Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Character Shmaracter!

So, it's taken me a while to get back from 'vacation mode'...and I'm still not fully out of it, but I have been thinking about my characters and trying to watch movies to get me into film mode.  I watched Volver today, not only because I've always wanted to see, but because I knew that it has a certain morbidity, or eeriness to it, and yet wasn't at all a horror, and it was done so in a entertaining way.  By the way, I recommend it. 

So here's one of my character bios.  I've been working on them simultaneously, so they all need work, but just to give you an idea....

Tristan Terrible:

Tristan grew up in what was then, and still is now, the oldest darkest house in a cold town along the hilly shores of the ocean.  Generations of her family had lived in that house, and most people of the town never ventured near it.  It never looked better, and it never looked worse.  It was as if it was completely untouched by time. Tristan, her entire life, had been beautiful.  So beautiful in fact, that no one in her life had expectations for her in any other way.  From the beginning, men and boys alike were falling in love her, n matter what her age, no matter what theirs.  Unfortunately for the men, no matter desperate or valiant their attempts at love, Tristin was completely uninterested.  Nothing about men seemed to ever interest her.  She found them slightly vulgar and stupid.  In fact, she had a hard time seeing the good in anyone, so she was cruel; crueler and crueler each year.  Blame it on the fact that she was kept inside quite often, was never able to develop good social skills.  And yet, this did not stop the men from a-coming.  The only person in the world she cared for was her dear sister, one year her junior, Trilly.  She valued her sister more than any other thing or person in life. And as long as she had her, she was content to stay in her house as much as possible.

 

2 comments:

  1. Why doesn't Tristan have any romantic interests?

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  2. Your prose is so lovely. Can't wait for the rest of the characters a-coming.

    Sounds like your one Tristan here has some psychological issues, no?

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