Character Interview Meme
Got it from broom__rider
Here are the rules:
1. Choose a few of your own characters (five at the most).
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Then tag three people. (I'll drop the tag part, I don't like it!)
4. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself.
My characters: Maundervo Rollingstone , Kenro the skybolt and the Gambler Sphinx. M. Rollingstone, because it's well known char and it will be interesting, Kenro, because I'm having a reunion with him lately and Gambler Sphynx, just because I like him.
How old are you?
M. Rollingstone: 53 or 54 already, I don't know my birthday, just year of birth, odd, isn't it?
Kenro: Two centuries living, three more dead, plus-minus some years
Gambler Sphinx: So many hundreds of years, I don't bother to count anymore
What's your height?
M. Rollingstone: 180
Kenro: As elemental I can be as big as I want, as material, depends on the being - lion-sized dragon-cat, average sized human, tower-high statue...
Gambler Sphinx: 1.5m at the shoulder, 0.9 meter wingspan
What are you?
M. Rollingstone: Ex- royal investigator, traveler, collector of stories and oddities, writer
Kenro: Skybolt (fire elemental, that watches over the stars) warrior
Gambler Sphinx: Seer, one of the Keepers of the Shield and a bit of bard (Shield is the name of the world where the Gambler Sphinx lives)
Do you have any bad habits?
M. Rollingstone: Smocking, trying to taste local food, even when it's not human food, sticking my nose into anything that seems odd, talking with "unproper" people, general curiosity, doubting the word of my superiors, telling tall tales, that often happen to be true
Kenro: Putting myself above tradition and law, when they come in conflict with my honor and promises I intend to keep.
Gambler Sphinx: My visitors complain that I'm a party-beast, my friends complain that I fall into prophetic trance right in the middle of party, and everyone thinks I'm talking too much:)
Are you a virgin?
M. Rollingstone: Hardly
Kenro: *pointedly ignores the question*
Gambler Sphinx: Sadly, yes. I'd love to change that, but nature is against me. Sphinx don't have actual gender, only mental one. In simple words, I'm sexless.
Who's your mate/spouse? If not, got anyone in mind?
M. Rollingstone: I'm not married and never had been, because I travel too much. Had my share of affairs, but It's hard to keep the relationship, when you half the world away... My dream was to find a woman, who will travel with me, but I hadn't met one, yet.
Kenro: I lost my mate, before we were properly mated. It happened long ago, but I still can't forget her. She lives, but she chose to serve the Moon Goddess, leaving the skybolts sky. Becoming Moonbolt, the Goddess messenger she left behind much of her personality, forgetting her past. The emotional connection, from her side, is broken and can't be renewed. But she still wears the bracelet I gave her, and she never took it off.
Gambler Sphinx: All my priests, both male and female, are dedicated to me. It's much like marriage... (Gerie: Shildean Sphinx is a lesser deity, so every one of them has a bunch of priests.)
Do you have any kids?
M. Rollingstone: As far as I know, no. But there may be some, unknown;)
Kenro: No
Gambler Sphinx: Not yet. Sexless as they are, Sphinxes can't breed like normal beings, but when the time comes, they create new ones. So there will be more than one Gambler Sphinx one day!
What's your favorite food?
M. Rollingstone: I always favored simple foods:) Bread, cheese, fruits... But I'm not vegetarian!:)
Kenro: Energy of fire and light.
Gambler Sphinx: Wine and candy!
What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
M. Rollingstone: What's "ice-cream"? You sparkle my curiosity! I have to taste it!
Kenro: When it comes to material food, I'm predator...
Gambler Sphinx: Just any, as long as it sweet, and even better if it contains alcohol!
Have you killed anyone?
M. Rollingstone: Only in battle or fight. Not many, but I had, now and then. I don't really enjoy it.
Kenro: Many, maybe too many. But I'm not fond of killing.
Gambler Sphinx: No. But I'm pretty often tempted...
Have any secrets?
M. Rollingstone: Yes, like any other person. I witnessed lots of things, that have to be kept secret. Yo'll be surprised, how many tales I tell as legends, are true.
Kenro: Yes. My greatest secret is that I know how to call my mate back from the Moon Goddess. But I'll never do this.
Gambler Sphinx: I'm a mystery myself!
Do you hate anyone?
M. Rollingstone: Narrow minds. They infect others with their narrowness. Slavers and slavery. But it's not the kind of hatred that makes me sick with anger. But I fight those things wherever I find them, with word and with action, and with my books, trying to change the way people see the world.
Kenro: No. Hate is a bad weapon, it narrows you vision.
Gambler Sphinx: Kenro had it right, hate could cloud my vision too. But I'm easily annoyed!
Do you love anyone?
M. Rollingstone: Yes! But not in the romantic meaning. There is so many good people out there...
Kenro: I still love my mate. And there were friends. And Danka, my niece, whom I grew to love as my own cub. Many of them are dead, and those who still alive are so far away now, I carry them in my heart, remember them, and hope to meet them again.
Gambler Sphinx: Like hate, love blurs my vision just as well. I can't "love", but I like.
What is your job?
M. Rollingstone: It's more fun, than job, actually - I visit faraway exotic places and write about them. I listen to legends and write them down, too. Does it sounds like a job to you?:)
Kenro: I'm a warrior. Right now I'm fulfilling the prophecy.
Gambler Sphinx: I'm the Seer, who sees beyond the boundaries of my home world, into the nasty places mostly. And gives warning, when it needed. My other job is to change people and their fates. Someone spread the world, that I grant wishes, but it's not the same. So when dumb people come to me with dumb wishes, I have some fun with them!
Boy or girl?
M. Rollingstone: Girls!:) I mean women, not men.
Kenro: One she-skybolt.
Gambler Sphinx: Boy, girl, unicorn, dragon, everything alive and not are welcomed... to my party! As long as they drink and sing, but not fight:)
What do you do to relax?
M. Rollingstone: Read, go for a walk, watch the sky or the running water, hang out with my many friends...
Kenro: Meditate.
Gambler Sphinx: Throw a great noisy party, get as drunk as I can and sing lewd limericks!
What's something that you like?
M. Rollingstone: Open road. Nice party with friends. New tale, I'm out to investigate.
Kenro: Flying in starlight.
Gambler Sphinx: To pull a trick on dumb visitor requesting to grant him a stupid wish. And party-party-party!:)
What did you want to be when you grew up?
M. Rollingstone: Something great: great sea-captain, great writer, great diplomat... And I became a great traveler!:)
Kenro: It's a bit different with skybolts. We are born with a gift, that determines our life. Only following our gift we can achieve things and be happy. My gift was to be warrior. It brings me many sadness, because I don't enjoy killing, but it also the way I see the world - the warrior way. And I can't be something else.
Gambler Sphinx: Sphinx comes to this world adult, well normal Sphinx does. I always knew what I am, unlike humans. It's both blessing and a curse. Knowing what i am from th every beginning, I can't change as much as humans can. But, on the other side I don't have their doubts...
What's your favorite clothes/outfit?
M. Rollingstone: Simple, comfortable clothes, not too dark, not too bright, I favor the earth colors.
Kenro: My scars. I wear them with honor. It's a joke, actually. I have to "wear" them, because they are there. I may like them or not, but they have their uses...
Gambler Sphinx: Wreath of flowers on my neck:)
Your favorite childhood memory?
M. Rollingstone: Flying kites in spring, on the hills beyond the town's walls, time, when I was so happy I felt like a flying kite myself:)
Kenro: Chasing a falling star, great ball of pure fire, across the sky, not letting it fall down, pushing it that way and this way until it cools enough to be handled by the magic of the keeper...
Gambler Sphinx: When I lived with my sisters in the Oracle of Four Winds, I liked to do something that made them to lose their dignity, like tying their tails together, and then calling one of them to come to me. It caused such a mess!
What is your greatest fear?
M. Rollingstone: I'm not sure... When I was younger, I greatly feared to become anchored to one place, to quit my journeys, to live unchanging life, in constant place. Now I understand, that it depends on the person, not on the way of life. You can find wonders right under your nose, anywhere, any time, you just have to know how to see them. I do.
Kenro: After so many losses I learned to live with them, and I never really feared death, it's kind of "occupational hazard" for a warrior. I feared dishonor, but I was dishonored more than once, and lived through it too. I have my own fears, but not the great ones.
Gambler Sphinx: Sometimes I fear, that my gift will fail me. Or that, when time will come to create a new Sphinx, I'll fail with that.
Overall I like how it turned out, especially Maundervo Rollingstone, he turned out great! Kenro manifested rather samurai-like, he seems too cold for fiery being, much like he really is, but he has a softer side, even if he mostly pretends he don't. Gambler Sphinx successfully pretends to be party-beast, sadly his more sane part stays hidden.
На русский переведу потом, это слишком большой кусок.
Here are the rules:
1. Choose a few of your own characters (five at the most).
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Then tag three people. (I'll drop the tag part, I don't like it!)
4. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself.
My characters: Maundervo Rollingstone , Kenro the skybolt and the Gambler Sphinx. M. Rollingstone, because it's well known char and it will be interesting, Kenro, because I'm having a reunion with him lately and Gambler Sphynx, just because I like him.
How old are you?
M. Rollingstone: 53 or 54 already, I don't know my birthday, just year of birth, odd, isn't it?
Kenro: Two centuries living, three more dead, plus-minus some years
Gambler Sphinx: So many hundreds of years, I don't bother to count anymore
What's your height?
M. Rollingstone: 180
Kenro: As elemental I can be as big as I want, as material, depends on the being - lion-sized dragon-cat, average sized human, tower-high statue...
Gambler Sphinx: 1.5m at the shoulder, 0.9 meter wingspan
What are you?
M. Rollingstone: Ex- royal investigator, traveler, collector of stories and oddities, writer
Kenro: Skybolt (fire elemental, that watches over the stars) warrior
Gambler Sphinx: Seer, one of the Keepers of the Shield and a bit of bard (Shield is the name of the world where the Gambler Sphinx lives)
Do you have any bad habits?
M. Rollingstone: Smocking, trying to taste local food, even when it's not human food, sticking my nose into anything that seems odd, talking with "unproper" people, general curiosity, doubting the word of my superiors, telling tall tales, that often happen to be true
Kenro: Putting myself above tradition and law, when they come in conflict with my honor and promises I intend to keep.
Gambler Sphinx: My visitors complain that I'm a party-beast, my friends complain that I fall into prophetic trance right in the middle of party, and everyone thinks I'm talking too much:)
Are you a virgin?
M. Rollingstone: Hardly
Kenro: *pointedly ignores the question*
Gambler Sphinx: Sadly, yes. I'd love to change that, but nature is against me. Sphinx don't have actual gender, only mental one. In simple words, I'm sexless.
Who's your mate/spouse? If not, got anyone in mind?
M. Rollingstone: I'm not married and never had been, because I travel too much. Had my share of affairs, but It's hard to keep the relationship, when you half the world away... My dream was to find a woman, who will travel with me, but I hadn't met one, yet.
Kenro: I lost my mate, before we were properly mated. It happened long ago, but I still can't forget her. She lives, but she chose to serve the Moon Goddess, leaving the skybolts sky. Becoming Moonbolt, the Goddess messenger she left behind much of her personality, forgetting her past. The emotional connection, from her side, is broken and can't be renewed. But she still wears the bracelet I gave her, and she never took it off.
Gambler Sphinx: All my priests, both male and female, are dedicated to me. It's much like marriage... (Gerie: Shildean Sphinx is a lesser deity, so every one of them has a bunch of priests.)
Do you have any kids?
M. Rollingstone: As far as I know, no. But there may be some, unknown;)
Kenro: No
Gambler Sphinx: Not yet. Sexless as they are, Sphinxes can't breed like normal beings, but when the time comes, they create new ones. So there will be more than one Gambler Sphinx one day!
What's your favorite food?
M. Rollingstone: I always favored simple foods:) Bread, cheese, fruits... But I'm not vegetarian!:)
Kenro: Energy of fire and light.
Gambler Sphinx: Wine and candy!
What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
M. Rollingstone: What's "ice-cream"? You sparkle my curiosity! I have to taste it!
Kenro: When it comes to material food, I'm predator...
Gambler Sphinx: Just any, as long as it sweet, and even better if it contains alcohol!
Have you killed anyone?
M. Rollingstone: Only in battle or fight. Not many, but I had, now and then. I don't really enjoy it.
Kenro: Many, maybe too many. But I'm not fond of killing.
Gambler Sphinx: No. But I'm pretty often tempted...
Have any secrets?
M. Rollingstone: Yes, like any other person. I witnessed lots of things, that have to be kept secret. Yo'll be surprised, how many tales I tell as legends, are true.
Kenro: Yes. My greatest secret is that I know how to call my mate back from the Moon Goddess. But I'll never do this.
Gambler Sphinx: I'm a mystery myself!
Do you hate anyone?
M. Rollingstone: Narrow minds. They infect others with their narrowness. Slavers and slavery. But it's not the kind of hatred that makes me sick with anger. But I fight those things wherever I find them, with word and with action, and with my books, trying to change the way people see the world.
Kenro: No. Hate is a bad weapon, it narrows you vision.
Gambler Sphinx: Kenro had it right, hate could cloud my vision too. But I'm easily annoyed!
Do you love anyone?
M. Rollingstone: Yes! But not in the romantic meaning. There is so many good people out there...
Kenro: I still love my mate. And there were friends. And Danka, my niece, whom I grew to love as my own cub. Many of them are dead, and those who still alive are so far away now, I carry them in my heart, remember them, and hope to meet them again.
Gambler Sphinx: Like hate, love blurs my vision just as well. I can't "love", but I like.
What is your job?
M. Rollingstone: It's more fun, than job, actually - I visit faraway exotic places and write about them. I listen to legends and write them down, too. Does it sounds like a job to you?:)
Kenro: I'm a warrior. Right now I'm fulfilling the prophecy.
Gambler Sphinx: I'm the Seer, who sees beyond the boundaries of my home world, into the nasty places mostly. And gives warning, when it needed. My other job is to change people and their fates. Someone spread the world, that I grant wishes, but it's not the same. So when dumb people come to me with dumb wishes, I have some fun with them!
Boy or girl?
M. Rollingstone: Girls!:) I mean women, not men.
Kenro: One she-skybolt.
Gambler Sphinx: Boy, girl, unicorn, dragon, everything alive and not are welcomed... to my party! As long as they drink and sing, but not fight:)
What do you do to relax?
M. Rollingstone: Read, go for a walk, watch the sky or the running water, hang out with my many friends...
Kenro: Meditate.
Gambler Sphinx: Throw a great noisy party, get as drunk as I can and sing lewd limericks!
What's something that you like?
M. Rollingstone: Open road. Nice party with friends. New tale, I'm out to investigate.
Kenro: Flying in starlight.
Gambler Sphinx: To pull a trick on dumb visitor requesting to grant him a stupid wish. And party-party-party!:)
What did you want to be when you grew up?
M. Rollingstone: Something great: great sea-captain, great writer, great diplomat... And I became a great traveler!:)
Kenro: It's a bit different with skybolts. We are born with a gift, that determines our life. Only following our gift we can achieve things and be happy. My gift was to be warrior. It brings me many sadness, because I don't enjoy killing, but it also the way I see the world - the warrior way. And I can't be something else.
Gambler Sphinx: Sphinx comes to this world adult, well normal Sphinx does. I always knew what I am, unlike humans. It's both blessing and a curse. Knowing what i am from th every beginning, I can't change as much as humans can. But, on the other side I don't have their doubts...
What's your favorite clothes/outfit?
M. Rollingstone: Simple, comfortable clothes, not too dark, not too bright, I favor the earth colors.
Kenro: My scars. I wear them with honor. It's a joke, actually. I have to "wear" them, because they are there. I may like them or not, but they have their uses...
Gambler Sphinx: Wreath of flowers on my neck:)
Your favorite childhood memory?
M. Rollingstone: Flying kites in spring, on the hills beyond the town's walls, time, when I was so happy I felt like a flying kite myself:)
Kenro: Chasing a falling star, great ball of pure fire, across the sky, not letting it fall down, pushing it that way and this way until it cools enough to be handled by the magic of the keeper...
Gambler Sphinx: When I lived with my sisters in the Oracle of Four Winds, I liked to do something that made them to lose their dignity, like tying their tails together, and then calling one of them to come to me. It caused such a mess!
What is your greatest fear?
M. Rollingstone: I'm not sure... When I was younger, I greatly feared to become anchored to one place, to quit my journeys, to live unchanging life, in constant place. Now I understand, that it depends on the person, not on the way of life. You can find wonders right under your nose, anywhere, any time, you just have to know how to see them. I do.
Kenro: After so many losses I learned to live with them, and I never really feared death, it's kind of "occupational hazard" for a warrior. I feared dishonor, but I was dishonored more than once, and lived through it too. I have my own fears, but not the great ones.
Gambler Sphinx: Sometimes I fear, that my gift will fail me. Or that, when time will come to create a new Sphinx, I'll fail with that.
Overall I like how it turned out, especially Maundervo Rollingstone, he turned out great! Kenro manifested rather samurai-like, he seems too cold for fiery being, much like he really is, but he has a softer side, even if he mostly pretends he don't. Gambler Sphinx successfully pretends to be party-beast, sadly his more sane part stays hidden.
На русский переведу потом, это слишком большой кусок.