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inkspill-nebula · 5 years ago

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Okay listen, this has been sitting in my drafts for months and at this point, I’m probably never going to finish it, so I’m just gonna post it anyway.

I’ve been working on this activity for over a week now. My brain isn't playing ball. My characters aren’t getting along. Everything is a mess, and I’m admitting defeat.

I apologize for the missing (and horrendously overused) dialogue tags, horrible grammar, and unanswered questions.

TW: food, war (mention)

12/12/12 tag game

rules: answer 12 questions in character as an OC, ask 12 questions, & tag 12 people!

I was tagged by @inscrutable-shadow like eons ago and I couldn’t figure out how to approach the game (and if you know my OCs, you might figure out why), so what I’m going to do is not answer all the questions as one OC but bring in the entire cast of a WIP and let whoever has an answer for a given question answer that question and if multiple characters have an answer then they can discuss. So for this run, I’m going with Amarantos and this is probably some time in early Volume 2.

Present in the room we have: Castor, Lionel Haggarty Jr., Roger Dermot, Alex Glaser, Adrienne Ó Conghaile, Powell, Michelle Byron, Clemente “Oz” Osman, Trace Millbrooke, and Dania “Dan” Hendrickson

1. What is your absolute favorite food, and who cooks it for you?

Everyone looks at everyone else. Powell twitches an eyebrow at Castor, who provides in return only a slightly crooked smile. Clearly, Powell has already begun their usual endless commentary on the event over short-field broadcast. Castor will, as usual, ignore most of it. Someone in the hallway might listen in.

Oz laughs to himself “Funnel cake”

“You mean fried air”, Trace jests.

“Hey, I don't know what it is, but even if that was what it was I’ve ate weirder stuff” -Oz

Everyone laughs. There are plenty of odd foods that seem to eternally spring up from newly colonized planets. It’s hard enough taxonomizing most of it, let alone eating it.

“I got one.” Lionel chimes in. “My mom used to make this soup, and I mean from scratch, and she’d make these little star-shaped chicken dumplings, and it was chicken soup except you could actually take it seriously as a meal.”

“Whatever that red popcorn is called.” Byron jumped in

“Taran corn!” Adrienne practically jumped up to announce

“Yeah! That stuff!” -Byron

“I love that stuff!”

“You know the Virtue traveling Theatre.”

“Oh the cinnamon corn!”

“Yess!”

“Ladies please, let’s not derail,” the interviewer pleads and hustles on to the next question

2. If you could change one thing about your body, what would it be?

Lionel looks at Castor, Castor looks at Lionel. They both blink and look back at the interviewer.

“I have too much boobs” Michelle jokes, though it’s only half a joke. Something about them makes her uniform fit oddly, even though they’re body-type tailored.

“And I’m fat.” Oz looks down at himself, and bobs around in his seat, seeming to be amused by his beer belly, which actually never bothered him all that much despite the comment.

3. If you could change one thing about your personality, what would it be?

Castor looks away momentarily. Lionel snorts in amusement and catches the full force of Castor’s cold stare, which he returns with a cocky undertone.

“Fix your collar pin, Haggarty.”

There's some chuckling, mainly from Byron.

“Should we skip this question?” The interviewer askes, picking up immediately on the tension forming.

“For now,” Castor replies, friendly as always.

4. What do you do to get focused?

Castor and Powell return to their private banter, but this time they’ve moved to direct-line to exclude possible hallway eavesdroppers. the room stayed quiet for a moment as people transitioned away from the prior tension and contemplated their answers.

"Set up,” Oz admitted, “Get all the equipment set up for the day and you’re pretty much in the zone by the time it’s all done.”

“Put on some music. Get some mental conditioning going. This music means work.”

“The ship makes you focus.” Lionel said, “No choice.”

Everyone had their own reasons, but they all agreed with that statement.

5. Are you a morning person or a night owl?

“Morning person. My parents drilled it into me.” Lionel responded immediately.

“Who?” Dermot smiled from the corner of the room.

“Do I even know what sleep is?” Trace joked

“Oh, no kidding!” Michelle huffed

6. What could you spend hours doing without noticing?

“Technical journals!” Alex sang.

“Yep,” Castor replied flatly

“Work.” Oz joked

“Lucky bastard,” Adrienne complained. “Nah, movies. Any day.”

“Reading books. Fiction. The less realistic the better.” Michelle (I’ve run out of fucking dialogue tags)

“Here here!” Roger

7. What keeps you awake at night?

“The air pumps.” Michelle, Adrienne, Roger, and Oz all said in unison.

8. What song always lifts your mood?

Roger and Castor exchanged a glance. Roger sighed. Castor looked up at Adrienne who had, fortunately, not made the same connection they had.

[I assume that Byron would be the first to answer, but I haven’t put much thought into this outside of the appearance of a Bastille song in Volume 1, which is what Cas and Roger immediately thought of]

9. If you could live on another planet, which one would you pick (ignoring basic could you survive there stuff)?

[I’m modifying this one to “if you could live anywhere in the inhabited space, planet, ship, or, station, where would it be]

“Fuck borders! Agnes!” Dan yelled, startling everyone since he hadn’t said anything since the interview started

“Ow!” Trace, of all people, yelled back

Oz sighed, “Damn.”

“No point crying over lost territories,” Dermot sighed, “Geneva.”

“Geneva!?” Michelle akes

“I don't know. it was the first place I could think of.”

“What’s that really old Black Diamond inspired Nomad station?” Alex asked. (black diamond made the first interstellar cruise ships. Nomad makes traveling space stations)

“Crysentine” Castor replied.

“Yeah. I mean that’s another thing we don't have anymore, but that would be cool.” -Alex

“What about the Bellenox?” Michelle suggested. (The Bellenox is a station in a city of space stations on the edge of a major passage. The city orbits no planet or star)

“That's a good one,” Oz replied.

“Fine by me,” Roger replied.

10. If you had to give up one skill, which one would you pick?

Castor and Powell look around in equal confusion.

“Nuh-uh” Alex laughs. “Not happening”

“Pass.” -Adrienne

“I don’t know. I have some pretty useless talents. Like they’re fun as a kid but nobody really needs to be able to burp their ABCs or anything.” -Byron

“Is that a skill?” Roger asked.

“It's something,” Dan replied. “It’s true though that not all skills are entirely necessary.”

“I’m pretty skilled at locking myself out of my own office” Oz joked

“That's not a skill” -Adrienne

“Oh, it's a skill.” Trace replied. “Trust me. I don’t know how fate can come up with that many ways to get locked out of a room.”

“Is that why the door is always open?” Castor asked

“Yes, it is.” -Oz replied, with a smile.

11. If you were turned into a computer, would you be a good AI or an evil AI?

*--- Unfortunately, I’m going to have to skip this one because Powell is in the room, and that's not going to end well. I love Powell, but they’re a little bit paranoid. ---*

12. What’s something you’ve always wanted to try?

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12 Questions I’m asking

What is the most significant (to you) item you’ve collected in your adventures (and why)?

Would you want to live to a ripe old age but have an uneventful peaceful life, or die young knowing that you raised hell?

If you were a gemstone, what gemstone would you choose to be?

Do you have any unusual phobias or fears? If so, what are they?

If you could plan a perfect day, what would you do? Who would you spend that perfect day with?

What's the most embarrassing thing that you ever did?

What does your dream neighborhood look like?

It is more important what someone says or the way that they say it?

What traits do you value most in a friend?

Has anyone ever done something that you can’t forgive (it doesn’t have to be something they did to you)?”

If you had the option to know when and how you died, would you want to know?

Do you think it is more important for a leader to maintain a respectable image or maintain an honest upfront relationship with those they lead?

And for tags, I’m sick and I honestly can’t be bothered, so if you made it this far, consider yourself tagged.

#WIP: Amarantos #writing #food tw #war tw

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