OOC: Nineteen things about Susan Delgado.
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sai_delgado1. Her mother died when she was very young-- only a year old, maybe, or two at the most. Susan doesn't remember her at all, but every spring, she'd put a bouquet of wildflowers from the Drop on her grave. After her father died, she collected two bouquets.
2. She loves to sing, and has a fair voice inherited from her grandmother, but has absolutely no talent for playing an instrument-- any instrument. Dave Hollis tried to teach her the guitar once, with highly amusing, if painful-sounding, results.
3. With his red hair and the kindness she's seen from him so far, along with the clear respect and regard that people hold for him, Bernard reminds her a little of her father in some ways-- she thinks of him as someone who could almost be an uncle, if her da' had only had brothers instead of a sister.
4. She's always had a yen for pulling harmless capers, and has gotten into more than one little scrape that way. When she was ten, however, Susan played a prank on her Aunt Cord that involved swapping the salt and sugar in the kitchen stores. Unbeknownst to her, her aunt -- who had a bit of a sweet tooth, oh aye-- had planned to make a cake that day; and when she did, and the results were predictably awful, Cordelia was furious. She sat Susan down at the table with a large slice of the ruined cake and told her to eat it all, every bite. Somewhere in the middle of this tearful and unhappy scene, Pat Delgado walked into the kitchen. Upon finding out what had happened, he sat down at the table with Susan and winked at his daughter-- then took a bite of the cake, proceeded to tell Cordelia it wasn't all that bad, and ate the whole slice so that Susan wouldn't have to.
5. She never had much in the way of formal schooling, as it happens-- most of her education came from working with her father, essentially as a apprentice, trailing around after him as he did his job and as he explained things to her and taught her what he knew. The rest is from stories and songs told around and handed down. She's very, very good at math, though, and has a discerning eye for spatial relationships as well.
6. Deep down, she thinks that she deserved to die for killing an innocent man, and one who was somewhat of a friend besides. She doesn't believe it was her fault that she died, or anything like that-- but she can't quite escape the feeling that she deserved it. Despite that, if she was put in the same situation, she'd do it again.
7. She has never actually herself seen Roland fire a gun-- or any of the gunslingers in Milliways, for that matter. (She's got memories of such things, shared an-tet through palaver, but she's not seen it in person, as it were.)
8. She's never forgotten that Cuthbert promised to bring yellow silkflowers for Sheemie to grow, and was touched by the kindness of the gesture. Such a little thing, comparatively, in the midst of all the trouble they were facing-- and yet one that meant so much to Sheemie, and it was 'Bert who took the time to notice and to think of it, and Susan's never forgotten that.
9. She still loves Roland Deschain, and she always will. Even though she's not in love with him any more, she will never stop loving him, nor would she want to; they've shared too much for it to be any other way.
10. Susan likes Anthy. She really does. She genuinely likes her, and also feels sorry for her in some ways-- and in some ways, Susan identifies with her. She truly believes that Anthy didn't close the door on Joe of her own will, and she compares it to the command that Rhea left implanted in her own mind once. (Finding out that Anthy doesn't seem to have financial support of her own adds another parallel.) It scares her that there are so many people-- whose judgment she trusts-- who are so implacable about the purple-haired girl. She doesn't truly understand it, not from what she's seen of Anthy, but she doesn't disbelieve what she's been told, and that upsets her. Although she hasn't realized it consciously, it also makes her think of how it was the people she grew up with, people who knew her from childhood, who were the ones to burn her on the Reap-Night fire under the influence of her own aunt and the witch Rhea. This is the part of the reason she's more willing to befriend and to defend Anthy -- yes, even to Roland, Cuthbert, Alain, and Bernard-- than she might otherwise be.
11. She knows she's beautiful, and in a way she's glad enough of it, but she doesn't really think about it other than occasionally as a simple fact. It's brought her more of trouble than anything else, and so she doesn't try to use her beauty or play on it in any fashion. This is part of why she'll never be quite like Scarlett, although she understands her.
12. She's scared of the dark, and by preference will not go outside alone at night. This is partly due to the influence of stories heard in childhood (of werewolves and the like) and partly from learned self-preservation when things went bad in Mejis.
13. In the same vein, she's more unnerved by a number of things at Milliways (such as the profligate use of magic) than she likes to admit -- partially because it won't do any good, she thinks, and partially because she simply doesn't want to be afraid and so tries not to be. She's becoming more comfortable, though, as time goes by.
14. She was born on the first day of spring.
15. Susan considers Alain as a brother-- he's very dear to her because of this. Also because of this, she's not yet fully dealt with the fact of how he died at Jericho Hill, even though she knows the truth of it.
16. Susannah intimidates her. Susan both likes and admires her, a very great deal in fact, but she's still intimidated by her.
17. Often, when out riding alone on the Drop on a sunlit afternoon, she'd halt and ground-tie Pylon or Felicia, and would then either run or dance, spinning, out amid the grasses with the breeze pulling at her hair. She'd do this until she was dizzy and laughing, at which point she'd sink to the ground and just lie there for a while, looking up at the clouds, until she got her breath back.
18. Even though she grew up near the ocean, she doesn't know how to swim. Her da' wasn't a fisherman, and if he knew he never got around to teaching her -- and so she just never learned.
19. She is very, very fond of Cuthbert. Very fond. :) In retrospect, this might have been a sign long before of things to come, if she'd ever allowed herself to realize it.
2. She loves to sing, and has a fair voice inherited from her grandmother, but has absolutely no talent for playing an instrument-- any instrument. Dave Hollis tried to teach her the guitar once, with highly amusing, if painful-sounding, results.
3. With his red hair and the kindness she's seen from him so far, along with the clear respect and regard that people hold for him, Bernard reminds her a little of her father in some ways-- she thinks of him as someone who could almost be an uncle, if her da' had only had brothers instead of a sister.
4. She's always had a yen for pulling harmless capers, and has gotten into more than one little scrape that way. When she was ten, however, Susan played a prank on her Aunt Cord that involved swapping the salt and sugar in the kitchen stores. Unbeknownst to her, her aunt -- who had a bit of a sweet tooth, oh aye-- had planned to make a cake that day; and when she did, and the results were predictably awful, Cordelia was furious. She sat Susan down at the table with a large slice of the ruined cake and told her to eat it all, every bite. Somewhere in the middle of this tearful and unhappy scene, Pat Delgado walked into the kitchen. Upon finding out what had happened, he sat down at the table with Susan and winked at his daughter-- then took a bite of the cake, proceeded to tell Cordelia it wasn't all that bad, and ate the whole slice so that Susan wouldn't have to.
5. She never had much in the way of formal schooling, as it happens-- most of her education came from working with her father, essentially as a apprentice, trailing around after him as he did his job and as he explained things to her and taught her what he knew. The rest is from stories and songs told around and handed down. She's very, very good at math, though, and has a discerning eye for spatial relationships as well.
6. Deep down, she thinks that she deserved to die for killing an innocent man, and one who was somewhat of a friend besides. She doesn't believe it was her fault that she died, or anything like that-- but she can't quite escape the feeling that she deserved it. Despite that, if she was put in the same situation, she'd do it again.
7. She has never actually herself seen Roland fire a gun-- or any of the gunslingers in Milliways, for that matter. (She's got memories of such things, shared an-tet through palaver, but she's not seen it in person, as it were.)
8. She's never forgotten that Cuthbert promised to bring yellow silkflowers for Sheemie to grow, and was touched by the kindness of the gesture. Such a little thing, comparatively, in the midst of all the trouble they were facing-- and yet one that meant so much to Sheemie, and it was 'Bert who took the time to notice and to think of it, and Susan's never forgotten that.
9. She still loves Roland Deschain, and she always will. Even though she's not in love with him any more, she will never stop loving him, nor would she want to; they've shared too much for it to be any other way.
10. Susan likes Anthy. She really does. She genuinely likes her, and also feels sorry for her in some ways-- and in some ways, Susan identifies with her. She truly believes that Anthy didn't close the door on Joe of her own will, and she compares it to the command that Rhea left implanted in her own mind once. (Finding out that Anthy doesn't seem to have financial support of her own adds another parallel.) It scares her that there are so many people-- whose judgment she trusts-- who are so implacable about the purple-haired girl. She doesn't truly understand it, not from what she's seen of Anthy, but she doesn't disbelieve what she's been told, and that upsets her. Although she hasn't realized it consciously, it also makes her think of how it was the people she grew up with, people who knew her from childhood, who were the ones to burn her on the Reap-Night fire under the influence of her own aunt and the witch Rhea. This is the part of the reason she's more willing to befriend and to defend Anthy -- yes, even to Roland, Cuthbert, Alain, and Bernard-- than she might otherwise be.
11. She knows she's beautiful, and in a way she's glad enough of it, but she doesn't really think about it other than occasionally as a simple fact. It's brought her more of trouble than anything else, and so she doesn't try to use her beauty or play on it in any fashion. This is part of why she'll never be quite like Scarlett, although she understands her.
12. She's scared of the dark, and by preference will not go outside alone at night. This is partly due to the influence of stories heard in childhood (of werewolves and the like) and partly from learned self-preservation when things went bad in Mejis.
13. In the same vein, she's more unnerved by a number of things at Milliways (such as the profligate use of magic) than she likes to admit -- partially because it won't do any good, she thinks, and partially because she simply doesn't want to be afraid and so tries not to be. She's becoming more comfortable, though, as time goes by.
14. She was born on the first day of spring.
15. Susan considers Alain as a brother-- he's very dear to her because of this. Also because of this, she's not yet fully dealt with the fact of how he died at Jericho Hill, even though she knows the truth of it.
16. Susannah intimidates her. Susan both likes and admires her, a very great deal in fact, but she's still intimidated by her.
17. Often, when out riding alone on the Drop on a sunlit afternoon, she'd halt and ground-tie Pylon or Felicia, and would then either run or dance, spinning, out amid the grasses with the breeze pulling at her hair. She'd do this until she was dizzy and laughing, at which point she'd sink to the ground and just lie there for a while, looking up at the clouds, until she got her breath back.
18. Even though she grew up near the ocean, she doesn't know how to swim. Her da' wasn't a fisherman, and if he knew he never got around to teaching her -- and so she just never learned.
19. She is very, very fond of Cuthbert. Very fond. :) In retrospect, this might have been a sign long before of things to come, if she'd ever allowed herself to realize it.
