NEW HOPE CHARACTER PROFILE

Creator: Gene P. Breshears
Name: Twill
Gender: Male
Status: Alive
Current tribe: New Hope, Startide Household
Origin: Born in the Hidden Valley
Hair: dark blond, with hints of red (almost cinnamon), shoulder length, very thick; Usually wears head bands. His bangs have a tendency to escape the bands and fall in his eyes.
Eyes: forest green
Skin: Tanned, hints of freckles
Height: 4'0"
Build: very thin, arms and legs (even at his small size) appear a little  longer than they ought to be to go with the body.
Voice: Baritone.
Parents: Digger, father, mother TBD
Siblings: Redblade, sister
Other relatives: TBD
Current mate: Chimreh
Previous mate(s): few, very few
Child(ren): Fever, son out of Recognition with Chimreh; Szia(D) Daughter out of Recognition with Chimreh.
Soulname: Kliless
Known by: Chimreh(?)
Soul names known:
Closest friends: TBD
Talent: Sending (sensitive, but not powerful). Very mild "magic sense." No sign of his father's gliding or finding talents yet.
Skills & Hobbies: Knows the minimal use of weapons. Learned sand painting from his father, became interested in colors and patterns, and found himself drawn to the looms at an early age.
Weaponry: TBD
Bondbeast: TBD
Clothing: <still working on this>
Jewelry: The headbands
Special possessions:
Personality: He loves to weave, to work on things for a long time
and have something well-made and pretty when he's done. A bit of  an idealist and romantic. He can be very shy, even though he
likes to talk once he has become comfortable with someone. He
definitely inherited his father's artistic temperment.

Personal History: Twill was born about 19 years before the Hostage Crisis began. He took an interest early on in his father's sand-painting. This quickly led him to playing with anything that had to do with mixing colors and placing things in patterns. The looms caught his interest early on, and he proved himself a quick study, becoming adept at many aspects of  weaving, thread-spinning, and related arts.

There has never been any question in his mind about working with weaving and clothmaking as his calling  in life. He never paid much attention to the politics in the Hidden Valley. He knew his father and his father's soulmate, Lizardtongue, were stormriders, and that his sister was a warrior in the ground forces, and that the two High Ones, the Earthshaker and the Stormrider, led the tribes who now called the Hidden Valley their home. He is familiar with the old stories of the Brightcolor Desert, and he respects the Peace Chief, War Chief, and Dreamberry Keeper, but he has had little contact with them.

He didn't really understand what was going on (other than a food shortage) when he was suddenly told one day to teach some of the "hostages" how to use the looms "But don't talk to them beyond that!" He took an instant dislike to one of the elves set as a supervisor over the prisoners, Ebonwolf. By the end of the first day with the hostages, he had fallen head over heels in love with Chimreh. He also found Peysol to be an interesting and friendly person. Unfortunately, his shyness around Chimreh makes the very few conversations they manage to have brief and stumbling, and the vigilant eyes of the guards keep him from getting to know any of the hostages well.

He secretly dreamed of finding a way to rescue the hostages (such dreams  almost always, of course, end with Chimreh showing her gratitude afterwards, although sometimes the daydreams end with his horrific death).  TBD if Twill was involved in the eventual escape of the hostages; in any case, several years after the end of the Hostage Crisis, Twill came to New Hope and quietly attached himself to Chimreh.  Somewhat worried that Chimreh saw him as a child, Twill was determined to convince her that he'd grown past his adolescent daydreams.  The two of them became lovemates, and later, upon the birth of their first child, lifemates.