1. Do they sleep with a stuffed animal? If they have multiple, who’s the favorite?
2. Can they take care of a plant? What about a pet? What about a child?
3. Ask them to describe their love interest.
4. Do they look good in red?
5. Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Will they give one, and what about?
6. Who will they take advice from, no matter what it is? Who won’t they take advice from, no matter what it is?
7. Describe them in three words. Now let them describe themself in three words.
8. Do complex puzzles intrigue or frustrate them?
9. Do they empathize with non-sentient things (dolls, plants, books…)?
10. What age do they most want to be right now?
11. They’ve won the lottery. Spend, or save?
12. Do they like romance in the books they read (or in the book they’re in)?
13. Name one thing their parents taught them.
14. Would they agree with the term ‘guilty pleasure’? Do they have any?
15. What would they consider a waste of time– other than school or work?
16. If money wasn’t a limit, what would they wear?
17. Do they like children?
18. Kissing: tongue or no tongue?
19. Do they study before tests? Practice before job interviews?
20. What do they like that nobody else does?
21. What would it take for them to break up with someone? What would be the last straw?
22. Do they like being called pet names? Do they call other people pet names? What’s their go-to?
23. Stability or novelty?
24. Honesty or charity?
25. Safety or possibility?
26. Talent or effort?
27. Forgiveness or vengeance (or…)?
28. Would they date a fixer-upper?
29. What recurring dreams do they have?
30. What would they do if they knew it would be forgiven?

“Perhaps a clear and unambiguous act of kindness will serve to win the trust you seem so determined to deny me.”