Dystopian_flux application: 1st Character; (Princess) Giselle
Player Details
Name/Nickname: Rhiannon/Bones
Age: 19
Personal LJ Username: seekingnevada
E-mail: rhiannon.marshall@live.co.uk
IM/Instant Messenger(s): rhiannon.marshall@live.co.uk
Time Zone: GMT
Other characters in RP: None
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Character Application
Character Name [Canonly Written]: (Princess) Giselle
Series: Enchanted (Disney film)
Gender: Female
The Item: The book "Important Women of our Time" by Nora Kasarda, originally given to Morgan by Robert but adopted by Giselle and now her favourite book.
Point with which your character has been taken from canon: Shortly after the end of the film, when she's more established in New York but hasn't moved on too far.
Personality An optimist, a dreamer, but no longer a passive player upon the stage of her own life, Giselle is perhaps not an entirely different person than she once was but has certainly discovered a lot of her own potential. She always sees the best in people and in situations, sometimes to an extent that truly baffles others, but this has now become linked to a deeper trait. Giselle no longer always plays by the rules of the story: she is willing to act, and to change things, and is now certain that there is always a way in which a person can make a difference to their own destiny. Who made the rule that the princess always needs to be saved by her prince, anyway? She doesn't even realise that she's thinking outside of the box mostly because, a lot of the time, she doesn't realise that there is supposed to be a box around her thoughts in the first place.
Of course, quite a lot of Giselle's naiveté; is still around. She struggles to see why anybody could do something wrong for a reason other than being misguided, and is still of the opinion that a kiss is the ultimate declaration of true love. Then again, considering that her experience in the realms of both friendship and romance are rather on the limited side, perhaps it is a matter of time until she manages to further her understanding of these areas of the world. Until then -- and quite probably even after then -- it is likely that she will remain sociable, full of compliments and occasionally socially gauche because of some reference which most adults would take for granted but which she has perhaps not come across yet.
One thing on Giselle's side, however, is her adaptability. Not only did she cope with being torn out of Andalasia and thrown into the hectic, turbulent, imperfect world of New York; she flourished. From thoughts of being rescued she moved to thoughts of returning on her own, only to realise that the new world she had found was something that she would rather be a part of and choosing to remain there instead. It is in some ways as if she still has not yet outgrown her formative years: she has not met enough of the world to be fully formed, but neither is she fully formed enough to be inflexible in her behaviour.
Powers/Abilities CANON: Giselle is able to communicate with animals and insects, and seems quite as able (or perhaps even more able) to befriend them as to befriend humans. Even wild animals under her influence seem to become tame and show an increased level of intelligence. There is something about Giselle which makes people forget that they are still part of the real world and become willing to sing, dance and work with her, even if the manner in which she is behaving seems utterly improbable. On a slightly more mundane note, she is very good at making clothes out of seemingly any fabric that comes to hand, in very little time, and possibly even of finding said fabric.
Powers/Abilities AU: Although Giselle still has some ability to communicate with animals and insects, they no longer show the increased intelligence that had made them particularly useful to her. Whatever information she can get now needs to be something that it would be rather more rational for an animal to know, and help with household chores or the like is now seriously unlikely until she takes the time to find particularly intelligent animals and, in effect, 'train' them. Any moments in which people with whom she is interacting forget themselves will have to be due to their temperament and her sweet nature, rather than any more widespread effect. Her ability to make clothes, however, remains, although getting hold of the fabric will have to be done in a more mundane manner than asking the silkworms for assistance.
History: Once upon a time... well, that's how it's always supposed to start, really. But once upon a time there was a young woman named Giselle who lived surrounded by her talking, and surprisingly intelligent, animal friends in a treehouse-cottage in a forest in a land called Andalasia. She never knew her mother, and by the time that she really became involved in the outside world her father was also gone, leaving her an orphan and isolated in the world.
It was at this point that the fairytale was supposed to take place. She was saved from a troll by Prince Edward, the heir to the Kingdom of Andalasia, and they immediately promised to be married the next day.
Sometimes, though, the fairytales don't work. Before they could marry, Edward's stepmother -- worried that her throne would be taken -- disguised herself and pushed Giselle down a magic well.Giselle emerged... in New York, a place which didn't seem to know the fairytale rules. She was rescued by a man named Robert who, despite his cynical nature, couldn't hide his altruistic streak and gave the strange young woman his sofa to sleep on and (rather more reluctantly) his curtains to make dresses out of.
She spent three days in that strange world and learnt, occasionally painfully, that the rules she had always expected to be there... were sometimes not. Before she even realised it, she had started falling in love with Robert and coming to take more advantage of the real world, where people were able to make their own stories rather than just follow them and women had just as much right to do so as men. At first she wasn't sure that she liked this world were everything was so unclear, but then the possibilities grew on her, and between a growing affection for Robert and a growing friendship with his daughter Morgan, Giselle became quite... well, enchanted with the place.
Prince Edward returned out of nowhere, intending to spirit her back away to Andalasia, but by now Giselle found herself almost reluctant to go with him. She persuaded him to go to the Kings and Queens ball with her, only to end up dancing with Robert whilst Edward danced with Robert's almost-fiancée Nancy. There's no way of knowing how that would have been likely to end even if Queen Narissa had not proceeded to show up, attempt to poison Giselle with a poisoned apple, then when that failed turn into a dragon and kidnap Robert, taking him out onto the roof of the skyscraper. An ordinary princess probably wouldn't have responded by picking up Edward's sword and following them, ending up killing the dragon in the process... but then again, by now it's probably obvious that Giselle was no longer an ordinary princess.
Which is probably where the fairytale managed to get thoroughly confused, to find itself biting its own tail. In the end, it was Nancy that Prince Edward took back to Andalasia, which only goes to show that sometimes Happily Ever After can come from the strangest of places. Giselle chose instead to stay with Robert and Morgan, planning to make a life in New York taking over Nancy's clothesmaking business (with the clothes made out of fabric other than curtains this time) and going through a proper courtship with plans of marriage further off in the future.
Then, however, the Gate happened. Sometimes it seems like Giselle can never get comfortable in one world for very long.
RP Sample [First Person]: I... I can't even believe this. Again? Again! Only this time it's colder and the magic door hasn't even sent my clothes with me, which does suggest that the wizard who made it wasn't really feeling very well and probably shouldn't have been working so hard. Not that I remember a magic door, but... well, I'm sure that there must have been one because this doesn't look anything like New York, or Andalasia.
"Robert? Morgan?" It does feel a little silly calling for him, but there's no point sitting here in silence, after all. Oh, I do wish that there were some clothes here, or even just a curtain or a sail or some sort of fabric around that would do. I suppose I ought to stand up as well... oh, but it is cold. I do hope that I can at least find something to wear before anyone sees me, and then I really must be getting back. I shouldn't forget where this magic door is either; even if I can't see exactly where it is then it must be here somewhere, so this should be the way back as well. But... oh, why did this have to happen now? Just when I was happy in New York? I must find a way back this time, I simply must...
RP Sample [Third Person]: "How did I get here?" She looked around, blue eyes widening in surprise as she considered his question. "Why, through the magic door, of course; I'm sure that everyone here must have come through the same way, because sometimes it seems like nobody really comes from here." Giselle paused, looking over to the window and out to the dark sky, punctuated only by stars and the very faint glow of streetlamps rather than dusted with orange in the way that the sky back in New York had always seemed to be. It was nice to see the stars again, and especially to see that the constellations were still all the same, but it was so dark, so much of the time, that it was difficult to always be happy about them.
"Either that or I suppose that everyone comes from here," she added thoughtfully, turning back to him with a faint, pretty smile. She reached up to push a stray tendril of hair behind her left ear then returned both of her hands to the glass of water in front of her, one ankle just tucked behind the other where she sat. "Because we're all in the same position, after all, which means that the best thing we can do is make new friends and help everybody settle in. The city will be how we make it."
From anybody else it might have sounded like deliberate guile, but even in her handmade dresses of drabbish fabric Giselle still had something of her old life -- well, her old lives -- about her. There was something that gave you the feeling she was still about to burst into song at any moment. "I mean," she continued, "it's unfortunate that we met this way, but sometimes you've got to just... look at the rainbows. And you can't get rainbows without rain, after all."
She reached over and put her hand on his, little lines appearing between her brows as a look of concern came to her features. "You do know that I consider you a friend, don't you? Such a good friend, as well. You've been so nice to me. If there's anything that I can do to help you as well, then I'd be ever so happy to do so. I just want you to know that."
Why do you play this character? I've never actually roleplayed on Livejournal before, despite several years of roleplaying elsewhere, so looking for a canon character to play caught me a little off-guard at first. I've played too many cynical characters in the past and wanted to look in a new direction, but didn't want to give up a sense of realism and practicality. My thoughts fell on Giselle because, despite years of disenchantment with Disney (pun unintended), her character caught my attention as interesting and more full than most others without losing her innocence. The character herself just delights me, and I'd love to have a go at writing for her, particularly in a roleplay setting which allows me to explore her personality and reactions in a way that even fanfiction would never really allow.
Name/Nickname: Rhiannon/Bones
Age: 19
Personal LJ Username: seekingnevada
E-mail: rhiannon.marshall@live.co.uk
IM/Instant Messenger(s): rhiannon.marshall@live.co.uk
Time Zone: GMT
Other characters in RP: None
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Character Application
Character Name [Canonly Written]: (Princess) Giselle
Series: Enchanted (Disney film)
Gender: Female
The Item: The book "Important Women of our Time" by Nora Kasarda, originally given to Morgan by Robert but adopted by Giselle and now her favourite book.
Point with which your character has been taken from canon: Shortly after the end of the film, when she's more established in New York but hasn't moved on too far.
Personality An optimist, a dreamer, but no longer a passive player upon the stage of her own life, Giselle is perhaps not an entirely different person than she once was but has certainly discovered a lot of her own potential. She always sees the best in people and in situations, sometimes to an extent that truly baffles others, but this has now become linked to a deeper trait. Giselle no longer always plays by the rules of the story: she is willing to act, and to change things, and is now certain that there is always a way in which a person can make a difference to their own destiny. Who made the rule that the princess always needs to be saved by her prince, anyway? She doesn't even realise that she's thinking outside of the box mostly because, a lot of the time, she doesn't realise that there is supposed to be a box around her thoughts in the first place.
Of course, quite a lot of Giselle's naiveté; is still around. She struggles to see why anybody could do something wrong for a reason other than being misguided, and is still of the opinion that a kiss is the ultimate declaration of true love. Then again, considering that her experience in the realms of both friendship and romance are rather on the limited side, perhaps it is a matter of time until she manages to further her understanding of these areas of the world. Until then -- and quite probably even after then -- it is likely that she will remain sociable, full of compliments and occasionally socially gauche because of some reference which most adults would take for granted but which she has perhaps not come across yet.
One thing on Giselle's side, however, is her adaptability. Not only did she cope with being torn out of Andalasia and thrown into the hectic, turbulent, imperfect world of New York; she flourished. From thoughts of being rescued she moved to thoughts of returning on her own, only to realise that the new world she had found was something that she would rather be a part of and choosing to remain there instead. It is in some ways as if she still has not yet outgrown her formative years: she has not met enough of the world to be fully formed, but neither is she fully formed enough to be inflexible in her behaviour.
Powers/Abilities CANON: Giselle is able to communicate with animals and insects, and seems quite as able (or perhaps even more able) to befriend them as to befriend humans. Even wild animals under her influence seem to become tame and show an increased level of intelligence. There is something about Giselle which makes people forget that they are still part of the real world and become willing to sing, dance and work with her, even if the manner in which she is behaving seems utterly improbable. On a slightly more mundane note, she is very good at making clothes out of seemingly any fabric that comes to hand, in very little time, and possibly even of finding said fabric.
Powers/Abilities AU: Although Giselle still has some ability to communicate with animals and insects, they no longer show the increased intelligence that had made them particularly useful to her. Whatever information she can get now needs to be something that it would be rather more rational for an animal to know, and help with household chores or the like is now seriously unlikely until she takes the time to find particularly intelligent animals and, in effect, 'train' them. Any moments in which people with whom she is interacting forget themselves will have to be due to their temperament and her sweet nature, rather than any more widespread effect. Her ability to make clothes, however, remains, although getting hold of the fabric will have to be done in a more mundane manner than asking the silkworms for assistance.
History: Once upon a time... well, that's how it's always supposed to start, really. But once upon a time there was a young woman named Giselle who lived surrounded by her talking, and surprisingly intelligent, animal friends in a treehouse-cottage in a forest in a land called Andalasia. She never knew her mother, and by the time that she really became involved in the outside world her father was also gone, leaving her an orphan and isolated in the world.
It was at this point that the fairytale was supposed to take place. She was saved from a troll by Prince Edward, the heir to the Kingdom of Andalasia, and they immediately promised to be married the next day.
Sometimes, though, the fairytales don't work. Before they could marry, Edward's stepmother -- worried that her throne would be taken -- disguised herself and pushed Giselle down a magic well.Giselle emerged... in New York, a place which didn't seem to know the fairytale rules. She was rescued by a man named Robert who, despite his cynical nature, couldn't hide his altruistic streak and gave the strange young woman his sofa to sleep on and (rather more reluctantly) his curtains to make dresses out of.
She spent three days in that strange world and learnt, occasionally painfully, that the rules she had always expected to be there... were sometimes not. Before she even realised it, she had started falling in love with Robert and coming to take more advantage of the real world, where people were able to make their own stories rather than just follow them and women had just as much right to do so as men. At first she wasn't sure that she liked this world were everything was so unclear, but then the possibilities grew on her, and between a growing affection for Robert and a growing friendship with his daughter Morgan, Giselle became quite... well, enchanted with the place.
Prince Edward returned out of nowhere, intending to spirit her back away to Andalasia, but by now Giselle found herself almost reluctant to go with him. She persuaded him to go to the Kings and Queens ball with her, only to end up dancing with Robert whilst Edward danced with Robert's almost-fiancée Nancy. There's no way of knowing how that would have been likely to end even if Queen Narissa had not proceeded to show up, attempt to poison Giselle with a poisoned apple, then when that failed turn into a dragon and kidnap Robert, taking him out onto the roof of the skyscraper. An ordinary princess probably wouldn't have responded by picking up Edward's sword and following them, ending up killing the dragon in the process... but then again, by now it's probably obvious that Giselle was no longer an ordinary princess.
Which is probably where the fairytale managed to get thoroughly confused, to find itself biting its own tail. In the end, it was Nancy that Prince Edward took back to Andalasia, which only goes to show that sometimes Happily Ever After can come from the strangest of places. Giselle chose instead to stay with Robert and Morgan, planning to make a life in New York taking over Nancy's clothesmaking business (with the clothes made out of fabric other than curtains this time) and going through a proper courtship with plans of marriage further off in the future.
Then, however, the Gate happened. Sometimes it seems like Giselle can never get comfortable in one world for very long.
RP Sample [First Person]: I... I can't even believe this. Again? Again! Only this time it's colder and the magic door hasn't even sent my clothes with me, which does suggest that the wizard who made it wasn't really feeling very well and probably shouldn't have been working so hard. Not that I remember a magic door, but... well, I'm sure that there must have been one because this doesn't look anything like New York, or Andalasia.
"Robert? Morgan?" It does feel a little silly calling for him, but there's no point sitting here in silence, after all. Oh, I do wish that there were some clothes here, or even just a curtain or a sail or some sort of fabric around that would do. I suppose I ought to stand up as well... oh, but it is cold. I do hope that I can at least find something to wear before anyone sees me, and then I really must be getting back. I shouldn't forget where this magic door is either; even if I can't see exactly where it is then it must be here somewhere, so this should be the way back as well. But... oh, why did this have to happen now? Just when I was happy in New York? I must find a way back this time, I simply must...
RP Sample [Third Person]: "How did I get here?" She looked around, blue eyes widening in surprise as she considered his question. "Why, through the magic door, of course; I'm sure that everyone here must have come through the same way, because sometimes it seems like nobody really comes from here." Giselle paused, looking over to the window and out to the dark sky, punctuated only by stars and the very faint glow of streetlamps rather than dusted with orange in the way that the sky back in New York had always seemed to be. It was nice to see the stars again, and especially to see that the constellations were still all the same, but it was so dark, so much of the time, that it was difficult to always be happy about them.
"Either that or I suppose that everyone comes from here," she added thoughtfully, turning back to him with a faint, pretty smile. She reached up to push a stray tendril of hair behind her left ear then returned both of her hands to the glass of water in front of her, one ankle just tucked behind the other where she sat. "Because we're all in the same position, after all, which means that the best thing we can do is make new friends and help everybody settle in. The city will be how we make it."
From anybody else it might have sounded like deliberate guile, but even in her handmade dresses of drabbish fabric Giselle still had something of her old life -- well, her old lives -- about her. There was something that gave you the feeling she was still about to burst into song at any moment. "I mean," she continued, "it's unfortunate that we met this way, but sometimes you've got to just... look at the rainbows. And you can't get rainbows without rain, after all."
She reached over and put her hand on his, little lines appearing between her brows as a look of concern came to her features. "You do know that I consider you a friend, don't you? Such a good friend, as well. You've been so nice to me. If there's anything that I can do to help you as well, then I'd be ever so happy to do so. I just want you to know that."
Why do you play this character? I've never actually roleplayed on Livejournal before, despite several years of roleplaying elsewhere, so looking for a canon character to play caught me a little off-guard at first. I've played too many cynical characters in the past and wanted to look in a new direction, but didn't want to give up a sense of realism and practicality. My thoughts fell on Giselle because, despite years of disenchantment with Disney (pun unintended), her character caught my attention as interesting and more full than most others without losing her innocence. The character herself just delights me, and I'd love to have a go at writing for her, particularly in a roleplay setting which allows me to explore her personality and reactions in a way that even fanfiction would never really allow.