14, 17, 24, 26 for raine and emma please!

From this list

14. How did they become so close? (This is a follow-up to 13, who are they closest to)

Raine

She's closest to Kade and Tyril. Kade, because they grew up together, they have being orphans and raised by a collective in common, and mostly, because they really like each other. Tyril, it turns out that falling in love while taking on an ancient evil can drive two people together like nothing else. They also understand each other in a way that might not be expected from an elf aristocrat and a human orphan, but it's a connection that was there from the start.

She's also very, very close with the other three of the main party.

Emma

She's closest with Uncle Tommy and Trystan. In both cases, it's the shared experiences that bonded them together. In Tommy's case, there's also the fact that he was there for her since birth, and he shares the love for, and grief over, Jimmy. In Trystan she found a confidante and partner in crime, and someone who gets her like nobody else ever has.

17. Overall, is there anything special or peculiar about your character compared to others in your story?

Raine

Unlike the other members of her party, she didn't spend her life training for a life of adventure or honing her magic. She's playing it all by ear, which makes for chaotic but pretty awesome results.

Emma

Not really. She's just herself and doing her own thing, which everybody else in this 'verse is also doing.

24. From childhood to their current age, how has your character changed?

Raine

She's grown a lot more confident in herself and her abilities. I HC that she's made strides to lose the fear of abandonment that she'd had since childhood, but she slid backwards after her year in the Shadow Realm.

Emma

How has she not changed, more like. As a child she was super social and talkative, but after her dad's death, she completely retreated into herself. After getting into theater and then a stint in therapy, she's better about interacting with people, but she'll never just. Be a people person again.

26. What are the top three most distinguishable personality traits of your character?

Raine

She's a people person. She genuinely enjoys meeting new people and getting to know them. If she's out and about in the world, then she's making friends.

She's a quick learner. Proof: the entirety of BOLAS.

She's terrified of abandonment. She tries not to think about the day the party goes their separate ways, because she isn't sure she'll be able to cope with it, especially with Kade now living in Morella.

Emma

She doesn't discuss her feelings. Ever. The only one who can get her to talk about her emotions is Trystan, and even then, the conversation is sprinkled with heavy sarcasm.

She wants to help people. She doesn't want to talk to them, but she believes in right and wrong, and at the end of the day she wants to be able to look at herself in the mirror and know that her dad would be proud of her.

She's unashamedly petty.

Thanks for the ask, Mads!

For Trystan and Nora

🟠 Orange- What is a trait your OC hides about themself from others? Do they refuse to acknowledge it or begrudgingly accept it?

🟣 Purple- What is something that your OC could not live without? What keeps them grounded in the worst of times?

ask me some colour coded questions as i psychoanalyze my characters

🟠 Orange

Nora: Back in the days, Nora used to be a lot more vocal about her grievances and not so much in the recent times. She can get assertive and outspoken and it was a big part of her personality growing up and had stuck with her since. She was the 'loud kid' in class, not so much for saying words, but essentially being loud with just about everything. It kind of faltered when she found a career in law enforcement and this piece of advice her colleagues continued to give her - "to not say or imply anything that might tip the wrong people off on what you truly care about".

Basically she renounced this trait of hers just because she fed off on other people's concerns for her being a target. Being a private eye opened new doors for danger to prowl about, since anyone could come back with a personal vendetta against her. These days Nora shows her outspokenness through this subtle sympathy. She developed this insane ability to listen first, which helped her a lot - not only in understanding her clients better, but also be able to convey that to people - this nod - that she has their back. She doesn't actively suppress it after so many years of trying to do that, because doing that was killing the kid in her that had done so much good and was so traumatised enough to choose a career path that focused on her grief. Deleting that would just be like deleting her main motivation to do anything in the first place.

Trystan: Trystan struggled a lot with his entire identity. Throughout his childhood and adulthood he was coached into wearing a different set of traits and off-cameras, he would struggle with just finding who he was. With most children growing up, people tend to associate their identity with their interests or the things they care about, but with Trystan, he cared about virtually nothing since a large portion of his identity was a fake anyway. His love for poetry and Western music and reading were actively squashed and discouraged, leading him to lose his sense of self at an early age or at least, actively suppress it enough to make him look disconnected.

During his exile, he came to terms with what he was trying to do and who he was before being 'Juliana's future husband', 'heir to the Drakovian throne', 'the eldest of the Thorne kids' and so on and so forth - basically who he was besides the titles he was associated with, at a young age. At the heart of it, he's an utter pathetic geek. He has this beautiful undying appreciation for all art ever to exist - be it cheesy comics in papers to multi-million dollar films.

It kind of healed his inner child and the more he got into it and embraced that part of his identity, he was able to open his mind to enjoying more things. Although he definitely doesn't acknowledge it in public right now - considering he has this image of a 'cool guy' set up and doesn't want the paparazzi giving that any attention or use that to sell more copies of their vitriol. But he definitely does enjoy it openly around people he trusts.

🟣 Purple

Nora: Relentless optimism! Nora isn't vocal about it, well, as vocal as, "Everything will be okay" but her brain tells a whole other story. She might not have faith in herself to keep moving forward, but she has this unhealthy belief in everything else that even if she fucks up, all is not lost. Optimism was like oil on water to her when she first discovered it, but hoping was a lot better than sitting and being afraid. It did make her susceptible to broken expectations, false hopes, etc, but it is quite like a drug.

When Nora hopes and puts faith in something, she never backtracks unless something horrible happens (it literally took her a year to unlearn everything she'd been led to believe after quitting the police force) but getting there is equally difficult too.

She's like the 'everything is fine' meme with fire all around. While it comes with flaws, it keeps her grounded. It makes her stay level-headed and cool in otherwise stressful situations; this idea that she'll do her best and let the natural order of things take it up from there, even if she doesnt have confidence in her abilities.

Specifically in the final battle in Book 1 when she had to NOT PANIC and put belief and optimism in the very people that did her wrong, to not pull the trigger and shoot them dead; because let's be real, stalling doesn't always work. Her optimism is her own sense of reassurance when everything and anything flops and falls apart.

Trystan: Allies. Trystan quickly learned that he can't play the dark horse character for a long time and he had to count on someone to keep him afloat. Not necessarily family, friends or lovers but someone of his choosing that made him realise how powerful allies are and why his parents are constantly chasing after their own. To have an external party offer you a safety net at the very best case and a hopeful word at the very worst (hopeful words aren't helpful if you're in near-death scenarios), he learned that having key allies and players in the game gives him a chance to delegate things and hence, see things from different perspectives.

Trystan knows that in order to win at life, you have to befriend a couple of winners. Not necessarily to copy from their textbook, but to see where their head is at. Which is why he befriends a lot of well, crappy people such as Ruth Iverson, Nick Bastion and so on. Without Nick Bastion's reluctant help, they wouldn't have gotten that far with the process of elimination. Plus, without Nora's own allyship, he wouldn't have been able to have someone procure evidence needed to disprove his role in Juliana's murder. (If we're going by 'Crimes 2 is canon in Mads's writing'). Making friends is just this essential key to his survival, but that doesn't mean he's a bad friend or he uses people. No, he's actually a very good one; someone who genuinely cares about these people even if their beliefs don't align with his. And he surrounds himself with good people these days and becomes more of a social necessity than a 'survival' mechanism.

***

Thank you for the ask, Anon!

How powerful is hugduul compared to Nicholas or Hector? It’s a weird thing to answer actually... Hugduu’l is technically a... healer? Tank healer. Yes. Does Hector know how Nicholas feels about him? What do you think? :) your sona looks like shaggy from scoobydoo I do look like Shaggy. Mh. Will we see more of Nicolas' lovers in the future ? :D (in Bromance) Yup! He has even a bunch of “main” lovers that will enter the story. We actually technically saw some of them already... and one is in the comic. :-> Favorite movie ? 030 Can’t choose! But I recommend Confessions (Kokuhaku) (2010). It’s very very very good. Are you aware of how wonderfully diverse you art style is and what a joy it is to look at? Eeeeeeeh. Nope, I’m sincerely not aware. :’> Haha. I wish I was able to make more different stuff, actually! U play overwatch? Nope! But if I did, I would main Junkrat, I’m pretty sure. Will you make a bromance physical book if and when it finishes I actually still am wondering... I don’t think Bromance would really work as a physical book as it is right now, but my friend @bekkidoodles​ actually gave me an idea of how to make it look good. But it would need a whole other lot of work. :’) Your a cutie.. Shut up. >:I Do you like cake? What kind? If not why? Almost all the kinds of cake, like any true human being should. IS MAYONNAISE AN INSTRUMENT? No it’s not. Horseradish is not an instrument either. Will any Angels or beings from other Pantheons appear? (in Bromance) Technically speaking, we already have a god and a demon in the story! But you will see more for sure... at least one other is planned right now... hEY COOL CAT if you could be a dinosaur for a day,the heck would u do ? Woah woah, important informations are missing there. In the prehistoric age? In our times? What kind of dinosaur am I?? are u gonna drop merch or comics strips of it someday ? cause at least im pretty interested in saving n buying ! (Bromance) Well, for the comic strips, they can be find on my Bromance Tapas page! As for merch... I’m yet again still thinking about it. I’m not sure Bromance has enough of a following to have people interested in buying enough stuff, ahah.  Do you have any plans for bromance, or is it mostly improvised? A mix of both. I have a plan for both my “main” story and my “side” stories, but I don’t like being too organized, so I keep enough space to create more things if I want to. Do you have your own irl bromance? :o Haha, kinda, in a way. Not the same kind though. as a pet would you rather have a tiny kitten-sized dragon or a large house-sized dragon? Kitten-sized dragon, of course. A house-sized dragon would be COOL AS HELL, but also absolutely not practical. How do I feed it? Where does it sleep? Where does it even stand? (in the middle of the street?) What color is the shirt youre currently wearing? I drew my shirt on the drawing in this post, haha. Go check on top of it! Do you love me? Are you pizza? If you are, the answer is yes. What hobbies do you have outside of art? Not much, since I spend most of my time drawing. But... video games? Jeez, that’s original. How many projects are working on right now? I remember you have a lot going on all the time it seems. I usually have a lot, but I tried to shorten the list the most I can. So now, I’m pretty much trying to focus on Bromance. Did you ever get water back for your street? or are you still melting snow? HAHA yes, forgot to tell it here. We got water back after two days. Two. Long. Days. Without showers or toilets. Terrible. Your ideal date? No date is my ideal date. Aw shit dude you like Heartstopper? I just started reading and it's real good I do, discovered it a few weeks ago! Well made comic! Do you loke anime? I loke anime. Any plans for another comic? Kinda, but I’m trying to kill those plans as soon as I have them. Better focus on ONE comic first, it’s hard enough! ahah Hey Trystan! Ou sont toute les femmes dans ton comic? (translation: where are all the women in your comic?) They exist! Considering I showed mainly three characters in the comic and I’m focusing on them, it seems like there’s no women, ahah. But I assure you the next big main character planned to be introduced is going to be a woman! (Well... kinda...) How long have you been drawing for? Any art style/artist you admire? For a long time, not too sure. Always been drawing a little, at least. And I know way too much artists I love, ahah. But recently I really have been digging @mancameron‘s art. Biggest goal for 2018? Not fail. It’s not up to a good start.

I’ve been meaning to present my idea to you guys and I finally had enough courage. I want to thank @musethetic for the big push! So this is a post to introduce my 6x6 (the number of characters can be altered) about the life of young royals who are being forced into arranged marriages. I hope you guys find it interesting (especially how I set up the characters!). In case there are any questions, just pop up and I will be more than happy to assist. 

Storyline. 

Our everyday lives depend on stable leaders, who will be able to distinguish what is best for us. It's 2017 and the controversial idea that the monarchies are no longer sexist and power-hungry, and also a place where the future queens and kings no longer fear not having a choice, is debatable. The only people who know what happens inside the castle walls are the royals themselves. They want to tell their story, but who will listen? 

The main concern of those who will one day rule is how little choice they have over every aspect of their lives. Friendships have to be only with people who can be of use for the success of their country. Which is why arranged marriages were licensed as 'peace treaties', as a token of unbreakable alliances between powerful countries. 

SUMMARY&EXTRAS: So it's pretty much a small group of royals who are forced to marry (when people apply I will randomly pair them using a website!). Hopefully, we will establish relationships before starting so we can have exes, friends, enemies and etc. 

Characters. 

For now (seeing as how scared I am of nobody applying), I am going to put up six slots. I will just leave it here that the couples are going to be heterosexual, however, it does not mean your character has to be too. The monarchy is going to follow the norms they've been following for hundreds of years. Each one of the characters is going to be based on a greek god because I love them so let’s roll: LET ME KNOW IN CASE I HAVE TO ADD MORE. 

based on athena, goddess of wisdom: yelena katja vasilyev, twenty-six, she/her, russia, her royal highness. fc: phoebe tonkin. taken.

based on eris, goddess of chaos, strife and discord: adelina beatrice lerwick, twenty-six, she/her, united kingdom, her royal highness. fc: marie avgeropouslos. played by @shcwnz . taken.

based on nyx, the primordial goddess of the night: nicoletta achlys borbone, twenty-three, she/her, italy, her royal highness. fc: seychelle gabriel. played by syd. taken.

based on apollo, god of the sun, the light, the music and prophecy: manuel alexander, twenty-three, he/him, netherlands, his royal highness. fc: neels visser. played by @capricornwrites . taken.

based on hades, god of death: lafayette da silva, twenty-five, they/them, france, his royal highness. fc: nicolas simoes. played by @musethetic . taken.

based on hephaestus, god of fire, metalworking, stonemasonry, forges and the art of sculpture: ángel soler-velasco, twenty-five, he/him, spain, his royal highness.  fc: diego barrueco. played by @trashedies . taken.

based on poseidon, god of the sea, earthquakes, floods, drought and horses. trystan rhodri, twenty-four, he/him, wales. fc: austin butler. played by @zaviers. taken.

based on iris, goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. vivienne hass, twenty-one, she/her, austria, her royal highness. fc: danielle campbell. played by @ofwingsandfury . taken.

based on ares, god of war. andres yago da fontoura, twenty-three, he/him, portugal, his royal highness. fc: herman tømmeraas. played by @bellawrits . taken.

based on persephone, goddess of spring. tba

Apply. 

[ FACECLAIM] -- [TITLE] [FULL NAME] of [COUNTRY] was seen at the airport, what could [SHE/HE/THEY] be up to now? [SHE/HE/THEY] is/are [AGE] so I'm sure they can take of themselves. However, I heard [SHE/HE/THEY] is/are [NEGATIVE TRAIT] and [NEGATIVE TRAIT]. Don't let that cloud your judgement, [SHE/HE/THEY] are also [POSITIVE TRAIT] and [POSITIVE TRAIT]. BASED ON [GOD/GODDESS]

Example. 

[ SHEYCHELLE GABRIEL ] -- [HER ROYAL HIGHNESS] [NICOLETTA BORBONE] of [ITALY] was seen at the airport, what could [SHE] be up to now? [SHE] is [23] so I'm sure they can take of themselves. However, I heard [SHE] is [BLUNT] and [PUGNACIOUS]. Don't let that cloud your judgement, [SHE] is also [ELOQUENT] and [RELIABLE]. BASED ON [NYX]

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