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Who's Who in Snowden: The Snowden Middle Snoops

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THE SNOWDEN MIDDLE SNOOPS

AishaAvatar by MisterMistoffelees Aisha al-Fashir
Aisha heads into her eighth-grade year at Snowden Middle a young lady going through many changes, not all of them pleasant.  On the plus side, she has matured into a strikingly, exotically beautiful young woman, blending her mother’s tall, slender build with her father’s olive complexion and a pair of eyes which, although still rather badly myopic (but at least she’s no longer legally blind without her glasses), are arresting in their dark beauty, blending with her mother’s dark reddish-brown hair to make her one of the favorite girls for Snowden Middle boys to gaze longingly after.  Unfortunately for them, her heart still belongs to her nerdy boyfriend Tucker Logan, but certain dissatisfactions are starting to suggest to Aisha that she might do better than him.

But the satisfaction she feels at becoming a desirable and highly intelligent young woman is vitiated by the arrival in her life of an interloper who drives her to distraction.  Her two-years-her-senior cousin Hastings Gibson has crossed the pond to be an exchange student at Darius Allen High School preparatory to studying criminal sciences at Snowden State in order to achieve future glory and fame at Scotland Yard.  In the meantime, however, Hastings’ habit of flirting with nearly every girl he sees—Aisha roundly calls him “a randy little git”—has frustrated Aisha to no end, especially as he hasn’t stinted to shower that attention on her friends as well, particularly Taylor and Lizzie.  She considers him a public embarrassment to her, no matter that he’s nearly as bright as she is, and musically gifted enough to be a quick favorite of Mrs. Pillsberry’s.  Every once in a while, Aisha wishes she could nerve herself to go back to the Incantation of Hatshepsut, just for Hastings’ benefit…
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Aisha al-Fashir Fun Facts
  •  Her favorite colors are white and purple—purple, the color of royalty, and white because it goes well with her dark complexion.
  • She gets very irritated when her family back in England teases her that she’s starting to sound like a Yank.  She gets even more irritated when Hastings openly taunts her with ‘Yank’ as an epithet.
  • She is an unabashed fan of Phantom of the Opera, and indeed (through her mum’s influence) anything Andrew Lloyd Webber.  Too bad she can’t sing worth a lick…
  • And don’t get her started on Doctor Who or Harry Potter!  Inevitably, Halloween finds her dressed as either Hermione Granger or—lately—Martha Jones…

TaylorAvatar by MisterMistoffelees Taylor Ann Jensen
Everyone in Snowden Middle School looks up to eighth-grader Taylor—literally!  Her life-long growth spurt (well, it seems like it’s been life-long!) has left her at 13 already the tallest Jensen in the family—over 5-10—with no indications of her growth slowing down any time soon.  Mrs. Jensen has been run frantic replacing her younger daughter’s wardrobe every three months after Taylor grows out of it!  But that growth has left her with the elegant build of a model—at least if she had any interest in modeling.  She much prefers to play her basketball and soccer, hang out at the mall, and generally be a typical girl-next-door sleuth than be a model; besides, Taylor’s bubbly, outgoing personality hardly suits the stereotype of the teen model.  And to top it off, she’s discovered a new talent—music.  Particularly singing.

Her secret lessons from Mrs. Pillsberry’s friend Erica Kozlowski (see The Snowden Junior Snoops: The Opera-House Mystery) have polished a startling singing voice; while Taylor’s ordinary speaking voice is still as light and feathery as ever, her singing voice is a deep, velvety alto reminiscent of Karen Carpenter’s, which dichotomy has led her mom and dad to tease her with the nickname of “Jim Nabors,” also known for a wide difference between singing and speaking—and of course Taylor hates it, but takes it in stride, as she does most of life.  As for Mrs. Pillsberry, she has very big plans for Taylor if only she can get the girl off the soccer pitch and the basketball court.

Such a budding young goddess as fair-haired Taylor certainly gets the attention of the boys, a state of affairs which still rather bemuses a girl who’s still not quite accustomed to the fact that she is a very charming-looking lass.  The problem is simply that most of Taylor’s male peers are more than a little intimidated by the thought of approaching a girl so much taller and poised than they are, so while Taylor is showered with endless longing gazes from boys, very few have the nerve to ask her out.  This circumstance has led her to content herself with her boyfriend-of-sorts, classmate Sammy Hartman.  Wacky, hyper Sammy is less intimidated by Taylor than most, and Taylor is content to have him squire her around Snowden.  His favorite game to play with her, however, is something that frankly, she merely puts up with…
TaylorHeadshot by MisterMistoffelees

Taylor Jensen Fun Facts
  • Taylor’s favorite hobby is embarrassing her sister Devan in public.
  • Her second favorite hobby is still eating, as usual, but lately she has been known to put the plate aside every once in a while.
  • Never underestimate Taylor’s talent for practical jokes!


BobbiAvatar by MisterMistoffelees Roberta Jeanne Martin
Every mother wishes her boy would bring home a girl like the genius of the St. Swithin’s Academy eighth grade, Bobbi Martin—extremely intelligent, polite with her elders, and as devout a young Catholic girl as a prospective boyfriend’s mother could hope.  But there’s a lot more to Bobbi Martin than just the bright-eyed good-girl sleuth.

For Bobbi wishes she was more than what she is!  Her imagination, fueled by an interest in manga planted by her brother Bobby, wishes that she was as intrepid and fearless as some of her manga heroines—first Rukia Kuchiki of Bleach, whose style Bobbi openly copied right down to the hairstyle, now Kagome Higurashi, her new ideal.  Despite the sleuthing adventures she’s already encountered, Bobbi sees herself as an uninteresting little drudge with no life and no shape.  She’s sure that if only she were more outgoing, less shy, more intrepid—and especially more beautiful!—she would finally have a really interesting life.  While she’s somewhat shorter than the average girl of her age, she is already trending a little toward her mother’s plumpness, a trend she’s already learning how to fight against with careful diet and exercise.  Her shoulder-length raven-black hair, she feels, needs to be much longer like Kagome’s, so she resists any hair-cutting other than trimming away split ends.  And her myopic, bespectacled eyes, she feels, would be much more attractive with contact lenses than her glasses, but for the fact that those eyes traitorously do not seem to like the lenses back.  Withal, a girl who’s quite dissatisfied with herself and her life.

But that life does have a few emoluments!  First and foremost in the person of one Tommy Mooney, a fellow-parishioner at St. Ignatius Church in Snowden—she’s not quite sure how she stole the heart of the boy she had first met at the Allen Valley Mall, but she’s glad she did!—who has become not only a boyfriend, but a symbol of the self-emancipation she craves.  Tommy is a long-haired, genial freshman at Darius Allen High who has somehow devoted himself to her, and in her turn, Bobbi has devoted herself to a boyfriend who delights her by driving her mom to distraction with his insanely long hair, devotion to metal music, and generally laid-back attitude about everything that isn’t named Bobbi Martin.  And Bobbi doesn’t hesitate to brag up her romance to any St. Swithin’s classmate who ventures to put her down; especially to the girls who have been her regular tormentors since elementary school.

And yet, the adventures surrounding the last Camp Evergreen session has turned one of those tormentors into a friend.  Veronica Daly had been Bobbi’s chief tormentor until Bobbi had been presented by a chance to turn the tables around on her enemy, but Bobbi’s vengeance went very wrong—wrong enough to teach Bobbi a hard lesson about the side-effects of revenge.  When the dust of the situation had settled, the old outcast Bobbi and the new outcast Veronica found themselves effectively pushed into a friendship of convenience, which has startlingly deepened and grown as the two girls discover how alike they really are…
BobbiHeadshot by MisterMistoffelees

Bobbi Martin Fun Facts
  • Her current project is redesigning the St. Swithin’s girls’ uniform to copy those Kagome wears in InuYasha.  Naturally, her efforts are meeting with a less-than-enthusiastic reception from  headmistress Sr. Mary Catherine.
  • Bobbi is secretly relieved that her hair is finally longer than her boyfriend’s!  Well, almost…
  • If you ever see her not wearing anything plaid, call a doctor—only if she’s ill will she not be wearing something plaid!

LizzieAvatar by MisterMistoffelees Lisbeth Morgan
Taylor and Aisha’ eighth-grade classmate hated the very thought of Snowden from the moment she first learned she was moving there four years ago, and she hasn’t changed her mind since!  To her the place is dull, boring, populated with either rustic rednecks or stuffy college professors, an utter wasteland for someone of her interests.  Interests which mostly center on being fashionable, in au courant clothing and snarky attitude—both of which she easily achieves.  Even her friends are dull in her estimation; Taylor Jensen’s a half-witted musical jock, Aisha al-Fashir a tedious brainiac.  Much of this attitude is pure projection on her part; Taylor and Aisha are both very attractive young women, and both thoroughly outpace an uninterested Lizzie on the report-card front.  Not that Lizzie isn’t striking-looking herself; not quite as tall as Aisha, and of course much shorter than Taylor, Lizzie is a well-built young blonde who garners more than her share of male attention.  But even in this area, Lizzie is dissatisfied; she finds the local boys thoroughly dull denizens of either pickup trucks and deer hunting, or idle social pretensions she disdains as the attitudes of mere pretenders.  Only mysteries are capable of getting her attention for any length of time, and even then not thoroughly; she finds clue-sifting tedious, and much prefers a macabre new situation to the dull business of picking through evidence.
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Lizzie Morgan Fun Facts
  • Lizzie scored 147 on her last WAIS-R IQ test, which only makes her C-minus grades even more infuriating to her parents!
  • She would sooner cut out her own tongue than admit to the fact, but her favorite TV network is History!

The first installment of a set of character biographical sketches of my various Snowden Snoops groups, starting with the girl detectives of the Snowden Middle School Snoops.  Way back in the day, Trish Dwight, Krysten Parker, Hannah Watson, and Missy Bonhart were the very first Snoops from Snowden Middle School, and the current girl sleuths from Snowden Middle are carrying on the tradition!

I've included two pictures of each of the Snowden Middle Snoops; one an avatar created with gen8's wonderful Anime Face Maker, another as recent a headshot as I can dig up from my illustrations.  I'll be rotating avatars on my page according to who's the most recently featured character in my posts and submission, and I hope this is a good way to introduce you to them--and let you know a little about what's up with each of them.  Enjoy!...
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MightyMorphinPower4's avatar
Thaks for the bios and fun facts