>> Appearance
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Mildmay stands a little shorter than average, at around 5'8". He's also chronically underweight, although this is somewhat less obvious due to the amount of lean muscle he has. His face shows the signs of having lived a hard life - the most noticable of which is a scar that runs from the left edge of his mouth, puckering the skin. His default expression tends towards an emotionless 'stoneface', which he's spent a long time perfecting. He doesn't tend to smile, and if he does, it's because he doesn't like you - the scar on the left side of his face resulted in muscle paralysis, so when he smiles, it ain't pretty. If you can look past that, though, he's surprisingly young - in his early twenties - and also actually fairly attractive (if the number of interested suitors he's got is any indication, anyway). The red hair is, in fact, natural - loose, it comes down to near mid-back, though he usually wears it braided and tied off with a black ribbon. His eyes are green, and his skin is pale (other characters refer to it as being corpse-like, though light-skinned people are fairly uncommon in his city).
When he moves, it's with a careful, ingrained grace - a grace that's rather jarringly thrown by the noticeable limp in his right leg. He gets by okay without a cane (but would do better with one), though he can't move as quickly as he used to, and stairs are hell on his bad leg. If left to his own devices, he dresses in black - mostly to make a not very subtle point about his relationship with Felix due to the binding-by-forms. He's also a man of few words - he's very self-concious about his speech, and thus only tends to speak up if he has a point to be made, or has been addressed. He has a typical Lower City accent and grammar, and usually makes very little effort to correct either - the muscle paralysis also means his speech sounds somewhat slurred, which gets worse when he's tired or upset. As a result, he has problems with people not being able to understand what he's said semi-regularly (which reinforces his self-conciousness about speaking). The 'real world' equivalent of his accent and dialect is a heavier, rural Southern drawl.
When he moves, it's with a careful, ingrained grace - a grace that's rather jarringly thrown by the noticeable limp in his right leg. He gets by okay without a cane (but would do better with one), though he can't move as quickly as he used to, and stairs are hell on his bad leg. If left to his own devices, he dresses in black - mostly to make a not very subtle point about his relationship with Felix due to the binding-by-forms. He's also a man of few words - he's very self-concious about his speech, and thus only tends to speak up if he has a point to be made, or has been addressed. He has a typical Lower City accent and grammar, and usually makes very little effort to correct either - the muscle paralysis also means his speech sounds somewhat slurred, which gets worse when he's tired or upset. As a result, he has problems with people not being able to understand what he's said semi-regularly (which reinforces his self-conciousness about speaking). The 'real world' equivalent of his accent and dialect is a heavier, rural Southern drawl.