Post by Eleanor Walsh on Jan 6, 2011 23:14:04 GMT -5
ABOUT YOU
Player Name (or name you wish to be called on the board): Andi
Do you solemnly swear that you are above the age of 13? I do indeed.
Other Characters you play on this board: LMAO...
ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
Character Name: Eleanor Walsh (she often goes by Ellie)
Character Age: 22
Appearance:
- Brief Description: Eleanor is a strikingly beautiful girl whose dark hair, pale green eyes, and pale skin sometimes give her a haunting appearance.
- Eye Color: pale green
- Hair (color, length, style): black, a little less than halfway down her back, usually worn loose and flowing. Her hair is naturally straight, but she often curls it.
- Skin Tone: pale, white
- Height: 5'5"
- Body Type: thin, slightly curvy
Celebrity Claim (make sure you post in the Celebrity Claim list as well, and make sure your chosen celebrity is available): Katie McGrath
Profession: She's still working on that (and so am I, lol)
Strengths: (at least 5)
- Passionate about what she believes in
- Almost completely fearless
- Can be caring
- Has a way of twisting men around her little finger
- Very intelligent
Weaknesses: (at least 5)
- Very stubborn
- Her one fear--horses
- Can be disorganized
- Is a terrible cook, yet she keeps trying with disastrous results
- Doesn't get along very well with most other women, except for Nora
Personality: (at least 4 sentences) Eleanor can be hard to really get to know. She puts on airs a lot, and has a lot of defense mechanisms designed to keep people from getting too close. Only her best friend, Nora, really knows her and she prefers it that way. She doesn't trust easily, but for those that do earn her trust, she is the most loyal friend imaginable.
In general, she expects the worst of people until they prove her wrong. She went through a lot of trauma at a young age, and it left her deeply scarred. She likes men who are easily manipulated, because she needs to feel in control. Even with her best friend, she sometimes tries to control her; luckily, Nora is a strong enough person not to let her get away with such things.
She still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. There is a part of her that feels she doesn't really fit in anywhere, and that she's looking for something that's just always out of reach. A lot of her outward self-confidence and need for control is just masking her own personal insecurities that she's not good enough. If she had been good enough, surely her mother wouldn't have left.
Family
- Mother: Astrid, 45 (whereabouts unknown)
- Father: Douglas, deceased
- Siblings (if any, list names and ages): None
- Other family members (if significant): Grandmother: Maeve, deceased
History: Eleanor was born on a small island off the coast of Ireland. Her mother, Astrid, was a free spirit who desperately longed to get out of the tiny little village where she had lived all of her life. But when her dalliance with the preacher's son caused her to get pregnant, she saw her whole life flashing before her eyes. Of course she would be forced to marry, and she would be forced to live her whole life as a mother and wife in the town she hated more than anything.
What no one knew was that Astrid was also a pureblood witch. She had been unable to attend Hogwarts and had been taught magic in secret by her mother. Although they lived on the outskirts of the town, if they had been caught using magic, they would have been punished severely by the local church, which was the closest they had to government.
As she expected, Astrid was forced to marry Douglas, and she had her baby without complications. Eleanor was spoiled rotten, doted on by both mother and father. But although she adored the child, the monotony of married life dragged on Astrid. Her eyes lost their sparkle, her hair lost its luster. She felt certain that she was dying. She had to get out.
Unfortunately, she stayed just long enough to make an impact on Eleanor. If she had left sooner, Eleanor would not have remembered her mother, and she would not have been as badly hurt by her abandonment. Astrid debated taking the girl with her, but the three-year old Eleanor was a burden that she simply couldn't handle.
She slipped out one night and, using magic, concealed herself and slipped onto a fishing boat that was destined for the mainland. From there, she hopped another boat, to Liverpool, England, and then to America. She always meant to come back for Eleanor one day, but she never did.
Meanwhile, when Eleanor woke in the morning, she screamed for her mother. When no one was able to find her, and the hours turned into days, Eleanor became impossible. She was angry all the time, prone to violent rages. She threw things, she smashed furniture and her toys. Her hands were always cut and bloody, and she scratched her father with her nails. At first everyone thought she would calm down after a while. But then she did something that created a panic in the small town. She caused a vase to fly across the room and strike her father on the head. Then she began regularly moving objects with her mind. And the church elders became convinced that she had been possessed.
They tied her to a bed and performed a complicated exorcism ritual on her. It took days. She screamed through most of it, until her voice was completely gone. And slowly the fight seemed to go out of her. At last she was calm. But no one ever looked at her the same way again. Even her father seemed frightened of her sometimes.
As she grew older, Eleanor began to realize that she had magical powers, and she did her best to control them. She knew that if she revealed them, they would probably do worse than just exorcise her this time.
When she was 9, her father was killed suddenly. He was struck by lightning on his way home from the church. Eleanor was devastated, but she did not fly into a rage this time. She was barely even able to cry.... she just held it all inside.
At first, it looked as though Eleanor would have to go to an orphanage, as her father's parents had died years earlier. But her grandmother on her mother's side, suddenly emerged from seclusion in her house on the edge of town. She had debated many times whether to step in and rescue her granddaughter, but she was a Seer, and she knew that the time was not right. Eleanor needed to go through these things to make her the person she was meant to be. If things went too easily for her, she would become spoiled and empty-headed.
Recognizing the mistakes she had made with Astrid, Maeve took her daughter away from the wretched little island at last. They moved to the mainland, still on the outskirts of a small town. Here, Eleanor didn't have the taint of being "the possessed girl." And when she got her Hogwarts letter, Eleanor was allowed to attend.
At Hogwarts, Eleanor only made one true friend, Nora. They had the same birthday, and they even looked similar, so they liked to pretend they were sisters. And when Maeve died in Eleanor's third year, Nora's parents took her in as one of their own, until she was of age.
After graduating Hogwarts, Eleanor moved into an apartment with Nora, but she's still deciding what she wants to do with her life.
Anything else? You'd think I planned out that history, right? Nope. I made it all up as I went along. All I knew was that her mother left when she was very young and her father died before she started Hogwarts. Lol.
