Thus far, who is your favourite character in Far Away Home and why?
Hoo boy…I have such a hard time choosing favorite characters…
I admire your ability to write stories with complex, realistic, three-dimensional characters; even the ones in
Far Away Home whom I do not find entirely likable (e.g., Glide, Eybron, even Sky to some extent) are interesting to me. Doesn't help that since I've been reading
Far Away Home over the course of more than a year, there's a lot of details I can't remember that could potentially affect my answer. :unsure: Oh well; I'll just base my answer on what recollection I have.
Gentry is a character who has interested me from the start, partly because I like
Struthiomimus,
but also because, as you mentioned once, egg stealers have the distinction of effectively being able to choose the lifestyle of either a sharptooth or a leafeater (more precisely, they can either stick to plants and coexist with leafeaters, or live as nest-raiders and be seen as enemies). Gentry, having a taste for eggs but being a sympathetic character who is more amiable than the egg stealers we have seen in the LBT series, is sort of inbetween; he'd have a hard time living peaceably in a place like the Great Valley, but he's clearly a nice guy. Misfit characters like that just appeal to me, I guess.
I've also grown rather fond of Aizon. Just the fact that he wears glasses that he made himself endears him to me.
He's a somewhat mysterious character with a lot of untold backstory (such as his history with Siak and the jungle runners, and the other wingtails, for that matter). There's also his unique political standing; he's the only wingtail character who has been seen to be actively and devotedly engaged in ending the conflict between the wingtails and the jungle runners. Then there's the fact that he's friendly to dinosaurs outside his species, which is just a likable trait.
I'd also be lying if I didn't say Siak, not so much because she's my OC, but because, similarly to Gentry, she's in the interesting position of being amiable towards leafeaters while having a carnivorous diet. While I've been shy to say so, I'd really like to see you do a chapter on her for
Ruby in the Jungle, just because I'm interested to see what you'll do with her.
If non-OCs count, then I really like your portrayal of Ruby. She's a character I was fond of in the first place, and I think it's great that she has such a key role in this story. (It's something I haven't seen in a lot of other LBT fanfics.) I'm finding it a little hard to elaborate, but suffice to say that I admire her sense of duty and leadership in this story.
Also... do you like any types of alcoholic drinks? If so, which ones and when?
I very rarely drink any alcohol. While I like to occasionally taste new alcoholic drinks, almost every kind I have tried so far has been far too bitter for my tastes. An exception is champagne, which I first tried at a pre-graduation dinner ceremony this May, and again last month after my grandmother's funeral. It tastes okay to me; maybe the fizziness of it covers the bitterness somewhat. However, the last time I drank it, I felt a little woozy and unfocused afterwards (well, more than usual
), even though I'd only had one glass. Evidently my body doesn't metabolize alcohol very well, probably partly because I drink it so sparingly. Because my inclination to avoid the negative side affects of imbibing alcohol is stronger than whatever liking I may have for the flavor (I much prefer soda like Sprite and root beer anyway), even champagne isn't something I would typically drink outside of special occasions when it is readily available (i.e., I wouldn't bother to go out and buy a bottle for myself).
I also remember having one or two frozen margaritas (or a similar kind of drink) at a restaurant shortly after my graduation. I thought it was good, since the fruit flavor covered up the taste of the alcohol. Since I liked the flavor (and don't recall feeling any ill effects afterwards), there's a fairly good chance that I would order a beverage like that the next time I visit such a restaurant, though again it's not something I would drink on a regular basis.
