crucial muse development questions
4. what seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?
he pauses for a little while as he considers the question. there is always the thought of whether or not he should be honest, whether or not he feels like the person asking him things deserves to know him or simply deserves to be told something pretty to feed their curiosity. but the force sensitive male whose first words to him were about gauging out the captain’s eyes to give them to him has somehow found a bit of a soft spot in the doc’s usually neutral demeanour, and so he decides that valen deserves some truth.
“aren’t all memories insignificant to everyone not involved in them?” he returns the question with one of his own after a moment, considering all of his memories nonetheless to pick out those that seem insignificant. then he heaves a little sigh. “i guess it’ll be boring and obvious, but i remember every time i helped a patient out in a certain way for the first time. even if it was something silly like taking blood or giving a shot.”
the smile spreads on his face slowly at those words, his expression turning a lot warmer with it as he considers these instances, these moments of learning something new and then applying that knowledge into practice successfully. it’s one of the best parts about the job he learned to do.
7. how does your character feel about sex?
"valen, if you’re asking because you’re interested in having sex with me, i’m afraid we haven’t known each other long enough for me to be open to that possibility. secondly, since i am quite literally blind, my aim is quite bad as well, so i don’t think this is something that would end well were we to engage in it,” he responds without directing his focus away from the standard tests he’s running on the other man while he’s taking blood.
“if you are, however, simply being curious about absolutely random things again then i can tell you that i generally feel about sex the way other people feel about coming to the medbay; unless someone explicitly asks me to engage in it, it is quite far from my mind and i wouldn’t want to find myself in the middle of it unless if there really was no other option.” he pauses for a moment. “you see, as i said, i can’t see, but i don’t need my eyes to know that everyone on this ship is too goodlooking to try and get involved with. there’s only heartbreak in that.”
13. what does your character pretend or try to care about?
“why would you ask me about something like that?” he says with a little laugh in his voice, even as he continues to leaf through the patient files trying to find the one for valen so he can add to it. “if it’s something i’m pretending to care about, do you really think you asking me about it is going to make me reveal it’s not true?” he eventually picks out the right one when the droid tells him he’s holding it in his hand and turns his body back in valen’s direction.
“though i can freely tell you that i try to care about the physical wellbeing of every person on this ship since that is my job, even if i personally couldn’t care less if some of them just disappeared from us forever.” he lifts his head to flash an amused grin valen’s way. “so i guess in a way you can say that some people’s health is what i pretend to care about.”
14. how does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?
"i wouldn’t know,” he says easily. “i try to project the image of a professional doctor trying his utter best to keep people alive with the bare minimum of supplies available to him. is that how i come across? i have a feeling many people seem to think i am rude and have little regard for their sensitivities. and the ones who don’t think that just keep me from doing my job by continuing to ask me the most random questions that have absolutely nothing to do with my job.” even though he can’t see, he makes sure to throw the most pointed look his patient’s way, to make sure valen is more than aware exactly which person he’s talking about right now.
