Allegedly Nice Person
Forgive me, I have like 7 named characters in my entire story, so let's do em all.
Dylan would probably sing 'Do I Wanna Know' by the Arctic Monkeys, which he listens to on occasion on his drive to school. He knows all the words, and would ham the ever living shit out of the situation.
Bobby would sing whatever's top of the charts at the current moment, and would nail it.
Matthew, introverted sonuvabitch I know and love, would probably flub horribly, yet would pick I want to say 'Take Me Out' by Franz Ferdinand.
Joanne would sing 'Dancing in the Moonlight', and would do so slightly well, but probably only hit the chorus.
Gerome would sing Archbishop Wood's School Anthem, which will go amazingly well until he messes up one word in the middle, and then completely runs off stage.
Paul would do 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, to which he knows relatively well.
Claire would sing something Greek and ancient and beautiful which will cause the audience either to break into tears or start a riot, because she is a siren, and that's kind of her schtick.
Anyway, now onto who's next:
Your main character has to describe their favorite piece of media to someone who doesn't know anything about the genre. How long does it take them, and how well does it go.
Edited by MattHodge on Feb 12th 2019 at 11:27:40 AM
The PA System hissed and fizzled, flickering in and out of focus like a lightbulb on it's last legs.
Aynara and Arnaya, after getting over their initial incredulity that their audience hasn't heard of the Horror genre, will get the idea to demonstrate and then proceed to go overboard with it. However long in the day it takes them to scare the living daylights out of the poor unfortunate soul, the rest of the day will be spent getting a stern lecture from Arilay.
Would your character be on the giving or receiving end of a Wolf Whistle?
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Raz would mostly likely be on the receiving end of one since he's a fairly attractive guy (by catfolk standards at least). While he is a fairly flirty guy, he's a lot more restrained in his seducing and wouldn't do something so direct as a Wolf Whistle.
Unless he was really really drunk.
Your character gets picked to be the cover model for a new line of clothing. Do they accept, and what type of clothing do they model (formal wear, winter clothing, underwear, etc.)?
Edited by randomdude4 on Mar 5th 2019 at 1:58:48 AM
"Can't make an omelette without breaking some children." -Bur
April usually has more important things to do, but if she did she'd probably model coats or something like that. Nothing fancy.
Ignatia would be rather surprised that they'd pick her (since she's a Draconic Humanoid, and not of the cute variety). She'd be happy to do it, though, modeling a version of whatever they're selling that has been tailored to fit her.
Forrest has probably already modeled formal wear at some point, as well as decidedly less standard attire.
Kevin would be like, "sure, whatever." He'd model work clothes.
Tristan would likely not have time, even if he wanted to.
Your character starts keeping a journal. What kinds of things do they write in it? Do they use it much? Does anyone else know about it?
Oh I know this one, Francis keeps a journal on him at all time and he write down everything about the monsters and beasts he encountered, including their weakness, usual habitat, gender difference, attack pattern, and diet. Everyone he knows has seen it, and he later gave it to his daughter.
Alex can't read or write so probably just doodle about the place she visit and interesting things she saw, she never tell anyone about this, but she doesn't intentionally hide it either, so who ever finds out will find out.
Charlotte will use it to record her thought after every event, good or bad, she will hide it at all cost, but Raven will probably finds out about it anyway.
Your character is tasked with something that they don't know how to do at all, and they must at least complete the task, how well do they fare?
I'm afraid to write, but I like to imagine.
Max is tasked with singing a song live, but due to his reserved and morose personality and complete lack of vocal talent (he would make a very poor Tom Waits impression at best) his performance turns into an unintentional comedy routine ... which proved to be an unexpected success. Much to his dismay.
Same
Spiral out, keep going.
Bunny doesn't know how to find a home, so he tries it. 20 km, he finds a cabin.
They see a strange light at the end of a sewer.
Elizabeth goes out towards it, but arms herself as a precaution to any danger that might lie ahead.
Jin does the same, though is slightly unnerved by the situation.
Aaron rushes head in without proper precautions and most likely gets attacked.
Soren blatantly walks into the light while waving his axe around and calling out to scare anything in it off.
Quinn chooses to investigate the source of the light before heading forward.
Your character is now trapped in an elevator. How do they spend their time in it or how do they get out?
Edited by unfortunatezorua on Apr 12th 2019 at 6:06:32 PM
Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
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Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
I don't know what Alex is doing in an elevator in the first place, but she will force the door open then punch a hole through the wall.
Eva will try to climb out from the hatch above and pry the door open with her sword.
Francis do the same but in a way cooler manner.
Your character was raped, what will they do next.
Edited by Andermann on Apr 12th 2019 at 8:18:07 PM
I'm afraid to write, but I like to imagine.
Travis would lie there and cry.
Lance would push himself up and challenge him again.
As his new enemy turned his back, Kowalski would pry his bloody, stained body out of the mud, take a shiv out of his prison slacks, and shank the ***** unfortunate enough to successfully pin him down right in the spine.
What if your character was convicted of a crime they didn't commit?
Edited by Tightwire on Apr 12th 2019 at 11:31:03 AM
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Yikes, this is gonna get dark... Rosalind Lumina Eisenberg would have two different reactions depending on who did it and how.
If the clan of manipulative villainous vampires who tried to turn her into one of their own worked their word-twisting charms to maneuver Rosalind into a Questionable Consent scenario with one of them, the first time Rosalind would be left bewildered as to what just happened and vulnerable to repeat offenses. Depending on how verbally skilled the clan is, it wouldn't take many repetitions to make Rosalind start feeling guilty for having tried to say "no" in the first place — And That's Terrible. After too many repetitions, Rosalind would turn into a broken puppet who follows their every command — an un-living weapon just like the clan wants, with an added sex slave bonus. This is why I had the humans conduct a destructive raid on the vampire clan's mansion before the vampire clan could get that specific idea.
If one of the bands of humans who captured Rosalind and then did other things instead of just finishing her off straightaway had the specific goal of "having some fun" first, then Rosalind would not have tolerated that specific line being crossed. Her sanity can shake off Cold-Blooded Torture, her sanity can shake off having the contents of her fang glands extracted into a test tube, but her sanity cannot shake off Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil — she'd feel Defiled Forever. Her surname (which translates to "iron mountain") is supposed to represent the kind of determination she has to defy the trope Never Be Hurt Again — so much for that if she's raped. Assuming she escaped like she did from the other bands, she'd swear off trying to reconnect with humanity and disappear even further into the wilderness to join a herd of mustangs. She'd wander with the horses as usual, but this time she would actively avoid humans instead of going out of her way to save them during the Zombie Apocalypse. She'd be more than just The Hermit, she'd gradually become just as feral as the mustangs. If enough centuries pass with her in that mind-set, she might even forget how to speak.
Screwy Squirrel Salsa would be used to her protests of Not Me This Time going ignored, so she'd just sigh resignedly and bust out of the Cardboard Prison again. If she found out that someone specifically framed her, that person would be surprised by how many Amusing Injuries they can live through.
Does your character have any precautions to prevent a Birthday Suit Surprise Party?
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Apr 12th 2019 at 11:51:00 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Oi everyone, I'm gonna join in on the fun.
Hmmm....
Silver would not because she'd never expect it to happen to her. While she's always getting negative media attention for one reason or another, her parents are also intent to keep the family looking as good as possible despite this. So she'd never expect something like that to happen to her, and wouldn't have a way to prevent it, and would end up being humiliated in front of an entire party and in front of the live news reporting on her party.
Your character finds a strange box buried in their yard, but they can't open it. What do they do?
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure PurenessScrewy Squirrel Salsa's first attempt will be lockpicking, when that doesn't work she'll try brute-force muscling it, then escalating to a Hyperspace Mallet, an anvil on the box, a Cartoon Bomb, then more explosives with a Plunger Detonator, followed by Agitated Item Stomping until it occurs to her to go Behind a Stick and exploit Offscreen Teleportation to emerge inside the box. Hey, you said she can't open it, there Ain't No Rule that says she can't get at the contents by other means.
Choice:
- Same as , or...
- Your character just pulled the wrong lever
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Edited by Miss_Desperado on May 24th 2019 at 1:53:14 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
amazing glazing
Milagros would just repeat the aftermath (walking into the room soaking wet, crocodile biting his derrière, saying something along the lines of “Why does [Yzma] even have that lever?”).
Amelia would fly back into the room wielding a crocodile head. Yikes...
Situation: Your character is stuck in a room with a time bomb. What do they do?
i think i’m in love (probably just hungry)
Madman
Sylvania would use her Chloromancy to envelop the bomb in as much plant matter as she could, depending on just how big this bomb is.
Your character is in a colosseum and is about to be fed to the lions, what do they do?
Any Mayatan, except for Sarquoql, would go for the Boring, but Practical solution of using a telekinetic blood choke hold on the lions and then negotiate for freedom by threatening to continue to be boring. Sarquoql would mind-control the lions and Indy Ploy his way out from there.
Arilay, as an inedible cyborg with an atomic manipulator, would capitalize on her hardware to feed the lions, and use her software to look up or figure out how to tame and train them.
Your character is caught in a Psychotic Love Triangle.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
For my chararter razios he would just shurg off, all is love interest are psychos in one way of another, something a lot of is friend keep point it out.
it is halloween and your chararter are going to dress as their favorite chararter from fiction, what chararter would be and why?.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
^fiction as in 'fictional" fiction or "real" fiction?
I'm afraid to write, but I like to imagine. Good question, I want to know the answer too — some (if not all) of my alien characters would be more likely to draw inspiration from the pop culture of their own home planets instead of Earth's stories, even though they spend a lot of their down time on Earth.
(some time later) ...Ya know what, I'm just gonna post what I thought up anyway while waiting for the answer...
Assuming my Shout-Out and Expy characters don't dress up as the characters they're referencing, and nobody is going as themselves for Fiction as Cover-Up purposes...
- Morpho (shapeshifting robot) would dress up as Slenderman because he doesn't particularly have a favorite character, he already has the costume and special effects from one of Arilay's drills, and Aynara and Arnaya extended an invitation to include him in their themed costume idea.
- Aynara and Arnaya (not expies), as fans of the Horror genre, would initially try to dress up as Cthulhu and The Rake, at least until Arilay ruins their fun by squawking about double-checking the legality of the Bio-Armor that allegedly "Fell Off the Back of a Truck". To replace the idea that Arilay squashed, Arnaya would get a very particular gas mask and face paint to go as "The Toxicologist" (see the facial inspiration here) from an urban legend on her home planet, while Aynara goes as one of Slenderman's masked proxies.
- Syrni Sandra and Jen Jara (expies of Kim Possible and Shego) would take a shot at dressing as characters from Labyrinth. Syrni Sandra would rearrange her fluffy orange head-feathers just so, maybe borrow River Snake's voice-altering necklace, and cross-dress to be Jareth the Goblin King — wearing underwear for once to hold the padding. Jen Jara would wonder which of Sarah's outfits to replicate. Jeans, despite their mobility advantage over skirts, would feel heavy and awkward on her chitinous legs, and she'd have to wear underwear for once to stop the jeans from chafing her where the chitin transitions to flesh. Eventually Jen Jara would go with an altered version of the Pimped-Out Dress worn in the peach ballroom hallucination, with its skirt shortened into something dabbling in the style of Lolita Fashion so she doesn't trip over it... with Modesty Shorts hidden underneath just in case she does trip anyway. And then their ad-lib in-character banter would start Ship Tease rumors, All According to Plan.
- Mequoql's idea (she's not an expy) would require the most pre-Halloween planning, as she would want to give herself enough time to learn how to drive an electric motorcycle. She can't drive motorcycles with motors any louder than that, her ears are too sensitive. She could go as Quorra from TRON: Legacy without learning how to drive an electric motorcycle, except the reason Mequoql wants to go as Quorra in the first place is because Quorra's masked Badass Driver "Come with Me If You Want to Live" Establishing Character Moment made quite the impression on Mequoql. As a bonus, Mequoql's psychic Light 'em Up talent can easily fill in the gaps of Tron Lines wherever her engineer sister Moquoql can't install the extra lights.
- Assuming that Soryn (off-duty from being a Punch-Clock Villain) is taking a break from Classical Movie Vampire costumes and any and every Spear Counterpart of a Sexy Whatever Outfit, he wouldn't let being a snake man stop him from going as Darth Vader just to see if he could pull it off. After donning enough of the upper part of the costume, he'd ditch the unwearable pants and shoes, adjust his own vocal cords, shed his skin to switch his scales to all-black, and switch from his default Magic Staff to his backup Magic Wand that can emulate a lightsaber. He'd be mighty interested in Mequoql once he bumps into her in Quorra costume, and they'd start geeking out and dreaming up a crossover.
- Arilay, fraught with indecision because her pseudo-flesh nanobots give her easy instant costumes to too many choices, would eventually get the idea to go as Mystique so she can use any of her other ideas in-character.
- Varla the mermaid, wanting anything but a Sexy Whatever Outfit, would have a few ideas. If it weren't for Mequoql already claiming the Quorra costume, Varla might have contemplated making a mild exception so she could be Quorra and fancy up her tank-tank to resemble Quorra's ATV. Varla would try cross-dressing as Charles Xavier next, because she already has a wheelchair and knows how to safely flatten her chest, only to be thwarted when her hair won't fit under the bald cap and she refuses to trim it to make it fit. Attempting to wear Bio-Armor and join Aynara and Arnaya's themed costume idea as a deep-sea fish hybrid described by H. P. Lovecraft would be vetoed by Arilay for aforementioned reasons. Eventually Varla would conspire with Moquoql to make a Cyber-Controller in a throne/wheelchair costume, prompting Morpho to exclaim "A Cyberman — Why Didn't I Think of That?"
- Shale would have to choose between two costumes depending on how she balances her wish to exercise her gastropod with her estimation of the risk of crisis interruption necessitating faster movement. If she chooses to exercise her gastropod and go as an archetypal Knight in Shining Armor, she already has a chain mail dress as a foundation for the costume, she'd just need a boffer sword, a custom helmet, and a few more pieces of armor. If she chooses to be extra-ready for an emergency and use her solar-powered Hover Board to go as a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who, Moquoql already designed its solar panels to fold and unfold in the shape of wings, with a harness to hold them on Shale's back.
[re-used] It is Halloween and your characters are going to dress as their favorite character from fiction, what character would they be and why?
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Jul 2nd 2019 at 4:50:37 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
From earth fiction, asuming they already know it of course and not not make the answer more complicated.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Bump: I seem to have broken the flow of this game, so I've come up with a new situation involving sleep or lack thereof.
- Varla the mermaid has extreme difficulty falling asleep on land, so she seeks out places to sleep underwater, preferably where there's something to anchor her that she can grasp in her hand or wrap her tail around. She is capable of sleeping with one half of her brain at a time like a dolphin, but it's not ideal for her, so she can't do so indefinitely. Sooner or later she needs to rest both halves of her brain at once to more effectively reap the benefits of sleeping.
- Ever since she was turned into a vampire, Rosalind Lumina Eisenberg has not needed sleep. She can fall asleep anyway, but between her lack of need and the chronic stress of her hard-knock life, she has hardly ever successfully done so. Most of her successes happened when she was deep in the wilderness with a mustang herd far away from any humans, draped along the back of her favorite mustang, and subconsciously repurposing her Ceiling Cling power to reinforce her grip perfected by more than a century of horseback riding practice. The few catatonic, fainting, or hypnotic trance incidents she's had don't count as proper sleep.
Choice:
- [re-used] It is Halloween and your characters are going to dress as their favorite character from fiction, what character would they be and why?
- Describe how your character sleeps, or what they do when they can't sleep for whatever reason.
The Optimistic Idiot
When Andrew Petenham doesn't sleep, it's always a form of guilt as he does so that relates to his profession of being part of the Secret Police and the acts his justification of doing this and that rather than the excuse of him Just Following Orders and usually stares blankly at the ceiling.
His wife will sometimes find him like this, why she wakes up is due to a multitude of reasons ranging from needing to pee to the fact she knows he doesn't sleep well/at all whenever he's sent to do something terrible. Granted she knows he does bad things; that he murders for the state and pretend they never even existed.
But while she knows this, she knows that her husband's job demands that he becomes a monster. There's no solace for her to see her husband beating himself up at his own atrocities, but there's no regret to see that he's not acting on his own accord; this is the same man that she saw turn from zero into her own personal hero because of a little compassion for him, she didn't gave up then, she's not going to give up now apologies for the long, LONG post that doesn't seem necessary... Why am I typing this when I know it's wrong?
Your character is invited to a Christmas party and find themselves under a mistletoe. Who is right in front of them exactly?
Edited by Thecoldboringguy157 on Oct 29th 2019 at 9:12:40 PM
- Varla and Soryn underneath a tree, B-L-E-E-D-I-N-G! ...Phooey, that extra letter throws off the cadence. I'd better use plain language. Soryn the gene-spliced serpent-man wizard would sneak into the party uninvited, set up enchanted mistletoe, and try to herd Varla the Emotion Eater mermaid under any of the many bunches. Assuming Varla wins yet another round of the Lensman Arms Race between his desire-provoking enchantments and her own emotions' Restraining Bolt, Varla would draw her sword immediately and try to kill him, the battle would leave them both exhausted and severely bleeding. If Soryn actually manages to break through the Restraining Bolt for once, Kissing Under the Influence would swell Varla's magical reserves until there's enough power to reboot her Restraining Bolt, at which point Varla draws her dagger and... Kiss-Kiss-Slap, the battle is on.
- Sarquoql with his Hypnotic Eyes, following Soryn's advice, disguises himself and also sneaks into the Christmas party uninvited, herding (Barrier Warrior) Seenarnha under any of Soryn's mistletoe. Seenarnha doesn't let herself get herded, because she's been cursed to feel pain from male touch. But then Sarquoql engages in Loophole Abuse with gloves and telekinesis, so when Seenarnha recognizes him via his Signature Move, her Inconvenient Attraction to him (amplified by the mistletoe he finally yanked her under) becomes a liability for trying to resist his mind-control. Because Seenarnha's allies are too distracted by the ruckus Varla started, nobody comes to help Seenarnha at first.
Same
Edited by Miss_Desperado on Nov 17th 2019 at 8:49:40 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Kev is used to doing Karaoke and falls back on one of his favourites - For What It's Worth
by Buffalo Springfield.
It's a song he knows by heart and suits his tonal range so he sings it well and performs to the audience - making eye-contact with them and making them feel like he's giving a message to them personally.
Same