Quarantined Characters (Part Two)

                                              

             This is the second in the series of Quarantined Characters, if you wanted to read the first installment go here. 


Greetings Adventurers!

 This is the second installment of Quarantined Characters, I'm hoping to hear from you (the readers) what short stories you would like to see about these characters while they quarantined. Because one aspect of this series is going to be short stories about the characters in quarantine.

So, let's stay home, wash our hands and see what the characters are doing:

                                         
                                                                               Oak 

              Oak is used to being away from civilization with her fellow hunters, and the goddess                                Artemis herself.  So she would be distanced enough and secluded from humans.                               
                 Suppose something happens and the hunters have to take refuge in a cave, because
                a wild beast (or a natural disaster) drove them there and they need to regroup and make a                    new plan. In that case, Oak would continue her lessons from Artemis on weaponry,                              wildlife, and other things, while she and the other hunters were trapped.
                     Artemis would also help her carve arrows from the
                    supplies they had around and help her prepare mentally for the next hunt.


                                                            Riona "Fire" & Celtiere 

                The fairies are used to being away from the human world for a while,
               so they would usually be very good at keeping social distance from humans.

 However, keeping a distance from other fay is unusal. They are comfortable with their own kind, so when the need to social distance happened the fay were not at first willing to stay away from each other.

            For Riona and Celtiere social distancing isn't a problem. They would exchange stories around the magical fire. Riona would share her stories of battles she fought and Celtiere would tell stories he made up on the spot. He might also make some up about his parents, who he never knew.

                                                 
               

                                                                   Crystal 

                 Crystal is a Neriad, and is a huntress of Artemis. While they are sheltering in the cave,
                she would help heal other hunters who may have been injured in battle.
                 She would continue her studies with Artemis in nature healing.
           She would learn how to use herbs and other natural things she could find around the cave they are hiding in.

              Crystal would also help Oak create more arrows and sharpen swords, 

               so they are prepared for the next hunt.



                                                   Detective Inspector Time 

Time would be bored out of his mind, with no new cases to solve with everyone stuck inside. 

He would be having trouble figuring out what to do, and everything in his life would feel like it was out of place. He would try and fail to write something he liked, even though he isn't much of a writer. Instead, he would end up using the torn pieces of paper to make paper balls and throw them against the wall or throw his daggers out of boredom. He would miss the exciting part of being a detective. He would be reminded by Annabelle or Marigold, both of which would probably would have found a creative way to be a detective during this time, that he should probably use the resources he has to be a detective. 

So with the resources he has he would... 

1. Write letters to people asking if any suspicious activity has happened. 

2. Make a dart board out of unused love letters (this isn't really part of solving cases, but it is at least worth mentioning). 

3. Imagine chasing down a criminal, and do target practice. (He will assure you that it will indeed be useful in the future). 

4. If any suspicious activity has happened at all, he will investigate from the comforts of home, and continue to interrogate people through letters. 

                                                                        Juniper 

             Juniper has a hawk, whom she befriended, who helps her during the hunt.
                  She has found a way for there be communication with the other
                 dryads by having her hawk send messages back and forth. She wants to make sure the                        threat which they are dealing with is either gone or that they are able to hunt it down and  kill it, if it is a monster.
       
                  While in communication with the other dryads, she would talk to some of her friends
                  who love talking to her about how things  have been going with her.  And she would tell                   them that she has  continued her lessons with the goddess, Artemis, during this time. And                       that she is learning to be one with nature, instead of thinking she is above it
                  like mankind wants her to think.



                                                                   Iris 
       

Supposing Iris wasn't able to leave the temple because something was going on, 

she would still continue her trainings with the other priestesses. 

If the threat required them to battle something, they would be among the first defenders  

to fight, after all they had years of training to act as defenders for mortals in physical form from the goddess. The priestesses are not only people who people turn to for religious reasons, but also 

for reasons of protection, because they had been the shield maidens of the goddess and helped defend the gods in one of their past incarnations. 

Assuming Iris didn't need to be called to battle, she would be in prayer in the temple. 

 She would ask the goddess for strength and protection. She would also practice meditation, hoping to get a message from the gods and goddesses through it.  

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Who would you rather be quarantined with? And whose quarantine would you like to see me  write a short story about? 

-Quinley
           

Quarantined Characters (Part One)

Since we are going to be quarantined for long a time. I decided I would make a series revolving around different characters being stuck at home. Not necessarily because of the same virus but because of something else in their world. Even though it is not talking about this quarantine, I am going to be calling it "Quarantined Characters." But, this won't just be talking about what the characters will do; it might also involve doing drawings, short stories, and stuff like that.
And since I have a lot of characters, some of them even in totally different genres from the others,
I am dividing this post up into parts.

Let's begin:
                                     
                                          Elm 

Elm is a dryad and spirit of her tree. Because of this she would not be afraid about being stuck in it for a while. But what Elm would do if she were ever stuck in her tree would be to practice her singing and learn to play a musical instrument that some human had left behind.


                                Annabelle 

Rules to Annabelle are more like guidlines anyway, so she would have difficulty following them strictly, especially since her father, Lord Oberon, would be so cautious about making sure she stays inside. He would be cautious perhaps to a ridiculous extent. And because of this, this would be Annabelle's first plan:

1. Disguise herself as man in order to be unrecognizable.
2. Grab her detective equipment, and bring it along with her.
3.  Tie her bedsheets together to get out through her window.
4. And finally once she is down, go solve homicides.

However, suppose she isn't able to escape the castle at this time, because something happens and she realizes it would be bad to try to escape* or Oberon reinforces the guarding of the castle.

She would instead respond to letters from people who had murder cases for her, and she would do this under the name of her detective alter ego

She would also in her spare time practice self defense, as she wouldn't want to be defenseless when the world is on edge, and it might be life threatening. Like everything she does, she would have to make sure she does it in secret, because a lot of people in the castle would consider it "unladylike."

*Because of the ongoing threat that caused everyone to have to stay inside. Not because she would ever want to stay in the castle like everyone wants her to. 

                                           Ashalena 

If she was stuck inside for a long period, Ashalena would spend her time drawing and sketching.
The things she would find most relaxing to draw during this time would be wildlife, nature, and landscapes, because even if she can't go out to see them, she would still like to imagine them.
She would send her drawings to people during that time, to brighten the mood of the situation. She also would include handwritten notes with the drawings she sent to them.

She would also pray to the gods that the threat (whether it be fires, flooding, illness, or monsters) would leave soon. Ashalena would ask the priests and priestesses through letters if the threat is at all an omen from the gods, and if so what it means, and what person angered the gods enough to cause it. If you are the empress of the country, or are going be the empress, you do have to talk to the gods or try to communicate with them, especially if the country depends deeply on it.


                                     Aurinda & Ichabod 

Aurinda would probably end up getting stuck with Ichabod--yes, whether she likes it or not.
And since they already have a lot of problems on their hands, with ghosts like the The Headless Horseman, Aurinda would make sure that they had as many battle or escape strategies as possible, so they could make it out in one piece. She learned a lot from fighting in the American revolution. Meanwhile, Ichabod would be hanging up garlic in various places, as well as putting his other lucky charms everywhere. Given that Aurinda and Ichabod don't tend to always agree on everything (more often they don't agree about magic, and whether or not it is good or evil) they would probably be arguing with each other from time to time, which is not very good if there is a threat of death.
                                          

                                             Phoenix 

If Phoenix was stuck inside he would cuddle under a blanket and write poetry. He would also write letters to his best friend, and ask how she is doing. He would work on improving his book of poetry that he wants to publish, editing and/or rewriting his poems while he is sitting in his room.
 If anything, he would be doing a lot of writing to make his stress go away. (After all being stuck inside for a long period of time is stressful.)
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What would your characters do if they were quarantined? Would they panic or would they remain calm? 

-Quinley