26.) Second day of favorites! Favorite comfort food, favorite vice, favorite outfit, favorite hot drink, favorite time of year, and favorite holiday.
Favorite comfort food would probably be soup and grilled cheese. Favorite vice is coffee, she drinks too much of it which also answers the âfavorite hot drinkâ question. Favorite outfit is hard - no, wait, no it isnât. She has two outfits she likes. She has a form fitting white suit and then this black suit with a jacket that she feels just makes her look very professional and like sheâs a force to be reckoned with. Favorite time of year is summer because she likes the sunshine and warmth, she probably naps in the grass in the sun. As for favorite holiday, I donât think sheâs really big on holidays? I can google more later.
27.) Pick two songs that describe your character at two different points of their life, and explain why you chose them.
Suzie Q by Credence Clearwater Revival for when she was a teenager, determined to charm and flirt her way into the world's graces and land herself a comfortable life as well as a way to stand out amidst all her sisters. She's young and blossoming from the position attention, she finds it empowering and feels like she's on her way to success because she's this girl everyone is charmed by and people want her favor, it feels perfect.
California Dreamin' by The Mamas and the Papas is for after she lost her family. I like to see my two song choices as a sort of before and after, she goes from walking down the street in the bright sunlight with a bounce in her step and her head held high, knowing she's pretty and delighting in the attention it gets her, to feeling so cold and empty because of what that attention resulted in. She's feels cold, empty and hurt, and suddenly she's alone and wants the privacy to lick her wounds (or fall apart) without anyone seeing her. She wants the innocence and warmth of her youth back, she would like to run away to somewhere else, but instead she grits her teeth and makes it through the cold.
28.) If your characterâs life was a genre, what would it be?
You probably expect me to say a tragedy, but instead Iâm going to classify it as true crime and a coming of age story.
29.) How does your character smell? Do they wear perfume or cologne?
Either like clean skin or antiseptic, depending on if sheâs spent the day at home or at work. If sheâs at home, sheâs likely been outside, so she could possibly smell like sweat. She doesnât wear perfume, or at least she hasnât in a long time.
30.) And finally: Write a letter to your character, from yourself.
I have put you through so much shit, haven't I, my dear?
I'm not really sorry about it, however, because while I've spent this entire development meme answering questions to get to know you, there is one thing I've been certain of from the very beginning. You are strong enough to live this life I'm putting you through. You are traumatized and while it's an event I keep coming back to, you are the one that pushes yourself upright and declares that it will not be your defining trait. You will not be 'the broken girl', instead you are 'the woman someone tried to break once.' You are not so easily beaten, not by you past and not by a single story.
But here's the thing - You make yourself into more. You make yourself into a scientist, you give yourself a hobby, you turn stone into something that is yours, but I can still see the fear threaded through you like cracks in pavement. You keep that wall up emotionally and you're nice, yes, you can be kind and you want to help and to matter, but you're too damn scared to go out on a limb and trust someone when it comes down to it.
Are you trying to endear yourself to people? Trying to make them trust you or trying to get so attached that you'll trust them?Â
Listen to me, it's an empty life if you're always on your own and yes, I know that you'll have another life to live in... oh, a hundred years, but you have this life now, so live it. You are the central character in your story, yes, but supporting roles are there for a reason. Let someone support you, it's okay to allow yourself to be moved.
There's nothing wrong with being cautious, but if you're too afraid to make a move, you only ever stand still and I know that you're more than that. Charge forward, lionhearted girl, make sure they know you as more than a monster in a myth.