-- Azula. Seriously I had her app written and everything, and submitted it... right after Wata submitted, so before she was on the taken list, but after she was, in fact taken. But I kind of wanted to give her a better end, and she really needed a rebuild from a blank slate.
-- Dag Bluefield from the Sharing Knife books. Mostly for weird powers and having an older character with seriously shitty memories. Also, as the Pillar played out, it would have been interesting since, in canon, he kills monsters that don't know how to die and suck out life force trying to fill a void using bone knives that have to be primed by mercy-killing members of the tribe*...
... He so would have ended up trying to sacrifice himself make a god-killing knife for his team. His wife would have been furious at him. His team would have been furious at him. He would have known it, but, he has a duty, you know?
-- Mirei from the Doppelganger duology, because she spent most of her life split into two bodies, and that would have been all the confusion until she figured that out.
-- Talia Winters (Babylon 5); another character who got a crummy canonical end and who would have had shenanigans, since she had a personality implanted by the Bad Guys to be obedient to them that consumed her default personality in her last canonical appearance.
-- I also considered Lina Inverse (after good-ending Zel) and Talia from Merry's canon. Talia was rejected because she'd toss any Judge that tried to recruit her out the window.
Common themes: a lot of novel characters, characters whose memories are all WTF, and crummy canon ends. Dag would have been different, but Dag was more for setting...
Reverse?
* Usually only the dying, but there's ballads of heroic self-sacrifice in the face of 'oh, shit, monsters and no reinforcements and we are out of weapons'.
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-- Azula. Seriously I had her app written and everything, and submitted it... right after Wata submitted, so before she was on the taken list, but after she was, in fact taken. But I kind of wanted to give her a better end, and she really needed a rebuild from a blank slate.
-- Dag Bluefield from the Sharing Knife books. Mostly for weird powers and having an older character with seriously shitty memories. Also, as the Pillar played out, it would have been interesting since, in canon, he kills monsters that don't know how to die and suck out life force trying to fill a void using bone knives that have to be primed by mercy-killing members of the tribe*...
... He so would have ended up trying to sacrifice himself make a god-killing knife for his team. His wife would have been furious at him. His team would have been furious at him. He would have known it, but, he has a duty, you know?
-- Mirei from the Doppelganger duology, because she spent most of her life split into two bodies, and that would have been all the confusion until she figured that out.
-- Talia Winters (Babylon 5); another character who got a crummy canonical end and who would have had shenanigans, since she had a personality implanted by the Bad Guys to be obedient to them that consumed her default personality in her last canonical appearance.
-- I also considered Lina Inverse (after good-ending Zel) and Talia from Merry's canon. Talia was rejected because she'd toss any Judge that tried to recruit her out the window.
Common themes: a lot of novel characters, characters whose memories are all WTF, and crummy canon ends. Dag would have been different, but Dag was more for setting...
Reverse?
* Usually only the dying, but there's ballads of heroic self-sacrifice in the face of 'oh, shit, monsters and no reinforcements and we are out of weapons'.