((Character Ramblish: Small Details))
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seol_plumfallRather than a proper character ramble on a deep theme, one-sentence responses to prompts/questions. It's like a meme!
Just Seol and Astro this time.
Voice (from wranet)
I finally decided that it is just too cruel to the poor boy to have Seol's voice still cracking. He still speaks in a very high tenor, though. He tends to speak softly (he does not know what his own scream sounds like.) He uses a feminine inflection and tends to end sentences rising.
Astrolabe's voice hasn't quite settled to an adult female pitch yet. She speaks oddly, with pauses and pitch changes out of place. She also has a very odd mixed accent. ↓
Accent
Seol speaks Orcish with a heavy Thalassian accent that is fading only slowly. His Common, however, is less accented even though he is less fluent in it. This is because he was exposed to it and studied it much younger.
I imagine Astrolabe speaking Common with an odd jumble of accents; most of the sentence being Draenei-accented, but then suddenly saying a word with a Thalassian or Darnassian accent. This is because she is imitating the sounds she heard someone else use rather than trying to sound out the words based on spelling. She mostly hears other Draenei speaking Common, but she's practiced the most with Seol.
Handwriting (inspired by TiddiaBlog)
When writing letters or journal entries, Seol tends to write in extremely small, blocky, neat characters. He is extremely careful to render Common and Orcish characters neatly. He studied some calligraphy but prefers to use simple styles.
Astrolabe meanwhile does not write so much as draw a sequence of symbols. Some characters may be missing elements, but the overall shape will be recognizable. They might be flowing, choppy, harsh, or scratchy depending on the overall visual effect she wants to create with the page. She is quite pessimistic about other people understanding what she writes, so she is much more interested in the visual product and the pleasure of creating it.
Tattoos and Scars
Seol once got sucked into an RP in which a bunch of trolls and orcs who were getting along swimmingly in the tavern he was haplessly sitting inside all decided to strip down and get tattoos to declare their Brotherhood! For the Horde! ... Seol, however, refused to participate because he didn't want to. This is primarily a gut reaction based on his concept of "my body" (which is a theme for a full-length character ramble.)
But I also imagine that Seol... does not have any tattoos yet, which is unusual for a blood elf. He did only just move out of the "child" social group, though, so he has that as an excuse. Although he has finished most of his growing, he will probably still decline. Besides, a lack of tattoos means you make a pretty good high elf impersonator, other than the eyes.
Seol's face and hands (the only body parts he normally exposes) are clean and pretty, as if he had never taken a blade to them, because he heals wounds in those areas immediately. That's vanity (and also not wanting to stand out in a crowd.) He went through a phase, though, in which he was deathly afraid to overheal. Even though this was a fairly short time period and he wore armor, he has a great deal of scars on the rest of his body from constantly wading out into battle.
He very likely will have permanent damage to his body due to overuse injuries.
And don't forget the backne.
Astrolabe, though, doesn't have any particular scars and is unlikely to develop a big collection as she avoids fighting, is extremely cautious when she is forced into combat with hostiles, tries to stay out of melee, immediately heals wounds, etc.
Nor does she have tattoos, which she thinks are kinda silly. I mean, they don't do anything, so why go through the pain and trouble? ... Unless they do do something, of course. Hmmmm, +Int tattoo...
A Perfume?
I'm a Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab junkie, so one of the things I like to do is make up perfumes for my characters. I'm not quite sure about these two, though.
Seol will need something involving plum blossom and snow, of course, with thin woods and incense resins. And some sort of cooking spice. Soft Oriental/Floral Oriental? It... doesn't sound very cohesive yet.
Astro is a lot harder to describe; blue poppy does not have a scent (there is a commonly used "opium" note, but that's definitely Silvermoon City and not Terokkar.) Maybe a water note, brightness from mint and citrus, wild greens and mountain wildflowers -- very short-lasting Green type. On the other hand, cocoa is one of her symbols so one could go the opposite direction and give her a citrus, pepper, cocoa Oriental type.
Just Seol and Astro this time.
Voice (from wranet)
I finally decided that it is just too cruel to the poor boy to have Seol's voice still cracking. He still speaks in a very high tenor, though. He tends to speak softly (he does not know what his own scream sounds like.) He uses a feminine inflection and tends to end sentences rising.
Astrolabe's voice hasn't quite settled to an adult female pitch yet. She speaks oddly, with pauses and pitch changes out of place. She also has a very odd mixed accent. ↓
Accent
Seol speaks Orcish with a heavy Thalassian accent that is fading only slowly. His Common, however, is less accented even though he is less fluent in it. This is because he was exposed to it and studied it much younger.
I imagine Astrolabe speaking Common with an odd jumble of accents; most of the sentence being Draenei-accented, but then suddenly saying a word with a Thalassian or Darnassian accent. This is because she is imitating the sounds she heard someone else use rather than trying to sound out the words based on spelling. She mostly hears other Draenei speaking Common, but she's practiced the most with Seol.
Handwriting (inspired by TiddiaBlog)
When writing letters or journal entries, Seol tends to write in extremely small, blocky, neat characters. He is extremely careful to render Common and Orcish characters neatly. He studied some calligraphy but prefers to use simple styles.
Astrolabe meanwhile does not write so much as draw a sequence of symbols. Some characters may be missing elements, but the overall shape will be recognizable. They might be flowing, choppy, harsh, or scratchy depending on the overall visual effect she wants to create with the page. She is quite pessimistic about other people understanding what she writes, so she is much more interested in the visual product and the pleasure of creating it.
Tattoos and Scars
Seol once got sucked into an RP in which a bunch of trolls and orcs who were getting along swimmingly in the tavern he was haplessly sitting inside all decided to strip down and get tattoos to declare their Brotherhood! For the Horde! ... Seol, however, refused to participate because he didn't want to. This is primarily a gut reaction based on his concept of "my body" (which is a theme for a full-length character ramble.)
But I also imagine that Seol... does not have any tattoos yet, which is unusual for a blood elf. He did only just move out of the "child" social group, though, so he has that as an excuse. Although he has finished most of his growing, he will probably still decline. Besides, a lack of tattoos means you make a pretty good high elf impersonator, other than the eyes.
Seol's face and hands (the only body parts he normally exposes) are clean and pretty, as if he had never taken a blade to them, because he heals wounds in those areas immediately. That's vanity (and also not wanting to stand out in a crowd.) He went through a phase, though, in which he was deathly afraid to overheal. Even though this was a fairly short time period and he wore armor, he has a great deal of scars on the rest of his body from constantly wading out into battle.
He very likely will have permanent damage to his body due to overuse injuries.
And don't forget the backne.
Astrolabe, though, doesn't have any particular scars and is unlikely to develop a big collection as she avoids fighting, is extremely cautious when she is forced into combat with hostiles, tries to stay out of melee, immediately heals wounds, etc.
Nor does she have tattoos, which she thinks are kinda silly. I mean, they don't do anything, so why go through the pain and trouble? ... Unless they do do something, of course. Hmmmm, +Int tattoo...
A Perfume?
I'm a Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab junkie, so one of the things I like to do is make up perfumes for my characters. I'm not quite sure about these two, though.
Seol will need something involving plum blossom and snow, of course, with thin woods and incense resins. And some sort of cooking spice. Soft Oriental/Floral Oriental? It... doesn't sound very cohesive yet.
Astro is a lot harder to describe; blue poppy does not have a scent (there is a commonly used "opium" note, but that's definitely Silvermoon City and not Terokkar.) Maybe a water note, brightness from mint and citrus, wild greens and mountain wildflowers -- very short-lasting Green type. On the other hand, cocoa is one of her symbols so one could go the opposite direction and give her a citrus, pepper, cocoa Oriental type.