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THE NEXT GENERATION MEME
Which still has nothing to do with Star Trek. Shush.
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Which still has nothing to do with Star Trek. Shush.
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Name: Adelaide Maria "Coyote" Stills (again, gotta have a last name, so...) The nickname came about because she was a screamer as a baby. Some kids just are. So someone finally started joking that they must have a coyote pup locked up upstairs or that kid must be part coyote to howl like that. So she got a nickname from early on. But it also suited her later on, because she was inclined to sneak around in the kitchen and around abandoned plates and steal scraps--very scavenger. The name has stuck. She kind of likes it. Most people call her by it, except for a few of the women in town who think it's improper for a girl to be called by such a name and they'll call her by her given name. But...she doesn't think too much of them and their formality, anyhow.
Appearance/Description: Well, she's got good genes? Okay, okay... First off, she's not what you'd call pretty, not for a little girl. She's not ugly, but she's just not all fluttering eyelashes and sweet smiles and curls. She's a little too angular and she has some of the sharpest bones anyone has ever felt (her mom can vouch for it). When she grows into her face, she'll be what you'd call handsome, but she'll always be a bit boyish. She's tall for a girl, too, and probably always will be, and she'll end up sort of wiry. She got her mother's hazel eyes, but her tendency to squint comes from her dad (they look sort of alike when they squint). Same brown hair as the two of them, though hers is longer by a lot. She prefers to dress a bit like a boy because, well, skirts get in the way (see below for more).
Personality/Temperament: It's a little reductive to call her a tomboy, but that's sort of the base of her personality: she's more boyish than girlish, inclined to roughness, and can probably whip at least some of the boys if they come at her. She's not a bully, though she does fight back. Can't say she fights fair, but she fights back. What she needs to do is develop some of the smarts her dad has about these things--she will, eventually, but right now she's got a little too much of a temper. She knows that if you're going to hit, you've got to make the hits count, but she hasn't quite gotten back far enough to see that one can make a hit count even more if one is clever about it. The thing is, she's not quite as run-around-omg-active as "tomboy" implies. She's more boyish than anything, like I said, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's loud and raucous. She's quiet, like her father and for the same reasons (stoiiiiic): why say more than you need to? Honestly. People who blabber are boring. But she'll say more than she needs to (and should) if she's angry. It's one the ways she hits--and she's fast and she's mean about it. If she could just get some smarts about using it, she'd be better off, and maybe happier. She's content enough, I suppose, though not necessarily cheerful. The nervousness and anxiety she gets from her mother manifests often in that same kind of biting aggression (like a cornered animal). Once she gets some things sorted out, as she gets older, and learns a few things, she'll calm down. She'll never be what one would call sweet or gentle, but she'll get her temper under control and be better off for it. Now, what she'll do when she's grown is another matter...
Circumstances of Conception: See above--it's about the same, except with a girl at the end, instead of a boy!
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1. She has ruined more dresses and skirts by rough-housing, fighting, running around, climbing things, and carrying on than a young lady should. And she doesn't care. Stephen will have to deal with the mending, but after a certain point, everyone may just throw up their hands and let her dress like a boy in jeans and pants. She will be happy. However, for reasons that she and she alone knows, she will always keep her hair long. She likes it long, but not (may I add) pinned up. What she does and wears is for the sake of comfort and convenience. This answers that requirement.
2. She has an old cigar box that she keeps hidden in her room. In it are a string of blue glass beads that were a gift and a tiny picture of a fairy queen done all in watercolors and probably torn from an old book--and a handful of other odds and ends. It's the glass beads and the picture that are sort of her secret treasure. She can't quite explain it, but they're something beautiful and important to her--it's almost a feeling more than a word, so she keeps them secret and hidden. If (more like "when") she ever leaves town, they're coming with her.
3. In the same vein as with Jack (who doesn't exist in this version of the universe), she wanted to learn to shoot from her father, who refused, &c &c. So, she was like, fuck it, I'll get someone else to teach me. So she did. (In my mind, this character is played by Lee Van Cleef and there's an entire other story here hum hum hum~) And so she learned and she got really pretty good. Like, really good. And this means, unfortunately, that she may be following too closely in her father's footsteps and this will become a point of contention between them. But it may be in her blood--if it is, she got it from him.
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That is my fav thing I have ever read. Please marry me.
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Yes! Yes, I will, yes!
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WHAT'RE YOUR CHILDREN LIKE? 8)
Oh my god kidding, incidentally.
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Appearance/Description: She looks quite normal, but technically, she's half Gallifreyan and half...whatever Marion might happen to be (we're still waiting on a few tests to come back). But don't ask about her diplomatic status or anything like that (because I'm not sure about my diplomatic status insofar as interplanetary relations are concerned and my dad really hems and haws on this one so I probably shouldn't press him, but I'm sitting in our Tardis right now, so...), but she's technically, genetically, half Gallifreyan. She gets most of her looks and hair color and eye color and so on from Marion, but she'll grow up tall, thanks to Caru's crazy genes. Also, she will probably have bad eyesight, and this is also Caru's fault, and she takes full responsibility for the weak genetics in that regard. She has perfect skin, though, because she's just that damn lucky (and it will make Caru envious and the universe is cruel like that).
Personality/Temperament: A generally sweet-natured child, but one prone to some extreme flights of fancy, Robin has been known to exhaust her mothers with her endless streams of drawings, stories, songs, paperdolls, costumes, and art things. If she is given a blank piece of paper, she will fill it with something--a poem, a story, a drawing, anything. Most mornings are occupied with her relating the dreams she had the night before, which are often quite elaborate. Afternoons are spent in the costume box or under the bookshelves (kept in Dewey decimal order thanks to Caru's librarian eccentricities). As she grows older, Robin begins to explore the scientific aspects of the world, finding that this knowledge increases the wonder of the world rather than sucking the magic out of it. There may be a chemical reason why fireflies glow, but that doesn't make the wonder of fireflies any less. By elementary school, she is something of an amateur naturalist, knowing the names of wildflowers, weeds, insects, trees, birds, wild animals--anything in the nearby parks or her own backyard. When she's old enough, Caru and her father will likely introduce her to the worlds of electricity and radio (and they will almost certainly speak with Caru's father via Ham radio, but a favorite trick will later be Caru and Robin communicating via Morse code tapped out on the dinner table). Her mothers have hopes for a scientific career--perhaps in scientific illustration, because what better marriage could there be of art and science?
Circumstances of Conception: Shortly after their whirlwind marriage, Caru and Marion agreed to be a part of a new experimental in-vitro fertilization project (because, duh, science is cool) in which donor genes from each female participant would be collected and recombined to form a viable zygote in a process that's not quite ordinary in-vitro fertilization and not quite cloning. Of course, owing to the nature of the donors, all the children born from these procedures would be female (XX chromosomes). Not that that's such a bad thing... Nine months later and Robin was born. It was also early spring and the first robins had just appeared, which is also a charming coincidence.
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1. Being interested in the Japanese Gothic Lolita fashion style, Caru dresses Robin up in more ruffles and frills than is perhaps typical for a child. And they make for a charming pair, Caru in her more elegant style and Robin in the sweetest confections imaginable. Robin, however, enjoys the style as well, but she wishes her name were a little more suited to the style and is trying to invent a new nickname for when she wears these clothes.
2. Robin was both an early talker and an early reader, but a late walker--this was a point of some concern, briefly. They had no concerns about her speech, though, with two audiologists for (grand)parents on Caru's side. Little wonder she was gabbling away like mad.
3. Conventions are popular in this family: science fiction, anime, Steampunk, fantasy, Renaissance faires, whatever--if it's speculative fiction or imaginative and there's a reason to wear a costume, all three of them will go. Several baby pictures of Robin involve her dressed as Yotsuba, Di Gi Charat, and a Dalek. Because they could.
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I
I DO NOT EVEN HAVE WORDS FOR THIS....
/MOAR FLAILING
Funnily enough, Robin is my Dad's name (yeah, they really didn't think it through)
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Is it really? I shouldn't laugh, because he's your dad, but that is kind of funny...
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But oh man. You're hilarious. And awesome. And your child sounds adorable. Seriously. The frills, the geekery, and glasses, man? That's hot.
Is it weird for me to hit on your un-conceived child? 8|
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She couldn't be mine if she wasn't at least a few of those things. C'mon.
Only a little...
(For the record, Caru is actually human. Like, duh. The Gallifrey thing is a long-standing joke with some friends and me that my dad [and maybe mom, too--jury's still out but tending towards "yes"] is actually a Time Lord. Because you should see the piles of scientific paraphernalia that live in our house. Really. There is no doubt.)
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Totally. But they're adorable and awesome things!
Only a little? Alright, good, that way when I hit on her you'll be pretty cool with it.
Because- you have two . . . hearts? IDK, I didn't even get the Gallifrey thing, I was like 'reference, do not get, move on'. I HAVE SUSPECTED THAT YOU WERE HUMAN SOMETIMES. I'm curious about how the Time Lord thing came about, though, now. XD
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/throws confetti
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