Q: What was the inspiration for Lycanthrope?
A: We had to write an entry in our notebooks on the first day of English class in my seventh year. Akira and Haru and Yuki were all born in my first week of school. I kept telling myself it wouldn’t become a story, and yet I started writing more and more...and eventually I started typing it and I never stopped.
Do you think that Quail is truly evil, or is there good in him? Explain.
Quail is not truly evil; he does have good things about him. Umm...he’s a protective brother, and he really did love {his brother} Felix. He was a little insensitive, but Quail felt like it was his life’s duty to avenge his brother’s death, and he really hated Akira. The fact remains that she was treated like a normal person for killing people, and he was treated like a monster for trying his best to fit in with normal society. He just didn’t feel that it was fair and he wanted so much to be just normal.
So in a way, Akira created her own enemy.I wouldn’t call them enemies, strictly, but yes.
What’s your favorite couple and why?Laurent and Molly, hands down. Why? Because I adore the idea of them not caring whether they’re so different in age because they love each other and nothing stands in the way of that.
Least favorite couple and why?
Ick; Yuki and Bshir. I despise that couple so much. There’s no discriminate reason; I just really hate them together.
Who’s your favorite character?It’s a tossup between a few; Jasper, Bshir and Molly. And Tess. Me likey da Tess.
If you like Tess so much, why kill her off?
*said with a perfectly straight face* I have obsessive-compulsive disorder with killing my characters, particularly the ones I really like. No, I kid. I have no idea why I keep killing my characters. Maybe it’s because I just want to introduce so many more and I don’t want to confuse people with too many characters. Maybe that’s why.
Do you find Bshir attractive enough to date?
Yes. Yes I do. Does it disturb me that I’m literally in love with my own character? Not in the least.
Do you have any unusual talents?Oh, I don’t know. I can wiggle my eyes. And I can roll them back into my head without using my hands to keep my eyelids open. And I can usually make anyone laugh, even when I’m trying to be serious. Does that count?
What’s a habit of yours?I poke my tongue against the inside of my cheek quite a bit, and I usually wear a lot of layers.
What’s something you have with you, always?With the exception of swimming and bathing, I always have my necklace and a hair tie with me. I have no idea why, I just do.
How did you come up with Jasper’s character?
In a way, Jasper is how I imagine a male version of me. He was originally supposed to be one of the bad guys; a human caught by the lycanthrope pack in the mountains and bound to do their biddings in a fear of his life. Later, I figured that I didn’t like that character and made him Molly’s imaginary friend. I thought for a while that he’d be her older brother, but that didn’t exactly cover all the things he felt for her, so he became a part of her mind. I have no idea how he came to life; I’m betting on forces of evil. *laughs maniacally* No, I’m totally kidding. I think that he came to life because Molly truly needed someone, and he just ended up being that someone that she really needed.
Would you say that Jasper is happier as an imaginary friend or human?
As a friend, he is insensitive to emotions such as anger and joy and love and happiness at first, but when Molly starts being with the others—Laurent and Akira and friends—she began opening up, and so did Jasper. He became more susceptible to become jealous and happy for Molly. He’s this vessel of service and shelter to Molly as a friend.
Then again, as a human, he’s much more in control of what he does with himself. He becomes his own person and shows people his true colors. So I guess the answer to that is that both forms are okay with him.
Do you feel sorry for any of your characters?
I really do pity Quail. I feel sorry for him because:
1.He loses his brother and parents
2.He’s constantly plagued by his own madness
3.He’s constantly plagued by an overbearing Jack
4.He was the only lycanthrope who didn’t have a somewhat happy ending in the end
5.He can’t help that he wants Akira dead; he just craves her death because he’s like that
6. His parents hated him
7. He bit and transformed his brother on accident, mentally scaring Felix forever.
8.He doesn’t have any friends or family to turn to
9. He is physically unable to cry
10.He’s tortured with guilt
So would you say that you like Quail?Not exactly. I feel for him, but I wouldn’t say that I actually like his character because he’s a distrustful, lying, murdering jerk. But he has his problems, which makes him a realistic (other than the whole werewolf thing) enemy. I cannot stand the people who are ‘tortured by their own dark intelligence’ or who’re ‘bent on revenge’.
Isn’t Quail bent on revenge?Yes and no. He does want revenge, but that’s only because he doesn’t have anything else to live for. He thinks he was born to kill people, because that’s how he was raised, and to hate humans, because that’s what he was taught to do by Jack. But he truly is angry because Akira killed his brother, and he can never forgive her for that.
On the subject of Jack, how do you feel about him; is he truly evil, or does he have a crumble of good in him?
I think Jack is a twisted, insane, bitter, alone little man (not really little...). But he does have good in him. There are some really bad people out there, and he’s not one of them, but he’s in the top ten list of ‘PEOPLE WHO ALMOST MADE THE TRULY EVIL VILLANS LIST’.
Gazini?
Gazini is a very good character. He does have some bad in him, but so does Laurent, and I’m not holding it against him at all.
So, do you think that you should forgive Jack and Quail?
Quail, yes; he doesn’t know any better than to do what Jack tells him because since he was very young, he was always shunned and such, and Jack was the only one who mentored him and gave him home that he’d ever be a normal person.
Jack, no; Jack is a lying, stealing, manipulation, rude, lewd, disgusting, horrible, depressing man and he’s the worse character that I think I’ve ever written about. I love writing his character, but I hate the character. Jack himself is really this ridiculously evil character who thinks that he knows everything when really he’s just trying to intimidate people into doing what he wants them to do.
Tell us the main differences between brothers, Quail and Felix.
Quail is this...power-hungry, crazy big guy. He, in the beginning, had it all together and he got away with everything, and he was holding all the chips and he had the winning cards and all that. But when things started slipping out of his grasp and he began to lose control over the situation and all, he didn’t have another plan to fall back on and he became very disturbed and very jittery and eventually drove himself insane when things didn’t work the way he expected them to.
Felix, on the other hand, is this crazy, neurotic, freaked-out, hurt little man, and he really doesn’t have a mind to think with. He doesn’t know how to work for himself because the only thing he’s raised with was being bossed around. He’s never been confronted with real, true love, because his parents never gave it to him. Quail was the only one who saw some true potential in him. He finally found some relief from all of this fighting in his death, and he really embraced it.
Is there any sexual tension between Felix and Quail before Felix’s death?
No, none.
Jackson thinking his heart is in his stomach. The source of brilliance.
