Wynter's Intro.

WIP themes

I was tagged by @k--havok to do this tag. Thank you for tagging me in this! I'm going to leave an open tag for whoever wants to do this as I haven't been feeling well recently and have started to get better. I'll leave the template under the cut if you would like to do this.

Rules—bold themes that appear in your WIP and italicize themes that are loosely covered.

addiction | beauty | betrayal | change vs. tradition | chaos vs. order | circle of life | coming of age | communication | convention vs. rebellion | corruption | courage | crime and law | dangers of ignorance | darkness and light | death | desire to escape | dreams | displacement | empowerment | facing darkness | facing reality | faith vs. doubt | fall from grace | fame and fortune | family | fate | fear | fear of failure | free will | friendship | fulfillment | good vs. bad | government | greed | guilt and forgiveness | hard work | heroism | hierarchy | honesty | hope | identity crisis | immortality | independence | individual vs. society | inner vs. outer strength | innocence (sort of?) | injustice | isolation | knowledge vs. ignorance | life | loneliness | lost love | love | man vs. nature | manipulation | materialism | motherhood | nature | nature vs. nurture | oppression | optimism | peer pressure | poverty | power | power of words | prejudice | pride | progress | quest | racism | rebirth | relationships | religion (fictional religion is mentioned so?) | responsibility | revenge | sacrifice | secrets | self-awareness | self-preservation | self-reliance | sexuality | social class structure | survival | technology | temptation and destruction | time | totalitarianism | weakness | vanity | war | wealth | wisdom of experience | youth

For you to use

addiction | beauty | betrayal | change vs. tradition | chaos vs. order | circle of life | coming of age | communication | convention vs. rebellion | corruption | courage | crime and law | dangers of ignorance | darkness and light | death | desire to escape | dreams | displacement | empowerment | facing darkness | facing reality | faith vs. doubt | fall from grace | fame and fortune | family | fate | fear | fear of failure | free will | friendship | fulfillment | good vs. bad | government | greed | guilt and forgiveness | hard work | heroism | hierarchy | honesty | hope | identity crisis | immortality | independence | individual vs. society | inner vs. outer strength | innocence (sort of?) | injustice | isolation | knowledge vs. ignorance | life | loneliness | lost love | love | man vs. nature | manipulation | materialism | motherhood | nature | nature vs. nurture | oppression | optimism | peer pressure | poverty | power | power of words | prejudice | pride | progress | quest | racism | rebirth | relationships | religion (fictional religion is mentioned so?) | responsibility | revenge | sacrifice | secrets | self-awareness | self-preservation | self-reliance | sexuality | social class structure | survival | technology | temptation and destruction | time | totalitarianism | weakness | vanity | war | wealth | wisdom of experience | youth

My compliments to the artist on this beautiful copy of Watership Down with the edges painted with… rabbits!

They’re on Etsy as FaevoriteBooks and I’d highly recommend checking out their shop. I’m in love with this copy of Watership Down for my ever growing collection.

👀 Side Note: Did you know Puffin Publishers are releasing a clothbound classic edition of Watership Down in October? You know where I’ll be.

Find the words tag

I was tagged by @k--havok to find the words Like, Change, and Because. Thank you for tagging me and I will tag @dragonedged-if, @elizaellwrites, and @sabrina-author with the words Possible, Sleep, and Color

This will be from the same WIP I've been working on. Sorry that it's taking forever to come out. Too little time to write at the moment...

Like

Sitting up again, he promised himself that he would make the best of what happened to him. Having someone so willing to help out a literal stranger like Evander was doing for him was rare, if not almost unheard of. None of what they were trying to do was going to waste.

Change

For now, he had to get himself right before anything could begin to move forward and change. After all, things were how you viewed it right? At least that’s what he thought, wanting to see things in a better way.

Because

After they were done getting ready to go, wearing a light blue t-shirt and a pair of indigo jeans, just having to get their shoes on before heading out, they saw Jet in the living room with his phone. He was just scrolling through something and almost looked blank. They saw the time and it was nearly time to go and didn't want him to worry about anything because of that, remembering how he seemed uncomfortable when they told him over the weekend.

Romantic snippets

I was tagged by @k--havok to do this tag. I'm going to use the dialogue from An answer since Jet and Evander have been together for a bit over a year at that point.

I'm tagging @faeveries and @elizaellwrites for this tag.

“Jet, come on, grab your bass so you can show your confusing partner what you’ve figured out so far.” Evander laughed softly as they turned off the sedan.

“If you say so confusing E.” Jet teased them a bit more, quickly hopping out of the passenger seat and laughing to grab his bass as they put their forehead in their hand with soft laughs coming from them. 

Last line w/a Twist tag

I was tagged by @dragonedged-if to do this tag. Thank you for tagging me in this. I will tag @faeveries @elizaellwrites @k--havok and @sabrina-author to do this tag!

This is from the same Wip that takes place after Our first meeting.

And something that he didn't have to make himself sounded like a dream with the little desire he had for doing much at the moment.

So what happened to me and where I've been...

In short a lot of things have happened to me including being moved around all the time and trying to find stability. That's been the bulk of everything and the roughest. Because of all that l am no longer attending college this year like I mentioned prior.

I'm still available for tag games to do as I need all the motivation in the world right now to even look at my WIP J+E. Please send any tag games to me and l'll get them done as soon as I can but most likely will take a bit of time to post.

Oc questions tag

I was tagged by @k--havok to do this tag. Thank you for tagging me! I will tag @elizaellwrites and will leave an open tag for anyone else who wants to do this as well. I'll leave a copy of the questions at the bottom.

For this, I will use Evander from my WIP since they are my favorite out of the characters I have currently and a lot of my thinking revolves around them. Also, they are the one who lives rent free in my head the most out of all my characters and they tend to be the first one I think about when I get an idea.

5 words to physically describe your OC

Intimidating, androgynous, tattooed, gentle, adaptable.

Who inspired your OC?

No one inspired Evander from where I can think of. I just drew them sometime early last year along with some other characters and I had an idea about what their character was like that went on from there.

Give me a song to define your OC

Going to bend this one a little bit as they have two that reflects their character. I'll add some information about how it works with them as well.

Back off, I'll take you on

Headstrong to take on anyone

I know that you are wrong

Headstrong, we're headstrong

Back off, I'll take you on

Headstrong to take on anyone

I know that you are wrong

And this is not where you belong

I can't give everything away

I won't give everything away

They're very headstrong and stubborn that this fits perfectly for them. They won't back down from something they know they can help and will go until the end of it. This also goes for what they've experienced already with Marla when helping Jet and dealing with her case.

How can I sleep at night? There's a war inside my head

I found a lion hidden right beneath my bed

I will not hide myself from the tears that you have shed

--

But tomorrow is tomorrow, so forgive me if I stay

You can hide beneath the covers while I hide behind the pain

After all, only so much we can say

Words can lose their meaning once you walk away

Promise that you love me, watch me as I fade

I'll give you all those things that these liars never gave

The hands on the clock and the things we cannot change

Tear it all to pieces and take back what I made

If there's one thing I'd keep, it's you that I would save

'Cause I am just a lion, and a lion I will stay

This is more of their hidden anxious side they don't outwardly show others and is heavily reflective on themself. They don't have anxiety about their entire character, but a part of their personal identity they've been secure in for years.

^^ have to keep some secrets here as this will have it's own chapter in the future.

If I met your OC on the street how would they greet me?

Evander is open to new people and would have a small conversation with you if you wanted. If it's a simple "Hello, how are you?" they would respond and ask you the same. They're friendly with people they don't know or know well, so you'll generally get a friendly interaction. If you're someone they don't like and are on their bad side, good luck getting them to speak to you unless they're stepping in to help someone.

Can your OC be your best friend? Why?

Evander is overall a warm and gentle person, but their intimidating side can be a little scary. They won't harm you in any way and would prefer themself to get harmed instead, but if you didn't know that it's a bit off-putting. On the other side of things, they are one of the gentlest people who will be there to help you. They are also very patient and understanding with people, within reason if the other isn't wanting to anything and having them do everything. Ultimately, I'd say there's a good chance we might.

1 adjective and 1 noun to describe your OC

Patient

Anxiety

Questions

5 words to physically describe your OC

Who inspired your OC?

Give me a song to define your OC

If I met your OC on the street how would they greet me?

Can your OC be your best friend? Why?

1 adjective and 1 noun to describe your OC

Find the Word Tag

Thank you for tagging me in this @foxys-fantasy-tales. I'm going to look through a recent chapter for this tag from J&E.

Forever

N/A

Important

“Probably a question out of nowhere,” he began, “But you know where I try to get some of my important documents?” 

“I don't have all of the resources I would like to fully help with that,” They started, hoping their information was useful. “But I do know a good starting point.”

“That’s fine and I can go off of that. Also, I’m sorry for being clueless with getting my documents.”

Daunting

After all, it would only be a longer and more painful road ahead if he were to fall backwards in his progress. Even if progress isn't linear, that wouldn't be good for him in any way. Still he had a daunting path ahead of himself they hoped would be easily traveled if they could be able to help.

Brave

N/A

I will tag @k--havok @athenswrites for this. Your words are

direct, control, envy, and dark

OC Kiss Week Day Five

Aria and her pet parakeet. She's aroace.

Character voice tag

Thank you @elizaellwrites for tagging me in this! I have a total of 18 characters who make an appearance in my WIP J&E and I'm going to do something with each of my characters for this tag.

My prompt was: Calling to ride shotgun in a car or vehicle.

Evander: I'm probably gonna regret doing this with my sedan and being a teacher for you Jet, but let's try to make it out in one piece alive, okay?

Jet: You think I can dive? There's a reason I only have a permit and not a driver's license yet. Evander can tell you all about that.

Averi: So you think I'm a disaster of a driver? Hey! I got us there in one piece and only two hours late. That isn't improvement from last time? Then I call shotgun! At least I can still be in the front that way.

Serna: I'm an expert at finding where we need to go as we're out. You want to enjoy the day and do fun things, you want me riding shotgun.

Gunnar: I'm six foot two. The back seat is going to have me compressed. I'm taking the passenger seat since no one is going to be sitting behind me and I can adjust the seat.

Micha: I'm not driving on that crazy road myself so I'm leaving that to you my dear.

Jasper: Why can't I have a little royal treatment and have the passenger side for once and not drive all the time?

Amber: I won the game! Passenger side is mine!

Derryl: I get to ride shotgun home if I win this final game of bowling against you. Is that a deal unless you think you'll lose?

Liber: You? Driving? This ought to be good. Let's see if you can get us there with time to spare. I'm going to be silently judging you along the way, just so you know.

Marla: Honestly, I'd get more enjoyment out of this trip if I didn't have to drive, so I'm not going to. Not doing anything I don't need to on vacation.

Elliot: How else do you expect me to appreciate the scenery during the drive over? You've been there before and I haven't so I get to be in the passenger seat to see the beautiful scenery leading up to our location.

Ainsley: I'm not usually in the passenger side when I go out with all of you, but I actually like it more than driving despite being the best driver out of everyone here.

Samantha: You know where this place is you wanna take me out so show me sweetie. I don't know where it is and you want to treat me, so if you do this I'll pay for the dinner. Deal?

Aria: After all that I am going to sit in the passenger seat. And we're not taking the freeway next time I drive! Too stressful for my blood.

Milliey: *Running out to the car against her friends* I call shotgun! I called it!

Felix: How else would you be able to hear the new rhythm I came up with if I don't call shotgun? Exactly, you want a drummer this is the territory that comes with, now let's go pick up my new kit.

Sasha: You'll get yourself lost if I don't go with you. Remember the last time you refused to look up the address before you left? I'm directing you.

I'm going to tag @foxys-fantasy-tales @fracturedfable @k--havok @athenswrites and leave an open tag for anyone else who would like to do this.

Your prompt is: What are we doing today?