Distracted With... Siobhan Thompson (EXCLUSIVE)

Fantasy High: Junior Year might officially be over, but the cast of the preferred Dimension 20 show has given the fans masses to chew on following the season finale. As the 3rd season of the popular Dungeons & Dragons display on Dropout, the Bad Kids faced off towards one long-suspected dangerous man and a pupil stuffed with unbridled rage over the celebration's persevered luck.

Following the realization of the season, Siobhan Thompson, who played wizard and elven oracle Adain Abernant, spoke back Thirteen fast questions with Distractify, sharing her favorite NPCs in Fantasy High and how she in point of fact feels about Lou Wilson's cube (unhealthy).

If you needed to get a tattoo at the moment, what would it not be?

ST: I've by no means gotten a tattoo because I've very sturdy critiques that change continuously about issues that I believe are lovely. But I've been having a look at -- there's a lady referred to as Caitlin Hackett, who does those extremely beautiful kind of fantastical creatures who I found as a result of she did fan artwork for Dimension 20 We all looked at her [paintings] like, 'Wait, this this particular person is fantastic.' So if I have been to get a tattoo, I'd get one thing from her.

If you need to have any superpower, what would you pick out?

ST: Honestly, I think I simply would go with flying. I feel such as you go through the entire extra heady ones and you then get to a point it is like, if truth be told being able to fly can be actually ill. I do not actually want to replicate myself. I do not actually need so that you could shoot hearth out of my a-s or whatever X Men factor. And isn't the sector so stunning from above? And you possibly can be able to avoid traffic, it would be nice.

What's your go-to karaoke tune?

ST: "Ironic" by means of Alanis Morissette is my again pocket, good day, it is a banger [tune]. I feel like with karaoke, you always want something that everyone knows... I have in mind a woman that I went to school with once selecting "Songs From an Italian Restaurant" via Billy Joel. Billy Joel isn't that massive in the United Kingdom, unquestionably [no longer] among our age team. It had like six instrumentals in it and is an eight-minute long song, and it was once an actual learning second for me of like, ah, that's what not to do at karaoke. Okay, she's, she's consuming s--t in real-time. Great.

What are your top three sport day must haves?

ST: Coffee, coffee, and a good lunch. Oh, and having a blanket within the dome. Sometimes it gets truly, actually cold in there. Brennan runs extremely popular and sweats profusely. So there are two AC methods, one for the whole room and one that is simply pointed at Brennan. But then me and Emily [Axford] are sitting there just shivering like tiny babies. So coffee, a excellent lunch, and a heat blanket. I'm a kid.

Tell us concerning the first Dungeons & Dragons campaign you ever played.

ST: I performed a campaign that Brennan [Lee Mulligan] DMed and Emily put together... it's a international that Brennan constructed, and Lou's first — I have no idea if it's his first [time taking part in] however his first time taking part in with Brennan was once also in [this global], however in a distinct atmosphere and it was once an actual classic prime myth [marketing campaign]. That's what we needed for our first D&D sesh, where it's a large global and anyone's been opening these gates and we were given to close 'em. I was like a half-elf ranger.

If it's essential to switch lives with any celebrity for an afternoon, who wouldn't it be and why?

ST: I feel I'd select — and that is me being so ignorant that I can't even say a reputation, however any person who is actually excellent at game, simply to feel what it is like to are living in a body that's truly in reality good at sport. Like I thin kthat's the article that will be maximum interesting to me. Like what does it really feel love to be athletic? for the reason that means that their bodies work isn't the way that my body works.

If you'll want to secretly get started any rumor about yourself, what wouldn't it be?

ST: I did shaggy dog story for a while on Twitter, a few years ago that I used to be Emma Thompson's daughter. I'm not -- so far as I do know, I'm now not in any way associated with her. But that really tickled me. That I'm secretly Emma Thompson's daughter and I'm a full nepo child.

Where do you search for inspiration when construction a new personality?

ST: From whatever atmosphere that we are going to be doing, like having a look at the tropes that exist in that atmosphere, and then seeing how I will be able to play that in a fresh, new kind of subversive approach. And then additionally, just going through the Player's Handbook I to find very helpful. Like having a look at the different specific subclasses and announcing, 'How can I flip this into a playable persona with the specifics in the sport?' Both of those ways more or less intersect after which that is where the character comes from. And then seeing what everybody else is doing. We have a tendency to build all our characters in combination.

Is there a D&D elegance you have not performed but that you simply truly wish to?

ST: I have by no means played anyone super robust. It is going back to the athletic thing. I am so deeply unathletic that I don't even think about enjoying that during a fictional world, but I have no idea, I might do that for the next one. We'll see. I may pop out of character creation absolutely like 'I'm a little bit malicious program boy!' But it would be a laugh to play like a paladin or a fighter.

Do you've any superstitions about your dice? If so, please proportion.

ST: Not really. But I like to play at having superstitions. It's like I do not in reality consider in astrology, but if any individual desires to inform me I'm beautiful because I'm a Leo, I'll pay attention. But every now and then, one die does just roll incredibly badly. Here's where I've a suspicion: Lou's cube are cursed, and he refuses to get rid of them. And it's an affront to me, and the sport, and to everybody around the desk.

Who is your favorite NPC in 'Fantasy High'?

ST: I think it is Aelwyn. I just have so [a lot] fun taking part in that sister dynamic. I've a sister — our dating is so other from theirs — but that like sister banter is one thing that I like and I omit having it on a day-to-day basis. You know, my sister is in England and we talk at all times, but there is no substitute for having it in particular person.

If you had to return to 'Fantasy High' as a character as opposed to the Bad Kids, who would you play?

ST: Oh, almost definitely some terrible elf. You know in Fraser after they moved Fraser over from Cheers, they gave him Niles as a foil, which is like much more Fraser than Fraser — with the intention to make any individual who's like even more Adaine than Adaine. I think like [that] can be fun. But additionally the pirates are so a laugh. I do not know. Maybe it would be Leviathan character. There are such a lot of fun little subcultures in that world.

What is your No. 1 distraction?

ST: It's TikTok. It's completely TikTok. just like everyone else. And glance, concentrate. I think that it's more or less weirdly essential as a author to understand what is going on. I used to be talking to anyone the opposite day about [that audio] 'I'm on the lookout for a man in finance, six-five, blue eyes.' It's great, however like, it's essential to put that in a script, everybody who was once on TikTok would realize it, however everyone over the age of Forty can be like 'What is that this?'

It's built so that you can be addicted to it, and I'm identical to everyone else. It's a steadiness. It's like, you need to be on there as a result of you want to know what's going on, but additionally do I have to be on there for as many hours an afternoon as I am? Probably not.

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