Adopt a Character!

"A child born with pointed ears. S/he can hear the voices of supernatural creatures. Terrified parents/guardians chop the ends off her/his ears to hide the abnormality. But despite this disfigurement, the child can still hear otherworldly voices, mangled, but there..."

Can I adopt this, please? If I tweak it a little?

Character I made up for fun, but couldn't really place. Free to a good home!

Maisy-Li Fitzpatrick

Physical Appearance: Maisy-Li is half Irish half Chinese. Her eyes are ice blue and slanted; she has creamy white skin and freckles. She has wildly curly strawberry blonde hair that falls halfway down her back. She is short and thin with a heart shaped face with mainly Asian features and a nose that doesn’t quite fit. She is very pretty in her own way.

Personality: Maisy’s immigrant parents joined the Peace Corps before she was born. Until she was twelve Maisy spent most of her time in foreign countries with adults that didn’t even speak her language. As a result she is one of the most out going people on the face of the earth. She is never intimidated and can appear disrespectful in her friendliness towards authority.

She is amazingly cheerful and can find something to like in nearly any one. She has a passion for open air but doesn’t like wild life. She loves mountains and deserts and is an amazing rock climber. She is also very good with foreign languages. Maisy loves art. She is a neat freak and only owns things that are black, white, green, grey, or blue. She can never be seen without a lollypop in her mouth, but otherwise eats remarkably healthfully. She’s a vegetarian.

In my original plan she was a misfit new CIA agent. Her abilities with languages, fitting in in foreign countries, and her ability to scale skyscrapers from the outside made her an ideal candidate as a spy but she never fit in with the other hard-boiled agents.

Lily Tuck
13
Black hair yellow eyes
Punk rocker chick with anger issues and serious fighting issues. Also major sour (lemon. Shockers. Toxic Waste ect.) and soda addictiction.

Don't need so abandon. Feel free todo what you want.

So I love this character Carl that I have created but I don't have a large enough part for him in what I am planning on writing!

Carl would do very well in a story that is based in a city, as he was born and raised in one of the poorest sections of Boston, Jamaica Plain. Although he is small and frial looking, he is rather strong. He has a great attitude, loves to listen to music, and books on tape since he isn't great at reading. His hair is is starting to grey around the sides.

I love Carl very much and because of the great love that I have for Carl I can't find it in my heart to make him a very small part! I am putting him up for adoption to a good story that will care for him and allow him to grow and expand!

I have a character named Amethyst

She's a great fit for fantasy and I don't have any clue how to use her anytime soon. She is a wander from young. Every time I "see" her, she's more or less on her own. She's a very unique woman, passive by nature, but has a self defense quality that makes her difficult to contain. When needed, she can turn her body into purple water droplets and moves through the air as such, until she draws herself back together. It's gotten her out of a lot of difficult situations. As a child it was a reflex that went uncontrolled as an adult, she uses it as she sees the need and that is rare. For good reason, most don't know she's able to do that with her body/mind.

She has a gentle way of getting under your skin and she makes the people around her softer somehow. It's hard to explain but she's wonderful. She's mild-tempered, gentle to nature and loves positive actions. She will share everything she has, if one needs it. She'll always know that there are more important things than the physical. A spiritualist of sorts, but not really guided beyond the natural motions of the planet around her.

Anyway, obviously she's gotten under my skin. I love her personality and I can find places for it to fit, but not for her to fit. If that makes sense.

This thing won't let me quote for some reason, so i'll just copy and paste the one I'm borrowing.

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A child born with pointed ears. S/he can hear the voices of supernatural creatures. Terrified parents/guardians chop the ends off her/his ears to hide the abnormality. But despite this disfigurement, the child can still hear otherworldly voices, mangled, but there...

I don't know if I'll use it this year or not, but it just sounds so cool.
Um, is it ok if I hide their ears instead of having them chopped off?

A child born with pointed ears. S/he can hear the voices of supernatural creatures. Terrified parents/guardians chop the ends off her/his ears to hide the abnormality. But despite this disfigurement, the child can still hear otherworldly voices, mangled, but there...

This actually will fit right in with my horror novel this year. Taken.

Leaving - A pixie-like waif of a woman, Dawn Hanselle barely stands above 5 feet and a hundred pounds soaking wet. She has green eyes and a shock of short nearly white-blonde hair, and is 20 years old, attending college to get her degree in psychology and then go on to become a therapist. However, she also enjoys a good time on the beach and taking photos or videos of people and is the life of a party. Never a sloppy drunk or too loud, she simply brings fun to everyone who spends time with her.

The old wiseman/conman one is fantastic! I don't know if I'm going to use it yet, but I'm saving it just in case :)

I'll leave one (I may use her too but she's shareable):
A 20-30 something year old albino girl, who dresses like a porcelain doll and acts like a child.

The con man sounds like an awesome character, I think I might use him for my novel.

Number one could be a great idea for a Japanese horror style novel. The idea of the man having lived his life honorably. Maybe he was protecting his lord (or if in modern times anyone he feels loyal to). The lord dies, but because he had been the lords favorite his companions he was left in the shallow grave. (This could be a set-up over money, corporate espionage or anything of that nature) The idea of the body being drug up and eaten, before the 80 days it's suppose to take to get to the afterlife, would create a situation where his spirit would remain. Then during the season of O-bon (like halloween) he has 3 days to get revenge.

Can I take number one? He won't be a man (well, he's male, but not a human), but that idea is just perfect!

4. is utterly amazing - thank you!!! This and watching The Three Musketeers earlier have helped spawn my plot idea :)
(I will post my ideas to the main article rather than this one to make it more organised).

I'd like to adopt number 1 for the possible back story of the ship in my sci-fi novel. This is such a great thread!

"A man deserving more than he receives at his death. He lives nobly and dies even more nobly, only to be robbed of his possessions and hastily rolled into a shallow, unmarked grave by the companions he has saved. He is later dug up some starving carrion eater, savaged, and eaten."

Can I adopt this person, please? He fits what I need for a motive for the antagonist.

probably gonna end up using 4, the Wise Old Mentor. Sounds hilarious but I'm not sure if I'll get around to writing any letters

4) is awesome! Doesn't fit for this year's Nano, but I am so going to file him away for later use. Thanks!

I would love to use 2

2)
A pair of historical lovers, whose story has been told and retold, mythologized, bowdlerized, watered down for safe consumption, rediscovered, and celebrated in all its vibrant originality.
I'm New to NaNo....I love this, great start for a plot idea too :)

I love 3 and 4 but can I tweak them a bit for my fantasy novel? I love them and connected as soon as I read.

I think I will use the Wise Old mentor. I have an Order of monks. He becomes the head of the Order by an elaborate con. He then uses his power to try and oust some local witches.

I'd like to borrow this character for an idea I just recently had.
She'd be one of the MCs. The story is a romance, following a young woman called Nina who deals with misanthropy and encounters her love interest, an asexual but biromantic woman. Are you okay with that?

Swiping! She sounds like the perfect character to find a magical tome and play around with it.

I have put Mara into my list of possible characters! I'm not sure what I'm doing quite yet, but I'll let you know if I use her in the end! Thanks!

I may steal Mara.
I'm sure my gang would love to try to drag her along on a random adventure.

I may have a place for her, but we'll see. (My plot is lacking an MC, and for all that I don't know anything about my MC, I do know a lot about what he/she can't be like.)

I'd like to adopt Mara Stone, with a slight tweak- I'd need her to be around 14. Not really sure what her full part is yet, but hey.

This fits very well to this one character I've tryed to figure out for a while. Physically I imagined her just the way you described, so this must be destiny, or something like that ^_^

Though she's dead the whole story BUT she's the key to saving the MC, so basicly she's the most important thing in the whole story :)) If I could use her, please :P

*choke* That sounds like me! Except for the appearance part. -.-

Using her as my last minute MC. I have not planned or anything, so wish me luck.... thank you :3

Using her as my MC's love interest! Thanks. I'll let you know if it works out :p

I think I might have to borrow Mara (with minor changes). She sounds like a very intriguing character. :)

oh oh oh i like her!! hahaha she seems a lot like me though and i thinks its odd i might just borrow the name and edit the bio. that cool with you?

I'm going to use Mara but tweak her and rename her Zinnia. (I'll NaNoMail)

I would like to use this character. She is wonderful. I am writing a fantasy novel about a coven of witches. It has been hard to come up with 12 women. She sounds like she would be a great fit. She would be the one who read all about magic and thinks she knows what to do. But, when it comes to actually using it...that is another matter. Thanks so much for the idea!

torasaurus_rex wrote:
Mara Stone
Age 16-20
She's a pretty girl- long dark hark, gray eyes, pointed face, warm smile.
She relates better to books than real life, because she learned that books will never let her down, but people can. Her best friend betrayed her once, and ever since then she always spent more time with books than real people. She's not totally friendless, she has a book club that she meets with and she's very close to them.
She's shy, but incredibly outgoing once you meet her, bubbly personality and all that. She would be perfect as a college student wanting to be a librarian or an actual librarian.

Please let me know what you do with her through NaNoMail or something

Oh, going to claim all five--I've got a supervillain, and he needs some coworkers/friends/potentially a roommate :D

I like Laura May Allison a lot, going to see if I can fit her in!

I like Laura also! Unfortunately I think I could only give her a small part. Still... we'll see.

Def going to take Laura. She is perfect for the part I have in mind. (why do I feel like central casting suddenly? lol)

I think I may use Laura as my antagonist. I will need to change her some cus my story is set in a more medieval type time.

There just may be a need for Betty in my novel. Thanks!

I might use Laura, only she works at a coffeehouse. I'm writing a rather peculiar story which requires a new cast of characters about every 10,000 word. I never realized it would be hard to come up with so many. Thanks.

I really like Laura too, adopting her with a different name and tweaking her a little.

Herman Dodd deserves a place in my NaNo.

Leaving: Susanne Dempsey--mother of four; married three times, each time climbing higher up the income scale. During her third loveless marriage, she meets a younger man who is penniless but who proves to her what she had long ago figured out--that money doesn't buy happiness.

Rory Ebony has found a home, may even get his on book if behave well!

Thank you for the spam mail idea! Now I can finally do something useful with all of these random messages I keep getting. :D

The spam mail idea is genius - Thanks!!

Taking Felecia, thanks!

Rory would be perfect for a small part I had an opening in my plot for. Just the skeleton will survive the changing of hands to me thou.

I, too, plan to use Rory. I'd already planned on doing a vampire next door thing for my folks to investigate. Rory's pretty perfect. They can even put him and the old lady in touch with one another. ^^

Another trick is to get a Baby Names book from the library, perferably copyrighted in the years you're writing from.. this is especially important if you're writing something historical.
Pen.

Kidnapping Herman, thanks!
Hrrrmmmm, I may have just found a subplot for my NaNo...

I like Felicia. She has a place in one of the 2 stories i'm considering for NaNoWriMo. Cheers :)

I absolutely love Herman! He will definitely have a significant impact on my MC, thank you!!

ooh I like Felecia a lot actually! Won't work for the novel I'm working on though..MIGHT use her for something else....*puts her back on the shelf for now*

Rory is showing his plot bunny side to me. I shall mush him as a best friend of my vampire! >DD

Taking and tweaking Rory :) thanks!

Totally stealing Rory - thanks!

Oh my God, your characters are genius! I don't know where i'm going to put them, or even if i'll use them, but i'm snagging all three...

I'll adopt Clea and Fawn Branson. They'd fit in well with my story this year, since my main female character has prosthetic legs due to her automobile accident. Maybe Clea can meet her in rehabilitation or something?

I'll take Penny and Ivy Harris along with Matthias McLeod. Although, I may tweak his name a little and make him bisexual. Thanks for leaving them. =D

Quote:NOTE: The truth about Minnie and Mari is that they're not twins, but clones.

Ooh, I like the Bransons. And I have a character in need of staff workers. They'd make a nice pair of volunteers, I think.

Oh, Choi Wong is PERFECT for a character I've been struggling to place! I may tweak his first name a bit and age him up a year, but altogether... just yes. PERFECT!

I'll adopt Minnie and Mari, I'll make a place for them in my NaNo.

I think I will take Cedric. I think he'll fit in just fine and I think I have a perfect fit in the story.

I love Choi and Minette and I needed personality like theres! I am probably going to have Minette's twin die during childbirth or soon after it though.

i really love all your ideas! they fit perfectly with my stle of writing! I'm thinking Penelope Harris mixed with Clea Bronsan could potentially make a really interesting character! What do you think?

I like Cedric. He will be a misfit who later on in the story has to face his fear of snakes.

I think I'll adopt Penny and Ivy, although Ivy won't be that big of a part. I think Penny will fit in pretty well with my run away adventure, if it means that she'll get away from her parents.

And I may steal Matthias, but I'll bump him down a year and maybe change his name to something that I'll remember much easier.

Stealing Cedric! That little red head! He'll have a cozy place in my novel.

I'm adopting Penny, Matthias and Chloe. Their names might get changed, but I love the idea of them.

I'll take Penny, Ivy, Minnie and Mari. : )

I might use Choi and Fawn (tweak Fawn's age a little if that's ok). I'm going to be needing a lot of characters for this novel

Adopting Minnie and Mari with a few changes, if that's ok. Slightly older, with a different last name, and they'll fit perfectly into my story this year.

Might take the twins and Cedric, maybe combine them or something. I'll see, but thanks :D

I'm stealing Clea Branson. I will need to make some changes to fit her into my world.

Good ones! Since I'm writing with the backdrop of a boarding school for my sci-fi Nano, I just may use them all in some capacity! Thanks! :0) Pen.

Adopting Fawn, thanks! My MC may end up as a writer, so Fawn fits perfectly.

Adopting mari and minnie and editing and expanding their characters...
thanks a lot

Penny will fit nicely. I'm going to add her to my notes, but probably older. She will either be college or grad-school aged. And a side character.

I'm going to take Felix and change him/her? a little bit. Thanks!

I think I will adopt Fawn Branson! She fits in my plot as the mc's boss perfectly! Thanks :)

I'll adopt Minne, Choi, and Felix. I'm trying to populate a boarding school, so I may slightly tweak their "majors" to areas of interest. Thank you for creating them!

Stealing the tattoo bit from cedric - if you don't mind?

Muffin Fist? That's wonderful, I love him! Can I have him? One of my MCs may just be getting a kitty....I don't really care for most of the others though...heheheh, you know someone's a cat lover when they ignore a long list of human characters and immediately pick out the one cat.

taking all (at least in part! they will have a great home in my story) and leaving---

these guys are mostly stereotypical high school personalities who became friends when they all moved into the same appartment building and were on the same floor

jack- a loner type guy who seems to attract friends though he dosent want them (black hair green eyes 17)

sophie- a sweet little 7yr old girl jacks little sister (blond hair blue eyes) who scares a lot of people with how demanding she is. she somehow stays with him even though both their parents are alive...

alex- intellectual the kind of girl that spends her nights in a book not at a party (brown hair and eyes 17)

Marc- party boy who has lots of fighting issues (shaggy blond hair and almost black eyes 19)

Kate-pyro and proud. could blow up the world if she wanted (boy shourt mouse brown hair and green eyes 18)

Erin- the mover she cant sit still and is always on the go wakes up super early goes to bed late. drinks lots of coffee (ginger hair light green eyes 19)

Johnathan - the drama geek!!! always over dramatizes everything even just walking can be dramatic to him (hair color changes as his character dose blue eyes 17)

Luke-sporty dude always has girls swarming him he is SUPER coincided (red hair and green eyes18)

annabell-marc's girlfriend shes just like him personality wise (Romona flowers hair and brown eyes 17)

mira-kind out there actually very out there very ditsy (silvery blond hair and blue hair 18)

junebug (june)- is a naturalist, vegan, all into the GREEN WORLD (black hair and brown eyes 17)

Hmm...they might fit into my story pretty well. I think I'll adopt them.

adopting the concept because it fits so well into my narrative - thank you!

My son and his brother are like this, though not born as twins of the same mother, they were born within three minutes of each other on two different continents. It is eerie how they sense and know one another's pain, joy, etc.

This may fit my novel- not sure though. I'll have to work out some kinks before I can fully tell. So possibly adopting :D

Hmm...I do believe #2 could be very useful for me. I believe I'll adopt him.

Ah! I love #2. He's the perfect fit for my story. I've been needing an adventurer like him!! I do believe he has found a cozy, conspiracy-filled home. ^_^

when his companions mention a seemingly unrelated [place/event/group of people] any jokes vanish in the wake of a violent rage.

I think I will use this. I will change it though so that he flies into a fit of giggles each time

I'll take 2 home as well - he's absolutely perfect! And he gets to save the world, little coward that he is xD

Grabbing #1. This will work really well, thanks

Could most defantly use 3 for my werewolf pack....

I won't adopt any but #1 gave me an idea for a whole new novel! Thank you!

Abbing will be given new life as one of the humans trapped within the Other Realm in my story this year! I definitely think he'll get along fabulously with all the nonhuman and human half breeds my story is populated with.

I could definitely make use of Guy. May tweak him a little and modernize him but he seems really interesting already. (:

I'll take these two under my wing. I might tweak them a little bit to fit the story. I can see how these two can work together.

Isidor Abbing would be a great addition to my story. I might do a little tweaking, though.

Can I take the appearence of Guy and put him in my Crusades Era novel?

Taking Both! These two are basically perfect for two members of my story!

Definitely taking Isidor if that's okay. An elderly, mechanical genius in a world where phyiscal strength and magic are the norm. I think my FMC has found a kindred spirit!

Thanks!

wiping pieces of Isidor's character, thanks so much!

I'll take Isidor...though I might change the name and species. The personality is just what I needed for a mentor/protag! Thanks! :0) Pen.

Isidor will make the perfect Long-Lost-Grandfather for my MC. Adopting, thanks!

Might have to adopt Guy as a small background character. He's too interesting to leave here.

Would you mind if I adopted Isidor's appearance? He's the perfect visual for one of my mentoring characters :)

Might be able to squeeze Isador in if I tweak him a little. I think what he needs is a little bit of spunk, a cane, and maybe a couple cats. :3

I think I'm going to adopt Guy maybe tweek him a little if thats ok? :)

Oh yes! She can come home with me! She'll fit right in with the other half bloods and faeries in my story! *Takes her by the hand and drags her off to meet the MC*

I have a place for her too! Her name will have to change though.

Huh...I may use her, with a few tweaks. Younger, definitely. It just ocurred to me to make all of my MC somehow secretly magical!

I will take her! With a bit of tweaking if thats okay. She would be the perfect first friend for my MC, only thing that i would change would be instead of actually being a changeling-fairy, she would think she was one and take things to drastic measures and end up in a mental facility.... if thats okay

i loooove her so imma going to take her ill change her up some if you want me too

Aw, I love him. My boyfriend is a fisherman and has his own little dingy and works on a sportfishing boat, and I've always wanted to write a character based off of his work/life. Totally taking him and tweaking him. :)

I have just the place for him, too. One of my major characters grew up in the Outer Hebrides, so he'll fit in perfectly.

OMG, OMGOMG. I might have to take this guy and his younger first mate. My two female FMCs were originally supposed to marry a king and the king's son, but it might have to be these guys instead.