30 Days of Fanfiction Writing Meme: #4, 5, 6

I am so bad with keeping up with the challenge. I also feel like many of my answers are polarizing and have the high probability of offending people. I'll probably feel bad and make changes tomorrow. 

 

4 – Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?

I don't really have a muse character. I'm probably going to catch a lot of flak for this, but I kind of hate it when writers obsess over this one character and talk to it and...I don't know, write these giant posts about this one character doing random meta out of character things. It's pretty weird. I'm pretty sure I used to do that when I was younger, and now that I'm (slightly) older, I really REALLY hope any evidence of it has been consigned to the fires of the interwebs, because that stuff is unsettling and actually pretty boring if you don't share this obsession.

 

Now, there ARE side characters that can take over a story. This happens a lot with my steampunk fic. It explains why I have so much unfinished steampunk fic while new fic is being created all the time. I will go over that in the next question.
 

( I am becoming alarmingly radical on the interwebs... )