Happy Storyteller Saturday!

Happy Storyteller Saturday!

If you had to choose who your favorite character is from all of your works, who would it be? Why?

As a writer, what are the kinds of things that you find most easy to write about, and what are the things you avoid (+ Is there anything you'd like to improve)?

Let's say your main cast of characters find themselves trapped in a life-threatening situation. How would each one of them react? Who would be the most selfish and who would likely be the most selfless?

Happy Storyteller Saturday!

You are literally so mean lol... (jk. It's just that these are some IMPOSSIBLE questions)

I don't have any "favourite" characters. I love all of them. There's a special place in my heart for each one - even characters that aren't meant to be likeable. Like Bret, for example... in the beginning, you're not really supposed to like him. You start sympathising with him more when you find out more about his life and what he's been going through lately.

If we're talking about which character I'd most likely be friends with, then probably Elise. I've mentioned this a few times already, but she's the character I've given most of my personality to. She's super sweet and friendly, but also an introverted bookworm. It would be so cool to have a friend like that irl... we'd swap book recommendations all day long.

The others are more rebellious and extroverted, so they'd probably be too much for me lol. That being said, I like to give ALL my characters a little piece of me, and I take a lot of inspiration from my life and experiences. So I'd probably vibe with each of them to some level (e.g. Dylan with his family drama).

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I think the thing I find easiest to write is conflict. I just love creating chaos for some reason...

No, but really. It's something I've always been good at (well, being good at something is different from finding it easy/doing it all the time, but you get what I'm saying). I like throwing things off the rails. I like writing arguments. In Steph's Crew, there are like 5 main conflicts/arguments before we even get to the midpoint lol.

(It's a real problem of mine. When I was a kid, and I'd play dolls with my sister, I used to be the one to come up with all these random conflicts and plot twists for no apparent reason. It would seriously tick her off lol.)

Something I struggle more with is coming up with realistic dialogue. Which may sound weird, considering the fact that I'm literally posting a series of ONLY dialogue, but that is actually part of why I decided to do that! I like practicing writing conversations, it gives my mind a clear idea of what is going on, and planning out dialogue helps me practice more in that weaker area.

I'd also say writing romance of any kind is something I'm not 100% comfortable with, either (purely due to lack of experience lol). And I would avoid it in my own work... if I didn't love it so much. I need at least one love story in most of the stuff I write, I just love love too much! (Another serious problem of mine... )

Your third question is actually super interesting, and I'd actually like to tackle it in it's own separate post if that's ok. I just really need some more thinking time with that one!

Thanks for the ask!

Hello, my fellow writeblr! While I write mostly high fantasy, I have now a grim dark cyberpunk superhero story in the works, called Open Secret Files, and will probably start posting about it soon. It includes all of the above tropes except for the fanfiction part, since this is my original story lol. It has vigilantes,troublemakers, superheroes and supervillains (often the roles between the good guy and bad guy are reversed, since some of the big superheroes of the world of my story have become corrupted and villainize those who stand against them), there is a lot of found family to be found (most of the main cast are a bunch of young outcast kids who form a group/foun family to fight a corrupt system), and there are plenty of morally ambiguous characters!

You can interact with me, if you want, in my blog: @mysticstarlightduck

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people who like superheroes and/or supervillains and/or anything in that vein

enjoyers of the hero/retired hero and their yet-to-have-their-spirits-broken protégé

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fans of morally ambiguous characters or villains that aren’t wholly sympathetic

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Happy STS!

How would your characters react if you locked them in an escape room together? Who solves the puzzle first, who breaks something by accident, who sabotages the rest of the group, etc?

Happy Storyteller Saturday (or Sunday, since I am answering this only today, sorry)!!! 💕

Oh, this is a fun question! I loved coming up with an answer for it!

How would your characters react if you locked them in an escape room together?

I think that the reactions would be very varied, given the personalities of each of my characters. I will choose a few of the characters from the main cast. Also, who are we kidding, if my characters ended up trapped in any form of escape room in the story, it would most likely be because of the villains and would be a pretty dangerous situation because of it, so it is interesting to consider this because a situation like this can say a lot about how each one of them reacts under pressure. (I can already picture the villains somehow trapping them in a maze-like escape room to try and test them, or even get rid of them)

RAELEN: Raelen would most likely feel very nervous at first - especially if they were locked together in that room against their will by the villains - but she would be quick to recompose herself and rapidly work to find a solution to their situation. Raelen is a very creative person, and she is good at thinking outside the box, as well as being very determined, so I think that she would react pretty well to this new situation - once she got past the initial nervousness. Raelen is very good at noticing patterns, so she would have a pretty good chance at solving the puzzles that rely on that - so she would be very likely to solve many of the puzzles first.

AZRA: Would most likely have a negative reaction at first, like, he would be very angry - as in trying to scream at whoever locked them in there (even if there was no one in sight), trying to find a weakness in the walls, doors or windows, stuff like that. But once he realizes that these actions are futile and are only going to make things worse, he would join in with Raelen to help find a way out. He is very smart and clever, especially once he is able to get his emotions under control and not let them take over him. Azra has a good sense of self-preservation that includes the protection of his friends, so he would likely be helping everyone out in solving the puzzles. He would also be likely to break something by accident during his initial angry reaction.

JULYAN: Would likely be incredibly chill about the whole situation. Julyan works very well under pressure and is incredibly practical when it comes to solving a situation quickly. I would say that he'd be hardly fazed by the whole situation, and would most likely just get on with checking out the environment and trying to understand what is the quickest way out of the escape room. He likes to keep things under his control and has a tendency to take the lead in situations, so he would help the others focus on finding a solution. Julyan, however, has some anxiety when it comes to being trapped or not being completely certain about the outcome of something, and if any of the puzzles of the escape room involved splitting up with the group - especially if it meant letting his siblings out of his sight - that would make him pretty nervous, but I think that, even so, he'd be able to keep his emotions, mostly, in check.

VALLERIUS: At this point, I can say with certainty that Vall would be hardly surprised - in truth, he would find the whole experience very fun and entertaining, as he has the mentality of "if I can't avoid a certain situation, I might as well enjoy it, you know?". He would just be like, finding little quirks in the room and wandering around, making everyone concerned. He is very precise and would be a good help for the others to figure out the puzzle, though he might get sidetracked for a while there. Vall is quick, and if there was any puzzle that was meant to test that, he would surely win it, and I think that he is by far the one most likely to wander off from the group into a vastly different path and still come out not only before anyone else from the room but completely unscathed - and would be just waiting for the others to escape in deep boredom.

ELLINOR: She would likely assess the situation and take the lead of her group of friends. An incredible strategist, Ellinor would handle herself pretty well in an escape room, being able to predict the likely outcomes of her actions and of the puzzles around her. However, Ellinor might can easily get upset and will resort to unconventional approaches if it means getting out of the escape room faster, even though that might complicate things in the long run. Even though she has leadership tendencies, Ellinor is a good team worker and will help out anyone who is in trouble.

LUCIYA: PANIC MODE ACTIVATED. Luciya despises being trapped anywhere, especially if it is against her will, and is definitely going to react very badly to the situation. It would take a while for her to collect her thoughts and act rationally again, as these kinds of situations are a deep trigger for her. However, once she does, Luciya would be more determined than anyone else to get out, like, seriously determined to the end of times. She would have some trouble with some of the initial puzzles, because of her nervousness, but would then get the hang of it as she goes along.

TANWIN: Tanwin would just be extremely quiet throughout, doing his own thing without addressing anyone else. He would be the kind of person to watch the others struggle with solving a puzzle without saying anything, wait for them to give up, and then, while they're arguing over what to do, just solve it in a matter of one minute. And if anyone went "Why didn't you just solve it in the first place?!" Tanwin would just answer, as nonchalantly as possible "None of you asked me to". This would go on until they are all out of the escape room.

JAMIE: Jamie would just be helping everyone around him like a golden retriever. Seriously, he would just jump in and help without any prompting. And he wouldn't be upset by the whole situation with the escape room either. He would just go "This is a cool challenge!", and saunter up to the next puzzle with the most genuine smile. Also, people around him would get increasingly surprised by how fast he is to find solutions and how smart he is - he is living proof that someone can be a sword-fighting knight who loves what he does while being a genius. He is just a different kind of genius than Zephyr is, but he is one.

SYBIL: This little feral girl would complain all the way throughout the challenges, non-stop, about anything that is mildly harder than she expected. And it is not because she isn't smart, oh she is very smart, she just doesn't like having to do something when she wants to be doing another thing. Also, she is too lazy to always use those smarts. She would be bored and make it everyone's problem. Also, in the middle of this, she would be the one most likely to sabotage the group either on accident or because she wanted to see what would happen if she did The Thing.

EMRYC: He would be the one to go "Well, it was nice knowing you all, because we are going to Die", in the most sarcastic way possible. He would spend the entire time trying to cheat his way through the puzzles to find a quicker way to solve them, and sometimes this would surprisingly work, other times it would just horribly backfire. He would continue trying to cheat his way through until either they are all out, or Ansell has to restrain him to keep this boy from making things worse than they already are.

And so on!

Thanks for the Ask, @elshells!!!

Okay let's pretend this is an sts quetion even though I just want to hear people's answer to this: what wpuld your characters be in an au of your choosing?

Happy STS to you too! And thanks for the Ask, @repressed-and-depressed! 💕

"What would your characters be in an AU of your choosing?"

This is a cool question. I will use the characters from my main WIP - The Last Wrath - to answer this one! Since the story of TLW takes place in a medieval-inspired fantasy setting, it would be interesting to see my characters in a Modern Mystery AU (like Stranger Things vibes):

I would say that, in a Modern Mystery AU (I will have to adapt the story a lot, lol, since the characters live in a medieval high fantasy world and the events in their lives are fitting of such a setting, but I think I can make this work out for some of my characters):

Raelen would be: a teen who lives with her older brother and that finishing up high school, and who gets caught in a greater conspiracy happening in their city when her brother is kidnapped by an old family rival.

Azra would be a teen that lives with his adoptive mother - who is the godmother of Julyan and Raelen - and who spends most of his time at Raelen's house since his adoptive mother is often absent while traveling for work, and who helps Raelen figure out the mystery.

Julyan would be: A young man in his twenties working a rather underpaid job while trying to keep things afloat at home and raising his younger sister. He knows a dark secret about the truth of their parents' deaths and is eventually kidnapped by an old family rival that wants to ensure those secrets never come to light.

Vallerius would be: A troublemaking teen living in his car, who is avoiding the law after the strange death of his father. Vall knows that there are shady things happening around the city, and eventually becomes Raelen's friend after saving her from a mobster.

Nyx would be: A runaway teen that is living his dream life with his band, which he formed with his two best friends, and who is still trying to escape his bloody past. He becomes Raelen's friend after a show goes wrong.

And so on!

I think this was a really cool question to answer.

Happy blursday! 💜💌 What are the fic-y tropes (generally romantic, but not necessarily) that your blorbo(s) would LEAST be able to stand being involved in, and what are they doing to tolerate or to get out of these situations? (e.g., who is sleeping on the floor when There's Only One Bed; who starts going to a different coffee shop to avoid The AU?; who digs their way out of the snowstorm to avoid being Snowed In? Who's out here crushing the would-be Enemy to Friend to Lover's dreams?)- @liv-is

Thank you for the Ask, @liv-is!

This is a very funny question LOL. I'll try to answer using the tropes you've given me here!

"who is sleeping on the floor when There's Only One Bed?"

This one would definitely be Bryn. He hates overt physical contact with others, much less when he is sleeping. There is no way he would let himself share a bed with anyone. The floor it is. (This is especially true since, according to him, most of his travel companions have a tendency to keep moving around while sleeping or snoring. He isn't getting any shut-eye with that beside him on the mattress). This, along with the fact that he feels literally zero romantic or sexual feelings for anyone, makes me sure that if he had to choose between the floor or sharing The Bed, the floor it is. lol

"who starts going to a different coffee shop to avoid The AU?"

This would definitely be Tanwin if he lived in modern times. My boi doesn't do emotions well, let alone the tooth-rotting fluff that accompanies the Coffee Shop AU, he would be running from it like the plague lol. As soon as he sensed The AU coming his way, he would be already going to a shop four blocks away - little does he know that The AU is following him (;

"who digs their way out of the snowstorm to avoid being Snowed In?"

100% Luciya. She hates being forced into being trapped anywhere, or restricted in any way, especially if it leads to a heart-to-heart or talking about Feelings tm while trapped. If her lover wants to talk Feelings, he'd better do so in a free and open meadow, because our claustrophobic girl is already trekking through 3ft of snow in order to not to be Snowed In anywhere. It's not that she doesn't love him, she loves him dearly, but being trapped anywhere is a huge NOPE, to her, in any situation lol.

"who's out here crushing the would-be Enemy to Friend to Lover's dreams? "

You got me there lol because there is actually a working Enemies to Friends to Lovers relationship in my TLW WIP - our lovely battle couple, Nethen and Ellinor. BUT... for the sake of this answer, someone who would be 1000% out here crushing dreams if they were in this trope would be, without a shadow of a doubt, our girl Sybil - because no one holds a grudge for longer than our little feral bard. She'd be crushing her would-be Enemy to Lover left and right without even realizing it, and then she'd want to go out for the medieval version of a strawberry smoothie.

TENDER TUESDAY:

Hello, my writeblr friends! Just stopping by to say that i would love any and all tender tuesday asks you guys would like to make (this applies for every week too)!!!

@lassiesandiego @lyutenw @rickie-the-storyteller @repressed-and-depressed @elshells @clairelsonao3 @jasperygrace @writernopal @liv-is @sagewildflower