TGT Characters II

Jordan Carrefour is ten and has a younger sister, Maizie. His father is a lawyer who struggles to come to terms with the notion that the children are in a spell cast by a witch. Jordan spends most of his time obsessing about how to catch a carp, the mastermind of the river, which has taken a dislike to him. It's a battle of wills. The character, Jordan, is named after my nephew and has similar personality traits, for example, Jordan's interaction and relentless pursuit of the carp in The Glass Table is how I would expect the real Jordan to deal with a similar situation.

Ming Zhi Chen, age twelve, lives with her mother in a tiny one-bedroom house in Rumpole. Ming's mother escaped China with her when Ming was a baby in defiance of the country's one-child policy, and relatives who wanted Ming handed over to baby traders because she was not the boy the family wanted. She attends a private girls' school by way of a scholarship, and is known for her exceptional intelligence. As a result, the river spirits rely heavily on Ming to help them understand the complexities of the rules set out in the manual governing their existence as river spirits.  

Lucy Bintapple was a fun character to write. She is a spirited twelve-year-old who cares less what anyone thinks of her. She has a problem with vocabulary, and tends to mix words and phrases together for new versions. She collects bottle tops and stones, and lives with her younger sister, Caitlyn, and her father. Their mother died when the girls were younger, but Mr Bintapple still talks to his wife as if she is still with them. Mr Bintapple is the first person to embrace the theory that the children have been cast into a spell by the witch who lives at the lake. Lucy is the redhead on the cover of The Glass Table.

Next blog: the final two river spirits: brothers Isaac and Toby Witherspoon, the naming of Rumpole and Hanging Rock, and the six wood spirits.

Regards
Leigh

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