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Is there a drinking age or laws on the consumption of alcohol? How about drugs (cigarettes to heroin)?

Well, drugs are illegal. Cigarettes are still okay (though very few of my characters smoke), alcohol is okay, but outside of that there’s lots of not okay drugs.

People still do them, but such is life.

Drinking laws are pretty simple.
Provided you’re at home with your guardian and the drinking is not excessive (that’s the line that gets argued) 16 is actually seen as an okay drinking age within the home.
Outside of the home, the age is increased to 18 (and traffic laws are more well enforced/harsher to help keep DUI issues down). This age includes the sale of alcohol.

Public drinking is generally frowned upon* and there are plenty of charges an officer can place on you if you are not careful and you are drinking in public.

In magical markets blood also has an age law, set at 21. On top of that, a license to acquire blood is also typically required. Most vampires obtain their blood illegally due to this restriction.

Certain Adepts are restricted by law from some alcohol establishments (Dulcie will never be allowed in a bar. She is a severe fire hazard.).

It’s totally the armadillo from “Road to Eldorado” the cutie!

hehehe
I was thinking about that while I was writing

I actually really appreciate Masozi and Tendaji (the armadillo). Masozi is very large and Tendaji is very….not, but the two make good travel buddies.

Plus, there’s a sweet sense of satisfaction picturing Masozi getting to explore the world and all it has to offer outside of the desert with his Armadillo friend at his side. Going through thick jungles and frozen tundra and exploring everything as a little team! (Masozi discovers along the way that he has trouble navigating the jungle because of his stature and he doesn’t care much for the cold)
Tiny armadillo wrapped up in a tiny armadillo coat traversing the frigid tundra. Tiny armadillo in a tiny sailors hat crossing the sea. Tiny armadillo rolling around in puddles after fresh rain out on the plains.

The best little pair

How many of your characters have really depressing backstories? Like stuff that would cause nightmares or the character to burst into tears? (I know it’s not a happy question but your always on my case that mine do. :P )

Out of the ones I have listed? 14-ish

There’s a lot of negativity in my characters’ backstories; especially in regard to family life due to the situations I dealt with personally growing up. Many of my characters have lost one or more parents and a few that have not do not have positive relationships with one or more of them.
The lack of parents can be traced to the fact that my father died when I was little. The poor relationships comes about mostly from the negative feelings I have towards members of my extended family, who, while they love me, are not always the kindest and most understanding of people.

Some characters hold much of my resentment towards my father for feeling like he had abandoned me and mom. Some hold the false guilt that I (still) do (what child doesn’t blame themself?). Others are simply haunted by their losses and feel broken.

Some characters were hard to quantify by your standard, because while many characters have backstories that might be depressing, there’s a chance they may no longer suffer the memory. Crash and Tabor who were both kidnapped and suffered some pretty awful lives, I did not count, because they don’t react to their lives in the same extreme. Tabor has a lot of regret and avoids others, but he sees no point in crying over it. Crash….they are very angry and have certainly changed, but they do not dwell on their past.

Alphabetically:

Amber (cityverse) – Amber suffers from nightmares sparingly before her accident regarding the loss of Sarah and the blame she carries for that loss. She also doesn’t like discussing the death of her parents (and subsequent jealousy of normal nuclear families). The Captain is one of very few who has seen her break down and cry over her past; but most of the time she keeps on a brave face.

Aquamarine (???) – Aqua lost her whole civilization, barely managed her own escape, and spent years searching for a way to reunite the few of her people remaining. Again, a lot of guilt here. She has nightmares about some of the battles.

Clyde (???) – Clyde’s being held as ‘criminally insane’ after being arrested on serious criminal charges that likely involved the deaths of more than one individual. He has suffered a lot after the loss of his girlfriend. ((His story might be a huge “woman in the refrigerator” trope and I’m sorry for that))

Esial (DnD) – Demon or no demon, Es’ history is filled with emotional abuse from his home plane. He would never admit it, but it hurt him. It hurt him so much that he did whatever it took to lie his way to the material plane to get away. He did whatever he could to stay there with the few ‘people’ who didn’t treat him like garbage. One of them was killed. He struggled to keep away from ‘home’. In the end, when he knew his ‘mother’ was on her way to take his one sanctuary away from him, he risked dying because that felt like a better option.

Flannery (cityverse) – Flannery is another case of someone leaving an abusive household only she runs away as a teenager and immediately tries to raise a child (that isn’t hers, it’s happenstance). She’s really bitter about her past and it never really got easier and it’s something her sister really thinks she needs to go to therapy for.

Gwyn (original) – Gwyn’s whole backstory was designed to be tragic. Her mother was abusive, she was bullied, her father (her only saving grace) was murdered, she was banished to a far away land, and finally left for dead in the woods by her step mother. Thankfully, her story turns around at this point and she’s adopted into a loving and caring community and is able to work through her problems. She still really suffers from her father’s murder.

Kiki (….) – Mary-sues always have tragic backstories. Last living member of her village, watched her mom die, haunted by distant howls and the smell of fire, and left to fend for herself in the woods for years.

Lenore (cityverse) – Lenore is living her tragic backstory trapped in the incredibly broken foster system.

Marley (original) – Marley’s half counts. Her childhood was (once more) filled with abuse which was followed by the outright slaughter of her parents and neighborhood. The saving grace was that she was saved by the vampires who did the deed. They took pity on her for her life and turned her. They then proceeded to take her home to their coven and raise her as their own child. Her life improved immensely.

Sarosh (???) – His backstory was so tragic he blocked out his memories entirely and accidentally shut off his ability to have emotion in the process. It weighs on him and because of this, even as an angel he cannot fly. I do not envy anyone who manages to unearth those memories.

That’s not even 14 that’s 10. I cut out a few because I didn’t think they were that bad. IDK

If you had to pick a dozen of your characters split evenly into 2 teams, describe a food fight.

Team 1:
Crash, Harmony, Nolan, Sherwood, Doyle, & Dulcie

Team 2:
Tabor, Wocky, Naila, Prism, Alice, & Blake

No one is really sure who threw the first piece of food but it hits Crash and the room goes dead silent because everyone is sure death is coming. Harmony picks up some of the food remains and tosses it, hitting Tabor (poor luck that).

Doyle is the one to announce the food fight.

The teams are loose, but it’s clear mostly who is throwing food at whom.

Crash’s team gets bonus help from the rest of the Silver Tide but that doesn’t seem to matter much against whatever magic Wocky must be using to combat their food forces.
Tabor ends up getting hit more often than he would like and it’s always the grossest or stickiest foods. Blake, on the other hand, seems adept at catching projectiles and happily scarfs them.
Nolan, Sherwood, and Doyle are all exceptionally good that this tomfoolery and team up in the most hilarious of ways.
Alice treats the event as a learning exercise and uses the advanced high-speed cameras that are her eyes to react almost perfectly to shots thrown at her. Her aim and predictability of others, however, is lacking.
Harmony has to douse Dulcie with a bucket of water rather early on to keep her powers at bay as the excitement nearly causes the girl to burn the place down.
Prism is just kind of enjoying herself.

Everything is fun and games for a while. Background characters are present including:

Nadia who has a few spirits help her toss some stray food stuffs into the madness.
Pinkie Plunder, who starts picking pockets of the participators.
Yuki, who spends his time acting like nothing is happening until Jade climbs up on the table to join in. He tugs her back down and reminds her that her body is made of porcelain, and the last time this happened she was down for repairs for a week.
Marley, Chris, and Zoey are also eating nearby and everything is fine until Zoey gets hit with something meat based and starts freaking out. Chris gets angry, then gets hit with some meat too and starts to go full demon. Marley drags the pair out before things can get too serious.
And of course Pandora is there. She threw the first piece of food then disappeared to watch from the rafters.  

Which one of your characters would you most like to be stuck in an elevator with? Least?

Most would likely be Marian, if you know what I mean.

Least is a toss up between Forrest and Tabor because every second that Tabor and I are stuck in an elevator brings the chance that the thing will fall and we will get seriously injured or die horribly.

Forrest because he has severe claustrophobia and I don’t think I could keep him from hurting one of us in his severe panicking.