#ayo really said not a monster fucker but a monster friend 💪

[pulchrasilva]

Decided I don’t have the patience to wait. Have my questions

• Is your character an optimist or pessimist?

• Is your character good with kids?

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

• What event in your story altered your character the most?

(Honestly tho no pressure)

Ty for the ask bestie!! And yes, Ayo is the Creature's best friend, I'm thrilled that you guessed that!

Is your character an optimist or pessimist?

The Creature: Pessimist for sure! Its whole life's philosophy is "something looking evil doesn't make it actually evil", but ironically it tends to assume most people are unforgivably cruel because that's how it's been treated. But! Thanks to a certain someone, that will change.

Ayo: He definitely starts out an optimist! He's one of those characters who starts out super naive but slowly becomes disillusioned by the world (at the same time as restoring hope to those around him - I wonder who that will be haha). He'll have a bit of a pessimist arc, but it also won't last forever.

Is your character good with kids?

The Creature: It depends on the kid! Mostly The Creature stays away from kids (and people generally) because people don't like it and it's sick of being rejected/threatened/etc. But there are definitely some kids who would be fascinated by this friendly monster, and it's all made up of limbs which is probably ideal for things like throwing kids in the air. It probably takes a long time for it to realise that there are kids who would like it though

Ayo: I think he used to be good with kids, he's the kind of person who can drop his inhibitions really easily and just play. But as his power grows and he understands just How Much he could do with it, he starts staying away from kids because he's scared of hurting them, and he definitely stops letting down inhibitions around them

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

The Creature: well, for one thing it has become a fucked up thing! It's also become much more isolated and distrustful, but happier and freer.

Ayo: I'm honestly not sure Ayo changes much from childhood? He starts out in the story as pretty child-like in a lot of ways. The change happens during the story instead!

What event in your story altered your character the most?

The Creature: Probably befriending Ayo! When they first meet, Ayo is understandably freaked out and the interaction does Not go well, and the Creature is like "see? another rejection. typical of those small-minded normies". But a bit later, once Ayo has become a bit more disillusioned with reality, he starts to understand the Creature's idea that looking evil is not really evil. And Ayo comes back, and says "I understand you" and the Creature is like oh..��a friend 😭. Ayo restores (some) of its faith in people, and shows it that it doesnt need to choose between companionship and being itself (fucked up scary monster).

Ayo: For a while, Ayo reassures himself that he won't accidentally do something awful with his magic by telling himself that the Sun Queen (who is the one that provides them with magic in the first place) is Kind and Loving and therefore wouldn't let him use magic to do harm. But then he learns that Sidera, the very person who told him that, actually did hurt someone by accident, and that causes a bit of a downward spiral for him. If Sidera, the top priestess and most powerful magic user, can do that, what's stopping him from doing it? (Don't ask me what Sidera did or how Ayo learns about it, I'm still figuring it out-)

Doing this ask game!