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Character Tag

I was tagged by violet_storm. I can't actually tag her because the device I'm on HATES it when I try to tag anyone. 

The tag is to take three characters from any of your stories, write their first line, last line, and a fun fact. So I'll do that. Right now. *disappears with bad google slides transition*

                                                                                 Aquinnia 

                                                                       Song of the Raven

FIRST LINE: "UGH!" ((This says so much about her as a person, honestly))

LAST LINE: "Be right there!"

FUN FACT: I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons that we decided on a raven specifically as because originally, Aquinnia got this note that was basically saying that she was going to die. It said "The raven cries out for you." Ravens are symbolic of death, and yeah. She didn't know where it came from, and neither did I, so in the end, we cut it out at the last minute, but still. Thats why.

                                                                               Ninian

                                                                 Song of the Raven

FIRST LINE: "I agree."

LAST LINE: "Go."

FUN FACT: For whatever reason, there were a lot of word choices with Ninian in particular, where Vio and I didn't agree on them. See, the thing is, sometimes I'm really picky about my word choices in writing. So I'd be rereading what I'd written, reviewing Vio's edits, when I notice that she changed a word choice that I'd chosen on purpose.  Maybe, I just liked the way it flowed better before. THIS ONLY EVER HAPPENED WITH NINIAN, IDK WHY. And the first time it happened, I just switched it back. No brainer, right? WRONG. Half the time, we'd be writing in different class periods, so I'm reviewing the new part she wrote, and the edits, AND ITS CHANGED AGAIN. 

Of course, being the mature, very-good-at-teamwork writer that I am, I made a decision. Rather than actually bring this up to her, I would keep changing it back. In my brain, it was like psychological WARFARE. MAYBE I WANTED NINIAN'S EYES TO BE "MURKY GREEN" INSTEAD OF JUST DARK GREEN! 

In my brain, it happened way more dramatically than it probably was, but this was my interpretation of it. Vio, were you aware that I kept changing Ninian's descriptors back? What was this like from your end?

                                                                              Mika Rivers

Abnormal Life of Nori Liress

FIRST LINE: "Don't move."

LAST LINE: "So, wouldn't that mean that this is the end of the story?"

FUN FACT: Mika was originally going to be my antagonist. She's an Alchemist, and I based her loosely off of Cartaphilus from Ancient Magus Bride. However, the way that I got to know my side characters was by drawing mini scenes with them. That's actually how almost all of my side characters were developed.

I wanted to draw one for my antagonist, Mika. So, I took what I knew about her, and started to brainstorm. I knew she was ambitious, and Alchemist, a prodigy, and that she was about as good at picking up on social cues as my five year old brother is. I also knew that she lived in the Alchemist Guild Hall. At the time, I knew very little about my Alchemists' Guild culture, but I knew that the Mages' Guild had dorms. Suddenly, I knew what to draw. I made this hilarious mini comic where Mika is holding out this vial, cackling about how she has discovered the tincture of- SMACK! Mika's roommate throws a pillow at her head and basically says that she can deal with the lights being in at all hours because of Mika's experiments, and she can deal with the possibility of toxic gases in the room, but the YELLING AT THREE IN THE MORNING HAS TO STOP

So, after that, I knew that Mika was sort of just a dork, and she stopped being my antagonist.

I TAG EVERYONE! ALL THE PEOPLE