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Nov. 8th, 2012 06:44 pmPERSONAL
NAME: Lel
PERSONAL JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
leloipa
EMAIL: leloipa1@gmail.com
AIM: leloipa
WIKI NAME: leloipa
CURRENT CHARACTERS: Conan Edogawa, Will Stanton, Danny Fenton, Takato Matsuda
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Cimorene of Linderwall
SERIES: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
CANON POINT: About a month after the conclusion of Dealing with Dragons
LOSS: Most of the time Cimorene would be quite happy to forget about her status as a princess. She is much happier rummaging through dusty treasure rooms in plain work clothing and trying out new recipes. When she first took up a post as a dragon's princess she immediately tossed her crown in the back of a wardrobe and didn't look at it again for months.
And so for her loss she will be unable to remove her crown by herself. She will be able to get someone else to remove it, but the moment tey leave the room it will be back on her head.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
The traditional life of a princess bores her to tears. She would rather go out adventuring than be tied down to tedious and mostly irrelevant responsibilities. Nothing makes her happier than having some kind of quest or mystery to work on.
ABILITIES:
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Oh, bother.
[From the journal comes the sound of an irritated sigh.]
This is clearly a magical castle. It doesn't take a lot of observation to recognize that. And considering I don't remember leaving the cave? I suppose I've been carried off.
No one is going to lock me in a tower, right? It might be traditional, but that sounds like a very boring kind of adventure to me. Besides, that already happened to my great-aunt Rose, and two in one family are far too many.
I hope no one expects me to behave properly for a captive princess. I despise embroidery and dancing, and I am not nearly silly enough.
INTENT: I originally started looking at Cimorene because I wanted a very different type of character who would be react to everything in the castle in a completely different way. The more I developed her voice, the more fun I had thinking of all the different possibilities for her at Paradisa, especially when it comes to the differences between her society and the other characters in Paradisa. For example, in her canon wizards are cowardly magic thieves and giants and dragons aren't all that bad.
NAME: Lel
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
leloipa EMAIL: leloipa1@gmail.com
AIM: leloipa
WIKI NAME: leloipa
CURRENT CHARACTERS: Conan Edogawa, Will Stanton, Danny Fenton, Takato Matsuda
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Cimorene of Linderwall
SERIES: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
CANON POINT: About a month after the conclusion of Dealing with Dragons
LOSS: Most of the time Cimorene would be quite happy to forget about her status as a princess. She is much happier rummaging through dusty treasure rooms in plain work clothing and trying out new recipes. When she first took up a post as a dragon's princess she immediately tossed her crown in the back of a wardrobe and didn't look at it again for months.
And so for her loss she will be unable to remove her crown by herself. She will be able to get someone else to remove it, but the moment tey leave the room it will be back on her head.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
“Happily ever after? Cimorene wasn’t sure about that, though she was certainly hoping to
enjoy herself. She was positive, however, that life with the dragons would be interesting
and busy, and in Cimorene’s opinion that would go a long way toward making her happy.”
enjoy herself. She was positive, however, that life with the dragons would be interesting
and busy, and in Cimorene’s opinion that would go a long way toward making her happy.”
To understand who Cimorene is, you first need to learn a little bit about her world. In Cimorene's world, every fairytale is true and treated in a very matter of fact way. Frogs talk, princes quest, and princesses constantly get carried off by giants and dragons. It is terribly rude not to invite the local wicked fairies to christenings. And if a princess happens to get a curse from that? It is only a matter of finding the proper prince in a few years. At least she's practically guaranteed a good marriage. There are so many wicked stepmothers and wicked uncles around that they have their own traveling, drinking and debating society.
Cimorene was born in the large, prosperous and very traditional kingdom of Linderwall. Her six older sisters were all very traditional princesses. Blond haired, the perfect height to stare up becomingly into a prince's eyes, and rather silly. They learned embroidery and dancing and etiquette and were quite happy with having that as their life.
Cimorene was different. Unlike her sisters she had long black hair that she wore in braids and grew tall enough to stare men straight in the eyes. Instead of being sweet and naive, she was stubborn and opinionated. She never did things the way she should, and she refused to take tradition as a reason for anything.
Cimorene grew to hate the phrase 'But that simply isn't done' from a very young age. She hated her embroidery and etiquette lessons and longed to learn something interesting. Knowing her very traditional parents would never agree, she began secretly bullying the members of her fathers court into providing her with lessons in other areas. It started with fencing. The moment her father found out he put a stop to it. The same thing happened with the cooking, magic, politics, Latin, and juggling lessons.
By the time she was sixteen her parents were at a complete loss of what to do with her. And so, they came up with the traditional solution. They tried to arrange a marriage for her.
Cimorene ran away. And through a series of coincidences she became the first princess to ever volunteer to be a dragon's captive princess. In Cimorene's opinion the situation could not be better. Being a Dragon's Princess was perfectly traditional, so her parents couldn't complain. And she got to avoid her marriage while cleaning and cooking and learning new things as much as she liked. Her only complaint were all the princes and knights who kept showing up to rescue her.
Cimorene is stubborn, opinionated, and completely convinced that she knows best. She is also brave, compassionate, observant, quick at thinking up solutions on the spot, and possessed of an endless thirst for learning more. She dislikes anyone who suggests that tradition is a good reason for doing anything and is easily annoyed by anyone who tries to force her to fit into the traditional princess mold. She is not afraid of hard work, and actually prefers having a great deal of work to keep her busy. She grows bored easily if she does not have enough to do.
Cimorene has a very practical bent of mind. She tends to take the most direct route to her goals and has very little patience for people who insist on taking the long route round to find a solution, just because that is the way it has always been done. She also tends to think a little outside of the box. For example she has suggested that a giant who was tired of rampaging across the countryside might go into consulting and was the first person to ever think about finding a spell to make dragon's princesses fireproof.
Cimorene has a very practical bent of mind. She tends to take the most direct route to her goals and has very little patience for people who insist on taking the long route round to find a solution, just because that is the way it has always been done. She also tends to think a little outside of the box. For example she has suggested that a giant who was tired of rampaging across the countryside might go into consulting and was the first person to ever think about finding a spell to make dragon's princesses fireproof.
The traditional life of a princess bores her to tears. She would rather go out adventuring than be tied down to tedious and mostly irrelevant responsibilities. Nothing makes her happier than having some kind of quest or mystery to work on.
ABILITIES:
- Through no fault of her own, Cimorene was forced to acquire the typical education of a princess of her world. She knows 17 different country dances, 143 embroidery stitches, 9 ways to agree with an ambassador without promising anything, and how loudly it is permissible to scream while being carried off by a giant.
- Her childhood bullying of the members of her father's court allowed to Cimorene to acquire an additional eclectic set of skills.
- Basic fencing skills and knowledge of weapons
- Basics of magic, though she never got beyond turning herself invisible. With much consulting of notes.
- Making Cherries Jubilee
- Latin
- Simple Juggling
- Thanks to a dragon spell, Cimorene is fireproof.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
Cimorene crisply tied her apron as she walked towards the secondary treasure room. Really, dragons had no concept of organization. Kazul's treasure room had been hard enough to organize, what with jeweled helmets and magic manuscripts and enchanted rings lying about everywhere. And that had only been the treasure cave of a single dragon. One that was neat compared to most other dragons.
Cimorene had barely had time to get all of that cleaned and organized when Kazul had been crowned King and they'd had to move. Now she was unofficial princess and official chief cook and librarian to the King of Dragons. And in charge of sorting through all the treasure rooms. Not to mention general cooking and cleaning.
It wasn't a life for everyone, but Cimorene rather enjoyed it. She could learn Latin and magic and try out new recipes as much as she liked. And there was not a single person here who would ever scold her for unprincess-like behavior.
Apart, of course, from the princes and knights who insisted on coming to rescue her. Cimorene suspected she confused them a great deal.
But none of that mattered right now. Right now what mattered was the royal treasury. Which, as she'd suspected, was in an absolutely dreadful state. As she raised her lamp, Cimorene spotted swords and crowns and boxes and bags of every description all jumbled up together in a pile.
This was going to take some work.
"Right," Cimorene said aloud to herself. "I'll be needing buckets of soapy water and clean rags. Quills, paper and a mop. Oh, and I'd best fetch some extra lamps and the Latin dictionary. I believe I'm going to be here a while."
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Oh, bother.
[From the journal comes the sound of an irritated sigh.]
This is clearly a magical castle. It doesn't take a lot of observation to recognize that. And considering I don't remember leaving the cave? I suppose I've been carried off.
No one is going to lock me in a tower, right? It might be traditional, but that sounds like a very boring kind of adventure to me. Besides, that already happened to my great-aunt Rose, and two in one family are far too many.
I hope no one expects me to behave properly for a captive princess. I despise embroidery and dancing, and I am not nearly silly enough.
INTENT: I originally started looking at Cimorene because I wanted a very different type of character who would be react to everything in the castle in a completely different way. The more I developed her voice, the more fun I had thinking of all the different possibilities for her at Paradisa, especially when it comes to the differences between her society and the other characters in Paradisa. For example, in her canon wizards are cowardly magic thieves and giants and dragons aren't all that bad.
