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rosewinterborn · 5 years

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11/11/11

I waited too long to do this, so now I have 44 questions to do. RIP. Tagged by @writersblockandapotoftea, @arwallace (I know you tagged @expositionpreposition but it’s easier to do it here!), @shit-she-wrote, and @atinydino

Cap:

Who was your childhood hero?

Honestly, probably JKR. Again, RIP.

If we didn’t start the fire, who did?

People like my dad who say “millennials” like it’s a derogatory word probably

What made you start your wip?

Reading too much Dresden Files and also looking at magic academia posts on Tumblr (Gutter Witch); Reading Eragon (Companion to Dragons); Wanting to make an open magic world (Witches Anthology); Reading too much Stucky fanfiction (Fractal); Listening to the Magnus Archives three times through in a month (CHAF3k); wanted to go on a magic adventure with my high school friends (Children of the Light)

Hogwarts house?

Gryffindor!

Star Trek or Star Wars

Star Wars, though I like both

What was your pre-teen bop?

Uhhh Taylor Swift’s whole second album

If you could have a fantasy creature as a pet, what would you pick?

A dragon about the size of a cat that could sit on my shoulder and talk to me

What’s your pet peeve?

Feeling like people are upset with me but won’t talk to me about it

Dracula or Frankenstien’s Monster?

Haven’t read Dracula so Frankenstein’s monster, I guess.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve said to a friend?

I mean I had a conversation with two lesbians about dildos yesterday, soooo

If you had to murder someone, who would it be?

No one. I honestly don’t think I’d be able to live with myself after.

A R Wallace

Which book(s)/series would you compare your current WIP(s) to?

The Dresden Files. Though I did have someone say it was like reading a better-written Mortal Instruments. I was tickled.

Would you be willing to adapt your WIP into a movie one day? Why or Why not?

Yes. Please. Let me see my work come to life.

What is your ‘writing ritual’? (do you make sure you’ve made a cup of tea, sit in a particular spot, etc.)

I don’t have any particular ritual, I usually just try and seize the energy when I have it. Right now I am trying to sit at my actual desk to work, though, and during school if I had anything that I desperately needed to get done I took my ass to a coffee shop and told myself I wasn’t allowed to leave until it was done.

How much has writeblr helped you with your writing?

It helped me find a writing community that inspired me to get back to work after the depression had taken it away from me. I’m not as active on writeblr as maybe I could be, but the writing discord I found through it has been a lifeline.

If you could be one creature (real or mythical), what would you be?

A dragon. But like, one of the ones that can shapeshift. I also like being human.

Sum up your favorite WIP in one sentence

Oh god I’m supposed to have a favorite? That’s not gonna happen…

Gutter Witch: Local teens sick and tired of prophetic bullshit

Children of the Light: Estranged assholes learn to love each other again and also stop the apocalypse

Fractal: Hell on Earth in so many ways

Companion to Dragons: Girl’s asshole father sends her and her sister on a suicide mission and thinks that’s the end of it (surprise!)

Witches Anthology: literally a whole bunch of short stories so I’m not gonna try

Which of your characters is your favorite?

Whyyyyyy idk in GW probably Hunter, he’s fun to write. Overall maybe Sterling, my enby necromancer in the anthology

Which of your characters is your least favorite?

Hunter’s mother. Like honestly, every time I write about her she gets worse.

What do you believe is the most overused trope in your WIP’s genre(s)?

Melodrama.

Favorite season?

Autumn

If you could travel anywhere in the universe, where would you go?

Several places in Europe, in no particular order.

Eva:

1. What’s the first story you remember writing?

A story about a cat and a mouse becoming friends.

2. How has your taste in books changed since childhood?

I’ve tended a lot less towards high fantasy. I think it’s too much of an energy investment to try and understand the worldbuilding right now, whereas you can usually just jump into urban fantasy. I’ve also gotten a lot more interested in horror.

3. Do you see any similarities to your favorite books in your work? If yes, what are they?

If I’m being real honest, most of my wips are direct rip-offs of stuff I’ve read/watched/listened to, at least in the first draft. I usually try and direct my obsessions into creative energy at some point, with differing amounts of success.

4. What sort of music inspires you?

Stuff with strong beats/baseline and vaguely rebellious lyrics. So like, lots of Imagine Dragons and Fall Out Boy. But also trailer music like Epic Score and Two Steps from Hell

5. Favorite book?

These are the most evil kinds of questions you guys.

I can’t think of any published books I’d call my absolute favorite, but I do have a handful of fanfics I read on at least an annual basis: War, Children, by Nonymos; To Be Vulnerable Is Needed Most of All, by perfect_plan; and Schroedinger’s Romance by lesbuchanan

6. Favorite mythology (Greek, Norse, etc.)?

Probably Celtic? I’m really rusty on it though

7. Dream vacation?

A long, long trip through Europe without having to worry about money

8. Favorite writing snack?

I don’t really eat when I write because its too much of a distraction :P

9. What tea do you drink the most while writing?

Irish Breakfast

10. Do you have a special writing cup, that you drink tea out of specifically when writing to fill you up with inspiration?

I have a couple I’m more likely to grab, like my Night Vale Community Radio mug or my white Starbucks mug with the gold lettering

11. Write your favorite quote from your recent wip!!

Just outside the beam of light was a circle of what looked like black paint, tiny sigils scratched into it, shimmering uncannily in the dark. Wisps of that grim light drifted from the sigils to the figures at their center, dancing around Mara’s hands, clutching at Hunter’s shirt. Anywhere they touched his skin, blood seeped from a new laceration, sluggish and dark and horrible.

“Hunter,” she breathed.

Then she heard him.

“Run, Cady,” he croaked. “Tell my mom...she’s a bitch.”

Ames:

1. What’s your favorite season and why

Autumn! I love rain and also that it’s not super hot or super cold

2. What’s your favorite food?

Bread.

3. Who’s your favorite character in your most recent WIP?

Hunter Bishop, asshole extraordinaire

4. Do you hide easter eggs in your writing? If so tell me a few.

Hm. If I do, I don’t consider them easter eggs, just references. Though I did have someone in my creative writing class ask if the sandwich my protagonist was eating was based on one served in one of the restaurants on campus (and he was right)

5. Would you prefer your WIPs to be turned into a movie or tv series? (feel free to tell me about more than just 1)

Gutter Witch should just be a movie, and I’m leaning towards that for Witches as well. Fractal could go either way, though I’m leaning towards TV show. Children of the Light could go either way. CHAF3k will hopefully be a podcast at some point.

6. If you could have a writing studio anywhere with anything in it, what would it be like and where would it be?

I like the nook I have, though I think I’d adjust the height of my desk chair and add a coffee maker and a closer bathroom so I don’t have to walk all the way across the apartment. Oh, and I’d get a massive whiteboard so I can go all conspiracy theory on my wips.

7. What music do you listen to to get you in the zone? (the writing zone)

Trailer music! Epic Score and Two Steps from Hell. I can’t listen to music with lyrics while I try to make the words go.

8. What’s your worldbuilding process?

Panic.

But actually, I think of the aesthetic I’m after and then try to make everything build off of that. Along the way I usually try to figure out what thing I’m consciously or unconsciously basing it off of so that I can make necessary changes.

9. Who are your most influential authors?

JKR (sorry), Laini Taylor, Juliet Marillier, Tamora Pierce

10. What’s your favorite kind of cookie?

French macarons

11. Give me your favorite excerpt for your recent WIP!

“I wanted to talk to Madge.”

“Madge is dead,” Hunter said, confused.

“I’m aware,” she said. “I asked Death to take me to her, but she said she couldn’t and suggested projection instead.”

Hunter turned from the stove with the most dumbfounded expression Cady had ever seen outside of cinema. “You asked Death,” he repeated.

Cady snorted. “Yeah. I asked Death.”

“The cosmic power, Death.”

“The cosmic power, Death. We’re good friends. She comes over for tea on occasion.”

Hunter stared at her, expression halfway between disbelief and suspicion. “You’re fucking with me.”

“I’m not fucking with you,” Cady said. “Death is the whole reason I came to this Coven. She sent me here when I was thirteen.”

Hunter sank back against the counter, looking almost faint. Whatever he’d been cooking began to sizzle alarmingly. “Death has been...in this apartment.”

Cady nodded.

Not tagging anyone else on this one. I’ve learned my lesson lmao.

#tag games

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nedsseveredhead2 · 7 years

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Really Rough Time/Plot Line

Heres a super quick rough plot line on what the frick is going on with my dragon age ocs cause ive basically rewritten dragon age asdfg my city now

Just a note: Maxie Lavellan belongs to erhybread and Laven Surana belongs to exventospes

Ancient Times:

- Falon is sold from his former master to Sylaise to be a spy/assassin. Hes trained in being a dreamer mage and was in a sleep state when Solas caused the veil, getting trapped on the wrong side. Hes been sealed away in a tomb, still just... snoozin.

Pre-Games:

Keeper Esme Mahariel begins getting cryptic dreams that appear to tell the future. They first appear as warnings to natural disasters or other such things and they are never wrong. One night she is told exactly how she is going to die: in childbirth, her son is going to be the one to kill an archdemon and end the blight. She accepts this as fate. She eventually gets another dream in which her best friend and lover Faunus Mahariel is tortured to death by shem’len. Fearing for him, she drugs him, then moves the clan on without him- hoping that distancing herself from him will keep him safe from her prophecies. She had no way of knowing that Faunus was eventually picked up by Clan Lavellan, and after his daughter, Fae, was born, he and his wife Vix succumbed to their foretold fate. Esme eventually meets a hunter from the Sabrae Clan. Finally ready to settle down, she puts her First in charge of Clan Mahariel and marries into the Sabrae Clan. She dies giving birth to Orion Mahariel, leaving him her own necklace and the wish that he keep her last name as her gifts to him.

Andreas Surana is the oldest sibling born to a war hero elf and a former orlesian maid, raised on stories of Loghain’s Night Elves, a faction in which his father had been a part of. His childhood comes crashing down when his father is killed by guards in an attempted uprising. Every move plagued with fear, Andreas does his best to keep his family safe, which becomes increasingly hard after his sister, Nedine, begins showing signs of magic. When his little brother Maxie comes crying to him about templars taking their baby sister away, Andreas does nothing, believing this to be for the best, causing tension between he and his family. This reaches a breaking point when a vacationing young human man stays in the alienage. While the man himself does nothing wrong, Andreas and a few friends get angry at the ease of which he lives, and break into his hotel room in what was supposed to be a simple robbery. Things take a turn though when the man catches them and a struggle ensues, causing Andreas to kill the man. He was caught, quite literally, red handed by guards and sentenced to death- only 18 years old. Luckily Warden Riordan had been passing through and heard of the boy, saving him from his sentence and recruiting Andreas into the wardens alongside the Orlesian bastard, Mathieu. Initially against the wardens and his recruitment, Andreas grew close to the two, beginning a relationship with Mathieu. All of this was cut tragically short however when a darkspawn ambush killed Mathieu and left Andreas short an eye and extremely scarred. While recovering in Weisshaupt, he took the open position to be the Chamberlain’s apprentice, and eventually himself became Chamberlain of the Grey.

Falon is..... still snoozing. Incase anyone was wondering.

Origins:

Orions father remarries and has Tamlen a year later. Orion is beloved by his clan, but they tend to tiptoe around the topic of his mother, which leaves him feeling a bit ostracized. Still, he cares deeply for his Clan, for his brother Tamlen, and his friends Fenarel and Merril. Orion agrees to check out the mirror with Tamlen after they hear it from three shem hunters they kill. Of course, that goes not well, attacked by a blighted bear, Tamlen sucked into the eluvian, and leaving Orion with blight sickness. Orion wakes in camp, but insists on going back to look for Tamlen- Merril and Fenarel tagging along to help. He searches until he passes out again, but not before he watches the warden Duncan shatter the eluvian. Back in camp, Duncan sits down with the Keeper and Orion, explains what Orion has, and requests he joins the wardens. Orion refuses, and Duncan uses his right of conscription. His Keeper accepts this, and a dumbfounded Orion is ‘banished’ from the Clan.

Orion reawakens in a camp hes not familiar with. Duncan is there, and tells him he passed out again and had been out for awhile. During that time, Duncan had gone to the Circle of Kinloch Hold and brought back two mages- Nedine Surana, now going mainly by Ned, and Laven Surana. No relation, Suranas just... a common last name??? Who Knows. Things are very tense between them- especially Ned and Orion- Ned who sees the Wardens as heroes who shes honored to join, a chance at freedom, and Orion who views this as a prison, a shemlen whos taken him away from his home. While brooding in Ostagar, Orion meets Lumos, a mabari suffering the same affliction as him, and he tentatively agrees to help.

So then game stuff happens, you know the drill. Most of the changes from here on out are minor things. Orion has an emotional meeting with the werewolf elves, them being the first ones to talk openly about his mom. Ned finds Jowan, her childhood friend and crush, and while he was the one to save Connor personally, he was still sentenced to Tranquility. Orion did the dark ritual with Morrigan, and was the one to strike the killing blow to the Archdemon. While hes technically the Hero of Ferelden, he resigned from the Wardens, allowing Ned to take the mantle of Warden Commander. She immediately took the tranquil Jowan in, trying to find ways to fix that. Andreas learned about all of this like. a month later and screamed. Also? Laven and Orion are married. Amazing. Queen Anora gifts Orion Ostagar to use as an ‘elven homeland’. No one comes tho hes just livin there with Laven. fOR NOW.

Awakening:

Orion returns at Ned’s request, there have been crazy amounts of darkspawn sightings and shes worried about another archdemon. Orion agrees to help her out for old times sake and uncovers the Architect. Bringing the info back to Ned, they make a plan to kill both the Archiect and the Mother. However in the final battle, Ned stays behind to protect the Keep while Orion does the field work. He spares the Architect, agreeing to let him experiment on him on ways to cure the Taint and stop the Calling. He does kill The Mother though. He tells Ned both are dead, but Orion keeps tabs on the Architect and works with him.

DA2:

My Hawke is named Kitty Hawke and shes a wonderful lesbian who i love and thats all thats really original here DA2 was a masterpiece.

Ned eventually finds the work around to Jowan’s tranquility. She cures him, they get married. Andreas probably screams again.

Mathieu’s dead washed up body had been experimented on by necromancers, and Suprise! Hes not as dead as we may have thought! But thats a tale for another day.

Pre-Inquisition:

Budgie is taken in by the Adaars of the Tal-Vashoth. A while later, they rescue Archer, another young qunari. The two are raised as siblings by the qunari merc group hired by the Divine to guard the conclave.

Warden Commander Ned Surana agrees to investigate a section of the Wardens that have ceased communicating with Weisshaupt. She isn’t heard from again.

A slight ripple in the fade finally causes Falon to wake up, covered in dust, no longer in his own time. We’re not in Ancient Arlathan anymore, toto!

Inquisition(this is where it gets wild):

Dalish ambassador and First to the Keeper Fae Lavellan is being escorted by Maxie Lavellan to the conclave when suddenly the god damn ground opens up and Falon drags himself out of an old elven ruin.

Falon accompanies the two to the conclave, but eventually parts when he senses ancient elven magic. He follows the lead.

Archer gets spooked and runs out of the conclave, Budgie pursues.

Falon interrupts Corypheus, picks up the orb, and all hell breaks loose. Fae uses magic to protect her and Maxie, Budgie and Archer are far away enough from the blast that they end up fine, but Budgie loses an arm. The two are picked up by the remainder of their merc group.

Falon, Fae, and Maxie are all arrested, but Fae manages to talk Cassandra down. Falon has the anchor. The magic feels familiar but dangerous. He doesnt know why Solas makes him uneasy.

Budgie and Archer join the Inquisition as companions. Budgie wants to “find the bastard that took her arm”. Archer just doesnt like being too far from her.

Orion joins the Inquisition as a companion after hearing Morrigan is there. He is unaware that he had a child with Morrigan, she had not told him about the ritual the night before the archdemon battle, and thus he did not know she was pregnant when she disappeared. He doesnt know Kieran is his until he overhears Morrigan and Falon talking about it later.

Andreas joins as an advisor when its revealed Wardens are involved. He reveals that Maxie Lavellan is his brother Maxie Surana who had ran away shortly after Andreas’ conscription. Maxie is heartbroken to learn that their baby sister, Ned, is still missing.

Kitty Hawke and Falon uncover that a brainwashed Ned is being kept by Erimond as a ‘guard dog.’

Ned Surana joins the Inquisition after being snapped out of it. Kitty Hawke is stuck in the fade. its probably temporary. We hope. The Surana siblings have a heart warming reunion.

Somewhere in this mess, Falon gets involved with Imshael. Falon views Imshael as a tangible piece of his past, Imshael exploits Falons loving and trusting nature and his need for a sense of normalcy. Its not a healthy relationship. But still.. Imshael does feel a slight sense of love towards Falon too, and watches out for him.

Clan Lavellan is completely destroyed. Fae Loses It briefly and learns necromancy to try and resurrect her whole clan. Falon convinces her this is a bad idea. She does resurect her Halla tho.

Fae eventually takes a dip in the Well of Sorrows and becomes a vessel for Mythal, should she need it.

Corypheus is eventually defeated, unleashing Falons fucking thousands of years of pent up rage by repeatedly calling him a slave and such. FALONS BEEN THRU A LOT CORY U SHOULD PROBABLY STOP WHILE UR AHEAD..

Falon breaks Solas’ orb, and Solas flees, leaving Falon confused.

Solas kills Flemeth and Mythal merges to Fae, a sort of Anders/Justice situation going on.

Fae now knows what Solas is, due to the soul merger, and uses Orion’s Ostagar as a base to start building an elven resistance.

Orion has started getting cryptic dreams, a ghostly elven woman visiting him, claiming to be his mother. Shortly thereafter he begins showing signs of magic. He does not like this one bit. However, he joins Fae’s army. For something to do.

Trespasser:

Budgie has broken off from her merc group to form her own, the Rose Lions. Archer has joined with her, along with ‘a living dead man’, Mathieu. (Andreas is, again, screaming?)

Falon finally is adjusting to this new life, however the anchor is killing him slowly. Its like. Not great. The magic is unlocking a good many of his old memories, things he would have preferred stayed buried in the past. Whats more, the Dread Wolf sends his agents to help trigger these memories. Remind Falon of the past.... how things once were.

I havnt actually finished this dlc yet so I dont know the canon plot details asdfg but eventually...

Memories of Imshael in the past cause a fall out between the two, Falon ends their relationship. Imshael however decides to continue keeping an eye on him, finding his choices interesting.

Eventually Falon and Solas meet face to face, and Solas reveals that he is the dreadwolf and what his plan with the veil is. Solas takes the anchor, but the damage is already done to Falon and his arm has to be amputated before infection reaches his heart.

Falon reviews all that hes learned and decides to join Fae and Orion to fight Solas, deciding they cant be stuck in the past and they have to keep moving forward.

#and theres the story thus far #this is.... so messy...#i havnt talked about my kids in forever tho so heres this asdfgh #long post #my ocs #im so sorry mobile users u dont deserve this #dragon age

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