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DB - Seth (through Chris's eyes)

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Introduce Yourself

01 – What's your name?
My name is Chris Sun. My real name is Christina but no one ever calls me that. Ever.

02 – Are you male or female?
I’m a girl.

03 – What age are you?
Thirteen.

04 – Describe yourself.
I’m a tomboy, I like playing tennis and basketball. Pokemon is my favorite game. Oh! I really like the violin too. It’s so pretty~ but reading sheet music gets boring after a while. I also like to wear my FILA cap a lot.


05 – What do you do for a living?
I’m a middle school student. What kind of question is this?

06 – Choose five words that describe your personality.
Adventurous, friendly, gregarious—we learned that one in class. Aren't you so proud of me, Seth? Umm... loyal? I don’t know. This is hard. Am I at five yet? Athletic. Does that count? I mean, it was on this
list of personality traits.


Introduce Your Subject

07 – What is their name?

Seth Go. I would give you a middle name, but I don’t think he has one. I don’t have one either, now that I think about it.

08 – How do you know them?
I’ve known him since forever! Well, since we moved to California. I met him at tennis, but he sucked at it. We go to the same school and the same church.

09 – Describe them in three sentences.
Seth is really smart and he sucks at sports. He’s also better than I am at piano and violin. Especially piano. I think violin is comparable. I’m just too lazy to fight for third chair. He also has white hair. So weird.



Physical Traits

10 – Are they male or female?
Male. What kind of name did you think ‘Seth’ was?

11 – How old are they?
He’s also thirteen, but only just. I turned thirteen almost a year ago (okay, more like half a year ago), but Seth’s a baby.

12 – Describe them.
Didn’t I
just do this? Okay fine. I guess this is the ‘physical traits’ section. Seth is about my height (no, he’s not taller), really skinny. And kinda pale too. Like Asian pale, not white person pale because they can get really pale. And sunburnt too. White people tend to burn a lot more easily than I do (and I don’t much, thank goodness. Though I guess I should really put on more sunscreen more often. Ughhh, so icky).

Like I said earlier, Seth has white hair, which is weird because no one else does (other than my mom. But her hair looks mostly black. She just has a bunch of random white hairs. My dad’s hair is black though. Like black black.) (And that's kind of strange since my hair is slightly brown? What? Maybe that’s just in the sunlight.)


13 – Do they have any distinguishing features, scars, or tattoos?
White. Hair. How many times do I need to say this?

14 – Are they fit? Athletic? Do they do any sports?
Nope, nope, and nope.

15 – What about Illnesses, War Wounds or Physical Disabilities?
If ‘trips over something every time we have P.E.’ counts as a physical disability, then that would so be it.


Skills and Abilities

16 – What would you say is their best ability?
He doesn’t need to study for tests. Like what??!!! (Actually I think A.J. does this too. So not fair D:>)

17 – What do they think their best ability is?
I dunno. His meticulous planning and responsibility?

18 – What else are they good at?
Chess? I guess that’s separate from school. He's good at Bible Quizzing too, though if A.J. or Zach knows a question, there's no way Seth would get to it before they did.

19 – What are they not good at?
Any and all sports. Man, these questions get really redundant sometimes. Seth, you’re so boring. Or maybe I’m boring. Um, what else is he not good at?
I think he’s not very good at improvising. For our presentations, he always has to have everything laid out and outlined on notecards. I say just wing it.

20 – Do they have any artistic talent?
I’m sure he could draw something if he tried. However, I don’t think he’s ever really tried, so no.

21 – What about Musical Ability?
How come this one is capitalized?? Anyways, yes. He’s been taking piano lessons with my dad for a while. I think he’s up to Level 9 or 10. I don’t really know since I’m too lazy to practice that much so I don’t ever anticipate getting up there. He’s pretty good at sight reading anything I want him to play for me.


Seth is also 3rd chair in the first violin section of our elite orchestra, Sinfonia. ‘Third chair’ meaning ‘pretty much the best’ other than ‘that one girl who's been playing since she was like 3’ and ‘that other girl who takes lessons.’ In 8th Grade Orchestra, he's the concertmaster (1st chair) since he's that boring and doesn't do other electives like the rest of us.

22 – Are they good at a particular sport?
For the last time, no.

23 – What about combat? Can they fight?
I think this one has the same answer as the previous question.

24 – Do they have any... powers or abilities you would describe as supernatural or superhuman?
He has the supernatural ability to grow white hairs and still look like he’s a little kid.
        Hm, okay, that one's lame. Ummmmm. OH. RIGHT. Seth magically develops Super Speed when he's about to be late. o3o


Personality and Interests

25 – If you had to choose one word to describe their personality, what would it be?
Responsible.

26 – Can you expand on that?
He always gets his work done on time (I mean, ahead of time). He always knows what we’re talking about in class. Ummm, he’s also the class president, so I’m sure there’s lots of ‘responsibilities’ he has to deal with there too.

27 – What do you like best about them?
Ummm, this is hard. Let’s see. I guess I like that Seth is still my friend. My best friend. That is, no matter how much I annoy him or ask him for help on homework or humiliate him during P.E., he’s still there for me.
Always there.

28 – What personality trait or behavior particularly gets on your nerves?
When things have to be too detailed or structured. It’s just so tedious.

29 – Are they sociable? Do they mix well with others?
Well enough. He usually keeps to himself, at least compared to me, but Seth is pretty good at conversing with other people in general.

30 – Do they dress well? Are they Fashionable?
I think most people probably would avoid wearing collared shirts when they can just wear jeans and a t-shirt, but d’arvit yes, I love Seth’s button down shirts. <3<3 (The <3's were for the button down shirt btw. Not Seth.)

31 – What would you say is important to them?
Me. Just kidding. Um, but yeah, friends and family would be a valid answer. And church. We go to church a lot.

Do you know of any deep, dark secrets they keep buried?
....Why didn’t I think of prying this out of him earlier! :noes: (And how come this one doesn’t have a number?)

32 – Would you want them as an enemy? What sort of enemy would they make?
No, that would be terrible because then no one would help me with homework. :noes: That said, I don’t know what sort of enemy he would be... a pretty boring one, I guess. I don’t know. Seth’s not usually too antagonistic towards people.


Your Relationship

33 – How did you first meet?
I swear I answered this already.

34 – Are you friends?
Ya think?

35 – Are you rivals?
Most aspects are just not comparable.

36 – Are you Lovers?
Um, no. Whatdoesthatevenmeanthatsoundssoawkward.

37 – Do you love them?
With the best form of a human’s unconditional love that I can muster. Other than for my parents. Or my brother. Or my hypothetical dog. I think I might love my dog more. If I had one.


38 – Do they love you?
I think that Seth’s ability to unconditional-love is probably better than mine. I mean, seriously, how does he put up with me?

39 – Who, if anyone, do you think they are in love with?
In love with? Please, no middle school drama for us.

40 – Are they currently in a relationship?
Ditto the above.

41 – Do you like them?
Of course. He’s my friend.

42 – Do they like you?
I can only assume his answer to be ‘he must like me more than he dislikes me in order to stick around.’ Or maybe he just can’t escape.

43 – How do you think they feel about children?
They’re even shorter than us. hahahahaha. Just kidding. That's what I think. I think he likes kids fine. He's not nearly as fun as I am though. He doesn't get as much practice time in since he stays for the sermon whereas I go help with Children's Church.

44 – What about their family?
The Gos are
awesome. Well, at least Zach is. I can’t really say I’ve been around his dad or sister much. Auntie Evelyn is pretty cool too. :D

45 – And finally, if you could change one thing about them, what would it be?
His inability to transfer knowledge to me via osmosis. It’s a travesty. I mean tradegy. TRAGEDY. I can spell. >:(


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Characters:
Chris Sun; Seth Go | Setting: 8th grade
Written | Fri, May 8, 2015 // Dear Beans (c) Sorcaron



I would have used 'stars yes' on #30 with the 'fashionable,' but TLC isn't published until 2012.
I think that you'd have to interpret this as 'Chris is reading the questions as text' and then 'answering by speaking' because, as a terribly slow typist during middle school, I highly doubt she would spend this much time typing out all her answers. :lmao:

Also of note, Chris likely used the term 'unconditional love' in her answers for #37 and 38 because they talked about it recently at church. To be consistent with #43, she must not have heard it during a sermon, so it might have been during Friday Night or Sunday School.



I tag Porsheee >:D
    Challenge:
do both sides of the same pair of characters. XD
Also, here is a version of the questions with some slightly fixed formatting/grammar. Not everything though. So confusing and tedious. @__@



See also: Chris (through Seth's eyes) / Original meme: here

Edit (Wed, May 13, 2015): Changed formatting in 12 and 36; added section to 21 about violin/orchestra; made additional comments to 24 and 43.

Edit (Sun, May 24, 2015): Made changes to 6, 8 (added school/church), 18 (added quizzing), 21, 27 ('Always there.'), 31, and 38. Mostly minor changes/additions about church and some clarifications. Here is the old version for comparision.
Edit (Fri, Feb 19, 2016): Changed section headers from ALL CAPS and horizontal lines to [div class 'title'] to match the journal theme. Also added another tab for indentations.
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NightmareSiren's avatar
Oh my stars, she's so snarky. I love getting to hear her voice from this perspective, when is dabbles we only hear her from 3rd person. Her personality really shows, even though the focus is on Seth. And she's so wonderfully snarky. I love it.
Now onto Seth's! :D