Post by Rain on Sept 7, 2010 1:53:41 GMT -5
[/font][/font][/size][/size]Introducing… ELOISE MONDAY !
Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself…[/blockquote][/center]
Name: Eloise Monday
Nicknames: El (but she'll only allow her mother to get away with this one)
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Where you stand?: Leader of the Floaters
Play by: Emma Watson
Nicknames: El (but she'll only allow her mother to get away with this one)
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Where you stand?: Leader of the Floaters
Play by: Emma Watson
I'm a man of wealth and taste...
Appearance: Eloise enjoys looking refined, but only when she is in public and there are others there to enjoy it. Her face is slightly freckled (the freckles are faint, but were more prominent when she was a young girl. A part of her wishes the freckles had never vanished, while another part of her is glad that the freckles are no longer so obvious to onlookers, as it gives her a more matured appearance). Her dirty blonde hair, which was blonder as a child and darkened with age, curls naturally, but not quite in the loose, befitting-perfection manner that one might consider ideal. Her curls are more of a nuisance than a blessing, at least in her eyes, for her hair becomes easily knotted and she must take constant care of it to ensure her hair does not begin to resemble that of a vagrant residing on the streets.
Her body is one part of herself (which would include mind, heart, and body) that she feels proud of. While enduring puberty, the same could not be said, but since she developed a passion for running at the age of twelve, she has been able to tone her body until she has reached a healthy, fit weight and a chipper attitude about how she looks. Running is one of her greatest loves. She does it for release, when she's upset, when she wants to feel free, or when she is hit by the simple urge. If there is no where to run to, she will find somewhere. She does not know many women who are as satisfied with their bodies as she is, so she is proud to have such high self-esteem about it. She loves to curl into a ball, hug herself, and feel the body that she is so proud of. What she must remind herself is that she must not use this body in order to attain some sort of semblance of love, which is difficult for her to overcome.
When it comes to fashion, there is an enormous difference between the way Eloise wishes the world to view her and the way she views herself. When going out in public, she wants her hair to be at its finest and for her clothes to match the latest fashions, or at least complement her brown eyes or the golden tones of her hair. When she is alone (or with her mother, who she is extremely comfortable around), she will wear what is forbidden, which is to say, men's clothes. Her mother still has a lot of her father's old clothes, which she rifles through when she is preparing to go to bed in order to find a baggy button-up shirt to wear, or perhaps some old trousers if she's just lying about the house. In such cases, she also is prone to putting her hair up in a messy fashion. If anyone that she was not comfortable around were to see her in what her mother calls her "natural habitat," she would be mortified.
Personality: Eloise is a free spirit, but she has her downfalls. While she loves the idea of feeling liberated and running around doing whatever she feels like doing without any inhibitions, she finds this rather difficult to put into practice because of her fear of being judged. While the same could be said for anybody, Eloise has what she calls an "irrational fear of being judged" due to the fact that she has difficulty trusting people and letting them into her circle of comfort. She naturally distrusts younger people (read: anyone around her age or younger) simply because of how much she values the wise and the experienced. As a result, she seems antisocial, but she gravitates toward those who are older and this is viewed by others as a confusion about the types of people she should grow close to. Her unconventional taste in friends is something she values about herself, but also curses, due to the way it causes people to judge her.
Other than a moderate interest in fashion and her intense passion for running, Eloise is also rather fond of playing the violin. She took up lessons when she was eight and has pursued it as a hobby ever since. It gives her a similar feeling that she acquires while running, although less enhanced, but it invigorates her and feeds her lust for inner freedom. She loves being able to feel the music as well as hear it, and to direct the flow and the rhythm of it with her intuition and knowledge of the art to guide her. She finds that she is easily frustrated when it comes to practicing and will scream at the violin every obscenity she can come up with until she feels it's been abused enough, and then continue onward until she gets it right. It took a lot of inner work for her to accept the fact that prodigies are not made, they merely happen, and making it her goal to become one was far from realistic.
Eloise was a hyper child and still, in her teen years, has difficulty focusing and has to work to overcome it (in the twenty-first century, this would be diagnosed as ADD). Her mother tells her it is merely a part of who she is, but Eloise has never been satisfied with it. She is a determined person but struggles with seeing projects until the end, which is part of the reason she has such a restless personality. She is smart when it comes to seeking help and has a fairly healthy balance of dependence and independence when it comes to leaning on others. However, her independence may be a result of the lack of people she has in her life, and the dependency burden comes down on her mother and her lifelong neighbor.
Likes:
Dislikes:
Dreams:
Fears:
Her body is one part of herself (which would include mind, heart, and body) that she feels proud of. While enduring puberty, the same could not be said, but since she developed a passion for running at the age of twelve, she has been able to tone her body until she has reached a healthy, fit weight and a chipper attitude about how she looks. Running is one of her greatest loves. She does it for release, when she's upset, when she wants to feel free, or when she is hit by the simple urge. If there is no where to run to, she will find somewhere. She does not know many women who are as satisfied with their bodies as she is, so she is proud to have such high self-esteem about it. She loves to curl into a ball, hug herself, and feel the body that she is so proud of. What she must remind herself is that she must not use this body in order to attain some sort of semblance of love, which is difficult for her to overcome.
When it comes to fashion, there is an enormous difference between the way Eloise wishes the world to view her and the way she views herself. When going out in public, she wants her hair to be at its finest and for her clothes to match the latest fashions, or at least complement her brown eyes or the golden tones of her hair. When she is alone (or with her mother, who she is extremely comfortable around), she will wear what is forbidden, which is to say, men's clothes. Her mother still has a lot of her father's old clothes, which she rifles through when she is preparing to go to bed in order to find a baggy button-up shirt to wear, or perhaps some old trousers if she's just lying about the house. In such cases, she also is prone to putting her hair up in a messy fashion. If anyone that she was not comfortable around were to see her in what her mother calls her "natural habitat," she would be mortified.
Personality: Eloise is a free spirit, but she has her downfalls. While she loves the idea of feeling liberated and running around doing whatever she feels like doing without any inhibitions, she finds this rather difficult to put into practice because of her fear of being judged. While the same could be said for anybody, Eloise has what she calls an "irrational fear of being judged" due to the fact that she has difficulty trusting people and letting them into her circle of comfort. She naturally distrusts younger people (read: anyone around her age or younger) simply because of how much she values the wise and the experienced. As a result, she seems antisocial, but she gravitates toward those who are older and this is viewed by others as a confusion about the types of people she should grow close to. Her unconventional taste in friends is something she values about herself, but also curses, due to the way it causes people to judge her.
Other than a moderate interest in fashion and her intense passion for running, Eloise is also rather fond of playing the violin. She took up lessons when she was eight and has pursued it as a hobby ever since. It gives her a similar feeling that she acquires while running, although less enhanced, but it invigorates her and feeds her lust for inner freedom. She loves being able to feel the music as well as hear it, and to direct the flow and the rhythm of it with her intuition and knowledge of the art to guide her. She finds that she is easily frustrated when it comes to practicing and will scream at the violin every obscenity she can come up with until she feels it's been abused enough, and then continue onward until she gets it right. It took a lot of inner work for her to accept the fact that prodigies are not made, they merely happen, and making it her goal to become one was far from realistic.
Eloise was a hyper child and still, in her teen years, has difficulty focusing and has to work to overcome it (in the twenty-first century, this would be diagnosed as ADD). Her mother tells her it is merely a part of who she is, but Eloise has never been satisfied with it. She is a determined person but struggles with seeing projects until the end, which is part of the reason she has such a restless personality. She is smart when it comes to seeking help and has a fairly healthy balance of dependence and independence when it comes to leaning on others. However, her independence may be a result of the lack of people she has in her life, and the dependency burden comes down on her mother and her lifelong neighbor.
Likes:
- Running
- Freedom
- The wise and experienced
- Playing the violin
- Fashion
- Being comfortable
- Artichokes (especially the hearts!)
Dislikes:
- Her inability to focus
- When people jump to conclusions about her
- The fact that she lacks a relationship with her father
- Young people
- Fish (eating them, anyway)
- Corsets
- People with a phobia for germs
Dreams:
- To find her father
- To find inner freedom and peace
- To learn to trust people
- To master the violin
- To visit Salem, Massachusetts
Fears:
- Never finding her father
- Jeff's death
- Young people
- Being judged
- Becoming deaf (which would impair her ability to play violin) or losing the mobility in her legs (which would no longer allow her to run)
I've been around for a long, long year...
History: Eloise was born on a boat crossing the Atlantic from the Americas to England. Her mother went into early labor and so Eloise takes pride in the fact that she was born in the middle of the ocean. It gives her an interesting story to tell, although she is usually more willing to divulge this fact to older people rather than younger people, who she feel will not appreciate the factoid as well (ironically, she who so fears being judged tends to jump to conclusions about people). She grew up in London, but when she was around five, her father left the family without a word. He had brought them back to England (since he and Eloise's mother had been living in Salem, Massachusetts for a year and a half, but they wanted to return to their homeland to raise Eloise) in order to better pursue his career as an attorney. His career aspirations were failing to come into fruition as he attempted to support his wife and child at the same time, so he chose ambition over kin and abandoned them. Although Eloise's mother was devastated, she stayed strong for her daughter and worked to raise her to the best of her ability.
As a result, Eloise has always been fascinated (bordering on obsession) with her father. All she knows about him is his name, the small tidbits of personality her mother supplied her with over the years, and fragments collected from her memories, such as what he looked like and some of the games he would play with her (tag was her favorite, although their London apartment hardly allowed it and Daddy often did not want to play). One thing she plans to do before she dies is find her father, speak to him, and form a relationship with him, since she craves the one she lost due to their now thirteen year separation. Her mother has, with brutal honesty, informed her of how slim those chances are, since the highest likelihood was that her father fled the country in search of some other life (he, just like his daughter, is a free spirit and can't stay in one place for very long). Eloise spends so much time thinking about her father and all the possibilities a relationship with him could entail that it worries her mother.
Another important part of Eloise's life is the man she grew up next to (starting at the age of six when she and her mother moved into a house), who is about fifty years her senior and lives alone. His name is Jeffrey Gold, Jeff to his friends, and he is a lonely man with a kind, compassionate disposition, so, naturally, Eloise drifted toward him as a replacement father figure. She goes to him for advice even more often than to her mother, who she also has an immensely strong bond with, and considers his house more of a home than her own. While at Florence, she sends him constant letters and is always concerned for his health, since she knows he's getting on in years. Whenever she thinks of his death, she pushes it to the back of her mind, knowing he can't live forever but unsure of what she would do without him.
Her decision to attend Florence was, like many other things, due to her obsession with finding her father. She discovered through Florence's public records that he once taught there and planned on going to the school in order to unearth as many facts about him as she could, and possibly uncover a clue as to where he might be. Another part of her is hoping that he will return to Florence, for whatever reason, and they will be reunited. It was a tough decision, since it meant leaving Jeff and her mother behind, but she assured them that she would shower them with constant letters and visits.
Family: Father: Herbert Monday
Mother: Rose Bennett Monday
Anything you'd like to add? Nope.
As a result, Eloise has always been fascinated (bordering on obsession) with her father. All she knows about him is his name, the small tidbits of personality her mother supplied her with over the years, and fragments collected from her memories, such as what he looked like and some of the games he would play with her (tag was her favorite, although their London apartment hardly allowed it and Daddy often did not want to play). One thing she plans to do before she dies is find her father, speak to him, and form a relationship with him, since she craves the one she lost due to their now thirteen year separation. Her mother has, with brutal honesty, informed her of how slim those chances are, since the highest likelihood was that her father fled the country in search of some other life (he, just like his daughter, is a free spirit and can't stay in one place for very long). Eloise spends so much time thinking about her father and all the possibilities a relationship with him could entail that it worries her mother.
Another important part of Eloise's life is the man she grew up next to (starting at the age of six when she and her mother moved into a house), who is about fifty years her senior and lives alone. His name is Jeffrey Gold, Jeff to his friends, and he is a lonely man with a kind, compassionate disposition, so, naturally, Eloise drifted toward him as a replacement father figure. She goes to him for advice even more often than to her mother, who she also has an immensely strong bond with, and considers his house more of a home than her own. While at Florence, she sends him constant letters and is always concerned for his health, since she knows he's getting on in years. Whenever she thinks of his death, she pushes it to the back of her mind, knowing he can't live forever but unsure of what she would do without him.
Her decision to attend Florence was, like many other things, due to her obsession with finding her father. She discovered through Florence's public records that he once taught there and planned on going to the school in order to unearth as many facts about him as she could, and possibly uncover a clue as to where he might be. Another part of her is hoping that he will return to Florence, for whatever reason, and they will be reunited. It was a tough decision, since it meant leaving Jeff and her mother behind, but she assured them that she would shower them with constant letters and visits.
Family: Father: Herbert Monday
Mother: Rose Bennett Monday
Anything you'd like to add? Nope.
Hope you guess my name...
Your name: Rain or Morgan
Parent of which characters: Eli and Annette Appleby
Parent of which characters: Eli and Annette Appleby
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game...
(c) Poe & Realms of Fantasia
Lyrics (c) Guns N' Roses
Do not steal.
It's bad.
