This thingy dates from the 1860s and was written by Jenny Marx, Karl Marx's
daughter. She sent it
to her exciting communist pals to fill out, apparently for the sheer
fun of it.Here's the answers of a few of my Doll characters from Dun Elisedd, if we assume/pretend we could get them to answer these.
Answers for Kevya, my IH Barron hybrid.
The quality you like best in a man:
Integrity. Honesty, character and keeping his word.
The quality you like best in a woman:
Kindness.
Your chief characteristic:
People say I'm dangerous.
Your idea of happiness:
A hillside by the sea, a flock to watch after, and no wolves coming.
Either that, or a windy afternoon out in the forest with Lir, hunting.
Your idea of misery:
The cell on the island of Rilvomar where I spent so many years chained and treated like an animal.
The vice you detest the most:
Sadism.
The vice you excuse the most:
Cowardice. Some things are too much to ask anyone to face.
Your chief aversion:
I don't like chains, or being tied up.
Your favourite literary or historical character:
Athero made the peace with Elisedd, the first King.
Your favourite occupation:
Being Lir's Guard.
Your favourite writer:
Ian has been writing down some old Verdani stories.
Your favourite flower:
Crocus. It blooms in the snow.
Your favourite colour:
Blue
Your favourite dish:
Lamb stew and Verdani flat bread
Your favourite motto:
Serve
Answers for Prince Lir, my Soom Lupin
The quality you like best in a man:
Honesty. The air is so thick with ulterior motives around here I could cut it with a knife.
The quality you like best in a woman:
Patience, and a tolerance for my idiosyncracies.
Your chief characteristic:
I like to hope I am thoughtful.
Your idea of happiness:
An evening by the fire with a good book or a fine story, good music, and close friends around.
Your idea of misery:
I felt rather sorry for myself when I came home to find my family gone
and our homeland so ravaged, but I've also seen the state of things
further south, like on Rilvomar, and the condition of rampant crime and
slavery there was horrifying.
The vice you detest the most:
A hunger for power over other men. The man who wants power is the man
who least deserves to have it. Heh, I guess that bodes well for my own
reign.
The vice you excuse the most:
Cowardice. I agree with Kevya- Some things are just horrible, and you can't fault a man for simply not being able to face them.
Your chief aversion:
Seeing others in pain or in trouble. I have to help as much as I can, I can't leave them like that.
Your favourite literary or historical character:
Elisedd, my famous ancestor and the founder of my Royal Lineage. He built this castle I call home.
Your favourite occupation:
Learning. I love to read.
Your favourite writer:
Cadogan the Chronicler wrote some of our better histories.
Your favourite flower:
My mother had a rose garden, and even after she was gone the servants
kept it up. It made Father happy to see her roses bloom every year.
Your favourite colour:
Green
Your favourite dish:
Almond pudding
Your favourite motto:
Knowledge is the key to the world.
Answers for Davan, My Iplehouse Taregan
The quality you like best in a man:
Strength, and the sense to obey
The quality you like best in a woman:
A buxom figure and a certain something when seduced.
Your chief characteristic:
I am rather clever, I do admit. I enjoy thinking.
Your idea of happiness:
My little empire expanding, my servants carrying out my orders, fine
parties, a woman on my arm and in my bed, and a good vintage of wine.
Your idea of misery:
Being a penniless filthy peasant.
The vice you detest the most:
Incompetence. I have no use for useless people.
The vice you excuse the most:
Hedonism is merely what the repressed envy and the honest enjoy.
Your chief aversion:
I do not enjoy being dirty. I prefer to be well groomed and clean.
Your favourite literary or historical character:
Me. I am making history.
Your favourite occupation:
Merchant Lord. It's a lucrative position, and I rule my island like a king.
Your favourite writer:
Teris Shan wrote a beautiful collection of poems, as well as a definitive work on the effects of various methods of torture.
Your favourite flower:
River Lilies, or perhaps jasmine.
Your favourite colour:
Red, or gold.
Your favourite dish:
Young quail in spiced wine and orange sauce.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
The King's Wolf
from the Court of Dun Elisedd storyline...
His Royal Majesty Lir and Kevya the Wolf, his servant.
Friday, May 27, 2011
About Lir
Prince Lir
Company and sculpt: SOOM Lupin
Height: 63cm
Resin colour: NS
Modifications: Shortened neck
Faceup: Me
Eyes: Masterpiece Afghan 13mm
Wig: wool roving, made by Me
Name (and nicknames): Lir (the doll itself is known occasionally as Mister Scruffy)
Age: 23
Birthday: in the Autumn
Family and/or relationships: Father: Gahaeris (dcs.), Mother: Elaine (dcs.), Brother: Cai (dcs.), Sister: Elinore
Pets: A raven named Scratch
Personality: Calm, curious, mild, compassionate, soft spoken, introspective, capable of being brave
Hobbies: wandering, reading, studying histories and records,
Likes: Time alone or with close friends, long journeys, riddles and mysteries, books, his family
Dislikes: shallowness, rudeness, useless noise, flattery, cruelty
Other/misc. facts: Believer in lost causes, likes the Lady Rowena very much.
The scar on one side of his jaw was not given by some sworn enemy's cursed blade- it's the result of a fledgling Scratch the Raven trying to peck at Lir's eye. That's how Scratch got his name.
He calls his sister Elinore the pet name "Linnet Bird".
Short bio: He left his castle home, going out alone as he often did, but this time he stayed away for two years, chasing rumors of a hidden record, an ancient text. He found it, and followed the advice of a blind poet to sail to an island ruled by a cruel lord, where he rescued a slave who could read the words written in the book. Then he journeyed home, hastened on his way by rumors of war in his father's kingdom. Nothing could have prepared him for what he would find on his arrival.
About the Doll:
Lir is a sculpt called Lupin from a company called Soom, based in South Korea. Like most Ball Jointed Dolls, he was handcast in polyurethane resin from molds taken from an original artist's sculpt.
Lir was the very first BJD I ordered, and I found him by hunting through websites for a masculine yet young and handsome face on a sculpt. I didn't want another anime-faced "bishounen". (That's Japan-Fan talk for Pretty Young Man, usually quite androgynous and effeminate) Stylized Beauty has its appeals, but I prefer a certain amount of realism in faces, and manliness in men. I wanted to make dolls that were a bit different.
He's had that extra long Soom Super Gem neck shortened to give him the proportions I wanted him to have. The Super Gem body that Soom makes for their 63 cm male dolls is lean but muscular, a beautiful sculpt if not the very best at posing. He stands very well, even unsupported. I got him with the exquisite jointed hands Soom makes, and they are incredibly gorgeous in expressiveness and engineering. I can't imagine this doll without them, because they do allow him such a great emotive range, and he's an emotional sort of character.
When he arrived he looked like this:
Those incredible eyes of his are Masterpiece Eyes, in the color "Afghan". The faceup (BJD Hobby Talk for his face painting) is the faceup that I ordered him with, because at the time I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to do faceups myself. It was very nice, admittedly, but I decided I wanted eventually to do my own faceups, so later I repainted his face myself.
His wig I made by building a felt wigcap in the shape of the hairline I wanted, then gluing dabs of wool roving onto it a little bit at a time. Eventually he'll get a custom fiber wig that will be in roughly this same style.
This is how his face looks now. I did this faceup myself. Eventually I may redo it yet again, but this is good for now. He's wearing the same eyes as before, but this shot doesn't catch all their colors as well as that other one. The bird there on his shoulder is supposed to be his pet raven, Scratch. He's dressed in his rough traveling clothes.
I haven't done a shoot with him in a while, and I owe him one as soon as I finish his new courtly clothes.
Company and sculpt: SOOM Lupin
Height: 63cm
Resin colour: NS
Modifications: Shortened neck
Faceup: Me
Eyes: Masterpiece Afghan 13mm
Wig: wool roving, made by Me
Name (and nicknames): Lir (the doll itself is known occasionally as Mister Scruffy)
Age: 23
Birthday: in the Autumn
Family and/or relationships: Father: Gahaeris (dcs.), Mother: Elaine (dcs.), Brother: Cai (dcs.), Sister: Elinore
Pets: A raven named Scratch
Personality: Calm, curious, mild, compassionate, soft spoken, introspective, capable of being brave
Hobbies: wandering, reading, studying histories and records,
Likes: Time alone or with close friends, long journeys, riddles and mysteries, books, his family
Dislikes: shallowness, rudeness, useless noise, flattery, cruelty
Other/misc. facts: Believer in lost causes, likes the Lady Rowena very much.
The scar on one side of his jaw was not given by some sworn enemy's cursed blade- it's the result of a fledgling Scratch the Raven trying to peck at Lir's eye. That's how Scratch got his name.
He calls his sister Elinore the pet name "Linnet Bird".
Short bio: He left his castle home, going out alone as he often did, but this time he stayed away for two years, chasing rumors of a hidden record, an ancient text. He found it, and followed the advice of a blind poet to sail to an island ruled by a cruel lord, where he rescued a slave who could read the words written in the book. Then he journeyed home, hastened on his way by rumors of war in his father's kingdom. Nothing could have prepared him for what he would find on his arrival.
About the Doll:
Lir is a sculpt called Lupin from a company called Soom, based in South Korea. Like most Ball Jointed Dolls, he was handcast in polyurethane resin from molds taken from an original artist's sculpt.
Lir was the very first BJD I ordered, and I found him by hunting through websites for a masculine yet young and handsome face on a sculpt. I didn't want another anime-faced "bishounen". (That's Japan-Fan talk for Pretty Young Man, usually quite androgynous and effeminate) Stylized Beauty has its appeals, but I prefer a certain amount of realism in faces, and manliness in men. I wanted to make dolls that were a bit different.
He's had that extra long Soom Super Gem neck shortened to give him the proportions I wanted him to have. The Super Gem body that Soom makes for their 63 cm male dolls is lean but muscular, a beautiful sculpt if not the very best at posing. He stands very well, even unsupported. I got him with the exquisite jointed hands Soom makes, and they are incredibly gorgeous in expressiveness and engineering. I can't imagine this doll without them, because they do allow him such a great emotive range, and he's an emotional sort of character.
When he arrived he looked like this:
Those incredible eyes of his are Masterpiece Eyes, in the color "Afghan". The faceup (BJD Hobby Talk for his face painting) is the faceup that I ordered him with, because at the time I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to do faceups myself. It was very nice, admittedly, but I decided I wanted eventually to do my own faceups, so later I repainted his face myself.
His wig I made by building a felt wigcap in the shape of the hairline I wanted, then gluing dabs of wool roving onto it a little bit at a time. Eventually he'll get a custom fiber wig that will be in roughly this same style.
This is how his face looks now. I did this faceup myself. Eventually I may redo it yet again, but this is good for now. He's wearing the same eyes as before, but this shot doesn't catch all their colors as well as that other one. The bird there on his shoulder is supposed to be his pet raven, Scratch. He's dressed in his rough traveling clothes.
I haven't done a shoot with him in a while, and I owe him one as soon as I finish his new courtly clothes.
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