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12 - Any health repercussions from extreme stress?

Well you could say that Tren’s arm pixelating is a clear sign that he’s probably currently or soon to be experiencing hallucinations of his very possessive ex.

Otherwise, his species tends to glitch at random and while this is normally no issue, it can become physically painful the more “unstable” the physical form.

13 - Causes of crying

Stress and/or trauma-induced anxiety. He talks brave but absolutely will crumble afterwards if faced with a scenario in which he’s afraid or pushed into uncomfortable decisions. As far as frequency of crying, it’s not as often as you’d think given what horrors he’s gone through.

15 - What kind of hurt/comfort scenarios do you put OC in?

Well right now it’s mainly a question of how bad can I make his past/his ex vs how rewarding can the comforting assurance and redirection be.

Here we go:

Alone - How deal with loneliness? Ever been fully alone? What do when no one is watching?

(Sonhi)

Has he ever been fully alone? Up until only recently the answer would have been no, but now that he’s broken his mental link with his surrogate mother he’s forced to accept the reality of having no one to rely on. His self-inflicted isolation is threatening to drive him mad amidst heavy emotional turmoil and he’d truthfully rather be numb than feel anything.

Bound - Ever been imprisoned or captured? How’d it happen? Manage to escape? Any scars?

(Talno)

Oh he got imprisoned alright. Twice to be exact. The first event he was actually kidnapped with the sole intent of torture while the second time was that he was kidnapped to be used as ransom. It was during the first kidnapping that he (as a magical wyvern-like species called Qualits) was brutally de-winged and de-horned and treated like a simple pet. His rescuer from this was his birth mother’s boyfriend stumbling upon him by accident and immediately acting to get him away and back where he belonged. While the second time he was severely burned and saved by his adoptive mother.

Break - Ever broken down completely?

(Versi)

Disregarding the numerous breakdowns she has growing up under an abusive father, her first real non-trauma caused breakdown was shortly after she was revived post-death. The shock of getting a second chance left her in a numb state for weeks as she tried to process the fact that she had died but was now once again alive.

Mask

(Vipro)

For the longest time he seemed to put on a mask when made to socialize. Humans were beneath him, or so he thought, and he tried to appear only as a cold, emotionless teen. Well that is until he bonded to someone who started to chip away at that mask and get him to show more of his true colors beyond just the few he was comfortable around.

Nightmare

(Nether)

Alright I expected you’d ask about him. Here we go:

Failure - Greatest failure?

As a Zevdie (an original glitch demon species), he’s had to possess innocents in the past. Normally this isn’t a major problem for him to co-exist alongside humans while disguised as one… until a particular possession forced him to jump from the body of a dying father into the man’s young daughter who Tren had absolutely gotten attached to during the time. Unfortunately possessions by Zevdie result in the host’s death and he realized that too late, blaming himself years later for cutting her life far too short.

Fear - Greatest fear? What do when confronted about it? Tell or hide?

His greatest fear is probably his abusive ex finding him again. Especially after the threats that were made prior to him possessing his last host. If confronted about it, he initially tries to ignore the question but will crack with enough prodding and talk despite how uncomfortable it makes him.

Mistake - Worst mistake? What led to mistake? Fixed it? How have moved on?

Tren’s worst mistake was probably being naive enough at first that he attracted the wrong attention and was… pressured into a relationship with another who took full advantage of him. Given the only periods of escape he had was while he was possessing others, he still has yet to completely get away.

Secret - What’s one secret doesn’t want anyone to know?

🔪 - Which villain do you think you could take in a fight?

🔪 - What was the most disappointing horror movie you’ve seen?

🔪 - Who is your favorite final girl?

🔪 - What is the strangest horror movie you’ve ever watched?

I could outrun Michael Myers easy but I could take Norman Bates. I'd introduce them to transgenderism, and if that didn't work, Anthony Perkins spent his whole life looking like he was about to die of consumption. Norman's going down after one good punch.

Hereditary! Everyone hyped it up so much for me and it was like fine. It was like a less good Rosemary's Baby. I got bored. I am a hater at heart.

Hard question! Jade Daniels from the Indian Lake trilogy if we're allowed to count books. If not, probably a tie between Maxine from X and Laurie from Halloween.

🎃 Pumpkin: What character continues to light up your mind and inspire you to write more?

A character or scene that continues to haunt me…

Surprisingly it’s not the final interaction between Nether and Versi but rather their first “date” and how this awkward not-speaking-the-same-language escapee lab rat is so tense and utterly terrified that he’s gonna make an utter fool out of himself. Versi on the other hand is equally as nervous, unsure what he sees in her as, by that point, she’d been living on the streets for a few months and in desperate need of a nice hot bath. So the whole time the “date” is going on, they’re both just socially awkward and barely talking but also soaking up intricate details about the other in the process.

What character inspires me to write more?

😷 - do they get cranky when they get sick?

🔺 - are they the type of person to have a favorite shape?

For Nether

Silliest secret?

Hmmm he once got so drunk that he forgot he had shadow magic and was convinced he couldn’t go home because he didn’t have keys. Needless to say he never told anyone about that incident.

Cranky when sick?

It depends on how sick. Stuff that like gives him brain fog, no. But like awful congestion, he’s an absolute menace to be around.

Have a favorite shape?

Hmmm what to give lore on…

I suppose I could ramble a bit about Stormcrest, my sea serpent kingdom that’s got a very messy backstory.

Compared to other sea kingdoms, Stormcrest is relatively young but has gone through a civil war, revolution, multiple cults, and so on. Its primarily most notable ruler was King Xangori Rhallion, known in later history texts as the Mad King. He greatly expanded Stormcrest’s borders by seizing land but was also a bit infamous for his love of the opposite gender. Anyone he wanted was usually brought to him and, as a result, there’s a generation of serpents who are primarily raised by their mother with an unknown father.

Hmmm how about some Never Alone content? So Nether & Versi because why not.

Nether never fully got the hang of speaking Common no matter how much Versi worked with him. He’s notorious for forgetting words or putting words in the wrong order.

On the flip side, Versi got very good at being able to calm him down out of a nightmare by speaking her native French. She didn’t even have to say anything majorly important, it was just the way she softly spoke that reminded Nether of his deceased mother.