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Samuel Joshua Pe's Portraits
Started on September 5, 2025

Person 1: Young girl, looked confident in themselves, looked like they've been taught to be a lady, confident, social but in that "raised by a bunch of college-educated women in their Everdeenian Millennial twenties" way, in a way that contrasted immediate age peers.

Person 2: Women, chubby-cheeked, behaved in a way that felt like someone sticking to the social group, but never to the point that they made intimate relations with others. They always felt like they were one foot out, one arm in, not that they were unwilling to participate, but perhaps, they designate themselves a distance between themselves and others. Perhaps, this was something only I perceived myself, and this distance broke down with certain individuals. But there was a weight when they did interact that evinced that way of dealing with others.

Person 3: Male basketball-playing young student. Differing only in appearance, but nothing else.

Person 4: Young girl, not lady-like, but carrying themselves in a way that allowed them to maintain a semi-moderate balance between engagement and chaotic fun. They never took long, excited steps, but their face reacted and they shook and giggled enough to have at least a glimpse of that childish fun when it appeared to matter.

Person 5: Young girl. The opposite of Person 4. Very long steps. Very excited curving long steps. Bright, shining, super face. Expressions up, limbs stretched about. Jostling about. So excitable and sociably pleasant. Reaching very long and far socially in responsiveness. Never dim and darkened and cloistered. Always at the top of the game. Can be "proto–lady-like", not force-mature, but early stages of growing into one's own as is natural in that age, but which can be clearly evidenced in how this early stage thing contrasts with their core personality in the same person.

Person 6: Has a condition, probably autism. Young boy, taken care of. Goes around. Differing only in appearance and in being associated with a close classmate.

Person 7: Pastor's son. Chubby. Excitable. Runny. Going about. Basket-playing. Sports. Loud. Talkative. Run-about. Title. Voiceful. Carry themselves with the weight of entitlement (not necessarily in a negative arrogant sense, but in a way that does hit those negative notes periodically or as a characteristic hum). As a person in a world, they are the call-to-me centerpiece, not due to performance, distinct behavior, or some surprising excellence, but due to entitled role taking over any semblance of a personal identity, at least in a social sense.

Person 8: Mother. Slender. Slow long steps. Raven-haired. Not soft-spoken, not frequently loud. "Modally adjusted" rather. Thinking. Walk-thinking. Moving thinker. Acting thinker.

Person 9: Face: "Yup, that's me! You're probably wondering how I got myself into this situation. Well, it all started 2 days ago when my mom woke me up for school."

Person 10: Girl (Not young, not characteristic "teen girl" either). Played at computer shops. Expressive through the face and can be physical in banter. Often ignoring new people, focused only on just what matters right now.

Person 11: Close church friend. Besides specific relations and memories where detail only reinforces the lack of "particularity" in a characteristic, social, psychological, sociological, and behavioral sense. Nothing particular about them in the broader context of a tight-knit awesome church community.

Person 12: Classmate. Joyous. Boisterous. Full-tooth Duchenne smile. Can be physical. Not keep to oneself. Social, but not super far reaching. Works well in cliques, but also is not alien or against blending with anyone, reacting as she would herself. No particular social bias. Has a personal life. Lateral, but not radial. Not vertical (up and down grades, save for people like upperclassman Person 2 who operate at the fringes of their own upper school class and work their way through oblique mingling, not downward as in actually going downstairs just to get to the lower-grade class, which is highly significant and particular, but meeting instead obliquely on the same level during equalizing interclass mingle-mingle lunch) though. Can be physical, but rarely and very much not as concentrated (in power and object/target) as Person 10.

Person 13: Korean. Not overwhelmed by any role or ethnicity. Too particular to be any archetypal foreign student or even a "Korean" foreign student. Shy. Earnest. Cognizant. Stated. Socially economical.

Person 14: Gaunty moving and standing, but physically athletic. Walks like he's constantly holding a stack of documents or holding the next family dinner at his house as the student version of the neighborhood uncle. Not the super bombastic "woohoo" one, but the understated, "yeaahhhh" one. The low almost languid raise of the hand, but with an energy in his actions, words, and decisions that betrays a genuine interest, sincerity, engagement, simplicity, understandingness, and chillax, but not bitterness.

Person 15: Unamused face initially. But actually solid, specified, and unabated. Rarely but memorably didactic. Not angry. Not loud. Not quiet either, but specified. Very this-then-this-then-this-then-this in terms of how they do things like church chores, but not hurried.

Person 16: Smile, yeah-yeah kind of guy, stated, waiting-about, doing-stufff shrug-about, not really the kind of person you'd want if you needed something serious, but definitely the kind of guy who'll be there to volunteer. Slow, walk-about, doing-about, converse-about. Social, embedded. A true participant.

Person 17: Full white foreigner. Sincere. Genuine. Raised. Western educated. Straight from the white Christian films. Beyond that, out of touch. Church-regular, but not embedded in social heehee-haha. Philippines-living, but church as a regular place of stay. Not embedded in world, society, and culture. This is from my experience spending time with him as part of a small in-church group and from talking to him regularly one on one.

Person 18: Nothing distinct. I have much personal history with them, but that in no way makes them "distinct" in a broader sense. They act quintessentially.

TO BE CONTINUED...