Hazel the Girl Squirrel [WIP]
Mar 18, 2012 1:39:49 GMT -5
Post by fluffy on Mar 18, 2012 1:39:49 GMT -5
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Age: Unknown, Likely a Year since Real life Squirrels start mating at a year of age.
Species: Squirrel
Birthplace: An England Forest
Movie: Sword in the Stone
Title: And a Red Head at That!
Why: Well, today I was watching The Sword in the Stone while babysitting the kids of a family friend, and the scene in which she was involved really got to me, as it usually does, but then, as she was watching him walk away, and idea occurred to me. If Merlin could make "Wart" into a squirrel, couldn't he also make Hazel- as many fans have adoringly nicknamed her- into a human? Of course, that isn't what I plan on in here- well, maybe, but not yet or without permission- but what if, after watching Wart leave, Hazel actually decided to try and follow him? A squirrel protector, driven by a "mate-for-life" love. Anyhow, the idea just made me need to find someplace I could at least try it out because her personality and story just touched me and I can't let the story end there. It is just too cruel to her.
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Facial description/mood expressions: Hazel has a pretty face, especially for a squirrel. Her cheeks are very round and soft looking due to her talents at finding ample amounts of food. Her nose is a shade darker than her fur, something she is grateful for, thinking a black nose would be simply incompatible with her fur color. Somehow though her black eyes are perfectly suited to the rest of her anyways as far as she is concerned. As far as her expressions go, one could say her emotions are written as plainly in her features as word in a book. However she feels, she doesn't try to hide it.
Clothing style: Hazel doesn't tend to wear clothes. Don't worry though, she doesn't go streaking either, she has her fur to cover her. She takes care to keep it neat and prim, but during storms it either poofs out with the humidity or is stuck unattractively to her body by the rain if she is unable to find adequate shelter.
Body build: Hazel has the body any girl could hope for. Slim and elegant in most places, but plump around her rear end and well curved elsewhere. While she may not have much muscle to her, she has more than enough for climbing trees, running from wolves, and holding onto the Wart. Well, that is as long as he is a squirrel.
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Hazel however, like a blonde headed bimbette might be, is very appearance concerned. She takes pride in her pretty squirrel looks and is normally content to sit around grooming herself for hours on end. She hates it when her fur is wet or frizzy and there are few things that can distract her from trying to get it to lay right again when that happens.
Along with her concern for beauty, or perhaps the cause of it, is Hazel's girlish dream of finding her true love. As any little girl might, Hazel has always day dreamed of finding him. After all, in her realm, squirrels mate for life and only with one mate, much unlike the real world squirrels who are, to put it nicely, a bit too willing. This dream is fueled by a large heart that has the capability of loving the right person wholly and entirely. Once she found her love, she was sure she would never be separated from him, because she wouldn't let him get away, no matter what.
In this way, and more, Hazel has proven to be a very persistent girl. If she sets her heart on something, she is not going to give up on it for any reason short of death. She may become sidetracked or shocked sometimes, but if she decides on something, by the great oak tree and it's tasty nuts, she'll do it!
It is likely her persistent nature that drives her to often do rash and brave things. The difference of course being that she does not now the dangers when she does rash things, yet when she learns of dangers, she'll still bravely face them if it is going to help her reach a goal of her's.
When great goals are not at stake though, Hazel tends to be a very playful and feisty squirrel. Some of her favorite things to do are explore new places, fly from tree limb to tree limb, and play with others, usually contact games, like wrestling, or skill games like racing and hide and seek. She can get fairly crafty sometimes in her games, finding fast routes for tag, knowing just where to hide during hide and seek- the places no one expects, not the places that you are easily well hidden in- and is able to use someone's own words against them if she feels like getting into a verbal debate. Though the last doesn't happen often as she has a tendency not to listen and has a hard time caring to think in words, much preferring to chitter randomly and use the inflections of her voice to express her thoughts and feelings. Though she has been known to speak some, it is not often that she care to speak in such a straight forward manner.
History:Hazel was born into a normal squirrel family. Well, normal for her world anyways. She had a mother and a father who loved each other very much and a couple siblings that she often played with and fought with. At bed time she would always ask her mother to tell her again of how she had met her father. It was a fairly normal story, but it enchanted the young squirrel all the same.
Her mother, newly a year old and ready to move out on her own, had set out to try and find her mate and on the way tripped over her father. She had gotten angry at him and chittered meanly at him, but when she looked into his eyes, she realized he was the one that should be her mate.
After the story, Hazel would often ask her mother how she had known that her father was the one. Her mother almost never knew how to answer, but when she tried to explain, she always said it was something about her father's eyes that had told her.
From these story's Hazel's dream to find her own mister right was born. She often dreamed of him, perfect, handsome and lovely. Yet, when she grew old enough to move out and start trying to find her mate, she found that none of the squirrels she had grown up knowing suddenly had anything different about their eyes as she had often thought would happen. Though many of the guys were willing to have her chase them, she never gave chase, always holding out for exactly the right one. Her siblings, most of them mated, except for the ugliest of them, started to tease her that she would end up like the fat old granny squirrel who had no mate even though her time to become a mother was growing short.
So Hazel started journeying farther and farther from home everyday, searching for the right one. She never seemed to find him. Even her ugliest siblings had found mates and almost all the guys had given up on her. One day, Hazel decided that she was going to leave home, travel as far as she could, and never come back until she found the right guy. As she started out though, running quickly along familiar branches, not really paying attention, she almost ran face first into [WIP-sorry, gotta go xD]
Ambitions: Find Wart, Become a Human, Get Wart to Love Her Back, Protect Him
Strengths & abilities: Speed, Bravery, and Sharp Teeth
Flaws: Ditzy, Vain, and Small
Likes: Nuts, Trees, Wart, & Games
Dislikes: Wolves, Cages, Concrete, Real World Squirrels, & Rain
Fears: Wart Getting Hurt, Never Seeing Wart Again, Being Eaten, and Being Caught by a Male Squirrel
What makes this character unique: Hazel, while being a very minor character in the movie, has a large plot that is all her own. She is a just a young squirrel trying to find the right mate, yet her search for love leads her into danger right off the bat as the right one is almost eaten, and then into impossibility as she finds that he can never be with her as a squirrel, for he is a human. This canon story alone is enough to make her and her story amazingly unique, yet the way they leave her there, sitting on a branch staring after him as he leaves, almost looking as though she is about to follow, leaves room for much more to be added onto her story if one only uses their imagination and looks deep into her character.
RP SAMPLE: WIP
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