Kezya

17

Female

None

Deuteragonist

Light brown

Like 115

5'8

Dark Brown

Really Messy. Most of it is tied in a lopsided ponytail, but an uneven bit hangs out in her face (she had tried to cut it herself once).

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Human

Olive, very tanned

She is fairly tall, and most of that height is in her legs. She has a generally lanky figure and holds herself awkwardly (hunched up, fidgeting, swaying from foot to foot, etc.), as if she doesn't know how one properly does so.

Near-constant sunburn on her face and ears has led to an odd freckle or two, but not nearly enough for her to appear "freckled".

She's motivated to go into the house and, later, back to the woods by her desire not to be caught by the homunculi.
Kezya also, despite growing up solitary, craves human interaction due to her extraverted-by-nature inclinations and is motivated eventually to open up to Ellie and Peter by this urge.

This is not to say that she is automatically fully trusting of others, but she will hinge a lot of faith and responsibility for herself on the few people she is able to open up to because she has such a lack of these people in her life. While that wasn't much of a problem for the Grandfather, Peter is put off by this, having grown up with enough people around him that he didn't need to put his faith in only one or two people.

Because of her situation, she automatically doesn’t trust any the homunculi, and for a time she holds a grudge against Peter for kicking her out of the house unintentionally.

She is incredibly hands-on and creative with how to use her surroundings to her advantage.

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Despite her life of solitude-by-necessity, she is not quiet or stand-offish by nature, so it takes little effort on her part to befriend Ellie and, later, Peter. At one point in her youth, she had even tried to stealthily talk to Greg without the homunculi noticing. They noticed. This is also probably why she was able to convince Peter's Grandfather to let her hide out in his house for so long.

Running Away

While she doesn't know of any formal religion (except for the tiny bit of Christianity Peter's Grandfather explained to her before he died) and has little to no resources from which to learn any formal ideology, Kezya developed her own "religion" of sorts to compensate her questions about the world. It is more of a set of loose, open-ended explanations about nature and biology (a lot like when you ask a three-year-old why grass is green, etc.). Because of her isolation, she even considers the homunculi (as forms of ultimate antagonization in her life) the causes of natural ailments like sickness, rain, cold, etc.

N/A
(due to isolation from society- she has lived alone in the woods for most of her life)

N/A (teenager)

Purple- it is the color she least sees in the woods she calls home, so it is a rather exotic shade for her.

all she really has is the clothing on her back

She’s not a fan of animals because she’s spent too much time out with them.

Her family was the traveling romanichal ("gypsy") group that trapped the homunculi in the woods in the late 19th century. They were trapped in the parameters of the property as well, while the homunculi could only get to the edge of the woods. Over the resulting 100 years of conflict, all were killed except for Kezya. She hid in the manor house afterwards, Peter's Grandpa helping her out a bit. The Lipscombs’ arrival upon the Grandpa's death pushes her back into the woods. The homunculi are out to get her because they need a human to get out of the woods, but their human ward, Gregory McGurten, is too sickly to power the Line Box.

-She is rather introspective and observant, but because she never had any form of education (she can't read at all), she's formed a unique, very bare-bones view of her surroundings. Living and talking with Peter's grandfather helped her improve linguistically and, to an extent, spacially.

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