At the risk of telling all...

[evillurks]

I've given my characters a healthy dose of Veritaserum and now they have to tell the truth. None of them are likely to be terribly happy about this, at all. They all guard their secrets closely. What does this mean for you? Ask my characters questions about anything and everything and they will truthfully answer it. So, go ahead and ask what you want. They can't beat around the bush with half-truths.

This applies to any and all of my characters:
evillurks
name_of_thorn
janitor_thorn
a_crumrin
Any others you can think of that are no longer active, as well... Replies will be slow.

Comments

[sarah-branigan.livejournal.com]

Question time!

1. Has The Shadow's opinion of Sarah changed at all, since from when he first met her?

2. Is Janitor Thorn's dad still alive (the fae one)? How old is Janitor Thorn? Do you think he'll be friends with Tom?

3. Is the artificial heart going to work for Aloysius? :(

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

1. Very little, but he has grown to trust her more. He does not put her on a level with his agents, the way he does Myra or Metody, but he certainly considers her a useful ally. Because of her mistrust of authority, Courtney is on a similar level with him. He recognizes neither she nor Sarah would ever give him the kind of devotion he expects from an agent. Yes, there is a touch of ego to that, but it's also a practical matter where trust is of the highest importance. He'd like to know more about Sarah, but he hasn't had the time to investigate her, so to speak.

2. Almost certainly, yes, but since he left the country Thorn is something of a write-off. There is a slim chance his human adoptive father is still alive, but he'd be very old.
Thorn is around fifty or so, if I remember right. He has all but ceased to age, and might look younger than mid-thirties if he lost the blisters, and did not look so permanantly distressed.
I can see him becoming fairly good friends with Tom, actually. It will just take time. Thorn has an easier time relating to those he sees as lower in social class, which is why he gets along with Rat so well. He should quickly realize Tom is also eking out a living at the bottom of the barrel. Once he gets over his guilt and shyness, they should be fine.

3. It will, simply because it's not our intention for him to die. Tying in Arlen to make an artificial heart was entirely Courtney's player's idea, but it's a beautiful one. Thorn (the younger one) will be acting as Arlen's assistant, because I've been looking for him to get a job again. It ties a lot of characters very neatly together with a purpose. The whole situation came up because I'd been quietly in the background playing him as having some trouble since his blow to the chest fighting Templeton, and then the latest comic came out and said he actually had a heart problem, which is a lot of alarming coincidence.

[too-late4tom.livejournal.com]

Tired of switching accounts. Forgive me. ;_;

1. Sarah's loyalties definitely lie elsewhere, but she's glad to help medically. If he ever decides to 'investigate' her, he'll be able to find out her life story in, like, five minutes.

2. Sarah still would like to pummel Thorn's dad. She doesn't care if he's a big, bad fae. >:( She never mentioned meeting his alternate's future self, by the way. She decided it would be too weird and potentially distressing to Thorn.

Yay!

3. Whew! Sarah would be very sad if Aloysius didn't make it.

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

Of course! The computer here is acting up, which is making it tricky, but I think I'm mostly down to Thorn now.

1. He will, at some point, but he's a very busy man. He's got his hands into three different worlds right now, and he's trying to recover. If there is any weak point in his body it is his lungs, since he's a former smoker and has been gassed and waded through smoke countless times. This is not proving an easy recovery, although that's partly so I have an excuse for him to be quiet while the plot with Janitor Thorn is going.

2. It's hard to say which father did him more wrong, really. Both have treated him as a contract to be bargained and battled over, and therefore worthless as a person.
Both versions of Thorn would be horrified if they knew, but I think the blow would be harder on janitor Thorn, who is likely to never come close to attaining that state. I'd prefer to see him take the path of learning to be content with who he is.

3. I didn't realize anyone was worried OOC. I thought it was a bit like a movie. The main characters never die, at least not with any permanancy. It would traumatize Courtney, and she's had enough of that.

[too-late4tom.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the delay, I had to wrap up at work and come home and then I couldn't get in because the carpenter has my key.

2. Sarah would pummel his adoptive dad, too, but she assumes he's dead, since she knows that Thorn is a lot older than he lets on.

3. I dunno, it all seemed very serious, so I was a little worried. ;)

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

In the meantime I wandered away myself, and then the keyboard was rather taken over this evening.

The image of her pummeling some frail old aristocrat in a wheelchair is mildly amusing...

Sorry, but it will all turn out all right in the end. We just go in for the occasional melodrama with the Crumrins.