50 things about my OC meme
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owlThe 'tell 100 things about yourself' meme is going around again, but as I'm really not that interesting, I'll do it about my fanfic characters instead. This will either kickstart me back into writing after the exams, or depress me.
Keitin and the Avrams--sounds like a 50s rock band, doesn't it?
Fic they can be found in is Rebel Heart. Still a WIP as far as posting in concerned, but I have it all saved on my hard drive.
1. Keitin is 5'5", too thin for it during the Rebellion, because a)the rations are unappetising and there are never enough b)she tends to lose her appetite when she's stressed or unhappy.
2. Her mother Teludh owned Swift originally.
3. In fact, Keitin was conceived on the bunk that's later her own.
4. Her parents were 21 and 19 at the time (Teludh was older). Her father was executed by the Empire for treason shortly before her (rather too early) birth, and Teludh about a year later.
5. Her father, Kei, had red hair, freckles and hazel eyes. She inherited the eyes and the freckles, but the hair is only evident in summer when she gets auburn highlights. Since the only planet she has spent any amount of time on since the age of 17 is Hoth, she's almost forgotten this.
6. Her aunt Talith was a lecturer in Modern History at the University of Aldera. She stopped lecturing when Lusar, her eldest, was born, but she managed to do some research in the interstices of raising five boys. She didn't publish much, because the Palpatine Revionist Text came in in the meantime. She is understandably bitter about this.
7. The other aunt, Shosha, designs and produces a line of woman's clothing and is a successful businesswoman in her own right. The social visits seventeen year old Keitin dismisses as boring frivol are actually a form of networking. She doesn't know Keitin terribly well as a person, and viewing her creatively she's a frustration. Gauche, wild-haired Keitin, straight off Swift with engine lube up to the elbows, dressed in unflattering slacks and shirts, makes her itch to dress her properly, because she can see Keitin has potential to be striking, given good clothes and a hairbrush.
8. The Avram house, built by Keitin's great grandfather, is large and rambling. It hasn't been built so much as grown, with extra outbuildings, wings and porches stuck on randomly. The roof is flat, technically, like a lot of Alderaanian houses, but it has so many walls, angles, vents, balustrades, dormers, towers and domes that it's an adventure playground. Keitin and her cousins almost broke their necks up there a dozen times.
9. Uncle Tad, Aunt Talith and their five sons live in the main house, while Shamma and Keitin live in a self-contained flat. But she has the run of the house and the boys' constant company.
10. Uncle Shan has a bachelor pad in New Aldera, but visits frequently. Arod and Shosha, with their two boys, also live in a more upmarket area than the Merchant Quarter where Shamma lives, but young Ged and Arkos were babysat regularly in the ancestral home.
11. Because she grew up with boys, Keit prefered boys' games to dolls, and didn't hestitate to use her fists on them when provoked. She also hits out from the shoulder rather than slapping. Dan and Iruben are not chivalrous.
12. She loves textnovels, and her taste is omnivorous, with the exception of trashy romances.
13. She was the kid at school who always was dreaming in the corner of the canteen, or had a textnovel propped up on her food tray.
14. She was also the kid responsible for the dead squid in the air conditioning the week the class of '98 left school, but let's not talk about that.
15. She spent a long time in adolescence learning how to shoot straight.
16. Her favorite toy as a child was a stuffed bantha cub.
17. She used to be painfully shy.
18. Being one, she hates 'bastard' as an insult. This got her into a lot of trouble as a child.
19. Her grandmother's maiden name was Arodessa. (Hence her son Arod). House Arodessa was one of the Ruling Houses of Alderaan; Shamma came from a junior branch.
20. Keitin has the Arodessa snub nose, but the Avram forehead, and chin.
21. Most of the Avrams have dark hair and brown (almost black) eyes, a hawk nose, full lips and a rounded chin.
22. Teludh looked a little like a young Olivia Hussey.
23. Shamma used to take the children to her family home (well, one of them. The Arodessas owned a lot of property, but had no money) during the summer heat. It was a lodge by a mountain lake.
24. That was where Keitin learned to tickle fish.
25. She and Dan had a den behind some rocks.
26. The mountain house is still her idea of perfection.
27. She is very self-critical. She's her own harshest judge.
28. Her sense of humour is sardonic.
29. She is fundamentally honest, especially with herself.
30. She tends to observe life, and to set herself at a distance from her own experiences.
31. Despite her occasional dreaminess, she's pragmatic.
32. If something frightens her, she's more likely to force herself to do it than not.
33. Despite being an introvert, she can chatter with the best of them when she opens up to someone.
34. Her singing elective class almost drove their teacher to despaor. It wasn't even the lack of interest in the subject or the funny noises coming from the boys in the back row, so much as the day when they let all the sheet music blow out the window and into the lake.
35. The Avrams are rich; between them they own a large propartion of the shares of Avram Trade and Transport. They own offworld securities too; Shamma doesn't believe in putting all your hyyuda eggs in one basket.
36. The terminus and depot for the Avram space line is a couple of streets over from their home. The ancestors didn't believe in denying one's origins.
37. Keitin hears the liners and freighters dopplering out at night, when she's in bed. She can tell the model by the sound, too.
38. Despite Alderaan and the war, she still has the capacity to love deeply.
39. Her outlook is pessimistic, though.
40. She is self-reliant.
41. She doesn't call attention to herself, prefering to remain in the backgound.
42. She builds patterns in her head; life, people, science, the galaxy.
43. She's a Myers-Briggs INFJ.
44. Her visual memory is highly accurate.
45. She used to keep a coded diary as a child, recording uncompromising, if accurate, observations on her family and friends.
46. She is loyal. Tenacious of affection. She doesn't make friends casually, but they're there once she has them.
47. Her favorite colour is blue. She wears a lot of it, with white.
48. She is bilingual in Basic and Alderaanian. Alderaanian was her grandmother's birth tongue.
49. She learned to swim almost as soon as she could walk.
50. She has problem hair.
I stopped at 50, cos I'm tired, and the tenses are all fluctuating. I can't be bothered piking a viewpoint within the timeline.
Keitin and the Avrams--sounds like a 50s rock band, doesn't it?
Fic they can be found in is Rebel Heart. Still a WIP as far as posting in concerned, but I have it all saved on my hard drive.
1. Keitin is 5'5", too thin for it during the Rebellion, because a)the rations are unappetising and there are never enough b)she tends to lose her appetite when she's stressed or unhappy.
2. Her mother Teludh owned Swift originally.
3. In fact, Keitin was conceived on the bunk that's later her own.
4. Her parents were 21 and 19 at the time (Teludh was older). Her father was executed by the Empire for treason shortly before her (rather too early) birth, and Teludh about a year later.
5. Her father, Kei, had red hair, freckles and hazel eyes. She inherited the eyes and the freckles, but the hair is only evident in summer when she gets auburn highlights. Since the only planet she has spent any amount of time on since the age of 17 is Hoth, she's almost forgotten this.
6. Her aunt Talith was a lecturer in Modern History at the University of Aldera. She stopped lecturing when Lusar, her eldest, was born, but she managed to do some research in the interstices of raising five boys. She didn't publish much, because the Palpatine Revionist Text came in in the meantime. She is understandably bitter about this.
7. The other aunt, Shosha, designs and produces a line of woman's clothing and is a successful businesswoman in her own right. The social visits seventeen year old Keitin dismisses as boring frivol are actually a form of networking. She doesn't know Keitin terribly well as a person, and viewing her creatively she's a frustration. Gauche, wild-haired Keitin, straight off Swift with engine lube up to the elbows, dressed in unflattering slacks and shirts, makes her itch to dress her properly, because she can see Keitin has potential to be striking, given good clothes and a hairbrush.
8. The Avram house, built by Keitin's great grandfather, is large and rambling. It hasn't been built so much as grown, with extra outbuildings, wings and porches stuck on randomly. The roof is flat, technically, like a lot of Alderaanian houses, but it has so many walls, angles, vents, balustrades, dormers, towers and domes that it's an adventure playground. Keitin and her cousins almost broke their necks up there a dozen times.
9. Uncle Tad, Aunt Talith and their five sons live in the main house, while Shamma and Keitin live in a self-contained flat. But she has the run of the house and the boys' constant company.
10. Uncle Shan has a bachelor pad in New Aldera, but visits frequently. Arod and Shosha, with their two boys, also live in a more upmarket area than the Merchant Quarter where Shamma lives, but young Ged and Arkos were babysat regularly in the ancestral home.
11. Because she grew up with boys, Keit prefered boys' games to dolls, and didn't hestitate to use her fists on them when provoked. She also hits out from the shoulder rather than slapping. Dan and Iruben are not chivalrous.
12. She loves textnovels, and her taste is omnivorous, with the exception of trashy romances.
13. She was the kid at school who always was dreaming in the corner of the canteen, or had a textnovel propped up on her food tray.
14. She was also the kid responsible for the dead squid in the air conditioning the week the class of '98 left school, but let's not talk about that.
15. She spent a long time in adolescence learning how to shoot straight.
16. Her favorite toy as a child was a stuffed bantha cub.
17. She used to be painfully shy.
18. Being one, she hates 'bastard' as an insult. This got her into a lot of trouble as a child.
19. Her grandmother's maiden name was Arodessa. (Hence her son Arod). House Arodessa was one of the Ruling Houses of Alderaan; Shamma came from a junior branch.
20. Keitin has the Arodessa snub nose, but the Avram forehead, and chin.
21. Most of the Avrams have dark hair and brown (almost black) eyes, a hawk nose, full lips and a rounded chin.
22. Teludh looked a little like a young Olivia Hussey.
23. Shamma used to take the children to her family home (well, one of them. The Arodessas owned a lot of property, but had no money) during the summer heat. It was a lodge by a mountain lake.
24. That was where Keitin learned to tickle fish.
25. She and Dan had a den behind some rocks.
26. The mountain house is still her idea of perfection.
27. She is very self-critical. She's her own harshest judge.
28. Her sense of humour is sardonic.
29. She is fundamentally honest, especially with herself.
30. She tends to observe life, and to set herself at a distance from her own experiences.
31. Despite her occasional dreaminess, she's pragmatic.
32. If something frightens her, she's more likely to force herself to do it than not.
33. Despite being an introvert, she can chatter with the best of them when she opens up to someone.
34. Her singing elective class almost drove their teacher to despaor. It wasn't even the lack of interest in the subject or the funny noises coming from the boys in the back row, so much as the day when they let all the sheet music blow out the window and into the lake.
35. The Avrams are rich; between them they own a large propartion of the shares of Avram Trade and Transport. They own offworld securities too; Shamma doesn't believe in putting all your hyyuda eggs in one basket.
36. The terminus and depot for the Avram space line is a couple of streets over from their home. The ancestors didn't believe in denying one's origins.
37. Keitin hears the liners and freighters dopplering out at night, when she's in bed. She can tell the model by the sound, too.
38. Despite Alderaan and the war, she still has the capacity to love deeply.
39. Her outlook is pessimistic, though.
40. She is self-reliant.
41. She doesn't call attention to herself, prefering to remain in the backgound.
42. She builds patterns in her head; life, people, science, the galaxy.
43. She's a Myers-Briggs INFJ.
44. Her visual memory is highly accurate.
45. She used to keep a coded diary as a child, recording uncompromising, if accurate, observations on her family and friends.
46. She is loyal. Tenacious of affection. She doesn't make friends casually, but they're there once she has them.
47. Her favorite colour is blue. She wears a lot of it, with white.
48. She is bilingual in Basic and Alderaanian. Alderaanian was her grandmother's birth tongue.
49. She learned to swim almost as soon as she could walk.
50. She has problem hair.
I stopped at 50, cos I'm tired, and the tenses are all fluctuating. I can't be bothered piking a viewpoint within the timeline.
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Date: 2004-01-30 07:10 am (UTC)P.S. I like the Leia layout.