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1. What is this character's greatest flaw?
Silvia is too idealistic. Since she's a fairly-sheltered teenage author and fangirl, she has a natural disconnect to the cruelties of this world, some of which come as a shock to her when she is impacted by them first-hand throughout the story. In addition, her failure to realize how hard this life is also leads her to be somewhat needy and complaining about minor difficulties.
2. What is this character's greatest asset?
When she tries, Silvia is fantastic at drawing out the best out of people, getting into jaded and tough hearts (Skain) and encouraging, mending, and empathizing with them.
3. What music does this character sing to when no one else is around?
Silvia loves romance ballads and musicals, which is another display of her idealistic thinking. In line with her INFP nature, though, she also has a hidden obsession with dark, almost-screamo rock bands like Red, Panic! at the Disco, and Evanescence.
4. Name this character's favorite person.
At the beginning of the story, Silvia's favorite person is probably either her ENFP best friend Dani (shout-out to my real life best friend) or her ENTP mom, the former of whom she loves for her similar idealistic thinking, the latter of whom she admires for her gutsiness and intelligence. However, as soon as she meets Skain, she falls into "love at first sight" and knows "he's the one."
5. What is this character's secret wish?
Silvia's secret wish is to become a best selling author and to tour the world anonymously while enjoying the tastes, colors, and habits of cultures and writing. However, because Silvia will spaz about her writing to anyone willing to listen, this wish probably can't be considered "secret."
6. What is this character's proudest achievement?
One of Silvia's stories was once published in the local newspaper. She framed that newspaper. :3
7. What is this character's greatest fear?
Above all else, Silvia is deathly afraid that someone will force her to lock away her individual thoughts and ideas. This is one of the reasons why, when she finds out that Skain is being emotionally abused, she becomes irrationally angry at Skain's abusers.
"Everyone has the right to speak out about what they believe in," she says.
8. Describe this character's most devastating moment.
As every author, including Silvia, knows well, the accidental deletion of a lot of writing is ruinous. However, while this was her most devastating moment before she met Skain, she comes across multiple devastating moments after she meets Skain, like when he tells her about his predicament or when she finds out that he and another girl are an item or when he stabs her in the back - literally - and "leaves her to die." Muahahaha.
9. Does this character have an obsession? Name it.
Yes. Her current story, including a dreamy, dark-haired prince named Casimir, is the ultimate obsession of her life.
10. What is this character's worst nightmare?
Silvia's worst dreams include her close friends and family acting negatively or critically towards her and her story. When she meets Skain, her nightmares only change to include him in the condescending party.
11. Where does this character fall in birth order? What effect does this have?
Silvia is the youngest of three. Her older two siblings are in college. As a result, she's very independent, spoiled, and yet really cute in her attitude (i.e. she has very little ego that she feels she needs to preserve or glorify).
12. Describe this character's bedroom. Include three cherished items.
Silvia's room is a feminine pigsty: floral, pastel clothes are thrown everywhere, the walls are covered with posters of her favorite quotes, and her bookshelves are overflowing with novels and dried flowers. She also has a desk and a monitor where she does most of her writing. As for her cherished items, Silvia really likes her vintage copy of Pride and Prejudice, her painted, stone tea-mug which she got on a trip to Tokyo, and her floral converse shoes.
13. If this character had to live in seclusion for six months, what items would he bring?
She'd bring her story and a music player, her tea mug and all the equipment necessary to make tea, her favorite pillow and blanket for snuggling, and as many books as she could. Oh, and she'd be the happiest she has ever been in her life.
14. What angers this character?
Social injustice, mundane work, rules, decision making, and being forced to socialize with people who are blunt and openly disrespectful are high on her list. However, she also gets mad when people choose to ignore her or are dispassionate towards her, feeling that she should elicit at least some response from fellow humans.
15. What calms this character?
Writing, tea, and being alone with music blaring her thoughts out of her brain.
16. What wakes this character in the middle of the night?
Nothing, basically. Silvia sleeps like a rock. However, right before she's about to fall asleep, she often is struck by the muses, leaps out of bed, and writes for another two or three hours.
17. How would a stranger describe this character?
"Naive." "Living in her own world." "The girl with the fangirl Tumblr blog." "Cute." "Emotional."
18. How would a dear friend or relative describe this character?
"Blessed with great circumstances." "Artistic." "Easily hurt."
19. What is this character's most noticeable physical attribute?
One part of Deidre that I did transfer over to Silvia when I started this rework is her physical appearance: she still has tan hair, a slender build, and very conspicuous green eyes.
20. Write one additional thing about your character.
Well, I know I'm not supposed to pick favorites between my little writing children, but I've got to admit that I like Skain much more than I like Silvia. While Skain is the embodiment of me, Silvia is only kind of me, outside of myself. She's an Fi, which is my currently-developing inferior function, so I'm pouring all of my strange, rare spurts of romantic dreaminess into her and channelling my normal self into Skain. All the same, I hope you like her as much as you like the rest of my cast of characters; she really is great in her own way. :)
2. What is this character's greatest asset?
When she tries, Silvia is fantastic at drawing out the best out of people, getting into jaded and tough hearts (Skain) and encouraging, mending, and empathizing with them.
3. What music does this character sing to when no one else is around?
Silvia loves romance ballads and musicals, which is another display of her idealistic thinking. In line with her INFP nature, though, she also has a hidden obsession with dark, almost-screamo rock bands like Red, Panic! at the Disco, and Evanescence.
4. Name this character's favorite person.
At the beginning of the story, Silvia's favorite person is probably either her ENFP best friend Dani (shout-out to my real life best friend) or her ENTP mom, the former of whom she loves for her similar idealistic thinking, the latter of whom she admires for her gutsiness and intelligence. However, as soon as she meets Skain, she falls into "love at first sight" and knows "he's the one."
5. What is this character's secret wish?
Silvia's secret wish is to become a best selling author and to tour the world anonymously while enjoying the tastes, colors, and habits of cultures and writing. However, because Silvia will spaz about her writing to anyone willing to listen, this wish probably can't be considered "secret."
6. What is this character's proudest achievement?
One of Silvia's stories was once published in the local newspaper. She framed that newspaper. :3
7. What is this character's greatest fear?
Above all else, Silvia is deathly afraid that someone will force her to lock away her individual thoughts and ideas. This is one of the reasons why, when she finds out that Skain is being emotionally abused, she becomes irrationally angry at Skain's abusers.
"Everyone has the right to speak out about what they believe in," she says.
8. Describe this character's most devastating moment.
As every author, including Silvia, knows well, the accidental deletion of a lot of writing is ruinous. However, while this was her most devastating moment before she met Skain, she comes across multiple devastating moments after she meets Skain, like when he tells her about his predicament or when she finds out that he and another girl are an item or when he stabs her in the back - literally - and "leaves her to die." Muahahaha.
9. Does this character have an obsession? Name it.
Yes. Her current story, including a dreamy, dark-haired prince named Casimir, is the ultimate obsession of her life.
10. What is this character's worst nightmare?
Silvia's worst dreams include her close friends and family acting negatively or critically towards her and her story. When she meets Skain, her nightmares only change to include him in the condescending party.
11. Where does this character fall in birth order? What effect does this have?
Silvia is the youngest of three. Her older two siblings are in college. As a result, she's very independent, spoiled, and yet really cute in her attitude (i.e. she has very little ego that she feels she needs to preserve or glorify).
12. Describe this character's bedroom. Include three cherished items.
Silvia's room is a feminine pigsty: floral, pastel clothes are thrown everywhere, the walls are covered with posters of her favorite quotes, and her bookshelves are overflowing with novels and dried flowers. She also has a desk and a monitor where she does most of her writing. As for her cherished items, Silvia really likes her vintage copy of Pride and Prejudice, her painted, stone tea-mug which she got on a trip to Tokyo, and her floral converse shoes.
13. If this character had to live in seclusion for six months, what items would he bring?
She'd bring her story and a music player, her tea mug and all the equipment necessary to make tea, her favorite pillow and blanket for snuggling, and as many books as she could. Oh, and she'd be the happiest she has ever been in her life.
14. What angers this character?
Social injustice, mundane work, rules, decision making, and being forced to socialize with people who are blunt and openly disrespectful are high on her list. However, she also gets mad when people choose to ignore her or are dispassionate towards her, feeling that she should elicit at least some response from fellow humans.
15. What calms this character?
Writing, tea, and being alone with music blaring her thoughts out of her brain.
16. What wakes this character in the middle of the night?
Nothing, basically. Silvia sleeps like a rock. However, right before she's about to fall asleep, she often is struck by the muses, leaps out of bed, and writes for another two or three hours.
17. How would a stranger describe this character?
"Naive." "Living in her own world." "The girl with the fangirl Tumblr blog." "Cute." "Emotional."
18. How would a dear friend or relative describe this character?
"Blessed with great circumstances." "Artistic." "Easily hurt."
19. What is this character's most noticeable physical attribute?
One part of Deidre that I did transfer over to Silvia when I started this rework is her physical appearance: she still has tan hair, a slender build, and very conspicuous green eyes.
20. Write one additional thing about your character.
Well, I know I'm not supposed to pick favorites between my little writing children, but I've got to admit that I like Skain much more than I like Silvia. While Skain is the embodiment of me, Silvia is only kind of me, outside of myself. She's an Fi, which is my currently-developing inferior function, so I'm pouring all of my strange, rare spurts of romantic dreaminess into her and channelling my normal self into Skain. All the same, I hope you like her as much as you like the rest of my cast of characters; she really is great in her own way. :)
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Write on!
Clove
Based on this bio, I like Silvia a lot. I couldn't believe what I was reading at some points because she seems so different from you. In fact, she seems more like me. I am very interested to see you write her!!!!
ReplyDeleteBahaha, I'm glad to hear that you like her so far! :3
DeleteYou're definitely right in saying that she's different from me, though. In fact, I'm not even writing very much of myself into her at all...but I'll probably make a post discussing why I'm choosing to keep her separate from me later on. :) Stay posted! :)
I thought you said Silvia's appearance was based off of tan skin, dark hair and bluish eyes? Not that I have anything against green eyes or tan hair. Killer combo.
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