Book Character Trade?
I had mentioned after the Once Upon a Crayon exchange that I'd be up for doing a trade with book characters, and it seemed like some people were receptive to that idea so...anyone want to do a trade with me? Some characters I'd fancy a picture of....Also, anything from Song of Ice and Fire I would <3. Maybe I'll do a write up of Jon Snow later on :D.
Character Name: Nadine Cross
Book Title and Author: The Stand, Stephen King
Genre: Horror
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand#Nadine_Cross
Character Description (how you see the character): In the beginning of the book she looked like a school teacher, pretty, with a small face and lots of long thick dark hair, marred only by two white streaks. By the end of the book, her hair was completely white and she was mostly mad. She has dark eyes.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be that single defining passage on her appearance in the book - you kind of get her looks in bits and pieces, but if you're not familiar I can try to dig up more.
Character Name: Queen Beauty
Book Title and Author: Hart’s Hope, Orson Scott Card
Genre: Fantasy
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart's_Hope
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.â€Â
After she steals the Flower Princess’s body:
“Do you worship?†asked Beauty. “Am I not perfect, Flower Princess?â€Â
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.â€Â
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.