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character ask meme thing
I might just do some of these for fun, but if you are curious about anything/anyone in particular, go ahead and ask. (some answers are spoilery so I'll probably evade those, just so you know)
- Does your character have siblings or family members in their age group? Which one are they closest with?
- What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?
- What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?
- Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?
- On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?
- Does your character have recurring themes in their dreams?
- Does your character have recurring themes in their nightmares?
- Has your character ever fired a gun? If so, what was their first target?
- Is your character’s current socioeconomic status different than it was when they were growing up?
- Does your character feel more comfortable with more clothing, or with less clothing?
- In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?
- In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?
- Is your character bothered by the sight of blood? If so, in what way?
- Does your character remember names or faces easier?
- Is your character preoccupied with money or material possession? Why or why not?
- Which does your character idealize most: happiness or success?
- What was your character’s favorite toy as a child?
- Is your character more likely to admire wisdom, or ambition in others?
- What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?
- In what ways does your character compare themselves to others? Do they do this for the sake of self-validation, or self-criticism?
- If something tragic or negative happens to your character, do they believe they may have caused or deserved it, or are they quick to blame others?
- What does your character like in other people?
- What does your character dislike in other people?
- How quick is your character to trust someone else?
- How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?
- How does your character behave around children?
- How does your character normally deal with confrontation?
- How quick or slow is your character to resort to physical violence in a confrontation?
- What did your character dream of being or doing as a child? Did that dream come true?
- What does your character find repulsive or disgusting?
- Describe a scenario in which your character feels most comfortable.
- Describe a scenario in which your character feels most uncomfortable.
- In the face of criticism, is your character defensive, self-deprecating, or willing to improve?
- Is your character more likely to keep trying a solution/method that didn’t work the first time, or immediately move on to a different solution/method?
- How does your character behave around people they like?
- How does your character behave around people they dislike?
- Is your character more concerned with defending their honor, or protecting their status?
- Is your character more likely to remove a problem/threat, or remove themselves from a problem/threat?
- Has your character ever been bitten by an animal? How were they affected (or unaffected)?
- How does your character treat people in service jobs?
- Does your character feel that they deserve to have what they want, whether it be material or abstract, or do they feel they must earn it first?
- Has your character ever had a parental figure who was not related to them?
- Has your character ever had a dependent figure who was not related to them?
- How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?
- What does your character believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?
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22. What does your character like in other people? and 23. What does your character dislike in other people? together because it works better that way.
Zea admires competence and confidence. Emmer and Sara both have those in spades which is probably why she gets along so well with both of them. She likes directness and practicality and just getting shit done, and one reason she clashes with Emmer's parents is that she doesn't like artifice and the status games they sometimes play, and doesn't like/understand things she sees as frivolous, like planting flowers. (views of the characters != views of the author etc)
She's a little uncertain about Milo sometimes, because he's definitely CONFIDENT and he's fully capable of doing his job, but he's such a smartass and can't stay out of trouble and she's like seriously dude? Get it together.
She's pretty introverted, but not shy, if that makes sense? She likes meeting people, she likes talking to people, she just has a limited capacity for it. She likes people who are more thoughtful, as opposed to people who talk a lot and think out loud. She's very thoughtful herself, so she comes off as...slow isn't quite right, but idk, I think of my slow-talking great-uncle, who'd listen to you, and nod, and then when you're about to start up again he'd respond with some really insightful thing, because he'd spent that whole pause thinking about what you said. So with faster-paced people she sorta gets lost, because she doesn't get those conversational pauses to think about things.
One relevant thing...Bravery, to Zea, isn't necessarily a great thing. It's too close to recklessness, it makes her nervous. She respects that the people she's with are brave and that they need to be because of what they're doing, but in other circumstances she wouldn't be thinking of bravery as something to look for in friends/etc. At least not as typically defined. She values the slow unglamorous background work more than the flashy exciting stuff. Which puts her very much out of her element right now because she's part of this lunatic band of guerrilla saboteurs. I think probably once they take D9, she'll be working with Lucerne and some others to try and get production and storage and such up and running again, and that's much more her kind of thing.
24. How quick is your character to trust someone else?
Zea is probably the most trusting of any character I write. She had the easiest growing up, no childhood trauma, no Games-shit, parents who love her, crew-friends starting when she was 16 or so. She doesn't do well with a LOT of people at once, because until her first winter at the barracks she'd basically never been around more than like 10 people at a time living out in the Depots. But one-on-one or in small groups she trusts people and makes friends pretty easily. Which means she gets pretty attached to her friends and cares a lot about them, even the ones she doesn't know as well. It also makes it hard for her to keep secrets--she understands why she has to, she's not really tempted to tell anybody, she just doesn't like having this big secret about the rebellion stuff.
Zea assumes the best about people, it takes her a while to recognize people being deliberately mean or whatever because she wants to give them the benefit of the doubt as much as possible. It's why she never really thought about all the evil shit in Panem, because a) she has been pretty isolated her whole life, not a lot of mandatory TV in Depots or on crews, and b) she assumes people are generally good so there must be reasons for things. Once she starts realizing that isn't the case, or that the reasons are things like "keeping the Capitol rich" and "suppressing dissent" she starts picking at threads and pulling on things until her whole conception of how the world works basically falls apart.
This is jarring, to put it mildly.
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(It's already almost 23k omg WHOOPS turns out in wars lots of STUFF happens and I have to write plot and logistics and ha ha ha oh dear)
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Also, I LOVED the snippet of Sara firing the gun, and am eagerly anticipating more D9 at war fic. When you're ready.
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(Durum and Emmer are both types of wheat, Lucerne is the Aussie name for what I'd call alfalfa, Milo is the western-US name for sorghum, Bran from wheat bran. Most of the other D9 names are from relatives of mine who are from Kansas)
I really want to finish the next D9 piece and I'm really pretty close but my brain is being uncooperative >( SOON I HOPE
(and i'm always extra gratified when people like the D9 fics, I think they're some of my best stuff in terms of like, writing quality? but super niche obviously so I don't get much feedback XD)