Iβm a bit early this week but I wanted to get this particular ask out before I get sucked back into my quilting hyperfixation ^.^ Your characters have a killer headache. Who is taking painkillers right away and who tries to tough it out? Do any of them try something besides painkillers for relief?
Thank you for the ask!! I wish you luck with your quilting endeavors. I'll answer for the core Dresden Crew
Kira is the BIGGEST baby when it comes to head pain so she's absolutely throwing back some painkillers.
Emily shuts off every light in the house and makes herself tea before sleeping it off.
Carter complains for ten minutes, seriously considers ramming his head through a wall, and then finally takes some painkillers after his mother gets sick of his whining and makes him.
Pickle smokes a joint and is shocked when getting high doesn't help. He doesn't even consider painkillers; they do not exist to him.
Allison takes painkillers and then dramatically rots in bed all day despite the fact that her headache goes away as soon as the painkillers kick in.
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Hi! Happy Saturday! Iβve got another weird question this week: if your WIP(s) get mainstream popular in the future, what relationship(s) do you think will get misinterpreted the most by readers? It can be any type of relationship - romantic pairing, platonic friends, parent-child, etc.
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Oh, it's for sure either Lucent/Kralik or Cairn/Ephraim.
The former is a bit dysfunctional and they eventually become extremely codependent. It's also a bit weird because Lucent has *something* going on with her best friend Alonya and she does not stop that something once she and Kralik get together and that is an intentionally messy weird situationship where Alonya is never really clear on whether or not her very real romantic feelings for Lucent are reciprocated or not, but she'll be damned if she ever leaves Lucent to face something alone.
Cairn and Ephraim is also a VERY messy relationship because Cairn grew up in a world where he was treated as nothing more than a sperm donor and labor drone, and Ephraim very much knowingly manipulates him via their relationship and takes advantage of his feelings for her in order to make him do stuff, but at the same time she never really acts like she does towards Cairn towards anyone else and she is INCREDIBLY upset when he's killed and swears vengeance on his killer.
Another really fun one that might make people upset is Haven and Patrick because she developed very real feelings for him and he became obsessed with her, but he eventually did some heinous shit out of obsession and in service of the god that made them both immortal (who Haven hates and wants to destroy) and it was very much a relationship where Haven had absolutely no choice, and he continues to stalk her for basically the rest of her life after she escapes him.
I also think people will very much misconstrue Kira and Pickle's friendship because it's not really sibling-coded, but it's also not romantic so it's in that weird area where people tend to vehemently insist it's one or the other.
Hi! Iβm trying to ease myself back into writeblr, so hereβs a completely random writing ask for you courtesy your local ginger! If the main character(s) of your WIP(s) suddenly learned they were the subject of a fictional work, what would their reaction be?
Hey!
This is an incredibly funny question to me I love it. I'll highlight some of the funnier OC reactions.
Haven would immediately try to kill the creator.
Kira would have a mild existential crisis and then go "well this might as well happen."
Pickle is like "FUCK YEAH DUDE" and doesn't ever think about it again
Emily is in shambles for at least a month over it
Evan would become the most insufferable bastard in the world hes SO annoying about it
Happy STS R! Have you ever regretted creating a character? On the same topic, have you ever deleted someone because they did not turn out the way you thought they would?
A belated happy STS, K!
Not sure I want to talk about the dog with healing powers who could talk who I wrote into a story and then wrote out (it started because of a pun about being a "Healer Mix." Her name was Dianne) :[
ghost and monster for the game and dealer's choice <3
I am going to answer these for Sierra since I don't talk about her a lot.
ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?
She's definitely haunted by her parents' deaths and her subsequent quest for vengeance against the demons who killed them. In her late teens, she found them brutally murdered, and then she and her boyfriend Rodney (whose family had also been killed by these demons) went into Hell itself to confront the ones that killed them, and Sierra ended up being the one to deliver the killing blow.
monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?
Tying into the above, Sierra actually became half demon when she killed the one responsible for her parents' deaths, because he was the ruler of Hell, and by Hell's rules, whoever kills the ruler becomes the ruler, and because the ruler HAS to have demonic blood, it triggered an incredibly painful transformation for Sierra, and now she has extremely acidic blood and some other very minor demonic traits.
Her body is not fully adapted to having corrosive blood like that so she experiences chronic pain, and it's a constant reminder of what happened. While the pain does bother her, she is not above using her blood as an advantage in a fight and splashing it on people and things like that.
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Happy STS! One of your ocs has been replaced by a doppelganger (Β°γΒ°) ! Who is it, and how do your other ocs figure it out - or not?
Asking the serious questions are we? Haha.
No but seriously this one stumped me a little with the main cast of A Knights' Loyalty so that is partly why it is taking me a while to answer.
In between the cast who are more likely to have a doppelganger, it would be Prince Arden since Seren and Kaie are trained in that kind of stuff so any attempt would be futile since the two would just kill their doppelganger, Emery would be impossible with the mana crystals since you can't duplicate the mana crystal's power. Virgil literally has a wolf that would recognise him in a heartbeat and probably kill them.
Emery might be able to pick up on certain minor things that make the doppelganger not really Arden (like certain words and small mannerisms), though not confident enough to feel she knows.
Seren and Kaie are more than confident as they are more observant, but tend to wait until they slip up unless the situation calls for it.
Virgil would actually just get Lexi (his wolf) to sniff and she would growl if seeing a stranger.
The main way to figure it out if it's him or not is to touch his prosthetic as it is a durable steel that is super rare yet looks like a common steel so people don't realise this when impersonating him.
Happy STS! I might be bearing my own secrets a little here, but oh well! Your characters are playing a dating game, which archetype are they going for? (ie: the arrogant one, the cold one, the childhood friend, the older man, the shy one, the flirt, etc)
Ooh this is fun! Of course gonna do the main cast for A Knights' Loyalty.
Happy STS! I might be bearing my own secrets a little here, but oh well! Your characters are playing a dating game, which archetype are they going for? (ie: the arrogant one, the cold one, the childhood friend, the older man, the shy one, the flirt, etc)
"Old man."
"What?"
Caz looked down at Jade. He was leaning over her and her laptop as she moved the cursor over the dating sim's options.
"I said, I wanna try and bag the silver fox," he went on.
Jade raised an eyebrow at him.
"Is this, like, you relating to someone your actual age?"
"Oh, that's hilarious, Shaw. Look at me, I'm splitting my sides laughing," Caz said drily. "Now, would you just click on him?"
Jade moved her mouse over the cartoon, gray-haired man. A dialogue option came up as the man sneered from her laptop screen.
"Ooh, he's mean too?" Caz leaned far too close to Jade. "Ya know, I don't usually go for guys like him."
"That's what I thought," Jade said. She leaned back in her chair, relieving herself of being in direct line with a vampire's breath. "So, why did you pick him, then?"
Caz leaned over the laptop, using the keyboard arrows to select a line of dialogue.
"Well, I mean, I usually like guys I could break in half," he said. "Sort of the opposite with women. But he was the only option that seemed β I don't know, stern? I always like someone who doesn't take any shit."
He swore in Romanian and stabbed at the keyboard.
"CΓ’cat, how do I pick this thing?"
"Enter key," Jade said. She leaned over the keyboard and showed him.
"Thanks, Shaw," Caz said. "Hey, you've played this before, right? Who'd you pick?"
"It's not important," Jade said.
"Oh, well, if it's not important."
He moved the cursor across the computer screen. Jade shot forward as the phrase "Are you sure you want to quit?" blazed in front of her in bright red letters.
"What are you doing?"
"You can find old versions of the game under 'Saved,' right?"
"Oh, now you're suddenly an expert on P.C. games?"
Jade went for the mouse, but Caz was faster. She tried to think of a spell that interrupted Bluetooth signals, but it was too late. The screen loaded a scene at a nightclub featuring a pale, dark-haired man in a ruffled shirt. One earring dangled from his ear as the animation moved his fanged mouth open and closed. A line of dialogue about only going out at night appeared.
"Holy shit," Caz breathed.
He stumbled back from the laptop with his hands clasped over his mouth. He breathed. He giggled. Then he burst into obnoxious, high-pitched laughter.
"Jesus. Fucking. Christ," he gasped.
"Shut up!"
"Does Violet know about this?"
"I played this before I dated Violet," Jade said, shutting the laptop screen just as the cartoon man lifted his red-filled wine glass. "Not that it matters. It's just a game."
"Yeah, sorry, but," Caz took a breath and wiped his eyes. "It's just funny whenever someone has a thing for vampires. Like, come on, Shaw. You know we're objectively terrible to date."
Jade cradled her head in her hands.
"It wasn't about him being a vampire," she said.
Caz leaned back against her kitchen table. Her cats had wandered over and were sniffing him curiously.
"Oh?" he asked.
"Look, he was the only option that seemed β a little fruity, okay?" Jade said. "I just prefer guys who are also queer. You know how it's easier, sometimes, when someone else is bi?"
"Trust me, Shaw, I'm well aware of that," Caz said.
He opened the laptop and stared at the screen.
"Yeah, I've definitely gone home with that guy," he said.
He shut the laptop and backed away from the table.
"Well, this has been β weird," he said. "I'll, uh, see you when I have to kill someone again, I guess."
"Wait, I thought you wanted to play this?" Jade asked.
"Yeah, that type AB I had earlier isn't sitting right," he said, patting his stomach. "Trust me, it's not gonna be pretty."
He nearly tripped over Ada and Lovelace as he grabbed his hat and jacket.
"Do you need a ride?" Jade asked.
"Nah, I'll just grow wings and fly," Caz said. "Or just β run really fast. Yeah. Used to do that all the time. Before cameras, but β yeah, it'll be fine."
The entire trailer shook as he slammed the door behind him.
~
Caz fell through the door of his apartment. He loosened his collar and took another deep breath. His heart felt like it was about to beat out of his chest.
"It's fine," he said, taking his phone out to send a text. "I'll be fine. Just need to get this out of my system."
"We really need to stop meeting like this."
Caz whirled around to find the tiny Norse god he'd run into at the bar standing in his living room.
"How'd you get here so fast?"
"I ripped a hole in time and space, dear," Loki flipped a frizzy strand of red hair out of their face and flashed that oddly scarred smile. "Now, what's the matter?"
Caz reached in his cabinet and pulled out a bottle of vodka and two glasses.
"Just needed some meaningless sex, is all."
Loki clasped their chest dramatically.
"My dear, sweet draugr, I have a wives and family!"
"Vampire, not a draugr," Caz said. "And you're polyamorous."
"Yes, but you're not," Loki said. They strolled up to his kitchen counter and swiped one of the glasses. "We both know you're far too possessive to keep dating a married god. Now, what's actually wrong?"
Caz took a long swallow of vodka.
"I just got this image in my head of my best friend and work associate pegging me," he said. "And it all started because we tried playing this computer game. One where you have to pick someone to date."
"What were the options?" Loki asked.
Caz told them. Loki tapped a set of painted nails to their chin.
"Well, that's an obvious choice," they said. "Old man, of course."
