1035
How does your antagonist behave when they’re sick or injured?

Nobody ever has seen Ayanami as in a physical form. It's a disembodied set of voices, mails, etc.
They, in lack of a better term, are as mysterious as it gets, not a single call or contact 'in person' (in official meeting spaces where henches have to report in person to an empty room full of holographic projections for their mission) is answered in less then a minute. This is the main reason people expect them to be a group of people or an A.I.

For Ariæne it's every day since they lost the ability to form coherent memories. Waking up disoriented and confused, finding themselves, often after having the same horrible nightmare dream/only memory flash back they remember in all detail...
Finding an unfamiliar room, books over books, tablets and post it's notes scattered in an otherwise very empty room, besides two corners which seem to be work spaces in an unfamiliar complex.
It's stressful at least and without K. the one Hench that always seems to calm them down it can get nasty for everyone else.
AJ has shot people if they found their weapon, hurt people with pencils etc. still their services seem so valuable to Ayanami that they protect and support Ariæne with everything including K.
Rarely AJ seems to have anything that resembles a disease but the memory thing seems bad enough.
Without all the notes and files on tablets some days it would impossible to bring them to a functional state.

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1030
What assumptions did you make about one of your characters when you first created them?

They often develop far deeper than I expect them to.
As an example 'Good Boy Jack' a dog like humanoid was meant as a throw away NPC in a DND session.

Since than, he has become a throw away character with a background story, mayor of a dimensional and time shifted Ferun Underdark village, built on the ruins of a once mighty Drow city.

Arkham, at the beginning I just wanted a pilot, that hangs around in the cockpit all day & is to lazy to do anything else. Instead she has become one of my favorites.

Kira was ment to just be a Commander Shepard, from my Mass Effect runs (Videogame Playthroughs).
Well now she is commander of her own ship, in my own universe & has a backstory that reads like the epitome of cranked up bad character motivations...
Iy was, indeed, just ment as a gag trope for the run as an unwritten backstory.

Anika was ment to be just a nod in that backstory, to a character I love from Star Trek and now, in the WIP she is a full character.

The Icequeen also was just ment to be a cold hearted birch of a adoptive mum, but now is a almost fully fledged out person with her own dark history & the role of Terran Foreign Minister, with nebulous ties to Kira's family next to her husband...

The whole family story of the Knoxs & Johansons reads like an blown out of proportion KPop meets Lord Of The Rings family drama by itself...

AJ aka Antagonist Junior or Ariæne Johnsen was ment to be a non evil antagonist that simply occupied the adversary role to Kira...

Assumption, I can not write simple characters, not if they need to stay in my mind for longer than the time I need writing on a text in a given moment.

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27.05.2026
What does victory mean for your antagonist?

Ayanami: a mission accomplished.

Ariæne Johnsen: "

Simple as that.

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What is your antagonist's earliest memory?

Ariæne Johnsen has no constant memory to begin with, their ability to remember & relive past events is severely damaged.
They can't make new memories easily & has to write down important things, in an elaborate system, to keep track of stuff.
For unknown reasons, they can't remember things after they went to sleep, but has resurfacing memories of their greatest tragedy in life, as they lost their wife on the battlefield. And this in staggering cruel details.
They remember her name, her scent, her touch, her voice, her death, but their life with her starts to fade away, the youth they had together, the lives they built for themselves.
Kiara has become some sort of a haunting memory to Ariæne & the disability to make new memories that last or can be remembered in any sort of coherent way, makes things so much more complicated.

Ariæne doesn't even know why they is working for Ayanami. They has a note written down that translates into "Trust Ayanami as long as it benefits you."

That said Ayanami takes care about AJ, they has a apartment sized room for their own, gets equipment & food everything and if some abandoned looking corners can be believed time to pursuit hobbies.
Also there is Ariæne's personal guard or secretary. All armed members in Ayanami's facilities wearing the same black armor and helmet, but K. as Ariæne named them, according to K., and Ariæne seem to have a deep relationship. Ariæne has a note that translates to 'trust K.'
K. seems also be observed by her team mates and Ayanami for the relationship to Ariæne.

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11.05.2026
Antagonist POV: Tell us about a fun time you recently had.

Ayanami's voice coming from somewhere in the room, probably a set of hidden speakers:
"I do not indulge my self, in such mindless endeavors, for any personal sophistication. And even if I would, this is hardly a part of our transactions."

Ariæne made a face of uncertainty:
"I honestly can't remember. Shocking I know," they smiled a weirdly sympathetic smile that also looked kinda defeated.
"I have written down something here," they opened a compartment of their armor, next to their left breast and pulled out a little sticky note like piece of paper.
It was tightly rolled up into a tiny scroll. They opened it and read the partly scratched out text:
"We... I am watching a movie today with the guard that is telling me she knows me and that we are friends. I don't trust her but she knew a movie I love. According to her I call her K. regularly and she is fine with that."

They flipped the piece of paper around on which another handwritten Text was visible.
"If anyone 'K.' seems to be trustworthy. She enjoyed the movie, I had a pleasant time. Remember this!"
Ariæne rolled the piece up again and put it back into the tiny compartment.
"I guess that was the last time I had fun. Hopefully it wasn't to long ago..."

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