PARTICIPANTS: Rowan Proudfoot and Annabeth Chatham FROM: Rowan Proudfoot WHEN: Friday, November 15 | mid-afternoon
Hey, how are you feeling?
News of my untimely demise has been greatly understated.
Or as a normal person might say...
I'm okay. 😃
Look! I offer proof!
I am the okayest of okay.
You appear doubtful.
Or maybe over-caffeinated and pretending to be otherwise?
Or maybe like you're up to something.
ARE you up to something?
Can I help?
I'm always up to something!
Or I just have that kind of face.
Actually, I'm just sitting around the set, 'cause they're setting up for Big Magic and they don't want people (me) underfoot
Care to keep me entertained?
Our conversation was rudely interrupted by histamines.
Less potential for date death if we can't physically see each other?
Probably a good call.
I'm taking a break from recording, so I'm also just sitting around right now.
Counterpoint: conversations are easier in person
HOWEVER
We can still do Q&A
I was having fun
Where did we leave off?
Video games and Ardalle vs. Proudfoot
I never got to say that I'm more interested in getting to know the latter
I'm surrounded by fictional people all the time. I want to know the Actual You.
You do? [unsent]
I have a confession to make.
I really wasn't sure I wanted to go on that date. Not because of you, but a date in general. But you are refreshing. And I mean that in all the best ways.
I wasn't sure either, if it makes you feel better. I don't get a lot of chances to be social outside of work, but I'm glad that I went, even if it kind of ended in disaster.
Not just the going, I mean, but the company itself
Wow, that sounds so... weird. Is that weird? Am I making this weird? Text without context is :/
Most of my professional life is conducted through text without context. Believe me, you don't even register on the weird scale.
I'll just have to try harder! 😉
...wait, no.
Oh no, please go right ahead. I'll get my scorecards ready.
Don't forget to start mine in the negative
Got it. I bet you won't even manage to register a 2 with your best effort.
(I have some weird fans. I love them, but they're freaks of nature.)
Well, now I'm prepared to lose at least two with this possibly terrible segue, but...
How awful would I be if I ask about the half-vampire thing?
(I'll totally totally TOTALLY understand if you wanna Hard Pass that)
I've built my career around talking about being a vampire. It'd be pretty hypocritical of me to refuse.
(Also, I really don't mind.)
Okay, so, I will admit full ignorance to just about every aspect, other than some hints about the diet and food
There aren't many vampires and even fewer half-vampires, so it's not surprising.
I never did well with that part of my magical education, but that's really just a thin excuse, 'cause the internet is vast and resourceful with semi-reliable info
Semi being the operative part of that word.
Most of the stuff isn't so different from wizard things. Just more extreme.
Even wizard things are a little left field for me, sometimes
what do you mean?
My parents weren't magical
Ooooh, I see. My brain might have eventually caught up to that.
It's cool (I hope!) Not like I got the whole half-vampire thing despite your multiple hints
And I hadn't even had the DANGER (not) HONEY then
I just assumed you already knew. Not for uber-fame (HA) reasons, but because you know Thorne on some level.
But okay
the rundown
pros are hearing, sense of smell sight, speed...not really anything freaky, but above average, I guess
That explains the ninja move, for sure
Wandless and wordless magic are pretty much second nature. That one's nice, but sometimes I forget and it does freak people out, especially when I'm around Thorne.
We sort of...I hate to say feed off of each other, because that has such ugly vampire connotations, but hopefully you get what I mean.
Not literal feeding
like a magical feedback loop?
Perpetual magic machine?
That's really cool, though!
Do you have to feed?
Not on blood. I'm assuming that's what you mean.
I do like rare meat, but who knows if that's the vampire or just that I like it.
So biting wouldn't endanger my immortal soul. Good to know!