Name: Chroma
Nickname(s): none whatsoever
Age (Appearance Wise): younger teens; 13/14
Age (Actual): 1 year
Physical Appearance:
Hair (color and style): Bright red; a short, flowy style
Eye color: Light blue/grey
Skin tone and features: Pale, small and petite; an overall childish appearance.
Outfit: Heavily CC; something bright and colorful – her outfit’s bright colors are what inspires Chroma to pick her name.
Personality:
Chroma has very little common sense at all. She never looks when she crosses the street, forgets to eat when she gets busy and rarely keeps her money on hand. She’s also chronically late – even when she sets out early in an effort to be on time, she will usually end up somewhere extremely tardy.
Chroma is a very visual person; the words on a page, the City Peoples’ words, the graceful movements of a dancer – all catch her attention and leave her entranced. She goes into her own little world with all of her mind focused on what’s before her. She can lose herself for hours until something interrupts her focus, bringing her back to reality. Appointments will be remembered at this point, along with the basics – like eating. She has a special fondness for watching the conversations of City Folk and does this in her spare time (when said spare time is not occupied reading written words, of course).
Aside from her dreaminess at the sight of a dance or a beautiful font, Chroma has the tendency to go off in her own little world at random times as well. She’ll walk around normally, but her eyes and mind will be elsewhere, remembering this book or that dance. Most of this is because she has too much time on her hands and no distractions.
Art and books are Chroma’s main passions, and if she were one to wax poetically about this dance or that plot she would do so for hours. Chroma can tell you the names of many dancers and artists, who their friends are and where they work, all without ever having talked to them, because she listens and watches. She tends to relate real-life situations to novels.
Still new to the city, Chroma finds talking to others quite intimidating. She reads and watches artists of all kinds work the day away with a confidence she finds herself lacking. She adores watching City Folk conversations and reads various books where people have an ease of speaking – with all of her obsession with words she finds that when it comes to talking her words are not enough. She avoids conversing if at all possible and when absolutely forced to vocalize will often be snappish and short with others.
Her newness to the city also contributes to Chroma's childishness. She's still appreciating (or gaping, perhaps) at architecture and simple little things like clothing and the machinery that fills the City. She's been relatively sheltered in her dreaminess, missing the darker side of nature.
Thoughts on the Forest: “It was quite a fascinating place, the trees were made of paper! But just when I was trying to read them one of those guardians showed up and started pushing me!” Honestly, the forest is pretty creepy, and if it weren’t for the sense of ‘just can’t’ that fills her up when she thinks about going back, Chroma would love to try and read the trees’ bark. Of course, if the City weren’t made of books she’d probably have tried to go back anyway.
Thoughts of Book Children: “Well, they’re like me, right? Other than that, I don’t really see much of them.” Chroma enjoys listening to other Book Children, but doesn’t actually enjoy talking to them and will often pretend to be deaf or occupied when addressed. She enjoys seeing their clothes – such bright colors.
Thoughts on City People: “Oh, they’re simply marvelous! Can you imagine – speaking and words visibly appearing? It’s so beautiful!” Chroma adores watching the words of City People and will often just sit and watch their conversations, even if she’s not being addressed.
History: [notes for complete history] got set up in a tiny little house in Eyncastor, so small that it's almost hidden, and very easy to miss (in her dazes she often walks right past it). She runs errands for a few of the engineers or an artist or two, mostly those who get so lost in their own work that they don't mind that she gets lost in her own world, making her deliveries quite late.
Hobbies: reading, watching dancers, thinking about stories
Birthday:
Favorite Things: words, dances, artwork
Hated Things: talking to people, being unable to be on time
Story: The Phantom Tollbooth
Favorite type of Ending: Ones that fill you with a warm glow – not necessarily happy or sad.
Favorite Illustration:
Dreams: Chroma wants to attend Fin Magna, but is so certain of its impossibility that she’s buried that hope deep in her mind.
paper ♔ forest
Guild home for Paper Forest B/C!
