Author Archive: Josh and Maha

We (Josh and Maha) are a pair of design students from New Zealand who love making things up. We decided to try the 30 characters challenge as a team because we often create characters and stories together and this seemed like a good reason to put them on the internet! I (Josh) am the writer of the team and will be creating the character profiles and controlling our uploads while Maha will be drawing all our characters up!

#3 The Ghost of Dead Jessica

Josh and Maha | November 4, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Ghost of Dead Jessica

Jessica Died at age 17. She was lost in a forest when she got attacked by a pack of wolves and was killed quickly and painlessly. Fortunately for her, while that was the end of her life, it wasn’t the end of her story. Her spirit was allowed to become a ghost to haunt the forest in which she was killed. And that is what she did.

For about a year.

And then she got bored with it. Haunting is very repetitive and not that many people go into forests any more, so instead she decided to study. She obviously couldn’t go to school and her body has almost no impact on physical objects, but she can turn pages with her ghostly hands and luckily for her, she had a whole host of abandoned books to choose from!

So Jessica i suppose is what you would call a nice learned ghost girl. Before her death she was quite pretty, and she has managed to keep herself looking quite nice except for the fact that every now and then a ghost image of her previous body will fade into view.

#2 Adelaide

Josh and Maha | November 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

#2, Adelaide

Adelaide is what might be seen as the darker, more serious counterpart to Jack.
Adelaide is a witch in training in search of a more powerful witch/wizard to continue her training. While she is confident and quick witted, her magic skills are less than ideal for a young girl going on an adventure. Her previous teacher was a healer and thus could only teach basic offensive spells.
Adelaide’s main weapon is her scarf, an almost alive piece of knitted finery that packs a mighty wallop. While trying to turn it into a snake, Adelaide managed to give it an “almost life”. The scarf, regardless of how it is worn, will jump into action at the first sight of danger. Capable of whipping enemies, grabbing onto things or powering up a usually weak punch, the scarf is easily the strongest part of Jack and Adelaide’s team.
While Jack is carefree and fun, Adelaide is more serious and goal oriented; she prefers to work towards targets than aimlessly wander.

#1 Jack

Josh and Maha | November 1, 2011 | 1 Comment

So this is our first character! Super exciting! Before we get started with the bio, I thought it would be worth mentioning that this character exists in a sort of final fantasy-esq old time world, very much a farming town surrounded by deserts and mountains.

Jack is what one might call a “Big Kid”. He is 23 but he never really grew up. After leaving high-school he wasn’t sure what he should pursue as a career. After putting some thought to his future, he set himself up a small business as a Jack of all Trades (haha) for his local village; he will give anything a go in hopes of finding a job that sticks and therefore deciding his future for him.

He tends to be rather childish despite his aptitude for most everything he tries. His jobs can vary from “rescue my cat from that tree” to “save my daughter from the forest witch”. He has experienced more in his short life than many have in their entire time on the earth but he still manages to laugh at childish things and bunk off work to go adventuring.