Meet the Character Monday--Kylin!

Okay it's time we do someone I don't absolutely adore, yes? So here's Kylin. Unlike Brittany from the Feudlings series, Kylin is not based on anyone I know. Maybe she's just the culmination of every mean girl I ever came across in high school. I don't know. What I do know is that Kylin isn't as evil as I make her out to be. She wasn't so...angry before. But it's gotta suck being with a guy you've been in love with since 7th grade, and knowing he's still in love with his ex, right?

Even still. Girl's got fangs and claws (metaphorically speaking, of course), and she's not afraid to use them!

How she appears in my head

Name: Kylin

Age: 17

Book/Series: Warrior Beautiful/Riders of Paradesos

Job: High school student, future fashion designer, Trey's girlfriend, calorie-counter, angry human in Paradesos

Hometown: Columbia Falls, MT

Family: Kylin is an only child. Her parents split up when she was a baby. Daddy pretty much pays her off but never has a thing to do with her. Her mom is a model who travels the world. Her grandmother is an icon in the fashion industry and as soon as Kylin graduates high school, she's going to work for her.

Appearance: 5'4", very thin, blond hair, blue eyes. Always dressed like she just stepped out of a fashion magazine.

Best Friend: She has a whole clique of girls she hangs out with. Before her obsession with Trey, Kylin didn't need a best friend or a boyfriend to make her complete--she had her girls and that was good enough.

Boyfriend: Trey, although she has a thing for his best friend Kason, too.

Meet the Character Monday--Shane!

It's time to give the boys a turn, don't you think? So today, let's meet Shane from the Feudlings series. His last book is coming out next month and I'm very sad. And it isn't even his book! He just gets a short story at the end.

This is what Shane looks like in my head: 

Shane was created pretty much by taking Ari, and making someone the exact opposite of her. She's sullen, angry, doesn't trust anyone and doesn't let anyone get close.

Shane, on the other hand, is happy. He's a total flirt, but he's kind and sweet. He wears his heart on his sleeve, he's popular, and has had the same best friend since they were toddlers. He wasn't raised to be a killer like she was, and he has to learn to be the Prodigy on his own.

BUT

There are similarities. For example, they both take their destiny very seriously. They work hard, they play hard. Football is life. And they both love to give Hunter a hard time.

Full Name: Shane Delyle

Age: Almost 18

Book/Series: Feudlings/Fate on Fire

Hometown: Detroit, Michigan

Job: Carules Prodigy. Student. Flirt. Football Player.

Family: Shane's only close family member is his cousin, Charity Delyle, who is also one of the most important people in the world to him. When the Council discovered that he was the Prodigy, they took him and raised him as their own. His parents are scared of him, but in Feudlings in Sight, we see that they'll be there when he needs them.

Appearance: Tall and lanky. He's the tallest of the Feudling boys, at 6'2", but not as broad as Hunter. He's got wild black hair and metallic blue eyes that look like contacts but totally aren't. His appearance is based off my adorable husband, but with blue eyes instead of brown, and younger. Not that we're old or anything...

Best Friend: Hunter Delyle, the Carules Guard sworn to protect his life.

Girlfriend: Ari, after some major convincing.

Meet the Characters Monday--Ari!

I'm starting this new thing on my blog. Every Monday I'll introduce you to one of my characters. I stole the idea from my sweet friend R.K. Grow. You can check out her blog here.

So OF COURSE my first character is going to be Ari. She's the one who started it all, right? Without Ari, there would be no Feudlings. Without Feudlings, I wouldn't have had the confidence to write Warrior Beautiful. So it only makes sense that we begin with her.

Ari was born because I was reading my two daughters a story about a princess who was trapped in a tower. Instead of rescuing herself, the princess asked a dragon to go get a BOY who then climbed in the window of the tower and helped the princess climb back out. I was SO ANNOYED that I stewed about this for days, and my stewing became a daydream about a girl who was tough enough to beat ALL THE BOYS.

Ari.

And how I love her. When I was writing Ari, I borrowed her strength. When the lady at the bank yelled at me, instead of running off to hide (which I normally do), I yelled back. I stood up for myself. I had a backbone.

SO. Meet Ari

Full Name: Arianna Delacour
Age: 17
Book/Series: Feudlings/Fate on Fire
Job: Edren Prodigy--Strongest sorcereress to ever live. Has to kill or be killed by the Carules Prodigy to end a three-hundred-year war. Also, high school student.
Hometown: She has a permanent home in Pennsylvania with The Family. But she's grown up in boarding schools all over the world, and home to her is her brother's colony in Washington more than any other place.
Appearance: 5'10". Tall, slender, black hair with red streaks. Big brown eyes.
Best Friend: Charity Delyle
Boyfriend: Shane Delyle (The Carules Prodigy)

Ari isn't afraid of anything. She says what she thinks. Everything she does is 110%. But she's been hurt a lot and doesn't trust easily. The one person in the world she feels safe with is her big brother, Will. She struggles with the fact that she's her grandfather's assassin and feels like she's a monster. She LOVES football and has a boot fetish.

Meet Ari on Facebook! She's got her own page :)

https://www.facebook.com/ari.delacour?fref=ts