I accidentally answered this ask by @chuckhansen privately and submitted it BEFORE I COULD FINISH TYPING EVERYTHING OUT... sigh... so she was gracious enough to screenshot everything for me and send it back... so here we go again.
TAYTAY. :’) Okay here we go.
25. What does it take for your OC to trust someone?
UNFORTUNATELY, NOT MUCH. This kind of goes hand-in-hand with what I was saying in a previous ask. She’s entirely too trusting/gullible for her own good, wanting so hard to believe that others always have her best interests at heart, even despite some of the Joker’s repeated teachings and rhetoric towards her about how Gotham will eat her up/spit her back out/how men will only ever want one thing from her… he’s evil, but so far she’s managed to refrain from buying into the lies he’s selling, at least some of them.
26 has been done!
27. Do they like to be the center or attention or do they prefer to be in the background?
I love this question for her. She’s embarrassed very easily/is a very blushy girl. Gets uncomfortable when all eyes are on her and is prone to bouts of intense self-consciousness if forced to be the center of attention. Definitely the type to mumble through any sort of assignment that requires her getting up in front of the class and delivering a speech, or writing out an answer on the chalkboard in front of everyone.
28. Do people think they’re pretentious?
Probably not. I don’t think people (chiefly, her former school peers) would have thought much of her at all, and certainly not that she was pretentious.
I think in regards to adult Taylor (in Blackout) I would say that people probably do find her a little pretentious—but those people are usually jerks and probably very disingenuous. Those types of people find it hard to comprehend how someone can be so genuine, so they just often end up thinking she’s very “fake”.
29. Is your OC detail oriented or do they focus more on the big picture?
Because of Taylor’s life circumstances (and her current living arrangement with a mass murderer) she is somewhat incapable of looking beyond the here and now. The future is scary and uncertain, and Taylor wouldn’t like to spend a lot of time dwelling there for that reason. All that matters is her and Mr. J. As she starts to mature, you will definitely start to see her look beyond the scope of what’s right in front of her, but, doing so will have some pretty devastating consequences.
On another vein, when I think about this question in the context of Taylor’s art and how she perceives the world as a whole, she’s very detail oriented, often honing in on the very small parts that make up the pieces of the whole. She’s very curious and inquisitive. She has to break things down into their baser components to really understand how they work. And she likes to take in the small details that others might not have taken the time to notice.
30. Which high school movie stereotype would they fit best?
Also tagging @charliestokers here since she wanted an ESSAY on this very same question… ma’am… the short of it is this: she’s not a jock, she’s not athletic, she’s not popular or exceptionally pretty. She’s not particularly talented with music, nor has she ever tried to run with the art crowd (even though she draws!), she’s not emo/punk, she’s not particularly academic or into social justice, and she’s not even particularly nerdy in the sense that she’s really into movies/video games/music… I would have to classify her as a loner. She’s the skinny orphan kid with the ill-fitting clothes who always stares at everyone else and people think she’s weird. She doesn’t mean to stare, but she just wants so badly to belong. :(
31. Are they good at giving advice?
Oh gosh, as much as I want to say yes... probably not. But she would absolutely mean well if she were to give advice. I think she’d have a tendency to think about what she would do in any given situation, and then her advice would consist of what she would do and not necessarily what’s actually best for the other person. But she has a big heart and she’d want to help.
32. Which one of the 7 deadly sins fit your OC more? Do they see it as a flaw?
This question is so weird to me and yet I always see it on these OC prompt lists. I always end up having to Google the choices because I don’t know them off the top of my head. It’s one of those things so clearly steeped in Catholicism, and I wasn’t raised that way, so I’m always like *shrug emoji*
:p
Anyway. Taylor is either greed or lust. I lean more towards lust just because, while she can be a little greedy, most of that kind of behavior has been born out of deprivation of basic needs (shelter, food, love) rather than her just being greedy for no reason at all. She was raised in the kind of environment where you had to take what was offered before somebody else took it for themselves, kind of a “survival of the fittest” -- so now when offered these basic necessities like food and clothes, I think she’d almost have a tendency to want to hoard these things just because she is so scared of having them taken away. She is, like, a little feral orphan girl in that sense. Ugh. My babie.
And finally, 33 has been answered!
Thank you so much for all of your Q’s!
