🐣 Do any of your OCs have unusual pets?

Please and thank you.

Thank you for the ask!!

Answering this from The Fall Series which encompasses both The Tales of Dai-Nē and the Coalotion Chronicles! Spoilers ahead!

So my favorite animal companion so far is Chel's capuchin. The little monkey was saved from her bestie (Artemis)'s lab while they were trying to prove they were up to some shady (illegal experimentation) business only to find it was swarming with demon possessed soldiers who were plotting to bring forth the Lightbringer, and unleash the Kings of Hell. As they are trying to escape with the monkey, Artie is shot and killed and Chel barely escapes. Later, as she's trying to wrap her head around everything, she notices the monkey (whom she has dubbed Artemis Jr.) acting weird. Come to find out, it's being possessed by Original Artie who is desperately trying to communicate with her but the connection/control is unstable at best and worse yet, he's not dead, his physical form was incapacitated beyond repair, and now he's discovering he's actually a Nephilim with no idea what's actually going on.

ME TOOOO I just can't wait to just post this out there because it's so stupid yet so much fun. Hizashi doesn't even realize he's been kidnapped until it's too late. He thinks he's getting AWAY from the pirates and walks naked right onto their ship.

AAAHHHH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH okokok let's start with the oldest:

This is Noodle!

Nicknames: Mr. Noodle, Dr. Boodle, Noodle-Boodle

Age: 15.5 years

Personality: Clingy, loves greeting new people, can sense anxiety and will cuddle you until you feel better. Food addict (he's the first one who lets me know when the food bowl is empty). ADORES pets and kisses and snuggles. Will actively boop your face until you give him a kiss. Or ten. True to orange cat form, he does not have brain cells unless it's time to refill the food bowl. Then he borrows it long enough to come get me, lead me to it, and show me it's empty before discarding said brain cell and chowing down.

This is Pippin!

Nicknames: Pip-pip, pretty girl

Age: 9 years

Personality: A cold ass bitch (but I fucking love her - she's finally started warming up to me in these last few years now that I don't have room mates and I think it's because I have poor taste in cohabitation partners.) She is a HUNTER and a SURVIVOR. Found her as a month old kitten in my car engine in 2016, and had to take the wheel off my car, pull back the wheel casing, and dig her out of the dash. She was a scraggly little thing and so tiny that I named her after the hobbit in Lord of the Rings (and also because pip meant small/seed). She's a dog person more so than a people person, because every dog I have ever had in her presence has been her insta best friend. She'll terrorize other cats but get a dog in front of her and she's in love.

This is Bojangles!

Nicknames: Bobo, Bobo the fool

Age: 8 years

Personality: PETS FEIND. Biggest purr factory I've ever had. Sounds like a god damned lawn mower. Has a nightly ritual when I lay down that I MUST pet him for 10-15 minutes before I go to sleep for the night or he will lick the inside of my nose with his butt funk breath like smelling salts to wake me up. He weighs over 20lbs but is nimble AF. Likes to sit with one arm propped up on something like the dos equis commercial guy in the "most interesting man in the world" kind of pose.

This is Bear!

Nickname: Bear-Bear

Age: 5 or 6 years

Breed: Miniature Blue Heeler

Personality: Spunky, kind of an asshole to new people, WILL bite your ankles to herd you away from me (his chosen human). Loves to LEAP and JUMP and RUN!!! HATES snuggles. Tolerates kisses. Favorite pass time is barking at everything.

This is Reece!

Nicknames: Reeses, scaredy-cat

Age: ?

Personality: Absolutely terrified of all new things. Got him originally from a friend to take care of on a semi-permanent basis until they could get a place of their own away from their parents that allowed pets, but they moved states so he's mine now. It took him 2 years to warm up to me, 6 months to a year to come down from on top of the dryer in the presence of my other dog, and is still terrified of Pippin who takes great joy in hiding behind a window curtain and jumping out to scare the living shit out of him when he goes down the hallway. He likes rough pets and scratches, WILL bite if you touch his tummy, and plays so rough that the other cats think he's an asshole (but tolerate him anyway).

This is Farrah!

Nickname: pretty girl

Age: ?

Personality: Shy AF but the sweetest, precious baby that loves snuggles as much as Noodle. She showed up at my house one day after a trip to Texas, and I noticed she was limping. Took her to the vet to get her foot checked out cause it looked like there was a tooth sticking out of it. Turns out someone shot her in the foot and it was bone. Originally they said they'd have to amputate her leg, but after a different vet and some x-rays later, they just removed the fractured bone, and she made a full recovery with all her limbs and no complications. She is the first to greet me when I get home, and is partnered with Noodle as my writing buddy when I sit in my chair with the foot rest up to write. Noodle sits on my left side and she sits between my legs. Her favorite pass time is scratching up my door posts.

This is Will To Live!

Nicknames: Will, Willy

Breed: Corgi

Age: 3 years

Personality: Rambunctious, food aggressive despite multiple years of showing him he doesn't have to be worried anyone will take his food, LOVES snuggles and hugs. Will actively go in for a hug if he's in your lap or you are on his level. Likes to herd cats, chew on everything, and bark at all the things. Sneaky little shit that tries to get away with digging through the trash when I'm not looking. Despite being kind of stupid, he's the only dog of the two smart enough to get out of the rain to avoid getting wet.

Whats the most expensive thing they own?

How forgiving are they?

Any OC of your choice!

Sorry for the late response! The first question actually stumped me because I realize that I write a lot of main characters that don't really own a lot of expensive stuff, but then I finally realized I do have two wealthy characters that could fit this category.

So Imma go with Laegolyn, a dragon from The Bonds of Earth and Fire since I'm getting ready to publish that soon!

The most expensive thing he owns is actually an heirloom passed down through several generations. It's a necklace that his great great grandfather used to propose to his wife, and it was passed down through the years as the family's version of a traditional proposal gift rather than a ring like most people do. That's why, (semi-spoiler) it's such a big deal in the book when he gives it to someone important.

For the second question, Laegolyn has a long history of going with the flow because it's what's been expected of him. To take over the family business and lead. However, he discovered later in life that he actually had no interest in taking over the corporation his grandfathers had built, and decided to go to college to be an Archivist for the Coalition. Someone who essentially sits in a dusty library all day and hoards information (he is a dragon after all), but also shares it with people who need it to keep others safe. Up until this point, he was rather forgiving if someone upset him. But when they refused to let him go down his preferred career path, he stopped being so forgiving and started putting a firm foot down when he means what he said.

I haven't concocted what they've written yet, but Sky (from A Writer's Insanity comic that I've got planned) is going to be keeping a journal, and I think it's going to end up being a plot point in the senselessness that is this silly little comic 😁😂

Hello! Thanks for the ask!!!!

I. Love. Writing. Characters. Who. Need. To. Gain. Trust. Like, it's my kryptonite.

There's that mutual attraction, sure, but one is slow to trusting and the other falls fast? And the one that falls fast and hard tries and fails at every attempt to gain the other's trust until something happens and it comes naturally for both of them. Then suddenly they're fighting their obstacles side by side as friends until they're in so close they can exchange inhales and exhales and the rest tumbles into a romance of learning to be vulnerable for the other, but only for each other. And the originally untrusting one learning they need protecting even though they are tough and steadfast and most of the time they're the one doing the protecting, and learning to accept that fact that it's okay to need protecting too.

But then there's the "I trust you with my life." from the very beginning and "As you wish." in return that turns into "I will live/die for you." and they're polar opposites when it comes to how they show their love, but it somehow works because they know each other so well. They know the inner workings of each other because they've always been fighting the world side by side and it's familiar and beautiful and they get under each other's skin in the best and worst ways.

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Three fun facts about me:

I used to want to grow up to be an elf (tolkien style) so bad when I grew up, that I grew my hair out to my knees. Turned out more like a dwarf though. Stubborn. Antisocial with a tendency to collect things (animals).

I once dared myself to eat ants on the playground at school and the boys were so grossed out they told on me and I got in trouble

I’ve been writing since I was 11! (That’s 22 years!)

Favorite Season: Fall/Autumn!!!!!! Not too cold, not too hot, pretty colors!!!!

Continent Where I Live: North America

How I Spend My Time: I spend my free time writing, caring for my 6 animals (two dogs and 4 cats) and playing pathfinder on Thursdays!

Are You Published? I’m published in poetry, but not where I want to be with my stories. 

Introvert/Extrovert? I used to be an ambivert, but now I’m much more introverted. I hate being around people that I don’t feel like I can open up around to the point where I shut down hard. 

Favorite Meal: Spaghetti!!!!!! How can you be upsetti when you have spaghetti?