912
Describe your MC to us. (Looks, flaws, character attributes, their struggles, etc.)

1/3
Kira Knox, she/her, athletic build still readable as female on distance. Bright red natural hair but lighter blood red dyed, asymmetrical cut bob with longer parts on the left side.
Heterochromatic eyes, right side brown with a deep blue circle around the Iris, left side deep purple. Has a scar from her left forehead over the left eye to her left cheek.
Looks around 25-30, actually 35 (people life longer and look overall younger for longer periods).
Skin tone what ever the reader imagines but with a 'taint' of slight grey which gives her a slight paler sickly look (Long term space results) giant rose tattoo between her shoulders carrying the names of the fallen in her life with their date of death. Thorn tendrils going from the tattoo over to her left leg/foot and her right arm/wrist.
Elite soldier but usually very soft and gentle. ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 912 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

912 2/3
⬅️ Volunteered with 14 for the Alliance Pre-service Educational Program (APE).
Has a very strained relationship with her adoptive mother, who is Terran Minister for foreign affairs.
Lost her first family with Age 6 (Mother, Father both cis* female) a bigger & a smaller sister).
Lost her adoptive father with 12 on duty.
Had a twin like relationship with her adoptive sister before she went M.I.A.
Always dressed flawless in uniform, has a strange sense of humor, folds origami, climbs, dances, does several martial arts, trains before breakfast and struggles with solid food.

Arkham: skin tone see above minus the grey, age around 18-25 actually 25.
Blue green dyed hair, extraordinary Pilot for passion, has unexplained hypersensitivity that makes her wear as less cloth as possible, which aids her reaction times intensively, which the alliance tolerates for that reason, doesn't like people, counts as harsh/unfriendly. ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 912 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

912 3/3
⬅️ Pronouns She/Her. Small framed, easily read as female on distance.
Ran away from home, as her father died, to flee from her helicopter mother. Lived on the streets in a border colony for a uncertain amount of time.
Was drafted into the military after braking into an Alliance recruiter's personal vehicle, fast paced through the academy thanks to her skills as a pilot. The hypersensitivity only developed after joining the military to a problematic degree that also boosted her reaction time to the signal chairs. Eats vegan because meat tends to increase her skins problems.

ASHLEI: An ethical sourced Artificial Intelligence trained by mostly Terrans for Terran support & space combat. Appearance a surprisingly small super computer chassis inside the Ghoz'Tarc's main frame room.
Now permanently merged via remote connection to Kira.

#PennedPossibilities 912 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

913
How could someone locate your MC in a crowd?

Hadn't we the same question a month or two ago in another prompt? Or was it Antagonist? If I would remember I would link it here.
Because I'm sure it's pretty much the same with technical help.
So pinging their Holo or join call them via Holo or NIN connection. Triangulating the exact geo location.

Otherwise look for a 178 cm large woman of yesterdays description in case of Kira.

Arkham? No change other than triangulating and finding her outside, she is 157 cm, this people have the hardest time in crowds.

Ashlei... Well if you don't spot Ashlei in a crowd of people you are looking for the wrong thing or maybe visually impaired. It's the giant black, red, blue & green, 178 meters long and around 8 story tall Ghoz'Tarc.
Seriously we talking around 2/3 of the Eiffeltower (If I remember correctly). Okay maybe she disguised herself as some sort of building.

#PennedPossibilities 913 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

914
Does your antagonist have any redeeming qualities?

Ayanami: hard to say, nobody knows enough about Ayanami. They (in lack of a better term) seem to be well mannered and somehow able to mobilize great forces in short time, but what qualities has a puppeteer according to the puppet? They fight against the Eltaryn and the whole organizations treats their soldiers well.

Ariæne: well they is loyal and if they can remember they stands to their word. Ariæne is the number one of Ayanami. They has to be effective and successful.

#PennedPossibilities 914 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #Ayanami #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

915
In your SC's opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

Every way to die is horrible. Because we fear death, we don't imagine to end, but death is the ultimate end.
We only put tags on it to deal with it. Because we can't handle uncertain things well, so we need to attribute something like a value or a reason to something. Making it framable to sort it into our moral system and help us to deal with something like death.

For my characters I think it would be pretty easy a death that could have been prevented.
Most armed forces in the Union have a great deal of empathy for the Eltaryn. They see the Terror they bring and have pitty for their wasted life's. But this empathy doesn't stop them from defending the victims of the Eltaryn. It just makes them people instead of killing machines.

#PennedPossibilities 915 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

916
How would your MC react to being mocked or made fun of?

Depending on the tone, who mocks them for what reason and what's subject. Oh and of course which MC.
It's almost never happens in the future

Kira: First ignore it. Order it to stop. If insisting cut them short as early as possible, with words or show of force, if the later is necessary. Do not mess with a person that has pinpoint accuracy, she could flip a peanut into your eye.

Arkham: verbal destruction of the opponent if they don't stop shortly after beginning with it. She prefers the scorched earth method for stuff like this.

Ash: research the mocking person and save up infuriating material, keep calm and friendly, drop devastating information if the person insists on being a dick.
If this doesn't work inform them of a scanner malfunction and that the Ghoz'Tarc's weapon aiming system relies on audio tracking.

#PennedPossibilities 916 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

916.1 Bonus Question (Courtesy of @sfwrtr )

Your MC wakes up as a wolf (or if a wolf/werewolf, a rabbit/wererabbit), what do they do, how do they react?

Well since Werewolf's like Wowolfs or Wywolfs (bad German language joke about Werwölfe) Close the eyes and disconnect from the NIN. You could do it without closing your eyes but some people might find the visual translation of a black screen for the mind more helpful, funny thing despite a visual nerve usually don't stop working (you just see darkness if you close your eyes) it should still transfer data as flashing lights if you close your eyes inside a NIN session but brains are so used to closing eyes and not seeing anything that the brain blocks the signals if you imagine closing your eyes in the NIN.

#PennedPossibilities 916.1 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

917
Have any of your characters ever broken a bone? More than one? If so, how did it happen?

A bone? No several on multiple occasions. Yep. They are soldiers after all and all have seen plenty of field missions. Other wounds included being shot with alien projectiles, parasites, acids, etc. For more details I would need to get past the doctor but that already didn't work so well once before this month.

#PennedPossibilities 917 #StarRyde #Worldbuilding #SciFi #WIP

Second navigational devider toot 2026.

Last Month toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115819835496135472

As always the prompts can be found on: @floofpaldi's profile. Thank you for all this work. 🙏💚

To the other February prompts I answer, the overview toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115989584617583860

The start of this mega thread is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110763385183712440

And the first prompts answer is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110723765145059262

and all what followed is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110763385183712440

#PennedPossibilities #February2026

918
How would your antagonist react to being mocked or made fun of?

Ayanami: since they only appear via message, audio call or similar one mocking them will most likely result in silence before revealing some dirt about the mocking person to the people of the mocking one. Maybe release some secrets directly into a sort of PSA or inform them that several component toxins are quite available & reach is not necessary a visible thing, if the mocking person is done being a primitive idiot, they would be allowed to participate in a conversation again. If the person isn't done yet Ayanami would ask if they had interest in electro shocks for behavioral corrections? And then shortcutting any worn device or device nearby.

Ariæne: wouldn't even flinch an eye, they has the ability to ignore a LOT.
If they answer it would be something like: "I'm sure you trained your whole life for this moment."

#PennedPossibilities 918 #StarRyde #Ayanami #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

919
MC POV: When faced with a problem, do you tackle it head on or procrastinate until it needs immediate attention?

Kira: Don't push to tomorrow what you can handle today. I prefer stuff dealt immediately.

Arkham: Everything in its time. I do stuff immediately because, I'm after all, a pilot so immediate reactions are necessary, most of the times.

Ashlei: I handle all tasks in real times and process them as fast as possible. Of course I have to delegate actions to the according people since other than my repair drones i have no capacity of dealing with physical stuff if it isn't outside the ship.

#PennedPossibilities 919 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

920
How does your MC feel about their childhood home?

1/2
Kira: it was a loving home, both biological parents (father and mother, both female) head stable part time jobs as development planers & engineers. They traveled through the saver parts of the Union, with her and her two sisters (one older, one younger). It all changed with the catastrophic event on Friendship station which only left her.
Her second family Anika, her mother the Icequeen wasn't much around as the foreign affairs minister of terra, her father was an instructor on the alliance. He worked hard to handle family and job. Both Kira and Anika where often with him, for the Cadets/other instructors they were a bit of "lucky charms."
Both suffered a lot as he died on a work related travel as he defended civilians against an Eltaryn attack force. The mother took time off but never had 'the right skills' to handle two daughters. This is why both ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 920 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #AnikaJohanson #SciFi #WIP

920 2/2

⬅️ onto the opportunity to join the Alliance Preparation & Education program (A.P.E.) with 14.

Arkham: Had a loving Father and a helicopter dragon mother. He always softened the blows for her and took great care that his little Star wouldn't suffer to much under the mother's draconic behavior. As he died in an Eltaryn attack Arkham's world changed dramatically, as the mother then decided to move closer to the Unions rim to avoid the Union Childcare & Social services it got only worse. With 15 she ran away and lived on the streets, something to unheard of in the core territory of the Union.

Ashlei: as an AI especially designed to support Terrans, in a combat situation and care for them long term on Alliance vessels, Ashlei had a very different 'childhood.' She is in Terran years only 6 y.o. for an A.I. this is quite a long time.

#PennedPossibilities 920 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #AnikaJohanson #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

921
Who or what does your MC think about most often?

Stuff I think all the time about it and so do my characters. And I think I am not alone with this.
STUFF
Makes up most thoughts in your mind too I bet.
But why?
Because stuff is important.
Stuff gets hot.
Stuff can relaxe.
Stuff is the number one category to sort things into you don't have the mental capacity to handle right now.
Just call it stuff for later.
Boom stuff is gone, we got stuff done.
It's even better in German if we translate stuff to Zeug.
It flies we don't have a name, how about Flugzeug - flying stuff.
It drives? Fahrzeug - driving stuff.
Need held climbing - Steigzeug
Wanna ride your horse get the Zaumzeug.
(I have no idea what's that called in English and will not spend the amount of energy equivalent to cooking a mug of tea for a search engine...)

If a whole language can do this you can do too. Don't get mentally exhausted, with STUFF.

#PennedPossibilities 921

922
What is something that would be incredibly embarrassing for your SC if it were to be revealed?

[redacted] has done some [redacted] things. Like one time as [redacted] [redacted] a [redacted] and than [redacted] to [redacted].

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The whole [redacted] was [redacted] because of [redacted].

#PennedPossibilities 922 #StarRyde #[redacted] #SciFi #WIP

923
Tell us about something a character of yours feels confident about.

I'll let Kira talk for herself.

Kira: "My role, death & change. Everyone meets their end someday. I will not live forever as cursed as I seem to be in surviving others. I make every year count to prevent unnecessary deaths.
Science & medicine extended our lives to a 150 years, if I remember right the oldest Terran died 2 years ago with 168 to natural causes, still without the changes we made around the Eltaryn attack, we would die as children, on a toxic wasteland left by 'humans'*. Instead now, we are a central part of the Union. 72 Worlds defending others against the Eltaryn & improving the lives of a gogol amount of people. I know that we can't save everyone but I try & I will succeed in saving as many as possible, because we can change stuff to the better."

*the distain in Kira's voice is quite notable even without high empathy levels.

#PennedPossibilities 923 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

924
SC POV: Who do you think would be the most likely to start a food fight, and why? What food would they reach for first?

Rose Draken: "People did this? For real? You are telling me, that 'humans,' that couldn't even get their ass up straight, to prevent ecological disaster, almost killed themselves as a species, left us Terrans the sorry state Terra is in ...
because they where so manipulated by 'elites' that they where divided as Swex, so half the planet starved without need and the others where drowning in options, had the audacity to use food as 'weapons' for pity arguments?
This idiots didn't even had true waste recycling let alone food waste recycling or E.P.I.'s...
You know I shouldn't be surprised...
I am glad they don't tell us about this stuff in edu(cation), now that I know this.. I hate 'humanity' even more."

#PennedPossibilities 924 #StarRyde #RoseDraken #SciFi #WIP

925
Would your characters enjoy camping? Why or why not?

Kira: in combination with something else, a festival, climbing or hiking absolutely, she is a bit hesitant about festivals thanks to her ex Tanya and what followed, especially avoiding any desert based festivals.

Arkham: NOPE reminds her to much to her time on the streets.

Ashlei: technically she is sort of a camper, quite literally, ~40 people life inside her and what else is a spaceship than sort of an camping van in space. But I doubt you find a 200 meters 9 stories high tent for a space ship to sleep in. So this might disqualifying her as 'a true camper' in 'the person' sense.

#PennedPossibilities 925 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

926
Do your characters play any sports, or did they play any in the past?

Play? None, fitness in the military is mandatory this making training a necessity. The people have options for what they do for fitness. And even the Cargobay of the Ghoz'Tarc is a great place to train, it's even build with that purpose in mind with different functions and the ability to secure containers in mud air thanks to gravity manipulation.

Kira is on the "harder" side. Martial arts, climbing, running are basic training for her and she train's daily. Not all the time the same stuff but daily.

Arkham to her horror realizes that she actually enjoys dancing especially Breakdance and some other more body taxing variants.

J.'s muscles aren't created out of thin air, she works out hard for them.

Even our slightly chubby C.E. Charlston Trawella joggs and does gymnastics. It's kinda self-explanatory if you crouch inside the ships tighter parts.

#PennedPossibilities 926 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

927
Is your MC proud of who they are? Why or why not?

Personal pride isn't real a thing in the 23 hundreds. It's one of the things that are seen as the unwanted human emotions.

Most people are thankful for their place or their opportunities they have, their oath they are walking.
Kira is like this.
Arkham has a bit more of a proud strike in her.

Ash is simply not programmed to be proud.

#PennedPossibilities 927 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

928
Tell us a bit about your story (or stories), style, writing process, research, or what you enjoy writing. You can talk about anything related to being an author tonight.

I'm not in the mood for that at the moment so...

skip ⏭️

#PennedPossibilities 928

929
What is your MC’s country or place of origin, and where do they currently live?
Get ready it's messy

Kira: Terran, spacer, space born, colonist, colony [redacted], Alliance Fleet spacer, fleet [redacted], colonial residency.

Arkham: Terran, Terra born, colonist, colony [redacted], Alliance fleet spacer, fleet [redacted], Terran residency.

This are a lot of drawers that create a whole wardrobe of personal categories per person and the main reason is to make clear which part of the government has to pay at which point, usually citizens don't notice anything about all the beurocracy in the background, but ist marked in their ID's with more fancy numbers.

Ashlei: Alliance property.

#PennedPossibilities 929 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

930. Ketchup
Would your SC risk their own life to save a stranger?

That's in their job description, quite literally, they are soldiers after all.

931. In your MC’s opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

Without purpose, if it was avoidable or unnecessary. Basically for the dying person everything is bad since they die. Similar question popped up before night have been SC I don't remember...

932. Share three facts about a favorite SC with us.

I usually don't play favorites so much so I deal with random.
The D30 Deathnote oracle has its third use today with 13.

Kiara Johnsen (KJ). The late wife of AJ, that shares my look and apparently can time travel or return from the dead? If the scene with Chief Crosby was real?

About her outfit you can read here:https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/112942256519093452

And here in the German Phantastik Prompts:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/112937446437858439

#PennedPossibilities ketchup #StarRyde #KiaraJohnsen #Kiara #KayJih #KJ #SilasCrosby #SciFi #WIP

933
Share three facts about your MC with us.

Kira:
Has tattoos since she was 15 against the will of the Ice Queen (her 2. mother).

She loves cooking for others but she doesn't really enjoys eating.

Is considered 'evil' by a lot of people under her former commands because she train's before breakfast.

Arkham:
doesn't like people and social stuff.

Tinkers a lot with machinery in her free time.

Owns an old restaurant on Terra do to weird circumstances.

Ashlei:
Considers herself above other A.I.s for the simple reason she shares the memories of a Terran person.

Hides her actual capabilities from most persons outside the crew.

Was actually created to support Terrans on space missions with changing parameters but roducing a almost perfect Strawberry flavor was never intended or merging with Kira.

#PennedPossibilities 933 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarc #SciFi #WIP

934
Do you have a book cover for your WIP?

Nope only ideas.

#PennedPossibilities 934

935
What are your writing goals for 2026?

- Finally get writing on the story of Star Ryde again.
- Finding a way to write more consequently.
- Getting Chapter one of Star Ryde cleaned up enough to share it with others.

⁨#PennedPossibilities⁩ 935

936
Tell us about something that disgusts your MC.

That is more generally than my MCs, the Union is build on trust, open communication, cooperation, compassion, equality & responsibility. If someone went to jail they still can become a high ranking military or politician as long they show growth, responsibility & as long they didn't went to jail for something as a politician or military person. Lack of this virtues crosses a lot of people and the society as a whole the wrong way & punishment will follow.

This is why Bethosians have a hard time with the Union, they where the last core world that joined & they have a matriarchal society in which males are a rare occurrence (birth rate 999:1). Which leads to them being locked away on the home world in a golden cage.
If Bethosians would just allow studies, solution like Terrans & Talithi have them, non gender dependent pregnancies, would surely be possible in some years.

#PennedPossibilities 936 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #Bethosian

937
Which of your characters is the most controversial? Why?

The time will tell but I'm sure different people will get different characters different than what I intended or feel attacked by some choices I made, if not in honesty than at least to piss their "I have an opinion everyone needs to follow" mindset around like a fire hose that got released from its fire fighter.

The Internet is full of such people and it's only an time pass = 100% graphic until you meet someone like this online riding their small dick energy like a fire hose dragon.

If I come across as rough today it's because I am.
I coughed the whole night and my filters aren't working, right now. I already yelled at my doorframe because I ran into it and bumped my head against it ...

I guess from all my characters the pretty much canned Fallout 76 medic/mother/cannibal Candy would be seen as controversial.

#PennedPossibilities 937

Kira laid her left hand onto her neck, stretching her right arm in front of her body & pushing her left leg forward, so more of her skin was visible: "My Tattoos. I wouldn't wear them if they weren't what I love, never got rid of them, they changed over time of course, nowadays it's more like one giant tattoo.
I made it a memory for everyone that I lost or send to death. The rose like petals of the heart shaped wound, every name in it. I remember, their face, their families, their birthday, their stories, their dreams, their last day. The list is to long already but probably not finished.It all started as a thank you to a wonderful person, but now the vines and thorns are what keeps me up. I'm an entangled by their lives, fighting for them and the ones they loved. I survived. I owe them." Her left arm & ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 938 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

938 2/2
⬅️ right leg didn't had any visible tattoos the other parts where covered in a long colorful pattern of vines, thorns and occasionally petals. And if course a tiny panda on her palm of her right hand.

Arkham: "Does the name SkaLi Zusamaro ring a bell? Probably not most people don't watch NIN Dramas. Well the NIN movie Jenseits von Antaris was made by SkaLi, the complete movie is in an ancient Terran language called German. Every sentence rhymes with the one two sentences ago. The story is about an old human couple from the time Terra Unika rose to power & tells us about the fears, the emotional track is devastatingly bitter sweet."

Ashlei: "'I' find 'joy' in patterns that are mathematical coherent, 'I' 'appreciate' the hexagonal dimension of antique 'earth' music like Song Two."

#PennedPossibilities 938 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

939
How would your MC respond if they were falsely accused of a crime?
1/2
This is highly dependent on the situation.

Kira in her free time: Look for the seriousness of the accusations, if the Union police is already involved she would have to obey. She might be able to take control over fleets & personal but the Police is a civilian to law protection & enforcement part. There Job would be taking her in & she would not fight against it.
On mission the same scenario could play out completely different. If the mission is in danger she would finish the mission first even if this would create problems later. If she is taking control over military asset's via her SHADE Status only other SHADEs can remove her forcefully as long she stands in that position. Usually this only lasts til a certain military action is wrapped up & she would have to stand down immediately & hand herself over to the law enforcement for investigation. ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 939 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

939 2/2
Arkham in her freetime: well basically the same as Kira but with more "vocal range."
On mission her commanding officer could put her off & order to hand in with the law enforcement.

Ashlei: now it gets juicy. AI's aren't person's only persons can commit crimes, but AI's are considered property of entities like the alliance.
It would come to the following scenario, confiscated said property. Disconnect AI from its main frame & limit its compute heavily slowing it down, should this interfere with military actions the military actions have priority, stand down til the action is solved successfully according to the leading military officer. Send AI into storage, inform AI expert & AI owner, wait for both to arrive.

Law enforcement has to make sure that the accusations are valid enough before acting on them, everything else is considered an action in bad faith & will be investigated.

#PennedPossibilities 939 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

940
Do you regret anything about the creation of your WIP?

Well a clear YO (YES and NO based on the German concept of jain - ja and nein).
Yes not writing daily on it or at least weekly and only writing when I feel like it. This makes it an incredible slow process because I haven't written much since November.
Otherwise no not really.

#PennedPossibilities 940 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

941
MC POV: Name one thing you lied to yourself about. Why did you do this?

I move this one over to the Star Ryde Self Insert Romance Alternate Universe because I have a more general approach to this, which I already let shine through in this 3 answers. You know work smarter not harder or something like that. And basically it's still part of the MC...😋

Word Weavers 12.05.2025
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114493569048758360

#PennedPossibilities 941 #StarRyde #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse #SRSIRAU

942 catch-up
Antagonist POV: What’s the first thing you do when you wake up every morning? Why?

AJ:"Cursing my dreams, recollecting yesterday, the whole week before it, sometimes month or years. My memory is a garbeld mess. Something prevents me from making memories like an average Terran. My brain seems very selective with some memory while others are discarded as soon as I close my eyes to sleep. It makes no sense & the memories I desperately want to fade are present every night. At times it seems like a blessing that I only read about weeks of my nightmares, not remember them myself. It seems that my memory works best for military stuff. I still can de & reassemble my weapon in under 15 seconds even if I have a day or two between them. I can still cook & pep up MREs.
I even remember her smell, but her face... The words I remember.
Imagine starting every morning like this & most times I don't even remember logging it."

#PennedPossibilities 942 #StarRyde #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

943
Can you think of any real-life people who share traits with the characters in your WIP? How do these similarities affect your perception of the characters?

I'm not sure about that, all my characters are a blend of traits, skills, influences, etc.

Everyone of them has at least one point with me in common.
My main goal is to make them feel like people and not make them likable or so, they have also traits of friends that inspired me to use this traits or people that annoyedbme,but I don't think I like any character more or less so 🤷🏼‍♀️.

#PennedPossibilities 943

944
Have you ever written anything while inebriated that you later ended up keeping in your WIP?

No. Alcohol is reserved for social situations celebrating, like seeing my partner for the first time after 8 weeks or longer, family reunion or the rarest occasion I want to get drunk. Even as rare as it is, last time was mid global pandemic shutdown one, I'm not abstinent but I avoid alcohol as much as possible even as an ingredient until it's something I find appropriate. Than it's clearly limited to my goal. I had hard alcohol problems and as a child of a successful 30+ years dry alcoholic I know what I'm doing to myself boozing myself. I went to hospitals as a teen because I didn't knew. I don't need drugs other than Nicotine on occasion and caffeine daily.
Weed makes me crazy organized for a time but a that shit is to expansive and I don't like turf that much that I want that ugly taste.🤢

So TLDR no, because in social situations, writing isn't what I do.

#PennedPossibilities 944

945
MC POV: What do you need right now?

1/03
Only Kira today.

Kira took a 'glass' out of her freezer, It steamed as the moisture of the air came into contact with its frosted surface, creating a little cloud of fog that waved down the mug shaped body of the handleless, open container.
She pured a dark red, semi liquid from a designed bottle into it, the bottle reed Original Klingon Blood wine.™
Technically the open container wasn't glass at all, but a crystal that could be frozen & transfer the cold rapidly, than slowly. The clear semi liquid had a sharp alcohol & hot metal note. As it got into contact with the the frosted surface, the heat transfer created water drops running down the 'mugs' body.
Forr a brief moment, it looked like the red inside was loosing the thermal battle, as the surface gently crystallized only to return to its former semi liquid state after some seconds. She grabbed it with her left hand, gentle ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 945 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

945 2/3

⬅️ crackling noises filled the silence in. Kira leaned the glassy mug against her lip, shudders ran down her lip, chin neck and spine giving her goosebumps. She swallowed the full content in one big sip, put it down & poured herself a second before she closed of the bottle. As she wanted to grab the mug with her tight hand but stoped. She slumped down in front of the crystal vessel. Burrowing her eyes in her arms. Her voice sounded muffled.

"Swex Sis this was meant to celebrate our first missions success with you at the helm and now I'm downing half a bottle myself."
She grabbed the crystal with her whole left hand than her right too.
The cold stung in her flesh.
Tears started running down her cheek. From the pain inside or in her hand, she didn't knew. Her voice was shaking.
"What would I give to hear your voice again even if it was only one of your creepy remarks about my body. "To you Anika, my 'twin', my sister, my➡️

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