I know about her.
I'd love to see more of the meat of the character, flaws and all, if Martha has any ;). Things that would make her feel more like a person to me and less like, idk, messianic-saves-world-from-the-Master-in-running-for-sainthood, I guess? Although from my fandom osmosis that does seem to be who she is, idk!