Details That Might Be Noticed
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not_the_cavalryBody Language:
May walks casually; not like a fighter, or like someone constantly surveying her situation. More casually, if anything, than the average woman. She walks as if she knows her body, but she's most likely to be pegged as a proponent of Tai Chi (which she is).
Unless your character is psychic or prone to making rash, incorrect decisions, please don't have them just out of the blue assume she's a fighter (they can, obviously, think that it's an option) from her initial body language (vs. conversation, weight shifting during tension, current clothing, etc.). No one in her world, including trained professionals, make this assumption. She's not hiding it, she just doesn't see most situations as personally dangerous, and her body language matches that.
She is unarmed.
When standing she is very still -- all movements are purposeful. Most of her facial expressions are very subtle. She has many shades of neutral. She's still orders of magnitude more expressive than Trowa Barton. (Sorry, Trowa.)
Clothing:
She is either wearing business casual, or a navy jumpsuit with a black or navy leather vest. She may occasionally wear the accoutrements of a pilot.
Appearance:
She is 50 years old, but in prime athletic shape and often mistaken for early-mid 40s. She has a stylish and age-appropriate haircut; her hair is dark brown, and roughly shoulder-length. She is Chinese, or of Chinese ancestry. She's of average height (5 feet, 4 inches). She wears very light makeup, when she wears any -- almost always some lipstick.
Voice:
Melinda never speaks louder than she needs to in order to be easily heard; her words sound deliberately and smoothly placed. She speaks like someone with an accent or a lisp who has carefully learned how to eliminate all traces of that from their voice. Her voice isn't as deep as the deliberate quality of it can make it seem, but she is a mid-range alto.
May walks casually; not like a fighter, or like someone constantly surveying her situation. More casually, if anything, than the average woman. She walks as if she knows her body, but she's most likely to be pegged as a proponent of Tai Chi (which she is).
Unless your character is psychic or prone to making rash, incorrect decisions, please don't have them just out of the blue assume she's a fighter (they can, obviously, think that it's an option) from her initial body language (vs. conversation, weight shifting during tension, current clothing, etc.). No one in her world, including trained professionals, make this assumption. She's not hiding it, she just doesn't see most situations as personally dangerous, and her body language matches that.
She is unarmed.
When standing she is very still -- all movements are purposeful. Most of her facial expressions are very subtle. She has many shades of neutral. She's still orders of magnitude more expressive than Trowa Barton. (Sorry, Trowa.)
Clothing:
She is either wearing business casual, or a navy jumpsuit with a black or navy leather vest. She may occasionally wear the accoutrements of a pilot.
Appearance:
She is 50 years old, but in prime athletic shape and often mistaken for early-mid 40s. She has a stylish and age-appropriate haircut; her hair is dark brown, and roughly shoulder-length. She is Chinese, or of Chinese ancestry. She's of average height (5 feet, 4 inches). She wears very light makeup, when she wears any -- almost always some lipstick.
Voice:
Melinda never speaks louder than she needs to in order to be easily heard; her words sound deliberately and smoothly placed. She speaks like someone with an accent or a lisp who has carefully learned how to eliminate all traces of that from their voice. Her voice isn't as deep as the deliberate quality of it can make it seem, but she is a mid-range alto.
