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This seems like a ton of fun! I know that nobody's asked me, but I wanna answer some of these anyway lol. Today, I'll be answering these on behalf of Kunio, the main character from my upcoming romance novel, The Tengu And The Angel!

Leaves: Definitely fall for Kunio. His fashion sense can best be described as a blend of 90s punk and goblincore, and there's a lot of reds, heavy sweaters and jackets, and leaf patterns in his wardrobe. He also really likes autumnal flavours, like apples, and cinnamon, and his all-time favourite food is apple pie. On top of that, he's very fond of birds, especially crows

Cloudy Day: Bad mood? What bad mood? If something is bothering Kunio, he won't let it show at all. He'll hold it in and pretend that everything's fine because he doesn't wanna worry his friends, or his boyfriend. Even if you ask, he'll deny that anything's wrong, to the point where he won't admit it until he breaks down. It's a habit he's having a hard time breaking.

Send me asks if you wanna hear more about him!

🍁Cozy Fall OC Asks🍂

🍂 Leaves: What season (winter, spring, summer, fall) do you associate with your OC, and why?

🥾Boots: Describe the way your OC walks.

🧶 Sweater: Which OC is most likely to help a stranger in need?

🦇 Bat: What is your OC afraid of?

🌲 Tree: Which OC is the best at giving advice?

🍁 Maple: Describe your OC’s happy place.

🍄 Mushroom: Share a snippet in which your OC overcomes an obstacle.

🌙 Moon: Share a song that reminds you of your OC.

🎃 Pumpkin: Share an OC quote that represents them the best.

📚 Books: Does your OC look up to anyone? If so, who?

🕑 Daylight Savings: What would your OC say to their past self?

🛌 Bed: Which OC is the laziest?

🥣 Soup: What is the one thing that will always cheer your OC up after a stressful day?

🧣Scarf: Does your OC have a favorite possession? If so, describe it.

🕸️ Spiderweb: Share an OC snippet of your choice!

☁️ Cloudy Day: Describe how your OC acts when they are in a bad mood.

☕️ Tea: Share a fun fact about your OC!

Hello! :D

Topaz: What is the main conflict of your wip?

Thank you so much for the ask, @i-can-even-burn-salad! I'll answer this one for all my WIPs!

The Tag Game!

Enchanted Illusions: A corrupt secret society seeks to cause another civil war between humans and mythical creatures, whilst murdering those who find out about this true intention. The main characters must stop them and expose their machinations before the chaos in Ansburke gets out of control.

+ BONUS - Augustus, the book's resident necromancer, must face the dire consequences of his deal with the Deamon Deathbringer, as he is torn between his past choices and his newfound love. He needs to make a decision and find a way to break his deal, but any wrong step may put his and his loved one's souls in danger

Of Starlight and Beasts: A scorned Queen seeks revenge on the realm she blames for the death of her lover, but this goal of hers has long since become tainted by her wish for conquest as she became just as murderous as those she battled in the past, generations ago. The main characters must stop her dark magic from conquering and destroying their land for good.

Realms of Loss: A continent divided into two kingdoms, after the fall of the Old Gods, has been trapped in a centuries-old war against one another for centuries - battling for power and survival as the Celestials' power wanes. When this war awakens an insane dead god and puts into motion a crooked prophecy, the "Chosen" prince must fight his fate and prevent both kingdoms from destroying each other.

Tales of Wilted Flowers: A group of outcasts, shunned, forgotten and betrayed by society throughout their lives, find themselves as the only ones willing to take a stand against a sadistic dark sorcerer and the corrupt royal family of the kingdom Wenhorn. In order not to die or meet a terrible fate, these unlikely heroes must stop their kingdom's "beloved" King from bringing back the magic of a long-since banished spellcaster.

The Last Wrath: As the Secret Court, a bloodthirsty cult that feeds off of the souls and magic of common people, returns after a long time being considered only legend, some specific individuals find their personal goals tied to not only surviving both the war between the power-hungry Morosyn Empire and the Free Realms, but also preventing this ancient court from "rewriting history in blood."

Mutant Inquiries: In a cyberpunk, near-future dystopia, mutant super-powered teens face a conspiracy involving an authoritarian government, illegal human experimentation by the PHANTOM Industries, and the truth about their own mutant existence. They become vigilantes in order to expose the truth, but find that there is much more at stake than just sticking it to authority and that their own lives are on the line.

Supernova Initiative: The most wanted intergalactic thief must steal a top-secret experiment, that was lost to so-called zealots in a faraway system, to evade being imprisoned after breaking into the Junction's most secure vault. Meanwhile, diplomatic relationships between factions and galaxies grow strained.

Lies Untold: Two brothers must race against time to evade their kingdom's royal "inquisition" after the King makes their little sister a target to be captured. In their attempt to stay alive, being hunted down while their land faces the punishing wrath of a curse that was very much the King's fault, the siblings also must face their family's past and make the right choice.

Heyy !

☀️ Sun - What's your favorite part of your WIP?

and

⚡️Lightning - Have you ever spontaneously added something to your story that you wouldn't have added normally? If so, what made you do it?

for Supernova Initiative pls ? :)

Thanks for the ask, @thepeculiarbird!

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☀️ Sun - What's your favorite part of your WIP?

Let's see, (:

I really love the dynamic between the three main siblings of the story (Jack, Cassie and their adoptive brother, Deimos), and writing their backstory has been really fun so far as well (mainly because its really interesting to see how their past shaped them into the people they are today, as well as how their dynamics changed over time while also somehow remaining similar at times).

I love, love, love writing the sci-fi settings for this story. I have a lot offun every time I'm writing a new setting, planet, etc! Since Supernova Initiative takes place on a set of fictional, futuristic galaxies, I have a lot of leway to make the settings as unique and varied as I want, even outwordly or uncanny at times. I can have grimy, crime-filled mining moons with streets filled with neon lights, or a giant ocean planet which hosts some of the largest creatures in the system and has beautiful rings (like Saturn, but different, utopic-dystopian high-tech space stations ruled by the intergalactic Junction with an iron fist, etc!

I love writing my morally grey characters - Kye Thalax, Zenyth Astrophell and even Deimos Soll has a morally grey streak at times (though he is more 'chaotic good' than neutral lol). The contrast between them and the more do-gooder, kind personalities of this series - such as Jack Tithus, Lyorna Alyrii, Cassie etc - is really interesting and grants the story a great deal of variety that I think makes it even more fun to write! I also do love angsty, badass, hot and undyingly loyal antihero-type characters so I may be a bit biased lmao.

I really like writing and reading some whump, and this story has its fair share of it, so there's also that!

I like my character's unique quirks and how they all feel so distinct from one another in their own ways while also forming a cohesive and compelling team/crew.

⚡️Lightning - Have you ever spontaneously added something to your story that you wouldn't have added normally? If so, what made you do it?

That's a tough question lol. Since I'm a plotter, my WIPs and stories are usually carefully thought out and developed by the time I start the first draft, and this WIP (Supernova Initiative) especially, was intentionally tailored to my personal tastes, with my favorite tropes and dynamics, as I needed a passion project LMAO. But even then, there are a few things that took me by surprise as I reached the final stage of plotting and moved onto the first draft. So let's see what those things were!

Originally, Deimos wasn't going to have left the crew five years before the main story and had nothing to do with the set-up that had the team arrested in the inciting incident of the main act of this series. I usually don't like the "sibling rivalry" or "traitor sibling" trope in movies and books, as I think it is rather overdone and it often isn't compelling to me/feels annoying when not done well. However, as I reached the final stage of plotting, I realized this story needed a bit more stakes and that a bit more of internal conflict in the crew could spice things up, as well as give Deimos a change at a really meaningful redemption arc. So, I changed things up a bit: in the new, final version of the story, Deimos, Jack and Cassie grew up as siblings and best friends, but after they became adults and the civil war started, Deimos wanted to get involved with the conflict directly and rebel more openly against the Junction, while Jack & Cassie wanted to keep things as they were and continue simply undermining the Junction by stealing from it. This leads them to have an argument, after which Deimos leaves the crew but ends up caught by an insane warlord in the Khosmonian galaxies, who tries to turn him into a living weapon. He escapes a few years later, but is still being hunted by that General. With no resources and no other choice, Deimos makes a deal with the Junction to set-up the crew (since he knew how they operate and how their heists work) in exchange for temporary protection and with the promise of being given the resources to take down General Laylah. He later regrets betraying his family, as despite their estrangement they were still his siblings whom he loved more than anything, and ends up starting a redemption arc later on while trying to make amends.

Vesper originally wasn't going to be a relentless cyborg mercenary seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and their mother. In the first version of an outline I developed for this WIP, she was actually a character much similar to Pax Stellaryn - she was going to be a spy and cadet at the Junction, and her personality was going to be much kinder, funnier and softer. She was also going to be a childhood friend of Pax's in another version of the series. However, I felt that their personalities were far too similar and that her character felt like her story was lacking something. So I scratched that original concept completely, and changed up her backstory, character and personality a lot and thus the cold, calculating, ruthless and painfully socially awkward Vesper we now know was created. And I quite love this new version a lot more!

Not exactly something that I wouldn't have added, but which was still an unexpected change I made in this story and which actually fit really well into the plot: Aleks Keldora was originally going to be an orphan, like quite a few of the other main cast. But somehow I felt that didn't match his personality and worldview, and also felt that at least some characters in this story should have happy, healthy, living relatives/family, so I scratched his original backstory and gave him two loving mothers who raised him with all the care in the world, and whom Aleks wants to give a better life to now that he has the means to help them.

🌫️ Fog - What was the hardest part of your WIP to write?

Thanks for the ask, @saturnine-saturneight!

I'll go with Supernova Initiative for this one!

Supernova Initiative:

Kye Thalax's backstory is proving difficult to figure out right now, as I know its going to be a rather brutal, bloody past that shaped him into the person he is today, but I also need to make it unique enough, not overly bleak and differentiated from the backstories of the rest of the cast. In this case, I think this one is being "hard to write" in the sense that its being actually really difficult to get just right and make as well developed as I intend it to be. But I'll figure it out eventually lol.

The experiments Jack faced under the Director were actually pretty damn brutal, and that's a difficult part of the story to write and get just right for a few reasons: 1. Jack is often half-conscious during those scenes, or has his perception/senses otherwise altered because of the chemicals and serums the Director is experimenting on him - and since Jack is the POV character of those scenes, and this series is often written in a somewhat limited 3rd person, its is EXTREMELY hard to get those scenes right, especially description-wise, because there's a lot he wouldn't be able to tell/notice in that altered state of mind/condition but which the reader would need to know in order for the scene to make sense, so it's a constant juggle between what he would realistically be able to notice and the information the reader needs to have to understand the scene; 2. It's also tough to write because Jack is one of the sweetest characters in the series who absolutely did not deserve what happened to him, and so those scenes feel pretty bleak both for me, the writer, and for the readers/audience, 3. There are quite a few of those scenes and all of them need serve a different narrative purpose such as: establishing the hypocrisy/cruelty of the Junction, informing the audience as to what exactly are the secret experiments the Director is conducting, showing Jack's struggle to not let his resolve falter and his internal conflict as he realizes the experiments might change him, etc. So its a bit of a tough task to figure out how to build each of those scenes as carefully as I need to, especially since they're spread throughout the first book rather than contained in a single especific chapter - so its a matter of timing/pacing as well.

In a general sense, weaving worldbuilding into the action of the story without infodumping or slowing down the pace of the book is also quite a challenge, especially since there are so many different civilizations, planets, ecosystems, political conflicts, alien species, all in the same book - all of which need to be properly fleshed out and believably developed without boring the audience or cluttering the chapters with long descriptions. It's something me and my alpha reader are working quite arduously to get just right!