ext_61530 ([identity profile] eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] eye_of_a_cat 2006-08-24 03:53 pm (UTC)

Thank you so much! Delenn's gone from being a character I didn't find interesting at all to probably my favourite B5 character, which I still think is odd, given that I didn't like her when I used to see her as ultimately good and blameless for any bad things she'd done ("but she was upset when she started that war!") and I like her a lot more now that I don't. Maybe it's because she's a more sympathetic character when she's more complex, but I think a lot of it's because the really powerful character she was in S1 just disappears the minute she grows hair if everything she does is good and right - things and the bad consequences of things just happen around her and to her, rather than her having any part in causing them. So I usually write her as motivated by her role in the Earth/Minbari war in a lot of what she does, and I think a flawed Delenn who really needs Lennier is a lot more interesting (and canonical, because she so does) than a perfect one with a needy, delusional aide. Um, if any of that made sense...

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