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1. Your first OC ever?
I would have to say Donovan Shaw from my original co-authorered series Life is Precious. He’s really quite the character in terms of personality. A true “Shaw-vanist.”
2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?
It’s hard to say now. Before I started developing other LiP characters, Shaw would be -- hands down -- #1. My favorites change a lot, especially in favor of those who have a more completed story. I’m going to have to go with Vince the Wanderer. He was originally supposed to have a minor role in the story as that sidekick, but now he managed to land a spot as one of the main characters in the several protagonist pairs of the series.
3. Have you ever adopted a character or gotten a character from someone else?
I haven’t at all. The OCs I have from LiP are really my first ones. I don’t think I would enjoy adopting a character either mostly due to the fact that the amount of detail I put into creating each and every single person in the LiP world with my co-author. Even if the character has an absolutely minor role, be sure to know that their whole background with trivial information will be fleshed out. I have a list of what the main characters might like or dislike. It’s all extraneous but my goal is to make characters that can stand without their actual book, that they are a person regardless of where they go.
4. A character you rarely talk about?
Aside from the main antagonists in the works, it would be Zhao Yen. Zhao Yen is independent from the main cast and has a completely different journey. His is of redemption and finding his way back home. He was exiled by his people, who have rediscovered flight and magnetism. They sent him to the land below where the rest of the cast are and his task is find his own way back. In other words, from the skies, they “grounded” him. Zhao Yen doesn’t get that much opportunity, because he’s not a priority. I still need to figure out the main cast first.
5. If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be?
This is not a fair question, because I love all of my babies, but I’m going to have to go with Miss Silvia Sinclair ( ladyofarcen ). She’s so “normal” in a place where everything is so “magical.” Her story is similar to that of a “coming of age” one where she finds herself confronting reality after stepping out of paradise. Her path that I have yet to make concrete is one of my favorites with how raw it can be. Anyways, she is also my current focus as far as character projects go. I mean, she named her yellow canary “Duck.” How cute can she get?If this question gave me a character pair, it would be Vince and Mira in a heart beat. They’re the driving force of LiP, I feel.
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