Pink: Which of your characters would become your best friend?
This one might actually be harder to answer than the enemy one! Mostly because, while I want and like friends, I often don't have the emotional energy to pursue them and I am scared they won't like me. (I used to do it when I was younger... maybe I just need therapy? lol) Again, it's pretty context-dependent, based on who I would be to them and what our interactions would be like.
I think I have to assume that Nikolai would be impossible for me to be close with. This is going to sound awful, but I'm not fond of feeling like I'm not the coolest person in the room, therefore I may have to hate him on principle. He also tends to put people on edge, which can be draining to be around. On the other hand, I am okay with sharing the status of 'coolest person in the room' with other people if I am friends with them, so if we somehow did became friends then maybe we could be pretty good friends? At least until it crashes and burns fantastically and then we hate each other forever.
I would probably become friends with Cailean, but we would never become "best" friends. This is because I'd be willing to pursue his friendship to a degree, but while he wants friendship, he also requires the other person to keep pursuing him while not crossing too many boundaries too fast in order to get close to him. And I just wouldn't put the energy into doing that.
I could also be friends with Deka, but best friends still seems unlikely. Deka likes people but tends to hold them at a distance, for different reasons than Cailean does, and again, I probably wouldn't put the energy into getting close to them. I would just eye them sometimes and wish that I was cool enough to talk to them more.
Elsie would be a little easier. She makes herself easier to talk to and pulls you into her orbit, so she doesn't require as much energy as some of the others. She's also less intense than Nikolai and more likely to set you at ease, making her easier to hang out with casually. However, she has some flaws that would probably bother me majorly, so it's hard to say how long our friendship would last.
Vivietta, hmm... Vivietta is hard to get close to because of... well, how she is. Assuming circumstances worked out to where we ended up becoming friends in the first place, I think she would be a strong contender for a best friend honestly. Once you get past her defensive exterior, I think something about her exudes a sense of sincerity (and rage) that most of the others probably lack. You can tell she's hiding things, but she would probably still feel like someone you can trust.
So, short answer, I guess Elsie and Vivietta?
Vivietta is both my worst enemy and my best friend. Context is key. XD
Green: Pencil, typewriter, or computer?
These days, definitely a computer, but maybe I shouldn't be so quick to rely on it.
When I was in high school, I did all of my fanfic writing by hand on lined paper and then typed it up/edited it when I got home. It's easy to do that way when you're in school because you can just sit in class writing fanfiction and it looks like you're attentively taking notes. (Also, all my writing got a light editing pass because of this, which probably made it better-- but it was still absolutely atrocious. I physically can't make myself read it.) I was incredibly prolific! At the peak of my productivity, I was able to update four different stories, a chapter apiece, daily. (How do I regain that power?! Well, if it means exchanging for the quality of 17-year-old me, I guess I'll stick with being slow...)
These days, I can't stand using pencil and paper to write. I'm out of practice, I suppose-- I press the pencil too hard against the paper. My hand begins to ache. I want to change a line or rearrange some sentences and I have to erase erase erase to make it happen. That being said, probably writing by hand forces us to let go of a tiny bit of that desire to get it "perfect" the first time, as long as we reassure ourselves that it's fine to just make a note of what you want to
change and edit it on the computer later. They say you should edit on a hard copy of your writing, and maybe that's why-- it removes the ability to change things on the fly instead of focusing on the editing process. (Not to mention, not being able to rely on spellcheck makes your ability to spell improve, since you have to practice thinking about it, and I can tell that my spelling ability has suffered in the last decade!)
That being said, I'm not sure I could adapt so easily to writing on paper again! Whenever I have to do it, I crave to use a keyboard. The thought of wanting a keyboard fills my mind, pushing out all thoughts of actually writing. I feel like it might be worth grabbing a notebook and forcing myself to use it in a place where I don't have access to a computer, and see what happens.
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