Roleplaying Characters

E V E R [A F T E R] A C A D E M Y


.::Belle/Beauty::.


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Hello, My name is
    Elizabeth Scarlet James

I Have Been on this Earth for About
    sixteen Years

I am of the
    Female Gender

I'm staying in dorm number
    five of the blue dorms

I'm currently enrolled in grade number
    eleven


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How I Normally Look
    Hmmm, where shall we begin? From the top?
    Elisabeth has deep, dark red hair, that catches every eye when down. When she leaves it down and curly, as it naturally is, it reaches just below her waist. Straightened, it gains about a foot. Usuallly, you wouldn't see this, however, as she almost always wears it up in a simple, tight bun. She has always received comments about her hair, whether it be from the elderly ladies from the barber shop stopping to admire it, or jealous friends insisting that it was dyed. Well, enough about her hair already. Let's move on to the beauty's face. Elizabeth has a face that would be clasified as, eh, proportional. Set in perfect alignment, two deep green eyes rest underneath long, dark lashes. She inherited her eyes from her mother. Her nose draws no special attention, which can be considered a blessing. Her nose is actually a smidge or two too small for her face, but it tends to go unnoticed. She has red lips that stand out often, due mainly to her red hair. Elizabeth's cheeks are nothing special, and draw no attention whatsoever.

    Elizabeth has pale skin, and can never get a tan. She burns easily, and it almost immediately turns into more freckles. She has freckles lining the top of her nose and cheeks under her eyes, but they are very small, and when they are noticed, they just add to her face. Her arms and shoulders are sprinkled with freckles also, but as most of her freckles are small, they tend to blend in quite well. Her arms are the only parts of her body that can actually get any color to them, and are therefore slightly darker than the rest of her body. Elizabeth's body, like her face, is proportioned perfectly. She has enough in her chest to make her noticed if she wants to be, but she is by no means top-heavy. Her hips and legs are well-formed and very womanly. Elizabeth stands at about five feet two and a half inches, and weighs between one hundred five pounds and one hundred ten pounds, depending on when you weigh her.

    Her wardrobe? Well, let's see, where to begin..
    Let's begin with what's not there. Elizabeth would never be caught dead wearing most shades of pinks, reds, oranges, and yellows. She steers away from bright colors at all costs. Elizabeth's main colors consist of white, black, blue and green. She loves to wear layers, and usually starts off with a pair of blue jeans or sleek black pants and a long-sleeved plain white shirt that reaches past her belt-line. Adding on to this, she might wear, say a tight green cut-off shirt that alone would show off her mid-section, a green belt, scarf and jewlery. She could also be seen wearing a long dark blue tee-shirt and a shorter, cute light blue tee with print over that. Another outfit she might like would be . . . well, you get my drift. Elizabeth is huge on accessories also. She loves to wear matching hats, scarves, shoes, and jewelry. Hats are her major thing, and you could rarely see her without one on. she loves every type, and used to collect them. She also loves bracelets. She has bracelets of every color outfit she has, hard bracelets, band bracelets, chain bracelets, charm bracelets, and many more. Her dad used to buy them for her as a little girl, and she's been in love with them ever since. Rings, necklaces, shoes and purses aren't as important to her as her hats and bracelets.

Fairytale Appearance
    Elizabeth is already a beauty, being one of the reasons she was chosen to be Belle, so she does not need to change her looks to match up with Belle. All she needs to change is her wardrobe. Now this part can be kind of tricky, since Belle has two different types of outfits. Simply put, it can be explained as what she wore before she met the Beast and stayed at his castle, and what she wore after she met the Beast. The difference: one is an outfit for one on the poorer side of things, and the other a much more elegant and rich outfit.

    Elizabeth doesn't like to dress up as the merchant's daughter as much as she likes to dress up as the Beast's friend (or lover), but she still does when she needs to. When she does, her outfit must be a simple country look. She has her hair roughly pinned up, out of her face, sometimes with a bonnet covering it. She wears a simple dress, usually being blue or white, and an apron over it. Depending on whether she wears the blue dress or the white dress, her apron changes color, being blue with the white, and white with the blue. Even as Belle, Elizabeth likes to be coordinated and cute. The dress covers her ankles, but underneath it, she wears knee-high socks and simple, cheap black clogs.

    When Elizabeth dresses up as Belle in her later years, she has much more fun with it. In Belle's later years, she is always finely dressed and has no lack of jewelry to wear. Elizabeth uses this to her advantage. She has many dresses that she wears, most of them being her usuall green, blue, black, white, etc.. Her favorite dress, however is silver, and shines beautifully at night. The dress has a corset-style top, with midnight blue lacings on it, and midnight blue sleeves. Well, they're not really sleeves, per say. Moreover, they are small pieces of laced cloth that are sewn into the top of the dress and rest about her upper arms. Her shoulders remain bear in the dress. The lower half of the dress is what you may call poofy. It spreads out in a circle around Elizabeth, or Belle, and touches the ground, hiding her feet. When she walks the dress flows around her elegantly. Underneath the dress, she wears simple silver high-heels.

    Midnight blue lace lines the edges of the dress, and a rose is sewn in the same color at the bottom right corner of the dress, including sprinkles and falling petals. To match her dress, Elizabeth also wears a pair of blue-tinted silver gloves that reach up past her elbows. She also has a beautiful diamond necklace on a silver chain that rests about her neck. The necklace has five strands falling from the chain, each with it's own diamonds on it, the middle strand having the biggest one of all at the tip of it. Elizabeth does not adorn herself with much more jewelry other than that, save matching diamond earings. Her hair is pinned up in many tightly curled locks, wrapping elegantly around her head. An end of a strand sometimes peeks out at the bottom of her head, around her neck. A delicate, silver halo rests peacefully around the curls.


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How I am
    Elizabeth gives off a shy and timid character around others. She is not really that shy, or timid, but she is rather quiet, and very slow to react to certain things. The main reason she is slow to react is simply because she is slow to trigger. You can laugh at her, prank her, or use her any time you want, but you have to really offend her in a deep way to get any sort of emotional reaction out of her. Elizabeth has good control over her mind, which is very well-equipped. She has great self-control, and knows how to give someone the response they want. She has many sarcastic comebacks, but does not voice them unless and until she gets annoyed at another's arrogance. Emotions affect her little, unless she somehow reaches her breaking point or the end of her fuse.

    Elizabeth is a very avid reader. From the moment she learned how to read, her nose has never been in anything other than a book. She used to love fairytales as a child, especially Beauty and the Beast. She reads all types of books, ranging from biographies to fantasies. Along with her love of reading, Elizabeth has developed a love of writing. She mainly likes to write poetry. Most of her poetry represents a strong and rebellious spirit, which makes many believe that it is not from her. Elizabeth loves to explore and expand upon her knowledge of things. She always wants to learn the secrets of the places she goes and the authorities over her. Though she would rarely ever even consider using it, if there is a loophole, a way to rebel, Elizabeth would be the first to find out.

    Elizabeth is more of a listener than a talker. She would be perfectly content to sit in a room with someone talking non-stop, and not having to say a word. She rarely speaks when others are there to talk instead. She would rather keep her thoughts to herself than make them known, especially since most of her thoughts are very sarcastic and cynical. Well, what would you expect from a sophisticated girl like herself? Since she never voices these thoughts, most people believe that she is a sweet, kind, quiet goody-goody-two-shoes, or Mary-Sue, if you would. Noone really considers her capable of a thought even the slightest distance from completely innocent. Ha! If only they knew. . .

    The one thing that you need to watch out for around Elizabeth is her anger. While she does practice self-control very well most of the time, she can still get angry when pissed off or offended. It is important to avoid this, as Elizabeth is very strong-willed, no matter what the general consensus is. She can hold a grudge like no other, and is not imcapable of revenge. In fact, it is quite the opposite. She is very capable of revenge, and when you get her in a vengeful mood, there's no telling what will happen next. Most people don't stop to consider what would happen if she took vengeance upon them for their actions, but when you piss her off, suddenly everything that you ever said or did against her that you thought was long since forgotten comes back to haunt you. This could be considered her biggest flaw, or her greatest strength. Either way, it would be a terrible mistake to doubt her willpower, or power in general.

    Elizabeth's best attribute to her character is her willingness to help out a friend in need. You could ignore her all of her life and forget that she's ever around, but when you're really desperate for help, she is the first person you see. She is much quicker to stand up for someone else than she is to stand up for herself. Most of the time, she seems rather invisible, and is not the greatest of friends, but when push comes to shove, and many people that you once called friends ditch you, she is the best friend you will ever find.

How I came to be
    Elizabeth had a strange childhood to say the least. She grew up with both of her parents. Her mom was an alcoholic, and any time her mom had too much to drink, her dad would keep her away with some sort of excuse. They had to go shopping. He wanted to take her out to the park. He came up with plenty of ideas. By the time she was five years old, she was used to it. She knew that when mom had a bottle in her hand and got weird, it was time to disappear with dad. She didn't understand what was wrong with her mother, but she loved her dearly. She also loved her dad. She was very close to him, and he could do no wrong in her eyes. Her dad worked the graveyard shift at his work, so he spent the mornings sleeping in his room with the door locked, and he would be up and doing things in the afternoon, when she got home from kindegarten. Elizabeth was perfectly satisfied with her life, except for whatever it was that made her mommy go weird.

    That was before everything got changed. She was sitting in her garage one night, while her dad was away at work, watching her mom work on their second car, when she saw a teenage boy walk up the street. She loved to watch the neighbors and see who lived where and with whom, but she had never seen this kid before. He was at that time almost sixteen. She watched him to see where he was going, and was shocked when she realized that he was coming to their house. When he walked up the driveway, heading toward the open garage, she pulled on her mother's sleeve. Her mother turned around, looked at him, and put down her tools. Elizabeth was frightened of the boy, and ran around the car and watched from the rear end of the car. Confusion struck her when he called her mother mom. Didn't he know that she was Elizabeth's mom, and not his? Her mom did nothing to correct him. She was very mean to him, trying to get him to leave, but he said he would go nowhere without Elizabeth. Elizabeth thought he was going to kidnap her, and ran into the house and straight to her room, screaming all of the way. The kid tried to follow her, but her mother stopped him.

    Within the next few days, Elizabeth found everything changing. Her father was arrested for dealing illegal drugs at night, and her mother taken away for child neglect. Elizabeth didn't understand what they all meant by tha, but she was told that she was going to live with the kid that she had seen that night and his other mother. She did what she was told and went to live with them, scared and lonely. That was how she found out about her brother. Well, actually, he wasn't her full brother, only half brother, by their mother's side. She was afraid of him and intimidated by him, and wanted nothing to do with him while he was around her. She refused to believe that her wonderful father had ever done drugs, and didn't understand why her mother was accused of neglecting a child. She blamed all of it on her half-brother, Eddie, and refused to talk to him. She like his step-mother alright, but refused to get too close, for fear of replacing her parents. She hated her forced life here, and try as they might, her new family could not get close to her.

    That Christmas, Eddie bought Elizabeth a fairy-tale picture book, entitled "Beauty and the Beast", along with as many presents as he could afford for her. He gave her the book Christmas Eve, but she told him she hated it, and ran up to her room, locking the door behind her. While she was up there, however, she was drawn to the book, and she hesitantly picked it up and read it. As she read it, she fell in love with the beast, and prayed that Bella would accept him. She took no consideration of the meaning, but she went to bed that night careless and happy for the first time in a long time. The next morning, when she came down and saw all of the presents, her jaw dropped to the ground. Her parents were never big on presents, and she expected nothing from her new family. When she saw that most of them were for her, she screamed ecstatically, and ran around laughing. For the first time, she realized that Eddie could be nice to her. That night, he read her story to her at bedtime, and he continued to read it every night after, until she decided she had grown out of bedtime stories.

    Eventually, as she grew older and understood the situation more, Eddie became her hero and her role-model. Eddie was over ten years her senior, and loved her like a daughter. By the time she reached middle school, she understood why he had given her Beaty and the Beast instead of some other fairy-tale, like Cinderella, or something of the like. Eddie had really loved her and cared about her, and took her out of her home because he was afraid for her. She realized later on that if her dad would have been caught, she would have been sent to a foster home, far away from any relatives. The more she looked at it, the more it also dawned on her that her mother payed very little attention to her whatsoever, and would not have cared to do anything about it. Her life with her brother was much better than it could ever be with her parents. They didn't even speak to her anymore. She grew very sorryfor the way she had treated Eddie when she was a child, but soon, everything was forgotten, and they moved on altogether.

    Elizabeth was chosen as the new Bella because of her beauty and her relationship with her brother and his family. It was by far her favorite story of all time because of its significance to her. When she got the invitation to go to the school, she thought that a boarding school was a great idea and loved the thought of it. Eddie wasn't that big on letting his little sister go off alone, but after discussing it and making sure that it was what she truly wanted, he gave her his blessing, so long as she promised to write and visit often. She promised this light-heartedly, not realizing that going to EA meant that she would never see him again. When she got there and figured this out, she wept her heart out, and continued to do so for the next couple of months. Eventually, she came to terms with where she was, and treasured their letters more than life itself. She was willing to play the part of Bella, if any part at all, so that other children like herself could learn as she did.


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There's something else you ought to know
    There is no secret that Elizabeth carries that she would be willing to give away so quickly. Sorry.

.::Talitha_rize::.

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I am actually pretty proud of this one, overall. The rp is about people that go to school to become fairytale characters, and I am, obviously, playing Belle, or Beauty, from 'Beauty and the Beast.' This was my first draft, and it made it! Yes, I know, I am easily pleased, but I'm never really good at the first drafts, so . . .
The biography is not my best. I am not doing very good at biographies right now. I don't know why. I've been drawing blanks on them recently, not being sure how to mold my characters. This one, I actually stole from another character of mine. I don't roleplay with Eddie, but I am writing a novel about him now. Eddie has a little half-sister in the story, who he takes guardianship of when he graduates from college. I used this little sister as my molding for Elizabeth, and changed a few things here and there.
The personality is not really original. I reflected it mainly off of me, changing a few things here and there to match the character. It was pointed out to me that she had the same bookworm attribute to her that the Disney movie character did. I did not mean to do that. That was from my love of books, not Belle's. On a side note, although this is a part of the appearance, and not personality, I added a touch about her not liking jewelry that much (aside from bracelets). Part of this was because Belle doesn't have a want for expensive jewelry, but part of it is because that's my style.
I am happy with the appearance overall. I like Elizabeth's appearance because I think it will be fun to imagine her outfits with the way I've set it up. Coordination and layering is always fun, even if it can be hard to explain. I also like having her as a paper-white redhead with freckles, because I am a paper-white redhead with freckles, so it won't be that hard to play, as I know what looks good on me and what looks bad. I kind of mixed the appearance with my sister, my best friend, and myself. I actually got the proportional part from a friend. He was making fun of my friend, and called her head unproportionate, whereas mine was proportianate. He also said my brother's head was unproportionate, because he had a big forehead. It's always fun to receive compliments, so I threw that in there just for the kicks. While reading about the fairytale appearance, I did have different things that I wanted to change about it, but I was already reviewed and accepted as is, so I left it. For a first draft, however, I am quite proud of it. I made the outfit off the top of my head, although I did use a couple of things from the disney character, like the sleeves. On a second go-round, I think I could do better, but I am proud of how good it was on the first time.

Yeah, so if you haven't noticed by now, I stink on my first drafts of profiles, or anything for that matter, but I love editing and revising, and eventually, I can turn it into a fairly good piece.



Book Characters


I am going to post the others later, but I am growing tired now, so I must get off. Tips and constructive critism are gratefully appreciated.