| Re: Jadis Diabolik [message #34797 is a reply to message #34789 ] |
Mon, 06 April 2009 13:01   |
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Diane Castle Messages: 2505 Registered: September 2007 Location: Oregon, USA |
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| BekDCorvin wrote on Mon, 06 April 2009 08:32 |
| Gemma Ethan Whitaker wrote on Mon, 06 April 2009 02:20 | Bek, any idea if we'll get more Jadis stories
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I already have one planned, and a few more. However, at the moment, I'm busy working on something else, which does include Jadis. And before we get to the 'next' She-Beast story, we may go BACK in time to answer the question, 'What are supervillain Christmases like?'
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Chestnuts roasting on an open lava pit?
Jack Frost nipping at your nose - with grafted-on cyborg arms?
People with eyes all a-glow because they drank Jobe's punch?
Inquiring minds want to know,
Diane
"WHO has deactivated my BEAUTIFUL frogs?"
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| Re: Jadis Diabolik [message #34909 is a reply to message #14856 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 02:48   |
Gemma Ethan Whitaker Messages: 253 Registered: January 2009 Location: Australia |
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James K, with Chester still attached
Bek, do we know the main characters already or are you creating more orphans?
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| Re: Jadis Diabolik [message #52322 is a reply to message #52312 ] |
Mon, 23 January 2012 17:55   |
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Sojiro Messages: 1653 Registered: November 2011 |
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What do I think? That's not a hatchet face.
| Afternoon Tea with the Devil's Daughter | Jadis certainly hadn't gotten the Exemplar 'ugly duckling into beautiful swan' genes, like Solange. Her hair was still slightly curly and resistant to whatever hairstyle had been intended, pretty much as it had been when her governess had tried to make her into a little china doll every morning before Montessori school. However, her hair color had changed to a stark white. Or had she bleached it for some reason?
Her face was still sharply defined, instead of softly rounded like those of the 'pretty' girls who had teased her back when she was in school with me. Her face was long and angular. An unkind person might describe her as 'hatchet-faced'. I wondered if she still had those bright brown eyes which always gleamed with intelligence.
| Jadis isn't really one of the many "cute but not beautiful" girls. She has a physique that is actively distasteful to some people.
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| Re: Jadis Diabolik [message #52338 is a reply to message #52322 ] |
Mon, 23 January 2012 20:19   |
Dr Rem Messages: 93 Registered: May 2011 |
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Sojiro, in the story you quoted it says "an unkind person might describe her as hatchet faced." That does not sound like "actively distasteful" (your words) to me, Jadis is not a malformed ugly mutant (which is what the phrase you used says to me), just not a pretty one.
To curiousreader, Natalia's face isn't quite as narrow as I envision Jadis's, but with curly white hair it wouldn't be too far off.
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| Re: Jadis Diabolik [message #52369 is a reply to message #52338 ] |
Tue, 24 January 2012 03:55   |
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Sojiro Messages: 1653 Registered: November 2011 |
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| Dr Rem wrote on Tue, 24 January 2012 02:19 | Sojiro, in the story you quoted it says "an unkind person might describe her as hatchet faced."
| Not "a lying unkind person". One has to be unkind to say that sort of thing because it hurts, not because it is wrong. As it explains, it's a long and angular face.
And I didn't say she was ugly. I said actively distasteful to some persons. Meaning that those who don't like girls with sharp and angular faces will find her below average.
We have plenty of girls (and some boys too) who are described as "sort of pretty but nowhere near as good looking as the Exemplars around" in the story. Molly, Anna, Jody, Evvie, Joe, etc...
Jadis is not one of those.
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| Re: Jadis Diabolik [message #74750 is a reply to message #74749 ] |
Sat, 30 March 2013 19:05   |
amratner Messages: 272 Registered: January 2012 Location: NH, US |
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| Forger03 wrote on Sat, 30 March 2013 19:01 | I sometimes wonder (jumping on the tail end of the previous discussion)... what if that Devil her father put in is actually having an effect not only on her "Beast skin" but... her normal appearance as well?
Did she always have that white hair? I can't remember, but if she didn't have back when she and trevor went to school together at, was that Montessori? If she didn't have it back then... maybe she has more than just the MENTAL traits of an exemplar, but they are being negatively affected?
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Certainly possible. Remember Jadis has the reflexes of an exemplar 4.
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| Re: Jadis Diabolik [message #74767 is a reply to message #74766 ] |
Sun, 31 March 2013 00:15   |
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landing Messages: 831 Registered: June 2012 Location: Texas |
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| dpragan wrote on Sat, 30 March 2013 22:52 | Bek often mistakes a "hatchet face" (looks as if someone buried a hatchet in it) for an overly sharp/narrow Face.
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All the dictionaries I can look up seem to be on Bek's side, but this could be a case of competing definitions depending on region.
| Quote: | Collins English Dictionary
adjective
having a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
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| Quote: | dictionary cambridge
hatchet-faced
adjective
Definition
› Someone who is hatchet-faced has a thin, hard, and unpleasant face.
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| Quote: | merriam-webster
hatchet face
noun
Definition of HATCHET FACE
: a thin sharp face
-- hatch·etfaced adjective
First Known Use of HATCHET FACE
circa 1666
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| Quote: | oxforddictionaries
hatchet-faced
Definition of hatchet-faced
adjective
informal
having a narrow face or sharp features, and a grim or hostile expression: that hatchet-faced wife of his
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| Quote: | http://www.wordnik.com
hatchet face
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
n. A long, gaunt face with sharp features.
GNU Webster's 1913
n. a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a hatchet.
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[Updated on: Sun, 31 March 2013 00:27]
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