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Pick a character and I will give and explain the top five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them. Any and all characters welcome (including ones I haven't written but might know about...)

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1. Jack Aubrey loves his job. Like, more than loves his job. It is his bliss. He might grouse a bit, but before he went away to sea he was never so happy as he's learned to be.

2. This is canon, but more essential to me than I think it is to many - Jack's a better violinist than Stephen is a cellist. He plays with grace and passion and artistry, and you wouldn't think he would, being Jack, but somehow his violin lets him access depths of himself that he can't with words or deeds.

3. Before Stephen, he was beginning to become lonely, and to feel the isolation of command. He rarely feels that now - except when Stephen goes against him and they have to have a row.

4. Jack alternates between having a hard time believing in Stephen's spywork, and then after Port Mahon being intensely impressed by it. Even though he does occasionally forget that the bloke he has toasted cheese with is also a total badass.

5. He had sex with Lord Nelson the night he was asked by him to pass the salt, and that's why the anecdote sticks so firmly in his mind.

[(Anonymous)]

*g* at 5.

Anyway, you have pointed to a number of Jack's traits that tended to be forgotten by others.

2 is easily my favourite because Jack, who is so often lost for or at least clumsy with words, speaks so eloquently with his fiddle/violin. Stephen knows that nearly every time he hears Jack play, and even replies to the emotions he hears. Still, it took him so many books to realize just what a wonderful violinist Jack is!