This is for Zimmie; my greatly appreciated first reviewer and any other reader out there who wishes to know what the characters look like in better detail. If any readers aren't interested in this and just wishes to continue with the story, just skip this chapter break. I'll only be describing those who have already been introduced as to not spoil anything. I'll have another break later on for those appearing later.
Firstly all characters, unless stated otherwise are of a semi detailed cartoon-humanoid state; also known as humanized, I think. Being that my story is of a fantasy nature they are similar or exactly like standard fantasy races.
Normally I don't like clumping my physical descriptions together because writing goes from mostly flowing to completely non flowing, if not long winded and all over the place. I tend to only describe particular features as are needed for a nice addition to to the feel of the story.
Strong Bad, A.K.A The Fire/ Wicked Prince.
The shortest of his siblings, Strong Bad stands at a height just below the average humanoid. At first glance he may look like a very experimented on human, or some sort of half elf. Strong Bad is not actually elf, though. He has all the standard human male features, and much like his toon counterpart has a head that can be described as large with slightly elongated facial features. Particularly his nose. His lips are rather thin in appearance. His teeth are standard human teeth, except his canines which are a little more pointed than average.
He has somewhat large, cattish eyes, with the same bright green irises of his counterpart. His vivid blue hair somewhat shorter in the front, the bangs only long enough to pull behind his ears, and longer in the back, reaching the top area of his shoulders and upper back. Underneath the mask the light blue triangular crystal is attached to his lower center of his forehead. His ears are long, thin elfish in appearance, with permanent tiny stripes on the lobes and near the upper tip.
Strong Bad is a little out of shape considering all the running around and trouble causing he does, but not in the same round shape of his cartoon counterpart. This is most obvious with his front torso area. He has broad shoulders, somewhat muscular long arms and underneath the gauntlets his fingers are striped much like his ears, small thin stripes near the base and otherwise tipped red, similar colour to the mask and gauntlets alike. He keeps his fingernails and toenails very trimmed. His toes are the only appendage tips that do not follow the striped pattern.
Strong Bad's mask is half mask that goes on the upper part of his face. The top rests just below the hairline, while the bottom rests a little above the tip of the nose, then flows down below the cheekbones, only to rise and go behind the ears. The pattern on the mask is the standard Strong Bad mask look, with elongated fabric going along either side of the head and tying in the back. His cape is red, made of a semi-shiny material that has the same thickness and feel of fleece. It is held to his shoulders, bunching around his neck, by broach that is a very basic smooth clear stone with a clip. The stone, being a replica of a fairy's tail, is shaped like a half circle, roughly about the size of a child's fist. Strong Bad's pants are black, made from a durable material, that fit similar to straight leg jeans, not too loose nor too tight. He has a black belt holding it up, with one small side pouch for money or what-have-you. His boots are red leather pull-on, that go up to his calves and have black soles. He wears his pants tucked into the boots.
Finally Strong Bad's gauntlets are made of a fire immune fabric and a type of metal that both adsorbs and amplify fire magic, known as embertite. (If someone already claims it just tell me and I'll change it) The fabric is full glove, covering with fingers up to just before the elbow. The metal is plated over the hand, base of the fingers, and along the arm both on the top and the bottom.
Strong Mad, A.K.A The Earth/ Fury Prince.
Not just the oldest, but the largest of the Strong Clan, Strong Mad stands at a titanic seven or so feet tall. Much like his cartoon counterpart he is also all around thick and muscular. He has a stout thick neck which almost makes it look like his head and shoulders are connected without one. He is bald, except his thick black eyebrows. He has extremely dark green, round, eyes that in most light looks black. His facial features are broad, but he shares similar thin lips with his brother. His ears are only slightly pointer than the average human ears.
His body is incredibly thick and muscular, and he has long thick arms, long wide torso, and short stockier legs. His hands and feet are quite enlarged. He has a capital 'M' in a sideways oval tattooed on his right shoulder. His skin is only slightly more tanned than Strong Bad.
Strong Mad's favorite outfit consists of a sleeveless tunic like shirt and loincloth like shorts. Both are dark blue, with a black belt and lacing. He also wears black calf high boots, very touch but simple in design. Strong Mad has a golden medallion with a red gemmed capital 'M' in the center, on a thick gold chain.
The Cheat, both unnamed critter and dragon chaser.
In his natural form The Cheat is a small creature no bigger than a house cat. He has the body and head shaped much like a pika, with a stout form and little definition to between his head and body. He has tiny, nearly invisible ears hidden under a tuft of fur. Despite their size he still has really good hearing. His back legs are short, while his front legs are long and adaptable, able to act as both hands or quick legs to run on. He has a thick lower jaw and teeth that are nearly human like in structure. His fur coat is a vibrant yellow with various sized black spots all along his neck and back. His eyes are beady black, but cunning looking.
In his dragon chaser form The Cheat takes on a furry raptor like appearance. His limbs take a reversal where he has short upper arms, and long, thick running legs, with sharp claws on the toes. His face remains similar, but he gets a long thick neck. He is also equipt with smooth, leathery wings designed for gliding. Only the frame of the wings have any of the yellow spotted fur. Finally he is equipt with a long thick tail designed for both balance and to be used as a weapon.
The reigns that changes The Cheat are black with gold bolts and decorative markings embroidered into the leather like fabric. It encircles the thick muzzle without a mouth-bit, then connects to another loops to wrap around the upper head, beyond the eyes, and finally connects along the back of the skull. From the muzzle loop two straps are connected for the rider to lead.
Homestar of the Runner Clan, A.K.A the Fairy.
All fairies are shaped like children between the ages of eight to fourteen. Homestar is no exception to this, looking to be around nine or so years old. His face and torso are a little on the chubby side.
Homestar has big, bright black irises beyond his tussled white bangs. His hair short in the back, with his bangs reaching down to about the tops of his cheeks. On the outside of each eye socket area and traveling down each cheek are four night blue coloured crystals, two on each side. He has small, rounded features and a slight overbite that makes his look often pouty. His skin is incredibly pale, made to look nearly white by the soft glow he shines. His ears are slightly pointed, with the point paralleling the base of his skull. His thick, dark, antennae protrude from his skull from between his hair line and center point of his skull, about a hand-space apart from each other.
His basic structure is that of an active child, except he has longer than average legs. His hands and feet are average. His tail is slightly on the thicker side and longer side than the average, the base being about the circumference of of one of his wrists, and thins towards the tip. The tip is surrounded by a three dimensional five-point star, roughly the size of both his fists put together. The star is night blue in colour. His wings are butterfly like in appearance, with the upper wings being simular shaped to that of the monarch butterfly, but the lower ones being shaped more along the lines of the lunar moth. They are white, except for the far edges, and the two five-point star shaped 'eyes', which are dark blue. The 'coat tails' of his lower wings are dark blue fading to white as it goes towards the base. The base of the wings come out from the shoulder blade area, all the way down to the mid back.
As for Homestar clothing, he wears a simple red tunic and and shorts that go as far as mid thigh. The fabric is made from the leather of fairy dragons, a staple for the fairy nation. Other than that the only other thing he wears is a belt to hold hold his dagger and spear, and a anklet. The anklet, made of simple woven gold and blue threading, was a gift from his childhood friend, Pom Pom.
Champeen and Homeschool, the fairy soldiers.
Unlike Homestar, the youngest of thier group, Champeen and Homeschool are trained and focused fairies. Both wear armor under their clothing, including a breast plate, helmets, leg and arm guards, and tail guards. They also both wear sandals.
Homeschool is the tallest of the three. He looks to be a lanky fourteen year old in appearance. He also looks to be closely related to Homestar, with white hair, black eyes, and pale skin, as well as the white glow. Homeschool's face crystals are on his cheeks as well, but there are only two instead of four. Unlike his comrad, though, he has narrow features and spherical tail tip and wing eyes. This is the standard shape for fairies. He has a preference for the dark blue or dark green clothing. His wings are slightly more narrow than his companions', but are blue lined like Homestar.
Champeen is the shortest of the three, and looks to be more along the lines of twelve. Unlike her male companions she glows in a pale yellow colour. Her skin has a soft metallic sheen to it, and her pigtailed hair is gold in colour. Her irises are, like Homeschool and Homestar, black and bright. She also has bright red crystals along the center of her forehead, a large one near the hair line and two smaller ones beneath. Her wings are lined with red as well, but her wing eyes are blue circles. Her lower wings are small and rounder than her companions. Champeen has the longest tail with a smaller sphere of a blue crystal on the tip. She has a preference for light colours, particularly sky blue for her clothing, and she wears a cap sleeved dress over her armor.