#temiel

When was the last time I posted anything? So, so long ago.

YAY! The Carpe Noctem kids!

For Cadmus: 

Co-Habitate : Do they live with anyone? What’s “need to know” before moving in?

Cadmus is a rebellious 500-something year old and needs his space. He wanders, but always has his mother’s secret mountainside sanctuary to return to if he needs to. Something to keep in mind before living with him would be..he’s a vampire and might be actively fighting the compulsion to eat your flesh and drink your blood???

Decor : What kind of home do they keep? Are there any defining details? 

If he’s not sleeping in trees in crow form, he’s usually renting small, dark spaces in bad neighborhoods. He doesn’t need much light, but will insist the space is tidy, the opposite of his mother’s villa, which is spacious and yet cluttered with artifacts from long dead civilizations.

Kin : What’s their role among their relations? Do they consider others family?

He’s the baby of the family (technically all Vampires are ‘family’ and therefore he’s tangled in a web of aunts and uncles and cousins), the youngest vampire to be born in centuries. While he is often trapped into being a dutiful son for his mother by virtue of the fact he is her only child (and that means something, because she’s 25,000 years old), he silently disagrees with her on pretty much all accounts, is headstrong and stubborn, and the elders mostly look at him with a mixture of affection and tired wistfulness, assuming his attitudes are all a phase he will age out of in a few centuries time. The family he finds...that’s Caro and Liam.

Wardrobe : What’s their fashion style? Do they have any staple pieces?

Always wears a greatcloak for dramatic effect, and also to look broader because he is a walking stick-figure. He’s actually not very fashionable because he doesn’t really shop for things do much as find them. So all his clothes are about a decade past fashionable.

For Caro:

Grudge : How bad does an insult go over? Do they hold a grudge long?

Caro burns hot and quick, so if she gets indignant over something, she’s usually righteously furious for a moment, and then lets it go quickly. So she doesnt hold much of a grudge, but she’ll always REMEMBER.

Question : How often do they feel doubt? What topics are they defensive about?

Caro is only certain about one thing, and that’s how a mechanism will work. She drew the blueprints, she made it with her own hands, she tested it: it works. Of course it does! But... Everything else fills her with trepidation. She expends a lot of effort trying not to look as nervous and uncertain as she feels all the time. But don’t question her know-how when it comes to anything mechanical, or politics. Don’t assume that because she is small and female that she simply ‘doesnt know’ what she’s talking about. She’s had to put up with that for her uncle her entire life, and the quickest way to set her off is to second guess her.

Reminder : How are they at remembering daily needs? What falls through the cracks?

If she’s working on a project, she may be too distracted to brush her hair, or notice that she’s had a grease smudge on her cheek for an entire afternoon, but she always remembers to have a tea break. She gets very absorbed in her own thoughts sometimes, and may forget things like...a party where she is expected to appear and be a dull, silent ornament for her uncle guests. 

2. What would be your OCs favourite section in a bookstore? Why?

Caro would love the section with the over-sized coffee-table books; educational text-heavy picture books about firearms through the ages, beautiful clocks and mythology anthologies. She would also enjoy reading biographies about influential women throughout history, and science fiction novels (though the sci-fi novels would be something of a guilty pleasure for her).

4. How would your OC like/prefer to die? 

There was a time when Caro would have said “As an old spinster, by the fire, with a book and my lap and a cup of tea still warm beside me”. But as her adventure speeds along, Caro realizes her death may be closer at hand than she first imagined, and she wants to die as spitefully as possible, making a great nuisance of herself to the person trying to kill her. She wants them to be really inconvenienced by her murder.

13.What would your OC choose to do in the Trolley Problem? TheTransplant Problem?

The Trolley Problem: Caro would first insist that she could devise a way to stop the trolley without switching the track or causing it to hit the people tied to it. After being told that she isn’t allowed to do that in this scenario, Caro would continue to ask questions such as: Do I know any of the people tied to the track? Are they kindly or villainous people? When told none of that matters to the problem, a frustrated Caro would frown and reluctantly state that she would pull the lever because then at least five people would be spared a grisly fate, even if the last couldn’t be. 

The Transplant problem: It’s a doctor’s job to help people, not murder them, and Caro would be very staunch upon the nature of the Hippocratic Oath and how the doctor would be morally culpable. The person who pulls the lever in the Trolley Problem would not be a murderer, Caro would argue, because the trolley is the murderer. But the doctor would have to choose to go against his oath and murder the tourist and would therefore be a villain if he chose to do it. 

24. If your OC could permanently remove any one thing from their world, what would it be? Why?

She would remove the moment her mother was killed.

temiel! \o/ 

1. First impression: Look at this amazing art. She is so good. SHE’S TOO GOOD FOR ME.

2. Truth is: You’re one of the internet friends I’ve had the longest and that’s because you’re warm and enthusiastic and invite other people into your gravitational pull of awesome. An Art Elitist you are not.

3. How old do you look: Like an adult.

4. Have you ever made me laugh: Yes. And cry. But mostly the crying was over your TRAGIC OCs. Are Leland and Claris OKAY!? D:

5. Have you ever made me mad: Yeah, mad-jealous over your line work and clothing-drawing skills. I’ll make you proud one day!6. Best feature: The most recent photo I saw of you was taken right after your got your Furiosa hair cut. So, what is fresh in my mind is that your skull is perfectly suited for the Furiosa head-shave. Drive your war-rig into my heart.

7. Have I ever had a crush on you: Strictly Platonic Internet Crushes are my M.O.

8. You’re my: Tem. My art-friend. The one who always seems to know exactly what I’m going through when I have panics and frustrations about illustration.

9. Name in my phone: Don’t speak.

FFFF! I took forever on these, and I’m sorry temiel. Finally updated the last questions and posting! Thank you for tagging me! ^_^

1. What is your personal style like?

I’m mostly a t-shrt and jeans girl, but slowly adding more to my wardrobe. I like shirts that are off shoulder and slightly oversized. I’m getting a little more creative with my afro, and my favorite style is to have a puff with bangs. Sometimes I have a bow other times not.

2. Do you believe in ghosts?

I believe in the possibility of ghosts.  If I believe in them I would have to acknowledge it making me a not so happy Tam. If I just think there’s a possibility I can rationalize the hell out of it as I run away. This is why I don’t fuck with haunted things.

3. Favorite animated movie?

Aaaah so many to choose from! But will just with Castle of Cagliostro. It was my second Lupin III movie, the first being Mystery of Mamo, but I really didn’t become a fangirl until I watched Cagliostro. The classic Miazaki imagery mixing with Monkey Punch’s characters were the best.

4. What are three books that helped to shape you as a person?

Dominic by William Steig

I remember this story as being one of the few I took out of my class library and never returned. The story of the adventurous dog with a spear and piccolo inspired me to imagine and travel to meet new people and save them from evil.

Deed of Paksinarrion by Elizabeth Moon

I’m not to keen on paladins, but this story had a great female hero. I was impressed by her strength, though not happy with some of the sacrificial instances at the end. It got me to look at more warrior and tank classes for women.

Pretty much anything ElfQuest by Windy and Richard Pini. Different views on elves and really loved the Wolfriders. When they met the desert Elves it was the first time I got to see a dark skinned elf and really got hooked. Savah was my favorite character and for awhile I used her name for my online identity and even another old character that had a pretty full story line that I’ve slowly revived.

5. Cooking: like it or hate it? What’s your favorite thing to cook for yourself?

I love to cook, but sometimes have to really make myself do it. If it takes more than 30 minutes I’ll get grumpy.

6. One song you’re really into right now (please link if possible!)?

I was first into Fallulah’s Give us a Little Love because it pinpointed a character I was working on for a school project. https://youtu.be/Rt6hIh2wuJ0

But then the #Beyoncealwaysonbeat came about and the remix of Fun.’s We Are Young by DJSMALLZ hit me and I’ve been stuck. https://youtu.be/5faPaUdfIDQ

And because I’m so late and another song made it to my constant rotation: Hollaback Yonce mash up of Gwen Stafani’s Hollaback Girl and Beyonce’s Yonce. Best use of back beat, ever. https://youtu.be/aVP9GINQcMY

7. Favorite mythological motif/character/story? (I say “mythology” but can also apply to folk and fairy tales)

Oh I haven’t really thought of that. Lol Um right now I’m into the 1001 Nights tales because it’s a part of a project. I do like the stories, though they are difficult to understand from the structure. I’m still trying to get through the first book, and have two more to go. I hope to have a better understanding of them soon and get some favorites out of it.

8. If you lived in the His Dark Materials universe, what form would your dæmonhave?

Gryphon

9. Biggest art-related pet peeve (whether making it or looking at it or consuming it or however it is you relate to any kind of art)?

That I don’t understand it at first. I feel like I’m really slow with understanding art, so I just take my time. Also, this goes with writing, losing flow. I will flop around for a long time before sitting my ass down and completing it, and when I do its not as bad as I thought it would be. And I get pissed about that. 

10. Least favorite fiction trope?

There are many, and I agree with amyclarkart with the relationship for whatever sake trope, but right now my biggest are Magical Negro, Sapphire, Strong Black Woman, and a few other racial tropes. Trying to find characters that only have a bit of this trope mixed in with other complexities is difficult, and its disappointing not having good characters to fan over.  So I made a personal challenge to try and find ways to work around them with my own writing and re-imagine characters to make them well rounded.

11. Scariest book and movie you’ve ever read/watched AND enjoyed?

Oooh. Well I’m a lightweight when it comes to scary stuff, but my first Stephen King book that I read and loved was The Stand. Though it didn’t deal with the supernatural the thought of unknown virus wiping out nearly everyone and the survivors needing to deal with the human condition/thought scared the crap out of me.