Character Profile Excercise

[BookStop]

CHARACTER PROFILE

Full Name: H. Robert Stirling II
AKA: 'Hickory' Bob
Age: 46
Birth Place: Heidelberg, Germany
Physical Description: Medium height and build; wavy, silver shoulder length hair; crystal blue eyes; wide mouth; straight,white teeth almost preditory smile
Nervous Habits: picks at curls at base of hairline - in times of stress, pulls the hair out
Common Swear Words/Phrases: calls everyone mate
Vocal Patterns: speaks with slight australian accent
Sexual Relationships/History/Preferences: has a thing for redheads
Family: raised by his adventurer father, now deseased
Friendships: punk scholarly German historian, Ritter
Religion: none
Dislikes: is afraid of water
Likes: obessively researches the possibiity of faeries
Habits: sometimes mutters to himself
Hobbies: everthing faerie
Professional History: lives off of late fathers estate - obsessively researches fae
Educational History: Homeschooled by father and a nanny
Social Class: Mid - owns a tea room and lives in apartment overhead
Prejudices: none
Faults:
Attributes: very cunning
Origin (pre-existing story): Poor Hickory Bob. His father, the late H. Robert Stirling, was an international adventurer and treasure seeker and once stole mounds of gold coins and statues with the help of his partner, Elizabeth, who he suspected was a Faerie. Since Elizabeth's disappearance, H. sought treasure less and less, and sought answers to Elizabeth's past more and more. Hickory spent a lot of time traveling with his father on treasure seeking trips,but spent most of those trips in the company of his nanny instead, thus he never really knew what his father was truly seeking until his father died and his estate ended up in Hickory's hands. Since then, Hickory has become as obsessed as his father was. Will he ever uncover the mystery that is Elizabeth?

 

[monomaniac101]

Oh, this is so cool!

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Full Name: Lady Iorwen Cariad Tegan, Duchess of Shames, Daughter of Lord Gareth, Duke of Shames, and Lady Taliath, Duchess of Shames.

AKA: Rune

Age: 16

Birth Place: The Palace of Roses, Shames, Everandia

Physical Description: Iorwen is 5' 10", slim, and very muscular. She has sandy blonde hair that halls to her shoulder blades, and it is usually loose. She has ice blue eyes and pale skin. Her fingernail are kept short and there is usually dirt under them. Her hands are callused from hunted and hiking. Her lips are pink and her skin is smooth, permanent signs of her former life.

Nervous Habits: She runs whenever something is bothering her. She sniffs when she is displeased.

Common Swear Words/Phrases: None

Vocal Patterns: When she is angry, her voice reduces to a low, cool tone that makes you shiver. She is also skilled at animal calls. Other times she can be very quiet.

Sexual Relationships/History/Preferences: None

Family: Iorwen was the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Shames. She had four older sisters -- Rhianna, Aerona, Nerys, and Seren. Her father was the grand-nephew of the aged Queen Guinevere of Everandia, and also next in line for the throne.

Friendships: None that she will speak of. The only person she usually speaks to is Grandfather, the old hermit in the woods who took her in eight years ago.

Religion: None

Dislikes: Iorwen dislikes anything to do with the world outside of her vast forest. She also dislikes missing her target when she hunts, but that doesn't happen often. She also dislikes Daniel, a young hunter who got lost in the woods. And she hates the phrase "Great Shames!"

Likes: She likes her own private hideaways, like her willow tree, the cave behind the waterfall, and the small lagoon by the river. The likes Grandfather, because he's taken care of her for so long. She likes to run along the trails through the woods and hunting.

Habits: She stares. She will stare at something for an undetermined amount of time. By doing this, she gathers information about a person or object. She can tell a person's social status by the way they hold their fork.

Hobbies: She hunts, carves, and swim. She also loves discovering new places.

Professional History: Iorwen had never had a job, because she was very young when her home was destroyed.

Educational History: She had a tutor as soon as she was old enough to learn. But after the attack when she was eight, she hasn't had a proper education. But she learns with her eyes, and knows more than any other person of her birth would about the forest and ways to survive in it.

Social Class: Iorwen was born as a duchess, and she was seventh in line for the throne of Everandia after her family.

Prejudices: She is perjudiced against anyone who lives outside her forest. She believes them all to be stuffy and cruel. And anyone who is involved with her uncle Kaiser she consdiers to be a murderer and traitor.

Faults: She has mild misanthropy. She cannot bear any person besides Grandfather because of her reluctance to have any contact with her old home.

Attributes: Despite her introverted nature, she is very brave and powerful. She is independent but also a leader, although she doesn't knwo it. People admire her.

Origin (pre-existing story): Iorwen was eight years old when it all happened. Queen Guinevere was reaching her last days, meaning that her father would become king. But her father had much different beliefs than the old queen, especially about ladies and the laws restricting them. For one, he believed that women and girls should not have to wear corests, stiff dresses, and powder at all hours of the days. The kingdom was looking forward to Lord Gareth becoming king. But there was one person who was not.

Gareth's brother, Kaiser, believed that the kingdom should be more restricted, not less. But Kaiser was in line for the throne after Gareth's wife and five daughters. So he hatched a plot to quicken his ascent to the throne. He gathered followers and citizens, to whom he fed evil lies about Gareth and his family. One night, Lord Gareth's manor, the Palace of Roses, was attacked. He, his wife, and all five of his daughters were killed and the manor was burned. But in truth, only four of the daughters were killed.

Iorwen, the youngest, and escaped into the Cursed Forest. She ran and ran until she found a river. She followed the river and eventually reached Grandfather's cabin. She has lived there since, trying her best to forget everything about her past life.
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Thank you for the oppurtunity, I enjoyed doing this! I actually invented Everandia for the first time doign this, becasue I realized I didn't have a kingdom planned out, only the province of Shames (which, by the way, is pronounced SHAW-mes).

 

[Aes]

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Full Name: Larine Aldrin

AKA: Just "Larine"

Age: 19

Birth Place: Kingdom of Saria

Physical Description: Larine is 5'6, has hazel eyes, fair skin, and strawberry blonde hair. Her only unsual feature is the winged, serpentine birthmark on her forehead. It has become more refined in its shape as the years have passed, but she has kept it hidden various headbands for most of her life, to avoid being teased about it. When her life is threatened, this mark glows a vibrant red, her hair color shifts to a mixture of crimson and black, and her eyes burn with orange fire. When she gains full mastery over her curse, she can change into a terrifying dragon with red-flecked, black scales.

Nervous Habits: She tends to break eye contact and look toward the ground when someone makes her nervous.

Common Swear Words/Phrases: Well, none that are commonly used, but she uses the typical (as in, not yet really defined) cursewords everyone else in the kingdom is familiar with when she is angry or frustrated.

Vocal Patterns: Typically, she is soft-spoken, and her words are optimistic and good-natured. When she's in her partial shift, her voice becomes much stronger, and seems to carry a piercing echo.

Sexual Relationships/History/Preferences: She tends to be somewhat akward and especially reserved around men. As such, she's had a few failed teenage relationships. Currently, she's seeing a fellow named Haine, who is your basic bad boy, but because he really cares for her, is much softer when she's around.

Family: Larine is daughter to a family of tailors, and works in their family-owned shop. She has one older brother, a mother, and a father.

Friendships: Being the quiet, introverted type, she has very few friends.

Religion: None (not really important, at least I have no plans for a religion yet)

Dislikes: Larine dislikes confrontation, violence, and cold-hearted people -- all things she will end up having to face.

Likes: Being a tailor, Larine loves fancy clothes made with unsual materials, designs, and bright colors. Above all, she adores her friends, family, and peaceful way of life.

Habits: She hums to herself, especially when she feels that she is the only one who can hear it. She also tends to fiddle with anything in her hands, without thinking about it. This occasionally leads to lightly damaged or even broken objects.

Hobbies: As if it isn't obvious already, she loves tailoring. She loves adding flair to an otherwise drab outfit, or even better, making works of (what she considers, anyway) well-tailored art. Her preference in style is often too visually intense (read: tacky and garish) for most, though. She also enjoys playing the flute, but will settle for humming as well.

Professional History: She's worked in the family's tailoring business since she was able to. That's basically it.

Educational History: Larine's education is pretty basic and standard for someone of her social status -- basic history of the lands, basic math, reading, writing, and a little bit of music, although that's mostly self-taught.

Social Class: As the daughter of a tailoring family, she's just your basic, working class citizen.

Prejudices: Boys her age make her nervous, but that's about it.

Faults: Larine is often too shy and feels she is too clumsy for her own good. She lacks faith in her own abilities and is (at first) afraid to step outside her comfort zone.

Attributes: She is unusually strong and agile due to her draconic curse, but she lacks the confidence to draw upon it properly -- enter the source of her clumsiness. As her draconic abilities become more and more realized, she'll find she's capable of invoking feats of magic, as well.

Origin (pre-existing story): Her life was fun, but not extraordinary, until the story begins. However, before her birth, a curse was placed upon her mother and father by a shady customer who claimed he was offended by their services. As the mother was pregnant, he proclaimed "the soul of that child and any others you bear will serve as payment," and then left.

When the time came to deliver it, the child was born still. When the man returned to gloat, the couple begged him to lift the curse, he just laughed, but in the end, he agreed to grant them just one child. However, what he really did was place the soul of a fearsome and terrible beast inside her, to grow in the form of her new baby.

His true motivation is that he serves the lord of a sadistic, warmongering empire (cliche I know, but I don't care -- sometimes, cliches can be fun) but, rather than invade by force, his goal is to sew many seeds like Larine, having her and those like her bring ruin to the Kingdom of Saria from the inside.

Larine and her kingdom's only hope is that the love and warmth her family raised her with just might be enough to help her resist the curse, and even stand against the evil that threatens to crush Saria.

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So yeah, while grossly cliche in some parts, I think this will be really fun to write.

 

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Full Name: Seif Aeric Taerin
AKA: Seif
Age: 20
Birth Place: City-State of Nedgebar
Physical Description: Messy Brown Hair, Fair Skin, Lightning blue eyes
Nervous Habits: Bites nails
Common Swear Words/Phrases: none
Vocal Patterns: deep
Sexual Relationships/History/Preferences: never had a girlfriend...
Family: His Mother, Myrina
Friendships: Izack the Illusionist, Beogarf (the wolf) of the Fatog clan
Religion: Agnostic
Dislikes: Witches
Likes: Light Tonic, chocolate
Habits: twitching
Hobbies: Inventing
Professional History: Owns a shop but never got much money
Educational History: Genius with an unremembered education
Social Class: Low
Prejudices: Witches
Faults: Extremely grim and arrogant
Attributes: Persuasive, Incredibly Smart
Origin (pre-existing story): Ran away when he was sixteen to see if he could become rich by selling his inventions. Failed. Then the story comes...

 

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Full Name: Izack Ariasan Rickmond
AKA: Izack The Illusionist
Age: Mid 40's
Birth Place: Westerne Lands
Physical Description: Tan skin, Brown eyes, long black hair
Nervous Habits: overcame nervousness through giving shows
Common Swear Words/Phrases: By the Grave King
Vocal Patterns: Deep
Sexual Relationships/History/Preferences: Had a wife but never had any children
Family: Wife Faraena (dead)
Friendships: Seif Taerin, Beogarf of the Fatog
Religion: Atheist
Dislikes: work
Likes: Magic
Habits: None
Hobbies: Magic
Professional History: An illusionist that typically sells out shows
Educational History: Not that smart. Has his speech down.
Social Class: Middle
Prejudices: Work
Faults: Holds emotions in until he explodes
Attributes: Sly
Origin (pre-existing story): No story here folks! Just a guy that lost his wife.

 

[bigxemptyxbrain]

Full Name: Beogarf Naerin Faeged Borsin Neglius Agifee the III of the Fatog Clan
AKA: Beogarf
Age: 135 (and still young)
Birth Place: the Black Forest of the Northe, resides Bornyarg
Physical Description: ...Gray shaggy muscular Wolf??
Nervous Habits: None. Fights his fear.
Common Swear Words/Phrases: Not understandable but translates to : By his tounge
Vocal Patterns: Deep, coarse, gruff
Sexual Relationships/History/Preferences: No wives
Family: Huge! Can't be explained how big. Quite Huge. Won't have enough room.
Friendships: Izack the Illusionist, Seif Taerin
Religion: None
Dislikes: Unfinished stuff
Likes: His work
Habits: none
Hobbies: trying to find an employer
Professional History: he's a mercenary
Educational History: Wolfish Degree
Social Class: Middle-High
Prejudices: People who don't do work
Faults: Obsessed with work
Attributes: Extremely strong and quite cunning.
Origin (pre-existing story): Banished at young age (around his twenties). Left behind. Found work as a mercenary. Then he does that until story.

 

[Celeritas]

full name: Dr. James A. Hubert

age: 48

birthplace: Berkeley, California

physical description: 5'9, 195 pounds, salt and pepper hair, spectacled brown eyes, carries himself with the general disarray of the classic absentminded professor.

habits: constantly scribbling mathematical formulae on yellow notepad with one of the pencil nubs that are forever spilling from his pockets

common swears/phrases: "i'm not a crackpot scientist!"

vocal patterns: quiet, educated mumbles except in class where he speaks with authority and verve


sexual relationships: none. he's too focused on his great work.

family: cousin who is a southern baptist preacher, sister who is a senator of california

friendships: close friend and colleague of dr. martina jimenez the director of the largest particle accelerator facility in the world. also dr. joshua meitner, nobel prize winning microbiologist

religion: can't say cuz that will be a HUGE spoiler.

dislikes: neurotically obsessed with the raging religious wars destroying the world he lives in, close minded people, grading papers

likes: jazz music and intellectual
discussion

educational/professional history: doctorate in theoretical physics, doctorate in nuclear physics, professor of physics at berkeley, director of the nanoscope facility.

social class: middle america

predjudices: late homework, religious fanatics, overly skeptical scientists

faults: hot temper when pushed

attributes: intellegence, open minded curiosity, generosity


origins: scientist mother and theologian father have twins, one boy and one girl of unusual intellectual gifts. parents split due to difficulty reconciling beliefs. children are placed in foster home after foster home, struggling mightily untill achieving great recognition as a famous scientist/professor and a controversial senator with eyes on the white house.

 

[misaditas]

Full Name: Lunete
Age: 18
Birth Place: Avignon, France
Physical Description: 5' 6", slim build, ash-blonde hair (at the beginning), green eyes
Nervous Habits: twists hair around her finger and chews it
Common Swear Words/Phrases: none as such
Vocal Patterns: prim and proper, quiet-spoken
Sexual Relationships/History/Preferences: has kissed a couple of boys but is sexually naive
Family: father (deceased, unnamed), mother (deceased, unnamed)
Friendships: none
Religion: her father is Catholic but she doesn't believe in God
Dislikes: crowds, doctors/priests, graveyards
Likes: gardening, reading fairytales
Educational History: mostly privately taught
Faults: spoilt, likes to get her own way
Attributes: loving, loyal
Origin (pre-existing story): was born in Avignon, France (year not decided on yet), moved to a country house after the death of her mother. Shortly after this move, her father died and left her an orphan. Household staff then get worried by her behaviour - she starts to see odd lights and shadows, and strange nightmares. She becomes quite ill, but refuses to see a doctor since she is afraid of them.

 

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Full Name: John Gordon Balfour
AKA: Cuddy
Age: 26
Birth Place: Edinburgh, Scotland
Physical Description: 5’ 11”, broad, small feet/hands for his size, brown hair, green eyes
Nervous Habits: Grinds his teeth, picks at his fingernails
Common Swear Words/Phrases: Guttural Scottish
Vocal Patterns: Cultured Scottish
Sexual Relationships/History/Preferences: Mostly ‘professional’
Family: Father deceased, mother still living, no siblings
Friendships: Few and far between, usually with sex workers
Religion: Roman Catholic
Dislikes: Strong sunlight, the smell of blood
Likes: Vodka, pasta, lemon meringue pie
Habits: Nothing obvious
Hobbies: Reading, film, wargaming – nothing physical
Professional History: Series of low-profile office jobs
Educational History: Incomplete university degree in IT
Social Class: Unattached
Prejudices: the Masons
Faults: Over-attention to detail, evades non-existent ambushes (mental & physical)
Attributes: Loyal, intellectually stubborn, analytical
Origin (pre-existing story): Natural born vampire