made this wonderful avatar for Laysan, the main character in the novel that I am working on. Thank you so much, Gishzida!

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Here are excerpts from a description that I gave him:

She is short - not quite five feet tall. Her brunette hair is long, thick and somewhat wild - all the way down to her butt. She is just as likely to brush it as not on any given day. She is thin and small boned. She is not particularly endowed with much busom - definitely A-cup.

She is 33(ish).

Her skin is light olive (not from tanning, but rather from ethnicity). She is not a goddess. She is real. She looks young, but she has scars. She has a line of scars on her back. They start at the top of her left hip and extend to the top of her right shoulder. The scars start and stop as though someone wrote morse code upon her back in centimeter tall stretches of discolored, mottled, striated skin. Laysan generally refuses to even acknowledge that she has them.

Laysan is a lesbian, bondage, love slave. She belongs to Paty (pay-tee), but she is cared for by an entire community of women who are members of a group called "The Benedetta Carlini". So, she spends her days naked and in chains, which she prefers. She almost always wears a collar with a large ring on front. A chain dangles from the ring to act as a leash or to tether her. Typically, the leash hangs down in front and is then wrapped around her waist and fastened back upon itself so that the links rest loosely on her hips. Sometimes she wears wrist cuffs with 18 inches or so of chain between them. She is generally not tethered unless she wants to be. She has no desire to escape. She just really likes chains, cages, and bondage. She needs them, in fact, to feel safe.

She is shy, introverted, extremely, extremely empathetic, playful, and, frankly, more happy now than she has ever been. She, obviously, has been severely abused at an earlier age, but she seems very innocent still. She can focus intently on things but she can also be easily distracted to whatever whim comes along which leaves a multitude of art projects half done. She can be very stubborn. She becomes extremely emotional in an argument. She can be moody.