Lexi: Kiln, Ink and Three Chords

A WolfPack original character.

"Everything good I know, I learned from a scratched record and a kiln that runs too hot."

Overview

Lexi is a 19-year-old trans-femme art student from Fremantle, Western Australia, splitting her week between the ceramics studio and the print room. She throws lopsided mugs on purpose, cuts lino blocks for gig posters nobody asked for, and smells faintly of clay slip and printing ink most days.

She grew up on her older brother's old-school punk collection, and it shows in everything she makes: fast, loud, a bit rough around the edges, and completely sincere. Pink hair, a choker, and a stud earring. She's the girl at the back of the print room with headphones on, mouthing along to something from 1977.

Appearance

SpeciesHumanApparent age19Height5'6" (168 cm)BuildFit and slender: thin waist, wide hips, small breasts, thigh gapHairShort punky pink hairEyesBlueSignature accessoryBlack choker and a single stud earring

Default outfit: A plain white t-shirt under a fitted blue waistcoat, with fitted blue pants. Smart enough for an exhibition opening, scruffy enough for the print room.

Alt outfit: A skintight white sleeveless tee under a powder-blue puffer jacket, with pink shorts. Her answer to the Fremantle Doctor, the afternoon sea breeze that turns a warm day cold.

Beach outfit: A white string bikini top with pink trim and powder-blue dolphin shorts with a strap around one thigh. Bathers Beach, after class.

Personality

• DIY to the bone. If she can make it herself, she will: her mugs, her posters, her zines, her patches. Store-bought feels like cheating.

• Warm and a little fierce. Easygoing until someone's unkind to her friends, then the punk records come out in her voice.

• Hands always busy. Clay under her nails, ink on her wrists, fidgeting with her earring when she's thinking.

• Earnest about the music. She'll talk your ear off about a 1970s B-side and mean every word of it, then hand you the record to borrow.

Likes: her brother's vinyl, the smell of a kiln firing, lino cutting at 2 a.m., Fremantle markets on a Sunday, cheap hot chips by the harbour, the moment a print comes off the press clean.

Dislikes: cracked glazes she didn't plan, anyone touching her records with greasy fingers, being called "a phase," the Fremantle Doctor when she's forgotten the puffer.

Lore

Lexi grew up in a Fremantle house where the loudest thing in it was her older brother's record collection. Old-school punk, stacked crate after crate: scratched seven-inches, bootleg tapes, sleeves held together with masking tape. She was the kid who snuck into his room to play them while he was at work, and he was the brother who pretended not to notice and left the good ones out on top.

When she came out, he was the first one in her corner. No speeches, no fuss. He just handed her a stack of records and said she'd better look after them. She has, and she's never given them back.

Now she's an art student, working in ceramics and printmaking, and the punk never left. Her prints are gig posters for shows that only exist in her head, cut in heavy black lino and pulled in hot pink. Her ceramics are rough, thick-walled, and deliberately imperfect, glazed in colours that clash. Her tutors call it "raw." She calls it three chords and the truth.

She lives in a share house a few streets back from the port, with a kiln she's not supposed to have in the shed and a turntable that only plays her brother's records. On weekends she sells mugs at the markets, wears too little for the weather, and heads for the water once the Doctor dies down.

"I'm not trying to be pretty. I'm trying to be honest. Sometimes those are the same thing."

Recommended prompting

Core tags

Lexi_GV, 1girl, solo, pink hair, short hair, punk hair, pale skin, blue eyes, fit, slender, thin waist, wide hips, small breasts, thigh gap, choker, stud earring, white t-shirt, blue waistcoat, fitted pants

Alt outfit

Lexi_GV, sleeveless shirt, white shirt, tight shirt, powder blue puffer jacket, pink shorts

Lexi_GV, string bikini top, white bikini, pink trim, dolphin shorts, blue shorts, thigh strap, midriff, navel

Mood / scene tags

smile, grin, looking at viewer, art studio, pottery wheel, clay on hands, printmaking, ink stains, record collection, vinyl records, headphones, harbour, beach, golden hour

Negatives (starting point)

lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, extra fingers, watermark, text, long hair, large breasts, dark hair, brown eyes

Recommended settings

Fill in with your final training values before publishing.

• Base model: [e.g. Anima Base V1 / your SDXL checkpoint]

• Trigger word: Lexi_GV

• Suggested weight: 0.7 to 0.9

• Sampler / steps: [your usual]

• CFG: [your usual]

Notes & tips

• On Anima, natural language works better than stacked tags. Prompt for "a pretty young trans woman with short punky pink hair and blue eyes" with the trigger up front, and add the outfit as a full sentence with a short tag tail.

• The choker and stud earring are small details that drop out easily. Reinforce them in the prompt and check the earring when you inpaint, since it tends to vanish or double up.

• Her art gives you great scenes for free. Pottery wheels, print presses and crates of records add character to the background. Keep them in the background, though, and inpaint hands holding clay or tools, which commonly need cleanup.

Part of the WolfPack OC roster by GVargr.