#WordWeavers 2025.09.24 — Just for fun, share a 5 minute sketch of your MC. Stick people are fine.I am not a sketch artist, so I almost never draw my characters. In fact, I try not to visualize them except for the bare essentials, and only if needed in the story. This is to allow the reader to imagine the characters to look like themselves or to look familar.
Bolt is a day angel. She has wings, but I'm not 100% on the anatomy other than they don't stick up much above her shoulders, she has extra bones in her back which I have not made an effort to show as thick shoulders. What I do know is that it's hard for her to sit on them because how they furl. They are functional. She can fly at least 60 mph, probably even faster. To give a different analogy for why her wings aren't proportionally big enough to let her fly like a bird, let's call it antigravity tech (which it isn't). Ethnicity and race don't count in her world, so what's in the sketch is an approximation. She's famous for spiked up punk hair (too hard to draw), lots of piercings, and bangles, most of which are shown here except her nose ring, and her medium length hair is down and limp bodied. The model was east Asian. I've stated in the story that her feather colors range from pale blue almost white to midnight blue and as a result looked streaked. This means she had owlish variegated or "dappled" wings in the blue spectrum instead of brown. She is show in 3/4 profile. This description will be repeated in the #AltText.
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