OOC - Profile
Character: Charlotte "Lottie" LaBouff
Series: The Princess and the Frog
Version: Taken directly after the movie.
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Appearance: Despite the trend of athletic, boyish figures for girls that was prevalent in the 20s, Lottie has a curvaceous, Marylin Monroe-like figure that she has complete confidence in. Everything about her appearance is cute and young: her rounded face and button nose, the larger-than-life blue eyes that few men can say no to, the soft blonde hair she takes extra care to style and coif into the latest styles. Even her clothes, especially tailored to show off her figure to its most fashionable degree, have a feel of whimsy and fun, usually in sassy reds and girlish pinks.
Personality: This is no typical Southern Belle. Though a born and raised debutante, Lottie is a spunky, impulsive diva on a whirlwind. Though certainly spoiled and a little self-absorbed, she has a kind heart and a lot of compassion and can be depended on as a loyal friend. She may want what she wants when she wants it, but she isn't blind or a complete fool: she knows, deep down, there are more important things than expensive dresses and living in castles. She just doesn't think she can't have her cake and eat it to!
Lottie wears her heart on her sleeve and doesn't understand people who don't. Despite having been raised with the proper mannerisms and etiquette a young, wealthy woman of class such as herself should have, her love for life and dramatic personality tend to bring her out of the stuffiness of her station. She knows she's rich, she just doesn't think much about it. After all, with her Big Daddy buying everything she ever wanted, she never really had to!
A big believer in the romance of fairy takes, Charlotte longs to be married to a prince and live in a castle. In fact, landing a royal man is her biggest goal in life at this time -- who cares about love? That can come AFTER the marriage,
Abilities/Weaponry/Strengths: Being just a human, Charlotte has no super powers and she obviously has no weaponry in her arsenal, unless you count coquettish charm and a dynamite figure. However, she has a strength of will may seem surprising when one takes into account how ditzy she can be, but being used to getting her way, she's more than willing to fight for it. She may not win said fight, but she's got a hint of a scrapper in her that would make her delicate peers faint from the vapors. Her kindness and friendliness are certainly strengths as well; it's easy for Lottie to make friends.
Weaknesses: Well, she IS a spoiled rich girl. In addition to the obvious physical weaknesses, Lottie has a kind of tunnel vision when it comes to her needs vs the needs of others. She doesn't MEAN to be conceited, she just doesn't always think other people are having problems in the wake of her own drama, unless someone specifically tells her. When things don't go her way and she can get melodramatic and weepy. And being as dependent on her father as she is, finding herself on her own in a strange situation might just make her fall apart.
History: New Orleans in the 1920s was one of, if not the, wealthiest cities in the South. Cotton, timber, port and sugar were the great exports of the time and Lottie's family had capitalized on it for generations up to the current sugar baron, Eli "Big Daddy" LaBouff. For his only darling daughter, however, such financial matters weren't even on her radar. From a young age, the only dream she ever had was to be a princess -- and she made sure to dress the part as a little girl, thanks to the stunning custom dresses Eudora, the best seamstress in town, would create for her on commission. Some of Lottie's best memories are of listening to Eudora spin fairy tales even as she created dresses, praying pretend with Eudora's daughter Tiana. Lottie and Tiana grew up to be best friends even as adults, despite wildly different personalities and backgrounds.
At the age of 19 years old, Lottie was given the chance to make her dream come true: Prince Naveen of Maldonia was coming to their town and, always sure to please his daughter, Big Daddy cordially invited the young man to his masquerade ball and to stay at his estate during his visit...all for Lottie's effort to finally catch a royal.
Unfortunately, Lottie had no clue what was going on behind the scenes; Dr. Facilier, aka The Shadow Man, had used dark voodoo and a little help from "friends" to take advantage of the real Prince Naveen and his long-suffering manservant, Lawrence. Hungry for power and tired of waiting hand and foot on a spoiled selfish prince, Lawrence struck a deal with the Shadow Man and was disguised as Naveen...and the prince himself was transformed into a frog.
So it was that, after nearly falling to pieces when Naveen was late to the party, Lottie and the "prince" began a whirlwind courtship ending in the disguised Lawrence hastily proposing not 24 hours later. She had no idea the adventures and trouble her best friend and the real Naveen were getting into until the Mardis Gras parade the next night. With Big Daddy crowned Mardi Gras King (and not for the first time), he arranged for Lottie and the prince to be married on the parade float he was presiding on.
Just as Lottie was going to be kissed as a bride, the real Naveen (still in frog form), captured for his blood so the disguise Lawrence needed could continue, escaped and attacked his formal servant. Pushed to the edge, Lawrence grabbed the frog and ran to a nearby cathedral to finally finish what he should have done long ago. Clueless to the actual details, Lottie ran after her husband-to-be only to find him transformed back to his original appearance. Dreams crushed, she sat forlorn and disgusted on the cathedral steps as her father had Lawrence arrested. She almost didn't see the frog that hopped up to her until he spoke.
After an initial bad reaction in which Lottie slammed a book down on the prince, Naveen explained what had happened to him and what he needed: Charlotte, still a princess of sorts thanks to her father being crowned King of Mardis Gras, needed to kiss him to turn him back into a prince. He would marry her then, but she had to make sure Tiana would get the money she needed for her resturaunt. Time was running out -- they had until midnight to break the spell and only a few minutes remained. Lottie happily agreed and prepared to pucker up with the reluctant frog when Tiana, also transformed into a frog, begged them to stop.
As it turned out, after everything they'd been through together, Tiana and Naveen had fallen in love. Even more than that, they'd both learned something valuable about themselves: Naveen understood that settling down and making a fresh start with Tiana would make him happier than anything else he thought he wanted and Tiana finally understood what her late father had meant about not losing sight of what was important: love.
Lottie was so moved by this touching scene of real fairy tale love that she agreed to kiss Naveen to turn them both back, without a marriage as part of the deal. Unfortunately, just as she was about to kiss Naveen, the church bells rang out. It was midnight! Despite planting kisses on Naveen several times, it seemed like it was too late. Heartbroken for her friend, Lottie expressed her regrets...but Naveen and Tiana were happy together, even as frogs.
A few days later, they were married in the swamp as frogs. When Naveen kissed his bride, they were transformed back to humans: when Tiana married her prince, she became a princess as well. They lived happily ever after, working hard to transform an old mill into the resturaunt of Tiana's dreams.
But what happened to Lottie? Well, even though Naveen had a brother, the younger prince was only six and, though she was sure she could wait until the boy grew up, the perky blonde still longed for a royal wedding as soon as possible. It was a few days later when, enjoying the shade of the gazebo in the LaBouff estate gardens, Lottie fell asleep...and woke up in Paixao.