The Taking- Character Notes
I worked up some character descriptions to use as reference for the characters that appear in the Taking. Pictures of creatures are references for bodyshape/conformation, not for exact appearance. The guys all have their own face, hair, eyes, except where noted.
Character Descriptions so far:
Linnea- Vampire. White skin, short pink hair cut into the shapes of magpies, white cableknit tunic, black velvet looking pants, leather overcoat, battle axe
Saskia- Human specially trained to hunt otherbeings Blonde hair, blue eyes, blue silk patterned shirt under a wool peacoat, black leather pants, over the knee leather riding boots
Alain- Dryad *winks at IA*
Valentino- Satyr. Montechristo goat legs, black hoodie sweatshirt over a tank top with the VR46 logo, sneakers designed to fit hooves.
Colin- Naga. Rattle Snake from the waist down, blue leather motorcycle jacket, grey concert tshirt No Shoes, just a sexy tan coloured rattle the size of your fist and forearm. 6 Rattles, and one small one forming(one for every seven years.)
Credit: https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/The-Naga-by-Bammelsan/35613939.1G4ZT
Aron- golem, jasper green skin with kintsugi instead of all his tattoos.
Wears a black cocktail dress and sneakers with his socks pulled up.
Skin is this type of green, tattoos are gold instead of black
Pippit- Mage who works with the Gatekeepers. Short woman, young faced but with a grandmotherly attitude.
George- Paperwight, looks like he’s made of newspaper origami, with strips of paper for hair and big, glowing, tennis ball sized yellow eyes. His newspaper skin reports on what he is doing.
Not Pictured
Robert- Emperor Eagle Harpy
This shape (but Robert has a noble eagle beak, and his own hair)
This bird
Credit: https://twitter.com/vvisti/status/1084682754095308800
Jorge Lorenzo- Sphinx, Anthro human face, dark furred wings, dark furred mane, goatee, red stripe in hair and red x on chest.
Credit: Pathfinder Games
Andre- A gargoyle. During the day he is stone and sits on the roof of the Gatekeepers’ station, as the sun sets he becomes a flesh creature with clawed hands and feet and wings.
Buemi- The Gatekeepers’ weaponsmith/gunsmith. Has a workshop in the basement of the station where he designs and manufactures weapons for the various creatures who guard the gates to the Hedge. The same type of gargoyle as Andre.
Jev- A handsome human ghost, appears normal except for having been decapitated. His body functions under the control of his head and often carries his head under its arm. If set down his head leaks ectoplasmic blood.
Zephyr- The spirit of the mechanical age. A huge green steam locomotive. Currently sealed in stasis by a powerful spell. Founder of the Gatekeepers.
Sebastian- Vampire, human passing. Redbull beanie and a racing jacket.
Kimi- Ice Giant. Has a size spell that fits him into human spaces. Really 15 feet tall with white hair and eyes and glacier blue skin. Wears biker boots, jeans, and a parka to keep the cold in.
Alex Albon- Stoneskin changeling, carved soapstone statue appearance, angular features.
Jenson- Tall, beautiful pale vampire. Since he’s been taken by the Fae his eyes have turned from totally red to totally black.
Teddy Bear- Appears in Arcadia to be a knee high stuffed bear with round black eyes and lots of seams and stitches where his limbs have been sewn back on.
Dani Pedrosa- Dani shaped when human, scars and seams over his joints.
Shaped like this when bear
Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gweeb/35329294
Marc and Alex Marquez- Harvestman. Appears in traditional grey robes with scythe or, in his more modern iteration, as a human man in a black on black three piece suit with his face covered in black greasepaint except a white painted skull
Credit: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQY5G6
Rinsy- Muskox-taur. Rams horns on his head, his own long brown curly hair, and the same wooly kind of hair on his muskox lower body. Wears a vest spun and knit from his own quivet(muskox wool).
Lando: Appears perfectly human, but with a malign air about him. In his illusions he appears as a small boy with bright curly hair. Without illusions, he appears as himself, though younger.
Joe Roberts: Appears human until his emotions are up, or he’s done his trick of stepping through one painted door and out another somewhere else, then he appears to be human, but leaves streaks of paint on anything he touches. In his shed he has a painting that looks something like this, but the scene is of a farm family.
Credit: https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/old-masters-evening-l17036/lot.48.html
Guanyu: Guanyu is a twelve year old faun. He has water deer hind legs, a little darker and redder than they will be when he grows up, and spotted with white fawn spots. When he grows up, instead of antlers, he will grow a handsome set of fangs.
Pedro: Pedro looks like any other fourteen year old human except, because he is a curupira, his feet face the opposite direction.
Andrea Iannone: A tall, broad shouldered vampire.
Antonio Giovinazzi: Formed similarly to a harpy, Antonio has bird wings instead of arms, bird legs that end in hunting talons, and a lustrous, flowing tail. His feathers are scarlet and form a red mane and crest around his human face, but when he is ready to fly, his full bird form makes it’s appearance.
Checo: Another of the harpy style people, a Huitzilopochtli, with hummingbird feathers. He travels with Esteban Gutierrez, who is his Xiuhcoatl, or Fire Serpent. A feathered serpent, he has an elongated torso, though he does have legs, unlike a naga, and arms, which have flight feathers along them.
Esteban Ocon: 8 Feet tall in human spaces, though a great deal of that is his sinewy neck. He walks upright on his hind legs and is smooth scaled, bottle green. He doesn’t have this horn/whiskery arrangement, but it was hard to find a picture of a dragon where it doesn’t look like they’re half cheese grater.
Lance: The Trickster Raven, he can choose which parts of his body to manifest as a bird, but his most common is the traditional-
Credit: White Wolf, World of Darkness
Max Verstappen: Max was always a frogman, but since he got back from Arcadia, he seems to have an extra tick in his step. When he works at the multicultural center he wears a double breasted uniform jacket that reminds Saskia of the toy nutcrackers from the Nutcracker Suite.
Helmut Marko: Most cyclops are giants, but this one is small, wizened, and runs a museum for people of all species to learn about one another’s cultures.
The Fauns:
In addition to Rinsey, the leader, there is another member of the gang who is not technically a faun. Andrea Migno is a hind- similar to a centaur, but instead of a horse body, he has the delicate legs and hooves of a mountain chamois, a deerlike creature from his native Italy. Unlike the rest of the Fauns, he wears his hair short, and the fur on his legs is short as well, and his legs are dyed with gold and blue stripes that make him look like he’s wearing socks.
Marco Bezzecchi, Enea Bastianini, Lorenzo Baldassarri, Pecco Bagnaia, and Matia Pasini are also members of the gang. They are all true fauns, with wooly goat legs and long wooly hair to match.
If I was a better artist, you’d all have a better idea what everyone looks like. Sorry.
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