#wordweavers 02/05/2024 What are your MC's living conditions like? Are they better or worse than average?

Esther’s material conditions were pretty good, she had everything she wanted and even more (poney, dresses, jewels)
But it was at the price of terrible psychological conditions

Lately, her material conditions suddenly became precarious after the return from the colonies and her husband’s death
[Illustration: excerpts from Inktober 2023]
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#wordweavers 03/05/2024 MC POV: What do you dislike about yourself?

I’ve been far too innocent and naive. I didn’t want to see that my father was leading us directly to the disaster

[Illustration: excerpts from Inktober 2019 and 2023]
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#wordweavers 05/05/2024 Are there characters or events that challenge your MC's belief system?

That’s the plot: the events at the Chamberlain’s Seminary will completely challenge the way Esther sees the world. I could quote @NaraMoore answer:
That the supernatural is real
⁃ The desirability of social conformity
⁃ That no one can be trusted (except Erié)
⁃ The world is a cursed place

[Illustration: cover of the 1st issue]
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#wordweavers 06/05/2024 Who is your most fun character?

Hmm my story doesn’t leave much place for fun, but I would go with Lady D’Arcy. Being the villainess, she’s the one who can be the most funny, by her lack of moral limits and excesses.

[Illustration: the distracted boyfriend meme, but with my characters]
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#wordweavers 07/05/2024 What behaviors does your characters' society encourage?

As in the actual Victorian era, women are supposed to spouse a man and then to stay confined in the role of mother and home’s mistress. They are expected to be modest and discreet.

[Illustration: Esther and her old husband]
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#wordweavers 08/05/2024 What behaviors does your characters' society discourage?

For a woman : being a free and independent, someone who stands for herself instead of staying in the shadows of her man, someone proud of herself, someone sexually very active (and not shy about it), well, everything Lady d’Arcy is.

[Illustration: Esther meeting Lady d’Arcy in the 2022 version]
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#wordweavers 09/05/2024 Does your MC agree with 7&8?

At the beginning of the story, Esther was fully complying to 7 and she was very upset by Lady d’Arcy. But what happened in the undergrounds of the Chamberlain’s Seminary will open her new perspectives… but is it possible to take Lady d’Arcy’s freedom of without embracing all the bad sides? That’s one of the main questions of the story

#wordweavers 10/05/2024 Antagonist POV: What do you like the most about yourself?

Lady d’Arcy: «In all honesty, everything! I’m perfect now that I use dark magic to rejuvenate and enhance myself!»

[Illustration: Arts of Lady d’Arcy depicting her perfect curves]
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#wordweavers 15/05/2024 Who are your most and least gullible characters?

As she stated herself, Esther was quite gullible. She refused to see the problem in her family until it was too late, leading her marriage and all the mess after.
Érié is the least gullible: she has learned the hard way that most people are deceptive.

[Illustrations: excerpts from Inktober 2019 and 2023]
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#wordweavers 16/05/2024 If your characters were in a museum, how would they act?

Esther: she would be perfectly fine. Museum’s visits are exactly the kind of activity Esther was trained for and is expected to enjoy.
Erie: provided she would be with Esther, she would be ok. Except if they were in a anthropological museum, because leonines would be depicted as brutal and stupid subhumans.
Lady d’Arcy: she has no interest, except if it was the Museums of Sex or Torture.

#wordweavers 17/05/2024 Have you ever written for other age groups? (MG, YA, A)

Esther and Erie is my serious first project so no.

#wordweavers 18/05/2024 What kind of dragon (behavior or looks) would your MC be?

Maleficent

[Illustrations: A quick sketch of Maleficent]
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#wordweavers 19/05/2024 How did you settle on your MC's appearance?

When I dreamt of Esther’s story, I had nearly all her features in mind. But I didn’t have any experience in drawing dark skinned people or in Victorian fashion. It took me 4 years to get a style and the quality I wanted.

[Illustrations: First art of Esther, based on a photo found on Pinterest]

#wordweavers 20/05/2024 How did you settle on your antagonist's appearance?

I started with The Evil Queen (played by Lana Parilla) in ABC Once Upon a Time TV show. With time I mixed her with Bianca Beauchamp, a latex fetish model

[Illustrations: Evolution of Lady d’Arcy ]
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