#question memes

a collection of questions to send a mun about their muse based on classic literature books. change & alter as needed.

A Christmas Carol: Has your muse ever rejected or pushed away the well-intentioned invitations of another? Why?

A Little Princess: Has your muse ever experienced “good karma” — a good deed or kind action, performed with no expectation of reward or repayment, that came back to help them in the end? Tell us about it.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Has your muse ever felt torn between what their society / culture expects from them and their moral values? What did they decide to do about it?

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Has your muse ever experienced something unexplainably bizarre? What was it? Did they ever tell anybody about it?

Anne of Green Gables: Does your muse have a good imagination? What do they tend to daydream about?

The Brothers Karamazov: Does your muse hold any religious beliefs? Why do they hold these beliefs? Have they ever faced a trial or hardship wherein these beliefs were tested?

The Catcher in the Rye: Has your muse ever misjudged someone? Did they ever realize they had done so? What did they do to make amends?

Crime and Punishment: Has your muse ever committed a serious crime? Have they ever done something they regret to this day? What was it? Why did they do it?

Dracula: What is your muse’s opinion on the morbid and the macabre? Do they feel a fascination / connection to these things, or an aversion? Tell us why.

Emma: Has your muse ever attempted a matchmaking scheme? Why? How did it turn out in the end?

Fahrenheit 451: Has your muse ever faced censorship or backlash for a speech they’ve made, or a creative work they’ve produced? How did they respond?

Frankenstein: Has your muse ever allowed their ambition to lead them down the wrong path? What happened?

The Great Gatsby: Would you say your muse is a greedy or materialistic person? Why or why not? Tell us about a life experience they’ve faced that shaped this attitude.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Has your muse ever faced any kind of discrimination or oppression for an aspect of themselves that they cannot change? How has this experience shaped their attitude toward that aspect of themselves? Have they ever perpetuated any kind of discrimination or oppression against others, whether unintentionally or deliberately?

Jane Eyre: Has your muse ever experienced rejection, abuse, or abandonment at the hands of a loved one? How did they cope with the betrayal?

The Little Prince: Describe your muse’s childhood. What did their home look like? What were their parents like? How have they changed as a person in the intervening years?

Lord of the Rings: Would your muse prefer to literally live on forever, or achieve immortality through the stories their loved ones share after they have gone? What sort of stories do you think your muse’s loved ones would tell about them?

Moby Dick: Has your muse ever desired revenge? Has your muse ever taken a quest for vengeance too far? How did it turn out in the end?

North and South: Does your muse have somewhere they call “home” that isn’t the house they physically live in? Where is it, and why do they regard it as such? Why do they not view their literal home in the same way as this special location?

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Has your muse ever experienced isolation from others, whether physically or emotionally? Why were they subjected to this? Did they inflict the seclusion upon themselves, or did external circumstances force it upon them? How has it affected them?

Peter Pan: Did your muse ever face a challenge or hardship in their childhood that their parents could not or did not protect them from? Did your muse always have to handle their problems all on their own? If so, how has this shaped them as an adult?

Pride and Prejudice: Has your muse ever allowed their pride to get in their way? Have they ever been too proud to accept or pursue something they secretly wanted?

The Scarlet Letter:  Has your muse struggled to shape their identity apart from harmful societal labels? Did they ever choose to “go with the flow” and conform to these labels, or did they fight back?

The Secret Garden: Does your muse enjoy the outdoors? Do they experience a connection or fascination with nature?

Sense and Sensibility: Does your muse tend to be a more practical or a more fanciful person? Why? Has this trait ever landed them in trouble, or saved them from it?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Has your muse ever been forced to conceal or suppress a part of themselves because society would not accept it? Have they ever had the freedom to be their true self? What would they do if they knew they would face no consequences or judgment for their actions?

Treasure Island: Has your muse ever been on an adventure? Where did they go? What lessons did they learn from the experience? What sorts of people did they encounter?

who is currently reading a self-help book?

who has a secret crush on someone?

who has gone to church drunk?

who dances like no one is watching when everyone is watching?

who has parents that know the least about their current lifestyle?

whose moral compass is broken beyond repair?

who would look the best as the opposite gender?

who is proud of the number of people they've slept with?

who has dated more than one person at the same time?

who is friends with someone that they would rather be dating?

who drinks whiskey in their coffee at work?

who gives the most awkward hugs?

who could talk their way out of a hostage situation?

who would survive the longest in a zombie apocalypse?

who could convince you that the world is flat?

whose life would win best picture if it was turned into a film?

who would be the best partner for trivia night?

who would get into a fight with an elderly person and lose?

who has found 'the one' more than once?

who is secretly from the future?

whose funeral would be attended by the most people?

who is first in line for hell?

who would be the most ashamed of their porn search history?

who would be your one phone call if you got arrested?

who would be the most upset if all of their possessions were lost in a fire?

who doesn't act their age?

who spends the most time thinking about their ex?

who claims they could quit their bad habits immediately, if only they wanted to?

who has binge watched an entire season of a tv show without leaving the house?

who will yell at you for not sorting out your recycling?

who is the most frequently awake at 4am?

who is the most submissive?

who drops someone in a trust fall on purpose?

who has most recently wiped with something other than toilet paper?

whose favourite day of the week is monday?

who is hung over the next day after having two beers?

who is secretly a superhero?

who will argue with anyone about anything?

who has accidentally sent a dirty text to the wrong person?

who can fall asleep pretty much anywhere?

who hits snooze on their alarm clock at least 5 times before getting out of bed?

who is obviously an only child?

who has read the bible cover to cover?

who would put pot brownies out at a church bake sale?

who has the least amount of respect for authority?

who would win the lottery but lose the ticket?

who always gets 2nd place?

who could charm the pants off something that doesn't even have pants?

who has been to more bars than restaurants?

who would show up at your doorstep unannounced?

who has the most complicated order at starbucks?

who is stuck on an island because they have burned all their bridges?

who is so unpredictable even they don't know what's next?

who would be the first person to stand up for someone that is being picked on?

who truly is one in 7 billion?

who has played twister naked?

who would be the last person alive?

who would be the best double agent?

who will wait the longest until they have sex again?

who picks truth over dare?

who has gotten a massage with a happy ending?

whose google search history would be the most interesting?

who has a secret crush on someone in their friend group?

who has contributed to bathroom stall graffiti?

who gets kicked off the stage singing karaoke?

whose standards dropped the most after a few drinks?

who would try to talk down the price of girl scout cookies?

who would have the hardest time talking their way out of an insane asylum?

who regularly dreams about someone else in their friend group?

who was the oldest when they last sat on the lap of a mall santa?

who has the hardest time saying goodbye?

who has fallen in love at first sight?

What's a pet peeve your muse has? Anything unusual?

What's your muse's favorite food? Can your muse cook/prepare it?

How does your muse take their coffee? Hot or iced?

What does your muse do in their downtime?

How does your muse act by themselves in their own home?

How long does it take for your muse to fall asleep?

How is your muse's body image?

Regardless of fitness, what's your muse's favorite exercise?

How friendly do you think your muse would be with you?

What's the last thing your muse laughed about?

What's the last thing your muse cried about?

Who is the last person your muse made physical contact with?

Is your muse a hands on learner? A visual learner? Or something else?

What time does your muse wake up?

What time does your muse go to bed?

What's your muse's morning routine?

How good is your muse's hygiene?

Does your muse drive?

What does your muse eat to treat themselves?

Based on the list on this wiki page

Dahlia - How does your muse handle themselves at formal events?

Daisy - What does your muse think when it comes to sex and sexuality in regards to themselves?

Dandelion - What was the hardest point in your muse’s life, and how did they overcome it?

Delphinium - What are your muse’s go-to activities in their downtime?

Eglantine Rose - Are there any wounds--physical, emotional, or otherwise--that your muse is still recovering from?

Edelweiss - Is there anything that your muse will refuse to give up on virtually no matter what?

Elderflower - Who or what does your muse have a soft spot for?

Fennel - Has your muse ever been cheated on?

Fern - What is your muse’s relationship with magic? Do they believe in it? Can they do any special magic? Do they like it?

Forget-me-not - Who is someone in your muse’s life that they will never forget and why?

Foxglove - What steps, if any, has your muse taken to overcome their insecurities?

Freesia - What are some subconscious signs that your muse cares about another person?

Fungus - Is there anyone in your muse’s life who would find them disgusting and why?

Gardenia - Is your muse lucky? In what ways?

Geranium - How would your muse fare in upper class or “proper” society?

Gladiolus - Would you describe your muse as “honorable”?

Goldenrod - How encouraging is your muse to others?

Gorse - How does your muse feel about each season?

Hawthorn - Does your muse want children?

Heather - What does your muse admire most in a person?

Heliotrope - Is there a task or skill that your muse devotes themselves to completing?

Hibiscus - Would others describe your muse as beautiful?

Hollyhock - What are your muse’s limits, if any, when it comes to chasing after their ambitions?

Honeysuckle - What does your muse think about marriage?

Houseleek - How is your muse when it comes to household finances?

Hyacinth - What would a symbolic rebirth look like for your muse?

Hyssop - What’s the hardest sacrifice in your muse’s eyes, and what would it take for them to do so?

Hydrangea - Would someone consider your muse frigid or heartless?

Iris - What subject would your muse consider themselves an expert on?

Question meme

Named after someone? Yes my Auntie

Last time you cried? I don’t cry much anymore. I trained myself not too, when it was hard for me to breath when I did. Same with laughter. But I did cry last year, in relation to my Auntie - she has motor neurone disease.

Do you have any kids? No but I wish I did. I love kids. But it would have been extreme hard for me - my lungs would have struggled.

Do you use sarcasm a lot? 😆 Yes What’s the first thing you notice about people? I’m not really sure I focus on anything. If they smile when I meet them maybe? Smiles tend to be more real here. If you’re talking about a cute guy - eyes and butt 😆

Eye colour? Hazel green

Scary movie or happy ending? Definitely happy ending!

Any special talent? I played the French horn in high school. Maybe the ability to stay positive despite constant adversity. They always like me in hospital.

What county were you born in? Australia. America mother.

What are your hobbies? Reading, fandom, tumblr, theatre, music

Do you have any pets? No. I had a dog growing up - Maggie, a beautiful German shepherd I got as a puppy for my 3rd birthday.

What sports do you play/have you played? I can’t play any because I my health. When I was young I played basketball - I was good, played State level. And I did calisthenics (it’s like a mixture of gymnastics, dance, singing and marching - you use a mental rod and clubs for some routines, which you do in a team) and I was good at that too.

How tall are you? 170cm/5’7” My parents were 6’ and 6’1” - again my health stunted my growth or I might have even been taller than both of them (when I was little they predicted 6’4”).

Favourite subject at school? Maths intially. I was extremely good at it, so it was easy for me. Drama and maths in high school. And then literature, when I had an excellent year 9 teacher, who made me realise I didn’t need to be a naturally good speller to make me good at it. In university I majored in history and criminology, with minors in Enligh Literature and Sociology/Politics for my Arts degree and Law was my other degree. The closest thing to a focus in my double degree was human rights/civil rights.

Dream job? My unrealistic dream job would have been to be an actor. 😆 My realistic is what I am - a lawyer. It’s what I wanted to do for when I was little and watched black and white Perry Mason. Started in corporate, in the private commercial/tax group - for tax I worked with weathly philanthropical family trusts and people stetting up charities. Then I worked as a civil rights/human rights pro bono lawyer.

[I just found this in my drafts, must have been there a few years, as I don’t remember anything about it. From context, I gather it’s answers I wrote to some sort of horror-themed OC question meme. I used to do a lot of these for character development when I was writing HTDC, but rarely posted them in case I ended up wanting to use the content in the fic. Might as well post it now? I have no idea if anyone else likes reading this stuff, but lmk if you do, I no doubt have a ton more somewhere...]

They have a premonition that something terrible will happen to them. How do they handle the situation?

Iriel would carry on as normal, because he has anxiety, so that's a normal Loredas, tbh. Perhaps some breathing exercises, or carefully modulated Calm spells. If, however, the premonition is specific and prophetic-sounding enough to convince him it results from an external source and not his own brain, then that's a whole different nest of scribs. Because that means that someone is fucking with him, probably a Daedra, and Iriel has well-documented reservations about the trustworthiness of such things. What situation are they REALLY trying to engineer, and why?

Do they have a fear of the unknown and things they can’t explain?

Not nearly as much as some people. Iriel has enough known-fears to contend with that something being unknown gives it rather an advantage, at times. Besides, he's a scholar. Unknown things are inherently interesting, because then you can research them, and test hypotheses! Sometimes to the point of almost contracting vampirism, because you can't resist touching weird-looking corpses.

What is the most disturbing thing they’ve ever seen?

I had to think about this one, because pitching Iriel through Morrowind involved subjecting him to a lot of disturbing things. Sixth House stuff is obviously designed to be body-horror nightmarish, and Ire's particular terror of skeletons meant that ancestral tombs were always going to be a trial. In terms of character turning points, though, I'm gonna say Rotheran was the worst thing he'd ever seen, the most upsetting. Because it wasn't just the slavery, or the sadistic games, or the Daedra worship, or the illusion-magic mind control (though that was all bad enough!). It was the dark things about himself, about his psychology and attitude to other people, that he believed he saw magnified and reflected there, triggering a spiral into self-loathing and despair, and the events of the next several chapters! Which... sounds really depressing, but was ultimately useful, in a gotta-lance-the-poison-filled-abscess-before-you-can-clean-and-heal-it kind of way.

What would they do if they witnessed an alien ship crash landing?

I like how this sort of question highlights the differences of the TES setting. Cosmology, f'rinstance, is rather a different affair. Space travel is occasionally a thing in the lore, but their "space" isn't the same as ours. The appearance of strange crafts from out of the air filled with unidentifiable creatures wouldn't imply "aliens!!!" to someone from Tamriel, but probably something more like: "oh shit what have the Telvanni made NOW?" or "please no more portals spewing horrors from another Daedric realm-o'-the-week, i am so very tired."

If they were a ghost, what methods would they use to haunt someone?

"If". lol. Iriel spends a fair amount of HTDC baaaaasically turning into a ghost, yeah? Insubstantial, invisible, losing all grasp on the material realm. And yet, he utterly fails to use his powers to prank people! Shani and Bodu agree that this is a tragic waste of ghostly powers.

Actually, this is another one where TES sensibilities might differ from ours. In Tamriel, ghosts are a well-documented spiritual phenomenon - the result of a lapse in burial rites, or, in the case of Dunmer, the successful product of them. Haunted houses tend to be places full of actual screaming spectres, rather than strange, poltergeist activity. Floating objects and suchlike would be more readily explained by a mage's mischievous telekinesis than the restless dead.

Anyway, to return to your question, a house haunted by Iriel is largely identical to one in which he is actually living. Either way, you may see little hard evidence of his presence, yet sometimes experience odd, herbal smells; indistinct, yet melancholic apparitions in the corner of your eye, and soft sighs just on the edge of hearing. You may also find your books mysteriously disappearing, and reappearing with the pages tea-stained and dog-eared.

How much would they have to be offered to live in a haunted house for a month?

"Let me get this straight. You're offering me an empty house... yes, fine, there are ghosts, but no real people... an empty house that everyone else is frightened to go near, so I'd have complete peace and quiet-- yes, yes, apart from the ghosts, I mean-- ...and I can do whatever I like there, and... let me be absolutely clear about this... YOU want to pay ME?"

("Hmm? Oh yes, it's been fine. Honestly, the dead are far less trouble than people think, especially the non-embodied kind. Simple wards and charms will do adequately if you want to keep them contained, but really, a little attention is all most of them want. They like it when I sing to them, actually. I did get one dreadful screamer, and had to spend a night traipsing around the cellar, scrabbling in the dirt until I found where the poor thing had been buried, but ever since I got the gravedigger to move him somewhere more comfortable, he's been a total sweetheart. Which is more than you can say for dogs or babies or Bosmer housemates, honestly.")

Could they stay calm lost in the woods all night by themselves?

It's funny... I'm sure Iriel's pa used to take him camping in the woods as a kid, and I'm sure Ire spent the entire time freaking out about weird noises, and generally having an unhappy, stressful time. And yet, upon being released from prison as an adult, he immediately vanished into the woods, and voluntarily spent multiple days and nights alone out there. (Three reasons: fear of civilisation, dissociation and drugs.)