#spiegelfaenger

Aeron

5. What are their chief tension areas?

Apparently this is about bodily tension. I think too much size-changing in too little time tends to just generally hurt in the joint areas. Other than that, as soon as he started to use the Internet, especially (and to Elias' consternation) to post slightly, but only slightly funny memes, the same areas everybody has tension - back, shoulders and neck.

If this is about topics that make him tense: Aeron has had enough experience with a) injustice and b) persecution that these are difficult topics for him and he makes his opinion known to intolerant people (if he dares to, that is)

6. If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why?

Mika - Any Other World

Not completely convinced because I've never actually listened to it but the lyrics fit.

15. Can they multi-task or must they focus on one subject at a time?

According to himself, Aeron can multitask - badly. He tends to be a bit hectic and wants to do a lot of things at the same time, but most of the time it doesn't work out that well. Elias has had to calm him down and tell him to focus a few times now.

16. What are their best school subjects? What are their worst? List five of each.

I don't think Aeron ever was at school... Things that interest him now: History, Geography, Music, Literature, Ethics; things that don't interest him that much: Natural Sciences pretty much (Maths, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, though he'd really like to be good at the latter, he just isn't), Drawing

19. If your character was suddenly challenged, would they rather run away or stay and fight?

23. Do they prefer romance or affection? What is the quickest way to your character’s heart?

Aeron has had a long hard life full of neglect, so any time anybody shows him affection, he can't quite believe it. "Why would anybody like me at all", is what he thinks, and that's also the reason why he always has to do something - because if he doesn't, he can get lonely and bitter. (Which isn't the answer to this question at all.)

I don't think, though, that you can really seperate romance and affection that much here. In my opinion, if Elias does a romantic gesture, Aeron is flustered and feels awkward but loves him all the more for it - but at the end of the day, simple affection is what he really needs and craves.

The quickest way to his heart? Being there for him when he needs you.

25. Do they have any weird bedroom habits? Any unusual kinks?

You really had to ask that one, did you?

I think he and Elias experimented around a bit and found out that Aeron likes to be dominated a bit. In real life, he needs to feel in control all the time (although he isn't, but that's a different story, he tries at least), so it feels good for him to release that control at least in some contexts. I'm not talking about heavy duty kinky stuff here, though, Aeron is too much of a wide-eyed innocent for that.

And now you know and I feel as if I needed to take a shower.

28. Are they afraid of death? Do they have any regrets?

Aeron is very afraid of death. Not so much as a constant fear, but he really doesn't like thinking of it. In his opinion, life is a very precious gift, a very short span of light between two infinite spans of darkness, and he can't bear thinking of that.

He regrets not having entered Elias' life and world sooner, but at least he knows it's not his fault, so it's not a really hard regret.

Tollesh

1. What position does your character sleep in? ( i.e; stomach, side, back, etc. ) Describe why they do this — optional.

Tollesh likes to think that he sleeps on his back, his trust disco ball mace always at the ready, and out of respect people tell him he does - the truth is that he curls up into a ball and snores/purrs loudly. (He's half a cat, for God's sake. And with all the spikes and horns, how else should a Charr even sleep?)

6. If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why?

Imagine Dragons - Warriors xP

(By the way, bonus answer: Cupcake's song would be Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)

Roberto

6. If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why?

Of Monsters and Men - King and Lionheart.

Might seem a strange choice, but I think Roberto has found his role as Gabriel's advisor and mentor. Also there's a melancholy to it which might result in a character beat in the third book, so I don't want to spoil it too much.

7. How does your character perceive themselves? Positive? Negative? Neutral?

In general, Roberto has a very positive self-perception. Both his job and his private life are not only exciting, but also very full of meaning for him, and he's the kind of person who just doesn't get phased too much by bad things happening (teach me, Roberto).

Sometimes however, when the nights are too long and his flat is too lonely, he thinks that maybe he's annoying and that people just put up with him because of what he knows, not because of who he is. But then he goes to sleep and the next day, everything is okay again.

11. What do they think of creation? Do they believe in evolution or do they believe in God? What is their religion like?

Roberto grew up in a family that managed to straddle the gap between being pretty liberal on the one hand and strongly Catholic on the other hand. Still, when he got into puberty, he rebelled against that and had a standard angry atheist phase, until he found out about the World Beneath, and then he got completely lost.

Nowadays he would describe himself as a Pragmatic Agnostic - he hasn't had positive or negative proof of God, so he can't know if he exists. But he has had proof of Fairy gods and seen the remnants of Dwarven god-constructs, so he has proof the some gods exist. So if one day, he meets God, he will accept his existence without questioning. You can't question things' existence in his line of work, it'd never end.

As for the evolution vs. creation debate, Roberto never understood why one thing precluded the other. He himself, as an agnostic, believes in the theory of evolution, but he thinks that faithful people could see evolution as a process guided by God without violating any of their principles.

30. Finally; if your character was forced to eat one thing for the rest of their life, what would they choose and why?

Roberto would say his mamma's cantuccini, then Gabriel would remind him that they're pretty dry and Roberto would agree and have to think for a long time, but in the end he would choose some pasta dish, although which one would vary from day to day.

Gabriel

6. If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why?

Vienna Teng - Level Up

(Bonus answer, if I had to give a song for Gabriel and Roberto: Sunrise Avenue - Lifesaver. Because in my mind, Gabriel was about to give up on everything before he encountered Roberto.)

20. If your character was allowed to murder one person without any consequences, who would that person be and why?

Ohhh this is interesting. I don't think Gabriel would really murder anybody, but if he had to, hm... depending on how dumb uni is being at the moment, either somebody there or...

I really don't think that at the moment there's somebody out there who deserves that kind of hate from him, I'm sorry but I can't answer that question.

Noonoo

(really? I haven't thought about him that much xD)

2. Does your character have any noteworthy features? Freckles? Dimples? A scar somewhere unusual? etc.

He has got a few freckles, which isn't all that unusual for merpeople despite being called Sommersprossen in German. But what makes him handsome, in addition to just generally not being ugly, is the intense blue coloration of his skin, which slowly turns a deep black towards his hands.

By the way, another dumb fact - rock music was for a long time regarded as really dangerous among merpeople because you had to use electrical instruments and electricity + water = the curse of fatal death. It took some time and progress in shielding technology to make it acceptable for non-suicidal people.

6. If you were to pick one song — and only one song — to describe your character, what would it be and why?

I'm gonna cheat here:

Fesche Fische - Smoke Under The Water xP