Friday, December 5, 2008

Minor Character Focus: Priya Shasthri

Briefly... a little bit about a minor character.

Name: Priya Shasthri, PhD
DOB: April 23, 1954 (shares a birthday with Max Planck, obviously not the year, though!)
Occupation: Professor of Physical Chemistry
Relations: Aunt (paternal) to Kiran Shasthri
Generation Classification: Zero. She's the around the same age as Candace Pruitt, Josiah Alton, et al.
Characteristics: As a person, she's very caring about those she knows, albeit a little distant at times. If you get close to her, she can be pretty emotional. She's strict about the rules, works hard and tends to stay late. As a professor, she is notorious for having difficult exams.
Physical Appearance: She looks quite a bit like her niece, Kiran, except she's quite a bit taller.
NB: She hasn't appeared in any stories as of yet. She is, however, destined to make an appearance in the Once Upon an Alternate Universe piece I'm working on plotting... She's been mentioned by Sharpe as the professor he had for thermodynamics. She was also his faculty advisor while he was a student at university.

Her first mentioned appearance was in Snapshots, chapter five, in a flashback sequence. I'm still in the process of writing it (that's why it's not uploaded yet). I'd love to go more into her character because I think she could become interesting to write, especially if Kiran finds out that Sharpe had her aunt as a professor while he was a student. That could potentially serve as an interesting conversation...

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