1: What is your character's biggest fear?
She has a few. Most of them are incorporeal, and she can’t really choose between them. Her biggest physical fear is being overpowered by anyone, especially in a sexual manner beyond her control; rape is something that has been prevalent in her life and she is violently opposed to ever letting it happen again. Her greatest fear, overall, is dying without leaving a mark on this sick fucking world. You will know she was here! Watch her.
2: What is your character's favorite memory?
The first time she ever killed somebody. She was thirteen. She did it with the box cutter Kōji gave her and her assailant’s butterfly knife, and she still remembers it clearly, it’s one of her memories that she can bring back with total recall: the way her small-but-sharp corner blade caught on his eyebrow, shoving it hard into his eye and getting it stuck there, the impact of the blade hitting a bone and becoming lodged and how it shook her all the way to her shoulder, how warm and thick blood feels on her wrist and how it spurted, the noise it made, the noise HE made, grinding teeth on teeth and the way he SCREAMED. She remembers taking the knife out of his hand while he was trying to grab at his eye and stabbing it into his throat and slicing it clean through, and how his jugular split open straight on her face, the gurgling wet noise and the sick thump like a sack of uncooked steaks hitting kitchen tile that was his body on concrete, his pants halfway down and his nasty face on the pavement. She remembers taking her box cutter out but leaving the butterfly knife there, and the pumping blasting bass in her FUCKING BLOODSTREAM and thudding in her ribcage, how she ruined her fucking clothes, what she smelled like, what he smelled like, what dead looks like, how hard she had to pull to get the box cutter out of his eye...
Yeah. She likes that one. Fucking pig.
3: What is your character's least favorite memory?
If it comes to pass: whiskey and sharp teeth and yellow eyes, the weirdly weightless push of corded muscle and the way it laughed in her ear, and how she had to smile and pretend she was having a good fucking time and keep going even though between her legs she was screaming, she fucking HURT, her head’s spinning but somewhere she knows what’s going on and it’s going to hurt so fucking bad tomorrow...
If it doesn’t: her hero, her big brother who smuggled her home cookies and sweets and taught her how to shoot a gun when she was all of three (not that she was any good), hanging in the family doorway by a length of rope, dripping from the neck.
4: Does anyone have a crush on your character? Is your character aware of this?
Uh. Sullivan thinks she’s pretty fuckin’ cute. She and Kubrick have some weird stuff goin’ on. She doesn’t think anybody actually has a crush on her, that implies something kind of butterfly-stomachy and gay. Please, anyone who does, please see someone about your attraction to psychotic murderers.
5: Describe your character's dream date.
Go snort a line or take some pills, kill a guy slow-like and really enjoy it, fuck in the blood if you got the time, head home, take some shots, maybe some pills if you need it, watch a movie and cuddle and probably fuck again. Maybe stop to make/sell some drugs or extort people for information, if you have that much time on your date, you know, do some networking. She does all that stuff for fun. Someone who does it with her, and does it really fucking well, will give her the dokis.
6: What is your character's sexual orientation?
Legs? Check. Horrible attitude? Check. Homicidal impulses? Check. She will fuck anything with those criteria and a working set of genitals, whatever they’ve got down there. She’s got a preference for the ladytypes, because they’re soft and squishy and she likes to bite them, but she isn’t overly picky. That said, if she’s gonna have sex with a guy, she’d prefer them to be traditionally masculine. Skinny boys aren’t really her digs. Skinny GIRLS, though... hhghughgh, yeah, she is all about that.
7: How does your character feel about their name?
Picked it herself. It’s hard around the edges and is best spit around a mouthful of blood. She loves it.
The name Natsuko is an awful, girly name, and is only acceptable when used by her brothers or someone else who speaks Japanese. The only thing worse than the name Natsuko is interrupting the flow of a language, because it’ll jarr her out of the mindset she needs to process Japanese properly, so she’s fine with them using it in those circumstances. Natsuko is also acceptable if used in a very serious conversation with someone who knows her intimately, and knows the difference between Natsuko and Deveka as street presences and what name you should use when.
8: Does your character hate anyone? Why?
Deveka hates almost everybody until they prove that she shouldn’t. She hates rich people, she hates weak people, she hates complacent people and unambitious people. She hates judgmental people, she hates stupid people, she hates naive and trusting people. She hates bad liars! She hates you, probably, unless you’ve got a damn good reason that she should respect you instead.
9: How does your character feel about religion?
Religion is stupid. What a waste of time. You’re living in a god’s ribcage. What are you, an idiot? Besides, she’s met a god, and he ain’t nothing worth worshipping.
10. Would your character ever kill someone?
LMAO LISTEN BUDDY NOT ONLY IS SHE GONNA KILL SOMEBODY SHE’LL STICK HER FINGERS IN THE WOUND AND FINGERFUCK THE CORPSE FOR LAUGHS IF SHE’S GOT AN AUDIENCE
11: How did your character meet their best friend?
She joined up with the mob. Kubrick was the partner given to her by mere chance; most partnerships don’t last long, and mobsters have a pretty heavy attrition rate by virtue of the job they do. They lasted a lot longer than anyone anticipated, given their volatile personalities (the agreed upon betting pool was six hours to six days). Sure, their relationship’s weird and she’s still pissed he never told her how he felt, but that doesn’t make him not her best friend.
12: How would/does your character feel about roller coasters?
HELL. FUCKING. YES. LET’S DO THIS. The taller, the faster, the crazier, the upside-downier and droppier the better. She’s a thrill junkie.
13: What would your character die for?
If it really came down to it? If somebody was pointing a gun at her and her best friends, at Sullivan, at her brothers? Nothing. She won’t die for money or power or glory, she won’t die for god, for love, for her best friend, she won’t die for you and she won’t die for me. She’ll do anything short of die for the people she loves, but that’s where she draws the line. Deveka won’t even die for Deveka. Deveka is going to live forever, and deal with the consequences as they come. Nothing lasts for eternity, but she’s going to sure as hell try.
14: What is the cutest thing your character has ever done?
She makes really cute, sweet noises if she’s having sex with someone she really likes and trusts? That’s kind of cute? She can be really affectionate and cuddly and thoughtful with her gifts or actions. It’s kinda gay. (pleaseloveme)
15: What music genre would your character listen to?
Hard rock. Dubstep. Hard techno. Hip-hop/rap. Anything with good guitars and/or a heavy bassline.
16: What other fictional characters remind you of your character?
Hades from Hercules has her fast-talking in a nutshell, yep, fuck you, Disney is great and I’ll fight you about it. Tank Girl has a few of her things, too, if you’ve ever seen that piece of trash movie/comic. I’m sure there’s others, Dev’s a pretty common trope type.
17: Does your character have any irrational fears?
Lots of them! She’s afraid of what was mentioned above pretty much all the time, even if she doesn’t show it. She’s afraid she’ll drink herself to death. She’s afraid of doors being open and her back not being to a wall at all times. She’s afraid of being unarmed, no matter how safe the location she’s in is, or of sleeping for too long.
18: How would your character feel about having their life recorded?
Fuck off, buddy. Her life’s her own fucking business. She doesn’t want anything to fucking do with you or your shitty interest in her.
19: What is your character's deepest, darkest secret?
Her vulnerability, probably. She is horrifically desperate for unconditional love and acceptance; she is also, physically, tiny and weak and does not want you to see it, so she throws up a smokescreen of bravado and booze and big fucking guns.
20: What is the most surprising thing about your character?
Her degree of loyalty to the people she feels deserve it: people she respects, or has grown to very much like (usually one and the same) have her until the end, and she’ll go out of her way to do favors for them and keep them happy, and try not to hurt their feelings.
21: Is your character flexible?
Pretty flexible! No crazy shit, but she’s got a good range of motion and she can do the splits in both directions.
22: What is the worst thing your character has ever done?
I’m going to go with “mass genocide” for $200, Jim. Closely followed by selling cocaine to 12 year olds, probably.
23: Is your character morally gray or black or white?
Grey as hell. She thinks good and evil is a really stupid concept: “there is only power, and those too weak to seek it” rings super true to her. If you don’t strike first, someone else will take what you could have taken, and then they will fuck you with it. Taking care of yourself and your own in any way possible is not an evil idea - rather, that by itself is considered ‘good’ and ‘respectable’ by everyone, and then they start to get all iffy with the details. Fuck that, Deveka thinks. (Good may be thankable, evil is BANKABLE.)
24: What prejudices does your character have?
She assumes rich people are fat and lazy and stupid, which poses a serious problem when she goes up top. She also assumes that purists are all absolutely mad, though she is careful not to underestimate them! Goody-two-shoes are obviously... well, not idiots, but they need some help. She is pretty non-judgmental, otherwise, by virtue of her upbringing and the fact that anyone can pop you in the back of the head no matter what else they get up to in their own homes.
25: Would you want to hang out with your character?
Wow, holy shit, no? Please, no, I really, really like my organs where they are, thank you????
26: What is your favorite headcanon for your character?
She carries no fewer than ten different kinds of illicit substances, sixteen weapons, and two flasks full of alcohol on her person at any given time if she is not in her own home. If she’s home, you can cut all that in half and be pretty close to correct.
Also, that she is secretly super interested in techie and sciency stuff and is too ashamed to admit it. Instead, she pretends she doesn’t care, because it’s above her level, out of her depth, and she can’t read any of it anyway.
27: What would be the worst way for your character to die?
Old, in her sleep, peaceful. Sickness. Rape. Betrayal from someone she trusted with everything.
28: What pet would your character like to have?
She actually really liked Kubrick’s dog, a snappy and angry thing that could rip your leg off with a good bite if you weren’t careful. Anything dangerous - venomous, big and fanged, whatever. She’ll take it! Pets are kind of a drag, though. You have to pet them and take care of them and stuff and they stop you from just going and doing whatever you want.
29: What would be your character's favorite food?
She likes comfort foods and fast food: ramen (with lots of spice), macaroni and cheese, big greasy burgers, curry. Spicy food is a huge yes. Strong flavors in general.
30: Would your character have any hobbies?
Work is her hobby: Practicing her aim. Learning new ways to kill somebody. Playing with chemicals and making her drugs better. Learning about somebody and storing the information away for later use. She doesn’t have any use for any of those frilly fucking ‘hobbies.’
31: What social media would your character use?
She’s got a slumblr, but she doesn’t really use it for much except stalking people and occasionally making snide comments. Once or twice she posted nudes because she wanted some attention, though she didn’t include her face, because she hates it. She gets a snapstagram after a while on the upper ring, probably, but it’s set to private. Makes her more desirable anyway.
32: What does your character look like?
Extremely short and waifish. Her hipbones are knives; her elbows are caltrops. Her spine could be used as a xylophone and you could count her ribs from down the alley if she took off her shirt. Her thighs could fit in a mason jar. Dev’s got a face like a doll’s, angular and narrow-eyed with a soft, round jaw and high cheekbones, and a narrow but full mouth. She hates every fucking inch of it. It is too goddamn girly for her and she fucking hates it, she hates how tiny she is, she hates fucking everything about herself.
She dresses to cover it, from the skin out: tattoos from knuckles to neck, and not good ones either, ones that hurt like a bitch and she is fucking proud of it; bulletproof vests, heavy sweatshirts; armor over her joints, especially on her legs; ripped up jeans stained with yesterday’s fight and last week’s whiskey. She had a steel fang welded onto a broken tooth, decided she liked it, and busted the other one to match. She dresses in blacks to blend into the alleyways, because she doesn’t need help standing out.
33: In what ways is your character like you?
Stubborn. Hates being perceived as weak. Spiteful when told they can’t do something.
34: What is cliche about your character?
There are so many fucking tropes. Tiny girl with big fucking gun that she named. I feel like a lot of her is cliché but I can’t name any of them so I guess there’s that.
35: What is unique about your character?
Uh. Her weakness and physical/emotional vulnerability in contrast to the things she is good at and likes doing, I guess.
36: Does anyone want to harm your character?
LMAO. Fucking everybody wants to beat up Deveka. Purists, mostly! Sometimes her own coworkers. I think we can definitely throw Rev in the ‘yes’ department. Arys Syraneres wants her dead, eventually, on principle.
37: Do people have justified grudges against your character?
Absolutely! She’s a merciless, sadistic murderer who has probably killed somebody you know if you live down below, especially if you run in a purist-heavy family, sorry buddy but that’s how the cookie crumbles. She sells drugs to anybody with the cash, she’s rude and irreverent and talks to everyone in the same way, be they five years old or Kubrick or fucking God himself on a rainbows-and-unicorns fucking walkway, descending to tell her to ‘Fucking Stop.’ She swung up to the upper level, somehow, stole a perfectly good and marriageable man, insulted a couple people... very few people like Deveka.
That’s fine by her: she’s still holding the winning cards.
38: What role does your character play in their story?
Primarily an antagonistic one. She serves to destroy anything that conveniently needs destroying, act as the mob’s nastiest fist, and betray anybody that isn’t striking her as appropriately useful. She sells really fucking good drugs and knows where to find really good parties, and lies with all the believability of the world’s best politician. Don’t let her near your kids.
39: What would be your character's niche on Tumblr?
40: What would be your character's favorite school subject?
Ditching halfway through the day to go smoke in the teachers’ parking lot and eat McDonald’s she bought with somebody else’s lunch money.
41: Would your character want to have any children?
Fuck no. Can you imagine her with kids? Fuck no, she doesn’t want kids. If her significant other really wants some, she’ll think about it, but her uterus is broken from all the abuse it’s gone under and serious malnutrition anyway.
42: What would be your character's dream career?
She’s living it, yo. Murder and scaring people and selling drugs and feeding information home via her incredible networking skills is all she’s ever wanted to do with her life.
43: What is your character insecure about?
Her body. Her face. Her strength, and lack thereof. The weakness of her bones. Her unlikeability. That no one will ever love her for very long. She is always expecting whoever she’s with to walk out without warning and leave her alone, with nothing. The fact that she has feelings, and showing them. Everything she isn’t completely fucking stellar at.
44: What is your character proud of?
Not very much, honestly. She admits grudgingly that she’s pretty hot shit with murder, but everything else is still ‘not good enough.’ She won’t be proud of herself until she’s on top of the fucking world and all her mistakes are buried under a mountain of cash and influence.
45: What would your character change about themselves?
Fucking everything. She’d change her body composition, she’d change the way her face looks, she’d change her height and her weight. She’d ditch her insecurities. She’d get rid of her heart and bury it far, far away. Anything that makes her human or vulnerable is out. Anything that makes her awesome is in.
46: Would you want to trade places with your character?
No. Never. No. Please, god. Never.
47: What fandoms would your character be in?
T..h..e... drugs fandom????
48: How would your character type?
Slow as fuck. Hunt’n’pecker until somebody teaches her otherwise. It’s a combination of never using technology with being an extremely slow reader/speller/writer even when she does learn, until she has several years of practice under her belt.
49: How does your character stand politically?
She’s on Deveka’s team, but Deveka is generally a true blue anarchist. Let the people rule themselves! She has some faith in capitalism, but not a lot; government systems have never helped anybody that she can see, except the people who got rich from exploiting them. Let people enforce their own rules. The slums seem to be doing alright, apart from the rich people taking gigantic shits on them every morning.
50: What is your favorite thing about your character?
Her adaptability. Dev’s gift for lying and reading a situation, and changing herself to suit it, is always something I have liked writing for. It isn’t to say that she’ll fit in anywhere, exactly, but she knows when to give up and when to push and when to fake it ‘til she makes it.
51: What is your character's favorite animal?
Uh. Dogs, she guesses. She hasn’t really seen many animals. She likes the idea of dogs and wolves, though.
52: How would your character act in gym class?
Remember the ask about favorite subject? Yeah. She’s not in gym class. She never made it there.
53: What clubs would your character join?
She wouldn’t. If she absolutely had to to save her own life, she’d join something like Model UN, probably, just to bully people into submission. She’d be startlingly good at it. Alternatively, some kind of Econ thing.
54: What is the saddest thing about your character's life?
The distinct lack of love or empathy present in it, probably, and the overcompensation that comes from it. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Deveka though.
55: Would your character do the Ice Bucket Challenge?
She’d pour water on somebody else. Maybe if she was being given money?
56: What's one of your character's quirks?
Plays with her piercings when she’s thinking. Taps her fingers faster the more irritated she is. Sneers as a way to show amusement or happiness as much as to show anger or disgust.
57: How would your character feel about feminism?
Hell fucking yeah! She doesn’t understand the concept of not being fully equal, and thinks it’s phenomenally stupid every time she runs into it, mostly on the upper ring. Like, seriously, what the fuck? She will be a feminist revolutionary, ok, this is the rare ideal she can get behind. Chicks rock. Fuck you and your penis loving ways, ain’t her fault you got your shit on the outside and you feelin’ the need to overcompensate.
58: Is your character dorky or more athletic?
Athletic. She has a couple dorky qualities, like being interested in techie and sciencey shit and liking to cuddle as mentioned above, but she suppresses them pretty hardcore.
59: What is your least favorite thing about your character?
Her attitude towards other people. It’s so horrendously callous. People are just tools to her, even the ones she likes, except for in super rare circumstances. I seriously hate it. She is such an asshole and a liar.
60: If you could title your character's life, what would you title it?
Cocaine Is Really Bad For You, Please Stop Doing It
