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Character Name:Tonks. Presumably after marriage her legal name would be Nymphadora Lupin, but she is still referred to by her maiden name, Tonks.
Book Title and Author:Harry Potter Novels, J. K. Rowling
Genre:Female

Character Description (how you see the character):
Hair: various colors, changed at will.
Eyes: dark and twinkling.
Distinguishing features: as a Metamorphmagus, Tonks can assume many different appearances. Her actual appearance is that of a pretty, young woman with a pale, heart-shaped face. She wore Weird Sisters t-shirts, had patched jeans and brightly-coloured hair, and she greeted Harry with a carefree "Wotcher!" [OOTP3]. Beneath the cheery exterior, however, lay a dedicated and fiercely moral woman and a highly-talented young Auror.

More info :
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/tonks.html
http://www.mugglenet.com/infosection/characters/bios/tonks.shtml

Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character):"...a pale heart-shaped face, dark twinkling eyes, and short spiky hair that was a violent shade of violet."

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Character Name: Polgara the Sorceress

Book Title and Author: Belgariad Series (She is first seen in the Pawn of Prophecy) by David Eddings
Genre: Fantasy

Character Description (how you see the character): Polgara is an interesting and rich character. When we first meet her she is "Aunt Pol" to Garion in the Pawn of Prophecy. She is feisty, argumentative, loving, sarcastic, angry, beautiful and very powerful. She is tall, strong, strikingly beautiful with black hair with one streak of pure white. What we don't know when we first meet her is that she is a disciple of Aldur, a very powerful sorceress and is 3000 years old and is an important participant in the battle between light and dark.

The way I see her is in a long flowing...possibly blue dress with long black hair with a streak of white at the front. I kind of imagine her looking a bit like Elizabeth Taylor. She dominates the scene and when she is present all eyes are on her :)

Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character):
The center of the kitchen and everything that happened there was Aunt Pol. She seemed somehow to be able to be everywhere at once. The finishing touch that plumped a goose in its roasting pan or deftly shaped a rising loaf or garnished a smoking ham fresh from the oven was always hers. Though there were several others who worked in the kitchen, no loaf, stew, soup, roast, or vegetable ever went out of it that had not been touched at least once by Aunt Pol. She knew by smell, taste, or some higher instinct what each dish required, and she seasoned them all by pinch or trace or a negligent-seeming shake from earthenware spice pots. It was as if there was a kind of magic about her, a knowledge and power beyond that of ordinary people. And yet, even at her busiest, she always knew precisely where Garion was. In the very midst of crimping a pie crust or decorating a special cake or stitching up a freshly stuffed chicken she could, without looking, reach out a leg and hook him back out from under the feet of others with heel or ankle.

As he grew a bit older, it even became a game. Garion would watch until she seemed far too busy to notice him, and then, laughing, he would run on his sturdy little legs toward a door. But she would always catch him. And he would laugh and throw his arms around her neck and kiss her and then go back to watching for his next chance to run away again.

He was quite convinced in those early years that his Aunt Pol was quite the most important and beautiful woman in the world. For one thing, she was taller than the other women on Faldor’s farm—very nearly as tall as a man—and her face was always serious—even stern—except with him, of course. Her hair was long and very dark—almost black—all but one lock just above her left brow which was white as new snow. At night when she tucked him into the little bed close beside her own in their private room above the kitchen, he would reach out and touch that white lock; she would smile at him and touch his face with a soft hand. Then he would sleep, content in the knowledge that she was there, watching over him.

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Character Name: Rosalind Hawkins (Rose for short)
Book Title and Author: The Fire Rose, Mercedes Lackey
Genre: Fantasy

Character Description (how you see the character): Rosalind is a very strong woman - stuck in a world were women cant be. Her father just recently passed away, leaving nothing but debts, and her almost-degree in medieval languages and literature isnt going to be able to keep her afloat.

Then she gets a offer from across the states, in San Fransisco - to tutor in ancient languages - and she bravely takes it. When she arrives, she is shown to a stunningly designed room, lovely clothes, and finds herself in a magical faerie tale - this takes place in the early 1900s so everything is victorian ^-^.

She always wears glasses (shes almost blind without them), wears velvets and corsets, always with a book on hand. She was gifted a stunning golden locket-clock, decorated with twining roses. Usually, she wears blues and silvers - and loves to walk outside or (of course) read books. Her hair is almost always up and braided, and a smooth honey color, with very blue eyes.

Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character):
"With much difficulty, she choose a selection that included underthings trimmed with real Brussels lace, and real silk stockings. [....] she picked a skirt of the softest wool she had ever touched in her life, wool as soft and plush as velvet, in a deep sapphire blue, and a silk waist with a flowing jabot in pale blue with more lace, dyed to match, at the collar and cuffs. There were in boots in her exact size [....] a pair of kid half-boots that matched the shirt."

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This book is a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fable - Rose is 'beauty' of course, but the beauty is really in her spirit and self, not really her looks. She is pretty, but shes no true beauty. Her hair and eyes are her most notable features.

As the story progresses, she finds out her employeer (the Beast) has been stuck in a spell shapechange gone wrong: Half man, half wolf. He is a Elemental Master of Fire (a mage that calls upon the element of fire, and has 'fire elementals' at his service).

She finds out that she, also, can be a Elemental Master- but of Air - which is symbolized mostly by Blues and Silvers, and has small winged Sylphs at her command.

Truly, she loves being a scholar, enjoys her new found magic, adores books and being outdoors. It would be hard to imagine Rose without a book and her glasses!


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Character Name: Bryna or Witcheyes
Book Title and Author: Predestined by R. Garland Grey
Genre: Fantasy/faerie

Character Description (how you see the character): same as descrition below. Just run with what you feel like :)
Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character):
passage 1: Bryna knelt in the moonlit clearing. A flowing gown of white webs hugged her form, leaving her back bare. Clusters of faery diamonds decorated the bodice, sleeves, and entire length of the train. Bryna inhaled and took her fey form as the faeries had taught her. Her eyes changed. Black pupils surrounded by a sea of grey. Gossamer wings materialized. Formed of silver lace, they unfolded from slender shoulder blades and stretched out behind her. Her skin whitened, transforming to silk and the color of virgin snow. And her hair. Gold and red hues wove into every strand, glittering with heat. Everything shimmered around her...

passage 2: In the misty waters of the waterfall pool, Bryan knelt, head bowed, body trembling. Water lapped gently at her thighs. Silvery lacewings stretched out behind her in glorious display of her kind. She looked at him, a creature of twilight and legend. Uncertainty shone in transformed eyes. Silvery tears streamed down pale cheeks, catching in the creas of quivering lips the color of yewberries.

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Because Roz beats me up if I don't sign up :P

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Character Name: Nox (Nyx) Book Title and Author: I read about her first in Piers Anthony's Incarnation series. She is a greek mythological goddess.
Genre: Fantasy

Character Description (how you see the character): I see her as a moonskinned, ravenhaired spirit. Almost nebulous but able to take form at will. She is the substance of dreams....and nightmares. She IS the night. Darkness is her domain.


Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character):

Have I been named?" It was Nox, coalescing beside them. Her vague outline solidified, until she had the form of a stunningly beautiful woman. But she was in black and white, while the others were in full color....
Gaea looked at the Incarnation of Night. "Dreams may seem to the uninformed to be the stuff of chaos, but it is only ignorance that makes it seem so. Your realm mirrors ours, Nox; what is it you see that we do not?"
Orlene got up. She stared at the Incarnation. The mists formed into a phenomenal woman-shape, naked and beckoning, with writhing tresses of vapor and two compelling dark eyes.
...
Simultaneously, Jolie felt herself change. Suddenly she lusted after the woman who stood before her, her passion so compelling that it admitted of no interference. She strode toward Orlene.

Only to be intercepted by the cloud. "Love me instead," Nox said. Her female aspect was the most utterly arousing and inviting thing imaginable, making any human body hopelessly crude and clumsy.


From Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, Nyx (Νύξ, Nox in Roman translation) was the primordial goddess of the night. A shadowy figure, Night stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of personified gods such as Sleep and Death. Her appearances in mythology are sparse, but reveal her as a figure of exceptional power.



From http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Nyx.html

NYX was the goddess of the night, one of the ancient Protogenoi (first-born elemental gods). In the cosmogony of Hesiod she was born of Air (Khaos), and breeding with Darkness (Erebos) produced Light (Aither) and Day (Hemera), first components of the primeval universe. Alone, she spawned a brood of dark spirits, including the three Fates, Sleep, Death, Strife and Pain.
Nyx was a primeval goddess usually represented as simply the substance of night: a veil of dark veil of mist drawn forth from the underworld which blotted out the light of Aither (shining upper atmosphere). Her opposite number was Hemera (Day), who scattered the mists of night, or Eos, the goddess of the dawn.
In ancient art Nyx was portrayed as a either a winged goddess or charioteer, sometimes crowned with an aureole of dark mist.



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I know I'm last minute here, but I could not make up my mind between Armand and Thomas Covenant.

Armand from The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice has always been one of my favorite characters. He struck me as being both tragic and deadly, though one might be able to say that about all her vampire characters. But it was this quote by Armand that has always stuck in my head, defining the vampire for me.

"They had forgotten the first lesson: that we must be powerful, beautiful, and without regret."

Armand has a beautifully young, boy-like appearance; long, curly auburn hair and dark brown eyes. His features are at times compared to those of Cupid or a Botticelli angel.

So he was indeed lovely, deadly a truly marvelous example of the immortal vampire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand

My character's name is Halley, and she's from a fantasy novel called "A Brother's Price" by Wen Spencer. You asked me for my favorite character and there are just too many, so I chose one whose description really struck me recently, really stood out in my mind, and thought it would be a good character for this exchange (and I really liked the book, too! :p)


I can tell you also that she has "flame red hair" like her sisters, and she is a princess. She has left her sisters to find out who killed her older sisters, and to give the remaining older sister, now "Eldest" in her family, space to be in charge. Her family (the remaining nine sisters and all the mothers) miss Halley and are worried as to what has happened to her as there has been no word of her or from her in months.

Note: I should mention that the clothing in the book seems to almost be from the era of the late 1800's. The women here, though, are in charge, and don't wear the dresses LOL, the men do! Male births are rare; a family can have over a dozen girls to one boy child (multiple moms, same dad). So the women dress in tunics and pants and do all the jobs a man would do--ruling, soldiering, farming, running the steam boats, anything you can think of. Men do nothing but make babies and raise them and tend the house. And wear the dresses if they go out on a social occasion ;)

TMI? LOL

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Character Name: Sonja Blue
Book Title and Author: Sunglasses after Dark / Nancy Collins
Genre: Fantasty vampire stuff

Character Description (how you see the character): pale with red eyes and enlarged pupils, wears mirrored sunglasses at all times to hide this. dark hair. average/athletic body. around 5'6" i think. stronger than most vampires due to her unique turning. still holds on to her humanity as much as possible.

Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Blue

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I will drop out if I throw off the balance :). But I figured I'd give it a shot.

Character Name: Queen Beauty
Book Title and Author: Hart’s Hope, Orson Scott Card
Genre: Fantasy

Character Description (how you see the character): Once she was only a girl, the daughter of an evil king, but when she was given over to the victor of the rebellion in order to allow him a rightful claim to the throne, then cast aside, she transformed herself into the greatest and most terrible power the realm had ever known. She stole powerful magic and made it her own with the help of a grisly sacrifice, then bound the gods before returning to claim her palace. There, she took on the form of the rebel’s new wife, the beautiful Flower Princess, and called herself Queen Beauty ‘til the end of her days.

Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character):
“No man can have a power that is the match of mine. And no woman either, for no woman has enough hate in her to do what I have done.”

After she steals the Flower Princess’s body:
“Do you worship?” asked Beauty. “Am I not perfect, Flower Princess?”
But Enziquelvinisensee Evelvenin [The Flower Princess] had taken a vow to tell only the truth, and she had none of her women beside her to lie for her, so she destroyed herself by saying, “No, Lady. For you have my eyes filled with hate and triumph, and I have never felt such things in all my life.”

Later in the story:
In the mottled silver light, he saw her standing alone and naked in the middle of the floor, her bare feet white and smooth as the cold marble they seemed carved from. Do you doubt that I can describe her? Her hair was long and full, and reached below her waist; the hair of her head was the only hair on her body, and she could have been a child except for the small, perfect breasts that, in their slow and tiny rise and fall, were the only proof that she was alive.
Her face he recognized. It was the perfect, pleading, loving, inevitable face of the woman in his dream. She was the virgin, begging for his gentlest love. She was Queen Beauty, and she was now his wife.

Character Name: Sandor Clegane, The Hound
Book Title and Author: Game of Thrones, George RR Martin
Genre: Fantasy

Character Description (how you see the character): I don’t think there is a character in the Song of Ice and Fire series (of which Game of Thrones is the first) that I don’t like, and I had a hard time picking just one. If you’re a fan of the series and find this particular character doesn’t suit, I’d be delighted with anyone else you prefer.

The Hound is so named both for his house sigil and because he serves Prince Joffrey, the evil and sadistic bastard who would one day be King. He was tormented by his older brother, Gregor, The Mountain that Rides, and it is thanks to said brother that half of his face is scarred. He is a big fellow, though not as large as his brother, and won a tourney early in the series. He is tough as nails, but fears fire. He is not handsome, but he is fascinating to read and I quickly found myself routing for this ‘underdog’.

He wears a distinctive helm in the shape of a dog’s head, and rides a willful black horse named Stranger, a play on one of the Seven Gods.

Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character):
Taking Sansa Stark home from his victorious tourney:
“There’s a pretty for you. Take a good long stare. You know you want to. I’ve watched you turning away all the way down the kingsroad. Piss on that. Take your look.”
His fingers held her jaw as hard as an iron trap. His eyes watched hers. Drunken eyes, sullen with anger. She had to look.
The right side of his face was gaunt, with sharp cheekbones and a grey eye beneath a heavy brow. His nose was large and hooked, his hair thin, dark. He wore it long and brushed it sideways, because no hair grew on the other side of that face.
The left side of his face was a ruin. His ear had been burned away; there was nothing left but a hole. His eye was still good, but all around it was a twisted mass of scar, slick black flesh hard as leather, pocked with craters and fissured by deep cracks that gleamed red and wet when he moved. Down by his jaw, you could see a hint of bone where the flesh had been seared away.


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Name: Alia Atreides (Also called Saint Alia of the Knife)
Books: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune
Genre: Sci Fi


Character Description:

An adult Alia is described by Herbert in the Dune Messiah:

Her features lay exposed — blue-in-blue "spice eyes," her mother's oval face beneath a cap of bronze hair, small nose, mouth wide and generous.

Background:
Alia was born in year 10,191 A.G. (after the foundation of the Spacing Guild) on the planet Arrakis to the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica; her father Duke Leto Atreides had died eight months earlier. She was younger sister to Paul Atreides, and through their mother, a granddaughter to the wicked Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

How her followers see her:

The Fremen see her as the Earth Figure, a demi-goddess whose special charge is to protect the tribes through her powers of violence. She is Reverend Mother to their Reverend Mothers. To pilgrims who seek her out with demands that she restore virility or make the barren fruitful, she is a form of antimentat. She feeds on that proff that the "analytic" has limits. She represents ultimate tension. She is the virgin-harlot—witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.

Known to her followers as St. Alia of the Knife, to the Bene Gesserit Alia was an Abomination; in the later years of her regency, her enemies and victims among the Fremen called her Coan-Teen, "the female death spirit that walks without feet."

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Character Name:

Éowyn, Lady of Rohan

Book Title and Author: LoTR series by JRR Tolkien
Genre: Fantasy

Character Description (how you see the character):

Éowyn is my favorite character out of the LoTR series. She is a strong woman who knows what she wants and goes after it, not letting her gender stand in her way. She finds love in spite of herself, and seriously, what's not cool about getting to kill the witch king?

Descriptive Passage (a quote from the book that describes the character):

"The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in her eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come into womanhood. And she now was suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloacked, hiding a power that yet she had felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eowyn

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This is not my first choice, but just in case I do not get a chance to edit before the thread is closed, I choose Lady Jessica from Dune.

Lady Jessica

Alrighty - that's it people. Gonna close this bad boy up and start doing PM's!

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