Bio:
Name: Taryn Eleanor Rogers
Age: 16, HS Sophomore
Birthday: July 23
Blood Type: B
Height: 5'2"
Hair color: Kool-Aid red, front bleached naturally brown/black
Eye color: Brown
Family: Mother, Ellie Rogers; Father, ?
Abilities: Sensitive to psionic energy; harnesses and uses said energy for "psi-blast" (later in story)
Likes: Ryan, Nirvana, cigarettes, sex, leather & lace, lipstick, fire
Dislikes: Kylie, teachers, cheerleaders, most women
Element: Fire



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Taryn has been, since her "birth" in 1995, my favorite character to write as well as to draw. She has evolved more than any other character I've developed before or since; she's the benchmark of my "honest" character creation ... she is the first one that was not simply a carbon copy of myself. I infused her with bits and pieces of people I knew, with qualities I would like to find in myself ... she was fiercely independent, rebellious; she was all the things I could not be when I first created her in junior high.



:: 2413
:: charaDes
:: moonburned
Taryn Rogers

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10.29.95
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Here she is still the rather "Mary-Sue-esque" character of her original incarnation; all I knew at this time was her hair was red and her eyes were brown.
Sept '96
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Just a little panel from my first anime-phase; I always wanted "2413" to be a comic, but this was as far as I got back then.
02.11.98
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The first cast picture. Taryn's hair is still long, but her bangs are bleached by this point and she's showing her affinity for khaki/camo.
11.07.98
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Here's where the revealing clothing showed up; just a scribble from class.
01.13.99
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These clothes were maybe just a little too slutty, even for Taryn, and the smoking started. I still don't like this pic; she looks too masculine.
02.08.99
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Part of a "cast pic" for a bunch of original charas. The final look is almost cemented, here.
03.04.99
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"2413" was designed with comics in mind; here Taryn's showing off her short-lived "electrical" power.
03.23-25.99
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Trying to bring Ryan and Kylie's designs up to date, Taryn's not changed too terribly much by this point.
Aug 99
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My "animation" class in high school was really more a charaDes/comics class than anything else (fun!!); this is the sketch I turned in as one of five original character designs. By now I'd decided she was at least partly Asian.
Sept 99
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Started experimenting in other styles; this one's after looking at too much Ramos....
06.17.00
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Sketchy bored stuff.
Sept 00
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Angry li'l chibi Taryn, with an energy-based psi-blast thingie.
09.26.00
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Going back to my less-cartoony portrait style (compare to the first pic here!); she's changed quite a bit from her original design.
Oct 00
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The three main chara's again, still exploring designs for Ryan and Kylie...
11.12.00
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Thought about transposing my characters into a fantasy setting, which made Taryn a sort of fire-based warrior-mage-wench....
Dec 00
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Experimenting with the gestural style on my favorite girl....