Character Castle 2.0
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“Oh, hi! I’m Ehud!” Ehud would’ve shook hands with the fairy but it’s very hard to shake hands with something that small. Miss Murder was glaring at him.
“You did what to my gun?!”
“Please don’t kill me!” Why. Did he have to blurt that out?
Slam! Right beneath them, the walls caved shut like the snapping mouth of some angry beast. Judging from Gun Girl’s expression, he just might have been better off down there.
“So…everybody’s alive!” He tried to sound upbeat while pretending to be enraptured by the new environment. “Hey, look at this new place it’s uh…it’s uh…”
“I said ‘What did you do to my gun’?” Unfortunately, normal people do not distract as easily as he.
“Maybe we, uh, got a bit off on the wrong foot,” It took every inch of self-possession not to dash as far away as he possibly could. Shoving his hands in his pockets, he shrugged sideways, shrinking a couple inches. “I mean…I just figured, ya’know, with everybody at everybody’s throats if…everybody were sorta…less threatened, maybe we could work together to get outta here?”
I don’t wanna die, I really don’t wanna die. I should never have said that outloud. Even worse, everybody was watching them. Ax Girl seemed somewhere between entertained and angry. At Miss Murder though. Super Villain was assessing the scene as composedly as could be in fact he seemed almost a little confused. Backtracking was a futile gesture.
“Uh, hey…well, everyone’s still alive and all–”
“You already said that.” Miss Murder cut in sharply, bristling as she examined the barrel of her gun.
“Ok, but maybe we can work together or something…cos I mean first thing first we gotta survive, right? And second thing second we’ll have better chances to survive if we work together and third thing third…” Ehud blinked and stared at everyone practically surrounding him. More than usual he was feeling very very small and insignificant “now that everyone’s sorta on even terms…maybe we can be friends?”To be a light to the world you must shine in the darkness.
Thank you! 😀 And I LOVE your profile pic!!! Where is it? I’m assuming somewhere in the Western United States, but I’m not sure.
Do you feel as bad for your character as I do right now?!
I light the arrow, pull the bow,
Shoot that fire right through my soul.Thanks!! I actually found it on the internet *sheepish chuckle* but what I googled was: “Landscape” then clicked “Images” and chose the beautiful category. And I gotta say, it pulled up some breath-taking pictures…..
"I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell."
Erin abandoned the shelf, turned her back on Nervous Guy, and frowned dramatically in thought.
Finally she turned back to him. “Since you haven’t shown signs of hostility even after I did, I have concluded that you are, at this current time, not dangerous. Thus, I believe we can be acquaintances. I am not friends with anyone.”
She raised her chin indignantly. “My name is Erin Shadows, head of security for the intergalactic trade system. Who are you?”
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“My name is Erin Shadows, head of security for the intergalactic trade system. Who are you?” Stick Lady–no, Erin-– announced.
What in the world was an intergalactic trade system? Sure, Colma knew what trade was, but intergalactic what, what? She shook her head. No matter. Either way, if these people recognized her real name, they would know who she was: an outlaw they could turn in for gold, which was a deal they would likely not pass over. Colma thought fast.
“My name is… Calixta. Calixta Skaber,” she lied. Now there was no way they would know who she really was.
I know that they’re from different worlds, so there’s no way that the others would recognize her name, it’s just that Colma’s little mind refuses to be blown with the truth, lol. XD So yep, that’s why I did that. And if anyone has any questions on how to pronounce her fake name, don’t hesitate to ask 😉
"I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell."
Oh yeah, Googles got pretty much everything you want, LOL 😛 It looks like the perfect Thwap habitat!
And I like Colma’s alias! Do you say it the way it’s written?
I light the arrow, pull the bow,
Shoot that fire right through my soul.Ahab narrowed his eyes at the small crowd. He had almost laughed when Gnat — or Allen now, he supposed — said he was a cadet. Erin — the snotty lady — was no less snobbish than ever, and the Monkey/Couch Potato — Ehud — was just as fretful. Calixta had given her name, and now they all looked at him expectantly.
“The name’s Ahab.”
He had thought of adding Jehoahaz, which was his last name, but turned against it. The strange group would probably think it funny, and although it wasn’t, he got the feeling names were thought of differently here than in Rondona. They looked at him, as if waiting to see if he had anything more to his title.
“And that’s what you’ll call me. Now, how about we all go our separate ways?” He added shortly.
I light the arrow, pull the bow,
Shoot that fire right through my soul.It looks like the perfect Thwap habitat!
Lol, I know!! If only there was a garden of totatoes though…..
And I pronounce it: Cuh-lix-tuh. Each “uh” just sounds like the noise someone makes when they don’t know what to say, like:”Uh, what were we talking about?” And her last name is basically pronounced like lightsaber except without the light part and the beginning starts with a Sk. Sorry, that was a REALLY drawn out explanation that didn’t even make sense…… Sorry.
But I really liked your post! To me, it makes a lot of sense that a bad guy like Ahab would want to get away from losers like them (to say it probably similar to what he’s thinking) as soon as possible and return to sabotaging Saul, or something like that 😛
"I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell."
So, I have an idea that would force the characters to co-operate and it might be fun. Would if the room they’ve just escaped to is a maze with booby-traps and all that good stuff? Totally don’t hesitate to shoot it down, I was just brain-storming for what could happen next.
Wait, I forgot. Didn’t we decide that they’re in the fountain room and the fountain’s going to show them all they’re worst fears etc.? Are we still doing that? ‘Cause I think either choice would be fun 😀 What do you guys think?
"I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell."
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Haha, yeah i felt very bad for my chracter. When I sat down to write that scene my brain was like “Ah yes, today we shall do the emotion cringe”. I almost didn’t post it cos I felt so embarrassed while writing it from his perspective XD (this happens with invented characters and real people I meet. I literally set aside time in my day to process second-hand emotions:).
yay, now everybody’s introduced themselves! But we’re still using nicknames…right? :D’“Since you haven’t shown signs of hostility even after I did, I have concluded that you are, at this current time, not dangerous. Thus, I believe we can be acquaintances. I am not friends with anyone.”
“Oh…I can live with that.” In a more literal sense than usual. So Miss Murder was Erin of International Trade, another government crackjob from the Flying Islands. That made a good deal of sense to Ehud. She definitely was not…something obscure that Ehud felt as off but could put into words. It was different from just being antisocial, more like a trauma-response.
Ax Girl hesitated before giving her name (it sounded like a lightsaber woosh, the moment no one is around Ehud’s going to chirp her name over and over again because it just rolled off the tongue); she must be in trouble. Of course they were all in trouble right now, but this was different. So he had to protect her.
“The name’s Ahab. And that’s what you’ll call me. Now, how about we all go our separate ways?” Super Villain began to walk off.
“Hey wait!! You can’t run off that’s how everybody dies the horror movies! One by one everybody gets separated and then killed and then everybody dies!” Ehud dashed after Viking Ahab and very nearly grabbed him by the arm but thought better of it just in time. “I mean, the more people there are the less likely you’ll be the next one to die, right?”
The Giant was still looking at him as if he was crazy. Ehud glanced around to see if everyone else was staring at him like that too. They were. He faltered for a couple seconds but decided to plunge ahead anyway.
“I think the best thing we can do is search the place in groups right after we check out the super mysterious books everybody stole–” he paused in mid-breath “Actually, I didn’t see Miss M-Erin steal a book, that’s weird…well, anyway…Or we should start looking for water cos you can only survive three days without water, also it’s been two or something days since I had anything to eat, didn’t somebody bring food…please tell me someone did…?”To be a light to the world you must shine in the darkness.
“Actually, I didn’t see Miss M-Erin steal a book, that’s weird…well, anyway…Or we should start looking for water cos you can only survive three days without water, also it’s been two or something days since I had anything to eat, didn’t somebody bring food…please tell me someone did…?”
Colma didn’t quite understand what Mr. Talkative/Ehud meant about the books, but of course she did about food and water.
She did have a stale chunk of bread in her coat pocket that she had scavenged (or stolen, whichever one you preferred) from a tavern a couple weeks ago. It was beyond its expiration date, but it was food.
She hesitated. Compassion didn’t come naturally to her, and she still felt apprehensive around these people. But she knew first-hand what it was like to go days without food. As an outlaw, that was part of regular life, and it was miserable. After another moment of indecision, mercy won out. Colma withdrew the good-sized hunk of hard bread from her coat and, walking over to him, handed it to Mr. Talkative–or Ehud; she still hadn’t decided which one she liked better.
“It’s pretty old, you can take it or leave it,” Colma said more gruffly than she had intended in her thick Russian accent.
It had been so long since she had interacted with people–well, other than fighting with them. That she did regularly, whether it was a fist fight or with weapons, she normally fought either to steal, or protect herself from getting turned in. But it had been what felt like forever since she had done something kind for someone.
On the inside she felt extremely awkward and uncomfortable. Colma hoped it didn’t show, but couldn’t be sure if her face was flushed or not.
"I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell."
Thank you! That name is really cool 😉 And yeah, Ahab is pretty fed up with this whole crowd, XD
How ’bout we do booby trap room, and once they get out of that, they get into the fountain room?! That way we can do both and see how they all react! This is going to be interesting…
Oh, don’t feel embarrassed to post something! And you write about other person’s feelings? That is so funny! 😛 And yeah, nick-names are still in order, LOL
I light the arrow, pull the bow,
Shoot that fire right through my soul.Thanks! 😀 And YES!! That’s perfect! I vote we do that 🙂
I feel like I might know you from another website… Were you ever on the Wingfeather Saga website with a name that starts with a M? (I just said M because I wasn’t sure if you would want me to say your name that was on there if it is you 😉 )
"I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell."
Livi here, from the first Character Castle 🙂 I was stalking this page just now to see whassup and I noticed your forum signature 😀 I love that song lol
“Enough! Be quiet! I can’t hear myself think! I can’t hear my teeth chatter!"
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