1. Which of your muses to do relate to the most?
That’s... actually a really good question. While I’m very attached to almost all of them for various reasons, I’m not sure that many of them are characters who I specifically relate to, at least not fully.
I guess, in a sense, possibly Lilo? At least, in the sense of having been that one weird kid with odd interests, and not having had a lot of friends who understood me... but even then, there are still several areas where we’re nothing alike - she, like most of my muses, is still more outgoing than I ever have been! - so it’s still not a complete thing; but I think she’s possibly the closest.
At least if you don’t count my mun face claim, Huey, who I find Extremely Relatable™ but isn’t actually a muse xD
2. Which of your muses was an unexpected muse?
Taffyta, Zoey and Padparadscha were all kinda spur-of-the-moment muses when I picked them up! Most of my muses, even if their initial appeal to me was unexpected, I’ve thought through, maybe tried out a little in other places, before I picked them up; but those three were far more spontaneous and went through no such process. Vixey was too, even more so, when I started playing her - but that was on another site, and by the time I added her to my tumblr I was very comfortable with her already.
Taffyta was picked up when my girlfriend’s Vanellope blog was lamenting the lack of anyone writing for the other Sugar Rush kids; I spontaneously sent her a series of anonymous asks as if from Taffyta, then that spiralled off into making a blog for her.
Zoey, I grabbed equally spontaneously because we watched the 2D-animated Rudolph movie together, and I thought the amount of under-utilised potential in the character was absolutely criminal; I wanted to try and explore her as her own person, beyond just the love interest. (And the fact that my gf also played Rudolph on her multimuse played a part in convincing me, too!)
Then Paddie... I don’t even remember, other that it was only, like, the day after the SU Wanted Special Event dropped; and I scrambled around like mad to set up her blog because I hadn’t been planning to take on any other SU characters after Connie xD
3. Have any of your muses taught you anything in writing them? What?
I... can’t remember. I’m sure it has happened; I try to do due research when something necessary comes up, and I’m sure I’ve learned unexpected things from both that and from working around in my muses’ very different mindsets. But I genuinely can’t, offhand, think of any particular instances where I’ve learned something specific from them.
4. Which muse required the most research for?
Most of my research, I admit, comes down more to checking around various fandom wikis, or the source material itself, for obscure details that I missed the first time, or that I don’t quite remember! Other than that, I’ve definitely done some dinosaur research for Cera - including information on size and, most recently, diet -; research on the relevant area of Africa for Kiara; and, perhaps most unusually, for Angry I had to look into such an obscure topic as how ice was stored in a European setting before the invention of the freezer (and whether it even would have been during the time period of Tangled or not)!
Not counting the research done on fandom-specific topics... possibly Kiara? I definitely remember chasing around after facts to do with African seasons and specific details of various animals’ ways of life for her threads ^^
11. Do your muses share trends in AUs?
Um... to an extent. There’s no one AU that all my muses have, I tend to pick and choose which AU verses I give to which muses; but I will usually give any given AU verse that I want to play around in to at least two of my muses. Zootopia verses, for example, went to Kiara, Cera and, as of last week, Vixey; Star Wars verses for Angel and Mabel; Toon verses for Webby and Cera; and at least Cera and Kiara have dark-ending AU verses that spin off from their mains. So there are trends, but not ones that cover more than a handful of muses at a time.
15. Which muse is the most chill to write?
I always find Angel a pretty chill experience to write for, these days; probably because of how familiar a muse she is to me. She was the first character I ever RPed as, way back before I’d even heard of tumblr (over ten years ago now!), and as such she - or at least, my take on her - just flows easily without me having to think about it a whole lot. The fact that I haven’t watched her movie in SEVERAL YEARS and she still comes easy to me is testament to just how engrained she is on my writing xD
Otherwise? Vixey, probably. Writing all the little hesitations in her speech - the “oh, hm, gee”s that she sprinkles liberally about every time she talks - is just relaxing to me in an odd way, and the fact that she has somewhat less complexity as a character, compared to a lot of my other muses, mean that writing her just... flows sometimes, making it a pretty chill experience too ^^
