[Romeo save me] Anya [I've been feeling so alone]

[The Hatterdasher]

Introducing… Anya DiCamillo !

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Name: Anastasia Lazuli DiCamillo
Nicknames: Anya, Anna, Princess, Angel
Age: 10
Gender: Female
Where you stand?: The Youngest Pretty Face
Play by: Elle Fanning

I'm a girl of wealth and taste...

Appearance:

Anya is a petite girl. She looks like a China doll and, if her Mother assumes correctly, is just as breakable, if not more. She actually isn’t correct; otherwise, she’d be in thousands of pieces by now. She is very tiny, standing at a diminutive height of only four feet tall; six inches below average. She is also petite when it comes to weight as well. She weighs only fifty eight pounds, which puts her BMI to 17.7, also below average. However, her tiny body is perfect for what she does.

Anya is a ballet dancer at heart. She pirouettes better than some adults. She is lithe and flexible and has very good balance. Even her gait shows how good she is at ballet, she walks and even runs with a grace most girls only dream of achieving. She is able to bend into the most impossible of positions and can hold them for a long time.

On top of her grace, Anya also has more things that set her apart from everyone else. She is very beautiful for someone at her age. She has fine blonde hair that goes to her shoulders. She can curl it for special occasions, but most of the time it is straight. She has beautiful eyes that are wide and bright. They are a stunning color of aqua blue and some people joke that if you look into them, you become hypnotized by her. She has very nice, straight teeth that are brilliant white. Her skin is also very beautiful; she has a nice ivory look that makes her look like a pale angel. In some lights it looks a little chalky, but in most lighting, she looks very pale, which makes her look either sickly or virtuous, depending on the kind of person you are.

When it comes to clothing outside of school, Anya likes sundresses in the summer and long poufy dresses in the winter. She looks nice in pastel versions of pink, blue and yellow. She likes checkered dresses and dresses with lots of ribbons. She also likes to have ribbons in her hair as well. She often will carry some form of parasol with her in order to shield herself from the sun.

Anya also is very good with posture. She keeps her back straight and holds her head up high unless she is required to look down. She keeps her lips together and her teeth apart, her eyes are hooded unless she is excited. She crosses her legs at the ankle and not at the knee. She keeps her hands folded in her lap unless she raises it to ask a question, and even then, she does it with grace, holding her arm up straight and still until called upon.

Anya’s only flaw is her lack of athletic skill outside of ballet. If she were to hang from a horizontal bar, she couldn’t pull her own body weight up. Sit-ups or push-ups would be the death of her. She can’t run for more then a few minutes without getting tired out. She has been known to faint if she runs around outside in the sun for too long. She isn’t fast or strong, just graceful.

Personality:

‘Childhood is a land where nobody dies.’
Anya is a little girl at heart. She loves tea parties and stuffed animals. She wants to be a ballerina. She loves the color pink. She’s still afraid of the dark and believes in the tooth fairy and that there are monsters under her bed. But at the same time, she’s an adventurous girl, often pretending to be a pirate; running, jumping, and climbing trees. She’s too young to join the realms of reality and too old to stay in the land of make believe all the time. So, she stays in both in equal amounts. When she’s in class or with her clique, she forces herself to dwell in reality, but when she’s alone, she’s in her own world. She’s naïve when it comes to the world around her.

‘Is there a point when one can be too kind?’
Another thing about Anya is that she’s very altruistic. She believes everyone has good inside them, but it’s hidden away sometimes and just needs a little help to get out. She was sheltered as a child and therefore doesn’t know about the evil in the world. She’s very gullible, if someone pushes her down and says they’re sorry, she’ll think they really are, even if it was the fifth time they’ve done it. She loves being nice to other people. She loves to help those who are less fortunate then her. She’ll give a flower to a crying girl; a kiss on the cheek to a sullen boy. She lives in a world where everyone plays fair.

‘Energy... How can children have so much of it?’
Like all small children, Anya has a lot of energy and nowhere to put it. She skips when she should walk, and sings when she should be silent. She tries to be a good, quit girl, but it’s very hard for her. Her attention span is like that of a small dog. She’ll focus on her studies only to be distracted by dust particles catching the light. Suddenly, she’ll be daydreaming. She will climb trees and run around until she’s tired just because she can. If you let her go, she’ll go until she can’t go anymore. She hates being bored. She’ll sometimes read other books besides what she’s supposed to read during class. It’s hard to get her to focus on anything but Ballet.

‘If variety is the spice of life, feelings are the essence of it.’
When children grow up, they contain themselves. They hide their feelings and bottle them up, or let them loose behind closed doors. Anya hasn’t grown up yet, so she doesn’t know how to do this. She laughs when she is happy, cries when she is sad, and yells when she’s mad. She’ll get so giddy that she’ll make herself faint from excitement. She’ll get so angry she’ll scream and the face will get red and she’ll stomp her feet and gnash her teeth and turn into a wild, untamable thing. She’ll get so sad that she’ll cry and cry and she’ll cry so hard she’ll make herself sick and hiccup and sniffle for hours on end. She is a vibrant child and she wouldn’t have it any other way, because if she did, it would be very boring and she’d loathe it.

‘She tried her best, but now she can’t win...’
Every person has a dark secret inside of them, or something that is eating them. Anya’s secret is that she thinks she’s the reason why her parents got divorced. She thinks that if she becomes the best Ballerina in the world, her mother will come back. Her Father always tells her that the divorce wasn’t her fault, but she doesn’t believe him. She tries as hard as she can to please her Mother. She sends report cards and awards, but she gets nothing back. She won’t give up, though. Even if it takes her whole her life, she’ll keep trying to get her Mother to come back to her.

Likes:
+Ballet
+Being told she’s a ‘Big Girl’
+Carrots
+Classical Music
+Cranberries
+Strawberries
+Climbing trees
+Dancing
+English
+Flowers
+French
+Giraffes
+Happy Endings
+Her Father
+Jumping
+Kittens
+Magic Tricks
+Make Up
+Mistletoe
+Nice People
+Older Boys Who Are Cute
+Oranges
+Panda Bears
+Parasols
+Peaches
+Piano
+Pineapple
+Pirate Stories
+Ponies and Horses
+Precious Moments Dolls
+Pretty Dresses
+Punch and Judy
+Puppies
+Rabbits
+Raspberries
+Reading
+Rock Candy
+Running
+Shopping
+Stuffed Animals
+Tea Parties
+Teachers
+The Color Pink
+The Color Orange
+The Way Her Father Smells
+Top Hats
+Weeping Willows
+Yo-yos
+Zoos

Dislikes:
-Alfredo
-Asparagus
-Bad Smells
-Being Bored Stiff
-Being called little
-Being Short
-Being Sick
-Boring Princess Stories
-Bright Yellow
-Chicken Pox
-Chocolate Chip Cookies
-Crying
-Dead Animals
-Fish
-Fishing
-Frogs
-Getting In Trouble
-Girls who are mean to her
-Grape Juice
-Grapes
-Grapefruit
-Hair-pulling
-Her Sister
-Hunting
-Immature Boys
-Lemons
-Lobsters
-Long Trips
-Math
-Nightly Prayers
-Peas
-Puppet Shows (Except Punch and Judy)
-Scary Stories
-Sitting still for a long time
-Small, Crying Children
-Spanish
-Temper Tantrums
-The Color Green
-The Word ‘Divorce’
-Throwing up
-Waltzing

Dreams:
~To be Clara or the Sugarplum Fairy in ‘The Nutcracker Suite’
~To be a famous Ballerina
~To Have Her Mother Come Back
~To Have A Happy Family Again

Fears:
*Big Dogs
*Heights
*Loud Noises
*Monsters under the bed
*Ravens
*Small Spaces
*That Gypsies Will Steal Her
*The Dark
*The Stud Clique
*Wolves

I've been around for a long, long year...

History:

Andrew DiCamillo was a very smart man, to be sure, but when it came to love, he wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box.

It had started when he had gone to France when he was sixteen. His father, Anya’s grandfather, was French. His Mother was English. He was bilingual and spoke both languages fluently. While they were in Paris, Andrew went with them to a theatre to see a ballet. It was there that he saw Imogene.

Imogene was also rich. Her Mother had been a ballerina, and so had her Mother before her. Her Father was the owner of a string of theatres, including a few in the Moulin Rouge. It turns out that Andrew’s Father and Imogene’s father were friends from college and they began to get reacquainted. It wasn’t long until Andrew and Imogene met face to face. He told her that he liked her dancing. She told him that she liked his tie. She had a sense of humor and wit he hadn’t seen in any female before. He started to court her and she accepted his courtship.

They got married a few years later, when Imogene turned eighteen. She had no formal schooling beyond middle school, but she still maintained her wit and charm. As customary, nine months after the wedding, Imogene had a girl. They decided to name her Cleopatra, after the Egyptian princess. Her middle name was decided upon when Andrew said it should be after a precious stone.

It was then that Andrew hit his big break with his books. He made murder mysteries with cunning twists. He became involved in his schooling and achieved his doctorate in Psychology. After that, he wrote advanced psychology textbooks, in both French and English, for colleges and some schools to use.

It was after his big break that Imogene became pregnant again. She had Anastasia after only eight months, making her premature. They were afraid she wouldn’t make it. They struggled with her for many months. She became Andrew’s world. He was afraid he’d lose her. She was named after his favorite historical princess, Anastasia, and his favorite gem, a lapis Lazuli. Imogene told him he should pay attention to Cleopatra too, but Andrew waved her off, saying Anya needed him more.

Cleo began to resent her little sister for taking up her Father’s time. She would torment her when no one was looking. Even when Anya got older, her sister still pushed her around. She pulled on her hair and pushed her. Anya began to escape to her own world to keep her sister away. Andrew encouraged his daughter’s imagination. He’d have tea parties with her and read her books and play pirates with her. This angered Cleo even more, and even Imogene became incensed. She accused Andrew of loving Anya more.

It was a dark time in the DiCamillo household during Anya’s childhood. Her parents fought, and even when Anya tried to please her Mother by practicing ballet, nothing would make her happy. Anya's only friend seemed to be her pet ferret. Imogene loved Cleo, and Andrew loved Anya. It was a hard concept to understand at the time. It seemed that it was impossible for a parent to love only one child, but it was true. Andrew didn’t like what Cleo did to Anya, and Imogene believed Anya was spoiled and Cleo only wanted her Father back.

It was when Anya was eight that they split up. Imogene went back to France with Cleo and Andrew stayed in London with Anya. Anya cried for days after her Mother left, thinking the divorce was her fault. Her Father comforted her, bought her toys and dresses and books. Anya eventually stopped crying and began to try and get her Mother to come back. She was good at ballet and she loved it. She thought if she did well, her Mother would come back for her recitals.

Andrew was then given a position at Florence, and, after teaching there for a year, he decided that it would be a good place for Anya to go. He thought if she made new friends, she would be distracted from her Mother. Anya was willing to give it a try, mostly because she thought the dress was pretty.

Will this imaginative little girl survive? Only time will tell.

Family:
Parents
Marital Status: Divorced
Mother: Imogene Opal Rivera (32)Professional Ballerina
Father: Dr. Andrew Gregory DiCamillo (34)Dean of Students At Florence, World Renowned Author
Siblings
Sister: Cleopatra Emerald Rivera (14) Lives with Mother in France
Pets
Vanilla Ivory Arabian Mare
Chocolate Black Shire Mustang
Romania Grey Domestic Shorthair Cat (Male)
Chalky White Persian Cat (Female)
Soren White Ferret (Male)
Anything you'd like to add?
Allergies:
`Bees
`Seafood

Hope you guess my name...

Your name:Hatterdasher
Parent of which characters: This is my first! :D

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.

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[Javert]

Welcome To Florence's Academy For the Young

Welcome, Anastasia DiCamillo, to Florence's Academy for the young. Please be sure to join us in classes and read the rules. It is lovely to have you at our school. Congratulations.


Okay, if I can manage to stop squealing "awwwww!", then perhaps I can write something worthwhile. xD She's such a little thing, but she has a lot going on in that head of hers, you can tell--which is a big difference between her and some of the older Pretty Faces. haha. I also love that she dances ballet and is so determined to use it to please her parents.

Wonderful work and congratulations!