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@ahogedetective​ said:  What made you pick up the muse you have? (and!) Favorite food?

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Picking up Sonia for a muse was actually a really easy choice for me! Let me explain a bit of my roleplaying and writing (fanfic, original) history:

I’ve been roleplaying and writing fanfic for a really, really long time (longer than some roleplayers on tumblr have been alive). In that time, I’ve written a lot in the Harry Potter fandom (I wrote Hermione Granger as a muse for nearly ten years and Narcissa Black/Malfoy for 3-4 of those as well?) and plenty in the anime fandom, but mostly action ladies and femme fatales. But after awhile, I began to get burned out on writing in general, and so I took a break. For a very long time. 

When I decided I wanted to dip my toes into writing again, I decided I wanted to write something different, with a different type of character that interests me. That translated into some 1x1 and group RPs for various things, but mostly historical dramas and teen dramas that mostly revolved around Rich People Problems. I wanted to write something I sincerely enjoy and I found myself reading (and re-reading) plenty of novels relating to the problems and pitfalls of social class. But all of those 1x1 and group RPs died, and I realized groups especially weren’t for me.

Enter the indie RPC.

This was about the time that two things happened: Persona 5 came out and, after having lukewarm feelings about DR: Trigger Happy Havoc, I decided to give Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair a try. And I was then stuck with not one but two possible muse ideas: Haru Okumura and Sonia Nevermind. I really love both characters, but ultimately I went with Sonia. For a few reasons:

1. I enjoy reading, watching, and writing content about royalty. Royalty of all different cultures, but royalty all the same. It’s not just issues of the wealthy, there’s so much more to it. 

2. For Sonia specifically, I love her contrast between looks and personality. She’s stereotypically beautiful, that’s for sure, but she’s cheerful, energetic, optimistic, and obsessed with things that most wouldn’t think a princess to enjoy: the occult, serial killers, freemasonry. She’s also an incredible linguist and more than apt with military equipment and strategy. That’s fascinating to me, someone who has spent her life sheltered and privileged just wanting to experience a normal life while wanting to be seen as a person, and not just for her looks/title/wealth.

3. I’m really, really bad at video games. The idea of trying to play Persona 5 is daunting. I’ve tried. I cannot get the hand eye coordination down to progress during the fighting scenes to get to the story, and that annoys me. I’ve seen the anime but I know it’s not a complete story, and thus I felt I wouldn’t do Haru justice.

And so, writing for Sonia made perfect sense: she fulfills the sorts of topics and issues I like to explore and she’s so much more than what’s on the surface.

And after that long explanation, some food talk!

It is really hard to pick a favorite food, really! If I had to choose my favorite dishes, it would probably be chicken tikka masala and spaghetti carbonara. But some of my favorite meals include afternoon tea (with free refills on tea and food, preferably. And a glass of champagne), curry of all sorts (Indian, Thai, Japanese, you name it), Korean BBQ, French, and Japanese izakaya fare.

 I’m also super happy in cheap (mostly U.K.) chains because I have a lot of nostalgia for them: Wetherspoon’s pubs, Greggs, Nando’s, sandwiches from Marks and Spencer food and Waitrose, Pizza Express, etc. I’m pretty sure most of these aren’t remotely high quality food, but the memories associated with them are strong.

Choosing a dessert is the hardest thing for me to do when dining out and I have a weakness for cannoli. To the point I’m determined to have a cannoli cake for my birthday this year. I also love good macarons.

Realistically though, right now my food love is a small salad chain that does cold and warm salads. You can make your own but the premade ones are delicious! They’re a little expensive, but they’re super healthy and despite it being a counter service place, it’s way better than a lot of salads I’d get in a sit-down restaurant. I go there at least once a week at this rate.