#Char_Roleplay Jessa: I haven’t been on a lot of boats but I like swimming so I bet I’d like it. I’ve heard the middle of the ocean at night it scary but I’d be willing to try!

#Char_Roleplay Vireon: Oh, yes. One must stay in peak physical shape to take on the enemies I take on. They all think they’re perfect and indestructible. One must be prepared to show them where their faults lie.

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#Char_Roleplay Caleb: I know exactly who I am and what I’m capable of. So does everyone else.

#Char_Roleplay Riley: No? Not that I know of. I come from a long line of nobodies.

#Char_Roleplay Jessa: I have some old love notes from my first girlfriend in a drawer somewhere. I also have the teddy bear my college girlfriend got me in the top of my closet. They’re reminders that someone once loved me enough to make sure I knew it. That’s a good reminder when things get rough.

#Char_Roleplay Vireon: I can’t say that I have. I’m not the kind of person who remembers my dreams.

#Char_Roleplay Riley: Christmas was always fun around my house growing up. Everyone was always home, we’d bug each other all day, and eat food whenever we wanted.

#Char_Roleplay Jessa: I don’t think I need to let go of anything. I need to find a new balance with Riley’s new job. We’re working on it. I’m not letting her go.

#Char_Roleplay Vireon: But of course. One must stand up against evil to correct what was done. The question you should ask yourself is how will you recognize the evil? That’s where so many have failed.

#Char_Roleplay Caleb: No. I don’t like them and I don’t want them.

#Char_Roleplay Riley: Sometimes, yeah. I liked to pretend I was a nurse and wrap up people’s limbs in gauze. Or, if people weren’t around, I’d be a vet and wrap a dog paw. Lots of wasted rolls of gauze around my house.

#Char_Roleplay Jessa: I’d love to run into my old professor from my network security class. I was upset and overwhelmed once and I remember him just stopping a lecture to comfort me and offer me tea. Plus he was hilarious. Yeah, I’d like to see him again. Maybe I’ll email him.

#Char_Roleplay Vireon: You are trying to get me angry today, aren’t you? Well bringing up politics and government are certainly the way to do that. It’s all corrupt, my dear, all of it. There is no side that would save you before they saved a dollar. I’ll say again, burn it all.

#Char_Roleplay Caleb: Dev has black lightning style lines on his forearms. Looks like he was hit by lightning and it left burns.

#Char_Roleplay Riley: Oh I love food. Steak, burgers, BBQ chicken, and nachos. Especially nachos. The dive bar Jessa and I frequent has these delicious nachos piled high with toppings and regret, they’re the BEST.

#Char_Roleplay Jessa: Addictions? I don’t think so. I mean, I like a good drink but I’m not an alcoholic. I don’t NEED a drink, you know? I’ve know a few people who needed a drink to get through a meeting, a day, or a meal. It’s sad because it’s so accessible so it’s hard to tell them to stop.

#Char_Roleplay Vireon: Talk it out. But it that fails, burn it all down. This is why you vilify me but sometimes there truly is no other choice. Burn it down.

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#Char_Roleplay Caleb: I see my team daily and we look out for each other. That’s what teams do.

#Char_Roleplay Riley: Wait, hang on, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to answer this. Let me text Caleb. OK I’m supposed to answer it exactly as I would have before I met him. So—no, I guess. That’s the kind of thing you do when you’re like 18. They don’t typically get 20-somethings in there, so they?

#Char_Roleplay Jessa: Depends on the person, I think. Take Riley, for example, she will start showing up late, stop answering text messages, and generally be flustered all the time. That’s how I know it’s time to drag her to the bar and make her spill her stress over nachos and whiskey.

#Char_Roleplay Vireon: Ah, you expect the villains to tell you we have always been dead inside and had no joy as a child. Well not me. I had toy trucks I used to drive around the floor of my family home. Nice, carefree fun. No enemies, no deals in the dark. Doesn’t that sound like bliss?

#Char_Roleplay Caleb: No. No animals. No pets. Nothing dependent on me.

#Char_Roleplay Riley: Of course I have. Find me a modern day more than 25 year old who hasn’t! I’ve tried hair colors, hair cuts, and even colored contact lenses. Wildest? Probably the year I had a bleached blond pixie cut. Jessa calls those my punk years. I actually didn’t hate it.

#Char_Roleplay Jessa: Oh, I’m polite! I work in an IT department. The most important thing you can do is keep calm, even when you have to repeat yourself. Scratch that: ESPECIALLY when you have to repeat yourself.

Vireon: Ah, my turn again. #Char_Roleplay asks if I am ever on time as if you’d invite the person you vilify to anything. No one expects me to arrive, but I am never late.

#Char_Roleplay Name’s Caleb. Here by force. No one in my group would reach for stardom. We are unknown and we like it that way. Now, move along.

Mornin’ #Char_Roleplay Riley here. Art? Yeah, I guess to some people it’s important. I didn’t know this would be a test. I didn’t study. I don’t know any artists. Ask Jessa, that seems like more her thing.

Good morning #Char_Roleplay I’m Jessa and my best friend, Riley, tells me it’s my day to answer questions. I feel like body modification falls in the “you do you” category. I personally have none. Oh wait, do pierced ears count? I have those! I never remember to wear earrings though.

Hello #Char_Roleplay Vireon here. I’m often painted as the villain in our world but if I were to confess something it would be an open letter to everyone confessing that I’m not the one you should fear. Fear those who keep powers in the dark not those, like me, who aren’t afraid to use them. ✅

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One of my FAVORITE moments in any draft is that moment where I read a previous paragraph and think “Oh no, that’s not something they’d say.” Because it means I have the character voice DOWN. Anyway, happened today.

Me with an outline that looks a little sparse on one scene when a character decides to do something that may add a whole extra story arc:

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To an irrational completionist like me nothing is more annoying than the little bubble over Gmail when there isn’t actually anything new in the inbox. I’m aware this is a niche complaint 😂

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Good news? I found it! Bad news? There’s also other changes which means I just wasted time formatting an OLD version 🤦‍♀️

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You know what I hate? When I have a CLEAR memory of doing something (in this case writing an opening to this WIP) and yet cannot find ANY evidence of it anywhere. Did I DREAM this?

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What a night! 🎶

Coming into a bookstore to say “I’m looking for a cheap, beautiful hardcover to cut up for my art” is definitely a CHOICE. 😡