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1. Do you create different worlds/series for your characters or do you put them all/most of them in the same time and place?

Most of my characters exist in this world but in different places or times. However, sometimes I use the same character model for alternate universes. Hooker!verse is one example of this with Hershel (Hui Min) in the future city-state of “Eden”, who is also in a Persian harem of scantily clad pretty boys. And I’ve had André in some fairy tale universes based on France. André’s plot line actually takes place in Versailles, 1722. Sometimes I think of Hershel growing up in the 80’s, but no matter what he’s bound to suburban America. The only characters that really exist in another reality are Wolfe and Winifred with a very Fullmetal Alchemist-type situation. Overall, these settings draw heavily from real life; even the alternate universes are meant to be incredibly realistic.

…I sometimes mention one or two characters as indicative of an entire story.

2. Do you sit down and create random facts about these worlds that have nothing to do with the story line? (History, biology, zoology etc.)

Nope. I used to do this with fanfiction and it was just obnoxious. If I have to make up details about a world, (specifically Eden or Wolfe and Winifred’s setting) then it’s generally history, and it will always play a big part in the exposition or conflict.

3. Do you have a plot line? If yes, do tell.

Hah.

My modern characters include Hershel, Silvia, Doug, Alan, and random rocker-dude. Hershel is an anemic, sixteen-year-old writer who used to have hopes of becoming an astronaut. He tutors Doug to pass his community service requirements to pass his junior year and the two really hit it off. Doug comes from a well-to-do family, has a kid sister, a work-at-home mom, and a never-around father. He’s the star on the basketball team and hopes to do something social with his career since he’s typically great with people. (Although Hershel sure gives him a run for his money.) His parents hope for something political, so the military academy is not out of the question. Silvia is Hershel’s older sister. She’s popular, sweet, undeveloped and stereotypical right now. She hangs out with random rocker-dude whose real name may well be Carl –he wears homemade t-shirts with various slogans on them. Alan is the creepy neighbor who’s an absolute weasel. The story here is fairly soap opera-ish, but it’s about how Hershel and Doug come to terms with being gay and deciding where they want to go in life. It’s all fairly short right now, and is more about each moment–not any long-term plot.

André’s world has more of an actual plot to it. He is raised in a bourgeois family, finds a job as an assistant in Gustave de Château-Thierry’s store. It’s either a bookstore, perfume shop, or music store at this moment. Either way, André gets suckered into cross-dressing and seducing Gustave by an aristocrat (Henri) to pay his brother’s college tuition (Philippe) and maintain a friendship with Henri for the sake of his family’s social status. Gustave is a very severe man who is just beginning to get over his wife’s death and fall in love with André’s female persona when Henri grows bored of his game and reveals André’s identity to Gustave. André’s father dies, Philippe returns home, and their mother reveals that André was actually an orphan that they took in, after they too learn that André has been fired by Gustave and that he has disgraced them by failing to remain on good terms with Henri’s family. He is orphaned once more and turns to the church at first. There’s a whole other story arc here between the Abbé of the church and André, when the Abbé tries to comfort André, learns of André’s past, lusts after him, and finally rejects André sanctuary in order to save his “immortal soul” (irony, irony). André eventually winds up hitchhiking to Paris and selling himself on the streets. One day, his client is none other than Gustave, who tries the best to hide his guilt by offering André a job once more. It then ends on a bittersweet note with André’s life ruined by everything he loved and strove to protect. He ends up more mature, having been in several short and long-term relationships, but never able to continue the same innocent romance he experienced with Gustave. Neither is the better for it.

Wolfe and Winifred right now is just about a war-torn land and the rural country-side that supports an army through the year. It deals with farm life, differing politics, and Winifred’s older sister’s messes (Maribelle and Marianne nicknamed “Collette”. Wolfe is the ruthless captain in the army who finds himself learning more than he expected from what he thought were “uncivilized” folk…specifically Winifred.

4. Do you give a name to your series?

No. I’m horrible with series names. “High School”, “France”, and “Country Bumpkins” is working for now.

5. Is your series dramatic, romantic, mysterious, exciting or similar to your own life?

Multiple series = multiple genres.

6. Have you got characters that live in "our" world?

Yes.

7. When you go to sleep, do you often let your thoughts slip into your worlds? How often does this happen?

It happens, but not for long. I always get carried away by, well, sleep.

8. Do you share your world or your characters with anyone else?

Yes. Hooker!verse is a shared project. Hershel is also involved in with some of Toki’s characters (VD and Mikhail). Plus, we just come up with the most ridiculous characters at any moment: Marc and Fredrix.

9. Do you have friends that would rather not hear about this world of yours?

I hope not. But if you do, I’d understand.

10. Is your world a place you go to when you're bored?

I guess. I like to think about the characters and the directions they could go in. I don’t actually, “go.”

11. Do you find yourself in this world more often than in the real world?

Never.

12. Have your relatives been worried about you because of your love for you world?

My parents don’t know anything about my recreational hobbies.

13. Do you bother to write down the stories you make before the idea runs away?

Stories I remember well. Sometimes they even come in dream-form, although these stories typically get scrapped. It’s ages, dates, brand names, names of locations, and other specifics I wish I jotted down.

14. Have you found or remembered stories you created years back and then laughed or cried because it was so childish?

TOO MANY TIMES. Oh, god. I was recently reminded of these characters I made-up in middle school –Lowell Dixon, Chet Harrison, and Lamont Aubrey…at a boy’s boarding school. I had some horrible story lines going. And a character named “Gregory” from the first real comic I did in 9th grade. All my stories used to involve orphans, illicit romances, and murder, or other things equally cliché. And I hardly ever illustrated the same characters. I could be drawing some random character and writing about someone completely different. It was actually quite a while before the characters I drew were also the ones I wrote.

There was one with a “Viscomte de Vex” in a nightmarish representation of the afterlife. Plus, there was fanfiction back in the day. And Hwii used to be really dumb. Luckily, I feel like my improvements in art mirror my improvements in crafting characters and stories.

15. Ever found yourself losing the grip of a film because you started thinking about your world in stead?

No, but movies can be pretty inspiring. I always find myself falling into the film rather than back in my own head. Not unless it’s a really bad movie. Then, I’d sooner be carried away by real life than my own make-believe stories.

16. Have you ever paired up some of your own characters that are not canon just to make it "hot"?

Never. Or rather, not for long. I pair up characters that I subconsciously feel will work, but then always figure out what made me pair them. Doug, for instance, is a popular jock who leads a complicated social life with very two-faced characters. He likes Hershel for being himself, no matter how dorky or shy. Hershel, on the other hand, looks up to Doug for his social prowess and how he cares for others. It’s pretty dumb, I know, but they have a lot of similar likes and concerns.

Wolfe and Winifred are pretty much the same, although Wolfe has a military mindset while Winifred is very sheltered, and their understanding of one another is based on differing conceptions of the world.

Gustave and André…well, how they get along and why they are “together” is more about chance and their individual personalities. They aren’t a “romantic” couple by any means.

In all cases, what is “hot” is not my priority.

17. Do you have more homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual characters?

I tend to have a lot of bisexual characters just because a great majority is young and still figuring things out. I find that my female characters are typically straight. I also have characters that are strictly homosexual.

18. Do you have more female or male characters?

Male. I do actually have many female characters, but few in major roles. Despite being female, I find it hard creating a female voice that I don’t loathe.

19. Do you have more human (normal people, mutants, centaurs, mermaids etc), animal (normal animals, anthros etc), vegetable (trees, tree people), and mineral (rocks?), extra terrestrial or other characters?

Human. I think all my characters are human, unless I created them as a joke in middle school.

20. Name the characters that are most similar to your personality.

Hershel and Silvia are probably closest, but neither is a perfect match and they aren’t meant to be. My characters are certainly meant to be based off what I know from life, but they are hardly meant to mimic myself. Although Silvia and Hershel were meant for that initially, which is why they are the closest now.

21. Name the characters that are the least similar to your personality.

Wolfe, I guess. And Alan. And even Henri, Gustave, André…most everyone else.

22. Name the characters that look the most like you.

Silvia.

23. Name the characters that look the least like you.

Everyone else?

24. Name a few characters that you have "deleted" from existence.

Lowell, Chet, Lamont, Gregory, Hector, Arthur, etc. Various short story characters.

25. Name your first character.

Damn it, it was probably Lowell. Although Hershel is probably the next oldest that was ever properly developed and kept.

26. Do you still write about/draw/think about him or her or it?

I made ‘Lowell’ Doug’s last name because I still like the name. Nothing else.

27. Have you ever created your own species? Tell me about it.

No.

28. Do you have a world you created "just for the heck of it"? Tell me about it.

No.

29. Do you have characters nobody knows about? Is this because you don't want people to know or is it just like that?

Um, probably old ones, or ones from short stories. I have two that I want to write about right now–Thomas Cuthbert and Devin Brody. So there, not a secret anymore.

30. Ever wanted to create something, but realized it would be too much alike to something that already exists? Did you still keep the world?
I feel like a lot of stuff I concoct all has similarities to something pre-existing. Most everything is like that. I figure it’s not the originality of the idea but the unique ways that you distinguish yourself. My French character can seem very contrived, but they’re still my own. So long as I know I’m not ripping anyone off, I’ll go my happy way creating characters and stories.

31. A Mary Sue (MS) is a fictional character who is "perfect" in every way. She's gorgeous, she's friends with everyone, everyone has a crush on her, and her only enemies are the girls who are jealous of her looks. Mainly exists in fanfiction. Tell me, if you have one of these, and when you realized she was a Mary Sue.

I don’t make Sues. I make archetypes when need be, and sometimes I feel that André, Winifred, and Hershel are all borderline Sues, but they each have faults and quirks that set them apart.

32. Have you ever created an Anti-Sue? Tell me about it.

Not for the specific purpose of creating an Anti-Sue, no.

33. Have anyone critiqued your world so far? How did you react?

Not really. Close friends have heard of some story lines already, and I haven’t gotten too many bad reviews. At least not of things I already knew about. Doug and Hershel are sappy, for instance, and they may always be sappy. Hershel used to be too angsty without good reason, so my angst bunny is now André with good reason.

34. Have anyone told you how good your world is and encouraged you to keep it up?

Close friends? Others may have just commented that a specific character is hot.

35. Have you got high hopes about your world? Cartoon, comics, movies, radio shows?

I hope to continue them for myself. The one that I honestly feel ought to be a big-budget Hollywood movie would be Hooker!verse. For that, all of the above. Hooker!verse will be HUGE one day. Mark my words.

36. Do you wish you lived in your world?

No thanks.

37. Do you exist in your world as a main character, a main character's friend/parent/child, or the lunch lady?

Sure, if Silvia counts. She used to be a direct self-insert. She’s isn’t anymore.

38. What part of your world are you currently working on? Tell me about it! What's going on in your world right now?

André’s world has a lot of specific historical stuff I need to research, and my modern characters need more character development, I feel. I don’t really approach it as “work.” I just peer about and see what I’m in the mood to figure out.

39. Tell me about a gap in your storyline you need to fix so badly.

I probably have too many to name. D:

40. Is your story focused on something? Religion, music, clothes and make-up, Mother Nature, personal views or...?

Human interactions and personal insight. Coming of age and purpose in life. War, politics, religion, and love at various points. Life?

41. Name some of your characters that have the direct opposite point of view as you on a topic.

Wolfe is pretty hardcore militant. Alan is just a sniveling creature. And the Abbé is an extremely God-fearing man. I’d like to think I’m none of those things.

42. How much details do you put into your characters' personalities and looks?

My character’s all look pretty basic, but they’re unique enough that you can tell them apart. The manga style doesn’t allow for too much personalization, which is why I’ve been broaching realism more and more. Personality-wise, I hope to be detailed, but they’re all inchoate masses for the time being.

43. More storytelling than characters or more characters than storytelling?

A good mix of both, I hope.

44. Is there a moral behind anything in your world?

Life is short. Don’t be a douche. (I pulled that out of my ass just now.)

45. Is it easier to create a new place than to place your characters in a place you've never been to before, let's say a place in England, America, and Italy etc?

Eh…for Wolfe and Winifred it made sense to create a new world and new geography to fit my purposes. For my modern characters, I’m going off real life, and for France, well, it’s France. It’s hard for me to set it there in the past, but it must be done for the sake of the story. It’s rarely about ease for me…just what works.

46. Do you sometimes pretend your characters are real just for a brief second of loneliness?

No, never. God help me if I do.

47. Ever taken cover behind your characters and let them do the talking?

No.

48. Ever had a discussion with your characters?

No.

49. Ever killed a character you really really liked?

No, but I’ve thought about it.

50. If you could be in your world for 24 hours, what would you do?

I’d sneak around and spy on my characters. Romp around Versailles and Paris. Spend a day on the farm. And at the end of it hope that I haven’t been caught since my characters would probably stone me if they got a hold of me.