#to waffle about kit & jasper further......that story is narrated from their pov but is really about their mother elsie

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10. do any of your ocs contain any symbolism in themselves/their story?

im gonna answer this just for symbolism within character design because symbolism is everywhere in my stories i cant get enough of it 🤷‍♀️ i feel like my designs are never very visual or complex and therefore i dont use a lot of motifs so the only thing i can think of is cyrus's white ministerial hat/scarf that he wears when in the royal court.........its partly about Order & how love disrupts that (the way his affair (can i call it an affair if hes unmarried? its definitely illicit) with aurelius acts almost as an oasis and a place where he can let go of his usual layers of facades and the way love acts in direct opposition to any sort of rigid or hierarchical system) and partly about hidden identity and intentions & artifice in political settings & hidden motives and backgrounds

19. who is your most recent oc?

gian ciceli and his family and environs!! the cicelis are the noble/leading family of mizzene, a remote town overlooking a huge valley from a hilltop, and gian is the current lord & lady's second child and oldest son. the other main characters are lucia (his sharp older sister), beatriz and orlando (his lordly (?) parents), timeo (his dashing, gossipy older cousin), marcel (a handsome, mysterious knight who stops in mizzene for a night before continuing on to the nearby monastery to become a monk), leandra (a beautiful minstrel), his troupe (more musicians & possibly accompanied by a wealthy old man who is rather enamoured with leandra. in the pederasty sense 😐) and nino (gian's jovial uncle). and probably a lot more characters, including gian's little siblings, other cousins, other more distant relatives, other travellers passing through mizzene, some monks and nuns, some peasants from the lower level of mizzene (its arranged with the castle of the cicelis at the very top and then with descending levels) who come into contact with the cicelis, etc etc. it doesnt exactly have a plot yet, although i have a few hundred words of the opening, but themes include voice/art/song/speech/silence, nothingness/emptiness/otherness and change/upheaval/modernity (in the loosest sense because this is a vaguely 13th century setting alkfhlfgh)

25. are there any two characters that are like a dynamic duo/group?

kit gordon & jasper gordon............butch girl and vaguely effeminate blond twin brother who are both a little obsessed with their mother, completely inseperable, have the exact same girl issues (<- their words not mine) and are both weirdly popular. arent they wonderful. special mention to cyrus & aurelius for (nearly) overthrowing a despotic monarchy with the power of elaborate schemes, queer love and strategic positions in the royal court 😍