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Player Information:
Name: Vee
Journal: blizzardseason
Method of Contact: PM
Previous characters: Tinkerbell
Character Information:
Full Name: Haydee Tebelin
Series: The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)
Canon point: Italy, while the Count is busy kidnapping Albert.
Age: 19-ish.
Species: Human
Appearance/PB: "The Count of Monte Cristo and Haidee" by James Edwin McConnell. She's the woman. Grecian with strong features, dark hair and dark eyes, clearly a woman of good breeding. I use Valentine Dimitrova and some art as her PB.
Appearance upon arrival: Casually dressed in loose silk, hair down, feet in slippers.
History:
Previous RP memories: N/A
Bringing someone along?: N/A
Character History: The Count of Monte Cristo @ Wiki, The Count @ SparkNotes
Chapter 49: Haidee | Chapter 77: Haidee | Chapter 86: The Trial | Chapter 117: The Fifth of October
Haydee was born as the daughter of the statesman Pasha of Janina and his favorite concubine Vasiliki. She lived a happy life in peaceful Janina until the age of four. At this time, the Turks were warring with the Greeks and the Greek garrison deserted from fatigue over the long fighting. The Turkish sultan made demands for Ali Tebelin. So, Ali gathered all his faithful servants and all the treasures in his court and brought them to a subterranean island for guarding. Should negotiations with the Turks fail, Ali intended to blow up the small island, taking everyone and everything with him rather than let the Turks get their hands on it.
A French officer by the name of Fernand Mondego was sent to oversee these negotiations. He was very well loved by Ali Pasha and betrayed the leader's trust by bringing back false news of agreed terms. The Turks ransacked all the treasures and killed Ali Pasha. The traitorous French officer dared not keep Haydee and Vasiliki as his own war prize and sold them into slavery. While waiting to be sold, they witnessed her father's head mounted in the imperial streets on a pike. Vasiliki was so distraught over the death and disgrace of her Pasha, she died there in the streets. Haydee was then purchased by a rich Armenian, the Sultan Mahmood, and finally the Count of Monte Cristo, who promised her revenge.
She lived in Monte Cristo's care for several years before he brought her with him to Paris. She was a reclusive girl, seen only on rare occasions at the theater. Rumors about them abounded. Monte Cristo provided for her every comfort, allowing her to surround herself with the Eastern finery she was familiar with and hiring Greek servants. She was also close with his most loyal servants Baptistin, Bertuccio, and Ali.
She grew deeply devoted to Monte Cristo, whose story she knew and shared. She feared he was losing himself to his revenge, but would never dare to try to dissuade him from it, considering he helped to facilitate her own. Monte Cristo planted the seeds of doubt surrounding Fernand Morcerf, the officer who had once betrayed her father. Fernand had used his riches to buy a title and become a general in Paris. Through his machinations, Monte Cristo eventually arranged for Fernand to be tried for his betrayal and Haydee stepped forward to give testimony. Morcerf was stripped of all respectability, lost his son and his wife, and eventually committed suicide.
As the Count's schemes wound to a close, he offered to release Haydee from him, asking that she forget even his cursed name, and while she would obey his every order, she confessed she loved him and would live in misery without him. Monte Cristo at first protested that he was much too old for her, but he realized what kindred spirits they were. He accepted and returned her love and they sailed away together to celebrate the justice that had been served and their new life together.
Personality:
Haydee Tebelin, daughter of Ali Pasha of Janina and his favorite concubine Vasiliki, was raised in a house of nobility and surrounded by great wealth. She is a princess through and through, poised and elegant, beautiful and demure, intelligent and accomplished in the arts. She is well traveled, is familiar with many different hospitalities, and can speak many languages. She has a beautiful and welcoming smile, but in truth she is guarded and distant. As a child, she suffered greatly: her father was betrayed and murdered, and her mother expired from the grief before her. Haydee spent many years as a slave and this has hardened her. She is determined she will never again bow before any man or woman save for Monte Cristo, the avenging angel who freed her. Publicly, she is a reclusive and soft-spoken woman, but her fine manners veneer a strong and vibrant spirit.
Haydee despises all forms of falsehood and treachery. She has a vengeful spirit that will drive her to seek recompense on all who affront her on those grounds. When thusly impassioned, she has a heart of steel and a will of iron. Underneath her silks and makeup, she is a force to be reckoned with, but she, like Monte Cristo, is skilled at staying behind the scenes until it is time to step forward.
This is not, however, to say she is cold. She is a charming hostess and, one day, will be a devoted wife. She loves Monte Cristo with all her heart, is certain she will die without him, and has great compassion and empathy for those who have suffered the cruelty of the world. She has a few very close friends--(Maximilian Morrell and Valentine de Villefort are like brother and sister to her)--and the enthusiastic, loving, brilliant, and optimistic woman she truly is shines through when at ease. Edmond describes her as having "charming and poetical ideas." She was raised a Christian by her mother and has a deep belief in justice and God's will, but because she is also is a very well read young woman, she has some more 'poetical' ideas as inspired by the old gods, by karma, and by stories. Though she has seen the ugliness of the world quite personally, she prefers to look for and enjoy beauty and magic wherever she may find it. Passion and the arts are the stuff of life to her.
Haydee also shares a close, but respectful, relationship with Monte Cristo's most faithful servants. Anyone proven to be trustworthy beyond a doubt may be considered a friend of hers. However, proving oneself to be trustworthy to her is quite an ordeal. She has learned to be a discerning judge of character from Monte Cristo. Betrayal is not an offense she will ever willing suffer again.
Extra:
Character Abilities: N/A
Possessions: A poison ring, a knife, and any other jewelry she may have had casually draped over her royal self. A guzla.
Anything else: This is Elle's fault.
Samples:
Action/Communication thread/post sample:
http://community.livejournal.com/saltpeter_hall/4676.html?thread=475972#t475972
Log/Prose sample: Current member