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another character meme and update
I spoke to my ENT yesterday and got a clean bill of health. Woot. Vargus plans are forthcoming if the finances permit. Stupid med bills. And now I present Koren, who has been in my head longer then I care to imagine.
Mandatory Questions
1. What about you is heroic? Heroic? Me? Hitting the hooch a bit early. Heros are characters in the stories and songs I perform. You don't find them outside of that.
2. What about you is social? What do you like about people? People are good, they buy you drinks, tip you when you play and every once in a while you find one that will actually heal you when you are dying.
3. Of what benefit could you be to the current group? Benefit... well I can tell the story afterwards... oh you mean the fighting type. I have a sword, I have two actually.
4. Why would you choose to join the current group? They offered me gold or I was bored.
5. Invent an adventure/plot that your character would actively undertake (as opposed to just tagging along)? Infiltrating the new empire and spying against them...
Personal Questions
1. What is your real, birth name? Korenia
2. Do you have a nickname? Koren, Wren, Kor, Rinia, there are more...
3. What do you look like? (Include height, weight, hair, eyes, skin, apparent age, and distinguishing features) Five five, about 130#'s, Brown hair usually braided, looks about 30ish
4. How do you dress most of the time? Travel ya wear the dredge stuff, but for markets I have a charcol shirt, pants and a gray and green doublet.
5. How do you "dress up?" I have a skirt...
6. How do you "dress down?" anything for the road that's not quite fit for performing
7. What do you wear when you go to sleep? Shirt and breeks
8. Do you wear any jewelry? Not really
9. In your opinion, what is your best feature? well they always say I am never unarmed as long as I can speak.
10. What's your real birth date? not sure
11. Where do you live? Describe it: Is it messy, neat, avant-garde, sparse, etc.? Depends on the month...
12. Do you own a car? Describe it. hitting the hooch a bit hard there eh?
13. What is your most prized mundane possession? Why do you value it so much? My instruments
14. What one word best describes you? fun
Familial Questions
1. What was your family like? Don't remember, don't care
2. Who was your father, and what was he like? See above
3. Who was your mother, and what was she like? do you listen much?
4. What was your parents marriage like? Were they married? Did they remain married? now this is just getting stupid
5. What were your siblings names? What were they like? if I find them I'll be sure to let you know
6. What's the worst thing one of your siblings ever did to you? What's the worst thing you've done to one of your siblings? if I have one I'll tell you
7. When's the last time you saw any member of your family? Where are they now? try never
8. Did you ever meet any other family members? Who were they? What did you think of them? They are charming fella, for not existing...
Childhood Questions
1. What is your first memory? Walking a lot
3. What was your favorite game? Hiding
4. Any non-family member adults stick out in your mind? no one I would talk to you about
6. What is your fondest, childhood memory? running
7. What is your worst childhood memory? couple of nights one winter where I didn't find a good place to hole up, cold is bad
Adolescent Questions
1. How old were you when you went on your first date? date... is that supposed to be like a mark?
2. It is common for one's view of authority to develop in their adolescent years. What is your view of authority, and what event most affected it? Authority, never there when you need it and always there when you don't...
3. What were you like in high school? What "clique" did you best fit in with? School? That is a good one.
4. What were your high school goals? There is that word again
5. Who was your idol when you were growing up? Who did you first fantasize about in your life? Didn't have one
6. What is your favorite memory from adolescence? eh had one
7. What is your worst memory from adolescence? look this is getting trite
Occupational Questions
1. Do you have a job? What is it? Do you like it? Musiker and Portriter
2. What is your boss or employer like? (Or publisher, or agent, or whatever.) I think I'm pretty nice thank you.
3. What are your co-workers like? Do you get along with them? Any in particular? Which ones don't you get along with? The sober ones... but I'm never sober.
4. What is something you had to learn that you hated? The Eumirian Empire
5. Do you tend to save or spend your money? Why? depends on the vintage of wine
Likes & Dislikes Questions
1. What hobbies do you have? sketching
2. Who is your closest mundane friend? Maybe Fee or Rowena...
3. Who is your worst mundane enemy? Describe them and why you don't get along. Corneilious is dead
4. What bands do you like? Do you even pay attention? I met a couple on the road up from Hawthorns bluff that was nice.
5. What tape or CD hasn't left your player since your purchased it? Why? huh?
6. What song is "your song?" Stable boy
7. What's been your favorite movie of all time? move... I like traveling
8. Read any good books? What were they? Reading is overrated
9. What do you watch on the Television? huh?
11. What type of places do you hang out in with your mundane friends? Taverns of course
12. What type of places do you hang out in with your normal friends? No one I know is normal
13. What annoys you more than anything else? Stupidity
14. What would be the perfect gift for you? wine
15. What's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen? Quintari trees
16. What time of day is your favorite? Noon alone on the road
17. What kind of weather is your favorite? Spring
18. What is your favorite food? What is your least favorite food? good bread
19. What is your favorite drink? (Coffee, Coke, Juice, Beer, Wine, etc.) Qunitari red
20. What's your favorite animal? Why? cats
21. Do you have any pets? Do you want any pets? What kind? That would mean staying put
22. What do you find most relaxing? (Not as in stress relief, but as something that actually calms you down.) music
23. What habit that others have annoys you most? idiocy
24. What kind of things embarrass you? Why? ummm.... I'm thinking...
25. What don't you like about yourself? I'm perfect thanks
26. How would you like to look? might be a lark to look like a lady just once
Sex & Intimacy Questions
1. Would you consider yourself straight, gay, bi, or something else? Why? Not really a mystic, the door swings one way
2. Who was the first person you had sex with? When did it happen? What was it like? How well did it go? Corrigan... mmm gypsy men
3. Have you ever had a same-sex experience? Who with, what was it like, and how did it go? See question one, not a mystic
4. What is your deepest, most well-hidden sexual fantasy? Would you ever try it? if it's hidden why would I tell you?
5. What was the wildest thing you've ever done, sexually? Who was it with and when did it happen? I try not and kiss and tell
6. Is there any sexual activity that you enjoy and/or practice regularly that can be considered non-standard? (Bondage, Fantasy Play, etc.) Why do you like it? umm....
7. Is there any sexual activity that you will not, under any circumstances, do? probably, I'll let you know when I find it
8. Do you currently have a lover? What is their name, and what is your relationship like? What are they like? Why are you attracted to them? Not yet... anyone want to take a number?
9. What is the perfect romantic date? Date? umm... is this a trick question?
10. Describe the perfect romantic partner for you. Male, gypsy, wine... good times
11. Do you ever want to get married and have children? When do you see this happening? settle down... that is funny
12. What is more important - sex or intimacy? Why? Sex
13. What was your most recent relationship like? Who was it with? (Does not need to be sexual, merely romantic.) Met a widl elf when I was in Evendarr... good times
14. What's the worst thing you've done to someone you loved? haven't really been in love
Drug & Alcohol Questions
1. How old were you when you first got drunk? What was the experience like? Did anything good come out of it? Did anything bad come out of it? I think I nicked a bottle of somethign vile when I was young... before boobs... not bad but not like a good red.
2. Do you drink on any kind of regular basis? I drink juice and water.
3. What kind of alcohol do you prefer? Elven wines
4. Have you ever tried any other kind of "mood altering" substance? Which one(s)? What did you think of each? not yet...
5. What do you think of drugs and alcohol? Are there any people should not do? Why or why not? whatever floats your boat
Morality Questions
1. What one act in your past are you most ashamed of? What one act in your past are you most proud of? I fought a deathknight my first night in Ashton
2. Have you ever been in an argument before? Over what, with who, and who won? Sure, I won.
3. Have you ever been in a physical fight before? Over what, with who, and who won? Of course, I won, I'm not dead am I.
4. What do you feel most strongly about? not being dead
5. What do you pretend to feel strongly about, just to impress people? nothing of course, I am perfectly sincere.
6. What trait do you find most admirable, and how often do you find it? humor.
7. Is there anything you think should not be incorporated into the media or art (sex, violence, greed, etc.,)? If so, what and why, and if not, why not? Media... is that like a medium because as a rule I am against anythign that has to do with the dead.
8. Do you have any feelings in general that you are disturbed by? What are they? Why do they disturb you? Nope, perfectly normal.
9. What is your religious view of things? What religion, if any, do you call your own? Religion, huh?
10. Do you think the future is hopeful? Why? Why not.
11. Is an ounce of prevention really worth a pound of cure? Which is more valuable? Why do you feel this way? nope the cure is always wine.
12. What's the worst thing that can be done to another person? Why? you don't want to know.
13. What's the worst thing you could actually do to someone you hated? You don't want to know.
14. Are you a better leader or follower? Why do you think that? If you think the whole leader-follower archetype is a crock of shit, say so, and explain why? of course I am a leader
15. What is your responsibility to the world, if any? Why do you think that? To learn as much about magic as I can.
16. Do you think redemption is possible? If so, can anyone be redeemed, or are there only certain circumstances that can be? If not, why do you think nothing can redeem itself? why not.
17. Is it okay for you to cry? When was the last time you cried? crossroads...
18. What do you think is wrong with MOST people, overall? terminal stupidity
Miscellaneous Questions
1. What is the thing that has frightened you most? Do you think there is anything out there that's scarier than that? What do you think that would be? The dream world in Hawthorns
2. Has anyone or anything you've ever cared about died? How did you feel about it? What happened? LaShandr died...
3. What was the worst injury you've ever received? How did it happen? I can't remember, they all run together
4. How ticklish are you? Where are you ticklish? Don't try, you won't live to find out
5. What is your current long term goal? sing at as many taverns in as many countries as I can
6. What is your current short term goal? Get another bottle of Quintari red.
7. Do you have any bad habits? If so, what are they, and do you plan to get rid of them? I enjoy my bad habbits
8. If you were a mundane person, what would you do with your life? What occupation would you want, and how would you spend all your time? Not a bard... no idea
9. What time period do you wish you had lived in? Why? (Looking at this as an attempt to change history doesn't count.) What appeals to you about this era? now is good.
10. How private of a person are you? Why? Not private at all
11. If you were to gain an obscenely large sum of money (via an inhertiance, a lawsuit, a lottery, or anything else) what would you do with it? hmm, maybe start a tavern
12. What would you wish for if you found a genie? an endless goblet of wine?
13. What do you do when you are bored? drink and sing
14. What is the most frightening potential handicap or disfigurement you can conceive of? What makes it so frightening. losing a hand...
Mandatory Questions
1. What about you is heroic? Heroic? Me? Hitting the hooch a bit early. Heros are characters in the stories and songs I perform. You don't find them outside of that.
2. What about you is social? What do you like about people? People are good, they buy you drinks, tip you when you play and every once in a while you find one that will actually heal you when you are dying.
3. Of what benefit could you be to the current group? Benefit... well I can tell the story afterwards... oh you mean the fighting type. I have a sword, I have two actually.
4. Why would you choose to join the current group? They offered me gold or I was bored.
5. Invent an adventure/plot that your character would actively undertake (as opposed to just tagging along)? Infiltrating the new empire and spying against them...
Personal Questions
1. What is your real, birth name? Korenia
2. Do you have a nickname? Koren, Wren, Kor, Rinia, there are more...
3. What do you look like? (Include height, weight, hair, eyes, skin, apparent age, and distinguishing features) Five five, about 130#'s, Brown hair usually braided, looks about 30ish
4. How do you dress most of the time? Travel ya wear the dredge stuff, but for markets I have a charcol shirt, pants and a gray and green doublet.
5. How do you "dress up?" I have a skirt...
6. How do you "dress down?" anything for the road that's not quite fit for performing
7. What do you wear when you go to sleep? Shirt and breeks
8. Do you wear any jewelry? Not really
9. In your opinion, what is your best feature? well they always say I am never unarmed as long as I can speak.
10. What's your real birth date? not sure
11. Where do you live? Describe it: Is it messy, neat, avant-garde, sparse, etc.? Depends on the month...
12. Do you own a car? Describe it. hitting the hooch a bit hard there eh?
13. What is your most prized mundane possession? Why do you value it so much? My instruments
14. What one word best describes you? fun
Familial Questions
1. What was your family like? Don't remember, don't care
2. Who was your father, and what was he like? See above
3. Who was your mother, and what was she like? do you listen much?
4. What was your parents marriage like? Were they married? Did they remain married? now this is just getting stupid
5. What were your siblings names? What were they like? if I find them I'll be sure to let you know
6. What's the worst thing one of your siblings ever did to you? What's the worst thing you've done to one of your siblings? if I have one I'll tell you
7. When's the last time you saw any member of your family? Where are they now? try never
8. Did you ever meet any other family members? Who were they? What did you think of them? They are charming fella, for not existing...
Childhood Questions
1. What is your first memory? Walking a lot
3. What was your favorite game? Hiding
4. Any non-family member adults stick out in your mind? no one I would talk to you about
6. What is your fondest, childhood memory? running
7. What is your worst childhood memory? couple of nights one winter where I didn't find a good place to hole up, cold is bad
Adolescent Questions
1. How old were you when you went on your first date? date... is that supposed to be like a mark?
2. It is common for one's view of authority to develop in their adolescent years. What is your view of authority, and what event most affected it? Authority, never there when you need it and always there when you don't...
3. What were you like in high school? What "clique" did you best fit in with? School? That is a good one.
4. What were your high school goals? There is that word again
5. Who was your idol when you were growing up? Who did you first fantasize about in your life? Didn't have one
6. What is your favorite memory from adolescence? eh had one
7. What is your worst memory from adolescence? look this is getting trite
Occupational Questions
1. Do you have a job? What is it? Do you like it? Musiker and Portriter
2. What is your boss or employer like? (Or publisher, or agent, or whatever.) I think I'm pretty nice thank you.
3. What are your co-workers like? Do you get along with them? Any in particular? Which ones don't you get along with? The sober ones... but I'm never sober.
4. What is something you had to learn that you hated? The Eumirian Empire
5. Do you tend to save or spend your money? Why? depends on the vintage of wine
Likes & Dislikes Questions
1. What hobbies do you have? sketching
2. Who is your closest mundane friend? Maybe Fee or Rowena...
3. Who is your worst mundane enemy? Describe them and why you don't get along. Corneilious is dead
4. What bands do you like? Do you even pay attention? I met a couple on the road up from Hawthorns bluff that was nice.
5. What tape or CD hasn't left your player since your purchased it? Why? huh?
6. What song is "your song?" Stable boy
7. What's been your favorite movie of all time? move... I like traveling
8. Read any good books? What were they? Reading is overrated
9. What do you watch on the Television? huh?
11. What type of places do you hang out in with your mundane friends? Taverns of course
12. What type of places do you hang out in with your normal friends? No one I know is normal
13. What annoys you more than anything else? Stupidity
14. What would be the perfect gift for you? wine
15. What's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen? Quintari trees
16. What time of day is your favorite? Noon alone on the road
17. What kind of weather is your favorite? Spring
18. What is your favorite food? What is your least favorite food? good bread
19. What is your favorite drink? (Coffee, Coke, Juice, Beer, Wine, etc.) Qunitari red
20. What's your favorite animal? Why? cats
21. Do you have any pets? Do you want any pets? What kind? That would mean staying put
22. What do you find most relaxing? (Not as in stress relief, but as something that actually calms you down.) music
23. What habit that others have annoys you most? idiocy
24. What kind of things embarrass you? Why? ummm.... I'm thinking...
25. What don't you like about yourself? I'm perfect thanks
26. How would you like to look? might be a lark to look like a lady just once
Sex & Intimacy Questions
1. Would you consider yourself straight, gay, bi, or something else? Why? Not really a mystic, the door swings one way
2. Who was the first person you had sex with? When did it happen? What was it like? How well did it go? Corrigan... mmm gypsy men
3. Have you ever had a same-sex experience? Who with, what was it like, and how did it go? See question one, not a mystic
4. What is your deepest, most well-hidden sexual fantasy? Would you ever try it? if it's hidden why would I tell you?
5. What was the wildest thing you've ever done, sexually? Who was it with and when did it happen? I try not and kiss and tell
6. Is there any sexual activity that you enjoy and/or practice regularly that can be considered non-standard? (Bondage, Fantasy Play, etc.) Why do you like it? umm....
7. Is there any sexual activity that you will not, under any circumstances, do? probably, I'll let you know when I find it
8. Do you currently have a lover? What is their name, and what is your relationship like? What are they like? Why are you attracted to them? Not yet... anyone want to take a number?
9. What is the perfect romantic date? Date? umm... is this a trick question?
10. Describe the perfect romantic partner for you. Male, gypsy, wine... good times
11. Do you ever want to get married and have children? When do you see this happening? settle down... that is funny
12. What is more important - sex or intimacy? Why? Sex
13. What was your most recent relationship like? Who was it with? (Does not need to be sexual, merely romantic.) Met a widl elf when I was in Evendarr... good times
14. What's the worst thing you've done to someone you loved? haven't really been in love
Drug & Alcohol Questions
1. How old were you when you first got drunk? What was the experience like? Did anything good come out of it? Did anything bad come out of it? I think I nicked a bottle of somethign vile when I was young... before boobs... not bad but not like a good red.
2. Do you drink on any kind of regular basis? I drink juice and water.
3. What kind of alcohol do you prefer? Elven wines
4. Have you ever tried any other kind of "mood altering" substance? Which one(s)? What did you think of each? not yet...
5. What do you think of drugs and alcohol? Are there any people should not do? Why or why not? whatever floats your boat
Morality Questions
1. What one act in your past are you most ashamed of? What one act in your past are you most proud of? I fought a deathknight my first night in Ashton
2. Have you ever been in an argument before? Over what, with who, and who won? Sure, I won.
3. Have you ever been in a physical fight before? Over what, with who, and who won? Of course, I won, I'm not dead am I.
4. What do you feel most strongly about? not being dead
5. What do you pretend to feel strongly about, just to impress people? nothing of course, I am perfectly sincere.
6. What trait do you find most admirable, and how often do you find it? humor.
7. Is there anything you think should not be incorporated into the media or art (sex, violence, greed, etc.,)? If so, what and why, and if not, why not? Media... is that like a medium because as a rule I am against anythign that has to do with the dead.
8. Do you have any feelings in general that you are disturbed by? What are they? Why do they disturb you? Nope, perfectly normal.
9. What is your religious view of things? What religion, if any, do you call your own? Religion, huh?
10. Do you think the future is hopeful? Why? Why not.
11. Is an ounce of prevention really worth a pound of cure? Which is more valuable? Why do you feel this way? nope the cure is always wine.
12. What's the worst thing that can be done to another person? Why? you don't want to know.
13. What's the worst thing you could actually do to someone you hated? You don't want to know.
14. Are you a better leader or follower? Why do you think that? If you think the whole leader-follower archetype is a crock of shit, say so, and explain why? of course I am a leader
15. What is your responsibility to the world, if any? Why do you think that? To learn as much about magic as I can.
16. Do you think redemption is possible? If so, can anyone be redeemed, or are there only certain circumstances that can be? If not, why do you think nothing can redeem itself? why not.
17. Is it okay for you to cry? When was the last time you cried? crossroads...
18. What do you think is wrong with MOST people, overall? terminal stupidity
Miscellaneous Questions
1. What is the thing that has frightened you most? Do you think there is anything out there that's scarier than that? What do you think that would be? The dream world in Hawthorns
2. Has anyone or anything you've ever cared about died? How did you feel about it? What happened? LaShandr died...
3. What was the worst injury you've ever received? How did it happen? I can't remember, they all run together
4. How ticklish are you? Where are you ticklish? Don't try, you won't live to find out
5. What is your current long term goal? sing at as many taverns in as many countries as I can
6. What is your current short term goal? Get another bottle of Quintari red.
7. Do you have any bad habits? If so, what are they, and do you plan to get rid of them? I enjoy my bad habbits
8. If you were a mundane person, what would you do with your life? What occupation would you want, and how would you spend all your time? Not a bard... no idea
9. What time period do you wish you had lived in? Why? (Looking at this as an attempt to change history doesn't count.) What appeals to you about this era? now is good.
10. How private of a person are you? Why? Not private at all
11. If you were to gain an obscenely large sum of money (via an inhertiance, a lawsuit, a lottery, or anything else) what would you do with it? hmm, maybe start a tavern
12. What would you wish for if you found a genie? an endless goblet of wine?
13. What do you do when you are bored? drink and sing
14. What is the most frightening potential handicap or disfigurement you can conceive of? What makes it so frightening. losing a hand...
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