#PennedPossibilities 902: How old is your antagonist? Do they act their age, or do they feel their age?
Current WIP is set in a crapsack space empire that practices (poor quality, lossy) mind uploading of aristocrats/downloading into children; the MCs and the antagonist are playing reincarnation chicken across a period of centuries. None of them make it past 60-70 years in one body, and they gradually lose who they were, but overall, who knows?
#PennedPossibilities 901 — What is your MC’s profession?
(Current WIP):
Jum: career criminal (he does ALL the mostly-non-violent crimes)
Tabitha: career criminal (runs a crime family, also does all the crimes, violence a specialty)
Agrippina: the past and future Empress (but as the empire got started as a pirate kingdom before developing into a crab-bucket of homicidally back-stabby aristocrats, she's just the biggest criminal of all)
#PennedPossibilities 900. Share a piece of lore from your WIP.
The Permanence is a closed star empire. To the outside universe, it is accessible through 20-odd trade ports. Outsiders who pay attention speculate that there might be as many as a hundred worlds within the Permanence, and it's up to 3000 standard years old.
In truth: the Permanence is over 20,000 years old and there are 8000 star systems inside it with multiple settled worlds/moons/stations in each of them. It's huge and insular.
#PennedPossibilities 898 — Does your MC prefer to spend time alone, in a small group, or in a larger group?
Small groups. She does okay alone, but quickly gets overwhelmed in large groups.
#PennedPossibilities 897.1 - Which one of your characters is the loudest snorer and who is most likely to sleepwalk?
Nisha, Aswathi's mother, snores the loudest.
None of them are likely to sleepwalk.
#PennedPossibilities 897 — List five facts about your favourite character(s) in your WIP.
Jum: Has a compulsive urge to steal rings
Tabitha: Likes her spaniels more than she likes people (Jum excepted, though she'd rather die than admit it)
Jum: once every instar he tries to go straight, but abstaining from crime is so tedious he inevitably backslides—he needs the adrenaline rush
Tabitha: Prefers neurotoxins to bullets, but bullets will do
Jum: is squeamish about violence, leaves it to Tabs
#PennedPossibilities 897 — List five facts about your favourite character(s) in your WIP.
He's a hard worker
He's kind of cute
He's very loyal
He loves to take a nap in the sun
He's a mule
#PennedPossibilities 896 — What does your MC worry about the most?
Elisabeti is constantly worrying about how she is going to raise her cub in safety with them being ripped out of their home and at the mercy of their enemies.
#PennedPossibilities 895. Tell us about your SC’s most cherished possession.
Aswathi doesn't like to think of Stubborn the Mule as a 'possession', but legally that's what he is, and Aswathi would sacrifice any of his actual possessions in a heartbeat for Stubborn.
#PennedPossibilities 891 — Who are the members of your MC’s immediate family?
Elisabeti's only surviving family is her new born cub, who didn't have a name yet.
#PennedPossibilities 890 — New Year’s Day Edition: What would your SC have to say about the previous year? Was it good for them, or did they just survive it?
Aswathi had a generally good year. He continued working as a carter for the army, which was good and reliable work and surprisingly safe, even if it kept him far from home.
It was, however, a bit of a lonely year, as he never really made friends with in the army or with the other support staff there.
#PennedPossibilities 889 — New Year’s Eve Edition: If your MC had a resolution for the new year, what would it be?
Elisabeti would just like for she and her cub to survive.
#PennedPossibilities 888: What is the worst injury or illness your MC has ever experienced?
Not exactly an injury, but childbirth.
Elisabeti had a very difficult birth, with labor lasting nearly 24 hours. The pain was unspeakable and recovery will be slow.
#PennedPossibilities 888. What is the worst injury or illness your MC has ever experienced?
(Current WIP, two MCs): Jum and Tabitha have both died and been imprinted on a fresh kid's brain several times. Recently, J was attacked using a targeted prion disease designed to cause dementia and (irreversible) death over a few months. T has occasionally been murdered (reversibly) by family members. (Cause of death: non-consensual destructive brain scanning.)
Neither of them fancy scaphism, though.
#PennedPossibilities 887
As a writer, what is your favorite sort of character to write?
I don't indulge in this guilty pleasure often enough ... but a 100% depraved, brakes-burned-out, scheming supervillains or mad scientist-sorcerers are a joy and a delight. I can let ALL my worst nightmares out to play!
#PennedPossibilities What part of the writing process itself is your favorite?
Drafting. Absolutely love drafting, especially when the story grabs me and the words start flowing and I'm just being carried along as it pours out onto the page.
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#PennedPossibilities 885 — How would your MC react to an unwanted romantic or sexual advance?
I'm not actually sure how Elisabeti would react. Prior to recent events, she would have responded with a quiet, 'thank you but I'm not interested' She was happily mated and had no interest in anyone else. Since her mate died... she might tear up, actually.
#PennedPossibilities 885 — How would your MC react to an unwanted romantic or sexual advance?
(Current WIP, Starter Pack, has two MCs):
Tabitha: An organized crime boss tried it once. His wired and mounted skeleton turned up on a plinth outside the police station the following week. The police couldn't figure out who did it: not long after, she took over his seat on the Sleepless Council.
Jum: go with the flow then pick their pocket on the way out the door.
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