#agorresh

(you know what the most ridiculous thing is? I can’t find my scans of the girls. You have them, and I don’t. This is a strange, strange world.)

Okay so! Gabrielle used to be a gladiator of sorts, only... her arena was a live-action video game of sorts. As in, someone controlled her through a chip in her brain for the entertainment of the player and the masses watching, a fate waiting people in serious debt or already sentenced to death. Her choice was:help your family even a little bit, even if you have to be genetically modified and in constant danger and with your freedom completely taken from you, or watch your family die even though you could have saved them by your sacrifice? To her, it wasn’t a question, and so she got in the arena. The shape of her ears is due to the medical experiments done to her, and the loss of a tip was because of an animal bite in the arena. Her eye tattoo is a tribute to her father, who did the same thing before her and died because of complications to his old injuries.

When Gabrielle got seriously hurt and couldn’t fight anymore, her place was taken by Keshel, who wouldn’t let her big sister be experimented on any further in order to be able to fight again. 

Anspeth’s happy when he smells freshly-baked anything. He plans on learning how to make his own bread.

Rohana will stare at a flower growing in an unlikely place for hours, and has hundreds of pictures of them stored in her journals. Eliza is the happiest when she’s sleepless for hours and waits for the tiny dragon eggs to hatch and they finally do in her hands. It happenes every couple of months or so, but still.

Seb likes the birds coming at his window every morning. He puts out food for them.Kenji once literally lived to see another day because it was chocolate muffin day at work.

Lyall likes the kind of rainstorm whose thunders make the house shake, Keelan loves to have his tools all tidied up in size order, and Gerry will probably cry with that “boof” sound dogs make when they don’t exactly want to bark but have got to have the last word.

THIS IS WHAT I LIVE FOR OKAY what haven’t I told you about Seb and Kenji

The fun bit is that I never expected people to know about them. Kenji was supposed to be the loner who never had any connections with people and who one day, poof! proved to be actually happily married with a guy twice his size that embroiders in his free time. And it’s ended up the OTP of at least three to four people that I can think of. Like, go them.

Hmmm ok so you already know about how they made out without knowing each other’s name on a dare and ended up married in less than a year after that

but do you know about how they got married when they were half-dead after the end of the war and only did so because they needed to be separated and decided that fuck no, we’ll at least be together in spirit

They occasionally send each other letters and packages, and rarely Skype (or, well, the Agorreshian equivalent of Skype. I haven’t named every brand yet, sue me.) They take pictures from the places they visit and send each other books with notes, and things they tried and liked, and literally every sappy thing you can imagine.

Kenji wears Seb’s clothes to bed. Seb can’t possibly fit into Kenji’s clothes because the man’s a freaking giant, but he likes keeping something of Kenji’s with him next to him when he sleeps.

They have matching forearm tattoos depicting a dragon they both knew once upon a time.

They rarely speak each other’s names, because they have a thousand other ways to refer to each other.

Their sexualities are the weirdest combination; Seb is panromantic but basically ace, Kenji is pansexual but basically aromantic. They’re both polyamorous and they’ve agreed that they’re allowed to have as many flings as they want since they live far away from each other. However, they really are the only person that really is the other’s home.

11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a "sunshine"?

Rohana, most probably. She rarely gets angry, and her main purpose in life is to make the world a little better than she found it. She helps animals, she fights for people’s rights, she’s the most diplomatic person in the world, and she will keep lists of everything her friends like so she can make gifts out of them eventually.

22. Is there any OC of yours people tend to mischaracterize? If yes, how?

People don’t know my OCs very well, since I haven’t published many bits of the story, let alone chapters or parts of it that would make sense as a whole, but I can smell the Nightmare apologists and the Nightmare/Kenji and Kenji/Anspeth shippers. Each and every one of those makes me shiver. I’ve been in fandom for a fair amount of time, and if I ever publish those damn books, I know what’s coming for me, and I’ll be waiting for it with a bayonette and some iron dentures.

23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like?

Oh, man, you cannot believe how different everyone was like in the beginning. I won’t even get into the matter of Anspeth, who was a badass swordsman, or Kenji, who was an actual RPG character in a Final Fantasy - like setting, but I’ll mention Rohana, who was based on the first rebel princess I’d made when I was about fifteen. She was a sassy redhead that had a crush on a prince and somehow was disliked for not being good enough while she was pretty and did nothing wrong? Granted, she was mostly a self-insert of my childhood best friend in my story, but still. At some point I realised I could not write anything about her because she had no qualities that I found interesting, so she transformed into a bookish brown girl with a headscarf and strong faith in her gods and her people who collects pink stickers in her free time, she was named Rohana instead of Roxanne, she’s not nearly as boring as she was before, and I adore her.

24. If you could meet one OC of yours, who would it be and why?

Oh dear me. Okay. I know I’d have a lot of fun with Seb and Gerry and Rohana, but who are we kidding, I’d probably get along with all of them. I would like to meet Kenji and offer my sincerest apologies for what I’ve put him through, and I like to think that he could find it in his heart to forgive me. Other than that, I’d like to hug Anspeth and tell him it’s gonna be okay, and high-five Eliza for being awesome.

25. The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislike for something etc?)

In build and attitude, I’d say Gerry is the one that looks the most like me (as in skin and hair colours, height, and the fact that he uses humor as defense). On a deeper level, I’d say Kenji reflects more my views on how to deal with hardship and existential struggles. The Nightmare reflects all my darkest thoughts during my worst times, multiplied by a thousand and twisted beyond repair, but there is a little part of me even inside him. 

Lyall looks like me when I was seventeen and read as a girl. Not that I had her werewolf scars, but I did have her werewolf temper. 

I’m not even ashamed at how much my OCs resemble me.

First of all ALL THE LOVE you wonderful pancake you. To answer your last question, tattooing’s going slowly, as there are a few bumps on the road, but I’m not giving up easily. I’m preparing a good portfolio to show people, and I’m making connections, and hopefully soon I’ll get accepted in a parlor or something.

Now, on the juicy bits:

4. A character you rarely talk about?

I tend to focus on my protagonists, mostly because I feel closer to them and I’m still too early in the story to develop most antagonists properly. So let’s talk about Frederick, the King who threw away his title but not his power, who destroyed his people while trying to fix them, who valued his family so much that he lost it, and who’s the most blasphemous religious man to ever walk this earth.

38. Which one of your OCs would be the best dancer?

Vandree, most probably, because who are we kidding, she’s a graceful goddess and even the heavens themselves bow to her loveliness. Also Kenji, but don’t tell anyone cause he’ll break your bones.

44. Something you like about your OCs in general

They’re all flawed people that are only trying their best in a world they want to make better. Each one has a group of people or a community they belong to, and they want to ensure that group’s well-being, but sometimes those groups overlap or contradict each other, and by doing right for one you’re doing wrong for another. Nobody set out to save the world or destroy it; they’re just people.

50. Give me the good ol' OC talk here. Talk about anything you want

I’m going to talk about the universe here because I’ll be damned if I’m not proud of it. I love it so much I actually put an earlier version of it in one of my Supernatural fics (as you know but other readers might not), and I’m currently trying to figure out what kind of genre it qualifies as. There are dragons and werewolves and alchemy, right, but that alchemy has replaced electronics and there are tons of technological marvels that are even superior to our own. So, is it urban fantasy if it’s not in any cities that actually exist? Is it sci-fi if it’s got elves in it? I have no fucking idea. It is what it is.

Things that might interest possible future readers about the ‘verse:

Cat-sized dragons roaming around the streets

Glowing forests and elves that are only powerful and immortal as long as they stay in them, because they’re connected to the earth

Certain areas having different traffic lights for people, vehicles, and dragons, and dragon riders getting pissed while in other areas for not having said traffic lights

Elves with no concept of gender

Aquatic shape-shifters aka people who spontaneously turn into porpoises or sea lions when stressed 

Ethereal angels with haloes made of constellations who answer prayers and speak of tales of the gods, and bitter demons who whisper terrors from their underground prison, and haunt dreams and occasionally toasters, if the alchemist was mean enough to put the holding runes on home devices

Orders of warriors that chat with their swords