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| Posted on 2012-02-10 09:27:03 PM |
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This is an idea I had after asking someone to describe what he looked like for me.
In books, authors provide details about what characters look like. Descriptions and words weave together to create a picture. Why don't we SMWC users try it.
Consider this the Literary Photo Thread. Here, you can describe yourself as if you were a character in a book. You don't have to be a star writer--just give it a shot.
Here's mine:
QuoteHe was a tall, solidly-built man, with dark hair and strange-looking eyes peeping behind large glasses. He had an odd way of speaking, as if he were trying to sound like someone he was not. He did not smile or laugh often, and he was not easily angered.
Why not give it a try?
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| Posted on 2012-02-10 09:33:11 PM |
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Yeah, why not?
QuoteHe was a person which had some issues with his life, he had a big head, but he didn't knew why. He had brown hair and sad-lookign eyes; the reason of it is unknown at the moment. He thinked he speaked a lot, that's why he never spoke so much in real life.
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| Posted on 2012-02-10 10:34:47 PM |
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Heh, I am glad our conversation lead to an interesting idea of this thread. (Yes, I was the victim person who described myself)
In any case, I'll modify my description to match this format that I gave Camerin, heh.
QuoteHe was a man who had short dark brown hair. He liked his hair short because it was easier for him to wash. He has green eyes similar to his mother's. His eyes would shyly glance at random people at times, hoping not to draw too much attention. While he wasn't that "big", he was around 200 pounds at 5'10". He tries to go to the gym but hasn't been able to that much so he had somewhat of an average build.
He was naturally shy and was even further at a disadvantage by moving so often while going through school. However, he had a deep care for those around him and wished to benefit those around him with his abilities. He has grown to understand his core being recently and accepted being shy as a gift rather than a curse. He is as open to any possibility and is open minded on many subjects. He often goes on about what he likes such as his creative works without mentioning much about himself. He has been improving socially and no doubt always will. He still is curious to know those around him but sometimes doesn't know the right words to ask.
Eh, a bit wordy but I like it.
Edit: Actually no, it is just fine.
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| Last edited on 2012-02-11 10:51:19 AM by Scrydan. |
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| Posted on 2012-02-10 11:35:47 PM |
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QuoteThe man stood there, a loner, a man without many likable qualities to warrant having too many friends. He wore his nerdy t-shirts and his fedora, spouting sarcastic remarks at passersby. Occasionally people would stop and challenge him to fights over something he had said. He knew that he lacked much in the ways of physical prowess, so he would dismiss them and attempt to flee, sometimes without success, although he was used to the pain by now.
This man was but a writer without much contempt for human life, seeing it all as a joke someone with little taste told in a bar to his friends, drunk off his ass. Some might see this as sad, while others might note it as something to be honored, and some just dismissed it as lunacy. To him, he was superior to all, even though he knew he wasn't better than anyone in most regards, he just saw everyone as puppets to the world of sex, violence and crap TV, and he could see the string.
Yup.
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| Posted on 2012-02-11 01:58:43 AM |
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Originally posted by The Most Curious Exploits of =D=Chapter 19
A mere indifferent, sideways glance was enough to confirm for myself that the tall, mealy man across the diner was indeed myself from the past. I understood, above all else, above any transgression or obstacle that may attempt defy me and my most urgent mission, that I must tell myself the truth of what happened all of those abject years ago.
But first, I'm going to describe him, because I suck at segues.
He was an awkward man to say the least, oft to look about at the variety of interesting trinkets haphazardly strewn about the diner rather than what was occurring directly before him in the busy atmosphere. His apparent aloofness seemed to compound with his tall, six-foot stature and clumsy gait, but much to his everlasting sense of comfort, he does not attract the attention of others. His hair was a humble brown color, just barely reaching to the base of his neck. While it was frequently washed, it was uncommon for him to brush it; thus, he frequently parted from his black, glossy pair of goggles away from his hazel eyes. While he was counting the number of miscellaneous trinkets next to his table, I noticed that while he was completely invested into analyzing every small detail to the exclusion of the world, his eyes were frequently half-closed, giving him an inappropriate appearance of being perpetually indifferent or tired. His voice was a very deadpan, yet always rather polite tone. Indeed, in spite of his uncomfortable nature of dealing with most people on a social level, he greatly admired people and humankind in general, in spite of its frequent faults. He viewed himself as more of a entity that admirably gazes upon life, but can never quite view himself as an actual participant.
While I was clumsily describing him for this hypothetical book I was writing, I myself had failed to noticed that at some point, two friends of his had entered the diner and took an adjacent seat. My focus on describing myself with as many words as possible was snapped when the once quiet, shy, and unconfident person near me was supplanted by a more vocal and booming personality. His eyes became far more awake, and his deadpan voice, while still at a very low tone, became far more varied and emotional to match the upturn of energy that coursed through him, nearly at the sight of his friends. Yet, in all of the boisterousness that flowed forth endlessly from his invigorated body, he still would frequently look about to find as many small, needless details to contemplate, as well as to assure himself that nobody in the diner was giving the group any odd looks. It seems that the outgoing personality before me was simply a facade that he has no control of encasing over himself.
So, I'm going to go over there and give him a whole bunch of illegally obtained government documents over a course of events that may or may not have happened, even though I sort of remember bits and pieces of it a little bit, and actually, I'm not even sure if that's the person I'm looking for, or if it's just some random guy or anything. Like, what if he had some kind of gun? That would suck. Well, here goes nothing.
I'm not expecting a lot of people to read that in its entirety, but I think it sort of describes my tendency to be excessively verbose on a meta level.
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| Posted on 2012-02-11 05:21:24 AM |
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Sounds interesting,
Originally posted by The Book of SomethingHe was a man in his mid 20's, living alone. But that didn't bother him. What bothered him was his lack of motivation to get out of his apartment more often. He was one of the rare redheads, though he often had a cowlick on his right side. He often dreads going out into the city at dark, where he feels people are more jumpy and suspicious.
But yet, he worked the graveyard shift in another town where he felt more secure. He one days dreams of moving into another and facing his fears; not worrying about what could go wrong. Yet, he feels great comfort in his high school youth, to which he fondly looks back upon remembering the joy as well as his care-free endeavor. But to this day, he still dreams of making at least $30,000 per year.
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| Posted on 2012-02-11 07:03:49 AM |
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QuoteHe was a tall, thin, Caucasian male. Quiet, introverted, yet energetic and excitable sometimes, he spent much of his time thinking. A college student in his early twenties, he still had trouble picking a major, tho he did consider himself proficient in math, but then he had an epiphany and was thinking of becoming a writer. It was so infuriating to think about, and his hair trigger temper did not help. He loved cats and lucky for him, his family had, a few years ago, decided to take in a stray cat and now he could have a cat to feed, pet, and love as his own.
One of his more distinguishing physical features was his curly hair that he let grow out just enough for the barber to feel like he's shearing a sheep. People very often thought of his pretty hair, envious because they didn't have it. Even the family cat agreed. The man would lay his head down by the family cat as he was grooming himself, and then the cat would groom the man's head as a sign of being affectionate toward its mentor, erm, apprentice. When the man's hair had accumulated enough cat spit, he would reluctantly wash his hair since he didn't want to mess with the outline of his hair. We have to take the good with the bad, don't we?
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| Posted on 2012-02-11 07:45:44 AM |
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I suppose I'm contractually bound to this sort of thing, no?
QuoteA shambling man, or at least one would tend to think if one saw him at rest, for indeed, he was certainly a shambles, nyuk nyuk nyuk. One's first impression of him was that of sort of weathered scarecrow assembled from various sections of aluminum drain pipe of assorted sizes, ill-matched to one another as regards diameter and geometrical form. Do not discount the hideous scraping sound one would hear from the joints as his limbs flailed and whipped about in the winds as though performing some sort of short-lived fad dance everyone denies ever having heard about six months later. One had the impression he ought to enter a room solely by tumbling and clattering down the stairs, or at the very least by slowly toppling over through an open door and crashing face-first into the floor, forming a disheveled pile. For indeed, his natural state appeared to be the heap. This was reflected in his preferred styles of sitting and repose, legs (and occasionally arms) twisted and knotted together in an awkward mess few people would likely think of as comfortable. Perhaps he wished to render himself as close as possible to a uniform sphere in order to simplify his role in any engineering calculations that may have needed to be performed upon him.
And yet, upright and in motion, he seemed to defy these notions. His gait was not at all the awkward, unsteady tottering one might expect of such a clacking mess of metallic tubes as it weakly staggered along, but rather a sort of easy, meandering slink, with perhaps a shade a skulk, and even, one might be tempted to say, just a touch of shrelk. The ill-interlocking pipes displayed a surprising range of circular motion, and their positions vis-a-vis one another and the remainder of his form could be manipulated without breaking far better than one might expect, which had given him an entertaining party trick or two. And though he was a man who by appearance alone looked mildly to soundly out of place in most geographic locations, when he wished, he could walk with a certain focus and determination which seemed to suggest he knew exactly where he was and what he was doing, even when he was in fact hopelessly lost, which was, incidentally, the case a non-insignificant amount of the time. And even if one suspected in these circumstances that he was in fact lost despite appearances, one developed the impression that he may well have become so quite deliberately. This was likewise the case a non-insignificant amount of the time. Oh, but not always; no, no, not always.
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| Posted on 2012-02-11 05:59:39 PM |
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I like the idea of this thread. Your description is creative, Camerin! You should become an author.
Anyway...
QuoteHe was a teenager in his mid-teens, of medium height and he had a slim build. One of his most noticeable features were his bright blue eyes, of which their colour was quite visible. He had short, wavy dark blond hair and somewhat of a suntan, but not much. He currently had a light, dark-coloured mustache, due to the fact that he was of Spanish descent, but he was thinking of shaving it off at some time. When he spoke, he did so with a Southern British accent, as that just so happened to be the place he was from. He was a fairly relaxed guy and easy to get on with, but he could sometimes get angry and he was sometimes a little impatient. He was rather an introverted person himself, although he could be a little more social depending on the situation and the location, mainly if he was with people he liked.
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| Last edited on 2012-02-11 06:04:08 PM by Jeorge535. |
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| Posted on 2012-02-12 02:25:47 PM |
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Navigating the room would have been hard. Not only was its only sources of light two computer screens and the LEDs of various gadgets and gizmos scattered around the room, but the floor was covered in dirty laundry, boxes, empty soda bottles and countless other things. Roads through the dirt had evolved naturally to provide a way to move around at all. He sat in the middle of the mountain of garbage, tapping his keyboard and clicking with his mouse.
He was only 23, so this must have been roughly four years before the Event, which he, of course, knew nothing about at the time. Rumors and whispering around the internet - the original internet - might have clued him in on things to come had he just paid attention. With just a nudge in the right direction, his role in things to come might have been more significant, but who are we to second-guess history? Maybe this is the way it was meant to be? Fate. The mere notion would have been ridiculous back then. Nowadays? Let's just say that people's perceptions of reality have received some major overhauls since then.
While tapping his keyboard - working on some trivial piece of software - the LED on his webcam suddenly flashed. "Another problem with the drivers?" he thought. The webcam was only a few months old, but there had been problems with it since day one. Seemingly mere annoyances. During this moment of activation, what did the webcam see?
Esseitch - as he later came to call himself after the Event - was primarily two things: a nerd and a swede. Both these aspects were obvious from a mile away. His pale skin, blonde hair and white shirt acted as indirect sources of light - much like what the moon used to look like, except minus most of the craters. He was of average height, slightly overweight and had a somewhat notable scar on his forehead, not helped by the fact that his high hairline made it impossible to cover up. The gingivitis in his gums was a ticking time bomb that constantly went ignored, officially due to high dentist costs, but mostly out of extreme laziness and procrastination. He repositioned the glasses aiding his blue but not properly focusing eyes, only to take them off to be able to do a facepalm. The increased difficulty of making this gesture was his only main problem with having glasses in the first place.
- Who the hell wrote this?
He looked at the code again, with the glasses now put back on. Whoever was responsible had completely misunderstood some fundamental aspects of software architecture. How did this even work in the first place? Several layers of needless complexity with no reason or justification in sight.
- Oh, right. Me.
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| Posted on 2012-02-12 03:59:27 PM |
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Dishes were all around, plastic containers, glass plates and cups with a fraction of a percent of whatever contents were in them, rancid and dried. His computer, mostly dark due to the dark-colored desktop, was the only thing that let him barely see at all. The monitor of his laptop, shattered in several pieces, still emits light like a firefly at it's brightest before it goes dark for good.
Sitting in a beige textured office chair, sadly without any hydraulic power left in it to keep his fat arse off the ground, He sits with his trash. His carpel tunnel worses by the day due to improper computing posture. Technology dots his desk amidst the clutter and garbage, his only companions virtual, fictional and man-made. A prime example of what many other people like him are; Fat, lazy, and hopelessly attached to their machines like cords are plugged into them.
And there he sits, wasting his life away, Paid by the government just enough for food due to his aspergers, he does random crap people may not care about, save a select few. He sits there trying to convert people into learning Linux, as He thinks it's more secure. He codes randomly. He makes junk. He is the embodiment of a landfill. But like a landfill, it is also colorful before the decay.
He likes color. While most of his screen is dark, the middle of his nine virtual workspaces is brightest, representing the little bit of light within him, a silent redemption among the ruin or his wasted life. When He lets electric sheep roam on his desktop, it all of a sudden becomes alive, full of life. The man in his head is much different from the man most see, sullen eyes and a fat gut hides his intelligence and knowledge of the world. But his moments when he seems like one with the world are as transient as the wind that blows past everybody. When his time passes, he becomes the man with a near-expressionless face, staring blankly into nothing but a dark screen, with a controller on his lap, keyboard in his hands, headphones over his ears to shut out the rest of the world, still wasting his life away.
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| Posted on 2012-02-12 08:54:41 PM |
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This is actually a neat Thread.QuoteA binlingual 17-year old that suffered many hardships to become the Responsible, Respectful man that obtains the confidence to change others and does what it takes to achieve what he desires. With the Traits of Dark Hair, Brown Eyes & Brown skin that secends the purity of his character. None the less he is soon to prepare for college and begin the dream of moving to Japan; But not forgetting his beloved Hispanic Hertiage.
This sounds like a Great introduction for a Novel.
Camerin, are you writing a story?
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| Posted on 2012-02-13 03:40:52 AM |
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Sat in the back of the room, wearing a green sweater jacket that was mostly zipped open and black track pants, typing away at his keyboard... Giga was a sight to behold. With his eyes half way between blue and gray, his short, dark brown hair, black rimmed glasses whose lenses were thicker than the rims themselves...
He had been waiting for this.
He was of average build, yet extremely skinny, to the point where he could bring his stomach in behind his ribs. He had small, long fingers, like you would see on a piano player's hands. However, he had no skill with any instrument but his own vocal cords. His eyes were always partially closed, like an old person's. Cold, distant. Looking at people as though they were "different". His beard, unkempt. His arms only starting to look muscular in the slightest.
He looked around his room. Behind him, his mini-fridge, which contained various beverages. Many empty boxes of both Sprite and A&W. A plastic sleeve, with about 38 foam bowls in it. In front of him, his desk, and farther back, his bed, which was just a single mattress, laying on the floor. His desk was cluttered with many things, like a PS3 controller, various game boxes, a kleenex box with various things - including the Star Trek DVD boxed set, still unopened - stacked on it, a black comb on top of three TV remotes, a pair of scissors and a moustache comb still in their packaging, yet opened, and a single kleenex outside the box for assistance in opening tight things like 2L bottles of grape drink. Underneath his desk was a family-sized box of Reese's Puffs.
Clearly, a sight to behold. Clearly, a slob of epic proportions.
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| Posted on 2012-02-24 09:37:35 AM |
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The room was a mixture of organized and messy. Shelves of neatly sorted cards, books, and other things went right together with an overturned hamper, a half-full cup of tea, and an empty bowl of salsa. A large TV sat with a huge pile of wires next to it in the window shelf, and an ancient computer sat, barely running and beginning to decay, on the shelf.
"Blazes. Now it won't even recognize an execute command. Better restart again.."
Mid-teens, nearly six feet, the boy speaks as if talking to himself is perfectly normal. The tone is slightly irritable but detached. he has a thin frame and wears summer clothing, most of it red. Murky eyes of an undefined color are decently complemented by brown hair parted on the right. his fingers type somewhat clumsily, more used to a laptop keyboard.
As he tries to move data from old games that only that computer ever played now, the computer gives up, sending another error message. The boy sighs, spins his chair, then continues to work at it, muttering under his breath.
Decent, I suppose.
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| Posted on 2012-02-24 05:03:42 PM |
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And that's when he stood inside the room. Initially, I was oblivious to his sudden presence, but then it came to me that I could not possibly ignore this bloke any longer.
He was not tall, not tall at all - no, he was a rather short man. His posture was not quite as small as his length, though. His overall appearance, the dark hair, the brown eyes, the spectacles which were somewhat defunct, all of this made it clear to me that he was not your ordinary passenger. None of that.
Something went on in his head, I noticed. Then, he uttered something, but I knew not what. For me it was unintelligible. I asked him to articulate, as he spoke extraordinarily unclearly - I would soon learn that this was a habit of his, but I did not know this.
At that point, we started a conversation. It was a superficial one at that, but for both sides enjoyable, I would say. Enjoyable right until the moment where he suddenly had to disrupt the conversation. And that was the end of it. Afterwards, I heard no more of him. Who is he? Nobody can tell, or wants to tell.
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What.
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