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THE NEXT GENERATION MEME
Which still has nothing to do with Star Trek. Shush.
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Okay okay okay... (I'm going to use that set-up, though, for the rest of this...)
Name: It's a boy! Stephen would probably get to pick his name, but in my mind it would be one of those old-fashioned boy's names that gets shortened really easily. Like John (Jack, Johnny), Joseph (Joe), Michael (Mike), Franklin (Frank), Jacob (Jake), Caleb (Cabe), Bartholomew (Bat, Bart), Benjamin (Ben). Something like that. So it sounds respectable at full length but the nickname sounds like a cowboy name. Perfect. (Did you know there are baby name lists of "cowboy names"? John, Clint, and Wyatt are on just about all of them.) His last name would be "Stills" because...y'know. There's not really any other option. For the moment, we'll call him Jack.
Appearance/Description: Look at his parents. I mean, look at 'em. (Stephen is the mother.) Granted, Stephen can look sort of derpy sometimes, but this kid has some decent genes to work from. In any event, he will have a remarkable nose when he finishes growing--he has good nose genes. Whether he'll have blue eyes like his dad or greeny-hazel ones like his mom might be a point of debate--they'll end up somewhere in between, maybe, tending towards gray. He will almost certainly have the same kind of brown hair as his parents because, well, they both have it (alas, he might not inherit his father's supernatural ability to convince an entire movie that he is blond when he isn't). And he'll grow up fairly tall and lanky, though probably not skinny. Just lanky. As a child, he'll seem to favor his mother in looks more than his father; this will shift in the other direction as he ages, but he won't lose his similarities to Stephen entirely (his smile will give it away, if nothing else, along with the detached earlobes [yeah, I dare you check me on this one]). And, when he's grown up, he will have a propensity towards stubble and scruffiness. It's genetic.
Personality/Temperament: His father is silent, his mother is nervous. This combination of influences has resulted in a quiet sort of child, but a more reflective silence, a more inscrutable silence, than his father's laconic stoicism. He's as damnably non-verbal as his old man, but all the things his communicates (non-verbally) are more akin to what Stephen tends to say, if that makes sense. He feels things more acutely or more overtly than his father does or seems to (point of debate) and he internalizes them and then he actually communicates them in his quietness. Now, to those less familiar with him, it might just come across as being inclined to silence--not too surprising. But to those who know him, especially his parents, he's a bit easier to read (certainly, he's easier to read than his father can be). Otherwise, he's a fairly typical child, though not necessarily what one might call a happy child, given his, well, sensitivity. He's got to be careful with this when he grows up or his dad might start demanding that he grow a spine. For now, though, it's all right. And, truth be told, Jack himself might like to change this aspect of his temperament a little. He loves his mom but he admires his dad, and this is a complicated situation in which to be. He wishes he were a little tougher and a little stronger than he is--at the moment, at least. He'll learn and he'll grow into himself, though. He'll be all right, and he'll come out more honest and just than most.
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Three Random Facts:
1. He really likes plaid shirts. One can blame his mother for his, but there's nothing really wrong with plaid shirts, really. He has one and he will probably wear it to rags while poor Stephen is left patching the elbows and sewing on buttons until they absolutely have to get him a new one.
2. He helps out in the boarding house as much as he can (especially with the cooking), but he knows to hide if things get rough (and they do). He has a hiding place in a kind of hidden root cellar that's off the kitchen. If things get bad, he knows to hide there until it's over and either his mother or his father comes to get him out. They'll always come to get him out.
3. His mom taught him to cook (and more than just the kinds of things the usual crowd likes to eat) and how to play the guitar. His father taught him how to ride. The thing his father didn't teach him was how to shoot--not more than the basics of it, at least. This likely goes back to his father's own hidden past and notions of how life and family should be, though Jack doesn't quite understand this. Unfortunately, at times he feels a bit envious and angry over this: he wants to learn and his father won't teach him, despite it being an aspect of both their lives. It's complicated. But he has a carved wooden gun and a scrap-leather gun belt and he has been known to practice his quickdraw techniques in secret (sort of) behind the boarding house and in alleyways. He looks sort of like a miniature of his father when he does, too.
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(/insert Caru's requisite The Road joke here, of course.)
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...well, I know what I'm writing for NaNoWriMo this year...
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Well, now that that's settled :3c
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