in which I am weird, and also colorful

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When I think of characters, I often associate them with colors, especially when I'm thinking about ships.

Cordelia I usually think of as pink (though not always), and Xander's yellow. Pink/yellow - okay, that works.

But sometimes Cordelia is a purplish gray, like clouds at sunset, and Oz is the golden orange around the clouds at sunset, I suspect because of his hair. I know this because I was driving towards a sunset last night and I thought to myself, "Oh, it's Cordelia and Oz." Not that I ship orange/purplish-gray, but then I don't ship Oz/Cordelia either (except possibly as BFF, because that would be fabulous).

Drusilla's lavender, with occasional infusions of crimson (which I'm pretty sure is thematic).

Buffy is usually blue.

Dawn is a pale purple and Ethan is a rich purply-browny gray. Purple/purply-browny gray is kind of an interesting combination, which may be why I'm intrigued by the idea of Dawn/Ethan.

Faith/Giles is weird - Faith is brown and Giles is brown, but when I think of them together I get brown with hints of green. It has a sort of rich, soothing effect when I think of it.

Spike is red, except when he's an ugly washed-out yellow (which I'm pretty sure comes from his hair color).

Willow by herself is green, but Willow with anyone else is a deep reddish auburn, like her hair. Red hair is notoriously hard to match colors with, which may be why I have so much trouble shipping her with anyone.

It isn't predictive, though. I very much like pink and brown together, but I am not in the least interested in Cordy/Giles. (Except, maybe later? When she's matured but before she dies? Hmm? Okay, somebody write me this.)

Harmony is pink and Clem is pink. Is this why I suddenly think Harmony/Clem is a good idea?

In case you were wondering: no, I did not just pull this out of the air. My brain actually thinks this way. Next week, how when I go clothes shopping all the colors make me think of candies.

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THIS.

If I had to pick these colors, most of mine would be very different than yours (except for Faith and Giles, interestingly enough--very, very brown. And Spike). But I adore reading this.

I know we've talked about the letters of the alphabet as colors (which I also see); you seem to have a really intense relationship with color, and I find this fascinating.

You should always share random posts about how you see the world. I like them!

[snickfic]

I'd forgotten we talked about the letters of the alphabet thing. You'll notice it's in play here a little bit - blue for Buffy, and I suspect Ethan's color is based mostly on his name (and his voice, which is definitely a purply-browny gray sort of voice).

I'm so glad you like the random excursions in Snick's psyche. *g*

(Why do I have no icon of Riley and "Don't you just want to put them in separate rooms and do experiments on them"? Why?)

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

You know, this makes me think of a fic I read ages ago... and now I can't remember who wrote it (gonna have to go searching through my archives when I get home, because I know I saved it)where Spike gets recaptured by the Initiative and eventually escapes... but it's been so traumatic that he's basically lost his memory and can only recall the Scooby Gang in terms of an associated color.

It was better than I'm making it sound. :-)

[snickfic]

Ooh, that sounds very interesting. I'm always up for a little post-Initiative trauma. Please post a link if you find one!

[jalixx3.livejournal.com]

I wanted to write earlier, but the Capcha was a small black flower, inspiring flights of fancy in horticulturists everywhere.

Speaking of strange pictures, I want to paint you a picture with character names now. It would be a one-person picture, enjoyable only by Snickelish. Do you think it would work?

[snickfic]

Speaking of strange pictures, I want to paint you a picture with character names now.

Aww! That could be really cool! I would totally love any custom-painted-by-Jalixx3 painting. (Speaking of custom-made, do you remember the plaid bear you made me? I can't remember what I named him then, so I've dubbed him Bernard, pronounced the British way - BER-nerd. He's sitting on my bookcase as I type.)

[gingerwall.livejournal.com]

I've always been fascinated by synesthesia, and it's so interesting that your character colors actually influence your ideas about pairings.

Words or characters don't do anything for me personally, but numbers definitely all have a texture/color/temperature combination that makes them either very pleasant or very unpleasant for me to think about.

[snickfic]

I'm not sure if it's that the colors influence my thoughts about the pairings, or if it's that the color somehow summarizes my feelings about the characters around in such a way that allows them to stand in for the characters. It's rarely anywhere near that complicated, though.

Ooh, tell me about numbers! Is there are pattern to the pleasant vs. the unpleasant numbers? I'm very curious to know about the textures and temperatures - that's a lot more multi-sensory than I ever get!

[gingerwall.livejournal.com]

It's pretty much a sliding scale between numbers that are cool/smooth/cool-hued(combos of deep blue, green, dark purple) and those that are warm/fuzzy(kind of like a shag carpet)/pastel warm-hued(combos of light purple, orange, yellow, pink).

0, 2, 5, 7, and, to a lesser extent, 9 are in the first group and I usually find them very pleasant. 4, 6, and 8 are in the latter group and I generally find unpleasant. 1 and 3 are pretty neutral and take on the characteristic of whatever other numbers are around them. Since there are, literally, infinitely many numbers I won't get too depth into how they combine together, but usually the ending digit has the greatest effect on the total feeling of a larger number, and then the other digits contribute equally.

I can mostly ignore it if I'm doing math or calculations or something (though I do get a little squee of joy if the answer ends up to be 72 or something awesome like that), but I notice it more when it comes to things that have a real significance like mail box numbers, Drivers licence numbers, etc.