Post by ♫ e s h e ♪ on Sept 30, 2009 19:49:55 GMT -8
TO HEARTEN US
~ Singer of songs and collector of smiles ~
Number/Name:
26/Jude
Number Placement:
In the very center of his lower back. His original number was ripped off and later re-drawn onto his back by his daughter.
Gender:
Male
Years since Creation:
Frankly... he doesn't keep track. ;;
Date of Creation:
May 16th
Alignment:
Savior. He's chosen to live within the Cathedral mainly due to the defense that exists there. He wants to keep his two lovely ladies safe.
Height:
6.5 inches
Fabric:
A grayish-blue polyester. For patches he uses whatever material he can find - from leather to felt. The orange scarf he wears around his face and neck is cotton.
Metal:
His hands and feet are composed of copper, with plastic rims around his fingers like guitar pics. Connecting metals for the wrists and feet are iron. This makes the weight of his framing alternate, resembling in FANTASTIC clumsiness.
Anomalies:
26 sometimes has a hard time holding onto things (especially fabric) due to the plastic on his fingertips. This especially becomes troublesome when he's stitching up a patch, or climbing a thread. In fright, he'll tuck his hands against his chest and use his feet for leverage, not wanting to push off something with his fingers and end up stumbling. When danger arises he tends to hide rather than run away, fearing that if he should try to climb in a hurried manner that he would slip and fall into the jaws of the pursuing beast.
Accessories:
On his back, 26 carries a little hand-made “harp.” It’s more of a rectangular hunk of wood with broken guitar strings, rubber bands, and fishing wire strung on the top, but it holds a tune quite nicely. It’s almost as big as he is (about 5 and a half inches) and since he carries it slung across his back it tends to slow him down and bang against objects when he’s trying to hide. Of course he’d never give it up – it’s his most valuable possession – even though it tends to make him less agile and quick.
He also wears an orange scarf over his neck and mouth (taken from a dress’s torn fabric bow) which protects his face from rogue rubber bands that tend to snap when tightened too much.
Abilities:
Playing music on his harp, his plastic fingertips create gentle plucks and pulls across the strings. He can also sing very well, his voice is strong and gentle and sounds like raindrops hitting the delicate fronds of spring crocuses; even when talking his speech is poetic and melodious.
Weapon(s):
26 doesn’t have a real weapon. He’s more of a peaceful, gentle creature who counts clouds and collects raindrops. When he’s in danger, he’ll use whatever he can find (stones, knives, thumbtacks, etc.) to ward off the threat, but he’ll discard whatever he uses afterward seeing no use in an object whose prime purpose is to inflict pain in others. He prefers hiding to fighting.
Appearance:
Personality:
26 is, in short, a cheerful little striped stitchpunk. He has the semblance of someone whose knowledge is built upon many years, however acts young and carefree despite that. He understands the value of each little moment (a minute of anger is worth 60 seconds of happiness) and is deeply hurt when he meets another who is unable to see the beauty of life. Thus, he spends his days attempting to bring joy to the joyless, and music to the hopeless.
Due to his one-track mind, 26 tends to forget that there is - most certainly - a larger picture. He tends to forget those he doesn't interacted with daily, and only remembers their existence upon meeting up with them once more. He has his head in the clouds, and his heart in the sky.
26 tends to get bitter and slightly exasperated when confronted with his past mistakes. This is mainly due to the fact that part of his soul was left behind during its transfer - the part that deals with grief. In times of emotional stress, he becomes so wrought with sentiments that it actually puts a sort of strain on his soul.
There are two souls that inspire the music within 26, and that is his lovely beloved 36 and his little daughter Ella. As far as his disabled emotional range goes, his two lovely ladies are the two things that always restore happiness to him; no matter how bad things get.
He admires 36's grace and similar outlook on the world. Her innocence and ability to weave her delicate dancing to his music makes them forever intertwined; lovestruck in movement.
Other Information/History:
The entire foundation for 26's outlook on life is an event that occurred in the final hours of his human life. He had a fiancé in his past life who was his WHOLE world. But due to the war that had been becoming increasingly brutal, he found their home suddenly caught in the crossfire. He got to watch an enemy soldier blow the brains out of his past lover... who had been carrying his child at the time.
This is why 26 is constantly on the move - always singing and thinking up new verses and strings to pluck - is because he used to be haunted by the memory quite often. Upon falling in love with 36 and having his daughter, however, the memory has eased and so has the pain. 26 has calmed down quite a bit, but will never lose his utter fascination and awe with the wondrous things around him.
He'll play for you if you ask him to~
Voice Actor is Jim Sturgess[/center]