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015, 035, 053 for Nalice!

100 RANDOM CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS // accepting.

015. Are they most likely to fight with their fists or their tongue?

Highly depends on who she’s fighting and why. Nalice is very capable of violence and she enjoys it --- but only when she knows it isn’t a risk to herself. She won’t pick an actual fight she doesn’t know she can win, unless she really has no choice. Avoiding violence is always a self-preservation based choice, though, and not a matter of it actually being something she would prefer not to engage in. If she is confident she can win, she won’t shy away from using her fists (or teeth. or claws. or magic aisudfhiusdhf). If it’s an easy target/a situation in which the consequences don’t seem too troublesome to her, then she’s quite likely to fight in a physical manner.

Arguments, though, are something she does engage in mostly unrestrained. She doesn’t hold back when it comes to words, and actively uses them in ways she expects to wound others. She does taunt and poke and offend, even when she knows it’s dangerous and even if it’s directed to someone she knows could kick her ass (but even while arguing, she will always have an escape plan ready if she thinks coming down to an actual fight she wouldn’t be able to win). I mean, she stood at the top of Wyrmrest with the Dragon Aspects talking shit about Alexstrasza and Korialstrasz -- she dared not physically fight anyone, but she was quite literally provoking everyone around her for an argument. 

035. What is the most important rule your character lives by?

Surviving is the most important thing. Defeat happens, but it doesn’t have to be final. If she survives, it can one day be reversed. Strength matters, but being the strongest doesn’t always mean you’ll survive. Being smart matters even more than raw strength, but being adaptable is what matters most because it is what will allow you to survive.

Even when amidst her own flight and her own siblings, I think it was always true they all had a mentality that those who were strong/good enough would survive, and those who didn’t, well, they weren’t fit for it then. I doubt Onyxia cared much to actively care for her brood in that sense, and even amidst themselves it was often dangerous competition --- and that’s the safest Nalice ever was when she was young, since other dragons and mortals alike would rather have the Black Dragonflight destroyed. So the most important thing to her is survival; more than being the strongest, more than being the most powerful, more than winning. More than other people, too; and if there are exceptions to that rule, they are few and Nalice would be loathe to admit she’d put herself at risk for others.

053. What is your character’s greatest strength?

Much on the line of the previous reply, she’s adaptable. She’s very very clever and that’s definitely part of why she succeeded in much of what she achieved, but ultimately, it’s being adaptable that ensures her survival. She’s proud, but capable of swallowing her pride if the situation demands that of her in any way. She’s aware of her strength, and of when she can rely purely on it or it would be best to avoid conflict. She’s capable of being charming and nice if she needs to be because that’s what she believes will be best for her and her goals; she’s capable of exploiting other people’s views of her, even the negative ones, and turning it in her favor. 

Whatever she needs to do to survive she will, and I think that’s quite obvious in that the moment she let pride get the best of her was also her critical mistake (either if she dies in Karazhan or if, like in my main verse, she still survives somehow, because that’s still not something she does easily), seeing for example how she abandoned her former cover quite carelessly, because she pretty much relied entirely on Deathwing’s return meaning her flight had already won. When she’s out for herself and seeking to succeed and survive, Nalice can achieve lots, and just like it’s noticeable how pride and arrogance and exaggerated confidence leads her to making mistakes, you can look at how far she’s come before that and how much she survives and see  it’s no small feat she survived as long as she did, all the while doing stuff like infiltrate Wyrmrest on behalf of the Blacks. She’s not the strongest Black, far from it; when it comes to just power, she’s not really particularly powerful for a dragon (she’s not weak by any means, but what I mean is she’s not the strongest either, and when it comes to strength alone she’s not that much worthy of note); but when it comes to her mind, how adaptable and clever she can be, that’s why she was still alive after so many of her flight had fallen, and why she was capable of standing right beside the Dragon Aspects in Wyrmrest as she did.  

[interslavic-jezyk-blog]

Interslavic Vocabulary

Verbs are imperfective first then the perfective, stem changes are in parentheses as the 3rd person singular (on, ona, ono). 

be - byti

there is - je (pl. sut)

have - imeti

do - delati / sdelati

go - idti (ide) / pojdti (pojde)

want - hoteti (hoče)

can - mogti

need - potrebovati

think - mysliti

know - znati

say - govoriti / skazati

like - ljubiti

speak - govoriti

learn - učiti se / naučiti se

understand - razumeti / srazumeti

Conjunctions

that (as in “I think that…” or “the woman that…”) - že

and - i

or - ili

but - no

because - ibo

though - ače

so (meaning “therefore”; e.g. “I wanted it, so I bought it”) - itak

if - jestli

Prepositions

of - od (genitive)

to - k (dative)

from - iz (genetive)

in - v (accusative)

at (a place) - u (genetive)

at (a time) - na (accusative)

with - c (instrumentive)

about - o (locative)

like (meaning “similar to”) - kako

for (warning, this one has several meanings that you need to take care of) - dlja

before (also as a conjunction) - pred (accusative)

after (also as a conjunction) - pozad (locative)

during - podčas (instrumentive)

Question Words

who - kto

what - čto

where - kde

when - kogda

why - začto, čemu

how - kako

how much - koliko

which - ktory

Adverbs

a lot - mnogo

a little - nemnogo

well - dobro

badly - zlo

only - doprva

also - tož

very - velje

too (as in “too tall”) - pre-

too much - premnogo

so (as in “so tall”) - tako

so much - xx

more (know how to say “more … than …”) - vyše

less (know how to say “less … than …”) - menje

as … as … (e.g. “as tall as”) - xxx

most - naj-

least - najmenje

better - lepje

best - najlepje

worse - gorše

worst - najgorše

now - sejčas

then - potom

here - tu

there - tam

maybe - može

always - vsegda

usually - obyčno

often - često

sometimes - ponekogda, časom

never - nikogda

today - dnes

yesterday - včera

tomorrow - zautra

soon - skoro

almost - bliz

already - uže

still - ješče

even - ješče

enough - dost

Adjectives

the, a (technically articles)- xxx

this - toj (ta, to)

that - toj (ta, to)

good - dobry

bad - loši, nedobry

all - ves (vsa, vse)

some - nekoj

no - ne

any - koj-nebud

many - mnogy

few - nemnogy

most - naj-

other - drugy

same - jednaky

different - različny

enough - dost

one - jedin

two - dva

a few - nemnogy

first - prvy

next - sledny

last (meaning “past”, e.g. “last Friday”) - prošly

last (meaning “final”) - konečny

easy - legky

hard - trudny

early - rany

late - pozdny

important - važny

interesting - interesny

fun - veselje

boring - dosadny

beautiful - krasivy

big - veliky

small - maly

happy - ščestny

sad - smutny

busy - zajety

excited - vozbudlivy

tired - umorjeny

ready - gotovy

favorite - omiljeny

new - novy

right (meaning “correct”) - pravy (to be right - imeti pravdu)

wrong - nepravy

true - vemy

Pronouns

Know them in the subject (“I”), direct object (“me”), indirect object (“to me”), and possessive (“my”) forms.

I - ja (mene, mne, mene)

you - ty (tebe, tobe, tebe)

she - ona (ju, jej, jej)

he - on (jego, jemu, jego)

it - ono (jego, jemu, jego)

we - my (nas, nam, nas)

you (plural) - vy (vas, vam, vas)

they - oni (jih, jim, jih)

Nouns

everything - vsečto

something - nečto

nothing - ničto

everyone - vsekto

someone - nekto

no one - nikto

(name of the language you’re studying) - medžuslovjansky

English - anglijsky

thing - več

person - osoba

place - mesto

time (as in “a long time”) - vreme

time (as in “I did it 3 times”) - po

friend - prijatelj

woman - žena

man - muž

money - penezy

country - kraj

(name of your home country) - xx

city - veliky grad

language - jezyk

word - slovo

food - jeda

house - dom

store - magazin

office - ofis

company - firma

manager - menedžer

coworker - surabotnik

job - rabota

work (as in “I have a lot of work to do”) - rabota

problem - problem

question - vopros

idea - ideja

life - žitje

world - svet

day - denj

year - god

week - tydenj

month - mesec

hour - časina

mother, father, parent - matka, otec, roditelj

daughter, son, child - dočera, syn, dete

wife, husband - žena, muž

girlfriend, boyfriend - prijateljka, prijatelj

More Verbs

work (as in a person working) - rabotati

work (meaning “to function”, e.g. “the TV works”) - funkcionovati

see - videti (vidi) / uvideti (uvidi)

use - upotrebjati / upotrebiti

should - dolžny

believe - veriti / uveriti

practice - praktikovati

seem - sdavati se

come - prihoditi / prijdti (prijde)

leave - odhoditi / odidti

return - vračati / vraziti

give - davati / dati

take - brati (bere) / vzeti (vozme)

bring - prinositi / prinesti

look for - iskati (išče) / poiskati (poišče)

find - nahoditi / najdti

get (meaning “obtain”) - dobyvati / dobyti

receive - prijmati / prijeti (prijme)

buy - kupovati / kupiti

try - probovati / poprobovati

start - počinati / početi (počne)

stop (doing something) - prestavati / prestati

finish - končati / zakončiti

continue - trvati / potrvati

wake up - bdeti (bdi)

get up - vstavati / vstati

eat - jesti (je) / sjesti (sje)

eat breakfast (in several languages, this is a verb) - zautrakati

eat lunch - obedati

eat dinner - večerjati

happen - byvati 

feel - Čuti

create (aka “make”) - stvarjati / stvoriti

cause (aka “make”) - pričinjati / pričiniti 

meet (meeting someone for the first time) -  strečati / stresti (strete)

meet (meaning “to bump into”) - xx

meet (an arranged meeting) - xx

ask (a question) - prositi / poprositi

ask for (aka “request”) - poprositi (perfective)

wonder - razmysljati / razmysliti

reply - odgovarjati / odgovoriti

mean - značiti

read - čitati / pročitati

write - pisati (piše) / napisati (napiše)

listen - slušati / poslušati

hear - slyšati (slyši) / uslyšati 

remember - pomněti (pomni) 

forget - zabezpamečati / zabezpametiti

choose - izbirati / izbrati (izbere) 

decide - rešati / rešiti 

be born - roditi se / uroditi se

die -  umirati / umreti (umre)

kill - ubivati - ubiti 

live - žiti (žive)

stay - ostavati / ostati (ostane)

change - izmenjati / izmeniti

help - pomagati / pomogti

send - slati (slje) / poslati (poslje)

study - učiti se

improve - ulepšati / ulepšiti

hope -  nadejati se (nadeje) 

care - dbati