When you 'meet' one of your characters in real life...

by **shaqui** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:16 pm

Not necessarily CS related, but I was curious if any of you fan fic writers had ever invented and/or visualised a character for a story, got them so spot on in your mind... (assuming you haven't based on someone in real life in the first place! :wink:

) then one day, out of the blue, you come face to face with someone who looks exactly him or her, and might even sound or act like them.

I mention it as someone who works in the same building looks exactly how i visualised a character in a story some years ago, and it was quite a jar to see someone you've 'invented' walking around nearby. A kind of backwards deja-vu you might say.

Has this happened to anyone else here?

by **MMK** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:21 pm

Not happened to me... yet...

but its probably only a matter of time.

I'll say when I have.

by **MMK** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:18 pm

MMK wrote:Not happened to me... yet...

but its probably only a matter of time.

I'll say when I have.

Today, I saw a guy that looked similar to Captain Black... and I do mean 'similar to' and not 'exactly like'... and, no he didn't speak in a monotonous voice :-D

by **Matt Crowther** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:50 pm

Slightly off topic but when writing my book I did get one of the characters so visualised that I ended up building him up in conversation as if he were real. Indeed, he is something of an 'inside joke' within the clique I find myself in but when I think of him I think of Toby Stephens and no one else. Odd and odd.

by **shaqui** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:38 pm

MMK wrote:Today, I saw a guy that looked similar to Captain Black... and I do mean 'similar to' and not 'exactly like'... and, no he didn't speak in a monotonous voice [/color]

When I was at college, back in the mid-1980s when 'Captain Scarlet' was getting its first UK airing since the early 1970s, I was waiting in the queue for lunch... and saw this guy standing just ahead of me, another student, with black hair and blue eyes who could have been the spitting image of Captain Scarlet himself - it gave me quite a start!

:oops:

by **MMK** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:43 am

Matt Crowther wrote:when writing my book I did get one of the characters so visualised that I ended up building him up in conversation as if he were real.

Which character?

So... we've meet Black & Scarlet... two down and countless more to go... :grin:

Two of my friends quite possibly have the personalities of two of the Angels (not sure which ones)... fan fic personalities, I'm not sure about either of the TV series... but they certainly don't look like them!

Damn!

by **Matt Crowther** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:54 pm

MMK wrote:
Matt Crowther wrote:when writing my book I did get one of the characters so visualised that I ended up building him up in conversation as if he were real.

Which character?

So... we've meet Black & Scarlet... two down and countless more to go...

Two of my friends quite possibly have the personalities of two of the Angels (not sure which ones)... fan fic personalities, I'm not sure about either of the TV series... but they certainly don't look like them! Damn!

It's off topic and without risking the wrath of the moderators, it was a chap named James Barkhurst who was my main characters best friend and a bit of a gentlemanly chap...ladies man.

However, on topic I would if I had the money take Rhapsody out to dinner in Mayfair. Hypothetically speaking.

by **Marion** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:17 pm

I went to a party at a friend's house some years ago and met a relation of his wife's who looked the image of Ed Straker - right down to the Nehru-collar jacket he was wearing -apart from the fact that his blond hair was curlier.
That was a surreal experience.

by **MMK** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:05 am

Marion wrote:That was a surreal experience

I've seen a guy who looked like Black, he had:
((()))

A black trenchcoat (at least i think it was a trenchcoat... it was long anyway)
((())) Shades on (don't know what colour)
((()))

Brown hair (all he needed to do was dye it black)

I did a double take... I am sure he was not (a real-life) Black because in NCS, OCS or Fan Fiction, Captain Black DOES NOT carry shopping bags

by **Matt Crowther** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:58 am

MMK wrote:
Marion wrote:That was a surreal experience

I've seen a guy who looked like Black, he had:
A black trenchcoat (at least i think it was a trenchcoat... it was long anyway)
((())) Shades on (don't know what colour)
Brown hair (all he needed to do was dye it black)

I did a double take... I am sure he was not (a real-life) Black because in NCS, OCS or Fan Fiction, Captain Black DOES NOT carry shopping bags

surely, even Black needs to eat sometimes?

by **Captain Indigo** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:09 pm

Matt Crowther wrote:surely, even Black needs to eat sometimes?

Maybe he shops online? :angel)

by **MMK** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:33 pm

Captain Indigo wrote:
Matt Crowther wrote:surely, even Black needs to eat sometimes?

Maybe he shops online?

Or phones up for a takeaway?

by **Matt Crowther** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:04 pm

I wouldn't like to be the person answering Black's call...imagine that..."I want a Pizza," said slowly and in that voice.