#corey windham

[askthehistorians]

Generally speaking Corey has the cutest outfits out of the entire staff.

[askthehistorians]

okay

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It runs in my family (Ells, Clyde, and Corey!)

Ells: Ells is a miniature version of her father. She resembles him physically (right down to the hair, although his is lower) and they share their perverted sense of humor. Her mom is very frustrated that there are basically two of them to deal with. Like her dad, Ells tries her very best to be an honest mechanic since he made sure she knew there weren’t enough of those!

(Art from 2012, but you get the idea. Ells’s mom Irene Robbins is on the left and her dad Oliver Robbins is on the right.)

Corey: Corey’s family is made up of philosophy-loving educators - her father is a philosophy professor, her mother is an elementary school librarian, and her older brother Mark is a high school teacher who actually teaches a philosophy class. Corey actively combines her parents’ careers by being an archivist who also has a degree in philosophy. During the story it’s eventually revealed that she’s been working on a philosophy PhD. the entire time.

Clyde: Clyde’s father is a Londoner and his mother is from Amsterdam, so he’s spent a lot of time trying to balance two different traditions and two different life philosophies. Fortunately, these two countries have a lot of shared history, so he has an easier time with this than many other people do. His mother was actually a really good softball player in college (baseball and softball being popular in the Netherlands), so he was raised to love football (soccer) by his father and baseball by his mother, although he never played either. He does enjoy experimenting with speed skating, though, another hobby he inherited from his athletic Dutch mother. She, much like her son, really does enjoy going fast.

(Side note: Ells is a native of Boston and as such considers the Red Sox to be a religion. She is very, very happy that she does not have to worry about Clyde not understanding this.)

[1863-project]

★★★★!!

No specific characters, so these are going to be pretty random, but here we go!

Corey got her bachelor’s degree in three years despite double-majoring in history and philosophy. She then got her Master’s in library science in roughly one year by taking credits during the summer, allowing her to go fall-spring-summer-fall. At the age of 22, she already started on her PhD., which is where she currently is in The Historians (set in 2012 when it starts), about one year into her program.

Clyde’s mother was a very serious softball player in college in the Netherlands (he’s half-British, half-Dutch), so despite growing up in London he’s actually pretty fond of baseball. Ells couldn’t be happier about this.

Karen usually plays hockey with her hair up out of habit - in high school she kept her hair under her helmet to avoid having to deal with blatant sexism from her opponents (although their coaches were always worse) because she played on the boys’ ice hockey team (her high school had no girls’ team). If she sees young girls in the crowd at her intramural league games as an adult, though, she always lets her hair down so they can see that they can play hockey too.

I created Ells, Corey, Karen, Chris, Stacy, Jessie, and Rugen back in early 2004. They had a different purpose then, but history was already a common thread for all of them so when I had the idea to bring them back in 2012 for a webcomic finding a scenario to get them all into was relatively easy to do!

[1863-project]

7, 10, 17, 18.

[meme]

7: Most intelligent

In The Historians, there’s no doubt that it’s Corey. She’s easily the brightest by a long shot. In Londinium, the majority of the main cast is rather intelligent in their own ways, but intellectually it’s probably Nigel Remington, main character Basil’s younger brother.

10: Most likable

Based on what people tell me about the Historians cast, it’s probably Ells. For some reason or another, people like her a lot. In Londinium, it’s far and away Dustin because he’s precious.

17: Most likely to save someone in a burning building

In terms of capability, in The Historians 6’2” hockey player Karen is most likely to be able to actually run in and carry someone else out. And with Londinium, that capability transfers over to 6’3” costermonger Gib Merton.

18: Most likely to explore a haunted house

If it’s a historic site, you might be able to find most of the Historians cast doing some sort of work on it during the day. At night, though, you’d be more likely to find them decidedly outside the house at a sports bar or something because they tend to be pretty respectful of the dead. Londinium-wise, Nigel would probably convince Robert Sheldon to do some paranormal investigating with him, which would go about as well as anyone would expect it to.

[1863-project]

I DREW AN AIRPLANE AGAIN DON'T LAUGH AT ME

ALSO COREY IS WEARING HER CUTE PILOT OUTFIT FINALLY

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They had a Twitter conversation and he reassured her about her appearance, which Corey's notoriously insecure about due to being bullied as a kid.

[1863-project]

Sometimes I forget how much I like drawing certain OCs of mine

and then I remember how cute they are

and get really happy