Re: JR’s Characters

Thanks dude.

Anyway, last interview.

Ok girls, we’ll kick off with the big one. How did you two meet?

Lili: I think it must have been at Alex’s party right?
Danni: Yeah. My then-neighbour Sarah threw a big birthday party for her boyfriend, Alex, and invited me and my flat-mates, as a way of making sure we didn’t complain about the noise I guess. So we went along.
Lili: I was a friend of Alex’s so I got invited too. I think it was Sarah who introduced us to each other, but I can’t exactly remember too much about it. It was a good couple of years ago now.

So, how did you two end up getting together?

Danni: Oh god. (*covers her face with her hands*)
Lili: Well, it was a bit awkward.
Danni: Awkward?! It was soooooo embarrassing. (*Goes completely red faced*)
Lili: We’d been skirting around each other for a good couple of months. It’s kinda hard to make a move when you have a crush on another girl, because not only are you worried that they might not be into you, but they might not even go that way at all.
Danni: I mean, I knew you were a lesbian anyway, Sarah had told me after the party. She was always trying to set me up with someone.
Lili: Sarah was trying to set you up with me? That sounds so like her.
Danni: Yeah, but I didn’t think you’d like me because at first it seemed like we were so different. When we first met you were so boisterous and out-going and I just wasn’t, but after hanging out together more I got to see a different side to you, one that I could relate to more and made me feel like it could work.
Lili: Maybe it would have been a whole lot easier if one of us had actually said something eh?
Danni: Probably.
Lili: Yeah, but anyway. One night, we were both at a friends party. It wasn’t all that great of a party to be honest, but someone got absolutely wasted and started getting… intimate. (*Danni starts blushing even worse than previously*) Well, considering the state she was in, I could leave her to get home all by herself and considering my flat wasn’t as far away, I lent her my bed for the night and crashed on the couch.
Danni: You can imagine how disorientated I felt next morning. Hungover and with my last memories of being at the party, I had no idea what was going on. And then at breakfast…..
Lili: Yeah, that was super awkward. But it would have been even more awkward had I not asked, considering some of the stuff you said the previous night. I couldn’t just let it sit in the corner and pretend it wasn’t there.
Danni: I suppose.
Lili: So, yeah. That’s the story.

Lili, you mentioned your mother said that she’d like Grandchildren one day. Is that something you’ve ever thought about or discussed?

Lili: What?! (*goes wide eyed in shock*) No, no we haven’t thought about that at all! What on Earth made you ask that?
Danni: I know it is possible now a-days for us to have a child, and we could even adopt, but..
Lili: Adopt, are you crazy! I’m barely able to look after of my self, let alone a child!
Danni: If you’d let me finish, dear, I was going to say “but I don’t think it’s something we’d be looking to do in the immediate future”.
Lili: Oh, ok. (*Looks around sheepishly*)
Danni: But it’s nice to know how you stand on the subject babe.
(*Danni winks and Lili goes bright red and hides her face behind a pillow*)
Danni: So, yeah, I don’t think we’d be looking to have kids any time soon.

Ok girls, I do think that wraps up the interview. Thanks for your time.

Danni: Thats ok. I hope it helped.

Yup it did. Oh and Lili, don’t worry, I don’t have any plans for you two to have kids yet either…. you hope. (*Evil smirk*)

(*Lili throws the pillow she was hiding her face behind at JR*)

Lili: Shut Up.

Just kidding. Thanks again girls. See you later.

Danni: Bye.
Lili: Later dude.

If you guys are interested in reading about what happened at the party mentioned in the second question, Atomic Punk wrote an awesome short about it on his Tell My Story thread last year:
http://www.heromachine.com/forum/writing-contests-and-challenges/tell-my-story/page-4/

Wait, did I say I was done?
Sorry, I’m not. The interview might be over but there’s still one thing left to do. You see, these interviews were done in character, so it was the characters answering the questions, how they see things, how they want you to see them. So, hows about we take a sneak peak at my thoughts on this, because I can promise you there is a lot more to these two than they’ve let on.

Ok, so the thing I find the most interesting about these two is why they stay together, why they love each other. Now I’m not saying Danni was lying in her interview, but I think it was only half the truth. And I’m not sure either of them really know the full truth. The way I see it is they love each other because they both provide security for the other. With Lili, Danni can be herself, she doesn’t have to be forced into unwanted interactions, because Lili is there to take the lead and deflect most of the attention onto herself. Danni is quite shy and as any shy or socially awkward person will tell you, it is the worst thing to be forced into interacting with strangers or someone you don’t want to talk to/ be with, but Lili protects her from that, and Danni can’t help but love her for that.
In Lili’s case, Danni provides her with security just by being there. I think that what happened between her parents and to her father afterwards had a deeper effect on Lili than she would like to admit. She has a deep rooted fear of being alone in life, and with Danni she can face that fear because she isn’t alone. One would expect that if these two broke up for what ever reason, it would not be Lili who left Danni and Lili would be the one who took it the hardest. Then we have her rather interesting reaction to my question about children. Lili may well have a fear of responsibility, certainly she has a fear of familial responsibility, again steaming from what happened to her parents. Her saying “I can barely look after myself, let alone a child” may have been partially a joke, as a way to sidestep an awkward situation, but I don’t believe that Lili was lying. Her insecurities may not allow her to fully be able to confront her demons on this subject, but we will have to wait and see.
Another thing that I couldn’t get across in the interviews was one of the more interesting psychological hooks, posture. If you picture these interview taking place on the couch from the Gamer Lili picture, Lili and Danni would be sitting on the couch with myself, as the interviewer sitting in the position of the viewer in that picture. Now, in this situation, in their solo interviews, Lili would be sitting on the right side of the couch slouched on the arm, suggesting that she is very relaxed in the situation. Danni on the other hand, would be sitting on the left side of the couch, leaning forward, her hands clasped together, suggesting that she is less comfortable with the situation. However Danni would become more relaxed as the interview progressed. When the two come together for the final interview, Danni would be leaning on Lili, suggesting that she feels much more at ease with the situation if Lili is near, something that I have established previously. As much as Lili denies it, I would suggest that she is the more dominant figure in this relationship. However, this would change upon the dreaded “child question”. Her Danni would be forced to take the dominant role, whilst Lili is reduced to a cringing, cowering, hiding state. Here we can also see an interesting aspect of their relationship. You’ll note that every time Danni blushes, it is through self-inflicted embarrassment. But the one time Lili blushes, it is because Danni made her. Despite being the “less dominant one” in the relationship, I believe Danni knows how to read Lili better than Lili does with Danni, and as such, it would be Danni who would make any of the major moves in their relationship, something we have seen already when they got together.
Anyway, that’s enough of the psychological fluff.

I hope you guys enjoyed these interviews and my overblown psycho-analysis at the end. If you have any other questions, no matter how trivial or stupid, I’ll do my best to answer them. But apart from that, I don’t really have anything else planned at the moment. I mean I have a few ideas involving Lili and Danni, but things could be about to get very hectic and busy for me within the next few days, so I don’t know if I will be able to do much. Either way, thanks for all your support on this series, I have to say it’s been my favourite series I’ve done. So yeah, big thanks for all the feedback and suggestions, they really helped, and the fan art from Nug was pretty damn awesome, I did end up borrowing a few ideas from it to do my Danni picture (see if you can guess what they are).
Anyway I think I’ve rambled enough (literally been typing here for an hour and a half).
So
JR Out.