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Request and Q&A
Typically for OC applications, we require more depth and breadth than is required of fandom applications, so that we can get a better sense of the world and character you're creating. Most of the app is fine on length, but the personality falls a little short. I don't require a specific word count, but I would like to see a few more paragraphs of expansion on Syre - at least two.
Here's your Q&A:
Thanks!
Re: Request and Q&A
When it comes to dealing with people she doesn't know, Syre's interactions will vary based on how she views them. If they are timid, she will be gentle and calming; if they are outgoing, she acts confident and energetic. She does this in order to put herself into a position where she can better manipulate an individual, since, from her experience, she knows that most people will more eagerly follow the words of someone similar to themselves. When she is around people she commands or trusts, however, she hides herself a little less; while still very secretive when it comes to her work, she lets her usual cold, distanced attitude come through, instead of the manufactured 'mask' of emotion she wears for the general populace.
Though she spent a lot of time working by herself (or, perhaps, because she spent so much time by herself), deep within Syre is the desire to be accepted, to be loved – a desire to replace the family that she had lost so many years ago. The rest of her feels that she can never let these desires bother her because she is a woman of power, however, since worrying about small things like family and love will not doubt lower people's opinions of her – thus she tucks those needs away, into the corners of her mind.
1. Do you consider yourself to be special in any way? Explain.
I don't. I've managed to get quite a way in the Imperial Army, but... that's something anyone can do, given time and effort. [Though she is quite sure that most people would fall quite short in the 'effort' department.]
The only thing that I've done that could be even a little special would probably be my research papers for the Alchemist's Guild on the subject of the body's healing processes and ways to replicate it, [a lot of that research was saved for her own perusal, rather than the nation as a whole, however] but, again, someone else would have come across such knowledge eventually. [She very much doubts that would happen, however.]
2. What is your biggest flaw?
What manner of question is this? That isn't something you just ask.
[There's a moment of quiet before she clears her throat.]
I suppose, if I've had to think about it... I get rather obsessive with my work sometimes. I've locked myself into my study before, just so that I could have enough peace and quiet to work on my latest paper. [...for thirty-six hours, on and off, with a canteen within reach in case she got thirsty, and enough parchment to fill a book – but they don't need to know that.] And there are times when I can be a bit... not “dense”, exactly, but... hm.
What I'm trying to say is, “I have a habit of tuning out things that don't really relate to me, so sometimes I need people to repeat parts of their speech.” I was trying to find a word that fit that. [Especially since outright saying “I could not care any less about things that don't interest me, and am only associating with them for what they know” would probably get herself on quite a few people's bad sides.]
3. Do you care about other people, or would you rather not deal with them?
[Part of her does. A small, quiet part. But these people don't need to know – they are strangers to her, and they could be foreign spies, and whatever sentiment she shows will lead others to portray her as weak and vulnerable–]
[She takes a breath, clearing her head, before she finally gets on to answering the question.]
Not particularly. I care for others in Ecliptia as much as any person in service to their homeland would care about their own – but, outside of that, I much prefer being alone. Things are easier to manage that way.
[She has much less to worry about that way.]
4. What is the most successful thing you’ve ever done?
A bit similar to the first question, really. It would have to be either my enrollment in the Imperial Army, or having my papers published via the guild. Outside of that, nothing else comes to mind.
5. Share your most beloved memory.
…
[Who are these people? And what makes them think that they can just ask her about things like this?!]
[Still, it's not wise to keep this person – her interviewer, her interrogator, whatever they may be – waiting. With a heavy sigh, she glances down at the floor, and at the tips of her red boots, as she replies in a considerably less-confident voice.]
I was 15 years old, visiting home on leave from the Academy. My parents had taken me to the market – to the small store where they bought their books, parchment, and ink. Mother was good friends with the shop-keeper, I remember.
[Her eyes close, the memory playing in her head as though it had happened yesterday.]
I was looking at a book on one of the tables. “The Origin of Sellesian Species”, first edition – written nearly 200 years ago by one of the founders of the Alchemist's Guild. While Mother and Father were gathering their usual supplies, I had taken a seat near the bookshelves and began to read.
I don't know how long I was sitting there for, but I remember looking up just as we were about to leave the store. As I was putting the book back, I remember Father speaking.
“Don't leave your book here. It'd be a shame if you lost it so soon after buying it.”
… “My” book. I hadn't even realized that they had gotten it for me. It was such an expensive tome – it was two-hundred-and-fifteen silver, if I remember right.
And it was mine.
… It was the last thing I ever received from them.
[She opens her eyes again, looking up with an angered expression, tears welling in her eyes. Her voice is back to its usual volume, irritation clear in her tone.]
I believe that is sufficient enough.
Accepted
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