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Meme: More Than Meets The Eye

We have INCOMING NEWBIES, and I want to learn all about them! Plus I promised a bored

rebelseekspizza a meme and this one hasn't been done since September.

There are certain characteristics about the people we play that *we* know, but we get tired of repeating in every introductory ping. There's also stuff that players wouldn't really be able to figure out just looking at an icon--how tall someone is, if they have an accent, what kind of clothes they are wearing...and in some cases, if their eyes/hair/whatever are different than the PB we've picked.

So wax poetic about what your characters look/sound like, if they have tics or scars, if they have a distinct singing voice, etc!

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OKAY. Adapted from last time:

Dante's tall. Like, 6'2'' or taller, tall.
Half-demon, half-angel, all-unaware of this, but if your character can notice these things, go right ahead. Though do let me know OOCly so I can work with it.
Has big baby blue eyes and brown hair in what amounts to an undercut-meets-fauxhawk. Could probably be a real 'hawk if he put in the effort. (His PB has blond hair. I've shaded it brown in some icons, but I am lazy, and after his canon catchup next year, his hair will be white anyway.)
Has a weird habit of making gravity occasionally forget that he's there - he can maintain altitude in the air for a few seconds, especially if he's firing his guns or slicing with his sword.
He's got a single, thin scar over his face, clipping his eyebrow and stretching over his cheekbone.
Has amazing reflexes (and strength and speed) and isn't afraid to exploit them for cool points, such as in situations where he can dodge incoming giant chunks of debris by shifting his shoulder just a little bit to the left. Or by perfectly aiming a soda can at the trash so it does a bit of a lap 'round the edge of the trash can before dropping in.
Is slim but well-muscled and can pull off some ridiculous acrobatics. He has his own kind of grace, which isn't necessarily clean-looking; more a savage kind of purposeful.
His visual theme heavily leans towards blacks and reds, and ripped tight clothes probably because of some of the points above, cough. He tends to add little touches like a Union Jack patch on his long coat or a red smiley face patch on his Chucks.
Two things I always forget to mention in threads and then feel weird about, but he's wearing fingerless gloves 90% of the time - either regular fingerless gloves or ones with just thumb and index finger cut out - and wears a red pendant all of the time. I... don't mention that last one a lot because I'm weird about jewelry, truth be told.
His fighting style is more power than finesse; he sometimes overextends his reach or nearly trips, but he always winds up where he needs to be. In a way, he's got a bit of the dancer in him.
Has a mark on his back that glows when he's using his healing factor or summoning his sword, Rebellion.
When he's outside of the dorms, he also carries twin pistols called Ebony & Ivory. Closer inspection will show they don't actually have anywhere you can put cartridges; the bullets are generated by Dante's powers, and the guns are demonic in origin.
Will also occasionally exude little flurries of red demonic energy, but when that's relevant I'll mention it.
Sounds like your typical American street kid with a limited vocabulary and a love of the word 'fuck'. I'm told his accent skims close to Brooklyn - or at least NYC - a lot of the time.
Tends to just own whatever space he winds up in unless he's actively frightened or worried, which doesn't happen often. For all that he's a big ball of rage just waiting to explode, he tends to exude chill unless he's feeling surface-angry, too.
Okay, it hasn't happened to this Dante much yet, but his ability to walk off getting stabbed in the chest is kind of legendary. I just felt the need to mention that.
Impervious to anything that could fall under the expression 'human afflictions'. Except hangovers. He's totally susceptible to hangovers.

Edited 2016-05-01 15:03 (UTC)

Sure, I've got an hour to kill before I have to be anywhere.

Her canon descriptions come from when she was about eleven, so a lot of this comes from her PB, Amandla Stenberg:

Is on the short side of average: 5'3"

Is probably not done growing, though

Is mixed race (black and white) with medium brown skin and kinky hair, worn naturally

Like, most often in a twist out or pulled up in poofs. Occasionally, if she has time to get to a salon or meets someone who knows how to do it, braided

Has dark brown eyes and very defined cheekbones

Is pretty skinny, but growing into some curves

Is a bit less into bright red lipstick than her PB

Has a fairly standard mid-Atlantic/Pennsylvania accent. Canon won't say if she's from Philly or Pittsburgh or Harrisburg or Allentown or what, but since her route to Florida doesn't involve "get on 95 and keep going" I'm going to say it's not a Philadelphia accent.

In the "not included in images" category:

Has a large mole on the back of her neck, right on the spine in line with the tops of her shoulders

Sometimes it glows purple. Rarely. Usually when she's encountering a language that isn't English or Italian. Or Boov

OH ALSO: will often seem to be wearing a large chrome bug-shaped barrette or broach. She's not, it's an alien robot named Bill. But Bill is protective and as such has learned to imitate jewelry so as to be around Tip as much as possible

Edited 2016-05-01 15:15 (UTC)

She sounds awesome and I have to read this book! Also, Roscoe is excited that there's another mixed kid :)

Since he's coming back to teach, I can do this!

Has a genuine ~~British~~ Coruscanti accent. No, his dad doesn't have one. Neither does his grandfather. Oh, Star Wars.
Isn't short, but is definitely shorter than Anakin. He's probably topped out around 5'10". He's also stocky in the "spends lots of time at the gym" way.
Has facial hair--that "haven't shaved all weekend" carefully cultivated look. Not the terrible ferret thing he had at a reunion lo these many years ago or whatever's currently on Luke's face in the movies.
Is a redhead. His PB is not and I'm too lazy to photoshop every icon so we just pretend, la. He also has bright blue eyes.
Has scars on his back that you will only see if he's shirtless. The most noticeable is a lightsaber scar that bisects his back diagonally. Thanks for that, evil!canon!Tahiri.
Tends to wear a lot of black, mostly because it's easy to clean and hides a lot of dirt. He's spent enough time in Ender's universe now that his clothing isn't particularly Star Wars-y, and he'd never be caught dead in a poncho.

Edited 2016-05-01 14:50 (UTC)

→ To quote Ada herself: I'm fish-belly pale and slim as a slip, with long dark hair that curls like wood shavings and eyes the color of deep water. She's tall, around 5'7" and still growing, and pretty much matches her PB perfectly.

→ Ada Miller is a carnie. The carnival is in her blood, in her bones, and she was born on the midway. She's swagger and glitter and top hats and the dust of the road, the best barker the Millers have, always looking behind at where she's been and never looking forward. And all of that packs itself into the way she moves.

→ Vegetarian. If you ask, she'll just say it's for medical reasons.

→ Her accent is a mix of her mama's pure Alabama native, and generalized Southern United States. The carnival lives just outside of Phoenix, AZ for three or four months a year, then travels the South and Midwest. Members of the Miller Family come from all over, however, (Chester is from New Jersey), so Ada's accent is a hodgepodge of everything she grew up hearing. She puts on a totally bland could-be-from-anywhere Midwest accent when performing, and can mimic almost anything if she wants, but doesn't bother on Fandom. Ain't no Townies gonna run her off th' island for being carnie trash if she doesn't talk right.

→ Tends to either wear her hair down with her curls flying everywhere, or in a loose ponytail. She has a lot of hair, and sometimes it just gets in the way.

→ Ada is a member of 'Please let it be hot out because the less clothes the better' club. Any given day during the spring and summer, Ada is wearing short-shorts or a skirt, a tank-top, and slightly large cowboy boots. And a LOT of body glitter. She uses it to camouflage her scales...

→ Oh yeah, she's got scales because she's a mermaid.

→ Current Scale Status: Her scales are currently an iridescent coppery/gold color, which makes it pretty easy to blend with body glitter and her skin tone.

Teensy scales are on her abdomen where she got stabbed by the Brood. They're so tiny that she doesn't even bother to glitter them most of the time. Scales juuuuust barely bigger than body glitter are all along her collarbone, at the small of her back, tops of her thighs, and in the fold of her elbow. Her biggest scales are the size of her pinky nail, and are located at the nape of her neck.

→ Right now, she does NOT have a tail! Her legs are still legs, thankfully. She just has webbed toes (hence her hate of shoes and inability to wear ones in her size), and very small webs between her fingers, and the scales. If you cut Ada, she bleeds blood, it's just got different DNA.

→ Non-magical 1000%. Mermaids in her world are evolution, not magic, so if you sense magic you won't get anything off her. If you can smell/sense non-humans, then Ada might ping strangely. While her father was human, mermaid DNA says "Bzzzpt! You Lose!" and Ada's doomed to end up fully aquatic eventually.

→ Fairly graceful, and clearly at home in her own body. Has great spatial sense, because evolution.

→ Very faint scars around her wrists that resemble rope-burn, which she rubs at when she's upset or lost in her own head. Similar scars near both ankles, but given her propensity for wearing boots, they shouldn't be seen that often. Both sets are the result of a trauma she really does not want to talk about, so bringing them up will result in her shutting down and walking off.

Edited 2016-05-01 14:58 (UTC)

Man, this meme hasn't been timely enough for me to do it for Ender in so long. I had to go back like five iterations of this meme ago.

Has grey-green eyes.
Is 6 foot 2 inches. Ben hates it.
Isn't quite as scrawny as his PB is - damn Liam is only just starting to look vaguely like a 20-something, and hasn't done anything iconable in a long time. But he is tall and thin, and while he has muscle, it's more 'swimmer' than anything else.
Wears nice, reasonably fashionable clothes, though they never stray too far from military utilitarian.
Has light scars on his knuckles from where he used to gnaw them open, but they're only there if you know where to look, and a tiny scar on the back of his neck from the monitor he had on as a kid.
He also has multiple, fading scars on his torso from where Achilles broke most of his bones. They're only visible if he has his shirt off; he doesn't really hide them, though.
Has an accent so neutral it takes Midwest and laughs in its face.
Carries himself as a soldier - but only to the point where it's noticable if, again, you know where to look.
Keeps his hair mid-length, but will occasionally get it cut off to a military crisp.
Generally radiates compassionate-but-closed-off, and will very quietly draw himself towards the background a lot of the time unless he sees reason not to.
That being said, if he sees a reason not to, he can go from 'not here' to 'very present and naturally in control' in .5 seconds, which will hopefully be obvious from dialogue and narrative.
Never, ever finishes everything that's on his plate when he's eating. (No seriously, that's canon.)
Doesn't own or wear socks.
Seems a lot happier these days than he used to, but in a quiet, understated way. He smiles more.
Unlike Ben, he's always clean-shaven to an obsessive degree.
You'll also never catch him drinking alcohol or coffee because ~~written by a Mormon~~ control freak.

Edited 2016-05-01 14:55 (UTC)

Good meme choice while I'm actively doing nothing this morning!

*Mayday is 5'-7" with blue eyes and SHORT brown hair that's actually pretty spot on in both shade and style with these icons. It's kind of weird, to be honest.

*Mayday has an athlete's body; specifically the body of a star high school basketball player. So she's toned, and a lot of her working out goes to conditioning. EVENTUALLY this will change and, Michael Jordan style, she will train herself into a different kind of athlete, ending up at more of a gymnast shape. Have I done way too much research into artist intentions? YES.

*Her mom is is a former supermodel who keeps a toe in the fashion business, so Mayday's wardrobe tends to be simple but fashionable, even if she does currently wear a giant leather jacket (character created in the 90s) a little too often.

*She has a bit of a Queens accent thanks to living in Forest Hills her whole life.

✖ King of the rumpled suits and scruffy look.
✖ No, seriously, he created The Trenchcoat Brigade trope. That is how he always dresses.
✖ Has a number of tattoos on his back and arms. At least three of them are just 'fuck you' in obscure/dead languages, but the rest are magical in nature.
✖ Almost always smirking. Because he's a right bastard.
✖ Visually, well, he was designed to look like Sting, although DC mandated that Vertigo move away from that fairly early on. So, his PB is Paul Bettany. Yes, I was tempted by Matt Ryan after the show came out, but I'm too damn lazy to change icons.

Everything I said last time (http://fandomhigh-ooc.livejournal.com/1113118.html?thread=53635102#t53635102) still applies, except for two things, one presently different and another that will be different in the very near future.

*PRESENT: Her hair is now longer. About shoulder length. Still red, but a little browner.

*NEAR FUTURE: She will soon have a chest scar. How? Why? Stay tuned, True Believers!

Short, slender and with the body of a ballet dancer. She's probably pushing 5'1" right now in flat feet, but she tends to compensate by wearing boots with heels.
Bright red, completely noticeable long hair that she tends to pull back into a ponytail to keep out of her way. Bright green eyes that are taking in the world around her unless she remembers to look like of vacant and teenager-y. She's remembering to do that a lot less these days. Girl is sharp.
Genuine ~~British~~ ~~Coruscanti~~ Imperial Center accent! Feel free to mistake it for British.
Tends to wear black jumpsuit-y type clothing unless spending too much time with Eggsy, and then her clothing gets much louder and tackier. She thinks it's hilarious. When it comes to fancy dress, she splashes out and can go full-out Star Wars nonsense complete with hair and insanely ornate dresses.
Is far better with weapons than she wants you to know.
Is Force-sensitive, which she also doesn't really want you to know.
Hasn't really cribbed onto the fact that about a quarter of the school staff knows who she grows up to be.

Is Hollywood-short: 5'8"

Carries himself like he's much taller. Like a little hound dog that picks fights with all the bigger dogs on the block

Wins those fights

Built like he wins fights

Has long brown hair that goes wavy/frizzy when it gets humid. Most definitely owns a straightening iron.

Pulls his hair back on occasion, when it might get in his face. Mostly only on cons, though

Or he might use a bandana across his forehead to keep it out of his eyes. Usually when he's cooking. Or on cons.

Otherwise it's free to end up in his face.

Seriously, all the best fighters in his canon have long hair. It's a thing. Probably some sort of "I'm so good I can wear my hair in a way that gets in the way/is a really easy to grab onto and still kick your ass"

Usually has at least a little facial hair. Sometimes a tiny soul patch. It's pretty douchey, yeah.

Is almost always at least a little bit tan

Has an Oklahoman accent that's pretty faint, most days, but comes back in full when he's around other southerners/gets angry or upset

Can do a working class Boston accent and a radio-neutral American accent. Otherwise knows better than to try to do funny voices, Hardison

Has a lot of scars, mostly small and faded, from various knives and gunshot wounds

Currently has a mass of little pink lines where the skin on his temple got split open by a glock. This'll fade down to little white lines that won't be noticeable until you know what to look for. Unfortunately, there're a couple of people who he knows will always be looking for them.

Frequently has some sort of bandage or small wound on him. His fighting style is a lot of "take the punishment and keep going"

Dresses casually in jeans and a t-shirt/button down 99.9% of the time

They are well fitted t-shirts and jeans, though. A well-put together casual style

Is allergic to suits

Edited 2016-05-01 15:08 (UTC)

Putting Ghanima in here even though she's gone for the summer, since she'll be back in the fall.

♠ ~~British~~ Imperial accent.
♠ Tall - she's taller than Leto! I tend to go with almost 5'9" - same as the actress.
♠ Blonde with reddish/coppery highlights which goes to her shoulders. Usually worn in elaborate twists or braids under FABULOUS HATS when out in public. It's only ever down in private or with friends, and even then it still usually has tiny braids in it.
♠ Has the deep blue-on-blue glowing eyes (yes, they are VERY NOTICEABLE) of the Fremen.
♠ Tends to wear Imperial-style clothing while teaching, Fremen tunics/robes while in her off-time. She's got one or two pairs of 'contemporary' clothing that she only wears when going off-island. Renee and Faith made her buy them.
♠ Impeccable posture and manners. She is a Princess Royal and Empress of the Known Universe, and behaves accordingly. In public.
♠ Very graceful, liquid motion, much like a predator. She *is* Fremen. Since she is a desert creature, there is no unnecessary movement. She is economy of gesture.
♠ She carries a crysknife with her at all times, although it's often concealed during her office hours or while teaching under the folds of her elaborate gowns.
♠ Ghanima is Pre-born; her mother, Chani, consumed so much melange during her pregnancy that Ghanima awoke to full, adult consciousness before birth, receiving the genetic memories of both their male and female ancestors. This means she has voices in her head. Lots and lots of voices, and they're all real people. She's got excellent mental discipline, but probably would register strangely to any telepathic abilities.
♠ She is Bene Gesserit, Reverend Mother, and Sayyadina all in one. Ghanima can read the tiniest twitch of your eye or gesture of body language to know when someone is lying or hiding something and will call you on your bullshit.

-Does NOT have the distinctive gravely voice of his 616 comics counterpart, but does have the dulcet tones of Ryan Reynolds to make up for it.

-Will probs be wearing that sexy red and black costume when interacting with most people. Which always has swords and a gun or two on it. Not that he gets to use the guns that much. THANKS, FOX.

-Skin looks like one of those hairless cats rolled around in a pile of ground beef.

-Is Canadian, but will probably only use the accent to be a dick.

-Swears like a fucking sailor.

-Carries himself like he knows how to handle himself in a fight. Or on the dance floor.

Blond hair, blue eyes, jawline that could cut glass. Is 6'2" and looks like he wandered into a gym and forgot how to leave. He makes it work.
Carries himself like a soldier. Has posture that makes you want to sit up straighter.
Has a completely generic American accent thanks to his Hollywood training from the USO war bond tour/silly propaganda movies, but tends to get a little Brooklyn when talking to Bucky/is really annoyed. I figure he's Full New Yorker if he's in traffic and no one is around to be appalled by the mouth on Captain America.
Has yet to have a fashion intervention and as such is still dressing like the world's youngest old guy: pleated khakis and plaid shirts, a haircut that is vaguely like what your grandpa had when he still had hair, etc. When in uniform, is in the Avengers I bright blue monstrosity with the useless thigh pockets. Will be switching to the stealth suit later this summer. You're welcome. ;)

Edited 2016-05-01 15:20 (UTC)

Cassandra is tallish, but her bearing might make her seem taller than she is; she's actually probably somewhere around 5'9'' or 5'10''.
When she's outside the dorms, she's usually wearing some form of armor. Though now that she's been back home, she prefers more ornate, less heavy armor to her platemail if she can get away with it.
Her casual garb tends more towards this than anything explicitly feminine; she much prefers trousers to skirts. She likes the color eggplant a lot.
Has no scars. Yet. But she will have two noticable ones on her face in the future.
Has a peculiar accent that lays somewhere between ~~French~~ Orlesian and German. She would tell you it's a Nevarran accent.
Went on her vigil this summer and was touched by a Spirit of Faith, which should be visible to someone who can see that sort of thing.
Is totally stoic and gets physically awkward as soon as she leaves her comfort zone of 'hitting things and/or shouting them into submission'
At this age, she doesn't actually have short-cropped hair (as she will in the future); she has long black hair she always keeps in a ponytail. Ignore her hair in icons that claim the contrary.
Has a skin tone that's a few shades darker than white-- kind of like she's simply gotten a good tan that just happens to be permanent. She's from Nevarra. They get a lot of sun there.
Has dark brown eyes and likes eyeliner.
Has looked a range from 'definitely Japanese' to 'white girl with a tan' over the various games and movies she's been in. With Rinko Kikuchi as her PB, I obviously lean towards the former for her at Fandom.

-Perpetually looks a little tired right now.

-Has light brown eyes all romance novel style where they look gold because EMH has some special coloring sometimes.

-No longer has an scars or that chunk of glowing metal stuck in his chest thanks to Extremis.

-Upper Manhattan accent that blends toward bland Midwest due to PR work for the company and the team.

-Dresses in fancy suits or in engine grease stained jeans and t-shirts. More the latter than the former right now.

Looks like blondecanary, but if you mistake her for Dinah that probably means you haven't bothered looking at her face, because HELLO PERMA-SCOWL;
Blonde. Very blonde. She's technically green-or-hazel-eyed, but honestly: Think of the most stereotypical image you can think of when you hear the word 'Nordic', and you've got Tamsin. Her actress is Norwegian AF.
Wears dark-colored pants, tanktops and blouses of various hues (but never with a print on it), leather jackets also of various hues. Rarely all-black, surprisingly, but never particularly feminine.
Underneath, she's always wearing this little diagonal black harness that holds several weapons, particularly of the throwing knife variety.
Doesn't look like she packs a punch - she's tallish (5'10) and slender. But she does. Oh god, she does. She practically punches a werewolf's lights out in the first episode we meet her and pretty much keeps goin' from there. Admittedly, she's not nearly as strong as the real super-strength types on the island, but she's on the very tough end of regular-ish human.
Her power invokes doubt and fear in whoever she turns it on. It causes her face to go hollow and skeletal, with her eyes turning into deep dark pits and her nose falling away.
But she's so old now that using them means her hair falls out and she might collapse herself, so she avoids using them.
Is a Valkyrie and hence has lived many lives and still has at least one more in store for her. Her final one will involve her growing wings.
She sounds Canadian, but she's actually a Norwegian who's over a thousand years old and probably speaks a few versions of various Scandinavian languages.

-Blonde hair, a little bit longer than shoulder-length with bangs. It's almost always worn down, or with a headband.
-Was born with green eyes, but as a clone Gwen's got blue ones.
-Probably about 5'5", thin, and has a good butt. That's canon.
-Has a bunch of piercings in her ears, a navel ring, and her right eyebrow is pierced. She also tends to wear a lot of jewelry you'd find in the mall.
-Probably slouches a lot.
-Despite the icons, Gwen probably shops entirely at Hot Topic. She dresses a little risque, with a lot of crop tops and low-rise jeans. If she's wearing a jacket, it's leather and has short spikes on the arms so you probably don't want to hug her. She fluctuates between rocker chick chic and "punk."
-Carries a knife on her person just in case.
-Totally sounds like Emma Stone.

Rather short. 157cm (between 5'2" and 5'3")

Long burgundy-colored hair. Purple eyes.

Wears glasses most of the time. She might put in contacts for something fancy, but rarely bothers

Seriously curvy, and finally learning to wear clothes to take advantage of that

Tends to move like a hyper-active dancer. Graceful, sure, but too much energy to "glide" or anything like that

Is an unabashed adrenaline junkie

Carries a close-fitting, medium-sized backpack pretty much everywhere. It serves as a purse, but it also contains either a pair of ATs or a pair of shoes, whichever she's not wearing at the time

Comes from a world where physics-violating technology called AirTrek exists. Basically breakthroughs in energy storage density electric motor design mean that a pair of skates can generate the kind of power you'd need a big truck for

Is a Gravity Child, one of (probably) fewer than 100 artificially engineered humans with additional sensory organs that give them an absolutely perfect sense of balance and a literally intuitive grasp of space around them at all times

"Queen" of the Sonia Road, basically acknowledge as the undisputed best AT rider of the style (though, to be fair, Sonia Road is not super-popular), and one of the dozen or so best riders in the world

The Sonia Road is sometimes called the "Thorn Road" because its most powerful techniques put tremendous strain on the user's body. (And while it makes no sense, canonically it allows users to increase their flexibility and agility well beyond normal human limits, but at the cost of cumulative joint damage; Ringo's predecessor, her oldest sister Rika, can't really ride ATs anymore)

Some of those powerful techniques involve things like cutting the air (she can literally stop all airflow near her) and hitting things with dense pockets of air moving fast enough to create sonic booms

Used to lead an infamous AT team called "Sleeping Forest", which was undefeated in some really ugly fights, a task she took up when she was eleven or twelve

Has another persona known as "Crazy Apple". Not really another personality, but a mental state she learned to fall into when she was leading Sleeping Forest. Crazy Apple is all the things Ringo thought she needed to be a good leader given the circumstances: cold, calculating, utterly ruthless, and a tiny bit cruel. The sort of person that makes people less likely to challenge them because everyone is afraid to

Saved her world from a convoluted and mostly nonsensical evil plot by beating her mind-controlled sister and her sister's turns-out-he-was-evil-all-along boyfriend

Came to Fandom to get away from all that stuff and try to figure out what it's like to just be a normal girl; also to get away from the people who are pissed off for some of the pretty awful things that Crazy Apple did back in the day

-Brown hair, which is naturally pretty curly. She straightens it when she can because it's easier to manage all day that way, and usually wears it down or in a ponytail.
-Brown/hazel eyes. They're described in stuff as hazel but colored as brown and the PB has hazel eyes so it's one of the two. (I'm ignoring the times they're colored blue in comics.)
-5'6", and kinda tiny, frame-wise. She's got a dancer's build and unlike a lot of comics characters from the 80's, actually has a normally-proportioned body.
-23 years old, and probably looks about her age.
-Is nearsighted and wears glasses sometimes, for reading and detail work mostly.
-She's from Chicago but has lived in other places for years, so if she has an accent at all it probably shows up in flat vowels here and there.
-Her natural state is intangible, and she's solid basically through sheer force of will. My personal rule is, if you're trying to hurt her, she's probably not getting hit (tbh it's funnier), but if you're not, it's fine to touch her. She doesn't appear any different between the two states.
-Kitty's a pretty casual dresser, big on jeans and t-shirts, though she's been known to rock the midriff once in a while.
-When she really tries to put together an outfit it might be a bit of a disaster.
-Sometimes wears a Star of David necklace.
-Used to have both a navel ring and a few piercings in each ear, but those got healed up after dying and being made whole again last year. Now she's got two holes in each ear that she probably got just for the wedding.
-Wears her engagement ring with her wedding ring on her left hand, and probably still tries to showcase it with gestures a little.

-15 years old, and looks a little baby-faced.
-Currently about 5'5" and thin and wiry. She definitely didn't get to each much for the last ten years, and she's all arms and legs. She's going to get taller, too.
-She's also very active and moves easily, with a habit of literally popping back up if she gets knocked down.
-She's got brown hair, pulled back in three knots in a line down the back of her head, but she's always got some hair coming out of it around her face.
-Is somewhat ambidextrous. She's left-handed but can fight and shoot with her right hand just as easily.
-She likes to wear her clothes from home, which is loose capri pants, a long tunic, and what I can only think to call arm warmers, along with what looks like the world's most comfortable boots. In the desert it's a lot of loose clothing and light colors. Since she didn't pack to come here, I figure she's gotten things like yoga pants and tunics from Earth in her wardrobe rotation out of necessity, but it still follows the same rules.
-Often carries a staff on her back if she thinks she'll need it. If there's a fight, she absolutely has it.
-I have no idea what to call her accent in Star Wars terms, so she sounds British. There.

Since she's back for the summer...

-Barely 5'1" and overall tiny. Probably because the writers like the idea of the tiny girl killing multiple dudes at once.
-In scary good shape. She's mostly muscle. Girl trains like it's her job, which it sort of is.
-Dark brown hair, cut just below her shoulders. It gets longer when she's too lazy to go deal with it, and it's left down 99% of the time.
-Her preferred clothes are simple, just a shirt and pants or flightsuits, and wears Jedi robes when working.
-However in Fandom, she learned as a teenager that every time something invades she gets guts all over her clothes and she's tired of ruining the stuff from back home. So it's totally common to see her in jeans and a tank top, usually black.
-Canonically has decent fashion sense. I know.
-No accent. Despite growing up on the same planet as Ben.
-Always has her lightsaber (purple!) on her, unless otherwise stated. If she can't wear it, she brings a purse that she can hide it in.
-Basically just has a collection of faded scars. Most notably, there's a lightsaber scar on her stomach and some old burn scars on her back that have mostly healed up and faded.
-Doesn't actually have the dimples Sophia does.
-Brown eyes. One might call them brandy brown. Ad nauseum.
-Has her phone and comlink on her at all times unless stated.
-Is 35, but I actually tried doing the math and figured out that she's physically about two years younger than her numerical age. (My old job was boring.)
-Wears a wedding ring, but otherwise stays away from jewelry.

... So apparently I haven't played in this meme in four years.

- 5'9" tall, lightly muscular by comic book standards (he can probably hold his own in an arm wrestling competition against the normals), and fairly slim- he weighs 140 lbs. We're assuming that this is his weight with or without the gaping hole in him, and that the psionic energy that's billowing from him makes up the difference. Or something.
- Brown hair that looks almost red-tinted in certain light, and chestnut eyes. Which occasionally flicker to solid white, generally when he's feeling particularly moody, or sparking orange, when he's outright pissed off.
- He wears a lot of leather. A LOT of leather. Usually at least a leather pants and leather jacket combination, though sometimes he'll wrap himself up with leather bandages, too. His icons will reflect whether he's going full out on-fire or goth-mummy whenever possible, and if they don't, I'll specify which is it in narrative. More often than not, he's not wearing the wrappings these days, though.
- He speaks with a somewhat ~~bullshit Cockney Marvel-version of an~~ East-end London accent. Telepathically. He's been easing up on the cockney some, lately. His accent has mellowed out a fair bit, at least, after so many years in America.
- He smells like burning sulphur. Or burning tires. Or burning garbage. It all depends on how anti-mutant you want to come off as when you notice the smell, apparently.
- When he's wearing his bandages, which is pretty much any time that he's out in public while he's on the island, they fill out now so that you can barely tell there's nothing under there. He's gotten better with controlling his flames now, so it looks like there's a jaw in there.
- Also? Burn-scars. Just because Marvel's artists got lazy and nixed them in his character design about a dozen or so issues in doesn't mean they're not there. From under the bandages right up over his cheeks, a few reaching even up to his forehead.
- Sans-bandages, his hair tends to tousle about a bit in all directions, presumably from some kind of energy coming off of the flames, which billow out from where his upper lip would be right on down over his chest to where his bellybutton ought to be. What skin is left around those flames is ragged and scarred. His eyes are almost always the solid white when the flames are out. Presumably for the scary factor. This is Jono, after all.
- The flames aren't hot, though. He can control whether or not it's fire-that-burns, and he's not big on burning down the island or hurting people, so...
- His fire plays mood-ring, sometimes! When he's seriously mellow or at least trying to put off a soothing vibe, it shifts to blue flame. When he's angry, there are extra sparks and curls of red-orange and yellow flame. Most of the time, it's more like staring into a campfire, though it curls out in all directions from his chest.

I don't think I've ever done this meme for this boy! WHY, SELF. WHY.

- He's not very tall, and pretty physically fit, thanks to all the training he's been getting for a while now courtesy of the guys he hangs out with who don't want him dead. No, he can't, like, bench-press a car, but there's definitely some muscle definition in those once-noodly arms.
- He still wears the eye make-up, though it's mostly just because it makes him feel good to spend a little bit of time on his appearance these days. His clothing is a little bit grunge, a little bit rock-and-roll, but he's fastidious about his hygiene. If his nails are dirty or a little bit raggy, he does something about it as soon as he can. He wouldn't be caught dead in clothes that were actually dirty if he had any say in the matter.
- He's got short black hair, that he spikes when he feels like it, and green eyes.
- Central Canadian accent, naturally. Which isn't much different from your basic homogenized American accent, either. Unless you know what to listen for, it'd be hard to peg him as the one Canuck among Americans by listening to his voice alone.
- He does smoke, so it's not uncommon for him to have a bit of cigarette smell clinging to his clothes. (He'll also, less frequently, smoke weed, but he tries not to go out in public reeking of it.)
- He's got a pretty long stride when he walks- it's more a matter of pride and a forced projection of self-confidence that isn't necessarily there than a matter of long legs or anything. He still carries himself a bit like a guy with everything to prove.
- If you're a hot older guy and you think he's checking you out, yes, he is.
- He turns 20 in 22 days, so hey, at least he's not jailbait anymore?

- Dorky teen, long hair always held back with a headband. Nice, straight teeth, thanks to braces she's been without for a little while, now.
- She will always, always be wearing a brightly coloured knit sweater with some kind of silly picture on the front or another. Unless the narrative says otherwise, feel free to assume she's over-dressed for the summer heat. Girl's from California, so she's used to it by now anyway.
- That sweater will always be paired off with a cute skirt, yes.
- If she's outside, she will very often have her pet pig, Waddles, with her. Waddles is not actually a very large pig at all. Good old fifteen-poundie. (Yes, I'm taking some liberties here in assuming he didn't grow at all since the series ended. Because... pig.)
- Mabel's voice is... nasal. And enthusiastic. These are both words I would use to describe her voice. She also can't sing to save her life, but this never stops her.
- Where Mabel goes, there are very often arts and crafts supplies nearby. She's at least grown out of that phase where she always has a glue gun stuck to her sleeve, but it's safe to assume she's got a liberal sprinkling of glitter in her clothes at any given point in time.
- Probably on purpose.
- Surprising nobody, she's got a strong resemblance to her twin brother, Dipper. If you meet the two separately, you'll probably notice it anyway.

... Oh, this'll be a fun one.

- So, she's green. Very green. Her skin is lime green, her hair is pale green-yellow, there's a green triangular peridot stone smack-dab in the middle of her forehead, all of her clothes (er, sort of clothes) are green. You can't really tell what colour her eyes are behind her ever-present green-tinted visor, but it's safe to assume that they're green, too.
- But the inside of her mouth and her tongue are blue.
- Her limbs have a very robotic quality to them, and she does, in fact, clank when she walks. There's a reason for this, but that won't be relevant for a while, yet. She's of average height, anyway. You know, until the reason for this BECOMES relevant.
- Her fingers aren't attached to her hands, though. They free-float wherever she wants them to and are incredibly multi-purpose, to the point where she can helicopter away using them if she's in danger, as you do. That's probably gonna be one of those things that stands out. Among all of the rest of the things about her that stand out, granted.
- GIANT TRIANGLUAR HAIR. Just like in the icons, yes.
- So, her clothes, which are skintight an patterned in shades of greens with yellow diamonds, aren't actually clothes. They're a part of her body, which isn't technically a body at all so much as a hard-light projection from her gem. If you're the sort to notice little things like 'is not actually an organic being made of flesh and blood,' that little tidbit will probably jump out at you.
- ... Okay, so BOTH of my girls have very nasal voices. Peridot is much better at carrying a tune than Mabel, though. She's also far less likely to see any point in doing so for a while.
- She doesn't breathe. She doesn't sleep. She doesn't eat. She CAN do all of the above, but she really won't see any point in doing so for a while, yet. Why bother putting forth the effort?

*Has a very complicated accent that I remember Paul F Tompkins detailing once but, quite frankly, he sounds basically like actor and comedian Paul F Tompkins.

*Average height.

*Always has AT LEAST a flask in his hand. Preferably a glass. Preferably a glass and a bottle. Preferably full. Then not. Time for a new bottle.

*Seriously, he is always drunk, but he's completely functional. Maybe extra functional!

*His liver is canonically so strong that it is coveted by and/or for Frankensteins.

*He doesn't mind that people are incredulous about his drinking, mostly because he doesn't care about you and likely does not remember your name right now.

*Dresses in a full suit, bow tie preferred but not exclusive at all times. Perhaps even while asleep.

*Is obsessed with auctions. He mentions it all the time, really!

- He's another one of those Force-sensitives who really doesn't want you to know he's Force-sensitive. And he's pretty good at hiding it, too. The last time he deliberately made any use of the Force as of this point in his timeline, he was using it to blow himself out the airlock of an Imperial ship into the vastness of space. He clearly got a quick rescue, that time.
- He very deliberately does everything he can to come off as the exact sort of lazy ass that would be a bad idea to have in your life for any particular amount of time. Yes, he's a hard worker, but he's the kind of hard worker who does enough work to keep a job until he inevitably gets bored and wanders off.
- He's got a holster for a blaster at his hip. He probably won't actually bring the blaster to class, since he does kind of value his continued employment on the island, just so long as it keeps working out for him.
- He has one hell of a way with animals. Yes, it's a Jedi thing. No, he'll never admit it. But they seem, for the most part, to get along with him quite well.
- He's also surprisingly acrobatic. Yes, it's also a Jedi thing. Yes, he'll deny that one, too.
- Okay, so, he was basically raised on Coruscant. But he doesn't have the ~~British~~ Coruscanti accent at all. If he ever did have it (his history isn't covered in audible canon unless you count an audiobook version of the novel with voices that kind of drive me bananas), he's done an excellent job losing it over the years. Now he sounds an awful lot like Freddie Prinze Jr. for some reason or another.
- Dark hair that's brown-to-black depending on the light, always pulled back into a ponytail. A beard that covers just his chin, no mustache in sight, and some pretty darn severe eyebrows. He's prone to stroking his beard thoughtfully when he's under pressure. (It's his one tell that he's actually thinking hard. It kind of takes the place of a 'running his hands through his hair when he's anxous' tell that he got rid of by pulling his hair into that ponytail.)
- Blue-green eyes. They're quite attractive. ~~Excuse me I need a moment.~~

Oo, I dunno that I've done this one before!

Hannibal's decently tall, about 5'11". He's well-muscled from both exercise (swimming, running, weights, and such) and from his...hobbies, but mostly it's hidden behind very nice clothing. Has very good posture, and moves like a dancer when he needs to. (Is also a very good dancer.)

He adores three-piece suits, but will also do two-piece suits or cashmere sweaters with slacks. Spends more on his wardrobe seasonally than most people do on houses. Adores color combinations you wouldn't think of, combining several different patterns, and plaid. Pretty much never wears black (even his tux is dark blue).

If your character is the sort to notice emotions, his are very calm. He's not emotionless - despite what some people think, he's not actually a psychopath - but he's very in control of himself and generally happy.

Looks pretty much exactly like his PB, because Mads.

Does his very best not to sing. Does, however, play piano and harpsichord, theremin, and a little bit of guitar. Also paints and sketches.

Okay, my Photoshop skills are highly suspect, and on a lot of the icons I just gave up, so she looks furthest from her icons of any of my folks.

Jalian was born with dark brown hair, light brown skin, and looking mixed-race (which her whole clan probably technically is, hundreds of years ago), except for her eyes, which are bright, metallic silver.

To get to the present day, though, she skipped backwards through a reversed timeline, which scrambled her physiology - it turned her hair pure white, and instead of melanin she has a white pigment that makes her pale, and that gets whiter as she gets more sun. Enough and she looks downright chalky. It also somewhat altered her eyes. Her canon says:

"The irises are silver. They have always been silver, of course, but now they are something else and more; a maelstrom of swirling color, silver and blue and pink and purple and green and gold red, that somehow still is only silver when faced with the lens of a camera; the effect is not reproducible.

Jalian’s eyes can and do cause almost instant desire in any functioning male, and in not a few women besides. They are the eyes of someone who has seen too much and knows too much, and knows that there is nothing she can do about what she knows."

She's skinny, due to diet in her early years and a really high metabolism, and will eventually be sort of tall; she's getting there.

Doesn't generally meet people's eyes.

She has a women's mark showing that she is, according to the laws of her tribe, an adult - it's a burn scar on her left breast in the shape of the circle-with-an-arrow that generally in modern times means Mars or male.

Is faster than modern humans; can actually move fast enough she seems like a blur. Can see from infrared to the fringes of gamma radiation.

Pretty much looks exactly like his PB, unless he's trying otherwise.

Is completely, totally, non-solid and dead.

That pretty much covers it!

Will be coming back, sometime! So.

Looks like whatever you think he does. Pretty unremarkable for the most part.

Has a horrible sense of fashion for anywhere other than Night Vale.

- Has naturally very pale hair and pale eyebrows, white-pale skin, and pale blue eyes. Tends to use a good bit of make-up now for fun, and to give her face some variation in color!

- Naturally flat expressions, both from having a genetically induced very bland emotional affect, and from keeping those emotions she has under a very tight rein.

- Is 5'6", like her actress.

- Age 17 (and a half. Her birthday's in January.)

- Looks like a muscled high-school athlete (track star, maybe), moves like a hunter/martial artist (which she is), and punches above her weight-class because she's essentially a low-end super-soldier. Not in Steve or the supernatural types' class, but she is very, very fast, has enhanced reflexes, and has been trained. Since she could walk.

- Despite this, and her own violent history, really is not someone who wants to commit violence. She's much more of a fade-into-the-background person, run-and-hide, fail-to-react person, except if you threaten her friends. Threatening her? Will get you zero response until you turn your back, then she'll give you a skull fracture.

- Dresses for her own amusement now, in cartoon character prints, bright colors, and ridiculous labels. This is what happens when you grow up wearing the furs of what you hunt and kill to supplement your dad's version of work-out clothes cut down to size.

- Has mostly managed to eliminate her German accent through immersion the last year or so, but still speaks very carefully, with few contractions, and a little slower than a native English speaker.

- Speaks six languages, is working on three more. So yes, she can understand most of the sentients here, most of the time.

- Loves cats. And dogs. And most other animals. Also knows how to grill them for food if she has to.

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- Is the definition of a PerkiGoth. (Which is her twitter handle).
- Has a zillion wigs, and just as much hair-dye. Unless I specify otherwise, though, her hair is black, in good Goth fashion. She does venture into blond on occasion (her original hair color) to give her follicles a break and some recharge time.
- Would be 5'4" in her stocking feet but is usually wearing boots, heels, or some variation of both as weapons/equalizers.
- Ballerina-skinny, from being on the streets from age 15 until she wound up in Fandom.
- Speaks English and Russian, some Montreal-ish French, with a facility for languages she's been taught (or accents she's taught herself to fake).
- Very pale blue eyes, the kind that make you think she ought to be the fae, instead of Bo.
- Will actually be legal to drink in the U.S. in July, not that it'll make much difference to her.
- Is usually carrying more than one fake I.D.
- In someone else's wallet.
- Possibly yours.
- Full name: Mackenzie Malikov. Aka Toni Soprano, Kenzi Williams, and too many names to mention.
- Deathly allergic to peanuts!
- Will drink you under the table if you insist.

- Full name: Parker. Full age: whatever.
- 5'7".
- Acrobat's build, *incredibly* bendy and flexible.
- Speaks Spanish. Possibly other languages. She'll let you know if it comes up.
- Perfect pitch (she can tell the difference between different alarm setting musical keys) but no real music talent.
- Very good sketch artist. Like it's hard?
- Jumps off high places for fun.
- Dresses for comfort and ease of illegal entry.
- Occasionally will just appear and you'll realize you have no idea when she got there. (Shhhh. We're hunting Eliots.)
- Comes across as having... well, some kind of syndrome, or unspecified social disorder, if you talk to her for very long.
It's a combination of ignoring social cues, a weird sense of humor, and different boundaries than most people have. And being a genius. (...and maybe being 20 pounds of crazy in a 5-pound bag.)
- Unless she's working for you or conning you, in which case, she'll seem perfectly normal. Just a little spooky.
- Can do convincing accents when necessary.
- Fighting style is "now" and "throwing you off a building with a demented smile on my face, unless I can stab you to death with this fork."
- Is pretty. Clearly doesn't care about that. Or if you are.
- Unless you're Eliot or Hardison.
- Has a crazy laugh. Usually only lets it out if jumping off a building or if you're flirting with one of her boys.

- Looks like

fjordicswagger, but as she wrote above, only if you're not paying attention to body language, expression, wardrobe, or anything coming out of her mouth.
- is 5'11" because I just wanted to make her even taller than Rachel Skarsten is in real life.
- Is a P.I. on a small salary, but has many many clothes from her rich sister, so dresses pretty fashionably when off-work, bright colors, shiny bits. On-work, expect blue jeans, leather jacket, and often the Birds of Prey (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/86/50/a3/8650a3c26df2d19fd3d424ba8b69e815.jpg) earrings which hide secret comms to the other Birds. (Sometimes she wears the choker in that link, too.)
- Has a white-ink tattoo on her right hip of that same image.
- Also a pierced belly-button.
- Turned 24 on Saturday!
- Is working on speaking Vietnamese. Speaks some Spanish.
- Does not bounce as much as she did at 16, but is still enthusiastic, energetic, and pleased to meet you.
- Unless you need your ass kicked, in which case both the martial arts training and various highly-trained telekinesis skills and Canary Cry (sonic death scream) will come out.
- Does not carry a gun. (Cue Helena snarking, "I am the weapon.")
- Sometimes carries scissor-boomerang-batarang things, though.
- Is from Jersey but doesn't sound it, because she grew up in Missouri.

This is a great meme to do for Roscoe, yay!

Roscoe:
- Is biracial (black and white). His skin tone is on the darker side of average but I hate making icons and all the ones I managed to find were either really dark and badly lit or brightened to hell, woe.
- Is pretty much always wearing eyeliner. Black and glittery is his favorite. Sometimes he'll throw on eyeshadow and lipstick too, depending on his look for the day.
-Tends to wear platform sneakers, so he looks a little taller than his actual height of 5'9.
- Is pretty jacked if you see him shirtless. Years of dance training left him in pretty good shape, and now he does a lot of weight training besides that.
- Has a great singing voice!
- Wears a lot of jingly bracelets and tight necklaces. Also, earrings, especially the cuff style ones that go high up on the ear.
- If you're the type to notice designer brands, his clothes and handbags are all very high-end and sometimes he gets stuff in advance of new collections.
- Doesn't have much of an accent - sounds like your typical American kid from the west coast.
- Curses a ton, more because it was the norm in his household growing up rather than being a conscious effort to sound tough, but it's a little of that too.
- Is a fast runner and pretty flexible, but very much in a normal human sense. No powers for this kid.
- Dresses in a wild, and always very stylish, mixture of things like mesh tops, tight jeans and leggings, short skirts and dresses, athletic apparel, hip-hop-inspired clothing from a fictional brand from his world called DollaHyde, and funky prints and patterns. He wears about a 50/50 split between "men's" and "women's" clothing and the division doesn't especially matter to him.

Edited 2016-05-02 17:07 (UTC)

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