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aldersprigThis is the eleventh in a series of character profiles for my upcoming July Camp Nano Project.
The story follows the flight of a group - students and their friends - from Rochester, NY; as the world crumbles around them, where can they possibly go for safety?
Douglas King
Game Design & Development
Douglas went to R.I.T. because it was one of the best, and because they offered impressive scholarships and a five-year combined Masters/Bachelor's program. He got into Game Design because it was a good career move, and because the concepts of game design interested him.
He got into the Friday night Shadowrun game because game design didn't stop at computers, and the Tuesday D&D game for the same reason - and because Aih played in the Tuesday game, and Aih had a smile that lit up the world.
He got into Anelle's parties because he met Jordan in one of his classes & she invited him; he got into the parties because the people there seemed more laid-back than the guys on his floor and more intense than the stoners in the quad.
From Anelle's parties it was a pretty easy jump to Oak & Rowan. It really wasn't his thing, not to begin with, but Aih was there, and Aih not only had a lovely smile, but she saw the world in a way nobody else Douglas had ever met did.
And from there it was a skip and a hop to Raven's Thursday night drinking in the swamp, and closing his eyes to the world and opening them to the other world.
Douglas is a wee bit on the short side - 5 foot seven - and a whole lot on the skinny side - barely over 100 lbs. He has dark skin, nearly ebony in shade, and eyes that shifted to a light blue-grey at puberty. His hands are almost clawlike, although that could be attributed to his thinness.
His hobby is 3D rendering; nearsighted AND farsighted, sometimes he feels like he can see space better in programming than he can in real life.
The story follows the flight of a group - students and their friends - from Rochester, NY; as the world crumbles around them, where can they possibly go for safety?
Douglas King
Game Design & Development
Douglas went to R.I.T. because it was one of the best, and because they offered impressive scholarships and a five-year combined Masters/Bachelor's program. He got into Game Design because it was a good career move, and because the concepts of game design interested him.
He got into the Friday night Shadowrun game because game design didn't stop at computers, and the Tuesday D&D game for the same reason - and because Aih played in the Tuesday game, and Aih had a smile that lit up the world.
He got into Anelle's parties because he met Jordan in one of his classes & she invited him; he got into the parties because the people there seemed more laid-back than the guys on his floor and more intense than the stoners in the quad.
From Anelle's parties it was a pretty easy jump to Oak & Rowan. It really wasn't his thing, not to begin with, but Aih was there, and Aih not only had a lovely smile, but she saw the world in a way nobody else Douglas had ever met did.
And from there it was a skip and a hop to Raven's Thursday night drinking in the swamp, and closing his eyes to the world and opening them to the other world.
Douglas is a wee bit on the short side - 5 foot seven - and a whole lot on the skinny side - barely over 100 lbs. He has dark skin, nearly ebony in shade, and eyes that shifted to a light blue-grey at puberty. His hands are almost clawlike, although that could be attributed to his thinness.
His hobby is 3D rendering; nearsighted AND farsighted, sometimes he feels like he can see space better in programming than he can in real life.
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Date: 2014-06-06 02:00 am (UTC)So...
• has very good near AND distance vision,
rather than
• can't see well at a distance OR close up
or even more literally
•can only see well close up AND can can only see well at a distance
?
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Date: 2014-06-06 02:00 am (UTC)So...
• has very good near AND distance vision,
rather than
• can't see well at a distance OR close up
or even more literally
•can only see well close up AND can only see well at a distance
?
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Date: 2014-06-06 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-06 08:28 pm (UTC)The second bullet, for if he can't focus far away or close up, means pretty poor vision overall. But it doesn't fit the two-part defs I just gave.
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Date: 2014-06-06 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-11 05:46 pm (UTC)Though I'm not sure where the line is between "super nearsighted" (like me) and "pretty poor vision overall", since I only have about an inch, ~6" from my face, in which my eyes focus clearly without glasses ;) Lyn, have actual eye doctors described you as both nearsighted and farsighted? Maybe there's something they haven't explained to us just-nearsighted folk.
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Date: 2014-06-11 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-11 05:56 pm (UTC)