FRUITSCLiPPER: “Theresa Lachance is a ghost now, though she doesn’t have puffs of smoke she is not corpral. She died at seventeen.
The first thing anyone would notice about Theresa while she was alive, and even more so now that she is a ghost, is that her eyes are very large, and an extremely vivid bright green color. Her hair falls straight to her hips, with blunt bangs that cover her forehead and eyebrows. Her cheeks are a bit concave (she is very thin), and her lips are small. She is also extremely pale.
She was a catholic shool student, and she still wears the uniform she died in, which consists of a tan and brown plaid, pleated skirt, a white button up short-sleeve blouse, with a navy blue vest over it. She wears brown shoes and knee-high white socks. Her clothing is wrinkled and torn in some places, however, from the fight she put up with her murderer before she died. She also has a small, silver cross button on her chest that all the students wore.
She is very thin, especially in her legs which have almost no meat in them; she has the body of someone who is mildly anorexic because she never was allowed to eat at home. She was very obviously abused while she was alive, and has several bruises on her arms and legs which show up even moreso now. That’s nothing, however, to the marks on her neck, the ones which led to her death. She was strangled, and the marks are extremely dark blue and brown and hard for anyone to look at for too long.
Theresa is vengeful, but she’s also very, very sad. When she’s visible to others, she usually either has her fists clenched angrilly, or she is trying to pull down her skirt (she was sexually abused, as well). She is almost always crying unless she is made even angrier than usual.”
I actually went back and forth for a while over whether to do this one at all, as she’s such a dark, abused character, but in the end, the description was just too striking not to draw.
Do you know how HARD it is to make somebody look sad or angry without visible eyebrows? A lot of expression can be read with only eyes and eyebrows, but without them, man, it’s a struggle. Or maybe I just need to learn how.