3, 11, and 17 for Blake and Laurel? (I have characters with those names too lol I wonder if yours are anything like mine)
Thank you so much for asking! I’d love to hear about your Blake and Laurel sometimes too haha what a coincidence.
03. What would be their favorite physical trait about themselves?
Blake likes her eyes. They’re a very striking blue, and they make her look intense.
Laurel has very nice hands and he likes them. They’re soft, he has long fingers, and he takes very good care of his finger nails.
11. What is something that would make your character fly into a rage?
Lots of things make Blake angry, she’s very passionate and emotional and prone to fits of rage. Blake can’t stand injustice, and it’s her life goal to do everything she can to stomp it out. But this isn’t a perfect world obviously, and injustice is everywhere, whether it be war, racism, sexism, bad people getting away with things, bullies, etc. She gets mad a lot, and she fuels that into her work of journalism in an attempt to create a more just world.
Laurel is not really the type to get angry. He’s a very softspoken, polite, really chill boy who never really raises his voice, and no one has ever seen him get angry. Not only is he a ‘water off a duck’s back’ kind of dude, his childhood friend is the hotheaded type who would get angry for him so that he never really had to.
Of course, this changes when it’s revealed to him that he’s actually a dhampire, not a human. In For Queen and Countrylore, dhampires have incredibly short lifespans that is characterized with frequent fits of unbearable pain, and as a result Laurel completely shuts down. He’s pissed that he was born as a dhampire, and he’s even more angry at his father who made him. Dhampires were often manipulated as pawns by vampires so most dhampires had them — Laurel included.I wouldn’t say he flies into a rage about it necessarily, it’s more like frustration that doesn’t have an outlet. The frustration and despair about his existence just grows and grows and grows... Until eventually something snaps.
17. Does your character have dreams of getting married and/or having children?
Blake never did! In Post-Script, she always said that she’s married to her job and that she doesn’t have time for romance — even as a teenager because she was already doing journalism things. I’m fairly sure she accepted her fate of being forever alone and she was fine with it. Until her mysterious, anonymous pen-pal slash informant sweeps her completely off her feet. It’s a very unexpected twist for her. She does eventually get pregnant, and at that point she freaks out because having children is something she’s utterly unprepared for — it’s not that she doesn’t want kids, it was just never something she considered for her future.
In For Queen and Country though, she definitely dreamed of getting married, though never about having kids. To a vampire specifically, because she had a vampire phase when she was in school before she eventually moved on to daydreaming about marrying cool bassists in cool bands, and edgy mysterious characters in shows and movies. So imagine how excited she was when it was revealed that vampires did indeed, exist.
Laurel did. He always assumed that he would get married, settle down with a nice lady and have a family. Two problems with that original scenario. One, Laurel realizes that he’s gay, and that obviously contradicts a future based upon his previously assumed heterosexuality. He’s not going to get married to a nice lady, but he would like to get married to a nice man. Two, he’s a dhampire. He doesn’t even know if he can have kids biologically because he’s half-human and half-vampire. And even if he could have kids biologically, or even if he could adopt... He probably won’t live long enough to see his kids grow up. Getting into a serious relationship as a dhampire is also difficult — but not unheard of! — just because their lifespans are so short. You can’t be in a relationship for the long-haul if there is no long to speak of.
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