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bedlamsbardDude! Flack cut his hair and lost the leather? I am so glad I'm writing the Bardverse (the snafu-verse). Everybody's - well, not sane, but closer to the people we were introduced to in the first season.
As a fanfic writer, you can pick and choose how you want to portray your incarnations of the character. Because CSI: NY's only on it's first - almost second - season, there's not much to choose from, but you stick to what you know and what you love. Your characters do change, but you control how they do, and in text, you don't see so much of - you don't see them so much. They are what you think they are. I don't put in a lot of description when I'm writing, because I don't actually visualize characters. I can see their environment, but I don't see them. Just - blurs, or negative space. Every time I look at caps of CSI: NY, I end up going, "So that's what my characters look like!" Which probably makes me a little weird, at least among movie/tv-fic writers. A lot of the time, I have a vague idea of what my originals look like, or I base them off characters from other movies. Val was based off John Constantine from Constantine, Joey was based off of Al Giordino from Sahara - but Ace and Carmine are very unusual in that I have some idea of what they look like, and they're not based off of anything. When it comes to my actual originals - SCU: Boston, Year of Ghosts and Shadows, Uncovering Delphi, my Summers-Harker PI story - I have very little idea what the characters look like, unless they are based off someone else's characters. If I was casting for SCU: Boston, Bobby Hanson (Dave Silk in Miracle) would totally play Jimmy, but beyond such generalities beyond hair color, I couldn't tell you anything about the others. Halden is blonde - really, really cream blonde, not platinum, but almost white. Siobhan is honey blonde/golden brown, with sort of weird amber/gold eyes. Think Michael Mantenuto (OC in Miracle). In Year of Ghosts and Shadows, I based quite a few characters off people in my own band, so I know, sort of, how they look - Joey and Alan (whose real life equivalent quit band and is sort of a jock prep), Kyle Leonstrattan - but when it comes to the other, I have very little idea of what they look like. Fury d'Alessandro and her twin Grace (what?) are probably brunette, and the O'Carolan clan (of which Flynn is part of) almost certainly has the same coloring as Siobhan from SCU: Boston, but the others? Couldn't tell you a damn thing.
As a fanfic writer, you can pick and choose how you want to portray your incarnations of the character. Because CSI: NY's only on it's first - almost second - season, there's not much to choose from, but you stick to what you know and what you love. Your characters do change, but you control how they do, and in text, you don't see so much of - you don't see them so much. They are what you think they are. I don't put in a lot of description when I'm writing, because I don't actually visualize characters. I can see their environment, but I don't see them. Just - blurs, or negative space. Every time I look at caps of CSI: NY, I end up going, "So that's what my characters look like!" Which probably makes me a little weird, at least among movie/tv-fic writers. A lot of the time, I have a vague idea of what my originals look like, or I base them off characters from other movies. Val was based off John Constantine from Constantine, Joey was based off of Al Giordino from Sahara - but Ace and Carmine are very unusual in that I have some idea of what they look like, and they're not based off of anything. When it comes to my actual originals - SCU: Boston, Year of Ghosts and Shadows, Uncovering Delphi, my Summers-Harker PI story - I have very little idea what the characters look like, unless they are based off someone else's characters. If I was casting for SCU: Boston, Bobby Hanson (Dave Silk in Miracle) would totally play Jimmy, but beyond such generalities beyond hair color, I couldn't tell you anything about the others. Halden is blonde - really, really cream blonde, not platinum, but almost white. Siobhan is honey blonde/golden brown, with sort of weird amber/gold eyes. Think Michael Mantenuto (OC in Miracle). In Year of Ghosts and Shadows, I based quite a few characters off people in my own band, so I know, sort of, how they look - Joey and Alan (whose real life equivalent quit band and is sort of a jock prep), Kyle Leonstrattan - but when it comes to the other, I have very little idea of what they look like. Fury d'Alessandro and her twin Grace (what?) are probably brunette, and the O'Carolan clan (of which Flynn is part of) almost certainly has the same coloring as Siobhan from SCU: Boston, but the others? Couldn't tell you a damn thing.
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Date: 2005-09-26 12:51 am (UTC)Couldn't we all?
You should see what I'm doing to Mac.I mean yes, they've really outdone themselves. For once. Or at least Mr Cahill has. Bravo, Mr Cahill, you get bonus points for actually thinking and postulating about your character (not that I don't suspect all the CSI'ers do that, but hey.)
See, actors think. I mean, maybe not all that much, but sometimes.
Umm. Damn. Try this instead.
*stares* He looks like a completely different person. Not necessarily younger, although that too, but less like a cop. More like a Fed.
Wow, my mind works really weirdly.
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Date: 2005-09-26 12:59 am (UTC)I am seeing what you're doing to Mac. *immensely pleased*
Hey Flack, wanna see Danny-at-age-14 try to weasel out of a citation by flirting with your dad and/or his partner? No? Didn't think so...See, actors think. I mean, maybe not all that much, but sometimes.
...I live in an apartment with three theater majors. Interpret as you will. ;-)
More like a Fed.
So *that's*
whowhat he's been doing all summer. Huh. Go figure.Dammit, CBS, he *looked like a cop* before. Cop. Detective. Not exactly fashionistas here by any stretch of the imagination. You're just lucky, CBS, you didn't pick up a grouchy actor with a salt-and-pepper crewcut, a permanent sneer and an incipient beer gut. Leather and snark is as fashionable as they get.
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Date: 2005-09-26 01:11 am (UTC)It gets
betterworsemoredisastrousinterestingmany different types of adjectives.Hey Flack, wanna see Danny-at-age-14 try to weasel out of a citation by flirting with your dad and/or his partner? No? Didn't think so...
*arches eyebrows* I do....
...I live in an apartment with three theater majors. Interpret as you will. ;-)
Ah... (They just closed down the auditorium/theatre. The theatre geeks here are MAD. So are the bandies, the choir people, and the dancers)
So *that's* who what he's been doing all summer. Huh. Go figure.
It would make sense. He probably figures they're either more insane or less insane than the Crime Lab.
Dammit, CBS, he *looked like a cop* before. Cop. Detective. Not exactly fashionistas here by any stretch of the imagination. You're just lucky, CBS, you didn't pick up a grouchy actor with a salt-and-pepper crewcut, a permanent sneer and an incipient beer gut. Leather and snark is as fashionable as they get.
Wordy McWord. You got a cop-type. Use him as a cop-type, not a pretty boy-type. Especially since this is, you know, a cop show.
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Date: 2005-09-26 01:21 am (UTC)...actually, honestly, so do I. Especially if Flack-at-15 (I think of him as slightly older than Danny) knew about it in some peripheral way like overhearing his dad complaining about it. And then they're adults and oh, um, was that you? That was your *dad*?
And because 14!Danny,
slutconfident/cocky enough to use hisbodycharm to try and weasel out of a trespassing or whatever citation with a *male* NYPD officer? Is kinda... scary intriguing.It would make sense. He probably figures they're either more insane or less insane than the Crime Lab.
*halo* He could bring Danny, and have a threesome with Danny Taylor of the WaT crew. Which would be a little freaky, 'cause like... what the hell do they ... names. They can't call him Danny because it'll get mixed up, but Taylor? How do you tell a potential lover that you don't know what to call them because you don't want to be imploring [boss's name] to suck/fuck/do it harder.
Use him as a cop-type, not a pretty boy-type. Especially since this is, you know, a cop show.
Exactly. There is not some law that proclaims that all men below the age of 30 are required to play pretties. Hell, look at Bosco.
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Date: 2005-09-26 01:34 am (UTC)And because 14!Danny, slut confident/cocky enough to use his body charm to try and weasel out of a trespassing or whatever citation with a *male* NYPD officer? Is kinda... scary intriguing.
It is. Because he would. And then it would totally freak Papa Flack out because hey, this kid's the same age as my son. *encourages quietly*
*halo* He could bring Danny, and have a threesome with Danny Taylor of the WaT crew. Which would be a little freaky, 'cause like... what the hell do they ... names. They can't call him Danny because it'll get mixed up, but Taylor? How do you tell a potential lover that you don't know what to call them because you don't want to be imploring [boss's name] to suck/fuck/do it harder.
I don't know, Martin's prettier. *snickers* THERE'S a crisis. Talk about a way to bridge inter-department relations. I gues it's less violent than football...
Uh, maybe.
Exactly. There is not some law that proclaims that all men below the age of 30 are required to play pretties. Hell, look at Bosco.
He works better as a cop than as a pretty boy. It's not in his nature, I don't think. He's...Flack. Cop.
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Date: 2005-09-26 01:46 am (UTC)If I'm a really awful person, in the meantime, Flack's just got-- just stopped being molested by Mallory at this point. So he's *very* curious about this boy he "accidentally" overhears his dad talking about. And likens boy to himself. And feels bad. And strange. And wants to break things.
And then feels all those same over again when he and Danny as adults make the connections. So much confusion. Flack wants to know what's up and why and why a cop, why my dad, what'd you think you were doing, but all without giving himself away.
Danny just figured at the time it would be a good enough way to get out of a trip to the precinct, since he was already in hot water with whoever he was living with at the time, and they'd caught him so it wasn't as if he could *run*.
I don't know, Martin's prettier. *snickers*
Martin's prettier, but Danny Taylor's more will-- ahh. Yes. Well, there it is then. ;-)
He's...Flack. Cop.
I take him a lot more seriously, copwise, with the leather jacket & the tie than the suit and tie. I mean if I met a cop on the street and he was pansying in a pink shirt and patterned tie, or whatever? I'd figure he was political appointee.