Collars keep coming across my dash on Pinterest, you see. So I decided to write a story.
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Countdown to Addergoole Year 9: Quintus, Speed, Wylie, Xanthia
52 15 Days To 52 Weeks
For the 52 days leading up to the 52 weeks of Addergoole: Year 9, I will be posting something Addergoole-related every day.
Today: More character development meme!
Quintus
20.) Does your character have any irrational fears?
Quintus does not like the dark, not one bit.
This is not totally an irrational fear. He had bad experiences as a child with the lights going out, times when his stepmother would crawl in bed with him, times when he’d be locked in his room with the lights out for hours. But this has translated into a straight fear of dark places, the lights being out, being trapped. He sleeps with the lights on at night, and with a flashlight by the bed.
(as a note: that stepmother only lasted a year, before his father found out. But it was a very stressful year.)
Speed
21.) What would your character’s cutie mark be?
Speed’s mark would be a length of chain, or, more likely, a tangle of chain.
He had tendencies in the BD/SM direction before he came to Addergoole – mostly curiosity and a very little bit of experimentation. He fell into being Kept by Gregori more easily than he’d like to admit, and, once Kept, it is not the bondage parts that he really objects to at all.
Wylie
22.) If your character could time travel, where would they go?
Wylie would go everywhere! He’s the sort of guy that would enjoy wandering around watching historical events. He’d bother himself at eight, and at eighty, and, once he learned they could live nigh-on-forever, he’d try a hundred and eight and eight hundred, too. He’d visit his ancestors, and George Washington, and The Severing, and possibly Neanderthal Man.
He’d try to pull a Bill & Ted and pick up a historical girl, too. Maybe try fathering his own ancestor, if he was a bit drunk or feeling very brave.
Chances are, he’d keep travelling until he was stopped or he died, though.
Xanthia
23.) Is your character superstitious?
Only in a completely atheistic non-superstitious manner; Xanthia believes that the world is as the world is, and that’s that.
Addergoole is going to come as a bit of a surprise to her. 😉
You can ask any of these four anything today!
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Countdown to Addergoole Year 9: Character Development Meme
52 44 Days To 52 Weeks
For the 52 days leading up to the 52 weeks of Addergoole: Year 9, I will be posting something Addergoole-related every day.
Today: parts of a character development meme!
Wylie
1.) Describe your character’s relationship with their mother or their father, or both. Was it good? Bad? Were they spoiled rotten, ignored? Do they still get along now, or no?
Wylie lived with a man who was, biologically, his mother, and the woman who foster-mothered him. He believes them to be his mom and dad and has never met his biological father (nor do I think they’d get along).
He had a decent childhood and grew up generally happy – not spoiled and not rich, but not starved or neglected and not poor, either. His parents provided more discipline than he thought was appropriate, trying to tame his unruliness and trying to prepare him to be sent away. Neither worked well, but the practice will serve him well in the long term.
His foster-mother has always treated him as her own, and raised him with his older sister Kendra and his baby sister (who will be in Addergoole Year 12 or 13) as a family. As far as she’s concerned, he’s family. His “father” has always been a bit confused by him – he feels he’s a bit of a cuckoo’s egg, distractible and hyperactive where Cedric is level-headed and straightforward – but has done his best to love him and parent him properly despite that.
One week into Addergoole, they’ve gotten Wylie’s hastily-scribbled postcard, mailed off a care package, and aren’t sure if they should be worried or not.
Timora
2.) What are your characters most prominent physical features?
Before the Change, Timora’s long dishwater-blonde hair and her coltish long legs counted as her most prominent features, although she almost always hid her legs behind long Little-House-on-the-Prairie skirts.
After her Change, her hooves and tail are likely more prominent, although she maintains the hair (just blue now) and the very nice legs.
Noam
3.) Name one scar your character has, and tell us where it came from. If they don’t have any, is there a reason?
Most of Noam’s small scars were erased by the Change; the butterfly markings across his torso and face actually altered his skin, bringing it back to baby-smoothness while they covered it with brilliant patterns.
Noam was more than a bit of a nerd in his old school, but he had the not-entirely-uncommon distinction of being an attractive nerd. He was never a sports-team joiner, or really much of any sort of joiner, but he and some of his friends in school did play back yard football or whatever other excuse to run around in the mud.
Thus, he has his share of small scars – the dime-sized scar on his thigh where his friend Max Fralick accidentally stabbed him with a piece of wood, the long slice mark across his forearm where he fell in a junkyard, the three burn marks on his shoulder from a mishap with a model rocket.
Of all the things the Change wrought in him, he dislikes the loss of that scar the most.
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Countdown to Addergoole Year 9: Wylie
52 47 Days To 52 Weeks
For the 52 days leading up to the 52 weeks of Addergoole: Year 9, I will be posting something Addergoole-related every day.
Today I present to you Wylie!
Art by herminion
Wylie is a middling-heighted boy with middling-brown hair and a middling build, with average grades and an average athletic ability. On paper, he is an entirely ordinary fifteen-year-old boy. (click link for more description).
His parents have told him that Addergoole is a school for “gifted” children, by which he believes they mean “disobedient and distractable.”
Wylie originally appeared in Pissing Away Time.
And, today, if you would like to ask Wylie any question, at any point up to the end of Pissing Away Time, feel free!
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Wylie, More description
Full description, including personality here
Wylie is a middling-heighted boy (5’9”) with middling-brown hair and a middling build, with average grades and an average athletic ability. On paper, he is an entirely ordinary fifteen-year-old boy.
Physically, he’s pale-skinned and freckles, with blue eyes and pouty lips (not that he pouts much), still out-growing his baby fat in face and stomach, and tends towards plain t-shirts and loose-fitting jeans, or, when his mother has been fussing, plain button-down shirts and loose-fitting khakis. If he has to engage in a sport, he prefers lacrosse.
http://www.canstockphoto.com/models/model-19271
He has coyote ears in place of his human ears, in generally the same position as his human ears were, and a fluffy coyote tail http://www.allwildlifecontrol.com/images/coyote-3.jpg.
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Addergoole Year Nine Character Profile: Wylie
Addergoole Year Nine won the reader poll for “Next Year’s serial;” the story proper will begin the first full week of September.
In the meantime, please enjoy the first of twenty-something character profiles: Wylie.
b. August 10, 1988
Wylie is a middling-heighted boy (5’9”) with middling-brown hair and a middling build, with average grades and an average athletic ability. On paper, he is an entirely ordinary fifteen-year-old boy.
His blue eyes set him apart when one is looking at him; his propensity for puzzles and science set him apart in classes; his utter inability to pay attention to anything for more than five minutes set him apart (or, rather, push him aside) for most of his teachers. He doesn’t like reading but soaks up information when he does, for whatever brief period he can remain interested; he watches TV voraciously and soaks up information, generally while getting half-way through some other project.
His foster-mother, who he believes to be his real mother, and her husband, who he believes to be his father, have long since despaired of his finishing anything; mom Page keeps Legos around by the cubic yard to keep Wylie’s hands occupied (She packed a box of them in his luggage for Addergoole). Father Cedric has found that putting a notepad and pencil in reach of their son’s hands will sometimes generate fascinating things and other times generate complete crap; the rare nightmare-monster drawing is burned before Wylie notices what he’s done.
His best subjects are math and science; he’s rubbish at history and can’t sit through more than five minutes of English without getting distracted, although he likes old historical fantasy (Beowulf, for example, the worse the monster the better).
Physically, he’s pale-skinned and freckles, with pouty lips (not that he pouts much), still out-growing his baby fat in face and stomach, and tends towards plain t-shirts and loose-fitting jeans, or, when Page has been fussing, plain button-down shirts and loose-fitting khakis. If he has to engage in a sport, he prefers lacrosse.
His parents have told him that Addergoole is a school for “gifted” children, by which he believes they mean “screwed up.”
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