Hoo boy, catching up slowly but surely...
16. Enjoy writing dialog? Absolutely! I often type all the dialogue in a separate txt file in an attempt to keep it short (not often the case, lol). But I love it when characters have philosophical tirades or explore each others views. Glad it's a drama.
18. funniest/saddest/romantic? Upcoming scenes? Well, "The Tryons" I think had the saddest moment of Alec under his desk after a mental episode. "Pestilence" has it's fair share of drama and humor. "The Blind Owls" I think was highly suspenseful. Not a lot of romance yet, but it's coming. And the saddest moment in my story will be coming in Season Four: The Black Order, but it won't be for a long while.
19. Moment where you realized you had a lot to learn as a writer/artist? Honest, after uploading two months of content then going to the forums for a review. I learned too late that my text was barely readable and that nothing was funny about the opening scene(I had put comedy as the main genre because it had a different direction than what has actually transpired. I'm actually really glad for that review, cause once I put it in the Drama category, the story began to almost write itself. There's still comedy though, to lighten up the tone. Enjoy it folks, cause The Black Order will have very little of ha-ha moments. Still got a long way to go as an artist, I believe.
20. Similarities/differences in other series? Well, comparing "Friar Chicken"(FC) to "The Last Train"(TLT), obviously, they're both about chickens. TLT chickens wear clothes while FC chickens don't. TLT has a female lead while FC has a male lead. TLT is a bit darker than FC and less humorous. Plus, it's shorter.
I'm gonna extend/continue the TLT series and both series will get darker but will end on lighter/bittersweet notes.
21. Main idea behind story? Faith and consumerism? Social order? I honestly don't know yet...
22. Do any chars write themselves? I guess Friar in a way, cause I know him the most. He always says "cannot" instead of "can't" which lends to his more eloquent way of speaking (and he's one of the few chickens who can read and write, so that's saying something) Also, he's a bit of a know-it-all, stubborn, and overly-confident, so, yeah, he definitely writes himself at times without my intervention XD

I think that, oddly enough, the ones who surprised me the most were Agarath and Aiden - both antagonists and "villains" of the story. Aiden will still officially debut in chapters ahead, and his actions will be controversial in many ways, mostly because he's very unpredictable (he can surprise either positively or negatively). Agarath, on the other hand, had a crucial role in crushing Mine's soul and rebuilding it, helping him with the Chronos' mask issue.
These two are >despicable<, but their roles turned out to be crucial for the story

It would be Naaririel without his owl mask. Think of Gojo except for longer white hair and heterochromia eyes.
Elyn is a close second especially when she gets older.

I have said this before in another thread but for Tales of Valor is definitely Carter, In my first drafts he was just the bully archetype for the main character to have a minor human antagonist, but then I realized that as I was developing more chapters that mention him I started to like the dynamics he had with Ozwald and Higen.

From the journey I would go with Parker, he is the one character I have that is not very emotional, most of his dialogs are made with his head, not his heart, but on rare moments his mask slips and you see the fun guy he is and at first I thought "I don't think this scene fits him" but the more I read it I liked to show his personality, he grew on me.

When I organized the plot for my story, I think about some of the ideas that may be deemed too intense or too dark to include. War of Neytives is intended to have real life issues, major character deaths, physical/mental disabilities, and others things put under the mature rating. It's not so that readers have a hard time getting through the story, but to shed some light on certain matters and progress the story, plot-wise. If these things don't happen, then my characters will feel lackluster.

Nah, but it's honestly a struggle for me to keep a balance. I don't like novels that are too edgy or bleak for bleakness's sake. But I find it so much more believable to have bad things just continually happening than for any good things to happen lolol. I think in my own life, I'm a pretty optimistic person. But when considering questions about how society is going to evolve or what the people with all the power are going to do... I mean, obviously, the answers are "in the worst possible way" and "the worst possible thing," respectively.

In the novel itself, the main character frequently ruminates on how much easier it is to tear things down than to build them back up, and how much better he is at the former than the latter. I think I have the same problem, narratively. It's so easy to make the world believably go to shit and so much harder to make it believably improve. If I knew how to fix a broken society, I'd be running for office, not writing gay fantasy stories on Tapas.

https://tapas.io/series/Big-Dead-Energy/info

My artist friends always inspire me to pick my tablet´s pen and draw something after I see their latest uploads, for writers it kinda depends on the writer I recently joined a book club and so far none of the books have blown me away but when I read something from here or other sites it catches my attention quicker.

Q1: Hottest Character
Honestly, Dahlia. She's a side character that hasn't made her debut in the story yet, but yeah. She can shapeshift between male and female (or whatever she wants to look like) but she sorta stays true to her original appearance, and every aspect of her whether she's being ultra feminine, androgynous, or hyper masculine (in my head anyway) is just sexy. Maybe I can explore that more when she gets a stand-alone story.

There's also a villainous assassin called Fei that i actually seemed to have gone out of my way to describe him as a little beauty.

by stories, complete and wip:
SoF: Dahlia. Zane. Zane is Dahlia's half brother and in my head drools
Unnamed Novella: Pierce (imagine Karl Urban as Cupid)
SoF unnamed Sequel: I'm only a chapter in! So...I'mma say Amadeus.

Q:2 Smartest Character
Pasha. XD He's only a year old when he briefly appears, but he'll have a bigger role in the future. He's meant to be very smart and even eventually solves a big problem in the world, almost single handedly.

But if we're talking characters in the first story, probably Amadeus. He seems to be very sharp. He's only a tertiary character, but he's been demonstrating his intellegence.

Q:3 What story is next?
For now I'll be writing stories set in the same world. My tentative short-term plan is an introductory duology or trilogy with smaller stories scattered between and after. In fact the next thing I post will probably not be the direct sequel to Songs of Fate but a novella centering on a smaller, more concise and contained story.

Q4 What is your writing super power?
Powering through I think? Just getting it written is 99.99999999% of the trouble a lot of people have. Although this super power can be spotty XD

Q5 How long do your couples usually know each other before they become official?
This is a problem. IDK yet Romance hasn't been the main focus of my writing in a very long time. I think it will depend on the couple going forward. That's what the "smaller stories" will concentrate on.

7: What character is your favorite to write (story by story)
Britiana has always been one of my favorite characters. She started life as a rp character so she's been with me a very long time.

8: Who is your most difficult character to write?
Chrystianna. I just don't really connect with her like I do with almost every other character. Even the "bad guys" are easier to write. IDK why. So I'm always a bit afraid she comes off one dimensional?

9: What is your favorite dynamic to write overall? What about just non romantic ones? What about just romantic ones?
NR-Britiana and Darius when they have their bickering moments. They are siblings.
NR-Amadeus and Lazarus. They're cousins with great teamwork.
Sonja and Zane.
R-Chrystianna and Elias. When she's interacting with him is among the few times I find writing her easiest.

10. Who are your favorite couples in your stories?
Eek. Again. Not much romance so far so I haven't written much coupley-ness, but back when they were first conceptualized, I like Amadeus and Luna a lot but that dynamic is still awhile off. Oh and my flights of fancy about Pasha and Damion have been top notch XD

8: Do you like writing siblings in your stories?
sigh Entirely too much. I've had tendencies in the past when writing fanfic of "everyone's related to this or that important character!" as well x_X But that shouldn't be too much of a problem in Emphyralis given the scope. I just have siblings and cousins everywhere!

10: Do any of your characters really make you hate them?
Draycen and Adonis. They are "bad guys" without big parts, but there's this unlikeability about them both to me. Like Adonis is kinda greasy and smarmy and Draycen just gives me ick vibes. It probably hasn't come across in writing yet, but this is how they are in my head.

11: How important are parents to your stories?
Family is a core concept in my story. Chrystianna is the mother of the two main characters. It's her driving force to save her children that kicks off the series.

12: Who are your favorite side characters?
OMG! Amadeus and Lazarus for sure! Delaney and Sariya. I love Sariya so much I have bonus chapters dedicated solely to her, but she's existed as a character even longer than Britiana so that might be why. Dahlia. She only had a small role, but I think she makes an impression.
Not a side character at all, but there's a minor character that comes in in the last 4th of the story called Gorka who just stole the freakin show. He cracks me tf up!

13: What character do you think is your most unique design?
Sariya. Not because dark elves are rare, especially in a fantasy novel, but i think she's unique in a lot of ways. Compared to how I structured her society, she's small for her race because of thinsg that will be told in her bonus chapters. Unlike every other character, she knows practically no magic and makes her living by hunting. Being a dark elf in the group also makes her stand out, but thats just in the group.

14: What's the hardest chapter/episode you've written so far?
the last fight/battle. Ugh. I used to write power rangers fanfiction where i'd adapt super sentai episodes and even when I visually had a guide to how the fight went, it was still a pain in the arse to write. This time i had to choreograph in my head from scratch ;_; i know it will probably be disappointing to readers, and will have to think about how to make it better when i go to edit it.

15: Who is your most fun character to draw (or if it's a novel) which of your characters aesthetics/fashion statements to you find the most fun?
I can't wait to design Sariya. I haven't felt very artsy, and I only do pixel art, but i did design an emoji head for her XD

16: Do you enjoy writing dialog (specifically long conversations?)
yeah buddy.

18: What's the funniest chapter you've released so far? What is the saddest? What is the most romantic? Are any other scenes coming that will knock these chapters off their pedestals.
i don't which one would be the funniest. Perhaps, because of the character I mentioned before, Gorka, it would be the final fight. The saddest is one in which a funeral happens, but it was a "bad guy" so there's more a reflection centered, where his oldest sister while sad, reflects back on how he got to that point, and his wife tries not to lose her temper at his sisters, and feel heartache for their children. It's probably the most emotional chapter and these aren't even the main characters in the main storyline.

In my personal opinion, my deuteragonist named Ren Yoshimaru is the most attractive. A killer suit can be, well... killer. He's also got a clean haircut and a sharp look in his eyes.

As for the smartest character, that would probably be the ye old "older mentor" character. In this case, that would be Dallon Brookes, the owner of the poker house in Liberty City. While Ren might be the most book smart, Dallon beats out most characters with overall intelligence and wisdom.