We have lots of threads to ask questions to or about characters, but what about the users? In the vein of the Say something to the TH user above you! thread and the I want to see a TH user who... thread (and serving basically as a non-anonymous CuriousCat), this is a thread to help you get to know your fellow TH users better by asking the person above you a question. In return, the person below you will pose a question to you. After you're asked a question, edit your post with your answer!
If you're uncomfortable or don't want to answer the question you were given for any reason, just say so and leave a fun fact about yourself so the game still serves its purpose. If a question is truly problematic, message me with any concerns.
Rules:
The first person can either ask me something or just claim a spot!
Edit: my answer
"Hedgemaze Expo" is the name of the main characters' band in my comic! I've been using either HedgemazeExpo or Hedgemaze as a username ever since, which is to say since 2003! Most people just call me Hej for short now.
The name itself doesn't mean much of anything, other than that I liked both words and liked the sort of paradoxical nature of an exposition dedicated to huge structures that can't be moved (what do they exhibit, photos? bush samples? tiny mazes?). In terms of the comic, it's just supposed to be a unique, kind of awkward, and silly band name, because in-story, it's an inside joke between my characters Jill and Amber.
What inspired YOUR username? It's really interesting, and I want to know how you came up with it
Answer: I actually started when I played the game Portal 2. I had actually started doodling characters and items from other stuff before that, but Portal inspired me to draw actual scenes and art.
I thought it was pretty cool to hear that you've been making OCs since 2012! What got you into making characters in the first place? Who was your first OC (if you remember)?
What are your favourite novels?
I really like the Icemark Chronicles (Stuart Hill)! It's a pretty underrated fantasy series in my opinion. I also like Vampire Diaries (LJ Smith), Tales of the Kin (Douglas Hulick), The Dragonsdome Chronicles (Lucinda Hare), the Hollows series (Kim Harrison) and Harry Potter (JK Rowling). Some of those aren't very well-known as far as I'm aware, but they're all amazing fantasy/supernatural novels and I definitely recommend them if you like that kind of thing.
Do you have a favourite writer?
Any of the ones mentioned above, probably.
What is your favourite fantasy creature?
It should be pretty clear from my username and the fact that so many of my characters are dragons/dragon shifters! But vampires are also a really close second.
What are your favourite novels? Do you have a favourite writer? What is your favourite fantasy creature?
What's your favorite thing to see in world building? Why do you like monsters? What is the most frustrating thing, in your opinion, when it comes it developing characters?
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So Quotev is, if anyone knows what this site was, a different version of Quizzilla. People can make quizzes, write stories, interact with other users through messages and can/used to join groups. You can’t actually join groups easily anymore because you can’t search for groups but they aren’t deleted... thanks for the weird as all heck update Quotev. You can also role play with their users, which can be fun. In my opinion, it’s better known for its mostly horribly written stories. You can write fanfiction, original fiction or non fiction or anything you want really. It’s not as well known but it’s nice.
I’ve been a user since June 20, 2014. I’ve been on the site for almost five years.
Quotev sounds like an interesting website, but what it is about? How long have you been a Quotev user?
Tysm!
Anyway, inspiration varies from character, though for some examples, Prince was inspired by the lord-type characters throughout the Fire Emblem series, Catherine and Vetitum were inspired by certain Kirby characters, and Kaleido was inspired around TV shows for very young children.
As for the second question, this one is pretty hard to answer, as I started drawing when I was very little, though all I know is that I thought it would be fun if I draw things, and heck I also drew random creatures on story books. Also, when I got into Fairy Tail at the time, I thought doing worldbuilding would be fun too, and today, I have my own worlds for my OC's to reside in.
You have very interesting and unique character designs! Where do you get your inspiration for them? Also, what got you into drawing and world building in the first place?
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I take a lot of inspiration from real animals, I intern at a zoo and during my free time I enjoy sitting down and sketching some of the animals I work with, which is mainly reptiles as I’m studying to be a herpetologist. I’m also a big fan of distortion/gore and Eldritch like beings which I occasionally implement into my my designs mixing up both real and fake creatures. For my favorite, it’s a hard choice. I don’t tend to stick to one character often since I like to mess around with ideas but at the moment I’d have to either chose Marune or Lefaife ((who I’ve yet to put up a full ref for.
I see you make a lot of elaborate and super creative designs! What inspires you to create these design elements? Which one of your designs is your favorite?
Thank you very much! My inspirations are probably other art pieces I see on the Internet~ I know it sounds simple but that's basically what it is XD I get ideas for designs and new techniques to try out from my art idols :D
I can't draw male anatomy unfortunately, I'm working on it though! so but I'm not all that interested in drawing males either;;
Alphanix I've seen your novel mentioned a couple of times in other threads iirc. So i was a bit curious, what are you workig on right now? When did you start writting? Lastly, are you proud of the novels you've made in the past? :0c
Honestly, I have no clue. They are just so nice to eat and they are made out of milk. What's not to love about cheese? They are very delicate and sweet but not too sweet.
I think this is very obvious but it's Earth. Like, he just fits my Aesthetic and i love his personality. Very gentle but he has some relatable flaws too. He's gonna go through some design change since he doesn't feel "Earthy" enough
Alexg47 We've talked about Eurovision before : p Who were your favorites this year?
Oh, this is hard! Some favorites are Neuromancer, A Scanner Darkly, The Once and Future King, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-- and I'm positive I'll forget some real favorite here-- but to pick one, I think I might go with Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach.
It's a kind of parable about a seagull who doesn't want to do all the mundane seagull things, living to eat-- he wants to learn to really fly, to learn what the limits of flight are and to go past that. He is exiled by his people for his strange ideas and dangerous behavior, and eventually, with all his relentless hard work and discoveries about flight and the nature of his self, he ascends into higher planes of being. It was my mom's favorite book, one she often read to me as a child (though it's not a children's book), and now that she's passed, it has a lot of meaning to me in different ways. I have a tattoo of Jonathan on my wrist, and it always reminds me-- of her, first of all, and all the sacrifices she made for me-- but also that my limits are only what I think they are. It's a little book that I can read again anytime I need some reminders.
Since you mentioned that you like languages - how many languages do you know? Also, what does your username mean? (I seem to ask this question to people a lot, but I'm always curious about them.)
Edit: Ooh, that's pretty cool! I do admire people who can learn a lot of languages, since it's never really been my kind of thing, personally.
I've always preferred western-style dragons (four legs, two wings, reptilian body). Most of my own species of dragons are based on those. Eastern dragons (AKA the long noodle ones) are cool, but I always found them harder to draw and just preferred the appearance of the western variety. I also like making dragon species that are based on combinations of different creatures, like my crowdragons. (They're not actually dragon-crow hybrids, but dragons whose appearances are based on crows.)