[A vaguely centaur-like alien with four eyes and no visible mouth treads the grass lightly. If you knew Vic... well honestly number of limbs aside there's no comparison. Alloran's only about six feet tall with long tan and metallic blue fur, and a delicate, rather graceful aspect, gentle-looking if you ignore the massive arc of tail with the scythe-shaped blade.
If you're in his vicinity you feel an odd lightness, a confidence. This sense that maybe, even if things are bad, you're going to be able to pull through. Alloran can sort of soundlessly 'sing' to project emotion out in a kind of aura and doesn't remember any reason not to do that. And his people are inherently optimistic and bless him he doesn't remember anything that would dent it.
Characters aren't required to feel that optimism themselves. They can shrug it off, it can wash around them without touching them. But they could be quite susceptible on a first encounter, too. Doesn't it make sense? That there's nothing you can't overcome, if you reach out and work together?
Also you look just as weird to him etc. His 'voice' is almost sound, but not quite. Alloran can't read minds, only project words into them.]
<You're an odd-looking one, aren't you?>
[He can have said that at any point upon meeting you, doing just about anything - cutting away thorny vines, pausing at the edge of the evil puddle or the cactus pit, in the graveyard or the manor or even the pub. I can take it from anywhere!]
alloran-semitur-corrass | animorphs
If you're in his vicinity you feel an odd lightness, a confidence. This sense that maybe, even if things are bad, you're going to be able to pull through. Alloran can sort of soundlessly 'sing' to project emotion out in a kind of aura and doesn't remember any reason not to do that. And his people are inherently optimistic and bless him he doesn't remember anything that would dent it.
Characters aren't required to feel that optimism themselves. They can shrug it off, it can wash around them without touching them. But they could be quite susceptible on a first encounter, too. Doesn't it make sense? That there's nothing you can't overcome, if you reach out and work together?
Also you look just as weird to him etc. His 'voice' is almost sound, but not quite. Alloran can't read minds, only project words into them.]
<You're an odd-looking one, aren't you?>
[He can have said that at any point upon meeting you, doing just about anything - cutting away thorny vines, pausing at the edge of the evil puddle or the cactus pit, in the graveyard or the manor or even the pub. I can take it from anywhere!]