Behold! A disney princess! [hider= Slee] NAME: Slee HAIR COLOR: Red EYE COLOR: Blue DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Piercing, wild eyes, matted red hair and clothes made of palm fronds and seaweed. PICTURE: [img]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/81/5a/a0/815aa09ec6773d4f060e3ebd0dc0c73d--female-character-inspiration-writing-inspiration.jpg[/img] What she might look like, if she cleaned up a bit and put on human clothes. SCARS AND BIRTHMARKS: Face covered in freckles. A big, jagged scar across her back. DESCRIBE A STRANGER'S FIRST IMPRESSION UPON MEETING THEM. Slee is a strange, strange person. She has no sense of social graces and a tendency to touch, smell, and/or attempt to groom just about anyone she sees. She’s also clearly very in touch with her emotions and broadcasts everything she’s thinking or feeling constantly – if she’s angry at someone, she’ll punch them in the face, if she likes them she hugs them, if she’s sad she cries. Also, she talks to animals, and seems to think they talk to her, which is hardly normal. WHO ARE THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY? WHAT SORT OF PEOPLE DO THEY SURROUND THEMSELVES WITH? The Senneli, meaning ‘children’ in their own tongue. An ancient and long-lived race of sea-serpents that raised her from infancy on her island, they are no more than fifteen in number. Slee knows each and every one of them personally by name and considers them her closest friends and family. They are a communal, family-oriented people, constantly broadcasting their thoughts and feelings to each other and speaking in a universal ‘sea-language’ that they have also taught Slee, which every animal is capable of understanding. WHERE WERE THEY BORN? WHERE HAVE THEY LIVED SINCE THEN? WHERE IS HOME? As far as she knows, Slee was born on her island, a lush tropical paradise where she has lived her entire life. She lives in a cove on the eastern side of the island, where her family can visit her often when they come up from the deep places where they make their homes. WHERE DO THEY GO WHEN THEY'RE ANGRY? When Slee’s upset with one of the Senneli, she goes to the center of the island and climbs up the mountain there, where none of them can reach her. WHAT IS THEIR BIGGEST FEAR? WHO HAVE THEY TOLD ABOUT IT? WHO WOULD THEY NEVER TELL? She’s afraid that she doesn’t really belong among the Senneli, being unlike them and unable to live underwater as they do, and that she’ll spend the rest of her life without someone else like her. She tells everyone about this, and the Senneli are doing an increasingly poor job at comforting her. DO THEY HAVE A SECRET? Not only does she not have any secrets, the concept of hiding things from other people confuses her. WHAT MAKES THEM LAUGH OUT LOUD? Crabs! They tell the best jokes. Also the concept of personal space and the idea of people being unable to swim. HAVE THEY EVER BEEN IN LOVE? She’s never met another human being. So, no. DESCRIBE THE THINGS THAT WOULD BE HARD FOR THEM TO PART WITH. Her home, her family, a fist-sized pearl that her ‘mother’ brought up from the depths for her. LOOK DOWN AT THEIR FEET. DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SEE. Smooth and pale feet on black rock or white sand. The undersides, of course, are as calloused as you would expect from someone who lives on an island and doesn’t wear shoes. WHEN THEY THINK OF THEIR CHILDHOOD KITCHEN, WHAT SMELL DO THEY ASSOCIATE WITH IT? WHY DOES IT RESONATE? Seaweed, wood smoke, salt water and tropical fruit – she prepares most of her meals herself as the Senneli taught her, and she’s a strict vegetarian (side effect of being able to talk to animals). DESCRIBE ONE STRONG MEMORY THAT HAS STUCK WITH THEM FROM CHILDHOOD. She sits in a crib of driftwood and seaweed on the beach. Five massive, serpentine heads poke up from the water and hover above, peering down at her. The sun is setting, and slowly, her family begins to sing the soft, wordless hum of their people. WHAT DO THEY WANT MOST OF ALL? To belong somewhere. RIGHT NOW, IN THE FIRST MOMENT OF OUR STORY, WHAT IS THEIR BIGGEST PROBLEM? Something new has happened – a wooden thing her family calls a ‘ship’ has arrived on the island, and strange things that look like her (but bigger and rougher) have gotten off of it. She’s heard them yelling at each other about ‘the cargo’ and ‘laying low’ in rough, coarse voices, and once when she snuck over to take a peek she saw them hauling something off their ship and burying it in the jungle. They’ve been there for about a week already, and it doesn’t seem like they’re leaving any time soon. Her family has forbidden her to go near, but… Slee is a curious sort by nature. [/hider]