In a way, you sort of wouldn't believe how hard it is -- i'm now realizing myself also -- to randomly choose a picture of a person you think your character might be similar to. The lead character, for example, who has still never revealed her first name, seems pretty smart to me, so it's kind of hard for me to imagine her as this "super sexy" girl, but at the same time, I always have to remind myself that some super sexy girls are incredibly smart, well-written, and well-read, so I could make her very beautiful if i want, without it seeming "not real".
As far as Franny is concerned, she has been painted as a real good looking girl for sure, and shes' not very smart and of course works at Hooters, but at the same time I can't quite tell just how "thug" or "ghetto" her style may or may not really be. The truth about a lot of white girls I knew who grew up in inner city areas was that, believe it or not, they didn't really dress like "ghetto girls". Usually, in fact, they just dressed like any "regular" white girl from the deep suburbs. Kim, for example, my ex, went to a 90% minority high school, but usually just wore Aeropostale outfits from TJ Maxx. I kind of imagine Franny is something like this, but she listens to way more rap music than Kim ever did, so I think she has a bit of a thug twist. She's also been described as having some tattoos. (KIm only had one on her ass).
I don't know. Let's see what you think!
Franny McAllister...birthplace: Trinity... Occupation: Hooter's Waitress....Favorite song: Trina--Da Baddest Bytch... Kids: 3.... Baby Daddies: 3
So ya, as you can guess, this is Franny, and she does look pretty "thugged out" here, with her flashy gold necklace and her bandana. At the same time though, I feel this is sort of like a "weekend" thug act she has going on, so i felt it was pretty believable. She could take the bandana off, basically, and the chian too, and be right back to looking like a totally "normal" white girl, in 10 minutes, which is sort of the impression I keep getting from her. She rolls with the gangsta guys and shes been all around the hood, but as a white girl, she knows how to occasionally "code switch" when she has to, back into a "type" of whiteness, hence she has never gotten any tattoos in highly visible areas. Its also a big reason she didn't appear all that threatening to the stories lead character (even though she really might be rather threatening, in the end).
Margaret Snyder.... birthplace: Small mountain town, Vermont....Occupation: University Student...Favorite Song: Bright Eyes -- A Perfect Sonnet... Kids: No... Baby Daddies: Hardly ever even heard of them
You might think this is the unnamed lead. You'd be mistaken! This is actually her youngest sister, Margaret, who goes to university in Rhode Island, and is currently about to enter into the novel in full form, since she's coming to stay with the lead in the house in Trinity , for "just 14 days". The girl telling us the story is dreading Margaret's arrival, not necessarily because she doesn't like her sister (she sort of doesn't) but rather because she's been creating big time lies about how she's living with a black man at the house. She told the family via Skype, in one scene I wrote yesterday, that she had a boyfriend, but she didn't say he was living there (they wouldnt' have really approved, it seemed) and she also lied and implied he was white.According to the lead, "Race was never discussed, at all, in my house. I have no idea if my parents are racists or not. And I'm fucking mortified to find out."
Margaret is a pretty unknown character as it stands now. All we really know about her is she's in the university, she likes to read horror stories, and she's a little geeky. This picture, same as the others, was a bit hard to choose. She's a reader so I figured I'd make her look a bit "Parisian", hence that cool scarf and the cute glasses. In reality, she might be a bit uglier than this ... (lol) ...but again who knows? Maybe she's hot as hell! I've certainly watched plenty of videos on YouTube of extraordinarily hot girls commenting on dorky books I Never imagined such fine women reading...so.... hey, again, what do I know? This is Margaret. This is her!!!
Qualeek Redwell ... birthplace: Trinity....Occupation: Unknown....Favorite Song: Future- All da Smoke... Kids: "Dodged a bullet with my ex"....
Here he is. Mr. Controversial, I suppose. Qualeek. He's buff, he's big, he's tall, and he looks like he might know a thing or two about "thuggin'" with all his tattoos and his 'sagging pants' (so sexy). This is the unnamed leads boyfriend. This is the guy Franny has also slept with (and who knows, maybe he's actually one of her baby daddies too, and they're just lying). This is the guy Franny herself purposely hooked the lead up with. And of course, this is the black man that the lead is so terrified her parents will go crazy and flip out about. Seems so ridiculous when you just look at the picture don't it? Yet here it is possible, to craft an entire novel and story, out of essentially the core fact that he is black, and the girls are white. Boom. The drama of the past two centuries. Absurd....but all too real, eh? So there you have him. Qualeek. What is in store for him/ (I don't think we're gonna fuck with the poor fella too much. The Qualeeks of the world got enough problems in reality ...I'll let him off easy inside this book. He won't go to prison or anything like that. Promise! But he might knock up the lead. Lol. Or maybe MargareT!!!?? Shit, that didn't even occur to me until just now. I guess its totally possible Margaret could start fucking this dude lol. The little innocent bookworm sister! Now that would be a pretty sexy twist wouldn't it?
Unknown name...Birthplace: SMall mountain town, Vermont...Occupation: Unknown...Kids: "I never want any and I love birth control"
And here SHE finally is. You were waiting for her, huh? It's her! The unnamed lead. The girl who, so far, has been telling us (and me, most importantly) the entire bizarre story. Did you think she was gonna look like bad ass thuggin' Franny, the Hooter's Waitress? No way. Like, she's a sexy momma and all but she isn't thugging it, as I've explained. She knows she's hot (as you can see is evident in this picture, with that bomb flannel she got on, and her cleavage) but shes not a ghetto girl, just a Vermont chick who somehow made her way to Trinity.
There are some more characters of course, which I might add later, but none of them, as yet, are enormously important like the ones drawn up above. There is an ex from Qualeek, for example, and then there is also Franny's sister (still not sure she exists), not to mention all the leads other sisters (there are 2 more) plus her parents. Thats about the scope of it all though!
Oh wait, you know what? There is one more character I feel I should add. Someone you'd never expect. One second...lemme find a photo for the boy....
Uncle Bart ... birthplace: West Virginia...Occupation: American soldier (deceased age 95 years) ...Favorite Song: Perry Como -- Til the end of Time... Kids: ZERO.
Who is it! Why, it's Uncle Bart of course, the lead's Uncle Bart. He's not actually still living when the story begins, but his death is the whole reason the girl telling the tale wound up in (or around) Trinity in the first place. Uncle Bart was the beloved 95 year old uncle of the lead's father, he was a World War 2 veteran et cetera, and he lived in the house in Trinity for "a thousand years". When he died, he left it to the father. The father was going to rent it out and be a landlord, but then , due to something the girl did, (we dont know what) he decided to let her move in there, and try to start trying to find 'herself' , 'on her own' , 'away from her sisters' etcetc. Uncle Barts house is filled with all sorts of goodies and, in fact, when the character first moved in, she even thought it was haunted by his spirit. At one point she tells us "...sometimes I think he's watching, and since he was an old white man, how do I know he ain't fuckin enraged I'm sleeping with this big black man?"
Yea. There you have it folks. Thats the story, so far. Gosh, I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying writing about present day reality, rather than Lord of the Rings type shit. I swear I feel like I'm writing the plot for a Lifetime movie or something. Really weird. But cool!!!!
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