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eastmotion) wrote2013-10-18 07:11 pm
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Character Name: Eloise Young.
Canon: Original. Specifically the child ofbadcampingtrip and alostranger, but also loosely inspired by This
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Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive, but inhuman. Given that both of her parents were wendigos but her mother's case considerably less severe.
History:
Once upon a time, in a little town upstate, six park rangers got lost in a snow storm. They spent two months trapped in a small valley in the heart of nature and were declared legally dead. They lost their homes, their businesses, and their lives in the eyes of the public.
When the spring thaw hit, writer Regina Campbell was camping near her home when she came upon a distraught mountain man who saved her from a bear attack, while in turn she saved him from the wilderness. Regina took him to the rangers station where he was identified as Paul Young, the youngest of the "Mountain Six" who had gone searching for hikers two months ago and been presumed dead. Apparently he broke his leg, trapping them in the snow where one by one they died.
Pleased to have him return, the park ranger service made plans for him to him to reunite with his sister - a popular food network chef who would take him out to California. Due to her schedule and he not having an apartment or income, Paul was taken in by Regina who saved his life and felt responsible. Over the course of a month, the two developed a relationship. A relationship marred by Paul's erratic behavior which included strange dreams, strange emotions and behavior, and eating raw pork and steak.
Horrified, especially when he realized that these weren't caused by the medication he was taking, Paul began to have black-out spells where he would awake more and more deformed and misshapen. Approaching the small town doctor (who he shortly murdered) he was told by the doctor's mother that he had been cursed by the Wendigo. The black out spells grew more frequent, and a young man passing through town tried to help Regina break away from him. Paul's deformities grew so severe that he could no longer hide them and tried to say goodbye to Regina telling her the truth.
When he and his colleagues had gone to rescue the missing hikers he'd broken his leg and been taken in by his grandfather - who had led the rangers. Desperate to save his grandson's life, he kept Paul insensate and murdered their colleagues one by one, feeding himself and Paul on the remains. When Paul discovered this, told so "by the rocks and the stream" he killed Brian Young. The wendigo emerged from the forest and passed it's curse onto Paul, convincing Paul that he was responsible. Regina, moved to tears begged for an opportunity to help him and be with him. The Wendigo, motivated by a desire for a compliant host, told Regina to eat the flesh of her rescuer. Paul cast his soul and his love between them, keeping himself a monster and having her as his "partner", who could shift her shape more easily then he could.
Paul's sister arrived to take Paul to California and the two captured and killed her with Regina preparing the body for Paul to devour. She continued to write, becoming a well known horror author and moving to a cabin in the same valley where Paul was cursed. Two years later, she appeared at the school with Melanie Young - a five year old human with unnaturally striking eyes.
Melanie has a happy childhood and despite the reputation that her mother had developed around town was well liked among the village children. Refusing to talk about her father (the one school counselor who was determined to pursue the issue disappeared under mysterious circumstances) Regina made many friends and - when she got older encouraged the boys to fight over her. When she was eighteen years old she was accepted to NYU and announced an intention to go to the city to study film. She moved into an apartment with four other young women who she discovered - abruptly - were similar to her in interests and ....eclectic behaviors. On her own in the big city for the first time, the small town girl has struggled to adapt in a series of hilarious misadventures including but not limited to:
PAYING RENT when your roommate is the daughter of Manhattan's oldest vampire who managed to survive the titanic and daddy decides not to pay, just how do you find a way to make the money you need without arising the ire of the NYPD?
GOING TO SCHOOL? between navigating a crush who's interest in her personal history and her dad deciding to come and visit to see her school project on Manhattan's monster population, how can she convince her father that she doesn't eat males?
FIRST LOVE? What do you do when the woman you love has been dead for almost two hundred years and currently haunts the upper east side? When Melly falls in love with an undead socialite, she has to chose between trying to make the relationship work and being true herself.
Personality:
Melanie spent the first five years of her life living with her mother and her father - the two of them terrified that this child would be some sort of terrifying creature mentioned in prophecy (the two of them unaware that having a child would be possible at all.) Raised in a decadent cabin in the woods, she had to come to terms early on with the idea that her mother and father occasionally were driven to return into town with food, and this food made her mother sad. She grew up painfully thin because of that, worried and afraid of people in town and much more trusting in her mother and father - despite how they occasionally looked different then she did. Her parents took great pains to hide their appearance from her, her father only occasionally appearing. She was very mistrustful of him until she was five years old - when she shifted for the first time and destroyed a campsite of boy scouts and girl scouts.
Raising the first wendigo that was actually born in history proved to be a trial. She grew up mentally before she grew up physically as her physical nature was governed by the seasons of the forest as opposed to a natural human biological clock. From six to eight she hated children and thought that she was extremely ugly - exhibiting what one school counselor believed was a sociopath's nature. Her mother tried to encourage her to live more in the human world and began to buy movies which encouraged her love of film.
Gradually, Melanie became more well adjusted, however she spent the first ten years of her life getting by solely on some of her Wendigo gifts. Outwardly had the appearance of a horror movie villain (the typical creepy ghost girl). Inwardly she was simply a normal teenager who's parents occasionally lived as monsters in the basement. She grew to hate fall, as from November to January was designated as "family hibernation time", so she and her mother and father would burrow in the basement. At sixteen she insisted on celebrating the fall holidays so her mother and father tried to stay awake. Her father lasted until December and was able to see her open presents. It was the beginning of a new relationship between the two of them.
Her routine is somewhat skewed and her behavior is based on the over exaggerated behavior of actors - being that she learned how to behave as a normal human being from what her mother and father remembered and what her mother managed to purchase for her online. She's learned a lot from her roommates about how to behave in the big city, and by the time she arrives in the box she's not a girl "Fresh from the country". She's used to dealing with thoughts and feelings, mostly because of the way her family communicates (her father rarely actually speaks.)
She gets along better with her mother, but she does love her father. It's more of an animal instinct of respect however as opposed to affection. She cares a great deal for her roommates.
Other then that she cares for people easily. She enjoys meeting new people and having spent her whole life within the span of nature she genuinely likes humanity. She's not sorry that she has to eat people however to function, and restrains her activities to bad guys - delivered by her neighbor - a patrolman at the police academy - or food supplied by her roommate's father Count Stavis. When her father and mother visit, (mostly her mother) they bring her game.
She's not a nature child by the stretch of any imagination however she is compelled by her nature to be against not taking care of the earth. She regards it as more of an annoyance then actually helping people. Her room is full of plants and stuffed animals as well as her collection of movie posters and films.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
Wendigo - he who keeps man in his place
In Paul, Regina, and Melanie's universe, monsters exist in every day society beneath the surface. Nothing particularly unnatural about that. The more obscure creatures play larger roles however and Paul being thrust into the lime light (with Regina joining him) has left Melanie little choice in what she wants to be. The Wendigo has a particular list of characteristics, ones that her parents are still figuring out since there are a number of differences between their situation and tradition. Traditionally Wendigos are solitary creatures and the Wendigo had intended to drive Paul mad and send him back into the forest. The Wendigo exists as a spirit that gradually devours the host's soul while living in their body. Millions of years old, perhaps it was simply lonely when it passed part of it's powers onto Regina and by the time Melanie appeared there was nothing else that it could do. Divided between three people, the demon has mellowed considerably. All it wanted to do was be left alone, it didn't realize that the very thing it was supposed to protect was a positive thing that should be cherished. It regards Melanie as "new growth."
As a wendigo, she has a number of abilities.
Manipulation - "And I heard a voice on the wind that told me to kill. The wendigo is traditionally described as a dark voice in the human mind that tells men and women to kill each other and devour their flesh. (The whole legend is a story about cannibalism). Melanie drives people mad around her, specifically in regards to protecting her like a siren (although the sirens in new york would disagree). When she was sixteen she became incredibly popular due to this ability developing. Young men came to blows and beat themselves up over her favor. This ability terrifies her and she'd never use it.
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Character Name: Eloise Young.
Canon: Original. Specifically the child of
badcampingtrip and alostranger, but also loosely inspired by ThisCanon Point:
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive, but inhuman. Given that both of her parents were wendigos but her mother's case considerably less severe.
History:
Once upon a time, in a little town upstate, six park rangers got lost in a snow storm. They spent two months trapped in a small valley in the heart of nature and were declared legally dead. They lost their homes, their businesses, and their lives in the eyes of the public.
When the spring thaw hit, writer Regina Campbell was camping near her home when she came upon a distraught mountain man who saved her from a bear attack, while in turn she saved him from the wilderness. Regina took him to the rangers station where he was identified as Paul Young, the youngest of the "Mountain Six" who had gone searching for hikers two months ago and been presumed dead. Apparently he broke his leg, trapping them in the snow where one by one they died.
Pleased to have him return, the park ranger service made plans for him to him to reunite with his sister - a popular food network chef who would take him out to California. Due to her schedule and he not having an apartment or income, Paul was taken in by Regina who saved his life and felt responsible. Over the course of a month, the two developed a relationship. A relationship marred by Paul's erratic behavior which included strange dreams, strange emotions and behavior, and eating raw pork and steak.
Horrified, especially when he realized that these weren't caused by the medication he was taking, Paul began to have black-out spells where he would awake more and more deformed and misshapen. Approaching the small town doctor (who he shortly murdered) he was told by the doctor's mother that he had been cursed by the Wendigo. The black out spells grew more frequent, and a young man passing through town tried to help Regina break away from him. Paul's deformities grew so severe that he could no longer hide them and tried to say goodbye to Regina telling her the truth.
When he and his colleagues had gone to rescue the missing hikers he'd broken his leg and been taken in by his grandfather - who had led the rangers. Desperate to save his grandson's life, he kept Paul insensate and murdered their colleagues one by one, feeding himself and Paul on the remains. When Paul discovered this, told so "by the rocks and the stream" he killed Brian Young. The wendigo emerged from the forest and passed it's curse onto Paul, convincing Paul that he was responsible. Regina, moved to tears begged for an opportunity to help him and be with him. The Wendigo, motivated by a desire for a compliant host, told Regina to eat the flesh of her rescuer. Paul cast his soul and his love between them, keeping himself a monster and having her as his "partner", who could shift her shape more easily then he could.
Paul's sister arrived to take Paul to California and the two captured and killed her with Regina preparing the body for Paul to devour. She continued to write, becoming a well known horror author and moving to a cabin in the same valley where Paul was cursed. Two years later, she appeared at the school with Melanie Young - a five year old human with unnaturally striking eyes.
Melanie has a happy childhood and despite the reputation that her mother had developed around town was well liked among the village children. Refusing to talk about her father (the one school counselor who was determined to pursue the issue disappeared under mysterious circumstances) Regina made many friends and - when she got older encouraged the boys to fight over her. When she was eighteen years old she was accepted to NYU and announced an intention to go to the city to study film. She moved into an apartment with four other young women who she discovered - abruptly - were similar to her in interests and ....eclectic behaviors. On her own in the big city for the first time, the small town girl has struggled to adapt in a series of hilarious misadventures including but not limited to:
PAYING RENT when your roommate is the daughter of Manhattan's oldest vampire who managed to survive the titanic and daddy decides not to pay, just how do you find a way to make the money you need without arising the ire of the NYPD?
GOING TO SCHOOL? between navigating a crush who's interest in her personal history and her dad deciding to come and visit to see her school project on Manhattan's monster population, how can she convince her father that she doesn't eat males?
FIRST LOVE? What do you do when the woman you love has been dead for almost two hundred years and currently haunts the upper east side? When Melly falls in love with an undead socialite, she has to chose between trying to make the relationship work and being true herself.
Personality:
Melanie spent the first five years of her life living with her mother and her father - the two of them terrified that this child would be some sort of terrifying creature mentioned in prophecy (the two of them unaware that having a child would be possible at all.) Raised in a decadent cabin in the woods, she had to come to terms early on with the idea that her mother and father occasionally were driven to return into town with food, and this food made her mother sad. She grew up painfully thin because of that, worried and afraid of people in town and much more trusting in her mother and father - despite how they occasionally looked different then she did. Her parents took great pains to hide their appearance from her, her father only occasionally appearing. She was very mistrustful of him until she was five years old - when she shifted for the first time and destroyed a campsite of boy scouts and girl scouts.
Raising the first wendigo that was actually born in history proved to be a trial. She grew up mentally before she grew up physically as her physical nature was governed by the seasons of the forest as opposed to a natural human biological clock. From six to eight she hated children and thought that she was extremely ugly - exhibiting what one school counselor believed was a sociopath's nature. Her mother tried to encourage her to live more in the human world and began to buy movies which encouraged her love of film.
Gradually, Melanie became more well adjusted, however she spent the first ten years of her life getting by solely on some of her Wendigo gifts. Outwardly had the appearance of a horror movie villain (the typical creepy ghost girl). Inwardly she was simply a normal teenager who's parents occasionally lived as monsters in the basement. She grew to hate fall, as from November to January was designated as "family hibernation time", so she and her mother and father would burrow in the basement. At sixteen she insisted on celebrating the fall holidays so her mother and father tried to stay awake. Her father lasted until December and was able to see her open presents. It was the beginning of a new relationship between the two of them.
Her routine is somewhat skewed and her behavior is based on the over exaggerated behavior of actors - being that she learned how to behave as a normal human being from what her mother and father remembered and what her mother managed to purchase for her online. She's learned a lot from her roommates about how to behave in the big city, and by the time she arrives in the box she's not a girl "Fresh from the country". She's used to dealing with thoughts and feelings, mostly because of the way her family communicates (her father rarely actually speaks.)
She gets along better with her mother, but she does love her father. It's more of an animal instinct of respect however as opposed to affection. She cares a great deal for her roommates.
Other then that she cares for people easily. She enjoys meeting new people and having spent her whole life within the span of nature she genuinely likes humanity. She's not sorry that she has to eat people however to function, and restrains her activities to bad guys - delivered by her neighbor - a patrolman at the police academy - or food supplied by her roommate's father Count Stavis. When her father and mother visit, (mostly her mother) they bring her game.
She's not a nature child by the stretch of any imagination however she is compelled by her nature to be against not taking care of the earth. She regards it as more of an annoyance then actually helping people. Her room is full of plants and stuffed animals as well as her collection of movie posters and films.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
Wendigo - he who keeps man in his place
In Paul, Regina, and Melanie's universe, monsters exist in every day society beneath the surface. Nothing particularly unnatural about that. The more obscure creatures play larger roles however and Paul being thrust into the lime light (with Regina joining him) has left Melanie little choice in what she wants to be. The Wendigo has a particular list of characteristics, ones that her parents are still figuring out since there are a number of differences between their situation and tradition. Traditionally Wendigos are solitary creatures and the Wendigo had intended to drive Paul mad and send him back into the forest. The Wendigo exists as a spirit that gradually devours the host's soul while living in their body. Millions of years old, perhaps it was simply lonely when it passed part of it's powers onto Regina and by the time Melanie appeared there was nothing else that it could do. Divided between three people, the demon has mellowed considerably. All it wanted to do was be left alone, it didn't realize that the very thing it was supposed to protect was a positive thing that should be cherished. It regards Melanie as "new growth."
As a wendigo, she has a number of abilities.
Manipulation - "And I heard a voice on the wind that told me to kill. The wendigo is traditionally described as a dark voice in the human mind that tells men and women to kill each other and devour their flesh. (The whole legend is a story about cannibalism). Melanie drives people mad around her, specifically in regards to protecting her like a siren (although the sirens in new york would disagree). When she was sixteen she became incredibly popular due to this ability developing. Young men came to blows and beat themselves up over her favor. This ability terrifies her and she'd never use it.
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