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WoefulInfinity: Thirty years isn't bad at all, but I still feel sad for him dying when Rivek does - I suppose I should probably feel worse for Rivek (;

Meanwhile, I look forward to the Punnett - good luck with your homework load (;

Mm. So ... if magic could be harnessed and used in some sort of device, does that mean a non-magical person (or a partly-magical person) might become magical/more magical? I have no idea how that would work with any kind of device, but it just occured to me after I read your remarks (:

As for how you get all of that in your story without it textbookizing ... good question (; Wise old mage who imparts knowledge freely and often when not asked for it? (; I sometimes take the easy way out with finding space for explanations by bringing in outsiders - they're need to know the things I can't just write in essay form (;



Who doesn't? (;

Good luck - I hope the revision, whenever it happens, goes well (:

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Every time I visit here I wonder what I'll say in regard to the questions about my character - having read everything everyone else had to say I think my worlds might be at the boring end of the stick (; Having said that, I will come back with a succinct answer that won't devour our lives with it's far-too-longness soon (:

Rae told me to post about Mek in here but I'm laaaaaaaazy so I'm just going to respond to AUdley's question on the first page.



Mekania is my username for almost everything, mostly because I was so proud of the name I had created way back when Mek was a fanfic character camio and not anything like the current Mek.

After I had her fully developed (and some of my friends started calling me Mek offline) I realized she is quite a lot like me. We both have incredible tempers though I don't make things explode (I certainly would like to sometimes!). We have the same fear of abandonment caused by people close to us (her father/mother - I'm adopted, her husband - my boyfriend just..disappearing, her closest friends leaving - my best friends always move away, etc). Our love for the underdog is probably the most surprising thing I noticed. She's demonic royalty but she always falls for mortals and I'm always attracted to the guys that get picked on by the other kids/smaller guys/nerdy boys/etc.


My worlds are pretty boring too XD just earth and hell.

*thread kill j00* domokun

XD Strange is good. <3 I'm wondering, though, does the black star symbolize anything? Is it a birthmark, I suppose?

Elaborate on psychich abilities, neh? ^_^

I have somewhere around 160 characters.

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>.>

So no, it's not abnormal. I went through a phase in 8th grade where I just kept making more and more OCs, about 50-60 of them come from that time - there were also maybe 20 that I nixed. Now, I usually come up with a new one (or two, since usually I create in pairs... I define my chars much by how they intereact with other chars) every few months or so if/when I come up with an interesting plot. Now, it just comes totally randomly from random spurts of inspiration. I prefer to work further on my old characters.

My latest characters (from maybe March) are Belsamel and Toriayne. I created Tori first, inspired by Nuriko from Fushigi Yugi. Bel is a prince of an male-dominated, desert country. Tori is his "wife." "She" is from the north - pale skin, long dark hair, totally gorgeous. But also, totally reclusive. The only person she'll e truly open to is Bel. This is because "she" is a guy, albeit a very pretty one. ((Tori, by the way, is my only cross-dressing character.)) He used to be openly gay in his old country - he was a tailor's son, so he alters his own clothes as Queen to make them more convincing. However, Bel - studying abroad as Princes do - convinced him to be his Queen. Tori, although gay, is not the flamboyant type and especially not the royal type. Still, he agrees to cross-dress, take hormone pills (okay, magic pills because it's fantasy), and go because he's in love with Bel.
(Ehr, that's just the setting. XD; I could continue with the plot - rising action/climax, if desired)

However, for me, for a character to stick around as an OC, s/he has to have a strong storyline that I find original and am willing to work with. I hold the story plot as the highest regard and flesh out the characters as I go - thus in result, fleshing out the plot. LIke, since it's such a deep, continuing process, I invest a lot in it and have to be willing to kill characters that are not going to produce a good story.

Ah, all my char stuff is in my head - I'm way too lazy to write it down! XD; So I don't ahve paper family trees or anything. I only ahve one world, though. Well, one world and a bunch of separate short stories that are all self-contained when it comes to environement.

Hehe. It's probably becvause you like Shavrisjada the best (reminds me of hinduism - the Mahabarta, just because I like how both sound. )

XD; I tend to just go with characters that people like to draw best. Most people like Kai because he's a pirate and pirates are popular, but people who know me and know the story behind him tend to choose Rivek.

Haha, I'm a person who hates having to draw specific outfits for a character. It's like "They have to have more than one set of clothes, goddamit it! What happens when they need to wash them?"

XD I wanna draw Rivek in pajamas. Or rather, what he sleeps in which isn't really pajamas but just a loose shirt and pants.