(As per usual, since this question doesn’t specify a muse I will be answering for my most active muses. If you’d like to know the answers for anyone else just let me know.)
{4} Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?
Emrys’ life has been one long list of things that fundamentally changed him, starting from having his hands permanently damaged at the age of 8, to his first love dying in his arms at the age of 13, to meeting an adorable genius named Nathan Sanders ( @agentsanders ). His parents know about most of it, as does his Uncle Thor(though that has more to being the one to bail Emrys out of SHEILD holding cells then Emrys actually telling him things). The only one who knows everything is his oldest sister Hel ( @helreginn ) and Emrys hates that she carries his grief for his lost childhood.
If you asked Felet, he’d say no. There hasn’t been anything that he’s witnessed that fundamentally changed him as a person. If you asked me, then the answer would be that watching his birth mother be declared insane and institutionalized at the age of 13 definitely made him rethink his position in the world. Before she was arrested for neglect and abuse he thought he knew everything there was to know…now he knows that he will never know everything. The boy keeps as much of himself secret as he can, only recently letting bits of himself be seen by those closest to him. The idea of being seen and wanted terrifies him so it will be a while before anyone truly knows the effect his past has had on him.
As with everything, Raven is unsure. He doesn’t know most of his past, doesn’t know who he was before being hit in the head during a job and he doesn’t know how that person has changed. If there is anyone who does know the answers to this question he doesn’t remember who they are so he can’t ask. Sometimes the thought does make him sad, not knowing who he was verses who he is. Not knowing if the people he loves would still love him if the person he was before was a monster. But he wants those answers. If only to make sure he stays a good man if only for the man he fully intends to marry once he has those answers ( @ourwrittenstories )
The only thing Liam can really remember about the night he became a werewolf was turning the corner to see a monster devouring a young girl. The physical changes that he now has to live with would be bad enough but the way he doesn’t want his mother walking alone at night or his girlfriend Roxanne ( @fierylittleniece ) to travel by herself show that that night left more than a physical scar. He hates that the monster took both his body and his peace of mind. As for someone knowing…Roxanne knows some of it but not how much the idea of loosing control like that terrifies him.
Ben has seen many terrible things during his service to his country and also in the service to his boss Ayden. He wouldn’t say that any of those events changed him in any significant way. The event that changed who he was to who he is he never saw, his wife’s murder. He knows he is not the same man who first joined the army, nor is he the same man who married his wife, or the same man that let a 15 year old girl find his revenge for him. Who he is now is a father, a partner, and a friend. That’s all that’s needed. The only one who has heard the things he has seen is Raven as Ben knows that his brother would never betray his confidence.
{5} On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?
His wallet, a guitar pick(of three), keys to his apartment, and his five years sobriety chip.
His phone and wallet, a small notebook and pen, and whatever small trinket he picked up as a present for his boyfriend Aster ( @monstersxxorxxmen ) or newly adopted mother Hel ( @helreginn )
A knife, his phone, and a picture of his boyfriend.
His phone and wallet, a few victims services cards, a pack of gum, and whatever little not Roxanne left for him that morning.
His phone, a picture of his daughter Ady, and a single bullet.
{6} Does your character have recurring themes in their dreams?
Emrys’ dreams will either be nightmares of the worst parts of his life, the maiming of his hands, the drug abuse, the death of Darren, getting sober. Or pleasant dreams the future he will have with Nathan. He’d say that the theme is that he had to suffer to be able to fully appreciate how good of a life that he has now.
When Felet does dream, it’s always a nightmare. The police coming into his room to tell him that his mother had been arrested and that he had to come with them or his foster father screaming at him as the man shoots him. The feeling of being a burden and unloved. The few times he’s had a nice dream it has been due to Hel intervening.
Raven will have a dream about a blond haired woman who smiles softly at him and tells him that she’s proud of him. When he has this dream he always wakes up feeling like he lost something precious to him. If it’s not the woman then it is a general feeling of being lost in a dark fog.
Liam dreams about a family, about a little girl with his smile and his wife’s eyes. He dreams of a future where he is safe to be around, a future where he doesn’t have to worry about hurting the woman he loves.
Ben’s dreams used to follow the themes of lost, lost friends, lost family, lost love. But after meeting a certain nymph in a certain flower shop his dreams have changed. It’s hard to pin down a a theme perse but they all involve a blond woman and his little girl laughing and happy.
{7} Does your character have recurring themes in their nightmares?
Please see previous answers. My boys don’t get happy dreams(or backstories or current stories or…mostly anything. Sorry not sorry)
{8} Has your character ever fired a gun? If so, what was their first target?
The first time Emrys fired a gun he was around 14 years old, it was a part of his “sober training”. His mother, Sera, set up various targets and let her angry, still dealing with withdrawal, and hurting son go wild. He only hit one target that day but now he could hit all of them with one eye closed.
Felet is terrified of guns, understandably so, and if anyone ever handed him one he’d probably run away. Or pass out.
Raven has fired a gun, he doesn’t know what the first thing he shot at was or who taught him or why. Now he prefers to use knifes to do his work but he can still handle a gun just fine if the situation calls for it.
He is a police detective so he has fired a gun before, though his first time was at a shooting range with his father with he was 15. His mother still had the paper target with his wide spread shots stored in the attic.
Ben first shot a gun in the woods behind his grandfathers house at a line of cans, his grandfather was one of those “the government is going to come for us” types and wanted to make sure his grandson was prepared. Ben’s parents were not amused that their 8 year old had a pistol in his hands.
