Hello my lovely sunflower and one of my favourite people on earth 💛 I wanted to ask you a couple of things about Sunshine Soldier: 1) where did Charlotte Tarvers come from? Like, how did you create her? What inspired you for her personality? And 2) why did you choose Ronald Speirs? :) hope you're having a lovely day, miss!
LINDA HELLO!!!!! i am so happy to be a lovely lil sunflower and one of your favorites, you’re one of mine!! :) <3 and omg yes of course!! sunshine soldier, my first ever fic that tore out my heart and was me in my loving ronald speirs hours LOL
Ok, funny story. Tarvers, the name, I really just had it in my head for a while and I just really liked the sound of it and a few years back I actually wrote a little blurb of a male Sergeant, called Sergeant Tarvers, but never went anywhere with it, until I hit the Band of Brothers group and was like welp my oc’s last name will officially be Tarvers now :) and Charlotte I think came from me just really liking the name Charlotte and just how it flowed in general with the last name Tarvers!!
Creating her, I really used the tactics of a medic and many bits of my own personality in myself to make her, her own character, to really draw attention to certain aspects of her character and such which was a joy to right. But she wasn’t even 50% me, because I can not live with making my oc’s exactly like me, I just can’t LOL, but I put bits and pieces of myself in my oc’s!! And the thing that inspired me was my mom actually :) my mom has a lot of Charlotte’s personality traits, and so creating Charlotte, I used an example of my own mom for her and I’m so glad I did because now I think of my mom when I think of Charlotte :)
BRO I DONT KNOW WHY I CHOSE SPEIRS - i went in with no love interest in mind actually, but as i wrote i slowly saw speirs really working with charlotte’s dynamic and speirs is actually a lot like my dad ( the marine ), and so it actually worked out really well!! speirs just came out as a clear front runner for working with charlotte and her personalities and their love for each other!!
i loved this lil ask, i could reminisce about my first bob fic AHHH thank you sm <3 charlotte and speirs are literally the cutest lil beans, and their relationship gives me L I F E!! thank you sm for the ask linda, have a lovely day and feel free to ask more questions, always!!! <3