#PennedPossibilities 1003. MC POV: Were you born to shine in one special way? What makes you really stand out?

"Uh," she looks away, a little guiltily, "so I have this 'power,' and it makes me really strong and stuff, but it also tells me to kill people."

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#PennedPossibilities 1004: If they have any, tell us about your MC’s philosophical beliefs.

She was raised anarcho-syndicalist, so she's collectivist by instinct confused by the idea of centralized authority.

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#PennedPossibilities 1005 What type of clothing does your SC typically wear?

Everyone wears hand-me-downs. The clothes are built to last, and young people outgrow them quickly, so it's just what you do.

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#PennedPossibilities 1006. How would your characters describe their community or communities?

As "communities." No family metaphors. No military or corporate metaphors. They are what they are.

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#PennedPossibilities 1012: How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

They have universal healthcare, and their doctors, nurses, and other physicians are members of their extended communities, and they feel great about that.

(Is this a question crafted for Americans?)

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#PennedPossibilities 1013 — MC POV: Have you ever lived in another country / place besides where you were born? Would you want to?

"They kidnapped me and took me to a cult. I just wanna go home."

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#PennedPossibilities 1014: If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?

He never gets the chance. She's a MUCH better fighter than him.

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#PennedPossibilities 1015: Any WIP scenes inspired by your own experiences?

Specific scenes, not really. It's all pastiches of high school.

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#PennedPossibilities 1017: Reveal a source of misery for your MC.

Other than the obvious one--abducted into a cult, cut of from her family and community--the fact that she's made extremely close friends in the cult, and the cult is hurting *them* pisses her off to no end.

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#PennedPossibilities 1018 MC POV: Tell us about the first time you felt shame.

The leader of the cult she was stuck in made her feel special, and she liked it.

[edit] There is *nothing* sexual going on in this situation, just to clarify.[/edit]

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#PennedPossibilities 1019 Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Ha! No. She's too confident in her physical abilities to be intimidated, and her community wouldn't put up with that kind of behaviour from the people around her. It's not a thing that's ever come up.

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#PennedPossibilities 1020: Does your MC consider themselves to be outdoorsy or do they prefer to stay inside?

City kid. Spent most of her time inside an arcology or inside a bus. The outside is the space between buildings.

It's real pretty to look at through the window, though!

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#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

No, but I would love to! Specifically, I'd love to collaborate on a comic book with an artist.

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#PennedPossibilities 1022: What sort of legacy would your MC want to leave?

Legacy isn't really her thing. Culturally, there isn't a high value on it. I mean, a certain amount of reverence for ancestors and the people who built the stuff you enjoy is very important, but it's not so much focused on individual "heroes." That said, she would want her trophies to stay on their shelves for ever and ever, so you know. People aren't always consistent. :)

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#PennedPossibilities⁩ 1023: Who would you personally trust the most out of your cast of characters?

Brant. He's just ~chill~.

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#PennedPossibilities 1025: Would you or have you ever killed off a member of the main cast? How would or how did you feel afterwards?

I haven't yet, but I feel like I "should" according to the genre, which despite all my intentions is *sort of* a YA portal fantasy, but it's more ENDER'S GAME (minus the genocide) than NARNIA. It's about kids, but it's not for kids.

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#PennedPossibilities 1026. What is your MC’s biggest priority?

1. Get home.
2. Protect her friends. (It's a *very* close second.)

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#PennedPossibilities 1027 — SC POV: If you could master any skill, what would it be? How would you use it?

"Fighting," he says. "I want to be really really good at it.

"I'm not."

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#PennedPossibilities 1028. MC POV: Do you feel like you belong somewhere? What does belonging mean to you?

"I used to belong in Sen̓áḵw. Then the Order took me.

"And I got out.

"But now. I don't know."

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#PennedPossibilities 1029: Name something your MC has always wanted to learn.

Cantonese. Like half her friends speak it at meals, and she *really* wants to be included.

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

I'm not sure how to define the word "assume," here. I create my characters, and I decide "This is the hippie girl, this is the angry one," etc. They grow and develop well past that, of course. My angry one turned out to be my funny one who wanted to be the sexy badass, and he's angry because everyone loves how funny he is (ie, it's not on purpose).

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#PennedPossibilities 1031 Are you satisfied with the genre(s) that you write?

There are such depths and variations in SF/F that I could spend a lifetime playing inside them. If you said that's all I get to write, I'd be fine. That said, spec fic is getting more and more interesting to me--SF without the "S"--but I also have this nagging feeling that I'd like to write a romantic story that's driven by two people finding each other.

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#PennedPossibilities 1033: Would you or have ever considered writing a MC with mental illness? How would or did you approach the subject?

I'm waiting for the day that I *don't* end up writing a central character with a (metaphorical) mental illness. I appear to write people with compulsive behaviours a lot. Can't imagine why. (Ahem.)

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#PennedPossibilities 1034: If one of your characters could visit any time period in the history of their world, which would they choose?

Pre-contact Coast Salish territory. In this daydream, she's able to kinda hang out, speaks a couple of dialects of Halkomelem and the link.

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

Exactly the same. She goes through her day without admitting it to a single person. She finds it existentially unnerving that she's even capable of getting sick. She must be all powerful at all times. It's pathological.

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