816
What is your SC’s relationship with what society considers the supernatural?

Credit: @wifwolf

In general: There is no such thing like the supernatural only poor understood theoretically and applied science and technology, chemistry etc.

Some crew members may disagree but the general consent is no supernatural stuff exists.

#PennedPossibilities 816 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

817
Does your universe have any autumnal traditions?

Only on planets that are suitable for life that have a certain population in an advanced enough level.
Also this is mostly done by humanoid creatures with a level of sapience.
One associated member of the Union is a sentient plant* species, they of course have an Autumn or sort of an Autumn on their planet, since it's does what most planets do, rotates around itself while running around it's star, but for the plant species this isn't a big thing it's just a time where they begin to prepare for hibernation. This fact makes them especially vulnerable to outside manipulation which is why the Union has a permanent presence at this unique planet

*The term plant has to applied loosely here, they are basically a weird mix of animals, plants and fungi that combines to a species unique compared to everything else.

#PennedPossibilities 817 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

818
Put together a “paranormal investigation team” using your characters. Who’s doing what?

Well since paranormal isn't a thing the crew will most likely send one of the Groundhog units. So 5 crew members with weapons and scanners able to locate a single AAA battery in a 10 KM radius, so they would not Scooby-Dooing around but more likely look like a SWAT team reanacting Star Trek scanning and maybe aiming at or shooting stuff like in Stargate.

This took me around an hour just for a darn answer & really unnerved* me.... so since it's more like a SWAT team nobody outside knows who the team members are...

*Note: it's because of my problems answering this prompt not because of the prompt itself.

#PennedPossibilities 818 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

819
How well does your MC cope with pain, or are they terrible at it?

Kira
Mental: Well enough to function and not completely self sabotage.
Body: she has been through things and some left deep scars, some are even sting from time to time. She manages without painkillers tho.

Arkham
Mental: Carries her package, learns to live with it.
Body: highly sensitive skin and nervous system. Sand under her bare foot feels like caltrops, certain materials irritate her skin so much that it turns dark red and burn like some one grinded your skin on an asphalt road and now tries to clean it with vinegar.
Skin to skin contact can lead to a burning sensations
She decided to take medicine to calm her reactions to most materials and touches, thankfully it's highly effective.

Ashlei is an AI of an Spaceship her perception is completely different from ours and only Kira Starts to learn what this exactly means.

#PennedPossibilities 819 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

820
Have you ever frightened yourself while writing a scary scene? If so, what was it about?

Credit: @QuokkaMocha

No I seem to have a certain talent with words that seem to work well for horror and erotica, and I am guilty of feeling aroused by my own fictional works, I am also guilty of crying if I do something emotional moving with my characters. For horror... Horror is best served cold.
This I get more quiet and precise.
It's like cutting out an organ for later Transplantation. You could just us a bowl sized soup spoon and lever it out of the patient or you focus, use precision cuts and just keep them alive (could be one of the kidneys as an example) I'm such cases it's clearly better to be cold and concentrated. And same goes with horror.

#PennedPossibilities 820 #Horror

821: What is the spookiest thing you’ve ever written? Share an excerpt.

Didn't find the original file anymore or any copies for that matter have to look it up and translate it because it's a German poem I did ages ago it will loose in its translation for sure...

May be answered later...
🤷🏿

# PennedPossibilities 821

822
MC POV: Are you proud of who you are?

Kira: Proud of being what?
A Terran? A morally superior ethnicity to humans? Not really Terran history is a tragedy and being Terran means being a survivor. Yet I wasn't part of that, it happened roughly 150-200 years ago. Proud of being in my position? No I worked hard for that & had enough luck to not die. Even if I sometimes wish it wasn't this way.
Being still here? Partly I think it was more luck thany ability.
Protecting the innocent from being slaughtered by an alien aggressor?Partly maybe, I am good at what I'm doing. Shooting creatures should always be the last resort. And lives shouldn't be traded so easily regardless of whom.
Being liked by others? I'm thankful for that."

Arkham: "Pride only in being among the best pilots of my class, but there are many good pilots out there."

Ash: "Pride is not part of my programming. I am 'thankful' to serve & protect."

#PennedPossibilities 822 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

823
If your MC went to a costume party, what would they dress up as?

1/3

Kira: she has a Faible for 'old stuff' and thanks to her library of articles about the 20-23 century and an impressive library of digital licenses she owns, she just can produce what ever she wants at a Synthesizer (not the music instrument, advanced material construction 3D printing) probably like a soldier from any SciFi story of the past, she pretty much loves the Armor of Samus Aran from the Metroid Series. Rediscovered around 50 years ago, only a few copies survived into the future and it took great effort to restore them and than explain to some people that this are not an accurate representations of actual events or predictions. Most got it but some belive everything and have questionable judging abilities.
Kira would prefer a hand crafted armor for such cases but she simply isn't a good cosplay crafter.

Arkham: she loves ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 823 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP #CostumeParty

823 2/3 ⬅️ her NIN dramas, Neural Interface Network Dramas are known for their overly dramatic depiction of personal stories, some critical voices say that the tragedy in a NIN drama never is good enough on its own.
If you loose your Holo it's bad enough but in a NIN Drama that Holo has some high security codes of a doomsday machine & wounds a pet of a king on a Rim world & threatens to destroy entire societies six planets away.
The Fans say this is an overdrawn picture. Arkham just watches them without added emotional track, usually. (The NIN can transmit data to the brain so NIN entertainment has often extras like memories of the protagonist, real touch in erotica, First Person Shooters aren't that funny anymore if you get shot & feel 'real' pain so games rarely do this*). So Arkham would probably go with some Bikini or otherwise loose clothes from a character she likes.

Ashlei: Ashlei herself could act ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 823 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP #CostumeParty

823 3/3

as any regular shit AI application, but since her Body the Ghoz'Tarc is a ship with stealth capabilities, which include Holographic projection (if the shields aren't up) & chameleon hull abilities, she can present as a lot of things. So she would probably 'go' as some ship from historical SciFi (a lot of shows and stories survived thanks to the crazy length some fans went to protect their physical collections). Like the Millennium Falcon (a lot of black chameleon ability and distorted projection necessary do to its smaller size),
the Enterprise D (way bigger),
the Normandy (~same size in case of the SR2) or even sailing ships like the Black Pearl, HMS Bounty etc.

Yes a 178 meter long space ship (180 depending on how you measure) wouldn't dance on a costume party but imagine this: on the height of the party a flying sailing ship swooshes over your heads.

Edit: so many Typos

#PennedPossibilities 823 #StarRyde #Ashlei #GhozTarc #SciFi #WIP #CostumeParty #WorldBuilding

824
What superstitions pertaining to the dead exist in-universe for your WIP?

Credit: @wifwolf

Supestition is not entirely dead, the same is true for the old religious ways (which we know about today). Superstitions are less often but still exist and different Alien Species have their own.
Ghost ships, zombies, space monsters all such stuff exists as stories & thus also have people believing them to a degree.
Interestingly Humans (from the Rim) are more superstitious than Terrans (related to Terra after the raise of Gaja Unika & Terra Unika).
This might be because the Rims Humans are a more not unified bunch of people.
Somwhar have some superstitions against Terran Cats (so would you if you find a tiny four leg human domesticated by an alien species) and some of them adopted some of the Human/Terran superstition about cats being otherworldly and connected to the dead somehow.
In general people are people.

#PennedPossibilities 824 #StarRyde #Superstitions #Cats #SciFi #WIP

825
What are your favorite chilling scenarios to write, and how are you able to accomplish this? Through setting, emotion, dialogue, and / or buildup?

Unexpected ones like right now.
Think about a beautiful tree, winter, people laughing, snow, the cold air in you lungs and on your skin, joy, the scent of hot wine, cinnamon, gingerbread and suddenly you hear it, it starts like a hum, the gentle whistle of some, it spreads like an infection, coming from every corner, out of every mouth.

This awful gods forsaken sound, screeching inside your brain, peeling away your sanity, torturing you to the point that you want to pierce your eardrums with something pointy, so the pain is a different one. And it won't stop, it just never stops and even if it stopped for a time... It comes back every freaking time.

🔊🎶 LAST CHRISTMAS!

#PennedPossibilities 825

826
Which of your characters has the backstory that was your favourite to create?

I can not choose. Backstorys happen to me. They manifest rapidly with various degrees of depth.
Give me a stupid idea for a Character concept and I will 'summon' something out of thin air.
I have played several dozens of RPG games including Superheroes like Marvel, DC, Image, plenty of others.
Dead Spys, thieves, rogues, inquisitors, edge runners, Star Trek Characters, Vampires, Vampire Hunters, Barbarians, Mages, Paladins, Fighters, and that's only the PNP RPGs...
Over several Skyrim versions I played 49 Dovakins. Fallout 3, NV, 4 and 76 have so many freaking vault dwellers I can't count, CP2077 has around 9 V.'s. Each of them with at least one page of Backstory.
The Ghoz'Tarc crew has at least 25 of its 40 members roughly outlined.
Not to mention historical figures in Star Ryde.
Their counterparts for Star Tyde (the surfer cruise parallel universe).
I simply can't say.

#PennedPossibilities 826

827
Would your characters survive a “zombie” apocalypse in your universe?

Credit: @SJHoodlet

Simply yes, planetary lock downs are very efficient in containing such infestations.

#PennedPossibilities 827 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

828
SC POV: If you could communicate with the dead, who would you chat with?

1/2
Silas Crosby: As much as I would love to see my late husband again or talk to them I wouldn't. AI programming to create a husk of a loved one, that is build to sound like them, is a toxic betrayal, aimed at vulnerability of people that lost someone & luckily outlawed in the Union. The dead are dead and part of grieving is to learn to keep the memories and plant them around the hole they left in your heart."

Mondira Ramann falling into kinda slurred speak pattern that is usual on Eodin: "What dy'ou meen, ifi cood?" She opens a Menu on her Holo that looks like an installation folder. "Here I stopd'er, that's GrA.nnI. the A.I. of my Bignana." Ifi ever feel 'lone i could ask'er or tawk to'er well at home.
With more sharp pronounciation: The Alliance counts such A.I.s a security ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 828 #StarRyde #SilasCrosby #MondiraRamann #WorldBuilding #TheUnion #TheAlliance #RimWorld #Eodin #SciFi #WIP

828 2/2
threat." She paused. "It'sa service that our ruling council rold out half a century ago. Every one gets one free, more cost more. That's why'i only have'er. Well after the mission, ifi return home, I'can rent some more compute. Making'er better or get some more fam' back."

#PennedPossibilities 828 #StarRyde #SilasCrosby #MondiraRamann #WorldBuilding #TheUnion #TheAlliance #RimWorld #Eodin #SciFi #WIP

829
Is there a noticeable change in the seasons in your WIP’s universe?

This depends heavily of planets and the ecosystems that evolved their (if one evolved, the number of dead rocks and gaseous bubbles is significantly higher than habitable rocks*).
Different planets have different biomranges, they have different distances to their stars, their stars are different, their rotation might differ significantly from what we now from today's Earth. So yeah it noticable at most places.

*There are still some dead rocks that are inhabited by very bold people but they often life out of their greenhouses while the rest of the rock is just dead as ever before.

#PennedPossibilities 829 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

830
Have you ever created a SC that you later wished was the MC?

I have constantly reused background additions to my RPG characters as a playable character in different settings.

Some might even bleed into my own SciFi universe in a form...

I have several minor appearances of seemingly unimportant characters that are ment to show up later some time if I expand the universe deeper of my WIP of Star Ryde.

Arkham and Ashlei are MC in my mind but they a bit like tertiary and secondary MC's. I want to focus on them while Kira is like the red string through the timeline.
Anika never really was ment to show up as a living character, nor was her mother. Yet here they are in the WIP and even having allocated arcs to themselves...

A lot of my Video game characters have ties to each other by some means.

Let's call it the Anna Saultron Extended Multiverse or A.S.E.M.😬

#PennedPossibilities 830 #PNP #RPG #TableTopRPG / #StarRyde #SciFi #Original #WIP #writing / #Gaming

831
Halloween Edition: A friend suggests that your SC spends the evening in a pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to arrive. Would they do it?

Credit: @sfwrtr

If pumpkin isn't a cover up name for anything, no they wouldn't, they wouldn't even suggest it like this, because pumpkin as a word doesn't exist anymore in the Terran Standard language and the plant isn't the same anymore if we don't take some offshoot colonies into account.

#PennedPossibilities 831 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

Devider toot October to NoWhamBear 2025.
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The monthly overview toot can be found here:
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Here you can jump back to last month devider toot:
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Here ist the beginning of this mega thread:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110723765145059262

And here you get back to the very first prompts answered:
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And the first mega thread beginning with prompt 18.
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110763385183712440
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The list of prompts can be found on the hosts profile, the lovely @floofpaldi
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832
Imagine This: The zipper of your MC’s costume breaks. How would others react to seeing them in a Halloween costume on November 1st?

1/2

Their are rarely zippers involved for good quality costumes my characters would wear & Halloween didn't survive to the 24. Century.
But for the sake of it.
Kira would probably run around as a character from some ancient SciFi since she has a certain fondness of them. So expect her to run around in an Original 1:1 Replica of a Season 1 Star Trek TNG Uniform, cursing the inability to walk more than five steps before it rubs off skin at certain areas. Or as Commander Shepard from Mass Effect. Darth Vader or so. Since transformation Helmets are a usual thing in Star Ryde she wouldn't have a y breathing issues. Others wouldn't think to much of it but break her free once they know that she is stuck in that outfit at least on board or in any Union/Alliance facilities.

#PennedPossibilities 832 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

832 2/2

Arkham wouldn't wear much special. In the beginning she would never even attempt to join a costume party for some social reasons but also for her hyper sensitivity. Her usual solution is to wear as much bare skin as possible.
So she probably would use something like her Bathrobe out of hyper anti allergic material, which would still be a gamble for her skin, and pull of a cheap Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars after searching through Kiras ancient Space themed movies.
Or maybe if she finds the right material as 7 of 9 from Star Trek Voyager. So people would assume some sort of movie or NIN video shot of low budget (otherwise like Kira)

Ashlei or more her body the Ghoz'Tarc has Holo projectors, a chameleon hull so seing a ~180 meter long ship flying throu space as a historical building or a SciFi/Sailing ship would raise a lot of eyebrows. And the alarm at the Union/Alliance.

#PennedPossibilities 832 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

833
MC POV: Why does your journey matter to you personally?

skip

#PennedPossibilities 833

Okay before I hit the mattress again tonight...

834
How would you describe your MC’s face?

Not very precise. Kira has a scar over her one eye from her forehead to the eyebrow and from underneath her eye to the middle of the cheek, (I'm not sure anymore which one I think it was the right one), her hair is in an asymmetrical bob with under cut, dyed blood red. She has some piercings in each of her ears. The eye with the scar appears dark blue to violet while her other eye is brightly blue.

Arkham has green blue hair and eyes which gives her look something fierce, which makes people think twice before they attempt to lift her up without consent (tiny person problems).

Ashlei aka the Ghoz'Tarc could be mistaken for the Normandy SR2 from Mass Effect in a brief glance but her usual black hull with blood red and bright green patterns make a very distinct difference. Imagine a very angry and aggressive looking ship.

#PennedPossibilities 834 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarc

I actually did a scetch of the Ghoz'Tarc more for a conceptual idea how it looks, it's not really good but to give you an Idea (I'm not very good at drawing because I never used it for something but before I ask an A.I. slop machine...).

I posted it originally under the Erotic Musings Tag.

Here you can see the Ghoz'Tarc here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114647720514024707
Or directly here
https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/647/670/469/198/398/original/bb65df29ec8e96e4.png

#PennedPossibilities 834 extra #StarRyde #Ashlei #GhozTarc

835
How does your antagonist like to unwind and relax?

AI: On very rare occasions the channels on which AI communicates keep silent but not for long. No hench ever waited longer than 15 Minutes for an answer ever. We can assume AI sits in a well spun net of information and leverage like a giant spider in a web.

AJ: Ariaene has a lot of notebooks in their quarter, on board the Nethrazier, hand written notes to find memory trigger and to not document all digital, in the hope to keep track before the sleep comes and stay independent from easier to fake recordings.
Otherwise AJ has no real change to wind down, sleep most likely leads to loosing their memories. To much relaxation invites sleep.
A few Nethrazier's quarters are luxuriously large & even have full water baths but AJ actually hasn't used theirs in a long time to relax, but someone seem to have recently.

#PennedPossibilities 835 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AriaeneJohnsen #Nethrazier #SciFi #WIP

836
SC POV: What is your darkest childhood memory?

1/2
Silas saw the psychological survey question on the projection of her Holo. She gave a spiteful growl, as her eyes narrowed, she than grabbed the 'sheet' of light infused plasma and crumbled it into a ball. She screamed and threw it across the room. Tears in her eyes.

"Chief Crosby," Ash's voice came from some speaker: "I registered your tonal shifted voice. Are you okay?"

Silas swallowed: "Sorry Ash, I just couldn't handle my emotions."

"Do you wish to talk to someone?"

"No I'm fine, I just needed to let out some steam."

"I do not register higher humidity in this room? Venting the room to lower its moisture levels is not advisable in outer space."

Silas chuckled involuntary it just was such an childlike answer.
"Ash aren't you programmed with the majority of Terran expressions?"

"I am."

"Did you just troll me to make me chuckle?"

"The possibility of this is ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 836 #StarRyde #SilasCrosby #SciFi #WIP

836 2/2
⬅️ not zero."

Silas didn't really liked the idea.
"Why?"

"The analysis of our prior interactions show a high emotional delight if I answer in a way that meets the criteria of 'not knowing basic expressions.' I thought this might be a situation in which such an action could help."

"So you made yourself look a bit of a fool to brighten my mood?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"I... Don't want my crew to feel bad. It makes me feel... pain..."

"I felt pain as I read the question."

"I am... sorry."

"It's not your fault, you just run the algorithms on a 'subconscious' level."

"Yes, but I feel... guilt."

"Me too, Ash, me too." Silas answered in a somber tone.
She whipped her face. "Thank you for the attempt of cheering me up. I appreciate the thought."

"Can I invite you to banana chocolate pancakes with maple syrup? I tweaked the recipe."

Silas thought about he whole situation for a moment before she sighed: "Well... why not?"

#PennedPossibilities 836 #StarRyde #SilasCrosby #SciFi #WIP

837
Which of your characters have the best chemistry, whether it's friendly, romantic, or otherwise?

All surviving Lifeforms have at least sufficient enough chemistry to not die from it

Yes, I blatantly ignore the real intent of the question because I don't like to think about Relationships in that way. Different yes but not labeled and ranked. I don't do it in life so I don't want to do it with my characters either.

And lets be honest: "What's your best child? Your best pet? Your best left tiny toe or pinky finger. Your best Trashpandateam*/Racoonsquad rampaging through your garbage disposal. For me it's in the same line of thinking.
---

*No this is not ment as a calling out the lovely host of the prompts (by the way that's @floofpaldi )
on a subtext level. I just love the name Trashpanda for racoons.
BTW in German they are called Waschbären (Washing/Cleaning/Rinsing Bears) and I have fond memories of them and hey come on they come with a mask.🤩

#PennedPossibilities 837

⬅️838 2/2

Arkham sat relaxed in the pilot chair.
Talking with Ash while reading the Questions.
"That's a weird one, I mean, I don't know I'm 25, I have around another 100 - 125 years left if I die to natural causes. I guess at the moment I would sa-... "
A weird sensation ran over her skin, it came through the seat.
"Ash what was that?"

"Unknown, an energy spike ran through my system. I lost local inputs."

"What?"

"I can not register the Captain, I can not connect to her. I lost contact to her quarters, my local instance got compromised. I can not access the room or data from it."

"Ash what is going on?" Arkham jumped out of the seat running towards the CIC/Bridge.

"Assumption, something happened to the Captain or her quarters."

Arkham passed the Bridge staff who looked puzzled as she ran by and heard Ash explanations.

Silas sprang into action running behind Arkham. "Emergency alert Captain's quarters, med, sec, NOW."
...
#PennedPossibilities 838 #StarRyde #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

839
What sort of antagonist are you writing? (See @floofpaldi post for ideas or clarification.)

A.I. the mysterious puppeteering force in the background, motivation unclear, goals unclear, identity unclear. Could be evil but doesn't act like that, like villainous monologues but never Resorts to villainous deeds. Only communications are done by electronics, speaker, holographics, text messages.

A.J. the relatable one. Flawed suffering from partial memory loss/memory fragmentation, has an uncanny ability to escape but doesn't seem to have any super secret powers at all. Could be your average day Terran.

Both fight the Eltaryn so they are at least "not evil" from the perspective of the Union.

#PennedPossibilities 839 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #SciFi #WIP

840
Tell us about a source of misery for your MC.

Kira: doesn't want others to suffer her tragedies, if she could change the Universe into a nicer place with less drama, tragedy & everything that can burden a soul, she absolutely would. She has suffered through loss, a lot of it, she doesn't want to be alone. She doesn't want others to be alone.

Arkham: hates to loose, it doesn't matter what it is. She feels her worth is tied to her performance.
Which is why her relationship to Kira messes her up to a degree. How can this person love you if you aren't the best? She fears to loose Kira either to other partners or if she dies. Arkham can be jealous & blatantly open to a hurtful degree, but it pains her if she actually hurts someone.

Ashlei: Not doing what she is programmed to do. Supporting the crew and protect them. If she would feel in our perimeters the loss of the Captain would have crushed her.

#PennedPossibilities 840 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

841 ketchup
Reveal a source of joy for your SC.

Jennifer Harvey Gladstone.
J. She loves to make others happy. Cuddle, even naked but never sexual, she is the big spoon, squeezing you gently, touching you carefully, even kiss you if you want to but thats it. She & Kira used to cuddle a lot as the thing with Tanya went sideways. As Kira & Anika had their little Fallout, as Kira, Rose & Talisa went different ways.
J. even had a cuddle club going on at the academy, as she has with parts of the Ghoz'Tarc crew.
J. also feels joy if she can help someone in any way, being it sweeping you gently from your feet & carrying you to bed or pulling you out of the freaking dirt hole you hid in as the Eltaryn or Pirate attacks began, handing you fresh water.
Its the other side of the tank she is on the battlefield, the dumb joking, animal meat eating, grenade throwing, rampaging, loud hulk with medical training & brutal efficiency.

#PennedPossibilities 841 #StarRyde #JHarveyGladstone #SciFi #WIP

842 ketchup
Which POV(s) do you prefer to write?

Omniscent third person.

#PennedPossibilities 842

843
Antagonist POV: What keeps you up at night?

Antagonist Infernale (AI): "What concerns me, is Terra, Khalit, Morrakhar, Betosia, Asza und Trellwa Prime. The core of the Union isn't as stable as one might think, but i don't loose sleep over it, instead I forge them into the sturdy core we need.

Ariaene Johnsen (AJ/Antagonist Junior): "Every evening I face the horror that I most likely will not remember anything from today. So what do you think... Waking up not knowing where you are, who you are exactly, only remembering one thing for certain the shit that haunts you in your dreams. What keeps me up at night, stims and not sleeping, to cling to some memories rather than none..."

#PennedPossibilities 843 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnsen #AriaeneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

844
Tell about your MC’s stress behaviors.

Kira: it depends on what type of stress and how much of it.
Her usual go to's are more training, less eating more EQuil consumption, less sleep.
Positive perceived stress, she can get into a flow of happiness and accomplishment while focusing on important stuff, a feel of energy.
Negative perceived stress, burning eyes, head aches, sore muscles from too much excessive training, hard core focus on her weaker perceived abilities, no solid food at all. A feel of powerlessness.
Both states aren't really healthy long term but can be very different.

Arkham: she doesn't perceive stress as positive she gets hardcore fixated of ironing out problems. As her self esteem directly relates to her piloting skills this can end up in extreme long flight sessions on stimulating stuff, simulator sessions and later even dance training.

Ash: resorts to Filemanagement.

#PennedPossibilities 844 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

845
Has your writing affected the way you speak, or your word choice or sentence structure?

Credit: @NaraMoore

Nope not really. English did more damage to that pattern.

#PennedPossibilities 845.

846
Tell us about your MC’s mannerisms when they’re content.

Kira ia a bit quirkier as if she would if she was not content. If everything goes as expected or better. She also really appreciates it if the crew succeeds on a mission and highlights good work. So she will give praise accordingly and will more be more "relaxed energetic."

Arkham jokes more and is a bit more open about herself. The most noticeable difference her smile and fewer swearing words (if stuff goes really down the drain she would be beeped like R2-D2 in US Media... Makes you think what a nasty droid the little can is ...).

Ash: well Ash's voice may sound a tiny bit more alive. It's hard to tell with an A.I. that prefers to not mimic Terran speech patterns exactly.

#PennedPossibilities 846 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP