Author: squigglysquidd

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Send me a # (questions for OCs) or a letter (questions for creators) and I’ll answer

QUESTIONS FOR YOUR OCs

1. What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?
2. How easy is it for your character to laugh?
3. How do they put themselves to bed at night (reading, singing, thinking?)
4. How easy is it to earn their trust?
5. How easy is it to earn their mistrust?
6. Do they consider laws flexible, or immovable?
7. What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?
8. What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child
9. Do they swear? Do they remember their first swear word?
10. What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them?
11. How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?
12. How do they deal with an itch found in a place they can’t quite reach?
13. What color do they think they look best in? Do they actually look best in that color?
14. What animal do they fear most?
15. How do they speak? Is what they say usually thought of on the spot, or do they rehearse it in their mind first?
16. What makes their stomach turn?
17. Are they easily embarrassed?
18. What embarrasses them?
19. What is their favorite number?
20. If they were asked to explain the difference between romantic and platonic or familial love, how would they do so?
21. Why do they get up in the morning? 
22. How does jealousy manifest itself in them (they become possessive, they become aloof, etc)? 
23. How does envy manifest itself in them (they take what they want, they become resentful, etc)? 
24.  Is sex something that they’re comfortable speaking about? To whom? 
25.  What are their thoughts on marriage? 
26.  What is their preferred mode of transportation? 
27.  What causes them to feel dread? 
28.  Would they prefer a lie over an unpleasant truth? 
29.  Do they usually live up to their own ideals? 
30.  Who do they most regret meeting? 
31.  Who are they the most glad to have met? 
32.  Do they have a go-to story in conversation? Or a joke? 
33.  Could they be considered lazy? 
34.  How hard is it for them to shake a sense of guilt? 
35.  How do they treat the things their friends come to them excited about? Are they supportive? 
36. Do they actively seek romance, or do they wait for it to fall into their lap? 
37. Do they have a system for remembering names, long lists of numbers, things that need to go in a certain order (like anagrams, putting things to melodies, etc)? 
38. What memory do they revisit the most often? 
39. How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people? 
40. How sensitive are they to their own flaws?
41. How do they feel about children? 
42. How badly do they want to reach their end goal? 
43. If someone asked them to explain their sexuality, how would they do so? 

QUESTIONS FOR CREATORS

A) Why are you excited about this character?
B) What inspired you to create them?
C) Did you have trouble figuring out where they fit in their own story?
D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look?
E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?
F) What do you feel when you think of your OC (pride, excitement, frustration, etc)?
G) What trait of theirs bothers you the most?
H) What trait do you admire most?
I) Do you prefer to keep them in their canon universe?
J) Did you have to manipulate or exclude canon factors to allow them to create their character?

5.  On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets? (Garrus)

Heh.  I don’t think he’d carry too much in his civilian clothes – maybe something pertaining to that day that someone gives him or a credit chit, but that’s about it.  Now, for his armor?  He can’t seem to carry enough and needs tons of pouches.  He carries his chit – of course – but with that comes protein bars for Jane because she refuses to buy the ones she actually likes, ammo, tools to work on his visor and weapon – and now arm or Jane’s legs, grenades of all kinds, and his ring, but that’s usually around his neck or on his finger when he’s on missions.  

24.  How quick is your character to trust someone else?  (Ellie)

Hm.  This is a good one to ask!  Ellie has various takes on ‘trust’.  When she’s taking on a persona, she seems to vary her ability to trust on the persona’s individual personality.  Usually, her personas learn to trust quite easily because it usually leads to evidence or a way to get what she needs.  However, true trust comes much slower to her.  In fact, the trust with Arcanus took first sacrifices from each other.  She kept his secrets quiet and, gradually, his show of trust (as much as could be between a turian and human during the First Contact War) lead to her opening up.  You wouldn’t be able to tell after their history how she cared for him, though, after stealing turian data and leaving him to take the fall.  Eventually, when she regained Arcanus’ trust on the Normandy, she gave Jane and Garrus a chance to gain her own trust quicker than usual because she both saw herself in Jane and wanted to help her not make the same mistakes in life and she saw how much Arcanus trusted them, eventually following suit.

35.  How does your character behave around people they like?  (Arcanus)

Arcanus is normally focused all on work.  He didn’t really have friends between Saren and the Vakarians, so he had to learn how to get over that solitude and primary focus on work.  Now that he has learned how to be free again, so to speak, he tries to put forth the effort to put work aside for moments of enjoyment with friends.  For example, he will join in on parties, though he is not one to get drunk, under any circumstances, and, when invited, he won’t make excuses not to join in on get togethers.  Despite his outside appearances, he wants that connection to people he cares for and often comes across as more loyal than expected because friends are so few and far between for him thanks to his life choices.

44.  How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you”?  Can they say it without meaning it?  (Arcanus)

Arcanus likes to think that actions speak more than words.  In fact, turians don’t really see the ‘I love you’ saying as something to have in a relationship.  In fact, Garrus learned it for Jane and the twins know it because of their parents.  However, the signs of ‘I love you’ come easily to Arcanus around Ellie, but he sees it as a private moment between them.  That’s probably due to his constant working habit, but he does try to use human ways to show love along with turian.  As for lying, no.  He doesn’t have reason to lie and sees it beneath him to lie about one’s feelings, but he does understand if someone has to do it for espionage, etc, and once thought the care between himself and Ellie was such.  Good thing her opening up and show of the truth and trust made him see otherwise.

i-see-light:

1. Does your character have siblings or family members in their age group? Which one are they closest with?
2. What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?
3. What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?
4. Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?
5. On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?
6. Does your character have recurring themes in their dreams?
7. Does your character have recurring themes in their nightmares?
8. Has your character ever fired a gun? If so, what was their first target?
9. Is your character’s current socioeconomic status different than it was when they were growing up?
10. Does your character feel more comfortable with more clothing, or with less clothing?
11. In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?
12. In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?
13. Is your character bothered by the sight of blood? If so, in what way?
14. Does your character remember names or faces easier?
15. Is your character preoccupied with money or material possession? Why or why not?
16. Which does your character idealize most: happiness or success?
17. What was your character’s favorite toy as a child?
18. Is your character more likely to admire wisdom, or ambition in others?
19. What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?
20. In what ways does your character compare themselves to others? Do they do this for the sake of self-validation, or self-criticism?
21. If something tragic or negative happens to your character, do they believe they may have caused or deserved it, or are they quick to blame others?
22. What does your character like in other people?
23. What does your character dislike in other people?
24. How quick is your character to trust someone else?
25. How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?
26. How does your character behave around children?
27. How does your character normally deal with confrontation?
28. How quick or slow is your character to resort to physical violence in a confrontation?
29. What did your character dream of being or doing as a child? Did that dream come true?
30. What does your character find repulsive or disgusting?
31. Describe a scenario in which your character feels most comfortable.
32. Describe a scenario in which your character feels most uncomfortable.
33. In the face of criticism, is your character defensive, self-deprecating, or willing to improve?
34. Is your character more likely to keep trying a solution/method that didn’t work the first time, or immediately move on to a different solution/method?
35. How does your character behave around people they like?
36. How does your character behave around people they dislike?
37. Is your character more concerned with defending their honor, or protecting their status?
38. Is your character more likely to remove a problem/threat, or remove themselves from a problem/threat?
39. Has your character ever been bitten by an animal? How were they affected (or unaffected)?
40. How does your character treat people in service jobs?
41. Does your character feel that they deserve to have what they want, whether it be material or abstract, or do they feel they must earn it first?
42. Has your character ever had a parental figure who was not related to them?
43. Has your character ever had a dependent figure who was not related to them?
44. How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?
45. What does your character believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?

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Uncommon OC Questions

15.  Something that grosses your OC out?

Without a doubt?  Babies.  Arcanus can’t stand the oddity that is a child.  I mean, the dirtiness?  The smells?  The sounds?  No thanks, keep them at arm’s distance.  He was never one to want to hold the twins when they were young and, though he didn’t hate them, he was often one to simply pat their head as any sign of affection.  He’d watch them so long as they stayed in their crib and he didn’t have to change them or try to get them to eat that colorless mush of baby food.

27.  Most despicable thing your OC has ever done?

Hm… Difficult to answer.  While I’ve never really thought of it, I think he’d probably have some negative feelings over some of the things he’s had to order his men to do for the Blue Suns. In the beginning, everything was all business and he didn’t really have any emotional feelings towards what he would order or do (and he didn’t necessarily order children murders or anything like some of the other Blue Suns), but, if he lets himself really consider what would come from the efforts of smuggling weapons onto and off of the Citadel, I’m sure he’d think twice about his ‘it’s just business’ views.  Ever since he’s become part of a family, he’s started to consider the events of his past and those changes he is and will make.  That’s why he actually lets the Shakarians take a look at contracts for the Wraiths to make sure they approve, but he can screen them too now that he actually sees the worst that the galaxy has to offer.  He doesn’t want to be a part of that.

Thank you so much for the asks!  😀

• Twins

1.  What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)?

Cassia – I’d say that her personality was the beginning of this character.  I didn’t, at first, know if I wanted a male or female for this role when I decided to give Shakarian kids.  What I did know, however, was how this character would be.  They’d be the exact opposite of their parents and Jane and Garrus’ more renegon natures.  She isn’t exactly paragon, per se, but she is more willing to forgive and open up to people.  When faced with a problem, her answer borders on choice of heart and mind.  She also doesn’t bottle up her problems and emotions like her brother, but, instead, acknowledges them.  She will outwardly cry or get upset, but the outburst of emotion soon dissipates and she’s all good nature and helpfulness.   Perhaps her biggest flaw is her tendency to see the best in people, but Damocles is there to be the more paranoid and cynical of the two, often stopping her from falling into a dangerous situation because she trusts too easily.

Damocles – His personality was also what I remember being the first thing about his character coming to the forefront.  It may just be me, but I love a good broody character and a deep thinker that, on the outside, looks like a one note character.  Damocles is promiscuous and distant with everyone, but also withholds anything even close to his real self.  Only his family knows who he truly is while strangers often warn each other, ‘hey, don’t go near him.  He’s angry and about two seconds from punching anyone in the face’ when he’s not openly flirting and trying to get into their pants.  He takes sex as a way to destress and is perhaps even more disconnected from partners than is typical of even the most ulitiarian of turians.

• Arcanus

10.  If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person?

Alright, so first thing’s first.  Arcanus and Ellie are a joint pair of creations made with a friend of mine.  He first created Arcanus for his own roleplaying games, but, over the course of Parable, he has become my character as well.  Ellie, on the other hand was actually made after the fact when we were looking for someone to be Arcanus’ LI.  Technically, this question would work best for her, but I can give some hints of what Arcanus looks for in a mate.  For starters, he doesn’t want a damsel in distress type, he wants a woman who can take care of herself.  Ultimately, any sort of love comes first from respect and trust.  Due to his and Ellie’s past (which I will eventually get to in Osteogenesis), their love built on that very foundation he looks for.  As a confession, I also must say that he had a thing for Jane in the beginning, but got over it becuase he cared too much for his building friendship with the Vakarians that he wouldn’t even think of ‘taking another man’s mate’, so to speak.  It just isn’t in his nature.

19. What is your favorite fact about your OC?

I love Arcanus to bits, but my favorite thing about him has to be his way of hiding his true self up until he trusts someone.  On the outside, he seems all work and no play, but, ultimately, he is merely that way because he just doesn’t know how to loosen up.  However, when his closest friends offer a way to, he will accept the chances to open up and grow into a less tense workaholic.  Much to everyone’s disbelief, he likes taking breaks and more than enjoys the chance to let Jane and Garrus take a hand in leading the Wraiths.  And thank Ellie and Jane that he’s starting to relax with their teasing and jokes, though I’m sure it’s mostly because they keep going until he gives in.  😉

• Ellie

2.  Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind?

Ellie was designed as a sort of Jane to Arcanus.  She was made both as an LI in mind for him, but also a lesson to Jane of what damage can be done when someone doesn’t let their life get in the way of their work.  She’s thankful for getting a chance to be with Arcanus once again after all she’s done to him, after so much time apart, but she has to learn how to open up.  She’s a spy by nature and used to keeping herself in disguise no matter what, so being around the Vakarians and Arcanus is slowly teaching her to step out of her comfort zone.  In return, she wants to be there to steer Jane right.  Hell, looking at it now, she’s sort of like a mother figure without intentions to be or either of them knowing.

15.  What is something about your OC that can make you laugh?

What never ceases to make me grin is just how much Ellie and Jane feed off each other, much to Arcanus’ chagrin.  Without Jane, Ellie probably wouldn’t know how to open up herself, but when she has probably the biggest example of not giving a damn at her side, she can work at sharing her happiness with Arcanus.  Both of them have been so focused on work that they deserve happiness and the ability to loosen up and just enjoy themselves, but with Arcanus because the turian’s turian for most of his life, it comes harder to him.  Thank goodness for Ellie having almost the same personality as Jane!  Well, thank goodness for us readers.  Arcanus?  Not so much.

Thank you so much for the ask!  

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Uncommon OC questions!
1. A little-known talent of your OC?
2. What trait does your OC like best about themself? (Eyes, guitar skills, random bird facts, etc)
3. How many pillows does your OC sleep with?
4. Is your OC good at keeping secrets?
5. Your OC’s worst habit?
6. Does your OC prefer tennis shoes/sneakers or flip flops?
7. What is your OC’s opinion on body modifications?
8. Your OC is given a full-ride scholarship to any college they could want to go to. Where do they go and what do they major in?
9. What chore does your OC hate the most?
10. Would your OC prefer to live in the city, the suburbs, or the country?
11. Is your OC a blanket hog?
12. Would your OC play by the rules in a fight or take cheap shots?
13. Does your OC have a widow ’s peak?
14. Happy birthday! What kind of present would your OC want?
15. Something that grosses your OC out?
16. Your OC is suddenly on an adventure! Where do they go and what do they do?
17. Is there a real person that looks like your OC?
18. Something that makes your OC laugh without fail?
19. Something that makes your OC cry without fail?
20. A obscure/ridiculous fear your OC has?
21. Does your OC have any type of disability, whether it be mental, physical, etc?
22. Does your OC get frustrated when people forget to close the door behind themselves?
23. What is your OC’s first memory?
24. Something you like that your OC would hate?
25. Your OC is going into battle/on a mission! What song is their anthem?
26. Does your OC have good or bad posture?
27. Most despicable thing your OC has ever done?
28. Is your OC a conspiracy theorist?
29. Someone does something awful in front of your OC. How do they handle it?
30. What is your OC’s favorite drink?
31. Does your OC prefer to sleep in a warm or cool area?
32. Would your OC like you if they met you?
33. A song that reminds you of your OC?
34. Is your OC a nail biter?
35. What is your OC’s favorite quote?
36. Your OC’s favorite fashion era? (20’s, 70’s, etc)
37. Does your OC get excited when they get mail?
38. Random thunderstorm! How does your OC react?
39. A strange talent of your OC?
40. Assuming your OC doesn’t have them already, what superpower would they want? If they do already, would they change it, keep it, or get rid of it?
41. Does your OC like/make puns?
42. What kind of shampoo does your OC use?
43. Your OC wakes up with a coin super glued to their forehead. How do they react?
44. Can your OC sleep if there’s any kind of light?
45. What kind of self-esteem does your OC have?
46. A word that your OC can’t stand?
47. Does your OC fold their clothes, hang them up, or just leave them in the basket/dryer?
48. Would society call your OC a good guy or a bad guy? What would they say they are?
49. Your OC’s most prized possession?
50. What is your OC’s happy place?

(can we do this again? go nuts, send me a bunch! just make sure you mention who you’re asking for lol)