OOC: Spring semester was hell so now I'm finally getting around to catching up. As of today, February's questions are completed. Now to work on the other months...

I haven't really been in the "Piper" mood lately (read: past few months) so it's been hard - hopefully this will help!

These will have the same rules as my other posts. Comments are great but what happens here, stays here. :) For this post, I've decided that her answers will be in the comments. Probably be easier considering the circumstances of catching up with five months.

Note: Sometimes it'll be from her POV and at other times it'll be me answering them.


March

1) What games did your character play as a child?

2) What does your character do for recreation?

3) It’s the first day of truly good weather that your character has seen this year. What does she do?

4) Your character is enjoying an outdoor activity away from civilization when a particularly bad storm hits. There are others with her, including children, and there is no man-made shelter nearby. What does she do?

5) A doctor tells your character that she has been fatally injured and that there is no hope for her. How does she handle the situation?

6) Your character is alone in the middle of nowhere. A snake bites her, and she’s/he’s pretty sure it’s a poisonous one. What does she do?

7) How does your character feel about growing old?

8) How does your character feel about her own mortality?

9) What sort of diet does your character eat? Is she a vegetarian? Does he/she like meat? Does she prefer fresh foods, restaurant meals or instant meals?

10) What kind of physical condition is your character in?

11) How easily does your character get bored? How does she respond to boredom?

12) Write numbers down the side of a sheet of paper and list everything that is most important to your character, including abstract principles such as freedom, physical things such as her home and emotional things such as her daughter. Go back and circle the things she’d be willing to fight or die for.

13) What was your character’s last nightmare?

14) What was your character’s last pleasant dream?

15) When your character daydreams, what does she dream about?

16) What’s the worst nightmare your character remembers ever having?

17) Does your character typically remember her dreams?

18) Does your character typically dream in color, or in black and white?

19) What, if any, chronic medical conditions does your character have, and how does she handle and treat them?

20) Your character gets up one morning in the usual fashion, but the sun never rises. What does she do?

21) What is the first thing your character does when she gets up in the morning?

22) What is the last thing your character does before going to bed at night?

23) Whom does your character most love in all the world?

24) What is your character’s most traumatic memory?

25) What scars, birthmarks, tattoos, or other identifying marks does your character have? What stories lie behind them, if any?

26) How would your character’s parents describe her?

27) What is your character’s relationship with her family like?

28) Who is your character’s worst enemy?

29) Who is your character’s best friend?

30) What one person does your character wish she didn’t have to put up with, but feels she has to?

31) If your character developed a handicap or debilitating illness, how would she handle it?


April

1. Who is your character's confidant?

2. Is your character married? Does she have a lover, significant other, girlfriend, boyfriend?

3. Whom does your character live with?

4. If you were to use the speed dial function on your character's telephone, who would answer?

5. How does your character feel about her co-workers? What are they like?

6. To whom did your character give birthday presents last year, and what did she give them?

7. What did your character receive for her last birthday?

8. What is your character's favorite holiday?

9. What is your character's least favorite holiday?

10. How close is your character to her friends? How well do they know her?

11. What is your character's darkest secret? Who else knows about it?

12. Does your character have any siblings? What sort of relationship does she have with them?

13. What is your character's favorite hangout?

14. Where does your character feel most safe?

15. Is your character a "regular" anywhere? What do the other people there think of her?

16. If your character went to a zoo and didn't have time to see everything, which animals would she look at?

17. When your character goes shopping, which stores does she frequent?

18. What is your character's financial situation? How does she feel about it?

19. What hobbies did your character have once, but has since given up on?

20. Has your character ever been fired from a job? If so, why?

21. Has your character ever quit a job? If so, why?

22. Does your character have any children? What kind of relationship does she have with them?

23. Does your character like to read? If so what does he read, and under what circumstances? Is she a casual reader or a die-hard fanatic?
• Make up the titles of three books your character has read in the last year.
• Go to an online bookstore and find three real books your character has bought in the last year. Has she actually read them?

24. What is your character's favorite type of music? Does she have any favorite musicians?
• Make up the names of three fictional bands your character feels strongly about.
• Go to an online music store and find three real albums your character has bought in the last year. Does she still listen to them?

25. Your character wakes up to find that war has been declared. What does she do?

26. When she was a child, what did your character want to be when she grew up?

27. Is your character doing the job she always thought she wanted to do when she grew up? If so, is it all she thought it would be? If not, why not and does she have any regrets?

28. What does your character wish she could do that she can't? How badly does she want it and what would she do to get it?

29. What item does your character wish she possessed that she doesn't? How badly does she want it and what would she do to get it?
• Think back to when your character was five years old, eight years old, twelve years old.
Write a holiday gift wish-list from her point of view.
• How does your character feel about physical possessions in a general sense?

30. What is your character's most treasured possession?


May

1. What is your character's secret dream? What one goal, ambition or desire does she keep hidden from others, and why? What would she do to achieve it?
• Write a list of your character's top five lifetime achievement goals.
• Starting at age 15, write down one major goal for each five years of your character's life until her current age.

2. What is your character's worst fear? How far would she go to avoid it?

3. If your character could be any famous person, whom would she choose and why?
• List your character's favorite celebrities.
• How does your character feel about the concept of fame and celebrity in general?
• Is your character more interested in entertainment figures or historically significant figures?

4. If your character could achieve any one position of authority, what would she choose and why?

5. If your character could change the entire world in one tiny but pervasive way, what would it be?

6. If your character knew she would die tomorrow, what would she do today?

7. Who was your character's favorite teacher and why?

8. Does your character tend to focus her efforts on one project at a time, or does she spread her efforts across a variety of projects?

9. Does your character like to cook? If so, what does she like to cook and how good is she at it?

10. If someone tried to blackmail your character, what would she do? How easy or difficult would it be?

11. If your character needed a security clearance for a job she wanted, would she be able to get one?

12. There's someone who hates your character, but your character doesn't realize it. Who is this person and why does he hate your character so much?
• How would your character find out?
• What would she do about it?

13. Someone is secretly in love with your character. Who is it and how does your character feel about him?

14. Is your character at all spiritual or religious? If so, what religion or spiritual path does she follow? How devout is she?
• Does she hate all members of any religion(s)?
• Is she tolerant of other religions? If so, how tolerant?

15. What hurt will your character never forgive? How old (and how minor or major) is this hurt? How much does it affect her life?

16. One of your character's parents said something to her that she'll never forget. What are the words that will always echo in her ears?

17. What is your character's favorite color to wear? Is it the same as or different than her favorite color?

18. Open up your character's kitchen cupboards. What do you see?

19. What does a typical grocery list look like for your character?

20. Does your character prefer recreational activities that involve other people, or solo activities?

21. Does your character ever get drunk or high? What is she like at those times?
• What are her drugs of choice? Are they legal or illegal? If illegal, how does she obtain them and justify their use?
• Does she have an addictive personality?
• Is she addicted to anything? If so, how does it affect her life?

22. From your point of view, what is your character's worst flaw?

23. From your point of view, what is your character's greatest strength?

24. From the point of view of someone close to your character, what is her worst flaw?

25. A stray cat (or dog) shows up on your character's doorstep several days in a row and appears to have no home. What does she do?

26. From the point of view of someone close to your character, what is her greatest strength?

27. Your character arrives home to find her door unlocked and slightly ajar, and she's sure she locked it on her way out. What does she do?
• Why is it unlocked?

28. From your character's point of view, what is her worst flaw?

29. If someone told your character that she had a mental illness, how would she react?
• What if a close friend suggested it?
• What if a professional made an official diagnosis?
• What if a close friend or relative of hers was given the diagnosis instead?

30. Is your character an introvert or an extrovert?

31. From your character's point of view, what is her greatest strength?


June

1. A stranger knocks on your character's door in the middle of the night and asks for help. Does your character open the door and let the stranger in?
• What if the stranger is a tattooed, wiry man with blood on his face?
• What if the stranger is a weary-looking old lady?
• What if the stranger is a twelve-year-old child who keeps looking around as though someone
is following him?

2. Does your character have any allergies or sensitivities? How do they affect his life?

3. Is your character progressive, using new technologies as they become available? Is he slow to
adapt to technological change? Or is he middle-of-the-road, waiting to see if things work but using them as soon as he's satisfied that they do?

4. Your character receives a mysterious package. There's no return address (or not one that he
recognizes) and he wasn't expecting anything. What does he do?
• The package is unusually heavy and the label is hand-lettered in a handwriting he doesn't
recognize.
• The package is a thin manila envelope with a printed label.
• There seems to be a faint vibration coming from the package and it was left on his doorstep.
• The package is large and was delivered through a reputable shipping service.

5. Does your character enjoy camping outdoors?

6. Does your character know how to hunt or fish? Is he good at it? Does he do it for recreation or for food?

7. What is the one major regret your character has about his life so far? Does he plan to do anything about it, and if so, what?

8. What one major thing does your character want to accomplish in his life to come?

9. How does your character want to live out his older years?

10. Overall, is your character satisfied with his childhood?

11. Your character has an award someone gave him sitting on a shelf. What is it for, and what are the circumstances under which he received it?
• Is he proud of it or embarrassed by it?
• Does he feel that he deserved it?

12. Has your character ever been arrested? For what? Did he deserve it? Does he feel that he deserved it?

13. Has your character ever struck someone in anger?

14. Has your character ever killed anyone?

15. Is your character adventurous when it comes to food? Does he like to try out new cuisines?

16. What is your character's idea of a perfect day?

17. What is your character's idea of a perfect meal?

18. Is your character an optimist or a pessimist?

19. What sort of sense of humor does your character have?

20. Is your character ambitious?

21. What makes your character proud?

22. What makes your character embarrassed?

23. Does your character look both ways before crossing the street?

24. What method of transportation does your character use? If he drives a car, for example, what kind of car does he drive?

25. Someone tries to rob your character on the street. What does he do? What is he carrying that the robbers might want? Is it a random incident or was he targeted?

26. Does your character keep in touch with childhood friends? Which ones and why?

27. Is there anything that can get a smile out of your character no matter how sad or upset he is?

28. Is there anything that can upset or anger your character no matter how happy he is?

29. What makes your character feel righteously angry?

30. What does your character most like to do to celebrate his birthday?
• Pick your character's favorite birthday and write it up in narrative form.
• Pick your character's least favorite birthday and write it up in narrative form.


July

1. What is your character's least favorite holiday or celebration?

2. For whom did your character buy birthday gifts last year? What did she get for them?

3. Does your character believe in ghosts, the occult, aliens, or the supernatural? If so, why?

4. Does your character believe she has had any personal encounters with ghosts, the occult, aliens, or the supernatural?

5. Does your character believe in astrology, palmistry, tarot, or other methods of divination?
• Do a reading for your character and see what it suggests.

6. Has your character ever been to an astrologer, palmist, or other psychic? If so, what predictions were made for her? How does she feel about them, and have they come true?

7. How does your character feel about sex? What mores and morals does she apply to it?

8. What sort of relationship did (or does) your character have with her parents?

9. If someone asked your character what the most important rule to live by was, how would she answer?

10. What is the worst gift your character ever received?

11. Has your character ever deliberately set out to emotionally hurt someone?

12. Describe one unconscious drive, ambition or goal your character possesses that she would never consciously admit to herself or to others.

13. Detail one secret shame your character feels.

14. What is the best meal your character ever had?

15. Is there anyone your character despises?

16. Is there anyone your character would die to protect?

17. What is the worst news your character has ever received? How did she handle it?

18. Your character just received an envelope. Whatever it is, the idea of opening it fills her with dread. What is it? And what happens when she opens it?

19. How does your character feel about her government?

20. Does your character care about politics? How vehemently, and what are her views?

21. Is there any political issue that could motivate your character to violence?

22. List five things that could motivate your character to use violence.

23. List three things that could motivate your character to kill.

24. List several phrases your character is fond of uttering. Where did she pick them up?

25. How does your character feel about romantic relationships?

26. What is your character's romantic history?

27. What is the best romantic relationship your character has ever had?

28. What is the worst romantic relationship your character has ever had?

29. If your character hasn't yet settled down with someone, what could motivate her to do so? If she has, what could motivate her to change her mind again?

30. If your character has a romantic partner, would that person ever cheat on her?
• Describe the circumstances under which your character's partner might cheat on her.
• Describe the kind of person who could convince your character's partner to cheat on her.

31. Would your character ever cheat on a romantic partner?
• Describe the circumstances under which your character might cheat on her partner.
• Describe the kind of person who could convince your character to cheat on her partner.