Back in January, my friend and fellow author, Sam Dogra, tagged me in a character development challenge. I started working on my answers before her post went live, but it’s taken me till now to finally finish them. I’ve spent ten years getting to know this character, yet there were things I didn’t know about him till I filled out this questionnaire. It was quite a lot of fun, and I’m thinking about turning this into a series of posts about each of my main characters.
I’ve done this as an interview. I hope you enjoy learning about Vatren as much as I did! 🙂
Vatren
Artwork by Hazel Butler
What position do you sleep in? ( i.e; stomach, side, back, etc.) Why?
I sleep on my back, propped up a bit so that I appear awake from a distance. I used to sleep flat on my back, but these are dangerous times.
Do you have any noteworthy features? Freckles? Dimples? A scar somewhere unusual?
I’m afraid not. I’m perfectly ordinary, except for the prince bit.
Do you have an accent? What does it sound like?
An accent? Of course not. I speak normally. Well, as normally as any other noble Lokani citizen. Accents belong to the poor and uneducated. But not to me.
Do you have any verbal tics? Do you have trouble pronouncing certain words or getting your thoughts across clearly?
Verbal what? Well…
One of the things I love to read in the spring (yes, there are a couple of them) is my collection of Shakespearean sonnets. I don’t know why, but poetry and spring are inextricably linked for me (which works out well, since April is National Poetry Month).
Suddenly they all died. The end. 