4) favorite character you’ve written 5) character you were most surprised to end up writing 16) are there any characters who haunt you? For the ask the writer. (Sorry it’s so late.)

ooh, thank you! *flexes fingers* 

4. The favorite character is a tough one, as I’m torn between the ones that come flowing off my fingers without any real effort at all and the ones that drive me right round the twist but are complicated and take effort. In the end, I’d have to say that I have several, starting with Miranda and Thomas Hamilton, who are always a delight to write, but I have a definite soft spot for Admiral Hennessey, with his sort of exasperated fondness and utter bullheadedness to rival Flint’s under the right circumstances.

5. I had absolutely no idea I was going to end up writing Abigail into To the Upper Air. She wasn’t part of the plan except in a peripheral sense, and then she just kind of showed up and started doing her own thing much to my surprise. Similarly I was not expecting to end up writing anything from Hornigold’s perspective, ever, and yet there he is in Chapter 6 of They That Sow the Wind, providing eyes on a scene. The same is true for Woodes Rogers in Anger of a Gentle Man – I really don’t like him as a person (although he’s growing on me a bit in Season 4), so having him be part of a scene at all was kind of weird. 

16. Hmm. Characters that haunt me. Are we talking characters that stand at the edge of my consciousness, stories cut too short, demanding to know why I don’t write more about them, why canon treated them the way it did? Because the answer to that is Miranda Hamilton and, to a lesser degree, Thomas, mostly because he’s far too considerate to spend too much time demanding anything. Ask me about him and his haunting habits again when I finally get to writing a Whitechapel crossover, as I’m going to end up doing at some point. Miranda, though – gods, if anyone were ever going to leave an angry, disruptive, very heart-rending ghost it would be her. The version of her that lives in my head is so very, very upset a lot of the time, and I keep trying to write her a solution to her troubles. It’s odd, because there are so very many characters I’ve been fond of that deserved better from canon and yet she’s the one that won’t be placated, at least not yet.