the_improbable1

Sorry about completely disappearing and suchlike. First there was schoolwork, and then there was musical theatre camp (which was a blast, yes yes yes), and I haven't finished any fic in months (which is rather depressing to me), and tumblr has kind of devoured my soul (and it's not even that exciting!), and I've been watching quite a lot of Doctor Who.

So that's a bunch of excuses.

Anyway, my apologies for vanishing; I can't promise not to do it again.

Just curious: Is anyone going to Kumoricon this year?

(Kumoricon is an anime (although a bunch of BBC-type fans go too) convention in Vancouver, WA, USA during Labor Day Weekend. Starts Saturday September 1, ends Monday September 3. It's a very tiny little con.)

If so, there should be meeting-up. That should be a thing that is happening.

Title: Stars Come Down to Earth
Fandom: Mushi Shi
Characters/Pairing: Ginko, OCs
Genre: casefic (the Mushi Shi equivalent of a casefic, anyway)
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Words: ~1200
Summary/Prompt: "After the sun has set, these small, white lights appear. They form a path through the woods, and they look a bit…well…a bit like stars have decided to come down to earth and visit for a while."
Notes: Based off a picture from writeworld.tumblr.com. The picture shows a darkened forest with a path made out of little lights winding through it. It demanded Mushi Shi. New fandom, yay! I hope I haven't fudged up the honourifics and general mood too much. All you need to know about the series is that mushi are tiny little spirits that make weird stuff happen.

( The village of Tsurime was an ordinary small town.Collapse )

Look what I found!

http://www.dafont.com/ws-simple-gallifreyan.font

It looks something like this:

It looks something like this.

Super cool, yeah? Even though it hasn't got punctuation.

So this is it. The last day of this meme.

Frankly, I'm startled I managed to get this far. ^^; I'm usually not very good at finishing things, so I'm very proud of myself for finishing this :D.

This one's really, really long, so, uh, TL;DR ahead.

( Dear characters, I love you all dearly…Collapse )

To anyone reading this: thank you for putting up with the character-related spam, especially when it's not even for a fandom. I hope that you learnt something - even if it was the barest minimum of information - about these twelve people - I know I did! These thirty days were wonderful - an excuse, nay, a requirement to write something every day, even if it was just a couple of sentences. I totally recommend this meme to anyone who wants to flesh out their characters/their headcanon, regardless of skill level or experience. Thank you again for putting up with this, and please feel free to ask me any questions you have about any of the characters! I love chances to further expand the ideas and images I have of these twelve people.

Much love,
- the_improbable1.

29.) How does your character smell? Do they wear perfume or cologne?

Adrian doesn't wear cologne and uses unscented soap/shampoo. He mostly smells like...person. Clean person, specifically.

Felix does occasionally use cologne if he's making an effort to impress someone/look nice, but for everyday he doesn't. He usually uses unscented soap/shampoo or soap/shampoo with a more "savoury" scent. His favourite is probably rosemary, so he smells like that quite a bit.

Alex rarely wears cologne. He's fond of citrusy scents, so most of his soap/shampoo has that sort of scent, so he mostly smells like that.

Kaylee likes wearing perfume, mostly fruit/berry type scents like raspberry or strawberry. A lot of her soap/shampoo/what-have-you also smells like some sort of fruit - watermelon, peach; she's not picky - so she generally smells like a fruit basket.

Miriam doesn't usually wear perfume, but she likes the scent of coconut, so her soap/shampoo generally smells like that, so she generally smells like that.

Mikaela doesn't wear perfume and uses unscented soap. She mostly smells like clean person.

Aya wears perfume (usually vanilla- or some kind of darker flower-scented) on a semi-regular basis. A lot of her soap/shampoo smells like lilacs, of which she's fond, so she generally smells like a combination of those things.

28.) If your character's life was a kind of book, what would it be?

Adrian: one of those super cheesy coming-of-age novels where the protagonist learns how to be/accept hirself with the support of friends but not family.

Kaylee: one of those really weird character-centred novels that make no sense at all but are mildly amusing to read.

Alex: one of those rather tedious and depressing historical fiction books.

Felix: one of those daft pointless books with no real plot and a lot of stupid shenanigans.

Miriam: one of those cheesy romance novels in which the shy protagonist is seduced out of hir shell by the gorgeous love interest.

Aya and Mikaela: spy novel/action movie/Bond movie.

27.) Pick a song that describes your character at a point in their life and explain why you chose it.

Oh god, this one took forever. >-> Apologies if my explanations don't make sense - feel free to ask for clarification (if you care)!

Aya, when she and Mikaela began to be ~involved~: Hikari (Hikaru Utada). The song is about a person who just wants hir lover to stop worrying about the past and focus on the here and now.

Mikaela, some time before the start of her plotline: Oh No (Marina and the Diamonds). Mikaela projects a very confident façade, but she's very alone initially and doesn't have any life outside her work as a spy.

Adrian, after he came out to his family (this one is his family talking to him): Sister (Mumford & Sons). Just go look up the lyrics. His family wasn't terribly accepting, and his sister in particular would prefer that the little boat that is their family not be upset.

Alex, when he met Kaylee: Ordinary Day (Vanessa Carlton). Kaylee is like no other girl, and she kind of blew up Alex's world, then rebuilt it from the ground up.

Kaylee, when she'd just graduated university: Mein Gott! (Prussia). The lyrics are the singer declaring his awesomeness, and Kaylee's very confident and over-the-top and peppy. (She kind of scares me sometimes, but she's fun.)

Miriam, when she was just meeting the rest of her cast of characters: All By Myself (John Barrowman). Miriam was a loner when she was in school, and she didn't mind it then, but now she's tired of always being on the edges, never completely in the circle.

Felix, when he and Adrian are just starting their relationship: Hardest of Hearts (Florence + the Machine). The singer is talking about how se's making a fool of hirself for this other person, but this other person doesn't know how to/can't express the love se holds for the singer. These are Felix's feelings about Adrian.

Felicia, when Lumiere and their parents were fighting over how much independence Lumiere should have: Handlebars (Flobots). The song is saying, "Look at me, look at me," and Felicia was feeling pretty ignored at that point in time; she wanted their parents' attention, and Lumiere had all of it.

Caelan, after Simon died: Without You (RENT). Simon was the most important person in Caelan's life, and when he died, Caelan just sort of…stopped.

Lumiere, when he was just learning how to control the Sight: The Sounds of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel). His perception of reality is getting seriously warped, and he's having trouble telling what's a vision and what's actually happening.

Simon, when Caelan is pining after Lumiere: Love Disease (Luka). The song is about a yandere whose object of affection is interested in someone else, and the yandere will do anything to keep that from being true. (Simon was originally intended to be a villain, fyi. Yeah.)

Arthur, when he's just discovering his magic: Fireflies (Owl City). Just go look up the lyrics. Arthur thinks that magic is the coolest thing since something really cool, and he loves to play with it.

26.) Second day of favourites! Favourite comfort food, favourite vice, favourite outfit, favourite hot drink, favourite time of year, and favourite holiday.

I hope the formatting's understandable!

Adrian: udon with egg (although this isn't so much comfort food as it is let-all-your-feelings-out food), sleep/alcohol, a dark blue short-sleeved button-down, baggy jeans, and a baseball cap, green tea, winter, labour day.

Felix: tomato soup with grilled cheese, video games of the mindless variety, jeans, t-shirt, neon green sweatshirt, and trainers, hot coffee with nothing in it, spring, Halloween.

Alex: spicy crisps, rpg games to ridiculous extents, his "+20 Shirt of Smiting" and a pair of jeans, coffee with everything in it, winter, new year's.

Kaylee: chocolate ice cream, ice cream in general, a short black skirt and a hot pink tank top with flip-flops, hot cocoa, summer, Christmas.

Miriam: caramel-covered popcorn, writing about horribly gory things happening to people, a big baggy jumper and a big pair of jeans, cappuccinos, autumn, winter solstice.

Aya: saltine crackers, smoking, black turtleneck and black skinny jeans, espresso with a lot of sugar (she gets very, very wired when she drinks that), autumn, Easter.

Mikaela: chocolate-covered hazelnuts, hurting people/herself, white button-down and slacks with tie, tea (raspberry), winter, thinks holidays are a waste of time.

…I did not know I knew this about them. Mostly their vices, but the comfort foods too. Fascinating, what they'll turn to in times of stress.



Also, sunburn can go fuck itself with a cucumber. You would think I would learn to put on sunscreen. You would be wrong.

25.) Describe your characters' hands. Are they small, long, calloused, smooth, stubby?

Lumiere's hands are fairly large and long-fingered, and he generally takes good care of them.

Caelan's hands are small and delicate, with short, slim fingers.

Felicia's hands are strong, with long fingers and broad palms.

Simon's hands are striped across the palm with rope callouses; his hands are rough with work and very, very nimble (feel free to interpret that in any way you'd like ;)).

Arthur's hands are very small and very delicate, with long, slim fingers.



Watched the episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" today. So much creepy, and then so much adorable. Also, Captain Jack Harkness.

"Rose! I've just remembered! I can dance!"

Nine/Rose are the most adorable couple ever. I ship it :D.

24.) What might your character’s ideal romantic partner be like?

A complicated one this time…let's see if I can answer it. :)

Mikaela is shaking her head, waving her hands, and shouting NO at me. Her ideal romantic partner (if she absolutely had to have one; she'd really rather not) would be one that treated her as a friend, not in a romantic way.

Aya's ideal romantic partner would be a bit argumentative and feisty, but willing to acquiesce to things after some persuasion.

Lumiere would like to have a romantic partner who's fairly quiet and who doesn't expect much in the way of physical affection.

Caelan would not like a romantic partner, thank you very much. If he must have one, they would have to accept that they would come second to Caelan's god.

Simon would like a partner who's adventurous and willing to try new things/go new places/meet new people.

Felicia would appreciate someone who neither treats her like she's made of glass nor treats her like she's invincible. She doesn't want someone who's super-sappy; she'd rather have someone with whom she can joke around and tease.

Arthur would like someone who appreciates him as a person, not just for his family or his abilities. He'd like a person who doesn't treat him like he's made of glass.

Alex wants someone fun and entertaining, who makes good jokes and with whom he can laugh, who'd let him be a bit old-fashioned and chivalrous.

Kaylee wants someone who'll treat her nicely, who'll joke with her and kiss her sweetly. (Yes, Kaylee is an incorrigible romantic.)

Miriam wants someone who'll cuddle with her, hold her tightly and let her drip feelings on them. She'd like someone with whom she can be herself, nothing more and nothing less.

Felix wants someone funny, sarcastic, and good-looking. He's not particularly fussy.

Adrian wants someone who'll accept him for who he is, if he absolutely had to have someone. He definitely doesn't want someone who'll treat him like a delicate flower.