For some reason I can't seem to come up with ideas for how some of my characters look. I'm gonna give a bit of info on them, and see what you guys can come up with. (Note that they're for what I want to write for NaNoWriMo.)
- Don't hesitate to ask me questions!
NADINE QUARTERMAIN:
Victim
- Long-standing impotent rage that is not strongly felt
- Unaware of her own hostile behaviors
- Feels and acts burdened/resents her dad for having her return
- Tries to please others, but self sacrifice leads to bitterness and more suffering
- Sexual dysfunction caused by being raped
Resilient
- Productive
- Motivated
- High ethical standards
- Faces problems and takes personal control
Spoiler - click to show.
Her repressed memories of the incestuous rape cause the normally kind, careing, hard working woman to brutally murder her dad out of deep anger, which is very out-of-character for her.
MAYSON QUATERMAIN:
- Nadine's father whose suffering from dementia
- Used trickery, coercion, and force to rape Nadine
- Would reward her
- Urged secrecy
- Would act ‘normal’ in public
- Hypermasculine/macho
- Fixated on the mouth
EDWARD STEIN:
- The farmhand/caretaker that helps Nadine care for for Mayson.
Spoiler - click to show.
A woman returns home to visit her father who has dementia. Her father inadvertently reveals some shocking family secrets that the woman must come to terms with.
A middle-aged woman (NADINE) returns home to visit her father (MAYSON), who has dementia, at his farm. Upon arriving she meets a farmhand/caretaker (EDWARD/ED), who helps her care for her father. The woman and her father relive some fond and not-so-fond memories which force the woman to remember that her dad had raped her while she was a child. She murders her father, is caught by the caretaker, and arrested at the end of the story. The caretaker reveals that he’s actually a demon and remonices making the father rape the woman.
Okay, for Character #1, ummmmm, she seems like a brunette with blue eyes just imo, maybe a little taller or shorter than average, hmmmmmmmmm. Hard lines on her face?
#2 Okay Sy, think long and hard about what that kind of creep would look like.
#3 Ooh what if he looks like a big, pure oaf but has an unsettling smile.
Also what are some little details you can attribute to them? Tattoos, scars, piercings, facial hair, heterochromia
@Shuri-the-spook-pilot Wanna read my piece as I write it?
Dude feel free to PM it to me
