Preferences?

[brainofck]

I'm thinking about my stranded thing.

Sam is going to get the chemistry between the guys.

But I want to write one of the guys as clueless.

So. Which one is more fun? A Jack who is self-aware and a Daniel who has never quite realized what is going on between them?

Or a Daniel who is trying to hit Jack with a clue-by-four (to steal an expression from CJ) and a Jack who gets it a beat too late?

In the spirit of Adjustments, I'm tempted not to choose, but to write the same story both ways. But it seems dumb not to just make a decision and pick one.

Though this is not the only problem I am having with this story. For one thing, I am seriously debating character death, which I never do.

Comments

[lt-kitty.livejournal.com]

I can see either in a clueless role, though I think Jack is more likely to be unaware of his own feelings (either from gay denial or just his general compartamentalization of inconvenient feelings), and Daniel as more likely to be unaware of the other person's interest.

They can both be the "clueless" partner, but the feel of the story and the part the cluelessness plays in it would be different.

[findo.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm a lurking fan of yours popping up to say I think It_kitty is onto something there. Which kind of clueless is more useful for the story you want to write? The kind where the guy knows he fancies men but thinks he has no hope with this one, the kind where the guy refuses to admit the possibility he's gay, or the kind where the guy knows he loves this person but doesn't know he LOVES him?

Can anyone think of another kind of clueless that I missed?