24/12/11 17:33 - Application
OOC
Name: Els
Age: 29
Other characters played (if any): N/A
IC
Character Name: Vienna Maisie Russell
Time of Origin: late 1900s.
PB: Alicia Witt (Reserved)
Bio: Vienna grew up in a family that had once been noble, landowning and powerful but had lost it's status a couple of hundred years ago thanks to a head of household who had a gambling problem and left the family destitute. Not that anyone in the family cared all that much, they had each other and that was the most important thing to them.
Oddly enough, the family had only borne sons since that fateful gambler despite their trend of having many children. Vienna is the first girl born into that family line and as such, she was kept somewhat coddled by her parents and her many older brothers and considered a 'good luck charm'.
She grew up the youngest (and final attempt at getting a girlchild by her parents) of five children and she was a very happy child. All four of her brothers doted upon her and she soon learned how to manipulate all of them. Not that she did it to spite but sometimes she just couldn't be bothered to do the dishes...
As a young girl, her mother showered her with pink clothes and all kinds of princessy things, but (to her father's wallets delight) Vienna seemed to prefer wearing her brother's hand-me-downs. She was also more often found playing football or cricket in the back garden with the boys than doing 'girl things' with her Mum.
The one thing she didn't get her way with over was ballet lessons. She kicked and screamed and complained the whole way but once at classes, she was enchanted by them. She started making female friends and her Mother was delighted - especially when her little girl started to show a real aptitude for the art.
To her and her brother's disgust, a son of their 'rival' family was in the boy's section when she got a little older and Vienna was partnered with him for a dance put on by the ballet school. (His family had been the ones that benefitted from the Russell's fall. They got the land, the money and the prestige thanks to their working over of the gambler.) Vienna had to deal with most of the fallout and she decided that as much as she loved her brothers, perhaps a little time away would be good.
She begged her parents to allow her to try out for the London Russian Ballet School and she got in. She worked hard and during the first round of exams, she came top of the class. She knew she had a raw talent that just needed to be guided and honed and she was at the best school for that.
She got a shock when the son of the rival family joined the school the next year and she was paired with him to do a pas de deux. She was incensed by it, but she would not risk her own balletic education just because of him, so she danced. The two together were exquisite - most people joked that they worked so hard on their routines so that they could escape one another as quickly as feasible; whatever the reasoning - it worked.
Life continued on as normal until her sixteenth birthday - when everything changed around her and she found herself somewhere else entirely.
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Vienna is a spritely girl. She looks fairly petite and girly at first glance but having six elder brothers has given her an iron will and a strength her frame belies. She is often fairly easy-going unless someone makes a point of getting on her nerves and then her fuse will be short. She will not tolerate anyone badmouthing her family and is likely to strike at them if they do.
She has her girly moments, but having grown up surrounded by boys, she is more often than not a tomboy. She never thought she'd like ballet as much as she did and having given herself over to it, she puts in the solid effort required. She is naturally talented but not prima donna material yet - so she works hard until she will be.
Vienna is focused but that doesn't mean she is tightly wound at all. If I were to sum her up in one word, it'd be 'firecracker'.
Examples:
Text entry:
I think I'd feel a little stupid starting this with either 'Dear Diary...' or 'Dear Journal...' so I guess I'll skip that bit.
Not really sure what to make of this place just yet, I miss my family a lot and I miss even going to class but it is interesting at least. I never thought something like this could happen. Now that it has, it seems a little surreal.
I think a girl could even do with a big brother around to keep me occupied. Not that I'd admit that if one of my brothers was actually here, but well.
I suppose I'd better go find some food.
Video entry:
[the girl looking into the camera was a fairly pretty young thing. Big eyes, flaming red hair - but that was not what would arrest the eye.
That would be the terrified look she had in her eyes as she looked around warily. Trying to get her bearings, trying to understand what was happening around her - trying to find something tangible she could latch on to to make sense of what was happening to her right now.
She speaks, a quiet, shaky voice.]
Mum? Dad? Where are you? Where did you go?
Name: Els
Age: 29
Other characters played (if any): N/A
IC
Character Name: Vienna Maisie Russell
Time of Origin: late 1900s.
PB: Alicia Witt (Reserved)
Bio: Vienna grew up in a family that had once been noble, landowning and powerful but had lost it's status a couple of hundred years ago thanks to a head of household who had a gambling problem and left the family destitute. Not that anyone in the family cared all that much, they had each other and that was the most important thing to them.
Oddly enough, the family had only borne sons since that fateful gambler despite their trend of having many children. Vienna is the first girl born into that family line and as such, she was kept somewhat coddled by her parents and her many older brothers and considered a 'good luck charm'.
She grew up the youngest (and final attempt at getting a girlchild by her parents) of five children and she was a very happy child. All four of her brothers doted upon her and she soon learned how to manipulate all of them. Not that she did it to spite but sometimes she just couldn't be bothered to do the dishes...
As a young girl, her mother showered her with pink clothes and all kinds of princessy things, but (to her father's wallets delight) Vienna seemed to prefer wearing her brother's hand-me-downs. She was also more often found playing football or cricket in the back garden with the boys than doing 'girl things' with her Mum.
The one thing she didn't get her way with over was ballet lessons. She kicked and screamed and complained the whole way but once at classes, she was enchanted by them. She started making female friends and her Mother was delighted - especially when her little girl started to show a real aptitude for the art.
To her and her brother's disgust, a son of their 'rival' family was in the boy's section when she got a little older and Vienna was partnered with him for a dance put on by the ballet school. (His family had been the ones that benefitted from the Russell's fall. They got the land, the money and the prestige thanks to their working over of the gambler.) Vienna had to deal with most of the fallout and she decided that as much as she loved her brothers, perhaps a little time away would be good.
She begged her parents to allow her to try out for the London Russian Ballet School and she got in. She worked hard and during the first round of exams, she came top of the class. She knew she had a raw talent that just needed to be guided and honed and she was at the best school for that.
She got a shock when the son of the rival family joined the school the next year and she was paired with him to do a pas de deux. She was incensed by it, but she would not risk her own balletic education just because of him, so she danced. The two together were exquisite - most people joked that they worked so hard on their routines so that they could escape one another as quickly as feasible; whatever the reasoning - it worked.
Life continued on as normal until her sixteenth birthday - when everything changed around her and she found herself somewhere else entirely.
-------------------
Vienna is a spritely girl. She looks fairly petite and girly at first glance but having six elder brothers has given her an iron will and a strength her frame belies. She is often fairly easy-going unless someone makes a point of getting on her nerves and then her fuse will be short. She will not tolerate anyone badmouthing her family and is likely to strike at them if they do.
She has her girly moments, but having grown up surrounded by boys, she is more often than not a tomboy. She never thought she'd like ballet as much as she did and having given herself over to it, she puts in the solid effort required. She is naturally talented but not prima donna material yet - so she works hard until she will be.
Vienna is focused but that doesn't mean she is tightly wound at all. If I were to sum her up in one word, it'd be 'firecracker'.
Examples:
Text entry:
I think I'd feel a little stupid starting this with either 'Dear Diary...' or 'Dear Journal...' so I guess I'll skip that bit.
Not really sure what to make of this place just yet, I miss my family a lot and I miss even going to class but it is interesting at least. I never thought something like this could happen. Now that it has, it seems a little surreal.
I think a girl could even do with a big brother around to keep me occupied. Not that I'd admit that if one of my brothers was actually here, but well.
I suppose I'd better go find some food.
Video entry:
[the girl looking into the camera was a fairly pretty young thing. Big eyes, flaming red hair - but that was not what would arrest the eye.
That would be the terrified look she had in her eyes as she looked around warily. Trying to get her bearings, trying to understand what was happening around her - trying to find something tangible she could latch on to to make sense of what was happening to her right now.
She speaks, a quiet, shaky voice.]
Mum? Dad? Where are you? Where did you go?