30 Days of Writing Questions - Day 5

5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest?

How about "youngest" and "oldest" in terms of when you created them?

Oh gosh dude, I'm not sure who the youngest is age wise because my characters all grow up. I mean I have a lot of stories about kids and they grow up into adults so...um the youngest I started is I guess Esteban in the Destiverse book Deep Into Darkness Peering, the story of Esteban and Balthazar's childhood, where he starts to clearly form his character inside his mom's womb, same thing for Balthazar actually. I think those are the only two characters who are really talked about pre-birth. As for oldest character in terms of age. That would probably be Erion, also in the Destiverse, who is thousands of years old. Runners up are Molly and May in the Destiverse, who are twins that are only two years younger than Erion. They're both fairies (atucally they're both a mixture of fairy and something else) and we get the background story on all three of them when they were only about a few hundred years old (teenagers in the fairy timeline) in the book The Dawn of Time.

Youngest and oldest in terms of when they were created is a lot easier to answer. Obviously the oldest character I have is the first one I created: Albert F. Coldsman. (although since we created characters while playing on the playground I guess you could say Ruffles the cat is really the oldest). The youngest...hmm...who's the most recent character I've created? I haven't really written much for a long time and most of the things I've written recently are Twisted Tales where the characters are already from folktales and The Gift Bearer, where the characters were made 10 years ago.

I guess we'll go with the most recent character that I've spent a lot of time working on, although I haven't actually put her in anything yet because the TV show she's in never got off the ground and I haven't written the short stories about her I have planned yet. Her name is Alaine De Rocher and she's a reformed Ghost Hunter in the Cursiverse who was chosen by The Greater Order (in the form of the Catholic God) to fight against the Devil and his minions. She spent years capturing and torturing the ghosts/souls of people and is headed for hell until she hunts down a spirit in a monestary which turns out the be the Holy Spirit which relgiously kicks her ass. She wakes up in a hospital five weeks later with a new lease on life, a goal, white hair, and a killer headache. Her quest is to free twice as many souls as she captured if she wants to get to heaven, and defeat Lucifer a number of times along the way. She's sort of a Catholic superhero. She travels off and on with four ghosts who she has not yet been able to help but will. One is her mentor, an English monk who had a crisis of faith in the 15th century and committed suicide and now needs to help her in order to redeem his soul, one is the ghost of an 18th Century Spanish Colonial lady from St. Louis, one is a 1890s murdered showgirl from Boston, and the other is a 1960s hippee from California who traveled the world. She's a really fun character to play with and I really need to actually put her in something.

Alaine De Rocher, created using stock images from deviantart

http://illishar.deviantart.com/gallery/4416837#/d1dy2fq