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[Writing Meme] Let's Push!
If I'm gonna put off churning words, I'd best put them off for something fruitful.
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
I like killing off characters; this may have to do with my morbid fascination with tragic young deaths. Yeshua dies every damn time, dragons (and humans) die left and right, heck Aleister dies and that's not even a spoiler. The most interesting death is Milfeau's from Nejiverse: while he was walking down a street, he saw a hotdog stand and had a craving for hotdogs. Rushing to the stand he slipped on someone's insidious mustard spot, fell backwards into the open manhole he avoided, broke his neck on the bottom which in turn he couldn't raise his head up from getting submerged in the drain and subsequently drowned. He left behind a wife and young daughter whom we never hear of in the story.
Most of my characters die of debilitating illnesses - Silent Hill 2's impact cannot be stressed enough.
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
Trebuchet once had a male hamster named La Malheureux he picked up somewhere. The hamster was an angry vengeful rodent, which many believe was from Trebuchet's naming error. It disappeared in Liberia and was never seen again, presumably to start up a rebel militia in the jungle. There might be a young girl with a 3-headed hellhound following her, but she's probably grown up by now.
The other characters simply never had pets, or carelessly killed them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
I like drawing my characters. In fact, I like drawing my characters so much I don't draw fanart at ALL.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitmun helped me out a LOT when I was designing my characters, and asliceoflove would randomly produce fanart of Neji. I'd show this one pic she drew of Neji and Leader but it's not online, so have a [link to a series of pictures Kidchan drew for an Aleister short story instead!]
The amount of pencil graphite in those pieces of A4 paper is nothing short of epic. Swear to god.
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
Some characters do, some characters don't. Characters from casual modern settings just go about wearing the fashion du jour. Neji has an impressive wardrobe of shirts because that's all I can bloody draw off the top of my head. Sometimes the clothes matter if I want to project a certain personality (a homely biographer isn't going to dress like a jrocker). Characters in a game-type setting like PseudoFF7Verse and Finneganverse do get a certain amount of care in their designs, as well as Dragonverse characters. For Dragonverse characters I claim there has to be a sense of location and history (since different characters exist in different eras) but that's really just an excuse for me to start making everyone wear all fancy-like and then take forever designing them because there's armoury and royal garb and etc to think about.
Let's talk about the game-type characters instead!
When I first drew the the PseudoFF7Verse characters I was 16 and had no designing sense - I copied off whatever looked nice on them and so they ended up with plain ugly designs. Why would the heroine wear a knit cardigan with a ribbon tying the ends? Why would green-hair girl wear an organza wrap over daisy dukes? WHY is the silver haired girl dressed like AC Cloud (before AC existed)?! Is it me or do the two male characters have the same short hair? Who wears a sport jacket to fight if YOUR ARM is the weapon of mass destruction?! Recently I took to redesigning them and I've only completed two, I still think it's an improvement. [Here's a link to the comparison pics] This time around I still want the postwar urban design but making them more than "7 people in knitwear" is the challenging (but fun!) part.
Finnegan wears red shirts and black slacks during unofficial hours. Officially, he wears a uniform that would make the SS wish they had the Vaticanny Place's uniform designer. Then he gets promoted (eventually) and then they start looking like bishops. Maybe he should've stayed a peon. When he goes on his RPG hijinks he looks like a model for Atelier Boz and now it's the antithesis of practical combat wear. His assistant Sedna is a tshirt and jeans guy but he's A Destined Hero so he needs funky hair. I start thinking about this one picture I got from Zero-Sum and tada Sedna now has funky hair to match The Predator! I want to draw a picture of Finnegan & Co. wearing Japanese subculture fashion because they're the sort of people who can wear these things during battle and it'll make sense (something PseudoFF7Verse cannot). The fun derived from determining what stylish clothes he and his party and the Vaticanny officials wear would be tenfold if I knew how to design emblems.
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1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.
29. How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
I like killing off characters; this may have to do with my morbid fascination with tragic young deaths. Yeshua dies every damn time, dragons (and humans) die left and right, heck Aleister dies and that's not even a spoiler. The most interesting death is Milfeau's from Nejiverse: while he was walking down a street, he saw a hotdog stand and had a craving for hotdogs. Rushing to the stand he slipped on someone's insidious mustard spot, fell backwards into the open manhole he avoided, broke his neck on the bottom which in turn he couldn't raise his head up from getting submerged in the drain and subsequently drowned. He left behind a wife and young daughter whom we never hear of in the story.
Most of my characters die of debilitating illnesses - Silent Hill 2's impact cannot be stressed enough.
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
Trebuchet once had a male hamster named La Malheureux he picked up somewhere. The hamster was an angry vengeful rodent, which many believe was from Trebuchet's naming error. It disappeared in Liberia and was never seen again, presumably to start up a rebel militia in the jungle. There might be a young girl with a 3-headed hellhound following her, but she's probably grown up by now.
The other characters simply never had pets, or carelessly killed them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
I like drawing my characters. In fact, I like drawing my characters so much I don't draw fanart at ALL.
kitmun helped me out a LOT when I was designing my characters, and asliceoflove would randomly produce fanart of Neji. I'd show this one pic she drew of Neji and Leader but it's not online, so have a [link to a series of pictures Kidchan drew for an Aleister short story instead!]The amount of pencil graphite in those pieces of A4 paper is nothing short of epic. Swear to god.
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
Some characters do, some characters don't. Characters from casual modern settings just go about wearing the fashion du jour. Neji has an impressive wardrobe of shirts because that's all I can bloody draw off the top of my head. Sometimes the clothes matter if I want to project a certain personality (a homely biographer isn't going to dress like a jrocker). Characters in a game-type setting like PseudoFF7Verse and Finneganverse do get a certain amount of care in their designs, as well as Dragonverse characters. For Dragonverse characters I claim there has to be a sense of location and history (since different characters exist in different eras) but that's really just an excuse for me to start making everyone wear all fancy-like and then take forever designing them because there's armoury and royal garb and etc to think about.
Let's talk about the game-type characters instead!
When I first drew the the PseudoFF7Verse characters I was 16 and had no designing sense - I copied off whatever looked nice on them and so they ended up with plain ugly designs. Why would the heroine wear a knit cardigan with a ribbon tying the ends? Why would green-hair girl wear an organza wrap over daisy dukes? WHY is the silver haired girl dressed like AC Cloud (before AC existed)?! Is it me or do the two male characters have the same short hair? Who wears a sport jacket to fight if YOUR ARM is the weapon of mass destruction?! Recently I took to redesigning them and I've only completed two, I still think it's an improvement. [Here's a link to the comparison pics] This time around I still want the postwar urban design but making them more than "7 people in knitwear" is the challenging (but fun!) part.
Finnegan wears red shirts and black slacks during unofficial hours. Officially, he wears a uniform that would make the SS wish they had the Vaticanny Place's uniform designer. Then he gets promoted (eventually) and then they start looking like bishops. Maybe he should've stayed a peon. When he goes on his RPG hijinks he looks like a model for Atelier Boz and now it's the antithesis of practical combat wear. His assistant Sedna is a tshirt and jeans guy but he's A Destined Hero so he needs funky hair. I start thinking about this one picture I got from Zero-Sum and tada Sedna now has funky hair to match The Predator! I want to draw a picture of Finnegan & Co. wearing Japanese subculture fashion because they're the sort of people who can wear these things during battle and it'll make sense (something PseudoFF7Verse cannot). The fun derived from determining what stylish clothes he and his party and the Vaticanny officials wear would be tenfold if I knew how to design emblems.
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2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.
29. How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!