Subject: Yay! Piper's Child!
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Posted on: 2010-07-12 20:31:00 UTC
But how on Earth could he be part Asian? Unless... Did the Piper bring a lot of children to the House, not just the ones from the famous story? Still, half Asian from that period would be very rare.
(I'm not a PG, of course.)
Agents:
Name: Summerblaze (Summer)
Species: Human
Home Continuum: Valdemar
Department: Department of Mary-Sues
Background: The offspring of a Sue and a Darkwind!Possession-Stu, Summer was created with virtually no personality, and pretty much ignored except for sicky-sweet bits of fluff. The PPC interrupted the fic when she was about five years old, but not having any charges on her except for parentage, they took her back to the PPC Nursery (after a jaunt through the science center, where they attempted therapy to remove as much Glitter as possible). She was "adopted" by another Tayledras agent, and essentially grew up in the PPC HQ. Due to her parentage, she has a mild case of MSS, but not quite as bad as a full-blown Rehabilitated!Sue.
Skills: Mind-to-mind communication with her bondbird, mental shielding, (momentary) physical shielding, small fireballs
Weapons: Tayledras climbing pick; longbow
Appearance: Her parents may have been Suvians, but the author at least paid attention to genetics. Her hair is black (at certain times of the month it becomes "glossy, raven locks" and/or "onyx tresses") and waist-length; on missions, she generally ties it into a pony-tail or braid. Her skin is golden-brown, the laws of Narrative Comedy having been lenient for once, as even in canon the Tayledras are simply described as "golden-skinned." She is fairly tall and athletic, although without Suvian influences her figure is about as average as it gets. She is perfectly fine with this, and wouldn't have it any other way.
Name: James Ochre Yellow (Jamie, Oke)
Species: Human (Ex-Piper's Child)
Home Continuum: Keys to the Kingdoms (The Lower House)
Department: DoM-S
Background: A Piper's Child of unknown ancestry, Jaime was running from an Overseer after stealing a pair of wings when he fell into HQ. No one's really sure how; it was put down to a plothole. An accident with a Mage!Sue caused the wings (he'd worked /hard/ to steal those. He wasn't just gonna leave 'em in a closet) to attach themselves permanently to his back, which, while occasionally convenient, can also be incredibly annoying, as they have a mind of their own and tend to snap out at inopportune times. (The process of turning a magical construct into a pair of flesh-and-blood appendages was also excruciatingly painful.)
Skills: Flight
Weapons: Whatever heavy object is nearest; decent hand at just about everything, but not particularly good at any one thing.
Appearance: James is quite clearly of mixed blood. His longish hair is sandy brown and usually messy; occasionally he ties it into a stubby ponytail when it starts to get in the way. His eyes are medium brown, and his skin is tan; in short, his coloring is what one might expect of a European, but his build is more like the stereotypical Asian, and his almond-shaped eyes and nonexistent epicanthic fold only emphasize the look. He is a rather mature-looking fifteen, easily mistaken for a college student.
Writing sample:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1648576/ My page in the Pit, although it's mostly serious stuff, and since I haven't posted there in ages my writing style's changed. I'm working on a sample with these two, but I figure as of now, might as well post what I've got, eh?
First badfic: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6094334/1/TheLifeofRosannaHathaway_Potter I don't normally read this fandom, but it's such a god-awful frightfest that I couldn't resist. Warning: The whole thing is written in bold/italic. THE. WHOLE. THING.
But how on Earth could he be part Asian? Unless... Did the Piper bring a lot of children to the House, not just the ones from the famous story? Still, half Asian from that period would be very rare.
(I'm not a PG, of course.)
There was some Asian influence in Britain at some point. I just forget when it was ^.^; Also, he's not necessarily half Asian--Asian traits tend to be dominant in mixed-race offspring. (I didn't figure out an exact ratio.) Also, there is the throwback principle--
I'm rambling. I think I'll stop before I wind up giving a lecture on genetics. Ehehe ^.^ Sorry, it just interests me...
And given the number of Piper's Children in the House, I sort of assumed that he must have--after all, there were a lot in the Great Maze, not to mention the ones working in other parts of the house. I don't think the village of Hamelin had that many kids...
I forgot to put this in my original post...
What I was basically trying to imply was that he's mixed, and nobody really knows what his ancestry is (except his parents, and they're dust). I would have invoked some African traits, but I couldn't think of how to do that without getting way more stereotypical than I'd've liked to.
Also, I have no idea what time period the Piper's Children are actually supposed to be from, and since I've been assuming that they came through in multiple batches, it's entirely possible that he's from a time when Sino-European trade was going on, thus giving him an excuse to have an Asian mother and European father.