(October 19, 2018 – 5:23 AM)Edric Umbridge Wrote:  It is always my first instinct to give my male characters blackthorn wands and my female characters hawthorn wands. I do not know where, when, why, or how I decided they were the #default, but it's ridiculous. I have to actively discourage myself from picking those wand woods, just like how I have to remind myself not all of my characters can have unicorn hair wands. :P

I actually can't stand wand searching for my characters. My anxiety makes me overthink the meanings behind each and every wand wood, and trying to skim makes me feel guilty because "I could have missed the perfect wand". Wand cores are even harder, especially if you don't know whether to go by the main three, or branch out to other known cores and fact checking to see if it's available for that character. Of the entire apping process, that is possibly the one section that I typically take the most time to decide on. Well, fighting for first place with the history (depending on the character).