❣️ - What are their love languages?
🌙 - What’s their sleep schedule like?
🎁 - How do they feel about their birthday/birthdays in general?
🧑🦰 - Have they ever dyed their hair? Ever cut it themself?
🍷- How do they feel about alcohol?
🗣️ - How do they handle public speaking?
🎮 - What’s their favorite game?
💓 - What are some signs they’ve fallen for someone? How do they show their affection?
🤡 - What’s something dumb they’re embarrassed about?
🌱 - Do they have a green thumb or are they a plant killer?
📱 - What social media do they use the most?
👪 - What’s their relationship with their parents like?
🐒 - What’s their favorite animal?
🧳 - What countries have they been to?
🤔 - What’s something they’ll never understand?
🎨 - What’s their favorite color?
☂️ - How do they feel about rain?
🎶 - What’s a song they really like?
🖌️ - Do they have any hobbies?
💤 - What do they absolutely need to have to fall asleep?
🎢 - Do they like amusement parks? What’s their favorite ride?
🗺️ - What languages do they speak?
🍳 - How well can they cook?
🍪 - How well can they bake?
💘 - What do they find attractive about their partner(s)?
👗 - How comfortable would they be wearing a skirt or dress?
💝 - What gestures do they really appreciate? How do you get on their good side?
☕ - Coffee or tea?
💀 - How do they feel about horror movies?
🧸 - Do they have any stuffed animals? If so, are they decorative or do they sleep with them?
💖 - How and how often do they try to impress their partner(s)? How and how often do their partner(s) impress them?
🍽️ - What’s their favorite food?
🧑🍼 - How do they feel about kids?
🐾 - Do they have any pets?
💬 - What are some filler/buffer words they use? (Like, um, etc.)
🏳️🌈 - What do they identify as? What are their pronouns?
🧑🤝🧑 - Do they have any siblings?
🥰 - What pet names do their partner(s) use for them? How flustered do they get by them?
🌳 - What’s their extended family like?
🎲 - Pick a random question to answer from this list.
Some friends and I have been asking random questions regarding OCs. That got me thinking. Lots of OC question lists that I’ve seen have been about the OCs as people (their life, interests, habits). I want to ask meta questions about them as fictional characters.
These questions focus on the motifs and symbolic associations of a character in a narrative sense. This is more character analysis than character interaction.
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What is the main color associated with them? What connections with that color do they share?
Drawing from the language of flowers, what flower would symbolize them?
What real life animal would they be represented by?
What mythical creature would they be represented by?
Which body part are they associated with? (Example: hands/arms symbolize strength.)
Which of the four seasons best fits them?
What time of day are they associated with?
Which of the seven heavenly virtues are they associated with? Do they embody that virtue or are they trying to learn it?
Which of the seven deadly sins are they associated with? Is it a negative trait of theirs or something they actively struggle with?
Are they closer to life or death?
Land, sea, or sky? Of the realms of the world, which one does the character belong to?
Are they the sun, moon, stars or something else in space (black hole, meteor shower, etc)?
Instead of your standard four elements, consider what kind of metal represents your character. (Look here for some ideas.)
Regardless of whether or not they wield any, what kind of weapon do you associate them with?
Pick an article of clothing to represent them. What does it mean?
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and anything between. What kind of dish are they?
What instrument would be used in their leitmotif (essentially their character song in this context)?
Which card would they be from the major arcana of tarot cards? (If you're more well read in tarot, you could also do minor arcana.)
Which of the four temperaments (sanguine, choleric, melancholic, or phlegmatic) are they?
What word/phrase is central to their character? (It can be something they say or something that summarizes them meta-textually.)
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This isn't a complete list of all possible thematic/symbolic questions that could be asked. Not all these questions could apply to a character. It doesn't matter if you associate certain things with one symbol and someone else has other ideas.
These are just some questions to get people thinking.
🩸 (blood) - Adora (pre and post Embrace, has she changed?) \ 🐞 (ladybug) - Aurora / 🪓 (axe) - Amethyst (that juicy Invictus backstory)
Adora -🩸 (blood) - Is your oc squeamish? Are they disturbed by the sight of blood? Have they ever been in a situation where they had to overcome being squeamish?
pre embrace- she actually wasn't too found of getting blood on her because it's a pain to wash out of cloths.
post embrace- it dosn't bother her anymore, she really couldn't give two shits if she got blood on her. the perks of being a vampire and have a wearbear boyfriend
Aroura - 🐞 (ladybug) - What does a perfect day look like for your oc? What do they do? Who do they see?
snow days/christmas season, she get to enjoy some warmer fashion she invite chi or ghost to come winter shopping with her so that see what to get for hosting a christmas party.
Amethyst-🪓 (axe) - Does your oc have survival skills? Have they ever had to use them? What would they do in an apocalypse? Could they survive?
Amys survival skill if you asked her are based on luck and timing, right place right time situation, it the reason she' wasn't killed with everyone 's the lone survier of the invictus destruction, (she was doing a void walk on the outside of the ship, when the invictuce got hit).
As for apocalypse, she the one grabing any vehicle she can get her mitts on, a lot of vehicular homicide till either there was a vehicle she could use or ran out of fule in a horde
❤️ (heart) - Who is the most important person to your character? To what lengths would they go to protect this person?
💔 (broken heart) - Who has your character hurt most? Physically or emotionally? How did it feel? Do they regret it?
🌹 (rose) - What does your oc find attractive in other people? Are these traits found in their friends and/or romantic partners? Are they found in themselves?
🎈 (balloon) - What does your character do at parties? Are they a wallflower or a party animal? Do they go with friends or alone?
🍷 (wine) - Does your oc drink? What kind of alcohol do they enjoy? What are their drinking habits? What kind of drunk are they?
❗️(exclamation point) - What was the scariest moment of your character’s life? Does it still affect them?
🥩 (steak) - Does your oc have any coping mechanisms? Healthy or unhealthy?
🥀 (wilted flower) - How does your character deal with stressful situations? Is their fear response fight, flight, freeze or fawn?
🍓 (strawberry) - Does your oc believe in anything? Are they superstitious? Religious? Atheistic? Has anything in their past made them this way?
💋 (kiss) - Is your oc a good kisser? Have they kissed anyone before? Do they even enjoy kissing? What was their first kiss like in comparison to their most recent?
🍒 (cherries) - Does your character have a best friend? How long have they known each other? What do they like most about each other? How did they meet?
🚨 (siren) - What’s your character’s relationship with the law? Have they ever been arrested? What for? What are their opinions on law enforcement?
💄 (lipstick) - What does your oc think of their face? Do they have a positive or negative opinion? Do they wear makeup? Do they have a skincare routine? What traits do they like most about their face?
🍎 (apple) - Does your oc go to school or take classes? Did they go to college? What was/is their favorite subject? Did/do they get good grades? Did/do they enjoy school?
🐞 (ladybug) - What does a perfect day look like for your oc? What do they do? Who do they see?
☎️ (telephone) - Does your character know anyone’s phone number by heart? Do they prefer calling or texting? Who’s their favorite person to call/text? Do they have any typing quirks?
🥊 (boxing glove) - Has your character ever been in a fight? Did they win? Do they fight often? Are they professionally trained or self taught? Do they enjoy fighting or only do so when necessary?
🧣(scarf) - What comforts your oc? Is it an item? An action? A person? Whatever it is, how any why does it comfort them?
👠 (heels) - How does your oc dress? Are they stylish or casual? Do they keep up with trends or do their own thing? Do they prefer designer clothes or going to the thrift store? Do they have a signature item of clothing?
🍄 (mushroom) - Does your character like being in nature or do they prefer the indoors? Do they have any outdoor hobbies like camping or fishing? If they prefer the indoors, why?
🩸 (blood) - Is your oc squeamish? Are they disturbed by the sight of blood? Have they ever been in a situation where they had to overcome being squeamish?
✂️ (scissors) - Has your character ever cut their own hair? What about someone else’s? How did it turn out?
🎸 (electric guitar) - What’s your character’s music taste like? Do they have one or two artists they play on repeat or do they have a varied and eclectic collection of music? Do they like mainstream artists or prefer underground musicians? What genres do they enjoy?
🎒 (backpack) - What items does your oc usually carry? Do they have a bag or just keep everything in their pockets? Do they carry a lot or a little?
🪓 (axe) - Does your oc have survival skills? Have they ever had to use them? What would they do in an apocalypse? Could they survive?
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