Okay. Since pretty much everyone I know has done this name meme, I might as well, too.

Write out the name/s of your character/s and explain:
1) How you thought of their name.
2) What made you create the character in the first place.
3) How the character has changed over time (if they have changed).
4) Any random fun fact about that character.

Since ~triumph-forks already did one of our joint-owned characters, I figure I'll do the other two. For funsies. Or something.

First, Rhys Kebeth.
1) I didn't think up his first name - ~triumph-forks did. I forget how long he was nameless for. I came up with the last name, though. It actually comes from what my parents often call my sister. My first name is Kate, and my sister's is Beth. When my parents are agitated, they'll start calling my sister by my name, and then correct themselves halfway through. It ends up sounding like "Keh - Beth." It works it reverse too, but "Bakate" wasn't a surname that appealed to me. So Rhys got stuck with Kebeth.

2) At one point in freshman year, ~triumph-forks and I were in our Star Wars class, watching one of the movies. I forget which one, I think it was one of the original three, because I spent most of the movie daydreaming. I was thinking about Monty Python's Drunken Philosopher song, and thought, "Gee, wouldn't it be funny to have a character who is actually a philosopher who is constantly drunk?" (This became Ily.) And then I thought that that wouldn't be enough, so I thought up another character to hang out with my little drunkard. He would have to be just as pathetic and ridiculous as the drunk philosopher, so I decided on a mage who is afraid of his own magic. I can't draw for beans, so I asked ~triumph-forks to draw him (and the two others who would complete the trio) after class. When she asked me what they all looked like, I said, "I have no idea, I made them up just now. You get to design them." And she did.

3) Originally, Rhys was really really neurotic. He was afraid of pretty much everything, but most especially magic. At this point we've mellowed him out a bit: he's still afraid of his own magic, and that fear is still pretty debilitating, but he's not afraid of everything on God's earth anymore. Still neurotic sometimes, though.
His look hasn't changed too much. His heart-shaped baby-face has gotten plumper and more obvious (it used to be skinnier). The rest of him got chubbier - he gained some baby fat. He looks a bit more like a dude (even a girly-dude) rather than like a girl.

4) He sets people's pants on fire when angry (on a fairly regular basis, if I have anything to do with it). Also, he really really loves cats, but he's also scared of them; he avoids touching them or getting near them at all costs.

Next, Vant.
1) Advantage St. Justine. Yes, that is his name. For a long time, we couldn't decide on a first name, and then it came to me out of the blue. I called ~triumph-forks and told her that his name would be Advantage because his mom was weird. And then we shortened it to Vant, partly because it sounds cool, and partly because who the hell would call themselves Advantage. When we were coming up with last names for the three of them, I thought that it would be fun to make the society in which they lived biased against orphans (which Vant is) and that it's easy for people to tell who is an orphan because all orphans take the name of the orphanage as their surname, and all of the orphanages in the country have "St." in front of them. So we tooled around with embarrassing female-saint names until we came up with "Justine". Because we like to torment him. It's like a hobby, except less healthy.

2) Vant was the third of the trio that I had thought up in Star Wars class. I wanted a third character, and made up a tough badass mercenary who gets really squealy about money (to increase the pathetic factor).

3) Vant has also mellowed out over time. Also more awesome. Also more smooshy. He's still a jerkwad a lot of the time, but we've modified him so that his jerkiness has become somehow endearing. (~triumph-forks thinks it's because the other two grew on him, so occasionally he does sweet things.) Also, his face has changed a lot. It used to be much pointier and skinnier, and now he's got a craggy, square jaw. His hair has calmed down a little, though it's still just as messy (it looks less animu). Also he's bulked up quite a bit from his original design.

4) When he gets older and settles down, he spends a lot of time building and carving things. He's really good with woodworking. Also, one of the neighborhood kids, a seven-year-old girl, has a giant crush on him because he repairs her toys for her sometimes.

Okay, done. Sleep now.