If you were wondering “Lyn, why are you blathering about character descriptions AGAIN?” well, herminion has a post offering sketches for LJ tokens ($2/sketch).
And, ah, you can’t buy less than $5 of tokens.
She already drew me a pic of Belfreja.
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Full description, including personality here
Wylie is a middling-heighted boy (5’9”) with middling-brown hair and a middling build, with average grades and an average athletic ability. On paper, he is an entirely ordinary fifteen-year-old boy.
Physically, he’s pale-skinned and freckles, with blue eyes and pouty lips (not that he pouts much), still out-growing his baby fat in face and stomach, and tends towards plain t-shirts and loose-fitting jeans, or, when his mother has been fussing, plain button-down shirts and loose-fitting khakis. If he has to engage in a sport, he prefers lacrosse.
http://www.canstockphoto.com/models/model-19271
He has coyote ears in place of his human ears, in generally the same position as his human ears were, and a fluffy coyote tail http://www.allwildlifecontrol.com/images/coyote-3.jpg.
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Bel is a lovely girl in her late teens.
Her face shape and hair color are most like this girl – http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbiesland/galleries/72157627139478514/#photo_4893086879
She’s not a petite girl; she’s not remotely heavy, but she’s got Viking ancestry on both sides. Her shoulders are wide, and her chest is full (and perky).
Her hair style is rather like this – http://www.gallery.becomegorgeous.com/long_hairstyles/long_vintage_waves_hairstyle-4136.html
She’s sporting a dress like this – http://lisafremontpages.blogspot.com/2010/07/diamonds-and-damesepisode-11-laura.html
She might be carrying a fedora, though no worries if it doesn’t work in the picture.
SHe’s probably not wearing it, because she’s got ram horns (smaller than this – http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/463-3115 – the best picture I can find for size/placement is this: http://tamara-hawk.deviantart.com/art/Maria-76412852
And she’s smiling, looking off-screen.
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Addergoole Year Nine won the reader poll for “Next Year’s serial;” the story proper will begin the first full week of September.
In the meantime, please enjoy the third of twenty-something character profiles: Kheper.
Kheper
b. March 15, 1987
Kheper is fiery, stubborn, strong, and hardworking, a handsome dark-haired man with a resemblance to Disney’s Aladdin. His Change involves chitin armor, beetle wings, and claws, as well as scarab horns.
His mother, Tanith, is an Egyptian student-visa to the US. Her Name translates to Brings the Pain and her Change is draconic, with arm-wings that are long and fluttery and head-spikes that are quite intimidating. She is iridescent orange in color, at least in her scales and wings.
She was a studious, serious student and matured into a strong, serious woman who demands the very best of everyone around her.
His father, Jibril, is a far-older Arabic immigrant to the United States. He has a similar change to his son, an insect Change with chitin armor that resembles small plates of jointed armor, with a set of horns resembling an ancient samuri helmet. He takes his responsibilities seriously, but that is about all he takes seriously. His Name translates to Withstands.
Jibril was held against his will by a female Nedetakaei Hunter for some time immediately before joining Regine’s project, resulting in
Kheper is not the first child either provided to the project, but when conceiving him, they fell in love and were married soon afterwards. They have two other children, who will come to the school in later years.
Kheper was raised by both parents, in an affluent Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. He grew up with his mother pressuring him to strive to the highest summits he could reach, his father driving home the importance of responsibility, and both expecting him to, perhaps, be a bit more adult than he was ready for.
He simultaneously rebelled against this mindset and took it in, becoming a studious boy in some classes and an absolute goof-off in others, dependant on his respect, or lack therof, for the teacher and, to a lesser extent, the season.
He likes sun, and likes to be outdoors during the summer months quite a bit. He spends more time than is good for his studies playing hooky as soon as the weather warms up, and takes winter with more than a little bit of grumbling.
When he decides someone is “his person,” nothing short of a complete and utter betrayal will change his mind.
He has expensive tastes, and already knows good wine and good food. His parents did manage to instill that at an early age.
Physical, he is a slight, tall young man. He’s 5’7” as he enters Addergoole and will gain another three inches in his first year, another inch each year afterwards. He isn’t prone to athletic activities that put on muscle, although he was learning skateboarding and brings his ‘board to school with him.
He has black hair that he keeps shaggy and shoulder-length because it offends his mother, chocolate brown eyes, and slightly-too-shaggy eyebrows. His skin starts out a deep brown, summer-sun baked.
Because his mother told him he was coming to an exclusive prep school, his wardrobe consists primarily of prep-school clothes: polo shirts, button-downs, khakis. He even has two shirts with the Addergoole crest on them. He prefers light colored clothing, and almost everything he owns fits in that category. If dressing “down,” he wears tailored jeans and fitted T-shirts.
Math and history are his least-good classes, because he didn’t get along with those teachers back home. Science is his best.
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Addergoole Year Nine won the reader poll for “Next Year’s serial;” the story proper will begin the first full week of September.
In the meantime, please enjoy the second of twenty-something character profiles: Timora.
Timora is a shy, uncertain girl who reached her height (5 foot 7 inches) quickly and the rest of her growth more slowly, making her awkward and uncertain around her classmates. Added to a generally retiring nature – in a family full of loud and boisterous people, she has always been the quiet one – this generally led people to misunderstand her name as a pun for “timid.”
As a child, she was fond of books, animals, and farming, with a propensity for spending a good deal of time in the local dairy and goat farmers’ barns, helping out or getting in the way. She was not, perhaps surprisingly, much into horse fantasy, although she did love the Narnian centaurs, preferring the fauns, dryads, naiads, and such.
Her introversion, her choice of reading material, and her preference for outdoor life rather than playing games or going to the mall, all added up to her being a rather ignored, unpopular child in school. For many years, she hardly noticed, until boys started becoming interesting to her.
She spent her last two years of high school before Addergoole in a state of embarrassed frustration, uncertain how to deal with boys, what she was supposed to say, or why the romance-novel-inspired dresses and skirts she loved so much were suddenly giggle-worthy and inappropriate. A more attentive mother may have been able to put her on the right path, but Douglass Dark-Water is not known for being all that involved in her children’s lives.
Timora is a slender, willowy, coltish girl with long sandy brown hair that tends to wave and curl. She has a pointed chin and hazel eyes, and wouldn’t know what to do with make-up if somebody gave her step-by-step directions. She wears her hair loose, or with the front braided back.
Her brother, Smitty, tried to tell her about Addergoole. He was hampered by first the geas, second by the fact that his experiences at the school were some of the mildest around, and third by their six-year age gap and his long absence from home during Timora’s formative years. She is left understanding that there is a family legacy relating to the school, and that there are animals to spend time with there.
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Addergoole Year Nine won the reader poll for “Next Year’s serial;” the story proper will begin the first full week of September.
In the meantime, please enjoy the first of twenty-something character profiles: Wylie.
b. August 10, 1988
Wylie is a middling-heighted boy (5’9”) with middling-brown hair and a middling build, with average grades and an average athletic ability. On paper, he is an entirely ordinary fifteen-year-old boy.
His blue eyes set him apart when one is looking at him; his propensity for puzzles and science set him apart in classes; his utter inability to pay attention to anything for more than five minutes set him apart (or, rather, push him aside) for most of his teachers. He doesn’t like reading but soaks up information when he does, for whatever brief period he can remain interested; he watches TV voraciously and soaks up information, generally while getting half-way through some other project.
His foster-mother, who he believes to be his real mother, and her husband, who he believes to be his father, have long since despaired of his finishing anything; mom Page keeps Legos around by the cubic yard to keep Wylie’s hands occupied (She packed a box of them in his luggage for Addergoole). Father Cedric has found that putting a notepad and pencil in reach of their son’s hands will sometimes generate fascinating things and other times generate complete crap; the rare nightmare-monster drawing is burned before Wylie notices what he’s done.
His best subjects are math and science; he’s rubbish at history and can’t sit through more than five minutes of English without getting distracted, although he likes old historical fantasy (Beowulf, for example, the worse the monster the better).
Physically, he’s pale-skinned and freckles, with pouty lips (not that he pouts much), still out-growing his baby fat in face and stomach, and tends towards plain t-shirts and loose-fitting jeans, or, when Page has been fussing, plain button-down shirts and loose-fitting khakis. If he has to engage in a sport, he prefers lacrosse.
His parents have told him that Addergoole is a school for “gifted” children, by which he believes they mean “screwed up.”
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So kuroseishin is doing an Icon sale (which go check out) and I realized I don’t have a description for Ciara yet or her Change.
Anybody picture her at all?
I think she’s petite, and I think she’s of the family line (Fridmar) that turns colors with the Change.
All right. She’s a daughter of Fridmar. She’s short-by-my-standards, 5’4″ or so, and resembles Miroslava Duma, especially in this set of pictures.
We don’t know much about her except that she bakes, she’s been training in combat, and she’s polite and likes lists (sounds like someone I know).
I think her Change turns her into a deep nut-brown elf-girl. She gets a bit slenderer and a lot taller (8″ taller), her ears go long and pointy, her eyes go tiger-eye, and her hair gets veins of lighter brown like a rock.
…She is Taro’s half-sister maternally!
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djinni is hosting ICON DAY 21!!
And for an icon request, #1 was Summer. Here’s her description:
Summer is younger, a sunny blonde; her hair is generally pulled back in a loose ponytail, strands falling in her face: http://www.my-hair-style.com/2010/08/23/the-sleek-ponytail-in-its-various-different-avatars-for-fall/
She prefers bright colors for her clothes, especially yellow, orange, and that bright colour in between those two. Simple clothes, probably a T-shirt like this – http://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=%2FproductImages%2F_619000%2Fff_619717_xl.jpg&w=400 saying something clever- I like “Yes, and?” or, if smaller, “try.”
Like her siblings, her face shape is most like this picture here: http://www.edinburghpastoralcounselling.com/resources/coupleiStock_000008560478Small.jpg; her skin is tan but not deeply so.
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She’s a thin dark-haired woman that’s all points, looking a bit like this icon here, a bit like this image, but with dark eyes. Chocolate-brown eyes, dark-chocolate hair. Normally, it’s pulled back into a tidy updo; she wears it about half-way down her back.
In the Pirate ship, she’s wearing a one-piece jumpsuit, something like this – http://www.anchortex.com/products/Q300894 – or this http://shop.uniforms-etc.com/Transcon-Womens-CDC-Utility-Jumpsuit-508FBB-FCG.htm?categoryId=-1- only in a dark denim indigo. The suit is unbuttoned to mid-torso, over a rich red camisole (this, in red); the matching scarf is tied around her narrow waist.
She’s holding a pen, or a data pad (think tablet, nook, kindle)
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Ruan, in her lab, holding a pair of tongs (in the conservatory with the candlestick?)
Hair is like the bob on the left, red.
What we can see of her dress is something like this on the left, though I think she prefers colors to neutrals.
She is wearing over the dress, however, an apron. Must be tidy.
And, of course,
Goggles.
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