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Your WIP in ao3 tags
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These are from my current WIP I'm working on Jet and Evander.
Oc questions tag
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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
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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
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
Heads up, seven up tag
I was tagged by @k--havok do this tag. Thank you for tagging me in this! Sorry for the quietness on my end, had a little to get done lately. I will tag @elizaellwrites and @sabrina-author to do this tag.
In this excerpt, Jet decides to play his bass a little bit with Evander as his audience for a bit.
After the pause, he said that he was versatile in playing styles and could play almost anything. Plus, he was testing out how well this bass would do with a few playing styles and was more than impressed. They asked him to play something heavy as that was something they wouldn’t mind hearing at the moment.
“How heavy were you thinking?” He asked, switching into the correct humbucker position.
“Surprise me.” They smiled before adding, “You’d be surprised what kind of heavy music I love.”
“Alright, just let me know if it's too heavy.”
He began on the lighter side to start with that quickly turned into a heavier style akin to heavy metal. Knowing how some popular songs had this, he understood how to do this and executed it well.
It was deep, aggressive, and heavy hitting as he played quickly. His tone was, as he thought, imperfect to how his tone normally was on bass. Still, he was happy with it and just had to get to know this bass a little better. To be expected.
Most of what he played was on the heavier side and accented with the lighter playing. It was about the average length of a song of this genre. They enjoyed what he played and complemented his skill with a bass guitar.
Tropes tag
I was tagged by @sabrina-author to do this tag. Thank you for tagging me in this! I will have the tropes I'm currently working on with my WIP here in purple and the ones I'm working on for future projects outside of Tumblr in red.
I will tag @k--havok and @elizaellwrites for this tag.
Rules: Bold the tropes you enjoy writing or that show up in your writing a lot.
Found Family | The Chosen One | The Martyr | Surprise, Bitch! You thought I was dead | Enemies/Rivals put together for a project | Teen gets kidnapped; parent goes on killing spree to find them | Happy Ever After | Black and White Morality |Fight scene turns into a make-out session |Only one bed | The airport/train/bus station love confession | AUs| Amnesia story |Villain and hero fall in love | Love triangles | Bookworm falls for the bad guy | Killing off the audience’s fave characters | Smalltown falls for Big-City | Princess kisses a frog & gets Prince Charming | Villain redeemed | Protagonist beats “best in the world” | Enemies to friends to lovers | It was all a dream! |Coming of age story
A ten, but... Tag
Thank you @sabrina-author for tagging me in this! I will use my characters who have appeared more than once in my WIP for this.
I'll be tagging @k--havok and @elizaellwrites
Jet- He's a 10, but doesn't give himself credit for what he does quite often.
Evander- They're a 10, but they are the CEO of being stubborn and about the strangest things at times.
Serna- She's a 10, but appears as if she has a full pot of coffee in the morning with her boundless energy.
Marla- She's a 10, but it's never for the right reasons.
Heads up, seven up tag
I was tagged by @k--havok to do this tag. I'll tag @sabrina-author @elizaellwrites to do this tag.
From the WIP where Evander goes to work while Jet is left at the apartment.
Right now he didn’t feel like playing very much and hasn’t played really since he had his silver bass either. He decided to put a movie on the tv and try to find something to eat later on. Maybe later on he would look up places around the area to visit.
The movie he picked was a part of a duology and ended up watching the second after the first finished its run time. Looking up the movies for more information about them, he found out that they were adaptations of an old fantasy novel.
Finding the novel in question, it was published about a decade before he was born and had reasonable popularity after its publication. However, it never had the popularity the movies received and seemed to fade into a bit of obscurity.
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.
Last line w/a Twist tag
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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.
Heads Up, Seven Up Tag
I was tagged by @elizaellwrites to do this tag. Thank you for tagging me in this! I will tag @faeveries @k--havok @sabrina-author and @dragonedged-if with this tag.
These are the seven paragraphs from my WIP I'm working on. It happens after Our first meeting where Evander is about to go to work.
“Forget about that; you're not going to be a burden to me. I wanted to help and that's exactly what I'm going to do, no matter what's needed.”
“Thank you for that, Evander. You don't have to do any of this for me.”
“I'm going to anyway. This apartment is going to be a safe place for you and a place that you can feel comfortable living in.” They said, wanting him to know that he has a safe place in the apartment, always. “It's just as much your place to live as it is mine and I want to know that and tell me what you need.”
“Really?” He sounded surprised by that and was trying to hide it in his voice, looking at them.
“Definitely, this is a safe place and you don't need to worry about anything like that.”
He looked down, almost like he was saddened by their reassurance that he was safe and didn't have anything to worry about. It was something that should've made him feel better but it didn't look like it had that effect. They asked if he was alright from his reaction.
Nodding slightly, he thanked them for being so kind and willing to help him out when he was nothing more than a stranger to them. They had no obligation to do anything they've already done for him. Still, he was grateful for it.
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.
Heads Up, Seven Up Tag
I've been tagged by @k--havok to do this tag. Thank you for including me in this! I will tag @elizaellwrites and @faeveries since I'm still new to the writing community here.
This is an excerpt from the last WIP I wrote and have yet to post, but will be up soon! Here's eight lines from it and it's the start of a heavy scene with Jet and Evander.
After trying to do some things on their laptop to give Jet some space and being completely unable to, they went to check on him to make sure everything was alright. This was eating away at their nerves like corrosive battery acid.
The quietness in the apartment was almost unsettling and their worry about him wasn’t a good combination. They could hear some soft crying from him nearing the dark room and turning on the light once they entered. Jet was covered up and had his head under the blanket, tightly curled up in a tight, tiny ball underneath.
Sitting on the bed next to his curled up body, they softly said his name wanting to help ease the pain, or at least try. He whimpered out that he wanted to be left alone right now with his pain. Hearing this, they knew he was more than hurt and they couldn't bear leaving him to suffer alone like this.