#the-most-stop

Sure – although I don't know much about Tennessee.

The setting is post-apocalyptic and post-civilization. The story is about the main character and a number of other people who have gone native to the planet-sized caverns below the Earth's surface. It takes place mostly after the collapse of the surface culture, but in the future of the underground society, i.e. in the future it was in before humans spread to the surface and started colonizing there.

The protagonist, who will be a woman, is involved in some kind of underground warfare against a larger subterranean group (which might be some kind of army?). Her father is the ruler of the surface civilization, or something along those lines. (I'm not too familiar with the surface civilization, and I'm not sure what the underground one is.) The surface civilization has been dead for years now and is mostly forgotten, and most of its culture has become an esoteric myth. But some of it is still being taught, and it has a lot of power over the underground society, to the point that it is one of the biggest sources of tension between them.

I imagine the surface civilization as being somewhat like a combination of America and the Old West; it contains a sort of primitive America, where there are the remnants of old settlements and some very primitive-seeming infrastructure, and there are also a few old cars. But the main characters spend a lot of time in places like this, which are like a combination of the desert and ancient ruins, because there is a huge, huge underground cavern system beneath the surface, which has been left mostly untouched (except for occasional use) for centuries. It's a huge, cavernous underground world.

A lot of the main characters and the people they travel with have been born in and around these caverns. It's possible that part of the motivation for some of their behavior is a mixture of feeling like a hero, wanting to escape from the caverns, wanting to return to the surface and go back to their families, and so forth.

Well, let's see … That particular type of question always seems very artificial to me. If it's a question people are actually asking, the answer is, of course, going to be "the most unfortunate thing." As to my own list:

The "I'm so old and I didn't have a childhood" type of regret is one of my least favorite and I'm not sure if I've ever had it

All the times I've been late to somewhere important, I really wish I hadn't been so late, or just not been there, or that I would remember what this thing was, or what I thought this thing was, or I wish I would have paid attention to … etc etc

Having a few bad memories stick around is better than having all the good ones stuck around

A lot of my relationships have been kind of weird, and I wish at least some of those could have worked out better

Most of the time I get annoyed by things and then I'm like "whoa, this would not have happened to me if I didn't get so angry"

If I could be transported to any time and place it would be the 1750s when lots of people didn't get sick very often and we had lots of time to sit around and be unproductive

My relationship with my friends is not great in a number of ways, I regret that, and am in a position where I should probably try to fix it in some way

In fact, I might say that my relationship with myself is kind of a mess, I should make an effort to improve it at some point

Forgetting things is always kind of a bummer. I should probably work to fix that

I'm not sure how you'd measure that. I eat a bunch of stuff, some of which I like. I'd probably rank the following things by how strongly I like them (with lower values being better)

pizza

fried chicken (and other types of fast food chicken)

chinese

burgers (which I rarely eat but can't stop thinking about)

oatmeal

Uh … "I'm you. For the last few years. I just got back."