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#PennedPossibilities 1128: Does your MC have a unique name?

She keeps changing her name. From Iryna to Ishkara and then (spoilers for the prologue of my next book!) — Vidmara!

Iryna is a Ukrainian name meaning peace.

Ishkara and Vidmara are both invented. I named Ishkara over 10 years ago; I don’t remember how it came about.

Vidmara comes from a Ukrainian word and folklore. Vidma means witch and mara which is a creature that brings nightmares.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Continued

The only character whose voice I sort of have an idea of is Nadia, who I imagine sounds a bit like Doeun from the K-pop girl group Young Posse. Here's a video of her with her little sister, in case you're curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybxp1_JUGGk

#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

The only voice I hear in my mind is my own (the way I hear myself). I generally have no idea what any of my characters sound like, except in the abstract. The best I can do for Anaïs is to describe her voice as "that of a young girl". If you gave me a voice sample, I could tell you if I thought it was a good match for her or not, but I can't think of anyone whose voice I've thought matched Anaïs in particular.

#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

Two of my characters have telephone related quirks.

Drummond, the head of the Hounds, is notoriously brusque. His way of ending a call is to do just that, end it by hanging up without saying goodbye.

Napier, however, is the exact opposite. Being prescient he knows who’s calling him even before they’ve finished dialling his number.

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What quirks do some of your characters have?

My (#SolarPunk in the future) boatbuilding community's wave energy engineer is a sullen young man who suspects people of hankering for pre-Collapse conditions of life. So people tend to avoid him and his growling. Except the realisation is spreading that he's made friends with a humpbacked whale mother, and when he rows out into the bay at dawn he's going swimming with her and her calf.

#PennedPossibilities What quirks do some of your characters have?

Charlotte Schneider, from A Girl's Guide To Survival Cannibalism, swallowed buttons as a way of relieving stress. In her opinion, this was a quirk, a weird little thing she did. Anyone with any knowledge would have recognized it as pica, an eating disorder which can lead to serious health problems. Schneider needed help when she had a nervous breakdown in her 20s, but she never told anyone she swallowed buttons.

#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

Ethan sleeps in his clothes. He's fully dressed as much as possible because his leap forward in time came in the form of waking up on a park bench in his undies. He also doesn't eat until others have started, but that's not actually due to food insecurity so much as religion. He had to wait on the rest of the family praying before he could dig in. A lot of normally trauma-informed habits came from navigating being the only atheist in a big family.

Brand is really interesting because he uses surprisingly technical terms for a happy-go-lucky meathead. This is not a guy you'd expect to be thinking in terms of "cyanotrope" or "prolate spheroid." As little attention as he paid to theology, he's absorbed hard sciences like a sponge.

#PennedPossibilities 1124: Stupid question asked?

CARRIE: Probably something along the lines of 'are you okay', since I'm never truly okay. But I can't throw too much shade, since sometimes I ask it of myself.

Honourable mention to "will this be on the exam", like the prof isn't going to answer that sensibly, just assume it will be.

#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

• Lightning Bolt (MC): Her studio apartment walls and ceiling are plastered with photographs she took. Lots of men. Many are suggestive, and she can view them from the hammock she uses as a bed.
• Blue (SC, LI): Worries a lot about not being able to raise a family thanks to his new job as a praetorian working for Rainy Days, which to him is mind-blowing and fabulous. Still, he wants to raise kids.
• Shugh (SC): Donuts—how he maintains his soft, rounded, feminine look (he's trans-fem). He introduces Bolt to the food.
• Molt (SC, LI): University student. Easy for Bolt to tickle into nerd mode and, since he studies women (more is kinda spoilers), this delights Bolt as she likes how he studies and measures her.
• Devil-girl (SC): Way too many quirks to catalog, but mostly due to being a high functioning autist. She comes off as super-serious about everything, but nearly impossible to goad. Here's one: Love love loves praise, but only if she considers it earned—at which time she'll do a little jig.
• Boss Mead (A): Despite basically being a mafia don, he likes having business meetings at open air cafés. Makes his minions nervous, causing them to control traffic. Clients watch their tongue. Maybe it proves to him how talented he is at not incriminating himself.
• Rainy Days (A): Way too glib and sparkly, projecting an air of being an airhead whilst being touchy-feely, getting you to talk—this despite essentially ruling all of humanity. You don't want to see her serious.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Any narrator that isn't a character is going to sound like the default voice in my head, which is about what counts as my own mental voice. I can't seem to wrap my head around the sound of my own voice, so my mental voice is... sort of a husky alto child's voice most of the time, or sometimes a clarion countertenor that sounds more teenaged. My voice never sounded like either, though.

It's not like I don't like my own voice. I do. I just can't seem to remember it properly, and I have no idea where I picked either of those up, because neither sounds like any friend or family member ever did.

#PennedPossibilities 1124: MC POV: What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?

(I think I'm just going to skip this one, because I really don't do stupid questions often and none I can think of right now.)

#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Altin: "Easy Target. Because that's what it's been to the mages since I was four."

Kelvin: "The Sundog. All you need to know is it's my ship."

#PennedPossibilities 1123: What figure do people most commonly tell stories about? How are these stories told (books, plays, television, spoken word, broadcast, etc.)?

That's essentially impossible to say in space society, so...

For Godskiller the most common answer is probably the gods and their chosen champions throughout history. They don't have movies or TV yet, but bardic magic does make for some excellent stage productions.

Jerako is a bit more explicit about mining their own history for media, so Ruby, the Series is on the boob tube if you can snag one. They also have somehow managed to get at least one VHS of Choujin Sentai Jetman, because scraps of contact with Earth go way back.

#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

Zerika is far too quiet. She’s used to the solitary life. She has to learn how to *exist* with others. It’s tough for her, but she’s learning. As for Elric, he's a rather quirky man, to put it lightly. His hands are always flying about as he speaks, he’s silly and awkward, has conversations with himself, etc. It’s endearing, though.

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#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

Zerika is far too quiet. She’s used to the solitary life. She has to learn how to *exist* with others. It’s tough for her, but she’s learning. As for Elric, he's a rather quirky man, to put it lightly. His hands are always flying about as he speaks, he’s silly and awkward, has conversations with himself, etc. It’s endearing, though.

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#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

Zerika is far too quiet. She’s used to the solitary life. She has to learn how to *exist* with others. It’s tough for her, but she’s learning. As for Elric, he's a rather quirky man, to put it lightly. His hands are always flying about as he speaks, he’s silly and awkward, has conversations with himself, etc. It’s endearing, though.

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#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

Zerika is far too quiet. She’s used to the solitary life. She has to learn how to *exist* with others. It’s tough for her, but she’s learning. As for Elric, he's a rather quirky man, to put it lightly. His hands are always flying about as he speaks, he’s silly and awkward, has conversations with himself, etc. It’s endearing, though.

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#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

Zerika is far too quiet. She’s used to the solitary life. She has to learn how to *exist* with others. It’s tough for her, but she’s learning. As for Elric, he's a rather quirky man, to put it lightly. His hands are always flying about as he speaks, he’s silly and awkward, has conversations with himself, etc. It’s endearing, though.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Stephen Fry

No contest. I can't help it, I loved him in QI and for some reason it's his voice I hear now.

The story needs someone who can deliver a line like "We draw from the observable facts" with the exasperated patience of a schoolmaster explaining long division to a golden retriever.

I haven't listened to the audiobooks with Harry Potter, and I never will for reasons that have nothing to do with him.

1126. Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Like a young woman with a pleasant mid-range voice. Can't describe this any better.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126
Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I have so many of them! And I record my own audiobooks so I try to capture an essence of it… although I don’t possess quite the vocal range to capture everything as it really should be. For some narrators I really need to be a Ukrainian woman. 😅

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Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

In my current WIP, she sounds like a snarky Texas lady.

#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I don't really associate actual sounds with the voices of my characters or narrator. Come to think of it, I think I very rarely describe the sound of a character's voice. I don't hear voices when I read, either. Is this unusual?

#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I don't really associate actual sounds with the voices of my characters or narrator. Come to think of it, I think I very rarely describe the sound of a character's voice. I don't hear voices when I read, either. Is this unusual?

#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

They sound the same as text on paper.

If I were to do an audiobook, I would love it for Amelia Tyler to be the narrator

#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Is it the sign of a disordered ego when I say that they sound like me?

#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Up until now this wasn’t something I’d really thought about.

I guess, in my mind, I was the person narrating my stories.

Now I come to think about it, I quite like the idea of having the narrator of the TV series Bad Monkey, Tom Nowicki, who also played the character Captain Fitzpatrick, taking over the role.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

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† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

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† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

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† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

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† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

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† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

In my mind, the narrator of my WIP sounds exactly as she is, which is the spirit of a big ocean-going cargo ship built of great timbers and powered by sail.

#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Oh I might say George Clooney, when he does that low tone voice? But just because it's a crush! lol

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I'm pretty sure my narrator doesn't have any sound in my mind.

#PennedPossibilities Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Mostly like my own mental voice, which is usually not a voice, exactly, but occasionally affects a tone or accent for whatever reason. I haven't done anything in first person - I'd have to come up with something more solid.

#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Scottish. *Incredibly* Scottish, and I’m a fan.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Scottish. *Incredibly* Scottish, and I’m a fan.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Scottish. *Incredibly* Scottish, and I’m a fan.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Scottish. *Incredibly* Scottish, and I’m a fan.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

Scottish. *Incredibly* Scottish, and I’m a fan.

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#PennedPossibilities 1123: What figure do people most commonly tell stories about and how?

In general, it's urban fantasy on our world (of ~2018), so the regular sort of news we see.

More specifically to the characters, it does tend to be about Carrie. Her future, her connection to other characters (both romantically and her link to the assassin) and how she can use her time powers. In the far future, I suspect volumes have been written about her.

#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Risa shrugs, "if I had to call this place anything I'd dub it a crazy hot mess. from demons on the outskirts, to military but not military training for the starlight warriors, to a squad of 4 succubi and incubi who get up to the goddess knows what... did I mention said squad's lead by a crazy foxubus with a propensity for playing with her food?"
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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Risa shrugs, "if I had to call this place anything I'd dub it a crazy hot mess. from demons on the outskirts, to military but not military training for the starlight warriors, to a squad of 4 succubi and incubi who get up to the goddess knows what... did I mention said squad's lead by a crazy foxubus with a propensity for playing with her food?"
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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Risa shrugs, "if I had to call this place anything I'd dub it a crazy hot mess. from demons on the outskirts, to military but not military training for the starlight warriors, to a squad of 4 succubi and incubi who get up to the goddess knows what... did I mention said squad's lead by a crazy foxubus with a propensity for playing with her food?"
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1125. SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Calanthe, the MC's tutor says, "I'd rename Ravenhold Castle into Ragehold Castle because I don't know anyone else who is as filled with rage as the queen is."

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Lichfield actually does have a couple of alternative names The origin of the modern name Lichfield is interesting. At Wall, south of the current city, there was a Romano-British village, Letocetum, a Common Brittonic place-name meaning "Grey wood", "grey" perhaps referring to varieties of tree prominent in the landscape, such as ash and elm. In the post-Roman period, Letocetum developed into Old Welsh Luitcoyt.

The earliest record of the name in English is the Vita Sancti Wilfredi of around 715, describing when Chad moves from York to Lichfield in 669. "Chad was made Bishop of the Mercians immediately after his deposition; Wilfred gave him the place (locus) at Lichfield (Onlicitfelda)".[8] The prefix "on" indicates that the place given to Chad by Wilfrid was "in Lichfield", indicating the name was understood to apply to a region rather than a specific settlement. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731, states that Chad acquired Licidfelth as his episcopal seat.

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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