{"id":1247,"date":"2017-07-03T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2017-07-01T16:06:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T20:06:45","slug":"character-portrait-simon-and-lydia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/character-portrait-simon-and-lydia\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Portrait: Simon and Lydia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*WARNING: This post contains <em>mild spoilers<\/em> for people who haven&#8217;t read Vengeance or Retribution\u00a0yet*<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Full Name: <\/strong><\/em>Simon and Lydia Carressa<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Simon-and-Lydia-cartoonized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Simon-and-Lydia-cartoonized-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Simon-and-Lydia-cartoonized-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Simon-and-Lydia-cartoonized.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Occupation: <\/strong><\/em>Children<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gender:<\/strong><\/em> Male &amp; Female<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sexual Orientation:<\/strong><\/em> TBD<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hair:<\/strong> <\/em>Blond (Simon), Black (Lydia)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eyes:<\/strong> <\/em>Hazel (Simon), Blue (Lydia)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Height:<\/strong> ~<\/em>3&#8242; 4&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Weight:\u00a0~<\/strong><\/em>40\u00a0lbs each<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hobbies:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Reading, coloring, interpreting the secrets of the universe through a five-year-old&#8217;s POV<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Background: <\/em><\/strong>Lydia and Simon are the fraternal twin children of Max and Val, born about a year after the couple was married\u00a0in Fiji. Their parents shower them with love, trying to\u00a0ensure they have the happy childhoods that neither\u00a0Max nor Val had growing up.\u00a0They both inherited their father&#8217;s genius-level intelligence, their mother&#8217;s grit &#8211; and their parents&#8217; strange ability.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Beneath the Surface: <\/strong><\/em>Though the children are\u00a0unusually bright, they&#8217;ve also been gifted &#8211; or cursed &#8211; with the ability to see multiple versions of the future at will, which makes them seem even smarter than they actually are. They&#8217;re both extremely rare Alpha seers, like Cassandra, and the reason Max and Val were brought together to begin with. As such, Northwalk will do anything to get their hands on these special children.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Appears in: <\/strong>Reckoning<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*WARNING: This post contains mild spoilers for people who haven&#8217;t read Vengeance or Retribution\u00a0yet* Full Name: Simon and Lydia Carressa Occupation: Children Gender: Male &amp; Female Sexual Orientation: TBD Hair: Blond (Simon), Black (Lydia) Eyes: Hazel (Simon), Blue (Lydia) Height: ~3&#8242; 4&#8243; Weight:\u00a0~40\u00a0lbs each Hobbies:\u00a0Reading, coloring, interpreting the secrets of the universe through a five-year-old&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/character-portrait-simon-and-lydia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Character Portrait: Simon and Lydia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[274,220,273,240],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lydia-carressa","tag-reckoning","tag-simon-carressa","tag-valentine-shepherd-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Vyi8-k7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}