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PLAYER
Name: Kalyn
Personal Journal: ocean_queen_kai
E-mail: ocean.queen.kai@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: Oldbayseasoned
CHARACTER
Name: Winnifired “Winnie” Prismall
Age: 24
Appearance: Winnie is a grand height of 5’6’’. She’s slim (with the aid of a corset; without it though she’s still on the thinner side) and pretty; her hair is a dirty blonde and curled, and her eyes are green. She always walks as if barely able to restrain her enthusiasm and has a habit of using her hands when she talks, making grand gestures and sometimes knocking over a vase or two.
Chosen PB: imogen poots
Personality: Eccentric, dotty, and oblivious are the three words that could best described Winnie. Being a Cage means being able to mentally hear and speak with the souls ‘housed’ in her, and talking to voices in ones’ head never bodes well for one’s mental health--it’s one of the drawbacks of being a Cage, though the well-trained are able to put up mental walls to block the voices. Still, Winnie is not well-trained and quite prone to talking aloud to thin air, getting to absorbed in the soul speaking to her. This causes her to run into things or miss entire chunks of conversation. Others tend to label her as clumsy or forgetful, though she is, at least, certainly not clumsy, given her history with ballet.
She is, however, the type of person who is very poor at multi-tasking. Sometimes she will be so interested in a conversation, or a book, or any little old thing, that she’ll end up dunking her keys into her tea instead of a teabag or tealeaves.
Winnie is also characterized by an unflappably calm and cheery disposition. When dropped into a new situation, she greets it with an excited smile and a declaration that it will be a “terribly interesting adventure.” Even when her dress caught fire the first day she met Mortimer, she simply laughed it off and kept speaking amiably; when Agnes asked how she could be so calm, she simply looked at the spreading fire and stated, “Well, it hasn’t gotten close enough to my skin to hurt me, and it’s only a dress! Though some water would be quite lovely, as I don’t wish it to get too far...”
As stated before, Winnie be can very forgetful. For example, she often forgets that Mortimer is a ghost and will go to hug him or pat his arm, only to go right through him; she is always surprised by it every time. She's a bit childlike in that way, as she finds everything very exciting and regards everything with a wide-eyed state of wonder, curiosity, and amazement. Her curiosity can sometimes get her in trouble, as she doesn't often think everything through and tries to rush ahead to explore something further. Thankfully that's where Agnes steps in to make sure Winnie doesn't get herself into hotter waters.
Loyal and kind, Winnifred loathes to lie, even though it’s a deemed necessity with what she and Agnes do. To make up for that, she tries to tell the truth and be honest with just about everything else. Her father, being a very doting and loving father, is often the unwitting pawn in Agnes and Winnie’s adventures, in case they need money to silence someone or need to use his influence. For the most part he remains oblivious to what the two are doing with the souls, but Winnie feels awful having to lie and use him, often unable to look at him when they need something.
Her fashion style reflects her personality in that she prefers wearing bright, light colors and owns a wide variety of very odd hats. Her favorite is a hat that holds a stuffed, hat-wearing pheasant on it. On the hat of the pheasant is a smaller pheasant wearing a smaller hat, and so on.
World Information/history: I kind of ended up smushing together her history with the world’s history anyhow, so I kind of just. smooshed the two together, if that’s okay. ;w;
Born in 1864 to very wealthy parents, during the middle-beginning of the Soul Craze. Souls, it was found, could be extracted from people and placed into someone else; that someone could then absorb the soul. The absorbed soul enabled a person to live longer and cured many of the diseases scientists were struggling to find cures for. What followed was two things:
1. Scientists, now mostly freed from the constant pursuit for cures, took to discovering and advancing technology through steam power.
2. Souls were growing in demand.
Everyone wanted to live longer and be healthier. It started out innocently enough, with taking the souls of convicts and those already doomed to die. Soon, however, it wasn’t enough for the highest in society, who began to realize this and suffer the consequences -- they had to have a steady “diet” of souls, consuming/absorbing them at least once or twice a month. The older you grew the more souls you had to absorb to stay alive.
As demand grew, people found new ways to get the souls, namely by preying on the poor. Schools were set up to house, teach, and most importantly find Extractors, those rare individuals who could remove and implant the souls. The Extractors would then be taken out with handlers to seek out those who were poor and unaware to steal their souls.
Even rarer were the partners of the Extractors, the Cages--the people who could take the souls into themselves, but cannot absorb them, thus allowing the souls to be transferred safely.
Winnie is one of these Cages, though she was one of the lucky ones to not be sent away to the schools. The death of her mother is to thank for that, for her father, unwilling to part with the girl who looked so much like her mother, unwilling to be left alone, refused to give her up and kept the fact she was a Cage a secret from everyone. She grew up fairly normal and her life wasn’t a very exciting one. It was mostly filled with lessons--how to play piano and violin (though she has no talent in either), manners, how to have a polite conversation, how to read, write, and do basic maths, and everything else she’d need to know to be the best pick when it came to courting and marriage (though she’s not interested in marriage). She also learned the popular dances, and took a special interest in ballet.
When she was young her father took in another young girl named Agnes, and the two quickly grew close. Agnes, it turned out, was an extractor and knew more about the ‘real world’ than Winnie did. And the more Winnie learned, the more horrified she became at what her friends and neighbors were doing. So, she and Agnes devised a plan to become like modern Robin Hoods. They would attend the numerous parties and sleepovers that Winnie’s status granted them access to. The parties of the rich were usually characterized by an after-dinner “treat” in the form of each guest being gifted with a collected soul by the host or hostess. Winnie would simply take the soul, though not absorb it, and the next day she and Agnes would search for the original body, assuming it hadn’t been moved or destroyed already since souls are almost always transported and absorbed withing a day of their capture. Souls have a short shelf life like that. In the event of the body being unable to be found, the soul was released. If lucky, the soul would become a ghost, but if not then the soul would be forced to wither away and ‘die’.
This was until the pair met a ghost who haunted the lighthouse in the port town only a few hours away from the city. Through him they found a way to spare the souls the fate of slowing withering away, through his ability to help the ‘normal’ souls pass on like they’re meant to at death.
In the event of no souls being given at these parties, the girls would find a way to steal one, and have tried to steal at least one soul almost every night. They are able to steal one of the souls that hasn’t been fully absorbed from an unassuming person, without him or her even noticing they’re down one extra soul. Fresh souls, however, work the best as souls begin going crazy after 24 hours away from their body, and one soul can last a person 20-25 days.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Because of her interest in ballet she has a very powerful kick, but otherwise she is quite weak physically. She’s very dotty and despite her intelligence, she’s very easily distracted. She almost never takes anything seriously, and because of this she tends to get in a lot of trouble. But her heart is big and she cares deeply for people, becoming fiercely loyal to those she grows close with.
Abilities: Ballet, if that counts as an ability. But her biggest and only other ability is the ability to hold, carry, and transport souls within her body without absorbing them. She can also see and speak with ghosts.
First Person: [There is some small noises before Winnie seems able to turn the device on.]
Agnes? It's Winnie. That most peculiar thing has happened! Why, I do believe I've been kidnapped! [She actually sounds a little...excited?]
I've never been kidnapped before! How is one supposed to act when they're kidnapped?
I suppose I should grovel for release, but that seems most demeaning. If they want a ransom I dare say they can get the money in spades.
Though it's quite silly of them to have left something to communicate with. They must not be very competent kidnappers. I should give them a few pointers, should I see them. I've read plenty of novels with a plot like this, I should be able to help them out a little.
[Winnie pauses] I wonder if they have tea here. Even lowly kidnappers should have a decent tea around...
Third Person: She probably should have been scared, she realized. Fear was the right type of emotion one should feel when they’ve been plopped down into some strange new world like this.
‘How curious,’ Winnie thought, looking around as she walked. ‘I don’t feel any fear.’ She laughed (a little too loud, if the odd stares were anything to go by), and smiled. She felt...excited. Giddy. This was a new adventure, something she could sink her teeth into and explore all on her own--
Oh. The loneliness hit then and she stopped to rest against a wall. Agnes and Mortimer-- none of them were here, as far as she knew; no one she knew had responded to her plea over the strange device she’d been given.
‘I can do this on my own, I’m sure. But for how long... That’s the question, isn’t it.’
She stayed there for a long while, before something was able to distract and hold her attention long enough for her to push the thoughts aside and continue on.
Name: Kalyn
Personal Journal: ocean_queen_kai
E-mail: ocean.queen.kai@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: Oldbayseasoned
CHARACTER
Name: Winnifired “Winnie” Prismall
Age: 24
Appearance: Winnie is a grand height of 5’6’’. She’s slim (with the aid of a corset; without it though she’s still on the thinner side) and pretty; her hair is a dirty blonde and curled, and her eyes are green. She always walks as if barely able to restrain her enthusiasm and has a habit of using her hands when she talks, making grand gestures and sometimes knocking over a vase or two.
Chosen PB: imogen poots
Personality: Eccentric, dotty, and oblivious are the three words that could best described Winnie. Being a Cage means being able to mentally hear and speak with the souls ‘housed’ in her, and talking to voices in ones’ head never bodes well for one’s mental health--it’s one of the drawbacks of being a Cage, though the well-trained are able to put up mental walls to block the voices. Still, Winnie is not well-trained and quite prone to talking aloud to thin air, getting to absorbed in the soul speaking to her. This causes her to run into things or miss entire chunks of conversation. Others tend to label her as clumsy or forgetful, though she is, at least, certainly not clumsy, given her history with ballet.
She is, however, the type of person who is very poor at multi-tasking. Sometimes she will be so interested in a conversation, or a book, or any little old thing, that she’ll end up dunking her keys into her tea instead of a teabag or tealeaves.
Winnie is also characterized by an unflappably calm and cheery disposition. When dropped into a new situation, she greets it with an excited smile and a declaration that it will be a “terribly interesting adventure.” Even when her dress caught fire the first day she met Mortimer, she simply laughed it off and kept speaking amiably; when Agnes asked how she could be so calm, she simply looked at the spreading fire and stated, “Well, it hasn’t gotten close enough to my skin to hurt me, and it’s only a dress! Though some water would be quite lovely, as I don’t wish it to get too far...”
As stated before, Winnie be can very forgetful. For example, she often forgets that Mortimer is a ghost and will go to hug him or pat his arm, only to go right through him; she is always surprised by it every time. She's a bit childlike in that way, as she finds everything very exciting and regards everything with a wide-eyed state of wonder, curiosity, and amazement. Her curiosity can sometimes get her in trouble, as she doesn't often think everything through and tries to rush ahead to explore something further. Thankfully that's where Agnes steps in to make sure Winnie doesn't get herself into hotter waters.
Loyal and kind, Winnifred loathes to lie, even though it’s a deemed necessity with what she and Agnes do. To make up for that, she tries to tell the truth and be honest with just about everything else. Her father, being a very doting and loving father, is often the unwitting pawn in Agnes and Winnie’s adventures, in case they need money to silence someone or need to use his influence. For the most part he remains oblivious to what the two are doing with the souls, but Winnie feels awful having to lie and use him, often unable to look at him when they need something.
Her fashion style reflects her personality in that she prefers wearing bright, light colors and owns a wide variety of very odd hats. Her favorite is a hat that holds a stuffed, hat-wearing pheasant on it. On the hat of the pheasant is a smaller pheasant wearing a smaller hat, and so on.
World Information/history: I kind of ended up smushing together her history with the world’s history anyhow, so I kind of just. smooshed the two together, if that’s okay. ;w;
Born in 1864 to very wealthy parents, during the middle-beginning of the Soul Craze. Souls, it was found, could be extracted from people and placed into someone else; that someone could then absorb the soul. The absorbed soul enabled a person to live longer and cured many of the diseases scientists were struggling to find cures for. What followed was two things:
1. Scientists, now mostly freed from the constant pursuit for cures, took to discovering and advancing technology through steam power.
2. Souls were growing in demand.
Everyone wanted to live longer and be healthier. It started out innocently enough, with taking the souls of convicts and those already doomed to die. Soon, however, it wasn’t enough for the highest in society, who began to realize this and suffer the consequences -- they had to have a steady “diet” of souls, consuming/absorbing them at least once or twice a month. The older you grew the more souls you had to absorb to stay alive.
As demand grew, people found new ways to get the souls, namely by preying on the poor. Schools were set up to house, teach, and most importantly find Extractors, those rare individuals who could remove and implant the souls. The Extractors would then be taken out with handlers to seek out those who were poor and unaware to steal their souls.
Even rarer were the partners of the Extractors, the Cages--the people who could take the souls into themselves, but cannot absorb them, thus allowing the souls to be transferred safely.
Winnie is one of these Cages, though she was one of the lucky ones to not be sent away to the schools. The death of her mother is to thank for that, for her father, unwilling to part with the girl who looked so much like her mother, unwilling to be left alone, refused to give her up and kept the fact she was a Cage a secret from everyone. She grew up fairly normal and her life wasn’t a very exciting one. It was mostly filled with lessons--how to play piano and violin (though she has no talent in either), manners, how to have a polite conversation, how to read, write, and do basic maths, and everything else she’d need to know to be the best pick when it came to courting and marriage (though she’s not interested in marriage). She also learned the popular dances, and took a special interest in ballet.
When she was young her father took in another young girl named Agnes, and the two quickly grew close. Agnes, it turned out, was an extractor and knew more about the ‘real world’ than Winnie did. And the more Winnie learned, the more horrified she became at what her friends and neighbors were doing. So, she and Agnes devised a plan to become like modern Robin Hoods. They would attend the numerous parties and sleepovers that Winnie’s status granted them access to. The parties of the rich were usually characterized by an after-dinner “treat” in the form of each guest being gifted with a collected soul by the host or hostess. Winnie would simply take the soul, though not absorb it, and the next day she and Agnes would search for the original body, assuming it hadn’t been moved or destroyed already since souls are almost always transported and absorbed withing a day of their capture. Souls have a short shelf life like that. In the event of the body being unable to be found, the soul was released. If lucky, the soul would become a ghost, but if not then the soul would be forced to wither away and ‘die’.
This was until the pair met a ghost who haunted the lighthouse in the port town only a few hours away from the city. Through him they found a way to spare the souls the fate of slowing withering away, through his ability to help the ‘normal’ souls pass on like they’re meant to at death.
In the event of no souls being given at these parties, the girls would find a way to steal one, and have tried to steal at least one soul almost every night. They are able to steal one of the souls that hasn’t been fully absorbed from an unassuming person, without him or her even noticing they’re down one extra soul. Fresh souls, however, work the best as souls begin going crazy after 24 hours away from their body, and one soul can last a person 20-25 days.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Because of her interest in ballet she has a very powerful kick, but otherwise she is quite weak physically. She’s very dotty and despite her intelligence, she’s very easily distracted. She almost never takes anything seriously, and because of this she tends to get in a lot of trouble. But her heart is big and she cares deeply for people, becoming fiercely loyal to those she grows close with.
Abilities: Ballet, if that counts as an ability. But her biggest and only other ability is the ability to hold, carry, and transport souls within her body without absorbing them. She can also see and speak with ghosts.
First Person: [There is some small noises before Winnie seems able to turn the device on.]
Agnes? It's Winnie. That most peculiar thing has happened! Why, I do believe I've been kidnapped! [She actually sounds a little...excited?]
I've never been kidnapped before! How is one supposed to act when they're kidnapped?
I suppose I should grovel for release, but that seems most demeaning. If they want a ransom I dare say they can get the money in spades.
Though it's quite silly of them to have left something to communicate with. They must not be very competent kidnappers. I should give them a few pointers, should I see them. I've read plenty of novels with a plot like this, I should be able to help them out a little.
[Winnie pauses] I wonder if they have tea here. Even lowly kidnappers should have a decent tea around...
Third Person: She probably should have been scared, she realized. Fear was the right type of emotion one should feel when they’ve been plopped down into some strange new world like this.
‘How curious,’ Winnie thought, looking around as she walked. ‘I don’t feel any fear.’ She laughed (a little too loud, if the odd stares were anything to go by), and smiled. She felt...excited. Giddy. This was a new adventure, something she could sink her teeth into and explore all on her own--
Oh. The loneliness hit then and she stopped to rest against a wall. Agnes and Mortimer-- none of them were here, as far as she knew; no one she knew had responded to her plea over the strange device she’d been given.
‘I can do this on my own, I’m sure. But for how long... That’s the question, isn’t it.’
She stayed there for a long while, before something was able to distract and hold her attention long enough for her to push the thoughts aside and continue on.