Friday DE: Still life with a...

[bjornwilde]

 If someone were to create a still life portrait of your character, using objects to represent them, what would be on the canvas?

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[iprotectyou]

Here's my answer for Baze from the last time we had this topic.

I'm not sure about an answer for Autor, because he's been adrift for so long. I'd say a book, but he doesn't really read anymore. I'd say a rifle, but he'd really rather not be represented by a weapon of war. I could say a scapel, but he hasn't started medical school yet. So idek.

[bjornwilde]

Oh good, it's been a while since I did this. =)

I knew I'd done it before but wasn't sure how long ago and didn't have time to look.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: Regardless or which series or season you pick for her, the sabers are there. The only differences would be their number (one vs two) and make (the CW vs Rebels eras). As a padawan, her beads would be there and likely her akul headpiece. I'm having trouble deciding on any other pieces for her Rebels years, maybe a draped cloak and a data pad.

Sabine: Her helmet, a paint sprayer, a data pad, her twin blasters, and a detonator. Painted on the wall behind these would the her starbird symbol and faded or scrapped paint suggesting the Nite Owls.

Danny: His classic ipod and the robes of the Order of the Crane Mother. It seems like there should be more, something about Rand Enterprises at least, but it doesn't fit somehow. ETA: And reading the previous answer for this, I'll add the baseball bat with the Rand logo on it, and also a bowl of brown M&Ms.

Sam: A falcon feather, an orange, an American flag at rest (not used as a drape), and a vinyl record of Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man.

Scrapper: Lots of empty bottles and other alcohol containers, a few knives, and an obedience disc. Hidden behind all the clutter is the hilt of her sword, Dragonfang.

Tybalt: A well loved playbill of A Midsummer's Night's Dream, a well loved copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets, a bunch of pennyroyal flowers, some breakfast pastries (like croissants and the like, not donuts so much), and a pair of leather paints as a drape. There is lots of contrast with the items and many shadows to the piece.

Izana: A bokken of light colored material, a wooden practice yari (whatever that would be called), a blue happi, a datapad, and a collection of urban legends from Sidonia.


I'm blanking on John Proudstar.

[inlovewithwords]

So how many of Tybalt's items are bloodstained from Toby?

[bjornwilde]

Likely all of it. :)

[ceitfianna]

Cassian: his brown jacket with his captain's insignia with a mend and maybe a dried bloodstain visible, his adaptable blaster, a few spices on a spoon, a couple of lockpicks resting on a datapad

Quentin: neatly pressed jeans with the Duke's livery draped over them, a paper cup of coffee with a breakfast burrito beside it, a smartphone but turned over as he has his secrets

Charles: his chair, a copy of The Once and Future King, a chessboard and a cup of tea

Moist: a checkbook, a pen, a wallet and a suit jacket

Sameth: one of his creations, his surcoat and a sword and there's white cat hair visible on the surcoat

Ivan: part of his uniform, an invitation to an event at the palace, a comm

Will S.: his knife from Robin, the Locksley livery, a tree branch from Sherwood and the shadow of a noose

William: a gun, a lasso, a dime novel, a handkerchief stained with his brother's blood

Demeter: a sheaf of wheat, a seedling, and a hint of winter in the background

Tumnus: a scarf, Lucy's handkerchief, a history of Narnia

[inlovewithwords]

I think I reiterate my question to Don to you: how much of Quentin's stuff is covered in blood?

[ceitfianna]

Far more than he'd like though Toby always ends up with the majority of blood on her.

[archmagetrust]

Khadgar has a table with his staff leaning against it. The table runner is purple and gold with the Kirin Tor's sigil on it. There's a thick leather bound book with a single raven's feather resting atop it.

Gabriel is trickier. Reaper's mask and a sooty Overwatch sigil obscured by his standard issue shotgun, a computer tablet, and his beanie.

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

Sahaal is hard. I'd say that the centerpiece would definitely be his Mark IV helm, resting on a large olive green ammunition crate. His warplate gauntlets, their inbuilt lightning claws extended, would be on either side of it. The background would be an Eighth Legion battle flag, the winged skull ragged and stained with age. To top it all off, a single bottle of German beer would be off to the side, casting a long shadow of the rest of the items.

There'd probably be a good few grenades in there as well, but I'm not sure where they would fit.

[inlovewithwords]

Late, but all the same:

Eriond: blue tunic, the Orb, a mini of Horse, a fishing pole, the bag Eriond carried the Orb in prior to handing it to Garion.

Lois: Her laptop and phone, plate of her mom's lasagna, pen, copy of the Daily Planet, the forum where she talks about seeing a strange flying man open on laptop and chat with SmallvilleGuy on phone. Oh, and maybe lockpicks stolen from her dad, too.

Evelyn: (once game actually starts up, obvs, not pre-game like she is now): Her staff, a dog collar (there will be reasons but it starts with she adores liranan and wants a dog now), folded formal Inquisition-y mage robes, and... well, honestly, the Orb that causes all this needs to be in there. Probably the broken wreck of after. That or [spoiler spoiler spoiler]

R2: Bits and pieces used to fix him over the years, maybe a limb of 3P0's... I'm actually having a hard time figuring it out, for him. Maybe a holo of the family.

Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight: Lightsaber, his shoulder pauldron with the Jedi order symbol, japor snippet, Aethersprite model (with R2 in!) and the Twilight while we're at it, maybe folded cloak?, some tools and droid/ship bits (maybe a piece of 3P0, considering), and possibly the mech hand because we're painful here
Darth Vader: Lightsaber, mask. Maybe still mechanized hand, because continuity. Everything is black because he's an angstball.
Anakin Skywalker, holistic approach: ... yeah basically both of those put together. Ligthsabers crossed, definitely, and whether or not the mask is broken depends on whether it's just a complete picture or taking into account the Dead bit. Only one mechanized hand, the Anakin one rather than any of Vader's. Honestly you could just make each of those be distinctly unbalanced visually, with lots of empty table space--and maybe it's cluttered when it's all together, but it's all him.

Tavi: red cloak, sword, signet dagger and plain steel circlet, a baby toy or toddler-random-scribbling, sandbox made into map of Alera or maybe Appia. Some papers (possibly emancipation because it's Tavi). Maybe some of Kitai's hair from the last time she cut it, or that necklace he gives her in book six that she likes so much (emeralds the color of her eyes so) Or both.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Even later, but I did manage an answer:

Bastion doesn't have many possessions, so it's not going to be primarily made up of their actual belongings, although the flowerpot they moved the flowers and moss from their armour into would be in there. A rifle with flowers and plants on it similar to the one in the icon, although probably not an actual disembodied SMG arm from a Bastion unit, that's a little ghoulish under the circumstances. (But on the other hand, maybe that macabre touch works as a symbol of their fallen siblings.) A welding torch and soldering iron standing in for their self-repair function, similarly. A feather from Ganymede.