In the Mafia series, how would Bucky react to reader getting food poisoning at an event with his rivals? Would he assume she was intentionally poisoned or would he stay calm?
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Oh how I pity the fool who didn’t check the quality of the meal 😭 Lovely seeing you again, thank you for participating!
Bucky Barnes:
Calm?
No. I wouldn’t be calm. Not when she’s pale and sweating, clutching her stomach like that. I know her, she doesn’t complain unless it’s bad. And that? That’s bad.
First instinct? I’m assuming the worst. It’s not because I want to cause chaos but because in this line of work, you don’t get to chalk things up to coincidence. Not when there are people in that room who’ve smiled at my face and fantasized about putting a bullet in the back of my head.
So, yeah, I’m already running through the guest list in my mind. Already replaying what she ate, who handed it to her, and who looked too long. I’ll call the doc first–Bruce, if he’s nearby. She comes before everything. But once she’s stable, once I know she’s out of danger?
Then I start knocking on doors. If it was just bad shellfish, fine. I’ll tear apart the kitchen and fire whoever let that through. But if someone tried to hurt her? Poisoned her, even as a warning?
Then I make sure they understand just how big of a mistake they made.
Thank you @world-of-iridensia for your open tag for people who wanted to participate in this game! I love stuff like this. :D
I guess this game is called "This or That: Questionable Choices Edition". It's like a questionnaire for characters who make questionable decisions, lol. I'll be filling it out for my decently-enough-hearted but hard-headed and impulsive boio Kichi Watanabe. Answers are below the cut, and if you have any questions, I would die of happiness after replying to your comment. Happy Memorial Day everyone!
I tag the following people to play the game, too, because I figured they might enjoy playing the game, and they have WIPs that I am interested in reading about. And I'll leave an OPEN TAG for anyone else who wants to participate as well! :D
@wbhudson @aadhube @gothic--vampyre
Here's the template:
Antihero or villain protagonist?
Lies by omission or lies with a smile?
Your character gets caught, do they talk their way out or run?
Morally grey love interest or morally grey best friend?
Your protagonist's fatal flaw: too much trust or not enough?
Writing the betrayal scene or writing the aftermath?
Crime of passion or crime of calculation?
Redemption arc or "they were right all along" arc?
The confession scene happens in a courtroom, a rooftop, or a bed?
Your character keeps one honest thing about themselves, is it their name, their past, or their feelings for one person?
Antihero or villain protagonist?
He probably qualifies more as an antihero, but at least for his first story arc, the rest of the world sees him as a villain for a little while. :)
Lies by omission or lies with a smile?
With a smile, but he's terrible at lying. XD You would know right away that he's not telling the truth.
Your character gets caught, do they talk their way out or run?
He would try to talk his way out, and when that didn't work, he'd try to fight his way out.
Morally grey love interest or morally grey best friend?
Morally gray best friend. "I would die for you" is too cliche. Would you kill for me? Would you help me break into a jail and commit felonies with me? If the answer is no, then we are not friends (by his unconscious standards, I guess).
Your protagonist's fatal flaw: too much trust or not enough?
Too much. He doesn't really think about what's going on until it's already over, and then it occurs to him, "Hey, wasn't that like, a bad thing we just did?"
Writing the betrayal scene or writing the aftermath?
Betrayal, mwa hahahahahhahah >:3 And it ends with some stabbing!
Crime of passion or crime of calculation?
Passion. He does not do any calculating whatsoever. He's kind of dumb. :P
Redemption arc or "they were right all along" arc?
Redemption. But it's a long, hard-earned redemption with many seasons of doubt along the way.
The confession scene happens in a courtroom, a rooftop, or a bed?
Hospital bed! Nothing says "I regret what I did" like life support and a body cast. 😌
Your character keeps one honest thing about themselves, is it their name, their past, or their feelings for one person?
His feelings for one person. It's easy to give a random name, and not too hard to be vague about where you're from, but it's pretty hard to pretend like you don't hate the guy who wants to kill your dad, particularly when you're in the same room with him. Just sayin.
I didn't get tagged by anyone, but I saw a few different people do this questionnaire for their Sheps, and I decided I wanted to give it a go for Audra. I'm not sure where this originates from, but if you search "Shepard Questionnaire" you'll see other posts :)
Audra Shepard
Alias/Nicknames: N/A
Gender: Woman
Age: 32 (ME3)
Zodiac: Aries
Abilities/Talents: Homesteading (gardening, cooking, canning, sewing, general handiness, animal husbandry, etc.); survival skills; tech (hacking, encrypting, coding, some engineering); biotics; diplomacy; marksmanship/sharpshooting (pistols and sniper rifles, specifically); trained combat medic (knows trauma care and first aid for all Council species); scouting; combat tactics and strategy; has a natural talent for language-learning
Religion: Agnostic, and struggles with the conflicting thoughts/feelings she has on the subject—on one hand, she hopes there’s an afterlife, that there’s some sort of meaning to life; on the other, if there is a higher power, then it is (in her mind) responsible for all of the pain she’s been through, and she’s not sure if it’s worse to have a cruel and/or indifferent god or no god at all
Family: Christopher Shepard, father ✝; Anna Shepard (née Arnaud), mother ✝; Audra Arnaud, maternal grandmother ✝; Paulette Gauthier, godmother (I go back and forth about whether Paulette survived the raid on Mindoir or not)
Relationship Status: single / partnered / married / widowed / open relationship / divorced / not ready for dating / it’s complicated
Libido: sex god / very high / high / average / low / very low / non-existent
Build: slender / average / athletic / muscular / curvy / other
Hair: white / blonde / brunette / red (coppery ginger) / black / other
Eyes: brown / blue / gray / green / black / other (hazel)
Skin: pale / fair/ olive / light brown / brown / dark / other
Height: 5'10" / 178cm
Scars: Before ME2, she had a scar cutting through the arch of her left eyebrow as well as a small scar on the right side of her top lip, both from injuries sustained during the raid on Mindoir
dogs or cats / birds or bugs / snakes or spiders / coffee or tea / ice cream or cake / fruits or vegetables / sandwich or soup / magic or melee / sword or bow / summer or winter / spring or autumn / past or future
Five Seven songs that remind me of them (because I couldn’t narrow it down to 5):
“Simulation Swarm” - Big Thief
“Girls Against God” - Florence + The Machine
“Careful” - Paramore
“Andromeda” - Weyes Blood
“Which Witch” - Florence + The Machine
“Space Song” - Beach House
“Last Words of a Shooting Star” - Mitski
If you made it to the end, thank you for reading :) Tag me if you do this for your Shepard!!!
I'm gonna start a collection of character questions that actually help me when trying to flesh out a character. These'll be for characters you already have standing out in the open in your head, but who need more development before they get mixed into the fray.
If you want to use this as a questionnaire, always remember that you don't have to answer every question to get to know your character. Even just one or two answers to yourself can be enough.
Character Development Questions
Basic-ish:
Do they have any distinguishing features? (the way they look, the sound of their voice, the way they smell?)
About how old are they?
What's their gender? Sexuality? Are they open or closeted?
What is their ethnicity/cultural identity?
What was their socioeconomic class as a child? And as an adult?
What's their role in the story?
What is their primary Want? Do they need it?
Family and Relationships:
What was their parent/guardian situation growing up?
If they're an adult, what is their relationship with their parent/guardian now?
Do they have siblings? If they're adults, how close are they now?
Do they have children? How old were they when they had their first? Who helped raise them?
What kind of influence are their friends on them?
How easily do they make friends and why?
What traits do they find attractive in a friend?
How do they treat strangers/acquaintances? People they like? People they don't like? Coworkers?
Personality:
One word to describe their general/default mood.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how introverted are they? Extroverted? Pessimistic? Optimistic?
How would they describe not liking a food out loud?
And in prose?
How would they describe not liking a person, out loud and in prose?
What is their favorite place and why?
What is something that stresses them out?
What is something that relaxes them?
What truly scares them?
What is something that would make them happy/excited?
How do they react to physical pain?
How do they cope? (comedy, ranting, art?)
What embarrasses them?
What are they proud of?
What's their biggest strength? Their biggest weakness? (they can be the same thing)
Additional History:
What are their most prominent memories?
Have they ever lost a pet, family member, or friend? How old were they?
Did they move around as a kid?
Did their parent/guardian/community support their interests as a kid? Were they taught to hold themselves to a particular standard or expectation?
More Detailed Personality:
How do they react when forced to do something they don't want to? Could be forced physically or by circumstance.
If money, time, and consequences were no object, what would their perfect day be?
How much time do they spend on their appearance every day? Do they spend more or less money on their appearance then "average"? (don't look it up; it's a vibe check)
Who would they turn to for help? Is it always the same person? On a danger/severity scale of 1 to 10, at what point do they start asking for help? At what point do they stop asking for help? Is this one section or do they flip multiple times as the severity increases? Does this scale change depending on who's around/available?
Just For Funsies:
If they were in a coffee shop AU, would they be the barista, the customer, or the manager?
Do they know any tricks? (juggling, cartwheels, yoyo, dirt bike?)
If they were here with us, what shows/movies/books/games might they like?
What does the inside of their fridge look like? What about their workspace?
Potentially The Worst Character Questionnaire You’ll Ever Do:
AKA “character questionnaire that makes you click a lot of links in order to answer ridiculous and pointless questions”
What Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor do they most resemble and why?
If they were on tumblr, what would their url be?
Which Apple ringtone would they use? (assuming custom wasn’t an option)
Which of those tones would they use as an alarm to wake up to?
Do they have a seahorse as a pet or sidekick? If yes, skip to question 8.
If no: would you consider giving them one? If yes, skip to question 8.
If no: ...why? What if I told you it was super cool? Would you change your mind? Explain your answer.
Find and name at least one trope from tvtropes.org that fits your character (or the plot surrounding them.)
Pick any phrase or word appearing in “We Didn’t Start the Fire” to describe them.
Answer this Buzzfeed Quiz as your character. Share your result.
Try searching their first name in the searchbar on thesaurus.com. What word does it autocorrect to? (“did you mean ___”) OR, if their name yields results, what is the first synonym that comes up?
Create them using any picrew maker EXCEPT drastically change their hairstyle and put them in an outfit they’d never wear. (Don’t be shy, attach the resulting image and let us see it!)
Based on the title alone, pick one song that describes them or their life. But one catch! The song has to be by The Wiggles. [tw: g slur]
Click on this random word generator. Which of the 6 resulting words most relates to your character? (Explanation optional.)
Complicated final question time! Type every letter of your character’s first and last name, individually, into this list randomizer and press “randomize.” Note the letter that shows up at the top. Where from 1-26 does that letter fall in the alphabet? (A being 1, B being 2, and so on.) now take THAT number, and multiply it by two. What number did you end up with? Is your character older or younger than that?
✦ What is your name, and how do you feel about it?
✧ “Saudade! I’ve never thought of it very deeply. The dad said my mother named me; I-I’d have to ask her.”
Saudade means “longing” or “nostalgia,” Portuguese or Brazilian in origin. Upon her father and mother’s split at Saudade’s birth, Amzuurar gave her this name to symbolize her timeless love for Cooper. Saudade nor Cooper were/are aware of this deeper connotation. ⊹ ‧ ₊˚
✦ Where did you get your scars from?
✧ “Are they that noticeable? I got them back in Wifeld, I wish they’d heal over already.”
Saudade, upon her father’s death, was neglected and almost forgotten by the human who had once taken care of her. Her rope constraints squeezed into her skin and caused great, constant pain. It was only after she gnawed through the rope herself that she was free. She feels great shame at being trapped and dormant for so long, yet guilty of having done what she did to deserve that. Either way she looks, she is angry at herself. ⊹ ‧ ₊˚
✦ Where were you born, and where do you live now?
✧ “The outskirts of a human settlement- it was a nice little town. I hope it's still kicking out there… Oh, and I wander from place to place. I don’t go too far from it though. It's nice to check up on it every once in a while.”
🌾 A/N : Hi hi!! First time doing something like this, praying it doesn’t flop too hard. If yall have any questions yourself please put them in the comments, I’ll reply and maybe put them in here!!
