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 Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:18 am
I haven't posted a bio in a while, so here's my "hero," Jericho. I might add more to it later, when I'm more coherent.
New stuff has been bolded.
Name: Jericho Lapene
Age: 22
Birth date: January 19th
Appearance: He's an average-sized man, maybe even a little on the short side. He sports scruffy black hair that he cuts himself and washes once a month whether he needs it or not. His eyes are brown, but so dark they look black most of the time. They also bear the telltale upward slant that testifies Western ancestry. For facial hair, it ranges anywhere from a few days' worth of stubble to almost-a-beard.
History: Jericho is a half-breed, his mother being Western and his father Eastern. His parents and two older brothers used to live in a village very near the North-West border, until their village was attacked by a Northern raiding party. His father and brothers were killed. His mother, pregnant with him at the time, and having no surviving relatives to turn to, fled the country in search of her husband's relatives in Elleswahr. She gave birth to Jericho at one of the checkpoints on the Western-Southern border, and then, baby in tow, made her way to the city of Bethany, where her husband's family lived. With her in-laws' support, she was able to raise her new son.
Jericho grew up normal, in a normal neighborhood, though his mother was very protective of him, as her last surviving child. As a kid, he played with Sabine and Nathan often enough to have a casual relationship with both. At sixteen, against his mother's wishes, Jericho left home to join the Border Guards and has been serving the Allied Nations ever since. When he was nineteen years old, his pocket was picked by none other than Yinda, who turned out to be his distant cousin. The two now travel together off and on, whenever it suits them, raiding old ruins and stealing hotel towels. Jericho sells the stolen goods when Yinda doesn't have a chance to, and they both live off the earnings.
A few months pre-story, Jericho was in a relationship with a woman, having no idea she was married and he was "the other guy." Thanks to a certain rumor-mill (Yinda's friend Dere. Oops.) word got to the woman's husband, who, to teach both of them a lesson, pressed assault charges against Jericho (though, of course, the case never would have gone completely through). Now, the polite thing would have been to let Jericho sit in prison or a week or so and then drop the charges, but as the husband was in a particularly ornery mood...he didn't. Jericho wound up falling through the cracks of the legal system and had a fun time rotting in prison for a while. Eventually he got a pardon from the man up-top, the High Priest of Emanon, who needed Jericho to run a certain errand involving a certain redheaded herbalist...
And my cat is sitting on my lap, making it really hard to type.
Personality: He's almost always cheerful to some degree. Usually he tries to hold it in, especially around Sabine and other people who might think him reckless. This pent-up energy makes him a bit squirrelly and hyperactive. Even his most morbid thoughts are often expressed with a grin.
There aren't many people Jericho doesn't get along with. He somehow manages to be outgoing and friendly without being overbearing, though he does have a bad habit of making decisions for people without their consent. He is fiercely loyal to his friends and allies, and views trechery as the greatest wrongdoing of all.
He also hates big welcome-home parties and mass send-offs, so he genererally never tells anyone except his mother when he's coming home to visit. Plus he probably likes the shocked expressions people give him when he suddenly shows up in town again. Unfortunately, he can never seem to escape the mass send-offs when he leaves a familiar place, be it Fort Rugard or the Three Sisters; everyone and their grandma has to see him off. I wouldn't be surprised if they did it just to annoy him.
Tortures: He loses his right eye at the end of the story, in an accident involving a stain glass window.
Also, several of his distant cousins on Yinda's side of the family think it would be a good idea to try and marry him. The main result of this is a giggling mob of girls following him around whenever he visits the Three Sisters Inn.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:45 am
I could've sworn his last name was Lapaine or Lapain. I'unno why.
I always like the "normal" characters, if you know what I mean. Not every character has to be flashy or have special super powers or whatever else to be a good character. Although there's not much information there to give me a hugely decisive opinion on Jericho, I like him. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:34 am
ninja That's because I saw a sign one day for "Lapean's Auto Repair" and went, "That sounds so much better than laPaine. Only I'll spell it differently..." I have a bad habit of overusing names that start with "la" or "de" without any cultural significance. Strider's last name used to be deRebel. Whoo, how obvious is that?
But really, for being one of the main characters, I still don't know hardly anything about him. Oh, but I did forget to mention that he's deathly afraid of the female Ansel cousins. They call him "Sir Jericho" and follow him around in a giggling herd whenever he visits. OH and I forgot...Okay, I'll just have to add some stuff to his profile. I was half asleep when I wrote this.
I'm half-asleep now, but what the hell.
Aaaanywho~ I'm relieved to know that you like him! I was worried he'd come across as flat and underdeveloped. >>
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:22 pm
Well, actually, it's quite rare to encounter a character who's naturally cheerful; usually under the icy frosting of cheerfulness there lies ...
A DEEP AND DARK BROODING INTERIOR OF DOOM!
*cough*
Sorry, Pinafore rehearsal fried my brain today.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:06 pm
Lapene reminds me of the French word for rabbit... was this intentional?
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:51 pm
Wow, one of your characters is actually an optimist.
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:38 pm
Kita-Ysabell Lapene reminds me of the French word for rabbit... was this intentional?
That, and it was on a road sign. Lapean's Auto Parts or something. And I habitually take last names from road signs--Halluez from Alluez Antiques, Ohmeda from...I think it was a mashed-potato factory, la Blank from a sign for the Blank Park Zoo in Iowa, that sort of thing.
And I don't really know much French. At all. sweatdrop
@ Charlie: What, Yinda is an optimist! Isn't she?
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:54 pm
I don't either. I think I might have learned that from reading Watership down... that, or having my friend yammer at me in French I could only partly understand, and that was from Latin roots and whatnot. (No, I don't know Latin, either)
I don't actually know what the French word for rabbit is. Lapain, I think... maybe... sweatdrop Someone correct me, please.
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:52 am
Yinda's an optimist, but she's also... flakey. rolleyes
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:22 am
I think that this character is rather interesting. You have him well thought out, includng his place of origin (I usually don't bother with that). So I am impressed so far, this Yinda character sounds kind of interesting as well. I can't wait to meet all your characters. So this is one. Jericho. biggrin I'll keep myself posted.
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:58 am
All of Raincrow's characters are interesting! *wuffles the Raincrow*
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:33 am
Rabbit is lapin. 3nodding
Lapain, if separated into two words, la pain, would be an incorrect way to say "the bread."
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:03 am
Jericho the Bread. That's the best title ever. Instead of "the Conqueror" or "the Magnificent," he's "the Bread."
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:00 pm
But you see, it's technically le pain. If you say la pain, you inadvertantly feminize the bread, because bread is masculine and therefore requires a "le."
So it's actually more like Jericho the Feminine Bread.
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:06 pm
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