Tell me a little about yourself
(where you live, who you are, what you look like, what you hope to achieve,
etc.)
Currently, I’m living in the Government
District in an apartment the Guardians of Dare have provided for Gabe and me
during this mission. Audrey and Maria
are across the hall. Audrey is my mentor
for lack of a better word. She is the
immortal sent to protect and guide me into my new life. She’s a far superior soldier than I am, but
don’t tell her I said that. Gabe and
Maria are also EMA cadets and my best friends.
For nineteen years, I was as normal
as any other teenage guy, a little too short and thin, and far less cool and
smart than my older brother. I always
assumed I’d be an attorney like my father until he died and I ended up at the
Entente Military Academy (EMA). Today,
I’m the First Born – a nickname I hate by the way. I’m the first immortal to be born in over
five hundred years. I’m happy to say
I’ve gained height and mass but my big brother is still much more charismatic
than I am. I’m on this mission to catch
my dad’s murderer and I will succeed.
Some Guardians believe I’m the link to their survival as prophesized so
many years ago. All I know is I want to
find out who created the Death Serum and used it to kill my father.
What do you like to do in your spare
time?
I currently don’t have any spare time
but I used to play tennis, go to the ocean, read and hang out with my
girlfriend Delia.
What is your favorite color and why?
I’m a guy so I don’t really think
about these things but I guess I’d say blue.
I have a lot of blue shirts and my girlfriend likes them on me. Her eyes are a dark blue and against her
mocha skin they look incredible.
What is your favorite food? Why is it
your favorite?
My mom is an excellent cook but Chef
Richard’s turkey sandwich at Headquarters is out of this world. It’s Thanksgiving dinner in one bite. Of course, he’s a purple person so that’s
why. You probably don’t know what a
purple person is so I’ll tell you. The
Guardians that dress in purple have special magical abilities on top of their
immortality. These gifts are the result
of witch’s blood. An immortal without a
magic bloodline has no powers.
What would you say is your biggest
quirk?
Orange soda – I love orange
soda.
What is it about your antagonist that
irks you the most, and why? Share a line in the book where this irk is
manifested.
"The
Senator gave Tarian one of his sanctimonious downward glances that Tarian had
received several times during his yearlong stay at his estate after his
father’s death. Only now, Tarian
surpassed him in height, and his tone did not have quite the same effect. However, Tarian still felt like a boy that
owed him a great deal.”
These few sentences sum up how I feel about Senator
Eastwood. I know I should be grateful,
and I do appreciate all he has done for me and my family, but I’m still angry
that he kept all these secrets from me after my dad died. He knew what I was and he should have told me
the truth the day I moved into his house and began training for the EMA. It would have made sense and I would have
realized why I wasn’t going to Harvard like my older brother, why I wasn’t
going to be an attorney like I had planned.
He could have saved me a lot of angst but I kissed his daughter. (Smirk,
wink)
What or who means the most to you in
your life? What, if anything, would you do to keep him/her/it in your life?
Delia and my family and I would do
anything for them. I am doing everything
for them right now. I’ve trained... at both the EMA and inside the realm at Headquarters; I’ve endured Audrey’s
annoying rants and impossible drills; and now I’m on mission inside the
Government District to draw out the assassin.
I’m the one he wants, I possess the DNA he needs and I’m going to be the
one to bring him down.
What one thing would you like readers
to know about you that may not be spelled out in the book in which you inhabit?
I wasn’t the best soldier. I’d rather not be reminded of my many
blunders during my first year. But in my
defense, Ian was contracted to kill me.
I hate to admit it but I wouldn’t have made it through without Audrey,
then and now.
If you could tell your writer
(creator) anything about yourself that might turn the direction of the plot,
what would it be?
When the bus slid out of control and
plunged underwater, I knew I’d survive.
I wasn’t scared. A strange sense
of awareness that you don’t have at nine, I had. And I don’t think it was an accident. The malfunction of the bus’s hover capability
seems too coincidental to me. And I
remember as a kid, being only nine but I remember thinking something bad was
going to happen.
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A question for me:
Why do you favor the antagonists? I mean that’s the bad guy or girl. They cause trouble and pain and yet you
writers seem to relish it. You writers
give them more advantages. Me, the
protagonist, bust my butt while the antagonist is always one step ahead.
The antagonists have one question, you and your writer have all of the rest. Still, in every story, there must be good and evil, both sides of the fence so to speak. This opposition not only makes the story interesting, it makes it real, just ask your writer. You will be glad you had to "bust (your) butt" because in the end, and this is my promise, you will be a better character.
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Learn more about:
Tarian Prescott from First Born
Website: www.janellegabaybooks.com
Author page on BookRhythm: http://bookrhythm.com/janelle-gabay/
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