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Character Meme – Telesto
More with the catching up.
Everyone knows how this works yes? Also, I will happily do more of these should anyone request them. Still to come: Tybalt, Caelan, Rick, Dirk and Caliban ... I think that is all I currently have on the list (nudge me if you know of anyone I missed)
Tagged ages ago on Formspring and have actually had this complete for ages, I just never remember to post them. That said, lets get to it shall we?
“What am I? I don’t know anymore.”
I couldn’t comment on this one if I wanted to.
- Telesto’s favourite colour is red.
- It has probably been obvious by this point, however, it bears repeating, Tel is a little spoiled. Probably more so than Damon and Rein even.
- While he counts nearly everyone he has ever met among his friends, very few really know him. He is okay with this.
- He is much more intelligent than he likes to admit. Smart people tend to be less popular and above all he wants to be liked.
- In spite of being spoiled and generally well liked (tendency to get on others nerves aside) he has never felt like he fit in. It is a feeling, a sort of instinctive knowledge that even among other aliens he is not quite like them. He wouldn’t be able to tell you how or why, he wouldn’t even really be able to tell you he felt this way.
- His concept of personal space is extremely lacking. He tends to sit too close, stand too close and for those he is most comfortable with and who will allow it he is almost always in direct physical contact. (Imagine how much Ripp just hates being on the receiving end of this :P)
- As cocky as he is and for all his seeming confidence, he is easily hurt. He would never outright admit that is what he is feeling rather he responds to those hurts with anger and sarcasm (as seen in 5.1).
- Related to 7; the attitude and air of confidence is totally a front. He is just as insecure as anyone else. Possibly more so at times.
- He is frequently impulsive … to the point of stupidity. As much as the rest of this list might make it sound like he is more aware of his motivations and emotions than the average person, he isn’t. Once he gets an idea in his head he will purse it to its outcome with no further thought than the outcome and without ever stopping to consider what his true motivations are. In fact, if he does stop to think it often leads to anxiety and self-doubt (seen while talking to Juliette in 4.1), conditions he would rather avoid at all costs. He knows what he is feeling at the time and that is the ‘truth’ of the situation for him.
- This list would not be complete without some mention of Ripp, which is really difficult to do at this point, but: Ripp surprised him. On every level so far Ripp has surprised him; from the moment he first realized there was an attraction there on. Yet, in true Telesto fashion he has chosen to go with it and ‘to hell with the consequences’.
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This is in fact. how I thought of his personality. He had to be faking it with Ripp when he was acting all confident and in-charge: but maybe he also understands that Ripp kind of needs that from him right now.
When they grow up, though, that's not what Ripp will need anymore.
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I'm glad I had managed to portray his personality without coming right out and putting it in point form like I did here. I am doing better at characterization than I thought.
I don't know yet if he is being what Ripp needs and even if I did, I doubt very much he would know that is what he was doing. You are right though, there will come a time when Ripp doesn't need that anymore. I am a little concerned about how things are going to go down when that happens,
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I suspected that those might be the ever-changing eyes, but I had never seen them look so uncomplicatedly blue -- now I notice your avagtar has the same shade of blue, but that could easily be explained as an artifact of reducing the image.
I like them better when they show the other colors, too.
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If he were a real person, I would probably be able to deal with him. He's the type that I'd want to more give a hug than a slap upside the head *lol*
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I don't think he is hiding something, well aside from the dork part, but that can definitely be explained by the age. And he isn't so much trying to make himself be something he isn't. It is all him, he is just pushing the part he is embarrassed about down until the appropriate times. The dork comes out (Mr. I got an A+ on my second day of school ... back when I still sent them to school...) and it will pop up a time or two in the story as well. Already has actually, in subtle ways. It is more like he is choosing not to define himself by that characteristic.
Of course the ones he is choosing to define himself by are ... questionable? Yeah, let's go with questionable (because it sounds better than "really fucked up").
You should totally feel free to smack him upside the head though! I can't be the only one that wants to do that all the time!
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Tel shouldn't be embarrased to be himself as long as he doesn't go overboard with it, you know? However, once again, as a teen, you do tend to make all sorts of split second decisions from clothes to lovers...and he, Ripp and that whole group will be going thru a series of changes from different events in their lives as time goes along, and that's just to be expected. As the green bay song says "the innocent won't last forever" or something like that. My brain is on short circuit mode today xp
Nah, i'll leave the slapping n yelling to you. I've gotta keep myself on track after i finish these two challenges in getting this story of my own going.
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I'd be interested in seeing such a list for Tybalt if you end up with some spare time.
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Also, I'm glad you're doing ok. I meant to say that earlier, but I completely failed and forgot.
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And interesting picture of Tel's personality beneath the gorgeous shot, obviously :)
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That's not supposed to be sad, that is supposed to be very thinly disguised terror. Obviously I failed.
I have done the blur before, just not often. As for composition, yeah, I tend to make the center of the images the focal point with whatever I feel needs the most emphasis. This is usually not in line with the rule of thirds obviously so I don't get to be all "artistic" with them that often. It is kind of fun when I do.
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Now that rude did I not mean to be XD
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