I think you way well be right about the lack of background detail making it easier to take whatever tack you want with a character - there are hints rather than an explicit statement about what led these characters to be who they are and UNCLE in particular is very vague about all but the occasional thing we 'know' (Illya's time in Cambridge and the Sorbonne, for example).
Like you, I think there definitely needs to be a spark between characters. One of my favourite pairings to write is a rare one within the fandom in question and came into being for me because of one particular scene. After that, I knew that they were going to be the folks I wrote about most, with the more popular m/m pairing making me shrug and move along. I could kind of see where folks who liked that pairing got their inspiration from but it just didn't resonate with me the same way mine did.
I like a bit of complexity in my characters, hence the attraction to bad guys trying to do good things despite their past/nature as well as snarkiness. I can't imagine wanting to write any pairing where there wasn't some good old-fashioned snark involved!
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Date: 2017-04-19 09:47 pm (UTC)Like you, I think there definitely needs to be a spark between characters. One of my favourite pairings to write is a rare one within the fandom in question and came into being for me because of one particular scene. After that, I knew that they were going to be the folks I wrote about most, with the more popular m/m pairing making me shrug and move along. I could kind of see where folks who liked that pairing got their inspiration from but it just didn't resonate with me the same way mine did.
I like a bit of complexity in my characters, hence the attraction to bad guys trying to do good things despite their past/nature as well as snarkiness. I can't imagine wanting to write any pairing where there wasn't some good old-fashioned snark involved!