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Floria Tosca
10 July 2009 @ 09:58 pm
The problem with writing female characters who originated as expies of preexisting male characters (this is a case of "strongly inspired by," not a genderswap AU, although admittedly the lines can get a little fuzzy), is that sometimes it feels weird to write them as doing anything particularly feminine or strongly associated with women, particularly in the early stages of writing when they haven't established their own distinctive personalities as strongly. For instance, given her personality and the age she would have been at the time, I don't find it implausible that Lilith (resident self-proclaimed Evil Twin in my weird MGS-pastiche-meets-Bee Train WIP thing) was a Hole fan in the early to mid nineties. The problem is, my brain keeps bringing up the image of some hypothetical ffrants poster demanding the brain bleach for having been exposed to Liquid Snake in a babydoll dress and combat boots. So yeah. Mental associations are weird things.
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