Vader... 2 Least favorite... sometimes finding the line between "meh" Vader and "I'm not just going to kill you, I'm going to make you explode" Vader is a big challenge. He can really go from chatting happily to strangling you at the drop of a hat.
Okay, I'm going to do Steed in reverse order. 11. Steed is simultaneously a guy that can care deeply for the people in his life and shoot his best friend without overthinking it. And he can flip between the part of him that's a good person and the part of him that's a remorseless killer in a heartbeat.
3 I try to keep the ones that humanize him and provide moments of development in mind. Like he isn't completely untouched by some of the terrible things he's been through and has some ptsd from being captured and tortured more than once. He has triggers like Brahms' lullaby and things he's uncomfortable with like dimly lit rooms.
LOL the moment he realized he done fucked up with Emma in Two's a Crowd. That was a big step for him because previously he never gave manipulating people and situations a second thought.
He was pretending to be his own double and in the process he not only convinced her that he was killed, but he said some things to her that were needlessly hurtful to keep up the illusion that he wasn't Steed. He went so far that she seriously considered killing him, thinking he was his double.
Because I'm a terrible sucker for true life adventure stories. Especially of the doomed variety.
Least favorite... sometimes finding the line between "meh" Vader and "I'm not just going to kill you, I'm going to make you explode" Vader is a big challenge. He can really go from chatting happily to strangling you at the drop of a hat.
I don't know that I admire anything about him.
But his general 'meh, I have no fucks' attitude to most things is a lot of fun.
Steed is simultaneously a guy that can care deeply for the people in his life and shoot his best friend without overthinking it. And he can flip between the part of him that's a good person and the part of him that's a remorseless killer in a heartbeat.
But it's also not always comfortable to write and that's also fun.
I try to keep the ones that humanize him and provide moments of development in mind.
Like he isn't completely untouched by some of the terrible things he's been through and has some ptsd from being captured and tortured more than once. He has triggers like Brahms' lullaby and things he's uncomfortable with like dimly lit rooms.
And he deserved every damn one of them.
He went so far that she seriously considered killing him, thinking he was his double.