A slight digression.

I realise I promised that the next entry would talk about the Xiang sisters, but Liang and Hua aren't cooperating right now. Liang is almost pathologically shy, for some reason, and Hua is off on a gallery tour or something. All I can get out of her in the way of detail is 'four kids, Chinese equivalent of Jackson Pollock, cheerfully acknowledges that she's as insane as the rest of the family, married to a mild-mannered fellow who spends most of his life bemused by his wife's behavior and looking after the kids, Ho's favourite aunt'. She's got a picture in the Pens Gallery which is something of a nightmare - she was my first experiment with the Rapidograph pens, and her hair looks like she was either lit by about twenty different klieg lights or attacked by a mad stylist carrying swabs loaded with bleach. Mind you, knowing Hua, there's a good chance that it's not highlights, and that all the weird highlightey patches are either bleach or paint blobs. . . that's just an excuse for getting overenthusiastic and using her as a scratch monkey for the new pens, but still, it could be in-character for her, for all I know. Despite being the younger of the girls, Hua is the more dominant personality. Liang takes after her mother and would hide from the rest of the family if she could. God knows she's hiding from me. Might be a preschool teacher or something, I don't know. Hua was born a year or two before Yu... hm, for some reason I'm getting a weird 'twins' vibe off the girls. That might explain a bit. Anyway, that's all I can quite dig up on the girls. I'll let you know if there's any more.

Right now the big thing rolling through my head is Fang (big surprise). He's an active character right now, so more will develop on him as time goes on, but he started off at Ashes with only about a paragraph or two of background. Hashing out a bit more about him here should help me get him clearer in my mind.

Now let's see if I have this cut-tag thing right. ( Read more... )