Tansa Day

On Saturday I was pretty much 100% Tansa the fireworkmaker, complete with bright clashing colours, hyperactivity and klutziness. She is, however, a useful person to have around. 

Line drawing (aka the hard work) by Ceri, coloured by me.

Gloves - gift, Satchel - ebay

Dress - charity shop & selfmade, Scarf - charity shop

Coat - charity shop

Tansa is short, 5 ft 2 inches. She makes up for it by jumping up and down a lot. She has a wide smile and freckles, brown eyes, and slightly wonky (frazzled) eyebrows. Her shoulder length once brown curly hair is mostly multicoloured from testing dyes on it. She wears a scarf to keep it out of the way and a wide brimmed hat to hide the colours when she goes outside. Clothes-wise, Tansa is never without a leather satchel containing her wares, goggles, and elbow length leather gloves. She likes shoes she can skip in and sleeves short enough to not catch fire.

Tansa is a firework maker, inventor of alchemical fireworks and explosive devices; also an aspiring thief. In the words of her drawing teacher: Tansa is not the brightest pencil in the pencil box. However blunt pencils can cover large areas and she works very hard to keep up. Her illustrations of fireworks are excellent and the rest are passable.

She was brought up in a coastal town by her grandparents. Her parents worked night shifts organising firework displays. She has three brothers (two older, one younger) who are acrobats in a travelling circus. Her family was well off enough to save up for Tansa’s apprenticeship. She attended school when she felt it interested her, tending to sneak into more drawing and alchemy lessons while eschewing natural history and grammar. She has a gift for remembering miscellaneous facts and mimicry but rarely puts it to full use because she is simply oblivious to the wider world.