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Tag Game: OC Interview

Tagged By: @owlsofstarlight

Rules: Pick a character from your WIP, and have them answer these 15 questions, then tag 15 people!

1. What is your full name?

“Khalil ibn Naviyd al-Fulan! Though I guess if you wanted to be extremely technical and kind of a pedant, you could keep going back through Baba’s family as far as you wanted. Past a certain point, even he loses track.”

2. What does your full name mean?

”Khalil, son of Naviyd, of the town called Fulan. The town’s name is probably longer, and I kind of left out Jad, but he doesn’t have a Mishik name anymore. Baba says he picked the name ‘Copernicus’ for some reason, but at that point he was already on a ship to go shoot generals in Alanris, so I guess they aren’t talking.”

3. What are your nicknames/other names?

“Nicknames? Well, most people just call me Khalil. I only break out the full name if I want to make a point to someone. Sometimes strangers have already heard of Baba before I ever meet them.

“I honestly think most people think of me more as ‘that one wild Mishik boy’ if they don’t know my name. I’ve also lied a few times and said my name was Sohrab or something, but those only need to work for a few seconds.”

4. Whats your gender?

”I’ve always thought of myself as a boy, or a man once I got older. Mitra said the trick is that I absorbed all the gender stuff in the womb from my twin. Which is her. It’s what makes me so charming.”

“Damn annoying is what it makes you.”

“Pffff, I love you too.”

5. Whats your sexuality?

“I’m into basically everyone equally. But I’m not really into...uh, romance? Kinda can’t stand it. I don’t really want to ‘settle down’ with anybody, ether. I’m kind of a live-and-let-love guy, which pertains to me, too.”

(He’s aromantic pansexual.)

6. Where are you from?

“Gabilan! It’s this city in the mountains way the hell out in the middle of nowhere on the edges of Kaltekan territory. We’ve got magic--magic people, magic sheep, magic holes in the sky that spit out monsters every week--and also plain old everything. And a lake.

“Most people expect Mishik to be from somewhere else--blah blah racism--but my parents went there after the Kaltekan Civil War because it was being put together by Baba’s friend. It didn’t quite work out that way, but hey, nobody ever made a cake without breaking a mountain or two.

“What’s with the funny look?”

7. How old are you?

“Twenty! And I bet you nobody in my old group thought I’d do it with all my fingers. They owe me money now!”

8. What is your magic form/species?

”I’m Mishik, which means I’m a human who’s descended from the people chosen by the gods. Apparently. Baba never really said so, but basically we’re the people who are way more likely to be mages than everybody else. Something like one in four of us, and that counts for anybody who’s even part-Mishik, too.”

“That said, uh. Most mages aren’t exactly like me. I get to have a spirit yelling in my head about responsibility. I’m not sure what it is, exactly, but it’s loud as fuck and definitely has a lot of scales. It’s where my magic comes from.

“A lot of people have Others, but most of them have them there. They’re real and touchable. I just get a nag.”

9. What does your human form look like?

“Can’t you tell? I’m a human person.

“Fine, fine, I’ll give it a spin. I’m five-foot-seven, ish? My skin’s pretty dark, and my hair’s black and curly unless I fix it somehow. Eyes? I have them. Blueish-green and with the Mishik iris rings, since that’s a thing we’re known for, and I’ve got the best smile in town. Any town. Just ask!

“Hmmm. I’ve also got three piercings in each ear. I’d get a nose ring if Baba didn’t already have one, since that makes me look more like him. Therefore: old. And I guess I dress like a Kaltekan, but robes are a pain! If I can’t climb a cliff in it, I’ll hold off until I’m ordered to wear it.

“Unless it’s a party. Then let me break out the everything.”

10. What’s your aesthetic?

”What’s an aesthe--Oh. Hm. You know, that’s a good question. I like plenty of things, but it’s been a while since I had to think about what defines me.”

“I think I’d start with stones. Gemstones, sure, but also sandstone and granite rock faces and things like that. But before you even get out of my magic preferences, we’d have to talk about pretty patterns on silk and in flowers, and absolutely mirrors have to be in there somewhere. Smoke, too. Probably a ton of other things I’m forgetting.”

11. Who’s your best friend?

“It’s a tie! Two of my favorite people in the world are Oceanus and Allie, and they’re sort of like a weird cross between friends and siblings. I make them want to roll their eyes so hard they fall right out of their heads.

“Though nowadays, I like the idea of expanding my friend-circle. Tirane’s a good one for that. Or horizons. I forget which.”

12. Would you ever get a piercing/tattoo?

“Way ahead of you! Ear piercings so far. Navel later, I think. No nose rings ever, unless Baba finally admits he’s past forty and takes his out.”

13. When are you happiest?

“When on an adventure! It’s even better with friends.”

14. What’s your biggest secret?

”...Despite what you’d think, I actually do take some things seriously.”

“And I’m aware enough of my shortcomings to know that’s exactly what my Other wants me to fucking figure out. It’s just...not something I can do right now.

“And that bastard doesn’t deserve to win at anything over me.”

15. What was your first impression of ______?

“Of Riyaz? Sleepyhead. Turns out he actually has a personality when it’s not two hours past midnight, and that personality is a great one to hang out with if you’re in a lazy mood.

“Tirane’s fun, which I got right the first time we met!

“Oceanus was this half-size feral child who literally bit me once. But we’re friends now, and it’s pretty fun to hang out and fail horribly at fishing while he laughs at me.

“Oh, and I absolutely loved Alena the first time I saw her. She was a shy little girl who literally hid from me behind her aunt. And then it turned out she read better than I do and wanted to fix that problem for me, and then I was the one hiding. It’s quite the reversal!

“And I had to get a second impression of Mitra, because Mother botched the first one. Mitra’s fun to piss off all the time. But I wish we had more time together as kids, you know?

Tagging: @abalisk, @writer-and-artist27, @ezzelbean and anyone else who’d like to do this. :D

#terramir gang #my ocs #Khalil #Naviyd #Mitra #ask games

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