General Blather

My friend Vince did a meme regarding seven things. So I took the challenge, and he gave me seven things to talk about.

“How you met Aaron”

Aaron is my boyfriend, for those of you who don’t know.

It all started with an email. A fan email. He wanted to let me know how much he loved my writings and fell in love with one character in particular. So I responded, and he responded to that…

…and I didn’t reply. I forgot to, and when he sent another email two weeks later, I thought it was brand new.

Of course, I realized my error, and one thing led to another. We started emailing each other. We started talking on the phone. He came to visit for a week, and then we were hooked.

“Killing characters”

Yeah, somehow I’m known for killing off my characters even though I don’t really kill off that many. It’s not done on a whim–if it serves the story, then I’ll do it, but only after thinking of it for a long time. One of the prime examples is the death of Soulfighter, a character I loved to write about in Gaming Guardians and Powergamers. Her death was a natural flow of events, and she died a heroine’s death. Her death meant something.

Of course, that doesn’t mean every death means something, but it should serve to further the story. That said, I hate killing off characters.

“Baristas”

I was a barista for a while. Unfortunately it was for a Starbucks, which has no clue as to what a barista is. It soured me on ever wanting to work for a coffee shop again, but at least I got a novel out of it. (also, see jackals)

“Jackals”

I’ve always loved Anubis, who is a jackal headed god. That said, I love the mythological black jackals. I created one for Second Life and after working at Starbucks I named him Venti. I even wrote a novel about his misadventures, and people seem to like the character.

Now, my question for Vince is will he ever read that book?

“Leather pants”

Unfortunately I’ve never worn leather pants, but I have worn vinyl pants. Stuff was skintight, lemme tell you.

“The gym”

At the tail end of January 2011 I finally started lifting weights. I’d always wanted to exercise, but I could come up with any excuse not to. One day, I decided to make myself a promise: If I could work out for four weeks, I’d try the dieting, the supplements, the works. I succeed! And ever since then I’ve been hitting the gym like clockwork. Vince hates me for my white genes, since I have supposedly gotten bigger than him in a year’s time.

I think he secretly like it, though. I know I don’t mind him checking me out.

“Best reaction you’ve gotten from fans over something you did in your comics”

I would say that one guy’s irrational hatred of Carpe Diem would be the best reaction. But I’ll say my boyfriend’s fan mail over Brahma in Gaming Guardians. The Alex story. You know the one, GG fans. Yeah, that one.