[OOC] Character Analysis Meme

[ellectrical]

As per backroom post, comment with your character's name (past, present, or uh, future?) and I will tell you:

1) how [insert pup of your choice here]'s opinion of the named character has changed over time, or
2) why [insert pup of your choice here] does or does not get along/like/other with the named pup.


Pups:
Elle Bishop (ellectrical)
Behrooz Araz (kayip)
Mei Kusakabe (wasnt_adream)
Jim Halpert (just_a_job)

... though I think for most people only two of those have really been in enough to do this much. Ah well.


And... 'cause I'm bored, I'll also just answer any general question for any of the pups.

Comments

[ellectrical]

And yet I will still probably be able to ramble. Um.

Ok, so I'm guessing you've seen the first half of that Volume 3 trailer that was circling around, which included an exchange between Sylar and Elle which... pretty much gave me some relief after my initial wariness from only seeing that second half of it. But it quickly sums up her attitude toward Sylar: She's not afraid of him, both because she's crazy, and because she's crazy and a killer and doesn't care. (She's also just incredibly confident of her strength in her own ability – she manifested awfully young and has had it for at least eighteen years, while most of the other characters we see are like Peter Petrelli, off causing nuclear explosions because they tripped and fell or something.)

So when Elle talked about Sylar to others, she was a lot… less bothered about it than the people she was talking to – at most she was somewhat annoyed, and otherwise fairly neutral or even bored (though that was partly because she knew Sylar wasn't free anymore). She's perfectly willing to explain that he's a serial killer to anyone who asks because, well, he is (though, and I'm undecided on whether she knows this or not, but if she did – she'd never talk about how he used to be a watchmaker or anything before he took on the Sylar persona – it just doesn't seem at all relevant to her. She'd also never call him "Gabriel" even if it did annoy him.), and obviously she's not really cool with people in the Bar teaching him how to be more dangerous. But when it comes down to it, her only two real problems with him are:

a) It's pretty much part of her job to not like him.

b) He'd kill her and/or her father. And given the backstory Candice-mun and I decided on, she's probably not going to be too happy to see Candice dead, either.


The killing people? Elle doesn't care that much. She'd probably have more of a problem with Peter nearly blowing up a city because he couldn't control his abilities (and you know, being a moron in general in season 2.) Even in stealing others' abilities – it is a huge distinction to her that he took the abilities and wasn't born with them, particularly because hers is such a major part of her own self-identity. But at the same time, that he steals others' abilities is part of his identity to her. If that's what his ability is, or can be used for, that's it. She's not going to say he can stop or it's a choice or whatever – all it really comes down to is that if his evolutionary imperative is to kill her, hers must be to kill him first.



(Really, he should just be glad that he doesn't have to actually see her for a while, because... I would not imagine that as fun for him. Er.)




... in all fairness to my rambling, you know I'm fic writing too, SO.