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So I’ve been reading Marvel 1602 ( About 61 % through!). And I thought of this today…
Take a scene from a piece of media, preferably something major ( like a conversation) and write it with different characters.
Some examples could be Mr Darcy’s proposal from P &P , with Wanda Maximoff and Vision. Or having another Doctor say one of Eleven or Twelve’s gran speeches.
A caveat: Don’t just transplant the dialogue if you can. Do your best to rework the scene with whatever particular characters. ( if that makes sense)
Take a scene from a piece of media, preferably something major ( like a conversation) and write it with different characters.
Some examples could be Mr Darcy’s proposal from P &P , with Wanda Maximoff and Vision. Or having another Doctor say one of Eleven or Twelve’s gran speeches.
A caveat: Don’t just transplant the dialogue if you can. Do your best to rework the scene with whatever particular characters. ( if that makes sense)
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Date: 2025-02-02 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-02 01:37 pm (UTC)I don't know why I went there, unless I was thinking about that (attempt at) Regency OUaT fic I did last year.
(I seriously did an Internet search to find a quote or YouTube clip of his proposal. For this, not the fic)
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Date: 2025-02-03 05:15 pm (UTC)You can see why it would be difficult to write this for different characters, because both Darcy's proposal and Lizzie's response, contain multiple layers of meaning, things said and unsaid. They refer to huge amount of backstory (and incorrect backstory, mind you - Lizzie doesn't know it, but she gets a lot of things wrong, which is the whole point of the book). The very last thing that Lizzie says to Darcy is the real stinger and is what spurs his development through the rest of the book. Also, a hell of a lot is said through the facial expressions, not through the dialogue.
If you were to write this using Wanda and Vision, it's not just a matter of modifying the voices. It's a matter of knowing Vision and Wanda well enough to adjust the dialogue so that Vision's proposal insults and offends Wanda in just the right ways and Wanda's response has all the right inaccuracies, and Wanda's final words have to sting Vision in exactly the right place to make the rest of the story plausible.