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name Laurel Penelope Kincaid
nicknames Laurie
age 28
birthday November 12
location New York, New York
occupation Children's book author/illustrator. Creator of the comic book Tale in the City.
character identity The Fairy Godmother from Cinderella
abilities Transmogrification. Laurie can transform living things and objects into other living things and objects. What's living must stay living; what's inanimate must become something inanimate.
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status Laurie is not guarded about her tale at all. Pretty much anyone and everyone can and probably does know who she is. It isn't that she goes shouting it from the rooftops, but, hey, she's got nothing to hide.
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personality Sweet-natured, creative, motherly, flighty, even-tempered, occasionally oblivious.
birthplace Atlantic City, New Jersey
family No known living family. Orphaned at a young age.
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pets A basset hound (Toby) and an English bulldog (Olive).
History: Charlotte Kincaid had always been regarded as something of a wild card within the confines of her well-to-do Connecticut family. She always managed to find herself in the wrong place at the wrong time (sometimes on purpose) and was attracted to all the wrong men: drug-addicted musicians, gay men barely concealing their true orientation, married men. So it was no surprise when the newly graduated Charlie deferred her entrance to Yale (admission paid for by a large sum of money donated by the Kincaid Trust) on account of her pregnancy. When she refused to reveal who the father was (rumors did abound: was it her father's business partner who had been visiting from the London branch? the headmaster of the boys' boarding school in the same town as hers? her rocker ex who was a bit too fond of lipstick and eyeliner?), her parents threatened to disown her. She, as she would say in the note she left, saved them the trouble and left Connecticut and any ties to the family along with it. She all but dropped off the face of the earth, moving to New Jersey and, a few months later, giving birth to her daughter, Laurel Penelope Kincaid.
Having another life completely dependent on her made the wild card mellow out some. Charlie found steady employment, holding down two waitressing jobs with sympathetic bosses who let her keep Laurie around when she couldn't find a sitter. It was a quiet sort of existence in comparison to how she used to live, but she found motherhood rewarding enough. Laurie was, luckily, a good kid, aside from the tendency she had to scribble on anything she could reach or get her hands on. From the moment she could pull herself to her feet and get her hands on some sort of writing utensil, no wall, paper, or semi-flat surface was safe from Laurie. The minute she learned to walk, Charlie's tiny apartment had a newly scrawled border ringing every room, between 2 and 3 feet from the floor. Unfortunately, the quietness of their lives wouldn't last. Late one night after a particularly grueling shift, the car Charlie was driving was head-on by a drunk driver who ran a red light. Four year-old Laurie, asleep in the backseat, was relatively unharmed, while Charlie was grieviously injured. The front of the car had crumpled completely, forcing the steering column back, crushing Charlie's chest and pinning her to her seat. She was pronounced DOA at the emergency room.
As Charlie had thoroughly severed ties with her family and kept her daughter's father a secret, Laurie was essentially an orphan and claimed by the state's child welfare department. For the entirety of her childhood and teenage years, up until her eighteenth birthday, she bounced between foster homes and group homes. Though she was never adopted and aged out of the system, it was a generally good life. Her naturally sunny and optimistic disposition buoyed her through the rougher times. She wasn't the best student at school, but she did manage to find a couple things she excelled at: art and writing. Laurie's technique grew from scribbles into sketches into full-blown paintings and detailed drawings. (She did learn not to draw on walls after getting in trouble in her first couple homes.) As she got older, she developed stories to go along with her art. As she had always loved fairy tales, much of her work was based around or off of various ones. She didn't start getting the idea that she actually was a tale until she started having dreams about a girl crying in a garden. Each night, the dreams grew more and more detailed until, finally, she saw her original form in the picture, wings, wand, and all. Strangely enough, learning that she was once Cinderella's fairy Godmother didn't faze her at all.
Upon graduating high school, Laurie wasn't left with many options on where to live. She didn't have much money to her name and being that she aged out of the system, she couldn't really stay with her foster family. (Well, she could, but they didn't exactly get along.) There were really two options: an independent living facility (read: group home for orphans with nowhere to go just yet) or the Pentamerone, which was an option that had just opened up, since learning she was a tale. It wasn't too hard to see which was the more attractive option. It was the better choice, too, seeing as how her latent magic abilities started to resurface around this time. Needless to say, there were instances of things and people becoming something else, including a handful of unfortunate animal tales who suddenly resembled their former selves. Whoops. After a month or so, she did manage to get the hang of it. And a month later, she disappeared.
Well, no, not really. It may have seemed like it. One day there, the next gone. But she did leave a very nice note for her librarian on the Compendiums, stating that she was going backpacking in Europe on a great opportunity and she may miss her next check-in, but she'd pay her dues. With actual money, since she wasn't at the Pen anymore for random chores and errands. Laurie spent about a year traveling in Europe with a small group of musicians and actors. The group worked for their room and board in various countries and she sold a painting here and there for extra money. It was a good experience, but after a year, Laurie was ready to get settled somewhere again.
She took up living in the Pentamerone again while she took on several odd jobs for money. The irregular schedule gave her time to work on other projects at her own pace. While doing quick novelty paintings and drawings made money in Europe, it was a little harder to sell a painting back Stateside. She finally broke into an industry (albeit by subterfuge) she'd long been interested in: children's books. One book led to a contract for more. Pretty soon, she was moving out of the Pen and into a place of her own. Over the years, she'd garnered a reputation as a pinch hitter in regards to illustrating. In the time between books, she started up a small monthly comic book series. Locally published at first, it was picked up by an imprint of Marvel Comics called Icon.
status Single.
orientation Heterosexual.
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