circlejourney I swear I tried to be less predictable about this but we all know I Really like Felix and I'm pretty sure he was the first character I really interacted out of your ocs, so I couldn't resist.
What would you consider a particularly defining moment while he was growing up? A specific moment that really defined his character or changed him in a fundamental way, for better or worse? Has he ever had a lie so that it would make him feel genuinely terrible about it? And the obligatory "what inspired you to create this character and what kind of things were you thinking about while designing him" because I'm a sucker for knowing the behind-the-scenes stuff
Also sorry this took me so long, I got so into reading his profile again and appreciating your writing style that I got distracted by my love
Rose - What gave you the idea to make him a vampire who's incapable of aging?
A vampire stuck in the body of a child isn't anything new: both Moto Hagio and Anne Rice have done it, although I'm mostly familiar with the former depiction. I have been playing around with similar states of immortality and stunted physical development in the past though, so I wanted to explore around a character who not only looks like a child, but also stays as a child. Granted, Rose acts like a precocious preteen a lot of the time because I can't just ignore life experience, but I like to think it's because his brain doesn't develop, and we know children's brain structure simply isn't the same as it is with adults. Also, I like to think he represses a lot too because he's socially treated as a child by everyone, so he is never even forced into that natural role where children are gradually given more adult-like responsibilities and are expected to act more like a grown up.
But yeah I just wanted to see what I would do with the kind of concept I was intrigued by
Teru - His trivia section mentions that he used to change his appearance frequently, but eventually settled on the preferred form he uses now. Is there any particular reason why he chose this appearance? What does he like about it? Also, what does his name mean/where did you get it from?
It has a lot to do with the fact he was originally part of an RP group, and as I used him I got more comfortable with him and through me learning more about him he started settling with one form. In-canon, I like to think it's because Teru met Hannes and his other friends, and through these interactions learned more about himself and his individual likes, desires and ideals. His appearance is based loosely on a young man he saw once, who also happens to be another character of mine called Yuuma, although I haven't posted him online really. Teru really liked his hair style in particular and copied it. Aside from his hair, he enjoys the flexibility of his body and thinks he looks fairly attractive and is happy with that
His name is a play on a Finnish called called tervaleijona (tar lion), as I originally wanted to put him in the gay dessert anime RP group. It's just terva (tar) being forced into a Japanese spelling, and I took Teru from there!
Walter - How does he feel about his blindness? Does it bother him that he can't see, or has he grown fully accustomed to it by now? I also noticed that he and Rick are close friends - how did they meet?
I think it's like... such an integrated part of his life he doesn't really think about it? He doesn't actively think "gee, I'm blind", it's more about "damn, it's so noisy here I have hard time focusing on navigating around" or "god I wish people would stop thinking I'm also deaf". He's been blind for longer than he hasn't, so it's really something he lives with and is accustomed to interacting with things through it in his own ways. To Walter, a problem bigger than the fact he can't see is usually other people's bad attitude and inaccessible areas that don't take blind people in account, I think.
He and Rick met at school through Leon, whom they both were acquaintances with before!