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(Disclaimer: I may have to adapt some of the original questions to fit the context, as the story takes place in a medieval-esque fantasy setting, and will add some questions that I’d like my character to answer that may explain some other things about them. Also, I wasn’t comfortable enough - for some unexplained reason - to use 1st person words for the Interviewer - such as me or I - and so the Interviewer is in a generic 2nd person POV)

[The following character (and the ones that will follow in other posts like this) belongs to my Medieval Dark Fantasy WIP, The Last Wrath. The picture is just a face claim found on pinterest, as I haven’t had time to make character art for the entire cast of my book, and said picture belongs to its respectful owners.]

Let us begin!

A door opens, and 16, soon to be 17, year old Raelen Ashiren strides in. She bears a reckless smile on her face, and her steps are carefree and confident as she walks closer, grasping your hand in a firm hand shake. Her smile is a litle crooked, you notice, and just as wild as her heart. She is an unusual kid of pretty, messy long brown hair carelessly pushed away from her face in thin braids, and warm skin that bears a few small scars. Her clothes are loose and simple, designed for practicality while retaining that unmistakable burst of personality that permeates everything about her presence, a starry purple scarf giving her attire a dash of color. You can’t help but notice that while her clothes are simple and clearly worn by her frequent adventuring, they are not in a bad shape either. 

Her voice is fast and joyfully loud, but her words carry a strong sense of warmth and honesty. You can see clearly in her bright eyes every emotions that she is feeling, and like an open book they tell you a story of someone who is brave and wild, but at the same time full of joy... with a touch of something else you can’t quite place. She takes a seat in front of you, awaiting eagerly for the questions you may be inclined to ask.

1) Are you named after anyone?

Raelen: Yes, I am. Heh, I um, was named after my paternal grandmother, though her name was a bit different from mine. She was called Raellyn, and my parents adapted the name to Raelen for me, I guess it was so as to avoid confusion between the names... She was a great warrior, and the pride of House Eiriant during the years she lived - I think my Da wanted her legacy to live on somehow after I was born, even if just in her name, so ... here I am, Raelen. (Cue a laugh and little jazz hands as she finishes her answer)

2) When was the last time you cried? 

Raelen: Well, isn’t that a loaded question, (she chuckles awkwardly, bringing her hand up to fiddle with her necklace), one that I’d rather not answer...(she quietly adds, before begrudgingly sighing)... But I guess, if you really want to know, it was when my older brother Julyan was captured by a bunch of assassins... and I couldn’t do anything about it.  I’m still looking for him, and I don’t know if we’ll find him anytime soon. (her lip wobbles a bit as she looks up towards you) Can we move on to another um... topic now? 

Interviewer (you): Oh, my... um, I wasn’t expecting that, I’m so sorry... (you/the interviewer plaster their best smile on their face, trying to smooth things over) Of course, let’s move on!

Raelen: (her breathing sags a bit in relief and she smiles back at you) Thanks.

3) Do you have kids?

Raelen: What the hell? (She mutters awkardly in a laugh) Of course not, like, I’m barely not a child myself, and I don’t think I want another person to worry about in a world like mine, at least not in the foreseeable future and until I am an adult and have everything figured out. Even if I was not living on the run or there wasn’t a war between the realms about to happen, that would probably still be my answer. (She runs a hand through her hair, chuckling a bit and leaning forwards towards you, as if sharing a secret). With an adoptive brother like Azra flying around on a dragon, I’ve got my work cut out for me right now... (Suddenly she becomes pensive) I can’t imagine how Julyan handled it, like, caring for me and Azra when he was just a kid himself after our parents... you know. I don’t think I would have been able to do that so well even now... (After a pause she taps her hands on her knees, smiling once again.) Either way, circling back to your question, no, I don’t have kids nor plan to have them any time soon.

4) Do you use sarcasm?

Raelen: (smiling with a hint of laughter) Only every day! I’m trying to cut down a bit on it, that seems like a habit that is cut out to get me into more trouble than I already am, heh. But with the company I keep, I’m surprised I’m not more sarcastic or swearing like a sailor, because let me tell you, my friends can be either brilliant or the stupidest people I have ever met and there’s no in between. There are days where they are really testing my patience and I love them for it. (She laughs) I guess sarcasm runs in the family, but I try my best to be um ... politer.

5) What's the first thing you notice about people?

Raelen: Um, I guess I’m kind of good at telling when people are lying to me or have ill intentions. Everyone has a tell, though some may be harder to understand than others. I think it rather comes as a necessity when you live in Agrannor, but I’ve met some people that can prove that thought otherwise in a second (She pointedly stares at Vallerius). Also, personality wise, I am also quick to notice the little quirks and expressions, the small characterictics that tell us what they are really feeling even if their words won’t. But all of this only applies to when I am in a good or focused mood, because if I’m scared or angry the deal is totally off and I may or may not be really bad at those things I just said under those circumtances, heh.

6) What's your eye colour?

Raelen: Hazel green. At least, I think that’s what I think it is. Oh, and they only change color a small bit when I use my magic, which is something I don’t know what to make of. I’m still practicing, Vall’s teaching me more about magic, so I hope I can get those cool colorful eyes in the future, (she geeks out a bit) though I guess mine are already pretty sweet. 

7) Any special talents?

Raelen: I’m Mageborn, which means that I was born with magic in my blood, unlike a regular human. So I can cast spells and change things in the world around me with them. My family is pretty ancient, especially my Mom’s side of the family - House Ashiren, hence the surname - and we’ve been mages since before the Ancient War. (She twirls her necklace in her hands, thinking, and a small smile appears in her face) When I was a kid - after our parents disappeared and it was just me and Julyan - we didn’t have much other than our own company, so Julyan used to tell me all those tales about our ancestors, to make me feel better - powerful warriors and mages fighting to rid the kingdoms of the scourge of the Secret Court (Raelen raises her arms a bit, enthusiastically, like one would telling a heroic tale) - and I used to dream of becoming a hero, like they had been... So, as far as special talents can go, I think I have them - I can do magic, I am a mage after all, though I wish I could be better at it. I’ve been improving a lot recently, ever since Valleriusand I started practicing together!  Though I think I may never be as strong in the magical arts as Julyan is - I’ve always been more like my Da after all, Julyan’s far more like our Mom than he’d admit, and that includes being extremely talented with fire magic. Other than the magical side of my um, “talents”, I’m a ... good  swordfighter, I guess, and I’m kinda good with daggers. I can defend myself pretty well, but that’s about it. (She laughs heartedly) I can’t shoot an arrow to save my life though. Other than that, my real  passions lie on investigating forgotten things about old magic and adventuring! Does that count as a talent? I think it doesn’t, but does it count?

Interviewer (you): Uh... I don’t know, maybe?

Raelen: (smiling) Great! Because I’m a pretty good adventurer then, heh, though most people around me prefer to call me a troublemaker for some reason... (she says, a sarcastic lilt to her voice) I guess it does have a good ring to it, though adventurer sounds far more... heroic. I’m still workshopping that one, but adventurer sounds much cooler than troublemaker. 

8) Scary tales or happy endings?

Raelen: Uh, life in the continent is already one scary tale and a half on my opinion, I mean, you have wars in one hand, intrigue in another, a bunch of crazy corrupted sorcerers wanting to rewrite the word in blood and everything that twisted magic entails, such as the Shroud around the forests back home. So, if I have to choose which story I want to tell or hear around the fire, I definitely  would go with one that ends at least remotely happy. The heroic ones are my favorites, if you can’t already tell. I think that hope is a important skill to have in any situation, especially in dangerous ones, so a story that is inspiring to some extent or at the very least tells us something interesting, is definitely better than a terrifying one. But I maybe got a bit too caried away here (she chuckles)....

9) Where were you born?

Raelen: I was born in my family’s ancient estate near the Forests of Midtaren, during the Agrannorian Civil War. A while later, when I was around like maybe four or five, our parents went in a strange mission and never returned. Julyan and I had to move to the Kingdom of Kestrall  all by ourselves, where our godmother is High General and had made a promise to our father that she would protect us if the worst came to pass. The journey to get there however.. um, is something I’d rather forget and never talk about again...

10) What are your hobbies?

Raelen: Running in the forests around Kestrall, sparring, sneaking into the Dragon’s Spire with Gareth - he’s my best friend by the way (she smiles)- and seeing all the new dragons that the Riders are training, talking, annoying the guards, watching Julyan make runic weapons, stealing old books from the Royal Archives -

Interviewer (you): Woah, woah... Wait a second, that’s already a whole lot but... stealing?

Raelen: (Laughs sheepishly) Um, kinda...? Look, its not really stealing, its complicated... the Archives are open to the public, but I got banned from ever entering those halls again because I spoke against that shithead of the Captain of the Guard (She says the title mockingly), after he, um... hurt my brother (She looks clearly uncomfortable/scared at the memory, before she clasps her hands together). Anyways... so there’s that, and now I kind of had to sneak away the books and tomes that I want, though I can’t do it anymore because I’m currently living on the run across the continent. (She chuckles and lifts her eyebrows sarcastically). Listen, if it makes you feel better, Julyan and Azra told me not to sneak into the Archives... at least for the first 10 times. 

Interviewer (you): (clearly concerned, muttering to yourself) That’s so much worse though... (The Interviewer/You clear your throat)... Anyways, let us move forward...

11) Do you have any pets?

Raelen: I wouldn’t call Mystral that heh... She’s this dragon that we’ve got that like, is following us around ever since we uh - snuck her away from the Dragon Spire to escape a bunch of assassins and Azra crash landed us gloriously in the forest. (She giggles, then catches Azra staring daggers at her and answers by making a face at him). Gods, we’d better hope she didn’t hear us calling her a pet... because according to Vallerius’ translations of what she is thinking, she’s uh... (she then begins talking with a mock majestic voice) “The Tamer of Storms and the Scourge of the Earth, cower before me ye mortals” or something along those lines. (Raelen leans closer, whispering to you with a smirk)...But she does look and act like a cat, so I can’t really take her seriously and neither should you. She insists that she needs mittens for the winter, even though she generates enough heat to light up ten forges and has claws the size of a broadsword, and claims that its a disgrace that were not taking such “an important request” seriously in the middle of a war - though now that I think of it, that might just be Vallerius screwing us over with his shitty half-assed translations of Old Dragon Speech. (She narrows her eyes towards the long haired boy across the room, who pointed avoids her gaze).

12) What sports do you play/have played?

Raelen: Look, this isn’t really a sport, but I’ve sparred against some of the older Dragon Knights in a swordfigthing tourney of winter’s solstice Festival a few years ago, and did a pretty great job at it, I think. That is, before a stray spear knocked me on the helmet and left me unconscious for like, two hours. Teiva - that’s the General, our godmother - thought it was funny and seemed impressed, while Julyan nearly had a heart attack and the lecture that followed made me wish I was still asleep. But the food at the festival was good! So there’s that.

13) How tall are you?

Raelen: I don’t know exactly, but average height, maybe? Sometimes I think I am a bit taller than other kids my age, but that may be because Azra and Gareth are little ankle-biters, (she turns around as Azra prostests in the background, a smirk on her face as she sarcastically calls out). I think you’re proving my point, huh?

Interviewer (you): (The Interviewer/You smile as they start to bicker and nudge Raelen on the shoulder to catch her attention) This was one heck of a wild ride, Raelen! I hope you figure things out in your life again, and that you’ll find your brother soon. Thank you for coming to my interview!  

Raelen: This was a really fun experience! Thanks for having me, I really got to go though. Have like, an Empire to topple, a brother to save, a rebellion to help.. uh, anyways, a lot of things that I don’t want to burden you with... Bye! 

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What's your 'elevator pitch' for each of your OCs? You can include information such as who are they as a person, what is their role in the story, things like that! Feel free to elaborate as much or as little as you'd like!

Hello, @elshells! Thank you so much for the ask! 💕

This is an amazing question and I took my time answering it!

(It is worth noting that, since The Last Wrath - my medieval dark fantasy WIP - is my main current work in progress, I only used the characters from this book to answer this ask. I have quite a few other WIPs, one of them being Enchanted Illusions - my Gothic Victorian Fantasy - and a sci-fi WIP named SUPERNOVA Initiative, but it would be far too many characters if I did a pitch for all of them, so I chose just TLW 😂)

These are not all my characters, but some of the main cast:

RAELEN ASHIREN: The Forgotten Rebel

A young troublemaker from a forgotten but once powerful mageborn family who finds herself swept into the world of mysteries and intrigues of their continent after her oldest brother, Julyan Ashiren - her only living blooc relative - is captired by an ancient group of corrupted sorcerers with a bloody agenda, who want to see her dead. Now she faces a race against time to rise up to her family's lost legacy if she wants to save her world from a war torn future.

AZRA MOORSWORTH: The Dragon Rider

The adoptive son of the High General of Kestrall and the surrogate brother of Raelen and Julyan that has always lived with deep seated unanswered questions about his past and origins. Wanting to do what is right, he ind himself swept into the chaos of his surrogate sister's lives as they flee together from the destruction of everything they have known and into a rebellion that might depend on them to suceed. But some secrets of the past are better left forgotten.

VALLERIUS ZYNDROSAR: The Fallen Heir

A conflicted young man living on the run that has singlehandedly managed to become the most wanted man by the Morosyn Empire. Living with constant guilt for his past, he has dedicated two years of his recent life to finding a way to stop his world's ongoing shadow war and change his supposedly inevitable twisted fate. When his path crosses that of Raelen's - the daughter of a Mageborn house that was thought to have been destroyed centuries ago - he decides to face his past and help her in her rebellious quest.

JULYAN ASHIREN: The Last Sun

Raelen's older brother and only living relative, he has raised his sister alone ever since their parents disappeared in a mysterious mission. Living with the constant fear of being found by their enemies, he did everything in his power to protect Raelen and prepare her for a future he knew was coming. After he is forcibly captured by the Secret Court, he is forced to face a secret about himself that even he didn't know about, as he struggles to find a way to escape his dangerous predicament.

PRINCESS ELLINOR DALLANTES - The Lost Princess

A princess scorned who had her birthright ripped away from her at an early age, after the royal family of Arkellya was slaughtered and her conniving uncle ascended the throne, now allied to the Morosyn Empire. Saved from the carnage and raised by the best assassin on the continent, she would grow up to rouse the sleeping fires of a rebellion long in the making to restore her family's stolen dues and bring an end to the reign of conquest of the Morosyn Empire. Along with her closest friends - young yet talented outcasts - she sees to undermine her enemies from within, and might just need the help from a certain duo of Mageborn to achieve her goal when the Secret Court closes in.

LORD NETHEN FAHRIS - The Noble Rival

A young noble from a powerful family of royal advisors to the young Emperor Aerich, Nethen grew up knowing that, if he was to be more than just a pawn in their crooked games, he'd have to learn to work from the shadows, and to manipulate the situations around him to his every whim. Only then could he achieve his goal. To do so, he made himself undeniably yet subtly necessary to the political stage around him, though it was a lonely existence. Everyone around him had their petty schemes and agendas, he knew that very well. There were almost no people that he trusted, let alone respected. Until he met a Ellinor. For the first time, he had a worthy opponent, a rival worthy of his respect and quite possibly, his only equal - as perhaps the one person who could understand him, the one person that could dance the deadly dance of their world’s intrigues with him without blinking an eye, someone, who saw him for himself - the man behind the mask. 

ZEPHYR TELLIAN: The Cursed Sorcerer

A talented sorcerer living in the aftermath of a brutal betrayal by one of the people who were closest to him, fallen prey to a terrible hatred Curse that caused his very magical affinity to become a source of pain and exhaustion. Zephyr was born in the war torn lands that once were the Kingdom of Eldon, in the height of the Agrannorian Civil War, and knew well the horrors of war. The hidden Order of Sorcerers had given him and his siblings a chance to survive, but he never would've expected this to bring his downfall. After surviving what was meant to kill him, he and his younger brother Jamie endured dire hardships as street children in the aftermath of a war, but Zephyr's magical talents - albeit restricted by his curse - and knowledge, along with Jamie's swordfighting abilities, got them accepted into the Liranthian Academies after a tourney. Now, Zephyr has dedicated himself to find an anti magic spell that can counter attack the abilities of the crooked Secret Court, but after discovering a horryfing truth, he and his brother just might have to turn to the budding rebellion in order to live another day.

DARIAN CAELESTIS: The Hidden Potioneer

A young aspiring potioneer, son of two important warriors from the dangerous kingdom of Ergyre - a place commonly known as the Iron Thorn of the Free Realms for a reason - finds himself living under a secret identity after the way comes to him, in an attempt to fulfill a long lost promise and find his missing childhood friend, a young elf who was captured by a mad enemy warlord from the Morosyn Empire. Darian never wanted to fight, and never thought he could, but he will do whatever it takes to get his friend back, even if the person he finds has been pushed far from the boy he used to know.

TANWIN LYRANDETH: The Soldier

Once a naive and sweet young boy, unaware of the true horrors of his world, Tanwin has been twisted into a weapon of war after his capture during the invasion of the borders of Ergyre by the Morosyn Empire. After years of a living hell, he finally manages to escape his captors and free himself, but the last thing he would have expected would be to find his long-lost childhood friend as a rebel on the other side of the war. Torn between the person he was turned into and the one he used to be, he will do anything to keep his recently reunited friends safe, especially if it means bringing the war to those who forged him for it.

NADINNE AHMIRAH: The Seafaring Lady

A girl with dreams of freedom, who yearns to sail the seas and tame the waves like her ancestors did, finds herself trapped in the luxurious world of the nobility of Vellamere. Her family ascended from anonimity to great wealth a few generations back, becoming courtiers in the thriving portuary kingdom of the continent, but even so, Nadinne yearns for more - to be able to fight the injustices of their world and to meet new places, like her uncle and aunt who were adventuring privateers before their ship misteriously sank. After meeting a certain mercenary with a broken connection to the rebellion and discovering that one of her closest friends is a rebel spy, Nadinne makes it her personal mission to join them - especially after discovering first hand the horrors their enemies can inflict on those who stand in their way.

LUCIYA ANYNTH: The Free Outlaw

A young rogue to whom freedom is the highest value of life, she had spent her youth stealing from the Empire where she was born. Before this, she was the daughter of a lowborn man who had become important in their home kingdom, before he was wronggully framed and imprisoned for charges he was innocent of - a way for the Imperial nobility to get rid of the only person who knew secrets that could bring their reign toppling down. Afterwards, she found herself taken in by a group of forest dwelling kids, whom, like her, had been abandoned by the very cities of their birth. Her happiness was stolen from her after a heist gone wrong and a sudden betrayal, which forced her to become a servant to the very noble family that ruined her life in the past. Now, she seeks to find her freedom once again, and a befriending a certain rebel spy may be her only chance to do this.

CASSANDER FYNN: The Rebel Spy

An extremely knowledgeable young man, Cassander was taught by his parents the value of secrets and illusions. Son of a soldier and a mystical woman, Cassander suddenly found his calling by joining a budding rebellion, using his talents to become the best spy currently under the employ of the rebellion. He could lie, cheat and deceive his way into almost any enemy ranks, and the secrets he kept could quite possibly be the difference between the success of the lost princess' rebellion and a brutal failure.

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You know what I haven’t seen in ages? A Fact Swap game. Here are the rules.

You send me a fact about your story or your oc, and I give you a fact of my own that is SIMILAR IN NATURE when I answer the ask. The goal of the game is to get people talking back and forth about their stuff, so if you reblog this and take part, make sure that you show enthusiasm for the fact that gets sent in, and not just for the fact you share!

Fact senders, Old Game Rules state that you should respond at least once and leave a nice comment or question about the fact that was shared in response to your own!

Let’s get chatting!

god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy

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