It's time for this month's Beautiful People! Yay! This is a link-up hosted by Paperfury and Further Up and Further In where you answer questions about your characters. I participated in Beautiful People #1, #2, #3 and the villain special last year. And I've done Beautiful People Author Edition, Beautiful People Valentine Edition, Beautiful People #7, Beautiful People Sibling Edition and Beautiful People #9. This link-up has been just so helpful with character development.
I'm doing Dina, a secondary character from my steampunk fantasy Red Hood. I know I just did an interview with her last month, but I think this Beautiful People will draw out more about her character ... and she's one of my few characters who actually know their parents ... and Mor already had a Beautiful People so she can't hog them all. If you'd like to participate in this link-up yourself, check out either Paperfury or Further Up and Further In to see how. Here we go!
1. Do they know both their biological parents? Why/why not?
Dina does. She's grown up with her mother, father, and sister all of her life.
2. Have they inherited any physical resemblances from their parents?
Dina looks more like her father than her mother. She has his brown hair while her mother has black hair an she also has her father's nose and browner skin tone, but she has her mother's eyes.
3. What’s their parental figure(s) dress style? Add pictures if you like!
Well, her mother is a Red Hood, a werewolf huntress, and Dina is also so she wears the traditional Red Hood garb which includes leggings, knee-high boots, a leather bodice, leather bracers, and a red cloak. Dina wears a combat skirt with hers.
4. Do they share any personality traits with their parental figures? And which do they take after most?
She takes after her father more since she has more of his gentleness as opposed to her mother's stern and strict nature. She prefers peaceful activities over fighting and would much rather just keep to herself and sew as opposed to going out and killing werewolves.
5. Do they get on with their parental figure(s) or do they clash?
Dina gets along with her father wonderfully, but her mother not so much, since Dina wants to be a tailor and her mother wants her to be a Red Hood.
6. If they had to describe their parental figure(s) in one word, what would it be?
Decent. Dina believes she doesn't come from an exceedingly tough family. People like Claes have it worse. It's just tough for her right now.
7. How has their parental figure(s) helped them most in their life?
Dina's mother has taught her many Red Hood skills including how to use a crossbow. Her father has taught her how to sew which ignited her dream to be a tailor.
8. What was their biggest fight with their parental figure(s)?
Definitely one with her mom when Dina told her she'd rather be a tailor than a Red Hood. That resulted in them not speaking for weeks and Dina crying to her best friend Mor about what happened.
9. Tracing back the family tree, what nationalities are in their ancestry?
Since Dina comes from a fantasy world, she lives in Silfurlund which is a Scandinavian mix with browner skin tones like Spain or Portugal, but with varying hair colors and sometimes paler skin. It's an interesting combination. XD
10. What’s their favorite memory with their parental figure(s)?
When Dina's father taught her how to sew her first dress. She remembers that so fondly. It's one of the things that drives her love for sewing.
And that's a bit about Dina! If you'd like to know a bit more about her, check out her character interview and bio! If you'd like to know more about her book, check out the My Books tab! Thanks for reading!
Did you participate in the Beautiful People? Are you planning to? If so let me see your posts in the comments!
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