4 and 6 please!
4. what seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?
“Here,” Isabel announced, sliding a plate across the counter to a groggy and confused-looking Isaac. The smell of the kitchen was an odd mix of something vaguely tomato-y and garlic-y combined with burnt coffee and Isabel’s shampoo (which she had just used this morning and he’d also used for his first real shower the night before, hence how fluffy he remembers his hair being). The counter beside the plate was sticky. The floors needed sweeping. Luke’s pajamas hung off his slimmer frame, the pants tied tightly to keep them from falling off. “Be careful, it’s hot,” she warned as his hand reached for the rectangular-shaped piece of what he thought was bread. Isaac didn’t quite believe her, though, and the thought of anything that somewhat resembled a meal was ravaged after all his time spent hoping he wouldn’t die of starvation. So, in what would become a trend of not listening to directions or warnings, Isaac took a large bite. Instead of tasting sauce and cheese and whatever else a pizza Hot Pocket was supposed to taste like, all he seemed to taste was heat, burning the roof of his mouth and his tongue and causing him to drop the Hot Pocket down onto the plate as he made some ridiculous sound trying to cool what was already in his mouth,
Isabel laughed at his idiocy. He would never forget that sound above all else.
6. what is your character reluctant to tell people?
Isaac is reluctant to talk about his past. He’s proud of the freedom he has now, and doesn’t like discussing the time where he had none of it. He’s also reluctant to tell Alma things that will get him in more trouble than usual. Stealing a police walkie-talkie gets him the usual eye-roll, but picking the lock to Alma’s office to steal a bag of chips is a whole other story. He doesn’t have to admit that, even reluctantly, though, because Alma has security footage and knows exactly who is dumb enough to pull that stunt in the first place.
