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5 Questions! by Cowboypunk

From Teavian! I'll give you 5 questions to answer if you leave a comment saying "toy dinosaurs"!

  1. How did you get ideas for Devon?
    He was originally made to be a flamboyantly sassy gay character that insisted on being called "Devahn", but it turns out I'm horribad at role playing that sort of personality, so he became more reserved and sarcastic. Brice was playing as the same character, so I ended up making changing Devon to autosexual - he's just attracted to himself or people that happen to look like him.
    Then I decided to transfer him as a character to DnD for shits and giggles and found he was super fun to play everywhere. He needed to be fast and dexterous, so I made him an elf. I honestly don't remember why I made him hate elves, other than maybe that they had just clashed with his personality and interests. The initial campaign he was in had a minor curse that made him left handed instead of right, which I just kept for everything else. There was also a curse that gave him cat ears, buuut I decided not to keep that.
    Outside of defining personal history unique to his now primary universe, edits to his character have come about from redefining elf biology. He has since developed a lot of innate physical and neuro/psychological traits that now come with all elves: heightened sensitivity to details, emotions and pattern recognition, unique social connections that other races cannot experience, remarkable patience and neutrality, and massive lifespan. He's also become a hermaphrodite (along with all other elves, which have a cloaca and phallus somewhat like an ostrich, with reproductive cycles occurring every 100 years).
    His personal history moved from just being a greedy asshole to being a stupid elf that was pushed towards psychopathy and never had any actual friends. It got real tragic real fast. His background had very few characters intimately involved in his life (excluding Birdy and Finbar, a halfling that he considered his only family) for a long time until we invented Stranger, who took Devon's natural greed, psychological imbalance and training as an army scout and bent it towards aggressive theft, thuggery and murder to Devon's psychological detriment. More recent events in his life that help define him are highly situational and often based on a dice roll - things like a near death experience due to a super crit and a successful fortitude save on immediately dying, which has triggered hallucinations and fear of death and killing.
    TL;DR: random bullshit, biology and history detailing.
    I could go into ridiculous levels of detail, but I'll save that for later relevant posts :P

  2. What other art mediums have you tried?
    Pretty much anything I can get my hands on, sans metal and glassworking and I guess tattooing. A lot of my art through college incorporated the use of found objects or unusual materials for painting or mark making. I also did some screen printing and dying, woodworking, a little bit of welding, ceramics, mold making, sewing, etc.
    I honestly tend to have a lot of variety in style and medium because I get bored very easily and like a lot of challenge.

  3. Any favorite video games?
    Currently:
    Morrowind
    Dwarf Fortress
    Thief: Deadly Shadows
    Papers, Please
    Don't Starve
    Project Zomboid
    The Myst series
    There's probably a lot more on this list that I don't remember offhand!

  4. What kind of pie do you like? OR DESSERT
    PUMKIN PIE. It's the best pie.
    Also macarons and gelato and basically all pastries.
    I dream about pastries.

  5. Did you ever have a silly username like me?
    vampire_zyexxes when I was a kid. Because I like vampires and zyexxes was a word I don't remember now in a language I made up because I've always been a massive nerd.

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Cowboypunk

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    Vampires are a good thing to be interested in! I approve entirely.

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      They are pretty cool! Been a pretty consistent interest of mine.

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        Likewise. Ever since my first Dracula action figure when I was three or four. Always my favorites!

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    pumpkin pie with a ton of whipped cream I just *gurgling noises

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      There has to be at least 50% whipped cream with each bite

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    Toy dinosaurs!!! Bring 'em on!

    Aw man, I love reading (and talking! hint hint haha) about characters and their backgrounds and how they were developed! And I also have a character called Devon and he's also weird. They probably wouldn't get along.

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      1. Tell me about your Devon :O!!
      2. Who are the three topmost inspirational artists for you? (or, if you prefer a more general version, topmost inspiring people period)
      3. What is the most absurd dream you remember having?
      4. What are your favorite kinds of movies (or books if you dig those more)?
      5. If you were a disease, what disease do you think you would be?
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    I liked the Devon infodump very much! AWW YES AND PUMPKIN PIE

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      I had to try very hard to keep the it from being a short novel :I

      I've been making pumkin pies in small single-serving-sized jars lately. They're awesome :D

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    I want toy dinosaurs from you. o3o
    I want to know what you'd ask me...

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      1. I know you study/read about basically everything ever, what's your favorite subject?
      2. If you had the choice to be born in any culture at any time, where and when would you choose?
      3. Who is the strangest person you've ever met?
      4. What do you consider to be the best thing in your life right now?
      5. Most delicious and most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?
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    Toy dinosaurs.

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      1. If you could have any animal as a companion, what would it be?
      2. What was the most moving event in your life?
      3. If any mythology could be true, which one would you want it to be?
      4. Who is the most annoying person you know and why? (no names necessary!)
      5. If you had to have a vestigial limb, what would you want it to be?
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        If you could have any animal as a companion, what would it be?
        Barring Mythologicals, a Maine Coon cat. A big one.
        Allowing Mythologicals, a housecat/owl gryphon. Something small and fluffy.

        What was the most moving event in your life?
        Finishing A Whisper of Wings by Paul Kidd. It drove me to tears and left me a better person.

        If any mythology could be true, which one would you want it to be?
        I can't answer that one. Too many good choices.

        Who is the most annoying person you know and why? (no names necessary!)
        Anyone who believes I am nothing more than sexual meat for their entertainment.

        If you had to have a vestigial limb, what would you want it to be?
        If it's an EXISTING limb, my left arm.

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    HOW CAN YOU LIKE PUMPKIN PIE THAT IS AN ATROCITY AND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED HERE
    never tried it, talk about things that don't exist here haha
    Devon's come a long way tho woaha O:

    doops

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      1. What were your favorite things as a kid and where they dumb phases or did they relate to things you've always been interested in?
      2. What is your favorite kind of place to be in and why?
      3. What character, from anything at all, do you feel you can strongly relate to?
      4. Do you have any weird mannerisms or habits?
      5. What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?
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      I feel the urge to sen you pumpkin pie so you can actually live. Also, my pumpkin pie is like 90% cinnamon.
      I know! He's nothing like what I was originally thought of lol

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        OI that sounds delish tho...
        Send me poptarts too, and jelly beans, and peeps, all part of the snacks of myth which have only been heard off by few souls pfff... Actually I'm not sure i want to make a journal with the answers now, I didn't think this through. Like they're good questions and I'd like to answer them but i don't know if i can think of any if anyone answers to my journal ahahh just thinking about it is a little unnerving now damn!

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          Lol, mythical peeps
          I realized that after I posted the journal too, lol. They were easier to think of than I originally feared.

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    If you like pastries, you should try Piroshki sometime. My god it is so good.

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      I'm making some right now! I'm trying a baked recipe and a fried recipe and have some with a garlic, onion and sausage filling and some with a potato, carrot and onion mash with cinnamon and nutmeg filling. May or may not make some apple filled ones, too. Also, these were basically the only things left in my fridge - it's looking pretty lonely in there now.

      So far the baked recipe looks like it has some crappy dough :< but the fried is looking pretty good at least!

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      Oh yeah, those baked ones are horrible. Fried ones are awesome, though!