Promote your stories but just with things you and your characters have in common

Leyelle 2024-01-12 20:24:16 UTC #1

So for "Damsel in the Red Dress":
1. Alicia has been working professionally in a creative field since she was a teenager, and so have I. (I was published for the first time at age fifteen, but she's beating me since she made an online store.)
2. She won a fairly big artistic competition at a fairly young age: For Alicia, it was "The Precioso Vegerra Award" at age 28. For me, it was "The Turnill Prize" at age 18.
3. She's been the same height since she was like 14. (TT but it's true) (she's also mad short, and I am also vertically challenged, though not to the extent she is)
4. She has a little brother who she's really good friends with, which I also have.
5. Kattar's mom is a very driven, but kind of intense person, who knows what she wants and is willing to do it, even at the expense of others. Yeah...
6. Alicia grew up poor in her teenage years and spent a pretty large portion of her life without one or the other of her parents. also yeah...

Eliza has a lot of big ideas, she's very driven and wants to be an entrepreneur.
She's surrounded by sarcastic, but nice people who want to help her with her goals.
she's sometimes a little (okay a lot) scatterbrained and disorganized.

morganicfoods 2024-01-12 21:58:33 UTC #2

Most of the characters are dancers/have dance training, as do I
Hrann and I both have synesthesia
I used to have a similar hair style to Hrann when I was around her age
Makleela and I are about the same height
Sora and I share the opinion that 5 is the best number for an idol group

Most of the other major commonalities I can think of are spoilers :\

Congrats on the Top 50 btw!

Leyelle 2024-01-12 22:07:46 UTC #3

oof, don't spoil your own story, just update it later I guess.

I'm so jelly about the dance training tho. And what is synesthesia?

skidiggy 2024-01-12 23:09:15 UTC #4

Ooh, fun prompt!

Iris: We have the same eye color and some of the same health problems.
Zayzann: We both have a "favorite" person, and stick to 'em like glue.
Byxx: We're both big on hugs, puppies and kittens. Both of us like athletic activities (me: hiking / him: fighting).
Khazmine: Other than the thieving thing, we have basically the same personalities and sense of humor. I'd be such a crap thief/brigand/charlatan though.

Leyelle 2024-01-12 23:14:14 UTC #5

good to know you'd be a bad thief, but glad to know you like the prompt tho

morganicfoods 2024-01-13 01:17:07 UTC #6

It's hard to explain.... here's just a dictionary definition:

Basically, when X type of sensory input happens, one also feels Y sensory input.

For me, when I hear (noteably music) or smell something I involuntarily see different shapes and colours in my mind's eye.

Leyelle 2024-01-13 01:21:40 UTC #7

Oooh, I just remembered these ones too:

Alicia is very messy (sad but true)
She knows someone who is very organized and finds her messiness a little annoying, though he's nice about it (though mine is my older brother, not my crush/bff)
Shannon has siblings in creative fields, and so do I (tho mine are actually talented)
She doesn't put much effort into her outfits (sigh, also true, but to be fair, if I was as rich as she is, I would)
She's a combination of ethnicities, and also Hispanic (duh, don't know how I missed that one)
She drinks a lot of tea (bruh, I might be bordering on addiction at this point)
Etan doesn't like working with warm colors in his art (this is me, I always use up all the blues and greens and am left with orange, yellow and red I don't know what to do with.)
Like Kattar, I have a tendency to get angry and want to brood about it, and even hurt the people I love's feelings to make them feel sorry (well, they can't all be good traits)
I'm technically unemployed...(sorry Kattar)

Rai_Muffin 2024-01-13 01:22:07 UTC #8

Natsumi and I share a love for weird food combinations, usually making them sweeter.
Ever fried a kale salad? Sugar it! Thank me later.
Fuyumi is the closest to me personality-wise. She shares me habit of panicking over imaginary worst case scenarios.
Keanu shares my unfortunate habit of forgetting names. I know like 10% of the people I work with names, but they all know mine, which feels really awkward when they make small talk.
Rose and I love curry that will burn your mouth off! Chicken Vindaloo all the way!
Lok inherited my need to plan things out beforehand, then panicking when those plans fall apart. Also we're both garbage at small talk.

Leyelle 2024-01-13 01:25:29 UTC #9

Oooh me me me! I love curry (specifically palak paneer) and am soooo team spicy food. I push my mother to the limit.

kyupol 2024-01-13 01:29:28 UTC #10

Once upon a time, I WAS just like this fat dude in the hospital...

Leyelle 2024-01-13 01:37:00 UTC #11

Ohhh, I hope you're doing better now.

Leyelle 2024-01-13 01:53:29 UTC #12

This isn't me, but it would feel redundant to start a separate thread for this:

Mrs. King is inspired in a lot of ways by my dad's mom: she wraps her front door in gift wrap for Christmas. she burns incense. she buys bowls of nuts she doesn't eat. (she was also the single mom of one son, so that connects as well.) I never met my grandma on my dad's side, because she passed away before I was born, but in a lot of ways she inspired this characters habits and traditions. (the Spanish "little donkey" song she plays every Christmas on a record is also inspired by a record my Abuela purchased my father when he was a little kid.)
Kattar's neatness is probably inspired by my older brother, (though I kind of mentioned it earlier)
Alicia's love for poetry (though I DO know the names) are inspired by me, though my mother is the reason I got into poetry.

kyupol 2024-01-13 07:23:53 UTC #13

Of course... that was around 10 years ago. I'm (hopefully) a lot smarter and more mature now.

kingtubz7 2024-01-13 12:39:24 UTC #14

In Dimensional Detective

Ethan struggles with insomnia, so do i
We both love science
We're both the same height
Tony loves making jokes whether they be bad or good, so do I
Tony and Ethan, including myself, enjoy music from many genres... but we absolutely hate country music

steppdusty 2024-01-14 01:47:22 UTC #15

Antioch and I are both smart asses. Even when it is to our determent.

Mansi_Gu 2024-01-14 02:10:51 UTC #16

Such fun thread!
Here I go:

Mine and I share the same height – 1,55m
Addai and I love drawing and we are introverts (depending on where we are, we just vanish from people’s sight)
Mine represents the struggles I have by seeing myself divided into two conflicting sides: the one that deals with the creative world and loves it the most (Star, the performer) and the one I just graduated from college (Chronos, because time is trying to devour me, but we’ll make it!).
Woltz and I share the same messy schedule and the tendency to overwork.
Lydia and I share the same sexuality and vibe
Aarush once joined a choir, and so I did (and I'm thinking about going back for it)

R.n.P 2024-01-14 16:19:59 UTC #17

I made my main character someone I would hate in real life but the only thing I decided to add to make me like him is that he is a UFC fan like me XD

MK_Wizard 2024-01-14 17:04:45 UTC #18

For Psychoborg, here is the following...

Astra is a natural blonde.
Astra loves hot chocolate.
Both Astra and Psychoborg are devoted to their exercise routine.
Astra is a romantic.
Psychoborg has body image issues (I used to, but that's getting better).

Leyelle 2024-01-14 17:05:45 UTC #19

I hope you both can completely recover

MK_Wizard 2024-01-14 17:15:43 UTC #20

I am and I find that getting shape helped me fall back in love with myself.