PIC
Personal Identification Card
First and Last Name: Felicity Cole
Age: 19
Male? or Female? Female
Date of Birth: May 1
Fairy Tale Character: Maleficent
Allergies: Good magic...
BIO
Basic Information and Observation
Brief summary of your life until now: The people who raised me were good to me. He was a field laborer, hard-working and honest, and she took care of the home and cared for all of the children. They named me Felicity, because I was their first, and I filled their lives with happiness. After me, she gave birth to five other children. Four sons and one daughter. The family wasn't rich, but our wealth lay in our love for each other. The happiness every day started and ended with. I did not know it at the time... But it was all such a lie. An illusion. A dream.
It started when I turned 13. Things were little, at first. Unnoticeable at the time. Looking back, it seems so obvious, I want to kick myself for not realizing it sooner. Things began to happen around me... I'd wish for the sun to come out, and it would. Or, I'd want my sister to stop whining and crying all the time, I'd wish for it and wish for it, and then she'd lose her voice for three days. I would feel angry at Mama for scolding me, and as soon as she turned her back, she'd trip over something or drop something and hurt herself, and I'd feel avenged. What I noticed first was that. That... I could make things happen to people who upset me. I could make them hurt. If I wanted to. When I was 15, and leaving school to work full-time at home to help Mama, a man in our village with a lot of money used to stop me on the street. He wanted me to come work for him. Even at 15, I knew he was more interested in tangling me in the sheets than making me wash them. I ignored him every day, until one rainy Sunday coming back from the market, he got down off his horse and dragged me into an alley. I screamed... but no one came. When I got home, my father took one look at my torn dress and the bruises on my face... he knew. He rode into town to accuse the man publicly of what he'd done, but people stopped him. The village couldn't afford it, they said. This rich man kept them all out of debt. For the good of the village, just let it go. My father had no choice. So he said. I was furious. What that man had done to me, with a hundred people only feet away, listening and knowing why I cried and screamed... and they were worried about his
money?
That was when I learned that I could make people hurt. I went to my room and imagined that man perishing in a horrible fire. Suffocating from the smoke, but not quickly enough to avoid the agony of feeling flames eat away his flesh and muscle and bone. An hour later, a shout went up in the town. That man's manor house, up on the hill, lording his wealth over all of us... It was engulfed in a fire. And he could be heard screaming... and everyone merely stood there, and listened. What scared me about this wasn't knowing that I could do it, though. It wasn't the realization that I had some sort of power. It was that... as I joined the crowd and watched his house burn and listened to his last tortured screams... I liked it. It excited me. It made me feel alive, and powerful, and even after what had happened to me that day... It made me happy. A true joy bubbled in me, and I almost laughed out loud. That was what scared me. That I enjoyed hurting him. That it made me smile.
I wasn't the only one to notice it, though. It was too much of a coincidence, that a man accused of rape should die horribly in a fire that same night. People were talking about witchcraft the very next morning. Our family, of course, immediately came under suspicion. First my father, because he'd been so angry just before the fire, and then my mother, when it was decided a witch was more likely to be female. And then, as if things weren't bad enough, a body turned up on the boundary between our village fields and the Fairy Woods. It was a girl. My age. My height. My face. It
was me. People started to get scared. Did I have a secret twin no one knew about? What was this?? How could a girl die of a single stab wound to the heart, but then walk into the town hall an hour later perfectly alive?? Suddenly witchcraft wasn't the focus.
Fairies were. Dark fairies. And as soon as someone said that... It clicked in me. It all came together inside my chest, and I finally felt like I understood everything. It was fairies. I did have a power. Because...
I was a fairy. I must have been switched at birth with the baby girl my mother had really given birth to. And she was the one who the fairies had killed. I don't know why they killed her, or why they did it just when all of this was happening... But in a matter of moments, everyone in that godforsaken town turned their eyes on me. I was not a witch. I was something much worse. I was a changeling.
In that town hall, even my parents began to look at me differently. My father narrowed his eyes, as if he was trying to see the outline of my fairy wings, and my mother started to move my brothers and sister away from me to keep them safe. I began to panic. They believed it, too. Everyone knew. They all knew what I myself had just realized. I was a fairy. This power in me that could hurt people, it was dark. I was evil. I needed to be killed.
I ran. Into the Fairy Woods, where I knew no human would dare walk. My first night there... I thought I was going crazy. I had been raped. The man who did it had died by the power of my black magic. My family was accused of witchcraft, my doppleganger had turned up dead, and then I was outed as a dark fairy and now I was lost in what I'd been taught was the most dangerous place in the world. No home, no family, no one to turn to. I was halfway through making the decision to kill myself, when... When it said no. The power in me. It didn't want to die yet, and it wouldn't let me do it. So... I didn't. I lived on. I found ways to survive in the Fairy Woods, sometimes using my magic and sometimes not. It depends on my mood. I had been there for four years, staying to myself and ignoring it when I heard how the people of that village had begun referring to me as "Maleficent" - the diabolical one. If they wanted to believe I was haunting the woods and would still harm them, then let it be. It kept them away from me. I had even found ways to sometimes... turn my magic off. To make it be quiet so I can remember who I really am.
Because... I am not Maleficent. I am not diabolical, or evil, or malevolent. I am a nineteen-year-old woman who used to be happy, and now lives on her own. This power is something I have to live with and control. It is not me. I just hope... here... in this new place... Someone can understand that.
Brief summary of your personality and how you would like to improve: I used to be really rather happy. I liked to laugh and play with my friends. I liked spying on the boys as they went swimming in the river. I wanted to grow up to be just like my mother. But now, I'm a fair bit different. I don't like being near people - they scare me. I hate being around men even more. They're pigs. They're more evil that I'm supposed to be. And I am not evil, for the record. My magic is evil, but my magic is not me. It's just that no one has ever given me a chance to explain that. It's why I get so angry sometimes and do evil things! I didn't mean to curse that princess last year... But if her father hadn't tried to lead a raid on the Fairy Woods, it would never have happened!
Brief summary of your likes and dislikes for personalized analysis: I like very few things. I like the electric green color my magic makes when it shoots from my hand like lightning. I like the animals here in the forest, and all the secret places I know about now. I like being alone, too. Not being bothered, or reminded of what I used to have. I don't like people. I don't like men. And I don't like children. They're all reminders of what happened to me. What I've done and what I've become. It can all get so confusing and... It's best to keep away. I like the home I've made for myself on a hillside in the forests. It keeps me above ground level when there are heavy rains, and gives me a good vantage point for seeing when people come near. But that's about it. I suppose there's not much in my life to like or dislike.
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Music to be played upon arrival: I Stand Alone - QfC
Color to be used in student file: limegreen