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Physical Appearance Meme
Mar. 8th, 2012 02:25 amTypical outfit, or sense of style: Jacket (black leather), T-shirts or sweatshirts (typically black and usually with a sarcastic slogan on them), jeans (blue or black) and sneakers (black). Often borrows other clothes from his brother Niko. He does have a pair of dress shoes (black), but he dislikes wearing them; the soles are too slippery.
The emphasis on black clothes has nothing to do with Cal being emo and everything to do with concealing dirt, mud and blood.
Height: He's around 6'2" or 6'3". (His brother is about six feet; Cal is a couple of inches taller.)
Hair color: Black and, to quote his canon, "ruler-straight." Normally, he wears his hair pulled back in a ponytail, but he recently got his hair cut, so it's fairly short.
Eye color: Gray.
Body type: Average build, with a tendency to be lean and sinewy rather than muscular.
Face: Ordinary nose, pale lips, pale skin. Attractive but not handsome.
The rest: VERY healthy. He's been sick once in his life, and it took a person who was a walking plague to cause that illness.
Tattoos, piercings, scars, birthmarks, amputations, etc.: LOTS of scars. Scars from puncture wounds on his right arm and his neck; a purple ridge of scar tissue on his stomach from a knife wound; a scar from a bullet wound on one side of his chest; and a fist-sized hollow on the other side of his chest where a monster took a bite out of him. He has a tattoo around his upper left arm, a band of red and black with the words "Fratres in Armis." (It looks something like this: http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss203/CKing1/ScriptTat.jpg)
Typical expressions and/or gestures: Cal typically looks sarcastic. Whether he's giving you a "you HAVE to be kidding" look or a sardonic grin depends on the situation. If someone he cares about is on the line, however, he will turn serious in a hurry.
Posture and movement: Given his choice and the opportunity, he'll slouch and slump.
Voice: A solid, firm tenor. His voice tends to escalate a bit when he gets scared, which annoys him.
Hygiene routine, if any: Showers or bathes (depending on what's available) and washes his hair. Prefers flavored toothpaste to his brother's health-and-environment-conscious variety. Will wear Robin Goodfellow's cologne (which conceals his normal smell) under protest.
Smell: From page 155 of Roadkill:
"...sorry to say it about Cal, but he smelled of murder in the shadows. It wasn’t his fault. I imagined he’d suffered more than I could imagine from being what he was, suffered from prejudice, suffered from instinct, suffered by knowing he had been created to be nothing but a living weapon. I felt bad for him, I did … but he still smelled like he smelled: Auphe—unkillable monster; five times worse than a demon from Hell. Granted, most couldn’t smell him, but Wolves could."
The smell is the tip-off. Baseline humans cannot smell that, according to Cal's canon. If your character can smell it, then your character most likely knows--WOULD know, if this were Cal's world--that Cal is not human. (Which isn't a secret. Cal will tell you that he's half-human, half-monster, and all attitude.)
Any physical insecurities: Aside from the Auphe? Well, he HATES mirrors. He's also not overly fond of clowns.
The emphasis on black clothes has nothing to do with Cal being emo and everything to do with concealing dirt, mud and blood.
Height: He's around 6'2" or 6'3". (His brother is about six feet; Cal is a couple of inches taller.)
Hair color: Black and, to quote his canon, "ruler-straight." Normally, he wears his hair pulled back in a ponytail, but he recently got his hair cut, so it's fairly short.
Eye color: Gray.
Body type: Average build, with a tendency to be lean and sinewy rather than muscular.
Face: Ordinary nose, pale lips, pale skin. Attractive but not handsome.
The rest: VERY healthy. He's been sick once in his life, and it took a person who was a walking plague to cause that illness.
Tattoos, piercings, scars, birthmarks, amputations, etc.: LOTS of scars. Scars from puncture wounds on his right arm and his neck; a purple ridge of scar tissue on his stomach from a knife wound; a scar from a bullet wound on one side of his chest; and a fist-sized hollow on the other side of his chest where a monster took a bite out of him. He has a tattoo around his upper left arm, a band of red and black with the words "Fratres in Armis." (It looks something like this: http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss203/CKing1/ScriptTat.jpg)
Typical expressions and/or gestures: Cal typically looks sarcastic. Whether he's giving you a "you HAVE to be kidding" look or a sardonic grin depends on the situation. If someone he cares about is on the line, however, he will turn serious in a hurry.
Posture and movement: Given his choice and the opportunity, he'll slouch and slump.
Voice: A solid, firm tenor. His voice tends to escalate a bit when he gets scared, which annoys him.
Hygiene routine, if any: Showers or bathes (depending on what's available) and washes his hair. Prefers flavored toothpaste to his brother's health-and-environment-conscious variety. Will wear Robin Goodfellow's cologne (which conceals his normal smell) under protest.
Smell: From page 155 of Roadkill:
"...sorry to say it about Cal, but he smelled of murder in the shadows. It wasn’t his fault. I imagined he’d suffered more than I could imagine from being what he was, suffered from prejudice, suffered from instinct, suffered by knowing he had been created to be nothing but a living weapon. I felt bad for him, I did … but he still smelled like he smelled: Auphe—unkillable monster; five times worse than a demon from Hell. Granted, most couldn’t smell him, but Wolves could."
The smell is the tip-off. Baseline humans cannot smell that, according to Cal's canon. If your character can smell it, then your character most likely knows--WOULD know, if this were Cal's world--that Cal is not human. (Which isn't a secret. Cal will tell you that he's half-human, half-monster, and all attitude.)
Any physical insecurities: Aside from the Auphe? Well, he HATES mirrors. He's also not overly fond of clowns.
