All right, all RIGHT--

[taennyn]

Nicked from klgaffney (who got it from tsuki_no_bara), merditha, darthneko, larathia, billradish, and now dreamscribe:

name a character and I'll tell you something entirely random about him/her that may or may not ever make it into the story. (lemmings. All of us. I swear.)

(and also from klgaffney: ask me anything about my stories and/or writing process:* inspiration, process, what the hell was i thinking, etc. no

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[larathia]

Aodh! (and dante if i can get two)

[taennyn]

For a very long time when he was younger he was more comfortable sleeping in the secret passageways in the ceilings than he was in the beds at home; he considers this a side effect of watching a few too many horror movies late at night when he was in his teens. There are probably still the remains of pillows and blanket-nests in there, assuming the mice haven't taken over completely.

Dante feels that in some respects his life has been very boring--he's never intentionally tried halluciogens (there was a minor chocolate incident four or five centuries ago that yielded monoploy game pieces that took you to Wonderland), he's never gone and played Tag with a wild hunt.
He'll be six hundred and forty eight in July. He used to make a year-bead at the summer solstice.

[taennyn]

He kind of resents that the dead are better remembered and known than the living.

He's survived three major wars and has hazy memories of one and a half of them.

He hates whole-grain breads. He'd much rather help a miller run a grindstone for an afternoon than go to a grocery store and buy a few pounds of machine ground and sifted. He can identify and pick stones out of grain without having to think about it.

He gets adopted by people. He's really kind of o.O about this.

[taennyn]

Actually, examples under consideration were said miller, the family cook, Conall . . . but the reaction is appropriate. :) "O.o . . . why?"

[cryptess]

This is a sign of me just waking up and not having the gumption to like, check for a website link or something.

Q. Where can I find this writingey goodness? If they're only available in person, I'll bring fudge.

[taennyn]

Mmm . . there's much more character babble than there are written out stories (though I keep meaning to change that and get off my butt and actually write for a while). One apologises.

[cryptess]

That's ok! Development is just as important as the content writing. Skipping development usually means inconsistency and lack of plot. So this bodes well for the eventual stories. :)

[taennyn]

*laughs* You're very flattering.

[klgaffney]

the morrighan.

...and since i find her shiny even from rumour and secondhand observation, i figured i might as well go with the questions too: where'd she come from? is she dead on celtic myth, or a mirror/shift/aspect/other/whathaveyou? what does she want, anyway? *flails* ahem. there's probably more. i'll wait for you to answer those first. *beam*

part the first

[taennyn]

She has--she feels--an absurd liking for shoes. Especially the ones that make her feet look even smaller than they actually are (and considering that she's maybe four foot eleven in flats without her hair spiked . . .) or have decorations that make you do double takes.
She feels no personal conflict in being sworn to *thinks* three people, while being lovers with a fourth.
She has a thing for tall blonds.
She can fight in full victorian dress (including corset). The fact that she doesn't have to anymore is glee inducing.

part the second

[taennyn]

Hmmmn. Depends on how you look at it; there are actually two The Morrigans. The death, and the goddess. From all I've read, the goddess is dead on celtic myth in her Aspect

[billradish]

Gabriel. I told you this already. =P

...I still get occasional pokes from the back of the brain offering concept-images of your writing process from the inside. I'll pass on that bit, and ask instead how the stories feel to you, after they've had a few years to settle in. Current conception held against what you remember of the original.

[taennyn]

He got in a fight with a pet cockatiel once. . . Well, technically the cat perched on his shoulder started the fight, but by the time the fight ended everyone was involved, will they or nil they.
He knows wine language, and keeps a wine celler, but he doesn't drink wine unless it's accompanying something else.
He survived a russian style vodka tasting without a hangover.

Your milage may vary. Mirages, once it became Story instead of writing exercise . . the plot hasn't changed at all--this event follows that event which is fallout from this--but the level of detail and depth of the story varied.

A story is a pattern, a framework; the older the story--or the more work it's had done on it--the deeper the level of weaving, the more details there are in the weaving. So events, plot twists don't change, but the depth of fallout from them may.