jordandroid: “…the second main protagonist of my novel is an eleven year old girl named Ahlam (which is Arabic for dream). Whilst the events of the novel are told from another perspective, Ahlam is really the key, the main event.
She’s scrawny and wears a faded and incorrectly buttoned pale-blue school blouse, a dirty knee length skirt, and plimsolls. She carries around an extremely faded shopping bag for a UK supermarket chain called ‘TESCO’, and it’s full of water rations in tetrapak cartons. She has a lot of difficulty carrying it around. I imagine it’d be a prop or something in your artwork?
In my novel people have created underground communities after the sun has begun to turn into a Red Dwarf, and so she’s called a ’shelter-dweller’ – a name for the younger community members, who have never seen the sun. She has dank blue-black hair and pallid white skin. Her eyes are one of her most important features, they’re a very rich brown, and they’re very shiny because she has a problem with light sensitivity. Also, because of water rationing, she looks incredibly unkempt. It’s hot and dank down in the shelter catacombs so she’s pretty filthy. Her legs are covered with bruises and grime, her fingernails are thick with dirt, her hair is greasy. She looks unusual, and probably pretty disgusting.
I guess personality wise, she’s strange too. Mature past her age, disparaging of life in the shelter, and quite bitter about her status as a shelter-dweller rather than a sun-seer. “
Yes I’m still a day behind shut up you’re not my mom. (Except you. Hi, Mom.)
Mom
Great interpretation! No worry, I didn’t even notice that you were a day behind!
Jo
This is GORGEOUS. Perfectly represented. Thank you so much!
Jessica
Love it! I love how you even got it right down to the poorly buttoned shirt, lmao.
roomie
I still like her hair.
faeriegrrl
I really like this character, she looks almost supernatural!