Username:BrightLight
Name: Gingernut
Nicknames:Journey (ginGERNut)
Gelasia
Ginger
G (jee)
Age:Twenty years.
Physical:On the skinny side and about the size of a smallish Great Dane.
Her fur is medium length.
Her gait is graceful and she often walks a little quicker than other dragons.
Her metabolism is normal.
Her energy level is on the high end of the scale.
Her temperament is good. She's a little on the submissive side. She has no mental issues.
She has no known medical problems except that one of her claws is slightly twisted. Nothing's wrong with it, but it doesn't grind down against the ground when she walks like the others, and so needs to be trimmed more often.
Hearing: She can be a bit hard of hearing.
Vision: She doesn't need glasses.
Speech: She talks just fine, as you'll probably learn once you get to know her. Her voice is pretty much a clear female tone. She talks very-fast-whenshegetsexcited.
Personality:She's quite cheerful most of the time, and is rarely stubborn. She goes along with most anything, claiming that "there's always the chance that it will turn out okay!" In fact, she can be a bit of a pushover when it comes to persuading her to do something-- she feels bad when she wants to do something her own way for once. One of the only things that she's firm about is her looks-- she is positive that she does
not want to be fancied up in any way. One of her only pet peeves is when music is too soft to hear-- it makes her extremely frustrated, which is why she always has the radio on full blast. This makes her a little hard of hearing sometimes, which causes other JBDs to have to yell at her. Another thing about her is that she is very sensitive-- she would cry if one of her potted plants died, and she's vulnerable to insults.
She loves to travel and dreams of visiting places like France or Japan, although she tends to heavily stereotype and pictures most places as idyllic, movie-scene environments. She's very sensitive to cold, however, so her dream would be to visit the Sahara Desert or maybe the Amazon Rainforest.
One of her hobbies is creating clay figurines. She likes to make clay fruit especially and would happily spend hours creating and painting clay oranges, apples, pears, and other fruits. She enjoys looking up rare and exotic fruits to create and has her own little shelf in her room to display all her clay fruits. A common fashion statement with her is clay-fruit necklaces and bracelets.
She's very creative, as you can probably tell, and likes to do a wide range of arts-and-crafts-- some she's good at, some she's not. She loves fiber arts, but has to be discouraged from it due to her snarling the yarn up and sometimes trailing it around wherever she goes. She also enjoys breeding plants. Right now she's focusing on growing African violets from leaf cuttings. One of her quirks is that she needs to have a plant in the room wherever she goes-- ever since she learned about how plants give off oxygen, she claims that she can breathe better around them-- which may well be true. That's why she carries a small plant pot and water bottle in her pouch at all times. When she gets ahold of an idea, she doesn't let go-- even if it's a nonsense idea.
Which leads us to our next aspect of her personality-- she's imaginative. She loves to dream about things and sometimes will drag her friends out on expeditions looking for fairy rings or centaur hoofprints after reading an book. She often starts projects with a grand idea in mind, but she has a fairly short attention span and will usually leave it unfinished. This has gotten a bit better with age, but she can still be rather immature about it.
She doesn't have very much self-control when it comes to things she wants to do. As we've already mentioned, she has a very short attention span, and she requires constant watching when she's doing something she doesn't want to. Although she really tries to be good, she doesn't have a very accurate picture of the future. Her optimism can get her in trouble sometimes, because while she blithely picks flowers in the woods, she's leaving work undone. Although she claims that "I can always finish it up later", she often doesn't realize that all work isn't going to be easy-peasy. She's also
quite impatient, sometimes seeming to have no sense of time. She is slowly growing out of this immaturity, but she still doesn't act her age sometimes and sometimes makes social mistakes she should know how to avoid by now.
She has odd ideas about a lot of things. For example, she still believes that gum will choke you if you swallow it by accident. And she believes that dreams are omens. She's clever enough, but not the most commonsensical. She's very possessive, both of items, people, and other dragons. For her, nonliving things have "personalities". She gets very attached to certain items. She's never seen without her
Little Book, and she gets attached to even interesting looking rocks. She carries a lot of junk home this way. She's especially possessive about items she herself makes, and while one can't quite call her "egotistical", it is safe to observe that she definitely does
not take criticism, constructive or otherwise, well. While she won't actually yell, she has a longer memory than you would, well, expect, and will remember which people praise her work and which don't.
Her favorite thing is to hear others laughing because of her, and to laugh along. She doesn't mind humiliating herself to make someone else feel better. Sometimes she carries things too far, making jokes and pulling faces when all her friend wants is to be alone. Although she always means well, she has a hard time grasping the concept that all beans don't find life as funny as she does. She's often told to "take things a little more seriously", in fact. Despite this, her friends know that she can make any situation light and happy. She makes it her job to sing the "awkward silence song" at appropriate (or not-so-appropriate) times, and can always pull up onto her face a smile so happy and bright that most dragons would have a hard time believing that there was a care in the world for her.
Likes
Fruit
Laughter
Flowers, especially tigerlilies
Clay and painting
Traveling to exotic places
Fiber arts
Music
Plants and animals, especially birds
Butterflies
Bottle caps
Stained-glass and old cathedrals
Food!
Mint-chocolate-chip ice cream
Books
Bottled water
Orange juice and orange-peel tea
Pressing flowers
Dislikes
Music turned down so you can't hear the lyrics
Criticism, constructive or not
When other people/dragons touch her things
Getting her paws sticky because of glue
Cold places
Fighting with loved ones
Any kind of tea other than orange-peel with honey
Fancy/frilly things, especially clothes
Having anything tighter than a loose pendant around her neck
The fact that butterflies die quickly
Trying to read in the dark
Condescending factual videos
Band-aids
Using public bathrooms
Eating in restaurants
Plushes with enormous eyes
Wearing wool sweaters (static, you see)
in short... |
creative|
short attention span|
sensitive|
traveler|
optoomuchstic(too optimistic)|
pushover|
gullible|
possessive|
laughterQuirks:She needs to have a plant in the room at all times.
She can't stand very soft music-- it drives her crazy.
When she's bored, she chews softly on her tongue.
When she eats blueberries or other small foods, she doesn't just put them in her mouth. She takes bites out of them, no matter how small they are.
She
has to be in bed by 9:23 exactly. If she doesn't get to bed by that time, she might just fall asleep right where she is.
She'll notice the color of your eyes before anything else.
Facts:She keeps her "
Little Book of Inspirational Nature Sayings" in her pouch all the time and when she's feeling down, she reads a quote from it.
Her favorite time of year is spring-- the time of new beginnings.
She loves stained-glass windows and wants to try the art of stained glass someday.
Her favorite type of music is classical, but she has no problem with a little snazzy jazz.
Her mother always said that her eyes were so blue because she was "always looking upwards and not downwards".
She collects bottle caps.
She prefers analog to digital clocks.
She actually prefers water to any other drink, but she really likes orange juice as well.
Every Saturday, she does a plant tidy-up-- she trims, waters, and fertilizes her plants.
She has a soft spot for butterflies and loves to visit the local butterfly greenhouse.
When she can't fall asleep at night, she just thinks about a large tree that she knows, and how its leaves rustle in the wind, and the big, mysterious knothole in it, and the large owl that lives in the knothole, and that around now the owl will be coming silently out of the knothole, and how its huge, softly feathered wings will be spreading, and how it will glide silently into the night...zzz...
She paints her own flowerpots.
When she was little, her father told her that in every patch of clover was at least one four-leaved clover. She believes this and will happily spend up to half an hour searching clover patches.
In her pouch, she carries: Her small potted plant, a tiny flask of water, her
Little Book, any assorted pebble or bottle cap she may have found, and her keys-- if she hadn't lost them that day.
She is an ice cream licker, not a biter.
She always eats candy canes from the bent end.
She finds orange-peel tea with honey very soothing, despite its bitterness.
Friends:Mudpie,
owned by NeelixFun Dip,
owned by Ditzy DerpBree,
owned by CarbonAmbersweet,
owned by BerkshireTai,
owned by BerkshireBase,
owned by Blizzard/Cap'n BlizzBaritone,
owned by Blizzard/Cap'n BlizzLeonardo,
owned by Blizzard/Cap'n BlizzNova,
owned by Ditzy DerpMichelle,
owned by Pure Dragonall used with permission xD Secrets:(shh!)When she was little, she got tricked into believing that persimmons were poisonous. She's never quite stopped believing it.
She's scared of the dark.
She... steals and eats (raw) sugar when nobody else is home.
She wonders sometimes if her mother is her real mother. She always feels naughty thinking this, but when they're mad at each other she gets a bit irrational. Fighting with other beans really destabilizes her.
She misses her teddy bear at night. She hates to admit it. She feels like she killed him (she had a whole personality for him and everything) by throwing him away, and she feels really guilty about this sometimes.
She finds it really hard to fall in love (and stay in love!). She tries to convince herself that she still loves Café, but she's not feeling the same flutters, the same perfection she did at first. However, she also isn't interested in any others, so she's trying to hold onto Café because she wants to hold onto this love that she can't find again easily. She's scared that he'll notice.
She secretly wants one of her sculptures to be featured in the Smoothian Art Institution someday. Although she knows that right now, it would never happen, she is always trying to perfect her sculpting in hopes of seeing her own art there.
After hearing about how naughty she was as a bean, she's kind of afraid of having kids.
History:1 month ---- warm
soft
fur
pouch
mother4 years ---- Gingernut yawned, crawling out of her mother's pouch, and opened her blue eyes for the first time. As she looked up at her mother, they sparkled like two scraps of the summer sky. She yelped as her tender bean paws brushed against the cool morning grass. Soon, though, she was scampering around, tilting into things and squealing playfully.
6 years ---- Playfully shouldering her makeshift knapsack, Gingernut called over her shoulder to her parents.
"I'm going on an adventure!" she said, happily dashing off. Within the knapsack, a single, battered peanut butter jelly sandwich and her favorite book --
The Great Jellybean Fiasco -- were bouncing around.
Gingernut scrambled down the familiar path, breathing in the crisp morning air. Suddenly, on a whim, she ventured down a side path she had noticed yesterday, but hadn't ventured into yet. Soon she had no idea where she was.
A few hours later, a very bedraggled, tired, and ashamed young Gingernut was led back to her family by Dye, who had shown her the way at the price of one peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
8 years --- Eagerly, Gingernut tore open the wrapping paper. Under the eyes of her relatives, she held up... a party dress?
"It's... pretty!" she said, inserting false enthusiasm into her voice as she tried to keep from looking disappointed. Blindly, her relatives cooed and ahhhed and forced her into it-- it was a clashing shade of pink. As soon as she could, Gingernut escaped to her room, where she pushed the dress to the very back of her closet. She heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" she asked cautiously. Hearing nothing, she got up and padded towards the door. When she opened it, she saw nothing for a moment-- until she looked down. There in the hallway was a large teddy bear, complete with a blue bow the exact shade of her eyes. It held a card saying "Happy Birthday!"
She looked left.
She looked right.
Then she dragged the bear quickly into her room and shut the door.
10 years ---- Gingernut squirmed out of her mother's grasp, shaking away the comb that she was holding.
"I don't want to be all-- fancied up!" she cried, running her paws over her head. "I don't want to look stupid! This is my party!" Unaware that she sounded like a brat, with tears running down her cheeks, she fled to the yard, and was dragged up the stairs by her father. The birthday party was canceled, and Gingernut spent the rest of the day in her room, pummeling some clay moodily.
Finally, as the sun was setting, she came remorsefully out of her room and presented her mother with her very first clay-fruit necklace-- a hodgepodge of red bananas, blue apples, and green oranges. Clumsy, young paws had obviously shaped it, but so had love.
"For you..."
15 years ---- Gingernut's life begun as she was carried away by her new human. She looked back once at her parents, but then moved on, ready to start the journey of every newly-adopted bean. In her pouch, the new weight of her
Little Book of Inspirational Nature Sayings comforted her-- a good-bye present. She opened it for the first time.
"Every dandelion seed must someday fly from the seedhead and become a dandelion. Although the future blossom will be beautiful, the journey through the air can also be magnificent."17 years ------- The no-longer-so-young Jellybean Dragon stood outside her home for two years. Time to move on-- get a life, get a mate, get... going. She started off, down the street, then froze.
"My teddy bear!" she yelped, and rushed back into her house. Of course, nobody can leave their home without their teddy, right?
18 years ---- Gingernut had another new home now. She wondered where life would take her next. Over her shoulder, she threw a last glance at her second home, where her teddy rested in the garbage disposal, in rags. It was time to move on from the past.
20 years ---- She's come to live with Koiley for now. As I sit by her, she tells me about all this. I run my hand along her glossy back and wonder if she could be the one. She says that she's happy, hopeful, but kind of mixed up. She's been trying to keep up with her relationship with Café, but she doesn't know if he's interested in her anymore. She says, in a thoughtful tone, that she doesn't think anything is ever going to be the same again.
"Well, is that... okay?" I ask hesitantly. She gives me a startled look.
"Of course," she says, her blue eyes undimmed. "After all, life is all about change, right?"
"I suppose so," I say, and then we both don't say anything, because it's one of those moments when being silent is just the right thing to do.
She's fallen asleep, and I seize the opportunity to take a quick look through her battered
Little Book of Inspirational Nature Sayings. A dog-ear marked page catches my attention, and I flip to it. This page looks like it's been read and reread a lot.
"Though it takes time, every uprooted plant can regrow if planted carefully. But if the plant loses its will to live, even the best conditions will not revive it."