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11/11/11 Tag Game (Triple Threat)
I was tagged by @bookenders @timetravelingpigeon and @oradall! Thank you!
Questions
What animal would be your familiar?
You can bring any one extinct species back, with the guarantee that it won’t become extinct again. Which animal do you bring back?
Top three favorite animals?
What’s your favorite road trip snack?
What’s one place you never want to visit?
If you had to live in the world of (one of) your WIP(s), how screwed would you be?
What’s the worst name for a character you’ve ever had?
What’s something your 8-year-old self would love about you? 
What’s the stupidest thing your OC(s) has ever done?
How important is family to your OC(s)? To you?
What’s the song you want playing in the background every time you walk into a room?
Tagging: @rainy-rose​ @rrrawrf-writes​ @aslanwrites​ @tenacious-scripturient​ @waterfallwritings​ @quilloftheclouds​ @blueinkblot​ @lilquill​ @kobalt-ink​ and anyone else who feels like it!
My 33 answers below!
1.      What baseball positions would your OCs be in if they all had to be on a baseball team? What’s the team name? What’s their mascot? What do the uniforms look like? (If you hate baseball or prefer a different sport, substitute said sport for baseball.)
Well, considering Park is literally on a baseball team, I think I’ll answer this one for him. He’s a pitcher for the North Carolina Sabretooth Cats, and if you can’t tell their mascot from that, then I don’t know what to tell you. Their uniform colors are white, gold, and black.
2.      How good are your OCs at bowling? How good are you at bowling?
I, personally, suck at bowling. I’ve never been good at it, but I still have fun!
Before Hayden was on crutches, he was the bowling master. It’s harder for him to bowl now that he can’t really balance by himself, or hold a ball at the same time as he holds his crutches.
Park is also really great at bowling, something that Jamie (bad at bowling) will never forgive him for.
If bowling existed for Teconia, she would try her best, but not succeed. Xinya would be almost good. The occasional strike. Yu-Qi would attempt to chuck the bowling ball like a softball because it Made Her Lose.
3.      Rewrite this in your style: “I picked up the book and read the back. He took it from me before I could protest. He never lets me have the cool stuff.
I took the book of the shelf and flipped it over to read the back, but I couldn’t get a single word in before he snatched it out of my hands. I pouted – he never lets me have the cool stuff.
4.      What do you love about the last book you read?
The last book I read is called Policing the Black Man, a collection of essays edited by Angela J. Davis. I’m telling you this because you should read it. It’s not an easy read, and I’ve had to take several breaks from it because it’s very heavy, but it’s an eye-opening look at how race and law enforcement interact in America. It reinforced a lot of the things I already knew (the police are an institution founded on racism), but it’s teaching me so much more about why that is, and how we can fix it in the future. Highly recommended – especially if you’re white.
5.      What are three things you love about your writing?
I really love my descriptions, character interactions, and settings.
6.      What’s a word you love the sound of? What’s a word you really don’t like the sound of?
I have an entire list of words that I love, but I’ll pick my top three: Vivaciousness, Gossamer, and Facetious.
My least favorite word is flesh. I hate that word so much.
7.      How do you like to begin your stories?
It depends on the story. Usually I like to jump into the action, to give the reader something to latch onto as soon as possible, and to get them to form questions at the same time.
8.      What other forms of writing have you tried other than the one you’re working with now? (i.e. playwriting, screenwriting, poetry, interactive, novels, short fiction. etc.) How do you feel about them?
I’ve been writing a game! It’s been a super huge blast, and even though I know neither jack nor shit about coding, the program I’m using makes it very easy to write games without any coding. Use Twine! It’s the best!
Once I graduate (in June!!), I want to finish the game and upload it somewhere so I can get people playing it. Stay tuned for that!
9.      What’s your favorite play/musical? Why? What’s your favorite part?
OH NO, I HAVE TO PICK ONE? Okay fine, it’s Chicago. I absolutely adore that musical, mostly because I love jazz. But also because the dark humor, satire, and well-rounded and unique women are top notch. I had the privilege of seeing it on Broadway in 2017, and I cannot recommend it enough.
10.  What kind of stories do you like to read? How different are they from what you write?
Honestly, not much different at all. I read a lot of fantasy, sci-fi, and poetry – I write a lot of fantasy, sci-fi, and poetry. The only thing I write, but don’t read, is suspense/horror-ish stuff. Which sounds weird, but I listen to Welcome to Night Vale, which is about as much horror as I can handle.
11.  What’s your favorite bit of worldbuilding from a story someone else wrote?
I’m a huge Tolkien nerd, and the whole concept of two trees that give light to the whole world is the best idea.
12.  If you had to change the genre of your WIP, what would you change it to?
Oh man, this is a tough one. I think the easiest one would be changing Firesoul from fantasy to steampunk-fantasy, a la Perdido Street Station by China Miéville, but I’m not sure if that counts. The idea of an urban fantasy God-Dragon’s Wife is interesting, too.
13.  What’s your favorite writing POV? First person? Third person limited? One or multiple POV’s?
I prefer Third Person Omniscient or Third Person Limited, but I will (very rarely) write in First Person, and even a little Second Person.
14.  Have you thought of a title for your WIP? How did you pick it?
All my WIPs have titles, but the one that was hardest was Out of the Park, because it’s way too cliché and I only picked it because I needed something to call the project.
15.  How easy is it for you to come up with outfits for your OCs?
Depends on the character. Xinya is the hardest, because all of her outfits have to be super elaborate and have to fit in with her culture, but Hayden? Jeans and a t-shirt. Easy.
16.  Who is the oldest OC in your WIP? (Either in-universe or when you made them.)
In-universe, Xinya is the oldest human at thirty-three. Yu-Qi easily surpasses that by like ten thousand years, but she’s an eternal dragon deity, so.
In real life, Teconia is the oldest. Believe it or not, I made her for my first D&D campaign, and then decided I liked her so much I would make a whole story about her.
17.  Have you ever written fanfiction (even if it wasn’t posted online?)
Yes! I write a lot of fan fiction, and though most of it hasn’t left my flash drive, I have an AO3 account, with a couple of works-in-progress. Come say hello!
18.  What are your OC’s favorite colors? (List as many or as few as you want)
Teconia: bright orange, green, red
Xinya: dark blue, silver, light pink
Hayden: purple, yellow, lime green
Park: grass green, rusty red-brown, gold
19.  What is the most significant/important/often-appearing object in your WIP? Or, what is one object that one of your OCs cherishes?
D…dragons. In almost all of them, it’s dragons. Can you tell that I like dragons?
20.  What’s that one word that you can never seem to spell correctly?
This isn’t really a spelling thing, but I will never ever remember the difference between affect and effect. I’ve had it explained to me countless times, but I will never get it. I’ll be confused for the rest of my life.
21.  Which arc do you like better/think is more interesting: a hero who starts slowly slipping into evil, or a villain who decides to try to be good?
I think both have their perks, but the villain that tries to do good has a special place in my heart because it shows that people can change, which is a dose of positivity that I think we all need right now.
22.  Do you have any minor characters that are trying very, very hard to become one of the mains?
You know, I thought Yu-Qi would be happy staying the love interest. But now she wants to be a co-protagonist with Xinya. That’s what I get for making her literally a god.
23.  Weirdest thing you’ve been inspired by?
I read a fan fiction once, and I thought, “Psh. I could write that better.”
And now I have The God-Dragon’s Wife.
24.  Which character is closest to a self-insert?
In a way, all of my characters have some aspect of me in them, or some kind of trait I wish I had. Teconia has my kindness – the kindness that’s probably too nice. Park has the confidence I wish I had a lot of the time, but also the fear that I’ll never be good enough. I gave Hayden my anxiety (sorry), but also the determination to push through it that I need. Xinya is pleasant in polite company, but behind closed doors she’s a very angry character, which is something that I’ve been dealing with lately.
I guess I just don’t like the term “self-insert,” because all of my characters are me as much as they’re their own characters. They can be both.  
25.  Favorite season?
I’m assuming you mean my favorite season. It’s summer.
26.  Do you eat appetizers when you go out to eat?
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: If they serve mozzarella sticks, you bet your ass I will eat every single one of those fuckers unless someone holds me back. Also, if you try and separate me from gyoza, you will have your arms separated from your body.
27.  What is something you’re scared to write about?
Romance. I don’t know why, but I always feel like it comes off very stiff and impersonal when I write it, so I’ve been avoiding it for a long time.
28.  Favorite fantasy book series? (I need recommendations ;))
The. Inheritance. Cycle. Ho-lee shit, I have been talking about this series since I was in first grade, and I will never shut up. The first book is Eragon by Christopher Paolini. If you read it (or if anyone reading this has read it before) feel free to drop in and scream at me. I’m always ready.
29.  The most you’ve ever written at one time?
I don’t remember, actually! I think it might have been… when I wrote 8k words in a day?
30.  When do you like to write?
Whenever I can, but mostly at night. Which is not doing my sleeping schedule any favors, I’ll tell you that.
31.  Why is coming up with questions the most difficult part?
Good question. I have no idea.
32.  Which character would cry over a marvel movie?
Teconia, for sure.
33.  First character you created. Why?
My first character was a girl who had the werewolf-esque ability to turn into a dragon. She was pretty much my ideal self.
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