Character Profile #1
Feb. 19th, 2013 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writer_melTaken from Melinda Duval's notebook.
They were young, healthy good looking men. Clear skin and bright eyes highlighted regular features. Both wore their hair in short dreadlocks pulled back from their faces. In the current mode, their clothes were oversized and elaborately colored. Belts cinched their shorts not over their waists but halfway down their hips, boxers as much a part of the ensemble as the crisply clean running shoes. One wore an elaborate death's head belt buckle seemingly carved from bone. The other wore a T-shirt graphically depicting a dead Rap performer.
They took up more room than their slender frames required. Not because they sprawled in the cheap plastic seats, although they did that, but because they carried in them so much life. All that vitality barely contained by the oppressive setting of a police station waiting room. No matter the reason for their presence, the young men radiated liveliness impossible to ignore.
Easy to dismiss them as arrogant or ignorant, they are life fighting to find its place.
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They were young, healthy good looking men. Clear skin and bright eyes highlighted regular features. Both wore their hair in short dreadlocks pulled back from their faces. In the current mode, their clothes were oversized and elaborately colored. Belts cinched their shorts not over their waists but halfway down their hips, boxers as much a part of the ensemble as the crisply clean running shoes. One wore an elaborate death's head belt buckle seemingly carved from bone. The other wore a T-shirt graphically depicting a dead Rap performer.
They took up more room than their slender frames required. Not because they sprawled in the cheap plastic seats, although they did that, but because they carried in them so much life. All that vitality barely contained by the oppressive setting of a police station waiting room. No matter the reason for their presence, the young men radiated liveliness impossible to ignore.
Easy to dismiss them as arrogant or ignorant, they are life fighting to find its place.
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