Post by fantine on Nov 8, 2010 14:04:45 GMT -8
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★ AGE: Approx. 230; appears late teens.
★ GENDER: Female
★ SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Straight
★ HEIGHT: 5’2’’
★ WEIGHT: 110 lbs
★ JOB: Freelance Artist
★ RACE: Vampire
★ FACTION: Neutral
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Your ★ Beauty,
Appearance,
She has very pale skin, and did even in life. She looks best in blues and greens, though she will occasionally don black or gold for formal events. She does quite enjoy makeup, now that it is acceptable for women to wear it, but she keeps her look clean and natural, employing the use of browns and pinks.
Her hair is naturally very curly, but she styles it carefully every day so that it looks beautifully controlled. She usually wears it in a poof with structured curls around her face, most often with an ornament or hat of some sort.
Fantine appears to be in her late teens or early twenties, depending on how she dresses.[/ul]
LIKES +
★ Fantine also enjoys designing and sewing her own clothing. She is a very talented seamstress.
★ Fantine is an avid reader. She loves to read anything and everything, and is rarely seen without a book in hand. He favorite thing to read is Modern fantasy, such as Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings.
★ She also frequents the theatre. She is a sucker for a good tragedy, and she adores all things Shakespearean.
★ Fantine loves music very passionately. She has a sweet singing voice, and she enjoys penning her own tunes on the piano.
★ Finally, Fantine is a journaler. She writes down everything, and has recently taken to adding photographs or sketches to her journals. She wants to remember every detail of every happening in her life.
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DISLIKES -
★ She also strongly dislikes movies. She thinks moving pictures are strange, and that movies have ruined books.
★ Fantine does not like animals, save for cats and dogs. She thinks they belong outside, far from her.
★ Fantine does not like pretentious people. She is very humble herself, and she thinks that those who think too much of themselves are bothersome and irritating.
★ Fantine does not like fast food or soft drinks. She would much prefer to cook her own meals, or better yet, have Araziel fix her something divine. ;-)
★ Finally, Fantine despises Vampire fiction. She thinks Steaphnie Meyer should be thrown in a lake somewhere and chased by ducks.
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POSITIVE TRAITS +
★ She is also very loyal, and once you are in her good graces it is quite difficult to fall from them.
★ Fantine is quiet, and this makes her a good listener. She will always lend a willing ear to a friend (or anyone) who needs someone to talk to.
★ Fantine is very musical, and enjoys penning melodies for friends and family. She also loves to give handmade gifts, such as embroidered pillows and the like. She is very generous. Fantine inherited a great deal of money from her family, and she frequently uses it to endow charities with things that they need. She never allows herself to be recognized for these works.
★ Fantine is very forgiving, and she always does herb est to see the best in people, even when there is no good to be seen by others. She will always offer a second chance, and often befriends people that others would ovelrook.
★ Fantine is a decent cook, but what sets her apart is her gift with desserts. Not only can she bake anything, she is an incredible decorator of cakes.
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NEGATIVE TRAITS -
★ Fantine is very sensitive. She gets her feelings hurt very easily.
★ Fantine tends to be too forgiving at times. Sometimes someone will wrong her greatly and she will overlook it, doing her best to see the best in that person when in fact there may not be much good to be seen.
★ Fantine is not always sociable, because she is so shy.
★ She tends to be a little clingy at times, especially when she is feeling emotional or slighted.
★ Fantine has a weakness for material possessions. She will spoil herself rotten if no one is there to keep her in check.
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OVERALL PERSONALITY
Fantine loves music, and is very passionate about it. She will regularly spend hours at the piano, composing or just plinking around on the old ivories. She also loves to sing, but few people know this because she is too shy to sing in front of people.
Fantine is very old fashioned, preferring to dress in the style she grew up wearing rather than wear modern clothing. She believes in courtship and arranged marriages, believing that love just muddles things up. She does, however, enjoy romantic novels from time to time. She is of the opinion that, if given enough time, anyone can grow to love another person.
Fantine can, at times, be a bit jealous or clingy, but that is because she fears rejection from friends and comrades. When feeling emotional, she will always prefer to be surrounded by her companions, although from time to time she does enjoy her alone time. More often than not, however, you will find her surrounded by lady friends spending time out of doors with handwork close at hand.
Fantine destests all animals, save for her cat, Aslan, and her small terrier, whom she calls The Professor.
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Background ★ Info,
History,
However, when the Revolution started, just weeks before their impending marriage, Henri lost everything and was forced to flee France. Having grown to care very deeply for Henri, Fantine planned to accompany him to the Americas, where he planned to start a business as an iron worker. Henri was very gifted at making decorative iron ornaments, and he eventually found great success in New York.
Unfortunately, Fantine’s family threatened to cut her off completely if she followed her love to the New World, and unable to bear the thought of poverty, Fantine stayed behind. Fearing she would never see him again, Fantine visited Henri the night before he departed, and he confessed to her that he was not human, but a Vampire. He told her that if she would allow him to transform her, once her family was gone she could still join him in America and be his wife someday. Fantine acquiesced very eagerly, and changed that night.
The next morning, Henri departed, and Fantine was inconsolable for days. With the Revolution in its earliest months, Fantine knew little of what was going on, but as the Revolution progressed, she did her best to learn of current affairs so that she could alert Henri to what was going on in his home country. Fantine was enraged by the state of living for the poor in France, and quickly became involved, secretly of course, in attempting to better the lives of the destitute in her country. She frequently slipped out of the family's estate in commoner's clothing to deliver food and money to contacts in Paris and Versailles.
In early September of 1789, after several weeks of seeing what kind of poverty was spreading throughout France, Fantine joined several other wealthy women in plotting a staged protest in favor of a regime change. The women involved, being women, couldn't keep their mouths shut, and by October, thousands of women were ready to lead the charge for change. On the fifth of October of that same year, some 7,000 armed women marched on Versailles in hopes of bringing to light the horrendous economic situation, and they demanded that the government seat be moved to Paris as a measure of good faith that the crisis would be addressed. Horrified at the numbers of enraged women and the use of weapons against the government, Fantine quickly took a back seat to the March and instead of physically marching with the French women, she used her influence as a woman of nobility to reduce charges against the women most heavily involved.
Some months passed, and matters in France were still turbulent. The Reign of Terror began when Fantine was 20, and her parents, along with some eighteen to forty thousand others, were sent to the guillotine for being accused of counter-revolutionary activities or sympathies. Fantine was spared because of her months of aid to those who needed it most, but to secure her safety, she left France under cover of darkness and fled to New York to be with Henri, with whom she had corresponded throughout the troublesome times.
When she arrived in Saint Calais, Fantine found her new home outside of town had been ravaged by humans, and her beloved was dead. Swearing she would never love again, she had the house redone in the same manner that Henri had originally designed it, and she took his name, LeFevre, before starting a new life for herself as an artist.
Armed with her family's immense wealth, Fantine began to paint and then sell her creations, though her true love lay in needlework. She designed and made beautiful tapestries and embroidered wall hangings, many of which were ordered by wealthy Americans. She also made clothes and gave them to the impoverished, her generous spirit never lagging.
After a year or two in her new home, Fantine had befriended many of the local "louts," so to speak, and she decided that if they were such a bother to the wealthier citizens, she would give them a place to repose during the daytime hours. She turned a stable on her property into a playhouse of sorts, and the smaller children could play with handmade dolls and toys, while the older children could learn to read or embroider or paint, whichever tickled their particular fancy.
Every few years, Fantine would close up the house in Saint Calais and move elsewhere for several years at a time, simply to keep people in her new home to see that she did not age. Once a generation had died out, she would return and stay for a while, leaving again before anyone got suspicious. This continued through the mid eighteen hundreds, until news of gold being found in California drew her attention westward. In early 1849, she traveled by train to Pair-A-Dice, California, just to see what the fuss was all about. She had no need for gold or wealth of any kind- she had all that she needed from her inheritance and good investments. She took little with her to California, and stayed only two years before returning home to Saint Calais, disenchanted by coastal life.
By the 1860s, The Civil War was tearing the nation apart at its seams, and Fantine, being impervious to disease, worked as a nurse on the battlefields in Virginia. During her time doing this, she met and fell in love with a Union soldier named Jackson Horn. Jack was badly wounded, and Fantine took care of him for several months. He seemed to be recovering, and they became dear friends. They were each falling for each other rather hard, and after six months in her care, Jack proposed to Fantine with his mother's engagement ring. Fantine, torn between her desire to be with Jack and her knowledge that it would never work because of what she was, refused him. Jack continued to pursue her long after he was released from her care, and they courted for several years before she finally accepted his fourth proposal. They were married in 1870, and remained happily married until Jack's death in 1878 to what Fantine later learned was stomach cancer. Fantine, who was in the early stages of pregnancy at the time of Jack's death, miscarried a few weeks afterward.
In 1880, Fantine returned to New York and took up her old hobby of looking after the abandoned children of Saint Calais. She continued to teach them useful skills, and she eventually began to help them sell their wares so that they could make a little money to live on.
Throughout the early 1900s, Fantine spent a great deal of time studying various subjects, such as languages, music, and horticulture. She kept a grand garden at her estate in Saint Calais, and she found great pleasure in sitting among the blossoming flora with her ever-beloved handwork in the sunshine. She became very proficient at several languages, including Latin and Italian, as well as her native French and secondary English. She took on pupils, mostly young women, and instructed them in deportment, writing, reading, and basic maths. This continued until the fifties, when Fantine returned to Virginia for a while to be at her estate that she shared with Jack nearly a century earlier.
She remained in Virginia until the 1990s, spending most of her time around the horses that boarded at her estate there. She even taught some riding lessons to pass the time in the summer and fall. Each winter, she hosted marvelous southern Christmas parties with live music and fabulous food. However, no one ever knew that it was she who threw the Christmas Ball, because she sent invitations anonymously and never revealed that it was she who made the Ball possible.
When she finally returned to Saint Calais, which she considered to be her real home, it was 1999, and Fantine was growing weary of life. Searching for something to revive her spirit, she purchased a small boutique and began to sell her creations again. She'd been gone for so long that no one knew who she was, and she gained quite an impressive client base for a "newcomer."
Fantine has been in Saint Calais ever since, and unless she is given a reason to return to Virginia for any extended period, she plans to stick around for a good long while.
★Circumstances of Transformation/Discovery: Described in history
★Circumstances of Faction Initiation: Neutral character
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The ★ Puppeteer,
★ WHAT SHOULD WE CALL YOU? Claire
★ HOW TO CONTACT YOU? Email or PM
★ HOW DID YOU FIND US? Friends with Prince Kai XD !!
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FACE CLAIM
[color=e10e3f]★[/color] [b]KNIGHTLEY, KEIRA[/b], [s] Fantine Giselle LeFevre[/s]
The ★ Copyright,
Rosen Nocturne Kai & Kiare.♥
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