Let's RP our characters game

[Bird]

Hi all,

We used to have a game like this on our prior forum. So I'm recreating it into a playable game here. The rules are simple:

1. You must answer the question as one of your characters. The character can be from any of your stories.
   
2. You must end your answer with the name of your character and what world/story that character is from.
3. You must ask a question for the next person.

And that's it!

I'll start to show y'all how this works:

What is your favorite recreational activity?

I listen and tell stories. Being of the Pageike, I live with my people in the Mihor, near the Kontai canyons - the canyons ripple with the music of the wind; each blend of notes over the beat of branches is an exquisite symphony. I like to use this backdrop to share stories with the town's children. But I tell it in a sing-song way. Not quite singing but not quite speaking. That inbetween that captures the emotive qualities of our voices, where I can blend my own notes with the harmonies of our world. It enthralls the children. They always ask for more stories, but I can only do so many before I am tired from speaking. And so I urge them to try sharing one of their own. That is when I sit and listen, listen to their stories against the backdrop of our planet's symphonies. 

-- Karak of Narlip Pageike, The Egoni Tale (working title)

Next Question: What is your favorite color and why is it your favorite?

[ScintillaMyntan]

I remember that thread. It was lots of fun; thanks for remaking it.


What is your favorite color and why is it your favorite?

All right, it's not about colors. It's about the relationship between them. A golden-yellow tree against a light grey autumn sky. Pinkish sunset behind my city's water tower that becomes a medium, dull blue-green at dusk. If you practice wisp, you really see that principle for yourself. Colors get their meaning by association, both to each other and to your immediate environment, ideas, and memories. 

But if I had to pick, I would say the color of the ocean on an overcast day. I've had that color come up so much in my wisps spontaneously before I started recognizing it. I realized it represents a peculiar set of things to me: comfort, solitude, exploration and adventure, fear.

~Brendan "Crane" Gelenter, The Wisp-Farer


Next question: What do you usually find yourself doing to procrastinate?

[Bird]

What do you usually find yourself doing to procrastinate?

I get out the dice and cards. Sometimes there's a bit of gambling, though I gotta be careful not to let it drain my credits. Some days I don't feel like dice or cards, so then I take a walk along the steel and wood pathways of the tree-city. I peer down into the depths of the Raliok forest, the lower levels of damp and darkness. Sometimes I pull out my rope and climbing gear and venture down from one of the parks' wells. I know we're not supposed to be doing that, but I need some relief, and I don't want to study. Even though I need to for my pilot's license. Arun always reminding me to study first then play, gets it out of the way, but I don't work like that.

- Jak of Esikan, Eagrok Nation - Tale of Egoni (working title)

NEXT Question: What is your favorite literature/book? Why?

[RAVENEYE]

What is your favorite literature/book? Why?

Jane Eyre, most certainly. Throughout my childhood, I read voraciously, but it is with Miss Eyre that I share a special kinship. She and I were both raised by aunts who treated us foully, more as interlopers than family, and both of us grew up with cousins who tormented us mercilessly. When our aunts' tolerance shattered at last, we were both of us shipped off and put out of sight. I look to Jane for an example of strength and quiet resolve. In the end, she found a family to love and nourish, which is my dearest hope for myself, though I fear I shall be fated for loneliness.

-- Gabriella Hartwell, This Shattered Eden

Next Question: When you were a child, what or who did you dream of becoming? Did you succeed?

[pelwrath]

When you were a child, what or who did you dream of becoming? Did you succeed?

  "I dreamed of being as beautiful as my mother, Dulcinea del Toboso,and as wise as my uncle, Vald Draculea of House Draculesti. Others say I succeded in having my mothers beauty. Unfortunately, monsters have more wisdom than we can dream of." Henriette Tangre' (A.K.A. Agate' d'Estange)  from Sundowners: Vampires are Only Human.

QUESTION:

"What's the hardest secret you have kept about someone, that you don't want to tell?"

[Caulder Melhaire]

"What's the hardest secret you have kept about someone, that you don't want to tell?"

After 13 years, it got so easy to just lie about Connor.  People ask if you're an only child, and you say "yes," and accept the condolences that everyone seems to want to give people with that condition.  But after everything that happened in Hylo... there's so much more history to sweep under the rug now.   Somedays it gets to be too much.  I want to grab the person next to me on the sidewalk and scream like a madwoman in their ear.

But I can't share that burden.  Start talking about twins and old magic, and they'll think I went mad when I went home to put all that shit to rest.

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NEXT QUESTION: "What's a talent you wish you had?"

[leitenheit]

"What's a talent you wish you had?"

Knowing stuff, I guess. Basically, being a genius. To be honest, I despise genii; barely do any work at all, and then get all the attention like the light-hogs they are. Then there's people like me who have to work themselves half dead to get a quarter-ounce of the recognition they get by just opening their mouths.
Can't say I don't respect them, though. It's impressive, and that makes me loath them all the more.

- Melleriem Vaelov Shiffua, "The Nighseer Chronicles."

Next Question: How would you describe yourself?

[ScintillaMyntan]

How would you describe yourself?

Badly, heh. I want to know who I am, but I'm not sure the answer will ever be anything other than a bad person, a bully. I'm nicer now, if that counts for anything. I really wish I could answer this question like, "This is me, third-degree member of the inner circle of so-and-so, keeper of the so-and-so, involved in this and that," but I have completely nothing like that. I can't even say "a good person," "a kind friend."

~Alfreda, the planned novel with the wilderness and electric lights.

Next question: What's the greatest accomplishment you've had that most people wouldn't see as significant?

[RAVENEYE]

What's the greatest accomplishment you've had that most people wouldn't see as significant?

I learned how to hold still. Angel says sane people don't fidget all the time, and I don't want to be insane so I stand still. It's hard, and sometimes I forget. When I'm nervous, I forget and fidget. My left hand especially. It wants to hide under my chin, like a scorpion under a rock. But Angel reminds me, so I grip the sides of my trousers and put wrinkles in them. But wrinkles are better than fidgeting and having people think I'm as mad as that hideous Hatter.

~ Jeremy, This Shattered Eden

Next question: What's the worst thing that ever happened to you -- before the story starts?