This is your first task, which is for us to understand just what’s going on inside your muse’s little head. Think of it like a second, shorter intro so that when we dare you, we dare you right. Please tag it with had:task001 so we can access it! Answers to the questions can be as literal or figurative, physical or nonphysical as you want them to be!
While all tasks are optional, this is the one that’s going to really help us out when it comes to dare creation time!
What’s your muse’s financial situation?:
What’s your muse’s parents’ financial situation(s)?:
What’s on your muse’s birthday gift list? List at least five:
Your muse gets one wish from a genie. What is it?:
What are your muse’s vices?:
What does your muse love about themselves?:
What does your muse hate about themselves?:
What would your muse do with a million dollars?:
What are your muse’s most logical fears?:
What are your muse’s most illogical fears?:
What makes your muse uncomfortable?:
What calms your muse down?:
Is your muse a follower or a leader?:
What is your muse’s biggest accomplishment?:
“Not bad, I can really just... live comfortably, y’know? I work nights to earn some spending money, but my parents saved up a lot of money for me to go to college, so I guess I’m lucky for that.”
What’s your muse’s parents’ financial situation(s)?:
“Not bad as well. They are savers. Very frugal. They put enough money away a month to live without any worries. My papa is a contract retailer at food distributor and ma is a receptionist at a car dealership. So they earn okay money.”
What’s on your muse’s birthday gift list? List at least five:
“Oh? Usually I don’t ask for much for my birthdays but, if I would ask... maybe, like, new switch games, I’m a fan of hoodies, candy... uh... I need a new headset? And maybe a plane ticket to go visit mom and dad back in Australia?”
Your muse gets one wish from a genie. What is it?:
“To find true love. I’m not the one to date around... so...”
What are your muse’s vices?:
“I- well. Probably the lack of courage? I hate being such a push over... I’ve also been told I’m very naive and gullible. Which I’m not sure about that.”
What does your muse love about themselves?:
“I like my freckles? Physically. I also like my smile. I also like how I am super focused getting my degree and the ambition to make my parents proud.”
What does your muse hate about themselves?:
“I hate. hate. HATE. my height and weight. I wish was more muscular and taller, but genetics, man. And sometimes I hate who awkward I can be in some situations.”
What would your muse do with a million dollars?:
“Give some to friends and family, but most of it I’d use it to probably invest in a house? Maybe get a car? I’d love to live in the country back in Australia, maybe have a small farm.”
What are your muse’s most logical fears?:
“Logical fears? What qualifies as that? Uh... probably losing people close to me? I am scared of people talking about behind my back too... ALSO, Birds scare the shit out of me because I got attacked by seagulls before. And the biggest one of all: storms.”
What are your muse’s most illogical fears?:
“Knives. Them in general. Being around them, I don’t know, it’s something that’s been like that since I was a kid. I hate them so much.”
What makes your muse uncomfortable?:
“Peer pressure. Being around REALLY drunk people, like the ones that slur and fall over and- yeah...”
What calms your muse down?:
“Swimming, hanging out on a beach... hm, naps and maybe just zoning out on a video game.”
Is your muse a follower or a leader?:
“As much I’d love to be a leader, I’m definitely not made to be one, so I’d say a follower.”
What is your muse’s biggest accomplishment?:
“Moving to America by myself!! This is the first time being by myself without my parents and moving across the world is just a big step for me. I don’t know how I did it!”
What’s your muse’s financial situation?: “Decent? I guess. I’ve got some money in my savings account. I don’t like using it unless there’s an emergency though. I mostly use the money I get from my job which... Okay you don’t make much from taking tickets at a Drive-In. I’m paycheck to paycheck mostly. Unless my parents send me something but I don’t like taking money from them.”
What’s your muse’s parents’ financial situation(s)?: “For them I can actually say they’ve got it well off. They lived in good economic years, they saved well, my dad was an accountant and my mom was a teacher. So when they retired they got pretty good benefits. They’re not super rich but they’ve got it nice.”
What’s on your muse’s birthday gift list? List at least five: “What am I fourteen? I haven’t had a birthday list in years. I guess what I’d like right now is... A criminology book would be rad. I could use more socks maybe with funky designs on them. A new hoodie or sweater, don’t tell my dad though he’ll think I’m freezing to death up here. You know those little gift cards that work anywhere? One of those would be nice so I can get some real food. And the complete collection of the Scream Movies. That’d be fun.”
Your muse gets one wish from a genie. What is it?: "Look I’ve read the genie stories, seen the movies and I know how genies work. You wish for one thing, anything and they fuck it, along with YOU, up. There’s no way in hell I’m making a wish with a genie.”
She’d probably write up a contract with the genie to make sure she didn’t get ruined by the genie’s wish, then wish to know why her biological father had killed her family.
What are your muse’s vices?: “I don’t sleep like I should. I prefer to drink coffee or soda over water. I tend to run into situations without thinking and I tend to run into those situations alone. Sometimes I smoke weed but that’s entirely recreational. If this is handed to the cops I know my rights.”
What does your muse love about themselves?: “My style’s bright, I’m pretty damn intelligent, I can make people stop talking to me with three sentences and I just enjoy being me. I love myself in general, I love who I am both outwardly and inwardly.”
What does your muse hate about themselves?: “I tend to overthink things. A lot of things. I don’t trust people easily or even like them and it gets lonely like that. I don’t really like being like that. But anyone will tell you it’s hard changing things.”
What would your muse do with a million dollars?: “Finish college, save it, invest it. It’d be fun to blow through at first but it’s more important to save that kind of money. I might pay for some fixes to my car and buy a Nintendo Switch along with the new AC game.”
What are your muse’s most logical fears?: “For my parents to die. Pretty basic I just don’t want to lose anymore people. I don’t have many people in the world. I’m also afraid someday I’ll grow up and become someone who believes they know everything. I don’t want to shut myself off to learning new things.”
What are your muse’s most illogical fears?: “... You know the Kool-Aid man? He freaks me out. Okay so this giant man made of unbreakable glass,whose blood you can fucking see is breaking down walls trying to make you drink his blood. That’s terrifying, right?!”
What makes your muse uncomfortable?: “Noise. Lots of loud noises and noisy people. I just don’t like noisy areas. I don’t like crowds either or talking about personal things with people I don’t know. Unless they’re my therapist, of course.”
What calms your muse down?: “Weed. I’m kidding. Rainy days calm me down, so do long drives and quiet places with lots of books, so libraries. Exploring abandoned places helps me relax too.”
Is your muse a follower or a leader?: “I don’t know if I’m a leader. If anyone followed me they’d probably find themselves at an abandoned place or somewhere dangerous. But I don’t think a follower. I like to do my own thing and if I don’t agree with someone I’ve got no problem saying it.”
What is your muse’s biggest accomplishment?: “The fact that I’ve survived twenty one years. That’s it. What did you expect me to say something cheesy like graduating high school or some shit? I’m twenty one dude I don’t have many accomplishments in my life.”
WHAT’S YOUR MUSE’S PARENTS’ FINANCIAL SITUATION(S)?:
not nearly as wealthy, since they’ve been disowned from the goodwins (sucks to be them)
WHAT’S ON YOUR MUSE’S BIRTHDAY GIFT LIST? LIST AT LEAST FIVE:
james can buy anything he wants for himself, so his desires for gifts are a little bit Extra, such as: someone composing a song for him; a piece of original artwork; a genuine surprise party; a theme party that’s not a surprise; trashy knick-knacks from somewhere fun or tacky thrift store finds that are accompanied with a lengthy story.
YOUR MUSE GETS ONE WISH FROM A GENIE. WHAT IS IT?:
he would definitely spend it on a superpower, like the ability to freeze time or time travel or fly. he’d have to debate about it for a while first.
WHAT ARE YOUR MUSE’S VICES?:
“immoral” behavior? never heard of her. just kidding - nothing too bad, but he does drink too much, and he can be relatively un-empathetic to others’ difficult situations/pasts if he’s not trying really hard to empathize-- which is shitty, if not strictly immoral.
WHAT DOES YOUR MUSE LOVE ABOUT THEMSELVES?:
he loves his sunny disposition, his magnetic personality, and his flexibility/athletic stamina - he definitely appreciates his dancer’s body. appearance-wise, he also loves his curly hair.
WHAT DOES YOUR MUSE HATE ABOUT THEMSELVES?:
jamie is aware that he is a tad bit temperamental (read: a lot temperamental) and he doesn’t hate that, exactly, but he hates when his mood shifts are so obvious. he prefers to appear more even-keel, but that doesn’t always happen. he also hates that he has very little self-control & that he is so easily distractible.
WHAT WOULD YOUR MUSE DO WITH A MILLION DOLLARS?:
nothing special, honestly. probably give most of it away. actually, he’d come up with a super obnoxious way to give it away. like, come up with a ridiculous contest with him as the obviously biased judge. or do something stupid like wallpaper his dorm with the money, just for a laugh, and then feel a bit guilty and donate twice as much to lgbt+ charities.
WHAT ARE YOUR MUSE’S MOST LOGICAL FEARS?:
drowning (growing up in brighton along the beach, combined with his relative lack of brain cells sometimes, there were a few close calls; he still doesn’t know how to swim). he also has a fear of illness/hospitals/medical proceedings.
WHAT ARE YOUR MUSE’S MOST ILLOGICAL FEARS?:
not being in control of his own actions. also to the level of fate; he starts thinking about his destiny being controlled by fate rather than his own choices and he’ll genuinely start spiraling. additionally: dementia, which is a fair fear but completely unfounded considering it doesn’t run in his family.
WHAT MAKES YOUR MUSE UNCOMFORTABLE?:
having to express genuine negative emotion to someone else, face-to-face, without joking about it. also, complete & prolonged silence and stillness makes him so twitchy and uncomfortable.
OH!! and doing drugs beyond smoking weed. people doing drugs around him doesn’t bother him? like, snort all the coke you like, honestly. but the idea of him doing those hard drugs, or even low-key party drugs, makes him uncomfortable-- because he knows that it really fucked up his parents’ lives, and he knows his grandmother would 200% disown him as well if he got into that. and with his kind of obsessive personality, he would probably get addicted tout de suite.
WHAT CALMS YOUR MUSE DOWN?:
music or movement.
IS YOUR MUSE A FOLLOWER OR A LEADER?:
a bit of both? would take the lead in a hot second, but he’s also happy enough to follow along.
WHAT IS YOUR MUSE’S BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT?:
james choreographed a piece for his dance final at the end of his sophomore year, and performed in it with two of his classmates. it got uploaded to youtube, went viral, and the original artist of the song (who is kind of a big deal) messaged him and asked to choreograph a piece for her next tour. so he flew out to los angeles for rehearsals and helped with that piece last summer; he had a great time and made some cool industry connections. he’d consider that experience his biggest accomplishment.
what’s your muse’s financial situation ? : to be honest, she’s set for life . getting a degree is all for the sake of getting a degree at this point .
what’s your muse’s parents’ financial situation (s) ? : her parents are doing well in the financial world. her mother is a stable government worker and her father is a businessman who’s only climbing up that forbes’ list as the years go by .
what’s on your muse’s birthday gift list ? list at least five : oh, she’d absolutely adore anyone who’d get her a first edition of her favourite books ( lewis carroll’s alice in wonderland, l.m. montgomery’s anne of greengables, louisa may alcott’s little women, etc. ) . any belongings from her favourite actresses ( anita ekberg, audrey hepburn, grace kelly, marilyn monroe, rita hayworth — to name a few ) would be a delight to have as well ! third would be a watering canister. frankly she‘s quite forgetful, her plants die on her all the time . fourth, random flea market item finds — she loves something with a story . fifth! she would absolutely love anything that just made them think of her . saw this rock at the beach thought of u! kind of things .
your muse gets one wish from a genie. what is it ? : to get unlimited wishes, of course ! there’s so much to get done .
what are your muse’s vices ? : one of her biggest vices is idleness, she loves loves loves indulging in the art of doing nothing . if she could sleep the whole day she could and she would . she’s also very short sighted. hope doesn’t really give the consequences her actions may create at the moment of conception — she just does things out of a whim, more or less, and especially when prompted . is lack of boundaries a vice ? if it is . it’s one of hers.
what does your muse love about themselves ? : she loves that she has the ability to be positive no matter the situation she is in. stuck in a well ? ah maybe this is a lesson ! car stopped in the middle of nowhere ? oh at least i’ll get to make new friends if someone helps me. forgot the brownies in the oven? that’s too bad, at least next time i’ll remember to time it properly .
what does your muse hate about themselves ? : how she can never drink 8 glasses of water but has no problem chugging down smoothies .
what would your muse do with a million dollars ? : oh, donate it. definitely .
what are your muse’s most logical fears ? : global warming .
what are your muse’s most illogical fears ? : medical exams . specifically, the results of those exams . she’s afraid she might have caught some type of terminal illness and she’d rather not know she’d acquired something like that . and honestly hurting anyone, since she unintentionally does it at times .
what makes your muse uncomfortable ? : being in the middle of an argument .
what calms your muse down ? : looking at nature . it’s very cathartic for her — watching the trees sway, watching the grass dance to the rhythm of the wind, the clouds swirl in the sky, watch a ladybug crawling on flower’s petal, a bee humming around a flower patch ? oh, she could do it all day .
is your muse a follower or a leader ? : a follower . she likes having someone to look up to and part of that i believe stems from the fact that she isn’t very keen on having responsibilities. and well she’s a pushover .
what is your muse’s biggest accomplishment ? : for her parents it’s that she’s a remarkable equestrian and proficient ballerina . for her it’s managing to keep the baby cactus in her room alive .
