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A roleplaying journal for Matthew Lynch of The Raven Cycle series

Journal code by [personal profile] minotaur @ [community profile] coliseu

Feb. 26th, 2016

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We can talk all day, we can talk all night
Do whatever we like, do whatever we like
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APPEARANCE
PB: Danny Flaherty

Matthew is "a bear of a boy, square and solid and earnest." He has golden curls that are described at one point as "cherubic" and his eyes are round, blue, and innocent. He's a big, healthy, contact-sports-playing fifteenSEVENTEEN-ISH-year-old boy with dimples and perfect teeth (the teeth are apparently a family trademark, though he is presumably the only dimpled Lynch.)

DEMEANOR
Matthew is indeliberately charming, untiringly cheerful, and rather simple. Or just plain dumb, depending on the day. He does not have much self-awareness so feel free to point out that he is dumb, because he probably has no idea. If you do this nicely, he will laugh at himself, because that doesn't give him any problems. If you are mean about it you might hurt his feelings. :(

He has no trouble making friends which is good because he does not like to be alone. Most likely he wants to be your friend! He's also very innocent.

FASHION


This is 100% headcanon, yo. Matthew wears simple, comfortable, preppy clothes, because he's a little farm boy but also a prince. His everyday wardrobe contains a lot of shorts and button-down shirts in light colors. He cleans up nice for church and fancy parties. If he's wearing a suit, he's also wearing cologne. A little too much cologne. (That part is actually not headcanon.)

THOUGHTS
For all you telepaths out there. Matthew does not have trains of thought. Matthew's thoughts are butterflies, flitting around through the happy little cloud of his mind. Sometimes he comes to somewhat inexplicable conclusions. I try to include flavor text in most of my tags about his specific thoughts at any given time, just know that he does not always go from point A to point B in the most straightforward or sensible way.

VOICE/SPEECH
At one point in the books Matthew is described as "rumbling" in reply to someone, so I assume his voice is somewhat deep, to match his big, square body. Sometimes he makes grammatical slip-ups (confusing "real" and "really", for example.) He is very casual in his way of speaking, and often his speech is reflective of the fact that his thoughts like to wander. It's not uncommon for him to finish a sentence without finish a thought. So then he's gotta clarify. Like, after the first sentence is already finished. You know?

SUPERNATURAL
Matthew is not a normal human being and it's possible people with certain powers would be able to pick up on that. He does not have a complete soul.