You have been doing fine. Better in fact :P *Sigh* I wish, just once, I could do that. . . .Learn about my character. The closest I get is when I'm actually writing, and I realize that I didn't put any thought into the character's habits or history, so I didn't see what I wrote about them coming. It's not that I forgot, I simply. . . .Had it pushed to the side for so long that I hadn't looked at it in a while, so it would almost feel new, if it didn't feel so natural. . . . Like how Mois was not affected by their father's madness, and how Alexi is almost double so. I tend to feel it all anew when the two of them are together, and Mois begins mourning for his brother. . . . I too meet my characters, however rather than the casual greeting you get in the real world with people, it's like they walk up, shake my hand, and for an instant I am them, their lives permanently ingrained into me as if I'd lived it. It's useful, but knowing everything can get old :P

No problem, RL comes first, and as I have said many times, I am patient. I'm thinking of calling the race the Vallah, in honor of Valhalla, the warrior's heaven, as a testament to it's indomitable spirit. What do you think?