I have to admit that I've not read that much Mercedes Lackey - mostly the one novel for Skif anf the two for Alberich, maybe the first in the 'Arrows' trilogy. Then I lost interest.
Not surprisingly, this Ziggy is currently exploring who he is, because I can't stop writing.
On the reaction front, what I did was try to figure what the others would do and react, and it came down to "try to make Ziggy's life less sucky this time around". But that background made Ziggy the character he was in RPM, the one with a really good heart and a really long rap sheet. This Ziggy is a really nice guy who's pretty law abiding, came from a stable background, and is not quite as low in self-esteem as canon-Ziggy reads to me. (Summer tried to give this Ziggy a little bit of zaniness by having him hang around Gem and Gemma, but all he got out of it was that it was okay for adults to own construction paper and use crayons. And that some people really liked taking things apart and blowing stuff up. And that Gem and Gemma tend to think weirdly.)
Of course,this Ziggy is now getting to the age where he really is starting to look like the Ziggy they knew, and for Dillon, this is especially hard, as he was closest to the original and he keeps expecting this Ziggy to act in ways that he doesn't. And since there are some small ways that Ziggy does act like his original (because of things picked up/ingrained before he was four, because those memories remain intact), it's a really frustrating for him to be around Ziggy right now. I think this would be true even for a non-slash relationship, as they were close friends, of course, in canon.
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Date: 2011-03-17 07:17 pm (UTC)Not surprisingly, this Ziggy is currently exploring who he is, because I can't stop writing.
On the reaction front, what I did was try to figure what the others would do and react, and it came down to "try to make Ziggy's life less sucky this time around". But that background made Ziggy the character he was in RPM, the one with a really good heart and a really long rap sheet. This Ziggy is a really nice guy who's pretty law abiding, came from a stable background, and is not quite as low in self-esteem as canon-Ziggy reads to me. (Summer tried to give this Ziggy a little bit of zaniness by having him hang around Gem and Gemma, but all he got out of it was that it was okay for adults to own construction paper and use crayons. And that some people really liked taking things apart and blowing stuff up. And that Gem and Gemma tend to think weirdly.)
Of course,this Ziggy is now getting to the age where he really is starting to look like the Ziggy they knew, and for Dillon, this is especially hard, as he was closest to the original and he keeps expecting this Ziggy to act in ways that he doesn't. And since there are some small ways that Ziggy does act like his original (because of things picked up/ingrained before he was four, because those memories remain intact), it's a really frustrating for him to be around Ziggy right now. I think this would be true even for a non-slash relationship, as they were close friends, of course, in canon.