Gloaty Stoaty Revelations

[Revel]

Like Bell's thread I will answer questions you have for me and Revel here. I will not answer personal questions, so please only ask about the characters or the story.

[Bellona Littlebrush]

1. Did you take voting personal?

2. Can I ask about personnel?

3. Personally, do you answer a lot of questions?

[Revel]

1. Did you take voting personal?

2. Can I ask about personnel?

3. Personally, do you answer a lot of questions?

No...

No? Yes? Who?

Not yet!

[Rath the Whirlwind]

1. You are stuck in an elevator with Revel.  What happens?
2. What is Revel's favorite flavor of ice cream?
3. What is Revel's opinion on bugs?

[Revel]

1. You are stuck in an elevator with Revel.  What happens?
2. What is Revel's favorite flavor of ice cream?
3. What is Revel's opinion on bugs?

I hope I have my jacket with me so I can pick her up without being scratched. I'd hug her and hold her while we wait for the elevator to be fixed. When we get rescued I'd ask for bandaids and chicken.

Vole!  ;D Maybe hopscotch because it looks like her.

The crunchier they are, the better. Worms and grubs are too soft and squishy but grassphoppers and crickets are her favorite though she says she needs to dial it down in her diet if she keeps hearing them in her stomach. Moths are okay but butterflies are cheapskates. Spiders scare her.

[Venril]

1.  If Revel had died, what sort of death post would you have written?
2.  Is there a choice or decision Revel made during the story that could have taken her character in a different direction if she had made it differently?
3.  If Venril had survived, would Revel have continued to chase him?

Nallmian:  Congratulations, Revel!  *Hugs tightly, then dashes off*  Have fun birthing the next litter!

[Revel]

1.  If Revel had died, what sort of death post would you have written?
2.  Is there a choice or decision Revel made during the story that could have taken her character in a different direction if she had made it differently?
3.  If Venril had survived, would Revel have continued to chase him?

Nallmian:  Congratulations, Revel!  *Hugs tightly, then dashes off*  Have fun birthing the next litter!

I don't know about after she had her kits, but the death I had planned for her before they were born was really horrible. Revel would be so torn about Venril ignoring her and going after Eliza that she breaks down and tells herself she has to do whatever it takes to be pretty again, and get rid of what is making her ugly - her belly. So she was going to get a knife and try to cut the "fat" out, but not be able to follow through because of the pain. She would just lie there until someone came to try to rescue her... or Bellona finds her and finishes the job. I'm glad this didn't happen because if Bellona did kill Revel the rest of the way she would surely also make sure the kits are dead, and then no one would like Bellona enough to vote for her in the end.

In Week 2 after chasing Birch. Revel decided it didn't matter if woodlanders were sentient because once they die they're just meat. And killing wasn't the moral dilemma she was facing, so that was still okay. If there had been another nice woodlander to talk to, maybe Revel would have decided differently and had more of a change throughout the story. But with Su gone and Bellona so mean there wasn't enough reason to continue with that idea so I tied it up right then and there. If Su had survived longer and learned about Revel's eating habits, it would have been very interesting and fun to write. Even though Week 1 was two weeks long, having those discussions too early in the story didn't seem like a good idea, so they never happened at all.

Revel would have kept chasing Venril as seen in the missing scenes thread where she steals Birch's tail.  :D She was going to give up on him after she learned where baby stoats come from and probably get into a big fight with him about it.

[Sparrowhawk]

Any particular thing that lit the spark in your mind for Revel's concept? Piece of music, photograph, line of dialogue from a movie, something your friend said to you, even a character from another story? something like that.

[Jarrtail]

1. Would Revel, Venril, and Fergly be able to make it through a family reunion without killing each other?

2. Did Revel break down and eat someone during the boat home, or did she manage to supress her cannibalistic
urges?

3. Am I allowed to guess your identity via PM?

One thing I enjoyed about your posts is that you managed to squeeze Birch or Greenfang into most of them, and you were the first person to use Greenfang. I'd just like to extend a "thanks" for promoting us. May your kits have many fine meals consisting of the flesh of others.  ;)

[Suellyn]

If there had been another nice woodlander to talk to, maybe Revel would have decided differently and had more of a change throughout the story. But with Su gone and Bellona so mean there wasn't enough reason to continue with that idea so I tied it up right then and there. If Su had survived longer and learned about Revel's eating habits, it would have been very interesting and fun to write. Even though Week 1 was two weeks long, having those discussions too early in the story didn't seem like a good idea, so they never happened at all.

Luv you too, Revvie. :D

That was just the thing. It was a fun relationship to write but hard not to give too much away in that first week. I would have liked to cure you of your cannibalistic ways. Either that or see you through to delivery safely and then kitnap the babes because i could have done soooo much of a better job raising them then you :P

Oh and just so you know we're taking great care of Zubble in Dark Forest. He's in good paws. tee hee

and oh yeah i should ask a question, ummm when you came up with the idea for the character was Revvie always going to be that feral or were the heightened senses a result of the pregnancy?

[Revel]

Any particular thing that lit the spark in your mind for Revel's concept? Piece of music, photograph, line of dialogue from a movie, something your friend said to you, even a character from another story? something like that.

and oh yeah i should ask a question, ummm when you came up with the idea for the character was Revvie always going to be that feral or were the heightened senses a result of the pregnancy?

Hmmm I don't remember. I didn't think about her very much before I started writing her application. I knew I wanted to make a very canon vermin character. Revel is not very smart, kind of homely and lives on the run from woodlanders. I wanted to make a housewife sort of character as well. The idea to merge the two became Revel. As feral as she is she's still very good at cooking and cleaning.

The feral idea came about when I decided to make her pregnant which I did because you never see pregnant vermin in the books except for Veil's mom. It was also an excuse to make her more like a housewife because she was going to be a mother as well. I don't know where the feral idea came from but it must have snuck in somehow. I didn't set out to make Revel a cannibal and I didn't want her to eat vermin at all. A friend suggested I make her think of woodlanders as being non sentient like birds and fish. There was a big idea Damask had that we never used where he convinces Revel not to eat him because he's imaginary.  ;D My friend also suggested that I read the beginning of Jack London's White Fang to get a feel for writing a pregnant animal. It helped and you can see the resemblance when Revel is being wistful (that's a word I got from the book) and keeps trying to find a nice safe place for her kits, even though she doesn't know for sure that's what she's looking for. That chapter was so short though.  :(

I decided to make Revel's eating woodlanders a product of her pregnancy (cravings) and beliefs, but her hieghtened senses were not part of that. When we came up with the Fritterik I knew I had to work in a small side story about some of them escaping the caves and getting into the forest before, because it fit so well to explain why Revel was different.

The last thing is that when I was talking about Revel being pregnant in the contestant forums Tara flipped out.  :D She said all the judges thought she was just fat. That's when I decided that Revel talking to her stomach in her application was because she was just a little crazy and not because she knew she was having kits. It helped that Revel doesn't have a very long memory and that stoats use delayed implantation which means the kits don't even start growing for almost a year after mating. Poor Revvie was so confused about why she was getting fat! She didn't remember doing anything with another stoat at all!  :P

Awww and thank you Su. I hope he's not being too much of a bully! Is Yikker-Vikvichip behaving herself as well?

1. Would Revel, Venril, and Fergly be able to make it through a family reunion without killing each other?

2. Did Revel break down and eat someone during the boat home, or did she manage to supress her cannibalistic
urges?

3. Am I allowed to guess your identity via PM?

You're welcome and thank you, Jarrtail!  ;)

Revel might want to kill Fergly but Venril would put a stop to it I bet. So long as there are no make up hugs they would get along after that.

Nallmian:  Congratulations, Revel!  *Hugs tightly, then dashes off*  Have fun birthing the next litter!

Revel: YOU BIG NAGGER-NUGGER, COME BACK HERE AN' BE A FATHER IF YOU'RE GONNA GO AROUND DOIN' THAT TO INNOCENT STOATMAIDS!

ahem.   ;D Back to Jarrtail's questions...

I like to think that Revel got used to hantz and brkich enough to enjoy Kirby's cooking on this journey. It helps that she doesn't have six stomachs to feed anymore.

You can try to guess in PM but I don't know if I can tell you if you're right or not.

[Opal]

She tol' me I could! **scurries away**

[Birch]

*blinks*

I could have sworn you were me.

[Revel]

I thought I was.  :-\

[Jarrtail]

Good thing you weren't. We got into this fanfiction buisness 'cause we couldn't make it into the contest, darn it!