Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Who is this "Lee Wonders" Fellow, you ask...Well, he's kind of my on page persona

I wanted him to have many of the same characteristics of myself. I decided to have him actually look kind of like me, minus the spectacles, mostly because at the pinnacle of my youth I never actually wore spectacles. 

I wanted to describe his skin color as copper pigment, with green pupils, and scruffy short black hair, except more athletic, and therefore able to actually go on crazy adventures like the kind I see my on screen persona's going on all the time. I wanted this to be my trademark-stamped contribution to that popular cultural lore in recent media and entertainment, which is strange in some ways considering he's not WEARING glasses like I see most of the Me's in media do. 

What is Lee Wonders? A young man coming of age. A world traveler and courageous adventurer, exploring all sorts of cultural, geographic, and supernatural themes. He's my literary self-portrait, with some liberties taken.

As for his "racial identity", that's never really completely decided. He's of prestigious lineage, most of which is kept and concealed from him, either physically restrained or sealed off by authority figures, so due to his unawareness of just how special he really is, he's more down to earth, humane, compassionate, and friendly than most people who maintain the same level as his social stature in all objectivity.

All Lee knows is that he's of mixed blood and cultural heritage, as he was orphaned at a young age, and raised by Caucasian parents who never put an emphasis on race, and just wanted him to feel accepted and loved by his family. An illusion that is shattered by lifelong and ancient enemies of his biological side later in the series. Some say Lee is Italian, or Canadian. Some say Lee is Chinese or Hawaiian. No one really knows for certain....not even the Federal Bureau of Investigation (The FBI). Any way you slice it, Lee Wonders as a character does not appear "Traditional" (aka completely white or Caucasian). But he is definitely multiracial, and not of one lineage, but a combination of mixed lineages, making him a "mutt race" and a target of many racist local  bullies in his city. 

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