@Lunar: Aha, I think of them fondly, rather than romantically --to me, my characters are something like my children...but not. Well, the best way to say it is that they're my creation and I get to mess with them as much as I want. 8D When I have days of being lazy, I was always daydream about Toby cleaning my room, since it's something he does, or having Faris zap some people into bugs. >D Characters take the edge off life. >>b

Oh, but who's writing the story --you or your friend?

With us, it's my friend who writes the stories. In one, she's this kickass lady knight, and I'm a wizard who messes up my spells and is obsessed with cakes. In another, she is a girl who disguises herself as a boy to become a singer for a k-pop band and I'm her silly friend who is a fan of said band and her personal hair stylist. In yet another, we are all students who attend an academy for a secret agent --in that one, I'm part of the intelligence unit, but I have a crazy lack of stamina. Basically, she picks the theme and her role, and she comes to me and I pick my role, and she writes.

The hair stylist thing is funny though, because I did cut her bangs once (got peer pressured into it), and uh, it ended up pretty bad. XD; Let's say she was angry at me for a week. Her brother and her mom had to fix it so that it didn't look so lopsided. *headfloor* On the bright side, it did become a joke between us and her hair grew back pretty fast.

I don't know. I mean, some people like portraying themselves as the cool type --living out their fantasies in writing, you know? I wouldn't want to look down my nose at them for having fun in their own way; rather, I'd just say that it would be awkward for me. I mean, even my personas were created to be animals (male and female) so that I wouldn't have to worry about looking too badass or too plain.

Yeah, many writers look at their OCs from that sort of "living" perspective. -v- I like that too.

Oh, you like to write tragedies? I have a friend (not the one above) who loves to write those, which is funny, because she seems like such a serious girl who I would think would write something more, uh, I dunno... different. I could see her writing realistic life stories with a touch of drama; something serious, but collected --I wouldn't have thought that tragedies were her thing. XD

I tried to write a tragic story when I was in high school, but I loved my OC so much that in the end, I just had him reborn (hundreds of years later). XD; Since then, I found out that I was too soft-hearted and took my characters too personally to do that to them. I guess that's why I get sad when people in games and anime start dying too (especially my favorites, but I don't want to name-names.) It's always like, "NoooOOOooo, whhhyyy?!?! DX"

Your genres actually sound pretty exciting. :3 I mean, dude; deceit, death, and betrayal --you could've totally worked with Shakespeare or Homer (the Odyssey).


As for myself, I go for humor and drama in my writing; I push my characters into tough situations that can either turn comedic or, er, worrisome. And then we have to deal with it together to make sure they get out of it in one piece. ^^;


@Alice: But wouldn't that be bad for Jasem's nose? Why would she put up with it?

Nah, I think it's a mutual feeling that I'm to be the silly one. It's also the way it is in our life; I am content to play the clown and she's content to play the princess. One of our other friends actually scolded us about that, since he says I spoil her too much that she doesn't even realize how much she takes advantage of me, but I kinda like our love-hate relationship the way it is. We're pretty close, but man, we're always driving each other up the wall.

I think she's the reason I want to stay single. If I ever loved anyone else the way I love her (or even more), they would be spoiled out of their minds. >_>; I can't help buying things for people I like, even if it is a platonic thing. That's why my brother always gets nice gifts on his birthdays. XD

Aha, well, I did ask if anyone else had a topic theme. If you like you can mention it again in two weeks and I can put it up them. Er, or if I still remember it, I'll put it up. I actually write these things down, but I'm too comfortable as I am here to have to go downstairs and write on my
Q&C topics" notepaper.

@Alice: Nah, it is a good discussion. :)

Man, that's tough for Jasem. The world is a cruel place. ;_;


@Lunar: Yeah, I got stuck on those 50-50 type of questions too. XD Like, in my world, wizards are common but at the same time, there isn't an excessive amount of them around... it really depends on where the location of the story is. x__x

Get used to my monster posts. It will gobble yours up! >D You guys keep posting between my posts too. XD

Aha, you guys are partners. I'm more like the input guy to my friend. I just don't write her genres of interest, exactly, and our style differs too much, so I let her work it out as she sees fit. It's always interesting to read her stories anyways, just to see what she does with them. XD

Oh! We had this fantastic story going on where my RL friends and I were all anti-heroes. We we like the Robin Hood of that story, which was pretty much stealing from villains to line our own pockets. XD It was funny. I was a telekinetic who was a touch superstitious and detached from the world, and my friend (the writer) was an archer who could shift into three animals (all representing the Greek goddess Artemis, I think), and we had another friend who could accelerate/decelerate the aging process of anything he touches, and another friend with speed, and them one last friend who could absorb powers. It was meant to be a comedic story, but it got pretty dramatic.

Yeah, the hair-cut thing wasn't reasonable of her, but I guess since I knew her pretty well and knew how upset she would be, I should've known better. Again, it's all that love-hate thing going around.

So it's just dark? Would you call it dark (your genre?)

Aha, she might be. But most of the stuff I read was around the time she was in high school; haven't really read anything new form her now.

Actually, my worlds have reincarnation. Though I personally don't believe in it, I find the idea of it to be rather fascinating and have used it in many stories.

Yeah, one of my OCs kinda got hit really bad because of death too. >>; He became such a bastard because of it. DX

@Lunar: I like a little spontaneity in my writing. It's the reason I RP. >>b

I wouldn't like to think of myself as a pushover... Well, maybe the type that's a pushover if you've won me over --but she got a ten-year head start. XD To be fair, I do a lot of things that get on her nerves --you know how boys in elementary school would tease the girls they like? Yeah, I never grew out of that mentality. I'm just awful. DX (Again, it's the love-hate.)

Same soul; that's reincarnation; or at least it is in the Chinese-Buddhist ones. I'm not sure how it all works out in India, but part of my family is Chinese-Buddhist.

In one story, the same character who's reborn hundreds of years later has the same face and the same soul, but since his lifestyle is different, it's strongly affected his personality and who he is. There are some similarities between him and his old self, but the gap between them is very noticeable. You might say that one feels like a shadow of the other, though to say which would take some thought. XD;

In another story, the reincarnation was the same soul, but the person doesn't look the same at all. There are faint traces of similarity in personality, but they almost seem like two entirely different people.

Aha, massive death is in Masami's department. I can't believe I like Baccano as much as I do (probably because they make light of all the dark humor and have a light-hearted feel to it), but generally I can't stomach too much violence or horror. I don't even like thrillers. <--might be your genre.

Everything has to be whimsical or action-packed for me. *headfloor*


That said, I'm off too. G'night, Alice! :)