Geeze, I can't believe it took me this long to realize I should have posted a thread asking, instead of trying to scour the internet. *facepalm*

So, does anybody remember Parja's physical description? (I'll love you forever if you're willing to find and excerpt or two and post them.) I mean, I remember her hair is brown (ahem, sorry, chestnut ) and she has it in braided pigtails...but a lot of the fan-done images I've seen of her (and by 'a lot' I mean all of SIX I found were split into equal thirds between these styles) only have some of it braided with the rest hanging loose, or all of it in a single ponytail, as opposed to all of it in two shoulder-length pigtail-braids, like I have in my head oh god it's so cute. Oh, and what the heck is her eye color? The internet says 'deep blue,' but the internet also suspiciously tells me 'green.' And while we're at it, just to make sure, 'cause I don't trust anything at this point...her armor is indeed the 'deep scarlet' that the internet implies, like her dear auntie's is?

It's been so long since I've read the books, I don't know what to believe any more...and we only have Order 66 here, which probably won't have much by way of visual descriptors, so I can't check myself.


(I'll be damned if I don't end up drawing her adorable, Kaylee-esque butt. <3)

Bah! I went to go look it up for you and realized that all of my RC books are in another castle! ... er.. I mean at my school apartment and not here. >_>

So, someone else will probably beat me to it, but otherwise I'll check as soon as I'm back there again. lol

Haha, castle. XD Thanks for the reply, though. Activity is healthy.

No idea, sorry.

But I would like to point out that her hair style can change... so dont get to caught up on that. One pig tail, two pig tails, flat, or curly... could differ daily...

That is, of course, true. But I don't remember reading anything about her chainging up her hairstyle--just that she'd tie up her braided pigtails with copper beads. So I figure, I'll stick with going for that look until and unless either she wears her hair different in the books, or I decide I really wanna do somethin' different with her hair.

I'll be back at my other place on Monday, Mel. So if you want, I can look up Parja's intro and such then. (:

I'd very much appreciate that. Thanks so much, Mesh'la. <3

Okay, just sifted through True Colors for about half an hour and discovered that, while Parja is introduced in that book, her physical description isn't mentioned. It only says that she is a mechanic and likes fixing things up, then goes on to describe a few instances where she helps Fi out. So... I'll have to delve into Order 66 to look some more.

Update

On page 42 of my hardcover Order 66 book, it says the following:

"Parja's dark chestnut braids swung beneath the chin level of her helmet, secured with red copper beads. With her deep scarlet armor, the overall effect in the gray drizzle was one of vivid autumn fruit."

And on page 46:

"Parja's eyes narrowed. They were very blue."

Huh. And here I was thinkin' there would have been somethin' in True Colors. ^_^' Now I just feel like a lazy ass, not lookin' for it myself. *cough* So, from the looks of it, nothing specifically about her having all her hair in two pigtail-braids? That's so weird, I could have sworn there was...

Then again, that could just be from my brain making an instantaneous connection to Kaylee when I read about Parja, and giving the visual of Kaylee's braided hairstyle. >.>'

Nothing that I saw in those first pages said anything specifically about two pig-tail style braids, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been that way (or that it didn't detail it further later on in the book). Of course, that could imply more than two braids also, lol.

When you say Kaylee style, what do you mean? For some reason I can only picture Kaylee with her hair down.

There were only a few times she had her hair braided. The only specific point that comes to mind is in the flashback episode (Out of Gas), where Mal keeps remembering how the crew all got together (and Wash had a ferret on his lip XD).

Man, it's easier to find her with her hair tied back in a ponytail, or in the two little buns from the episode where they met Book and Simon. Had to scour youtube and snag a screenshot for it (couldn't find a nice, clear one, but you can mostly see it). Kaylee with braids.

Oh right, right. Man, if I could do my hair from behind my own head I would wear it in two french braids down the back all the time. I love that hairstyle. :/

Hehe. You should make friendly with someone who likes to do hair, and pester them to do it for you all the time.

it sounds to me like there would be a small multitude of tiny braids tied with and hung around the copper beads. i can picture it in my head but i can't find it on the internet...jeeez.