hey @Kaloobia I AM SO SORRY FOR THE INSANE DELAY!!!
- make him about 10 ibs heavier for his age/height/body type. he'll definitely have some muscle from dancing! muscle weighs more than fat, and you could easily make him up to 154 ibs without worrying about accuracy.
- not really sure what you mean by the hair style.. how does it "sometimes" fall on his forehead?
- his skin will probably be much darker given his race. maybe olive with warm undertones or something similar.
- good identifying marks, but more if possible. does he have a certain stance or clothing style that he always wears?
- "throwing things around in his hands like some kinda football, " you mean tossing from hand to hand? otherwise it seems like he's actually forcefully throwing it and for a dog, that wouldn't be pleasant.
- "fighting the demons his parents left him with" metaphorical? why did they leave him with the demons? what were they? what caused him to be left with them because of what his parents did?
- changing what for the better? his personality? habits? flaws?
- "attributes people liking him to him being part of a boy band" what does this actually mean? i get the next part, but this i don't.
- "Taylor Swift Taylor Swift TAYLOR SWIFT " what about this is a hobby. also give him some more. does he enjoy the songwriting he does? in which case it might be a hobby. what does he do when his dogs aren't around and he can't listen to taylor swift?
- "now that he truly has the opportunity" he could have lived his life to the fullest by just being grateful for what he had, presumably. maybe he just wants to get out and live freely.
- "highly incompatible personalities" … this doesn't really mean anything. people can have incredibly incompatible personalities but still love each other to death (my parents for example, me and my mom for another example). idk i just don't like the idea of people being sorted into "personalities" that supposedly determine everything about them lol. you do you tho
- "clashing of personal beliefs" children are very impressionable. if they were brought up in a home that has certain beliefs, chances are they'll have the same beliefs.
so that's all!! so sorry for the delay!!!!!!!
Hey sorry it took so long for me to get back to you!
- oh okay!! I'll keep that in mind, my friends and I all have like super unconventional body types and I have very little idea of how it actually works haha, thanks!
- Like sometimes when it grows out it'll, like, bounce around and the curls will fall onto his forehead. I'll try to make that clearer!
- I actually based a lot of Noah's appearance on a Asian-African-American kid I met who had very light skin, even though her father is super dark-skinned. What I mean is that it's entirely possible. Genes are wack, bro.
- Okay!
- Haha yeah tossing is better
- I'll try to be more accurate, but in the "Background" section.
- I'll specify!
- I mean, just what it says haha. Like, when you're part of a band it's, like, a group/unit deal, if you want one you need all five of them, and Noah is sometimes (accurately) aware of people getting close to him just so they can get someone else's number from his group. Also, it's not uncommon for people to like boy band members who aren't necessarily talented, or that good-looking or whatever, but because they're a celebrity and part of a boy band their charm is suddenly enhanced: Noah is afraid that he isn't actually hot shit, that people are deluded into thinking that, yada yada it's something very specific to anxiety, probably along the lines of "impostor syndrome" and that I'm basing off my own experiences, but obviously exaggerated bc I'm not a celebrity haha.
- Okay, will add more!
- /11/12. When I mention that Noah was afraid to qualify his parents as "abusive", I was trying to make a point. Yes, he could have been """"grateful"""", and he tried for a long time, but after about thirteen years he realized that it wasn't benefiting him in the slightest. It's not normal for parents to start yelling at you and telling you how indebted you are to them when you accidentally drop a plate and it breaks. It's not normal for parents to lash out at you verbally every, single, day. It's not normal for parents to constantly tell you that you're wrong, that of course they can yell at you they're your parents but god forbid you yell at them back when it's all too much and you're angry and goddamn you're a teenager with hormones all over the place, and they're pretending like everything they say doesn't slap you in the face, doesn't carry any weight and affect you in unimaginable ways. Yes, people can be incompatible and still get along, but when one of those people holds power over the other, it can turn unhealthy and toxic very, very easily. People have different ways of "loving" each other, and not being able to deal with someone else's way of loving you because you both need different things doesn't make you "ungrateful". As for personal beliefs, I'm going to blatantly disagree with you there: my own mother is a borderline fascist, whereas I am an incredibly liberal democrat. At some point, usually in their tweens/teens, kids start realizing that their parents aren't always right, and this can cause a huge rotation in how they view the world, let alone how they view their parents: when you realize that you're parents are wrong about some things, it can lead you to question everything they have ever taught you, and this either sizzles out and disappears or carries on in the form of "teenage rebellion". We're obviously dealing with a very specific case here, but I think that's all the more reason not to apply "normal" standards to it.
I'm sorry that go so long but I'm really trying to make my point without coming off disrespectful, or "ungrateful" myself.
Anyway, thank you so much for the critique! And don't worry about taking so long haha, real life ALWAYS takes precedence and I totally get that. Thanks again! (and if you feel like it you can get back to me on my answers to your questions.)
