revena | Apr. 11th, 2006

shiv5468's muse has done a runner, evidently. She was asking people over on her journal to keep an eye out for it, and send it home. I asked Shiv to give a little more description of the wayward inspiration, so that I'd know it if I saw it. It occurs to me that most of the people on my flist are engaged in one sort of creative pursuit or another, and I think it'd be interesting to know what all of your muses look like.

Mine is a shapeshifter. Sometimes he's a very handsome young man, with dark hair, pale skin, and an aquiline nose. His eye color shifts from brown to blue to green, and the shape of his jaw changes a lot, but he's always just a bit skinnier than is probably really healthy. When she's a woman, she's much plumper - downright curvy, in fact. She usually keeps her hair in a very sensible short haircut, though it's often an outrageous color. She likes blue, but she has her bright red and orange phases. Her eyes are grey, and she's often got wings that are painted up to match her hair.

My muse is something of a nudist. He often doesn't wear a shirt at all, and she has been known to wander around in just her underpants. It's not about titillation... She's just more comfortable in her own skin. Plus, it gets hot at my house, and muses are notoriously sensitive to temperature. When it's cooler, he likes to wear shapeless tunics and trousers made of expensive fabrics, though occasionally she dresses up a little, with long, full, linen skirts and blouses.

My muse also enjoys cloaks and capes and other garments with a nice theatrical swish to them. He's fond of spinning around dramatically, or standing facing into a stiff breeze, so the fabric will ripple in an appealing way. She's always heavily armed, of course, favoring small knives, though he'll also branch out into swords and polearms, when the mood strikes her.

So what does your muse look like?