5, 8 and 36 for both!
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5. What is your OC’s first memory?
BAMARDYN
Her first memory is definitely getting caught in a tree branch. She was a wee lil thing but she always had a thick, thick head of hair, even when it wasn’t very long. Of course Bamsy also had a deep curiousity for everything, so whenever her mother began to let her leave her side she would take that inch and go a mile, tearing off into god knows where while her mother chased after her. Needless to say she tried to clamber over some thickets before her mom caught her and a low hanging tree branch snagged a bit of her hair and she was stuck like chuck. She wailed forever even when Ismiri came scolding her and rescued her from the awful branch lmao
CIERNA
Cii’s memory isn’t that great, unfortunately, so most of her childhood/early days were blurbs of words or split-second memories of places you can’t quite piece together, but she definitely remembers the day she learned to swim. She was accompanying her father with her two sisters (both elder) and as a light-hearted (but also a little cruel) joke they hatched a plan together to toss her into the big, slow-moving river that they had to pass through to get back to the herd every day. Cierna, being fairly gangly-looking at the time – think yearling-size – , didn’t stand a chance as her sisters were both fully grown. They chucked her into the deep side and she pretty much found herself in a sink-or-swim situation, and lo and behold she started kicking her legs and kept her head above water. Her father was really mad at her sisters for it but hey, that skill comes in handy (like teaching Bamsy to swim later on lol)
8. What is your OC’s theme song?
BAMARDYN - Heartlines & Which Witch , both by Florence + The Machine. Mostly timeline dependent (Heartlines being prior to her forced induction into the King’s army ; Which Witch after )
CIERNA - The Wolves by Ben Howard ; it reflects how she’s biding her time, waiting for the right moment, and trying to inch by inch pull the rug from the ‘wolves’ aka the kingdom (though after a very long period of feeling defeated/feeling like she was incapable, she found her resolve before Bamardyn came and instead used it to strengthen both herself and B to achieve a means to their end of their sad plight)
36. How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories? ( I THINK I COUNTED THIS RIGHT DFJDSAL)
BAMARDYN - When she was young, she was very imaginative. Her younger brother didn’t come until much later and (children? foals? idk what one would call a young centaur) children were becoming less common in the herds as humans continuously moved in on their territories. Bamsy would often end up playing by herself, which helped her imagination run wild. It persisted well into her young adult years, but her imagination/inspiration died for quite some time after she became separated and lived on her own. It didn’t really begin to return until she and Cierna started to reach the light at the end of the tunnel, and after she was free she slowly returned to being more playful and daydreaming again. Definitely a lot of revisiting old memories.
CIERNA - Cierna is more realistic in a way that she needs more prompting/direction for imagination. Once she has an idea in her head, however, it’s tough to get it out – especially stories!! She loves telling stories, but making them can be difficult, so she would end up spending several weeks creating a whole tiny world in her mind for this one little idea that bloomed way further than most would expect. Cii would often revisit her self-made stories, seeing if there’s any plot holes/missing pieces that she could fill in just because – and often times it was this small thread of imagining that kept her sane during her time in the Kingdom. Like mentioned before her memory kind of sucks so she doesn’t really dwell on the past too much unless it had a significant impact on her, but she is definitely more of an ‘eyes forward’ kind of girl so she wouldn’t dwell nearly as much as Bamardyn does.