Oh, gosh, Ned. I kind of fail at writing Ned, which is why all my Pushing Daisies fics suck, but I'll give it a go.
1. Secretive is Ned's middle name. Or possibly his first name, and he goes by his middle name. He's spent most of his life with an unsharable secret and no one to tell it to anyway, so he doesn't trust easily.
2. That said, and contrary to poor Olive's hopes, his quiet exterior does not cover hidden reserves of love. (Pain, maybe. Love, no.) Not because he doesn't love but because he doesn't hide it; if he likes you, he'll tell you, even though it will feel like ripping his still-beating heart out, because Ned is a brave little toaster.
3. But, although brave in his honestly with those he loves, Ned can be a total chicken in other ways - chief among them his unwillingness to form new attachments (you notice the love of his life is a girl he met before he had any secrets) or risk losing those he loves (his refusal to tell Chuck's aunts she's alive).
And yet he does risk losing Chuck. It's the tension in his character that makes him so interesting: his secretiveness combined with his bare honesty, and his alternating bouts of fear and courage.
Chuck is an interesting contrast because she is, comparatively, such an uncomplicated person. (Except that's only comparative. She is complicated, but its not as obvious.)
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Date: 2011-02-07 05:30 am (UTC)Oh, gosh, Ned. I kind of fail at writing Ned, which is why all my Pushing Daisies fics suck, but I'll give it a go.
1. Secretive is Ned's middle name. Or possibly his first name, and he goes by his middle name. He's spent most of his life with an unsharable secret and no one to tell it to anyway, so he doesn't trust easily.
2. That said, and contrary to poor Olive's hopes, his quiet exterior does not cover hidden reserves of love. (Pain, maybe. Love, no.) Not because he doesn't love but because he doesn't hide it; if he likes you, he'll tell you, even though it will feel like ripping his still-beating heart out, because Ned is a brave little toaster.
3. But, although brave in his honestly with those he loves, Ned can be a total chicken in other ways - chief among them his unwillingness to form new attachments (you notice the love of his life is a girl he met before he had any secrets) or risk losing those he loves (his refusal to tell Chuck's aunts she's alive).
And yet he does risk losing Chuck. It's the tension in his character that makes him so interesting: his secretiveness combined with his bare honesty, and his alternating bouts of fear and courage.
Chuck is an interesting contrast because she is, comparatively, such an uncomplicated person. (Except that's only comparative. She is complicated, but its not as obvious.)