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16: How exactly are you feeling at the moment? I'm a mixture of tired, a little bit sad and possibly maybe hungry? I'm not sure, we'll see if it's hungry or not 🤣

19: Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? If it was like time travel to any time ever and not just my own personal life that I could go back in, yeah! 

Me! I’m interested! :)

Jasmine Tea : If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

I’d like the chance to go back to Amsterdam at some point, I went last year for a uni trip to look around inner city zoos and did some wandering around in the evenings, though not quite as much as I could have.

I’d also like to visit New Zealand at some point. I have family out there, and yet I’ve never been. My nan says it’s a beautiful country, and my cousin loves to brag about ‘being an actual hobbit’

Iced Lemon Tea : Favorite song/band?

Ahhh too many to choose from ^^ what I listen to changes up, depending on which song has my fixation at the time XD

Early Grey Tea : The inevitable Zombie Apocalypse is upon us! What’s your plan of action? 

Duly grabbed. Thanks for the heads-up :)

Rules: In a text post, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag 10 friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them!

(Some works I’ve very much enjoyed and re-read more than once. Most of these are part of a series so I decided to pick my favorite volume per series/author. I kind of feel like this list would make my professors cry because it includes none of the literary classics that were incorporated into my education during my many years at the uni. My bad, you guys. Your student is a dirty escapist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 2. Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb 3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin 4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 5. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett 6. Elfshadow by Elaine Cunningham 7. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley 8. Sabriel by Garth Nix 9. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski 10. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Absolutely the latter. When I create a character I usually have some vague idea about who they are and how are they going to interact with the world. Their actual personalities, however, tend to form gradually as I play the game. Character interactions with NPCs and the choices they make lead me to consider what kind of person would say/do such things and why, and those ideas in turn affect their future choices in the game, and so on, and so on. It’s not unheard of that my characters end up developing into a direction that I definitely didn’t have in mind when I first created them (for example, Bron).

The smallest things can turn into something that adds to the character. During TESO beta when I first created Noelie she spent almost two days running around barefoot because I couldn’t find footwear anywhere and didn’t know how to craft them. This lead me to deciding that she’s a somewhat unconventional hedge mage who doesn’t much care for shoes, and would regularly scandalize highborn Bretons by appearing to the court basically barefoot. And that’s the story of how my inability find shoes in-game contributed to my character’s personality… :’D For me it’s all these little details that in time help to form a (hopefully) multifaceted character. I like to think of them as stick figures slowly turning into actual sketches - every new detail or headcanon is another line here, a bit of shading there, until eventually the result is a recognizable, independent character. The more lines you add, the more depth and detail the character “sketch” gains. 

Let’s take Meirami as an example: the initial idea I started with was a laid-back, (quite literal) cat burglar with Rocket Raccoon’s level of undertanding of property laws. She’s still all of those things, but now I have a better understanding of reasons that shaped her into the person she is (for instance, as a pirate’s daughter she was introduced to the life of crime so early on that her morals regarding such things as theft are permanently skewed). Also, playing through the Aldmeri Dominion questline has revealed some new, unexpected sides of her. Labeled as an unreliable troublemaker pretty much since her childhood, people rarely trusted Meirami with, well, anything - and then Razum-dar comes and makes her Queen’s agent (perhaps out of desperation, perhaps because he saw something in her that others didn’t). Regardless, he trusts her. Even more amazingly, Queen Ayrenn trusts her. And Meirami repays this trust with a surprising level of ardent loyalty. She may not hold a lawful, orderly society in high regard or agree with some of the most idealistic views about Dominion, but her personal loyalties have grown so strong that at this point Ayrenn could basically ask my Khajiit to walk through the fire and she probably would. So, just an example of another trait of hers I had no idea was there to begin with.