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What is your character like face-to-face?

As we know, icons and written text don't always give a clear impression of a character.

Describe what your character is like in person. What is their body type? Do they have any distinctive markings? Do they have an accent or unique kind of voice? Any interesting type of body language? Basically, share anything that you feel other characters would notice about yours if they ran into them in the street.


♛ describe all the things that icons don't show.
♛ like height, weight, posture, eye color, voice, etc.
♛ do they look different from canon now?
♛ did they get a new haircut or tattoo?
♛ how do they dress? have they taken to Aqures Ixen fashion?
♛ show and tell! enrich the game experience!
♛ remember to put large images behind cuts


Lovingly borrowed from: un_boxed ♥

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Tear Grants | Tales of the Abyss

[cantante]

♪ the basics.

Tear right now is 16.5 years old, just turning sixteen when she arrived in Crystallis six months ago ( May 2015 ). This is important to note given the age in her profile doesn't match the official timeline, which is what I go by since Tear could not have possibly been born any sooner or later than she was. In reality, she’s not even sixteen during the final battle. Her birthday technically doesn't exist in our calendar since it's in the thirteenth month, so we'll just match it up to May 15th when she turned sixteen. Now have some concept art.

That aside, she is 5'3.7" ( 162cm ) and weighs 110lbs ( 50kg ), most of that weight seemingly becoming muscle since she says she doesn't know when to stop as far as physical training goes and gains too much of it, which means she’s fairly acrobatic and good at evading. Her eyes are a cerulean blue and her hair a strange shade of light brown and formerly long enough that it would make a L'Oreal model jealous, often obscuring her eyes, though we’ll get to that part later on. ... And in case it isn’t obvious, she has quite the figure. Don't let that fool you though, as you can see she’s actually pretty small. Tear presents herself as cool and collected, as is expected of a soldier, and tends to keep her voice as neutral as she can while being respectful about her mannerisms. Still, she does have a graceful flair to her movements that was probably helped along by dat hair.

But the more you get to know her, the more she relaxes in the form of subconscious body language. Examples include hugging herself, holding her hands together, or brushing her hair out of her face; in reality she has very feminine body language. She also starts to look down more often, showing just how shy and socially awkward she can be and at the same time being a strange display of trust toward the other person. Her voice also sheds its careful control, and she allows herself to be more emotionally honest. She’s still pretty calm naturally, though.

And if you want a real world visualisation you can have those too.

♪ voice.

IT'S SINGING TIME. Tear's Japanese VA and singing was provided by Yukana, who does an excellent job of portraying the fact that while she is a soldier, she is still a teenage girl and does have her moments. That isn't to say her English voice ( provided by Nicole Balick ) doesn’t suit her, because it does fit Tear's character very well, but the delivery wasn’t the best... Nevertheless have a sample of one of her better moments, and how Tear tends to talk to the people she’s closer to. Yes, she is more likely to tease and call you an idiot the more she likes you, though for as formal and commanding as her voice can come off as, it can also be quiet and gentle.

♪ crystallis differences.

Now for the fun part! The biggest difference is that Tear got her hair ruined during the haunted mansion expedition, so it is now very short compared to before. She gained the Luke Effect in that it makes her eyes look bigger apparently. Aside from that, there hasn't been much else since she’s only been around a few months.

♪ outfits.
Tear still sticks to her Order of Lorelei uniform pretty often even though its meaning is useless in Crystallis; it's simply a habit and what she's used to. She'll wear the Red Mage and Bard job costumes, but also wears normal Aqueres Ixen garb. Nothing too fancy and mostly practical, and in warmer colours like you would see during the fall. Once in a while she’ll wear something a little cuter or a skirt/dress.

She also deliberately tries to come off as 'plain,' recognising that she does have a figure and does have a few admirers, but tries to be modest anyway and would otherwise start to feel uncomfortable with such attention. Still, her attempts to be 'plain' aren't entirely effective since many call her beautiful anyway.

But she totally has frilly pyjamas that fit perfectly with her frillier pillows and any plushies she may or may not have already collected.