Research Folder: Making My Text Accurate - Characters

Characters:

Esme Carter:
Esme Carter is 23 years old, birthday 7^th July, cancer sign, just finished university in Manchester studying Classics.
Cancer – strengths: adaptability, loyalty, genuine attachment to a family, and empathy. Weaknesses: moodiness, sensitivity, and emotional outbursts and indecisiveness. Cancer will set their aspirations high and will have constant struggles for success and achievement.
Esme is a very shy and kind character, someone who is compassionate and loving and inquisitive, not afraid of adventure but keeps herself to herself.
5"6, Slim build, long blonde ringlet/wavy hair, blue eyes. She has a west country (weak bristolian) accent.
Make up – black eyeliner and mascara, golden/ brown eye shadow and pale pink lipstick.
She wears very in fashion, stylish clothes like jeans and baggy jumpers to floaty tops and shorts with lots of accessories.

Athena:
Goddess of Ancient Greece, Goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. She’s the protector of Athens. Many people throughout the Greek world worshiped Athena. Athena is also a shrewd companion of heroes and is the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patroness of Athens. Athena never had a consort or lover, ’virgin Athena’.

A tall, slim woman with bluish-green, full round/oval face, the nose a natural extension to forehead, deep-set eyes, full narrow lips, and a long neck. Wearing a full length chiton, draped over one shoulder with special gold embellishment to make her stand out to the average woman, gold leaf crown with gold jewellery. In wars wears gold armour. Athena is a loving and kind person who looks out for everybody but is not afraid to be firm and stand up for what she believes in.

Juliet Carter:
50 year old Juliet has been born and raised in Bath, this is where she met Paul aged 18 and they married when they were 23 years old they had John and 4 years later they had Esme, sadly Paul died in a car crash aged 47, when Esme was just 20. Juliet has been diagnosed with MS and it is progressively getting worse but she is still able to walk normally and have a normal life.

Juliet has blonde short hair in a bob style, with a heavy fringe with green eyes. She has a more apple shaped body and she wears clothes such as leggings, boots, long tops and jackets.  She wears very subtle make-up. She is 5"5. Her character is very nurturing, kind, sweet, wise and a best friend to Esme, would go out her way to help anyone but stubborn when it comes to someone trying to help her.

 

 

John Carter:

27 year old John is the eldest child of Juliet and Paul, he is married to Sofia and has 2 children, Amy aged 5 and Kian aged 2. He was born and raised in Bath but lives 10 miles out now with his family.

He has brown short hair, blue eyes, is 5”11 in height and has broad shoulders, is average size, more muscly and works as a financial advisor and spends time in the gym on his time off if he’s not looking after the kids. He wears casual clothes, jeans, trainers and a t-shirt or sweatshirt whereas at work he wears a suit.

 

 

James Wright:

James Wright is 22 years old from Manchester, 6 ft. tall and has dirty blonde hair and brown eyes, he is slim and stylish. He also studied Classics at the University of Manchester and was in Esme's class and is a close friend. Esme runs into him at the airport in Rome and they’re staying in the same hotel, they go out for a meal, he is a recurring minor character in the story and won’t have many lines.

Poseidon and Tiresias
Poseidon  is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology. His main domain is the ocean, and he is called the "God of the Sea". He is the God of sea, earthquakes, storms and horses. He is often drawn as an elder man with curly hair and a beard.
Tiresias was a blind prophet to Apollo, Athena made him blind for him wondering past the lake where she was bathing. He hit two snakes with a stick and was transformed into a woman for seven years by Hera. These characters will be in the scenes in Esme's dream on being Athena in Ancient Greece.
In the image below, Poseidon is on the left and Tiresias is on the right.

Bibliography:
Google Images, Wikipedia