Beautiful People, New Characters

So I just heard about the Beautiful People monthly meme, run by the people at Further Up and Further In, from Liam, both of which are wonderful blogs that I should really add to my blogroll as soon as that's a thing that I have. Considering that my Camp Nano novel is basically two characters and the 'roadtrip' premise right now, I decided that I was going to make up three characters on the spot for this blog entry. Spontaneity!

1. What are their names?
1. Sarah Crowley
2. Blind Smith John
3. Sam Hyde
2. Where do they live?
1. A small, spartan apartment in Wall, South Dakota.
2. New York, New York - specifically, on the streets of NY
3. The Northeast in general, in his pickup truck. He can spend days out in the middle of nowhere, not coming back to civilization until he runs out of beer.
3. How old are they?
1. 38 as of 05/14/20--, according to her ID. She was born in 1904.
2. Apparently mid-fifties, but he's not saying anything further. He was born in 1750.
3. No one has a clue, least of all himself. Sam doesn't bother keeping count, because 'it would just  be depressing, thinking about it.' He was born in 1827.
4. What do they do?
1. Sarah runs the ice cream shop in the depths of Wall Drug, serving out sundaes, bison burgers, and greasy pizza to tourists. At night she catalogs any weirdness that occurs in Wall Drug that isn't supposed to happen.
2. He plays his pipe on an obscure subway platform for change, and spends the nights clearing shadows out of the various rail stations. 
3. He tells motorists tall tales for beer. Doesn't really need to do anything else, because he's built up enough goodwill to be able to get dinner and any supplies he might want just by showing up and telling a tale.
5. What do they love?
1. Sarah loves stories. She also loves order - her love of stories spawns from a desire to keep disorder pinned down, neatened up. If something's in a story, she feels, it won't happen to her.
2. He loves his pipe. He loves music. He loves the tunnels. He loves the night, and the emptiness it brings. He loves the fact that, down in the tunnels at night, he's more than equal to any person with sight, because he 'don't have to rely on any crutch.'
3. Sam loves beer and telling tales, and is delighted by the fact that he can get the one by doing the other. He likes the forest, and the shades it contains. He likes people, and he likes being alone.
6. What do they hate?
1. She hates disorder, randomness, and chaos. She hates the weird things that happen at Wall Drug sometimes. She hates that she isn't normal.
2. Smith hates sighted people with a passion. He hates the shadows that fill his subway even more, because the make it harder to concentrate on the music. He hates the well-meaning people who keep trying to send him to a shelter.
3. He hates violence and people who want to start it. Other than that, he doesn't really hate anything. Very congenial guy, Sam.
7. What do they want?
1. Sarah wants to pin down each and every last anomaly in Wall Drug so they stop happening in real life.
2. Smith wants everyone in the world to go away, and he wants the shadows to stop muffling his damn music, thankyouverymuch. He also desperately wants his sight back, but he won't admit it.
3. Sam wants another beer and a willing audience. On a slightly larger scale, he wants world peace, or at least world truce.
8. What do they fear?
1. She fears that the world will end before she dies, and she won't be able to write down what happens so it won't. 
2. He fears the invention of quieter subway cars, and the fact that the shadows are multiplying more quickly than he can cull them. He fears what will happen to his music if the shadows overtake him.
3. Sobriety. But really, he's not afraid of anything. Nothing's killed him yet, and he's so far been able to protect anyone he's met from anything that's tried to happen to them, up to and including 23 machine gun rounds to the skull. He's all good. 
9. What are they good at?
1. Writing and observation are Sarah's strong points. She sees and hears everything, and has a photographic memory. She can't filter anything out, but if stuff is similar enough it will blend together. When she has to take in too much information, she starts getting overloaded and freaks out. That's why she's at Wall Drug - it's always the same, day in and day out. It's also why she hates irregularity, because it won't blend.
2. He's basically a virtuoso with his pipe, because he's been playing it for 250 years. He's also good at banishing shadows, the last imprint of a person on the aether and absolutely awful on acoustics.
3. Sam is the best storyteller in America. He's got the alcohol tolerance of an ethanol refinery. He's also the most protectingest dude on either side of the Mississippi.
10. What are they bad at?
1. Sarah can't make pizza or a bison burger to save her life. The only reason she still has her job is because she's had it forever and no one else wants it.
2. Smith refuses to use a cane, so he tends to trip or walk into walls when he's in an unfamiliar space. His interpersonal skills suck, too.
3. Sobriety. Also, he can't drive for anything, but he's very proud of his skill and so no one has mentioned it to him.

Huh. That was easy. And I have sort of a plot now! Woo!