crownsnbirds replied to your post: a switch has flipped in my brain, and now i am...
S A M E id love to hear about your ryder siblings if you’re happy to share :0? (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧
OF COURSE! And then you must return in kind!
Okay, so, as I was explaining to @neurotrophicfactors, these sibs began, like, roughly somewhere beneath my sternum as a specific character feeling. It’s how all of my characters hatch: as feelings, sort of in the muscle of my heart. Which sounds maybe cool, but really it just means I make a lot of weird faces while listening to music on the way to work.
Kayahan Ryder likes the following: bad jokes, making light of serious situations, turning on the charm, nerding out over science and space travel, and pretending he can make everyone happy all of the time. Will merrily tell everyone what they want to hear with the very best of intentions, only to have everything explode in his face. Suspects he’s only fooled the world into believing he’s half-ways capable, thanks to his good looks and delightful laugh. (Pinterest board over here!)
Aylin Ryder might be younger, but she is 400x tougher. She’s unapologetically focused and is driven not by any underlying sense of nobility or obligation, but by a need to, like, bludgeon the universe into submission. Used to saving her brother’s ass from the fire, always armed with several guns, a working knowledge of any machinery she comes across, and a string of sarcastic comments. (Pinterest board over here!)
They’ve both got their own things to prove, and learn, and sort out, and recover from. And where better to do that than in the farthest reaches of space??
