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Out of Character Information
player name: Laura
player livejournal: geekyshoelaces
playing here: Nobody!
where did you find us? Through some people who play at your game!
are you 16 years of age or older?: I'm 24!
In Character Information
character name: Caroline Forbes
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Timeline: 2x20 right after she gets kidnapped by Klaus's witches
character's age: 17
powers, skills, pets and equipment:
As a vampire, Caroline gets the usual perks of living forever and never aging, she heals faster too. She's got super human strength, speed, and heightened senses. She's got the ability to control someone, remember certain things or forget them entirely (aka compelling). Because Caroline is a new vampire and drinks animal blood, her ability to compel (as well as her physical strength) is less effective than older, stronger vampires.
The only way to kill in the TVD-verse vampire is sunlight, a werewolf bite, fire, or a stake through the heart. Anything involving wood or the herb vervain is extremely painful and debilitating for a vampire. Caroline has a ring made by her best friend Bonnie, who is a witch, that allows her to go out in sunlight, but very few vampires have this thus helping her hide the fact that she is a vampire.
canon history: I'm going to link you to the wiki because I'm terrible at writing history because I always leave things out and I'd just end up using the wiki as a guide. Here you go!
personality:
Like every teenage girl, Caroline comes with her issues; she can be petty, immature, insecure, and jealous. She gets wrapped up in things that don't really matter to most when there are 'bigger things' happening. Outwardly, she seems sweet, peppy, in control but of course, some of that, later on, appears to only be skin deep. Caroline has a bit of a competitive streak too, especially where Elena is concerned. It feels like, to her, that she tried so hard, and yet, Elena doesn't have to try at all and she gets everything while making it seem so effortless. She can be gossip sometimes and has an uncanny ability to find out information from any source and fast. Her 'Little Miss Innocent' act comes in handy because she's good at providing a distraction on demand despite being a terrible liar.
She knows how shallow she is and she understands that this and her tendency to be a bitchy, control-freak are two very serious flaws. She very much wants to change and work on her flaws; she wants to be "abyss deep" and her "kiddie pool" level frustrates her. She's also admitted that at times, "I'm a terrible, awful person-but I'm working on it". She starts taking baby steps towards the grand understanding that it's not all about her.
But over all, Caroline is a fierce and loyal friend. Despite the bitchiness and the shallowness, she can be just as kind and caring and sweet. She's protective of her friends and is willing to take on whatever comes that keeps them safe. She saved Matt from dying, therefore exposing her secret and herself as a vampire because she loved him and couldn't stand by and watch him die. But she also puts a lot of stock in other people's loyalty, she expects it in return. When Tyler didn't help her and the rest of the vampire gang against the werewolves, after she helped him (which is risky considering a werewolf bite is deadly to a vampire) and kept his secret, Caroline told him they were done as friends, that their friendship was over.
After Caroline is turned into vampire, her personality and neurotic quirks seem to go haywire, which is standard vampire fare. To quote her from the show, "[N]ow I'm an insecure, neurotic control freak... on crack?" Although at times, she seems to be a tad more mellow, taking more things in stride. It probably helps that becoming a vampire has made Caroline a lot more confident. (And Stefan seems to help keep her calm). Though she can definitely still be high-strung like before. And with all the vampire strength and 'live forever' factor, she's not 'girly Caroline' anymore, she can handle herself. But she definitely rocks the whole hot, edgy vampire in dark makeup look for a little while.
why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? Caroline knows how to deal with monsters and things that go bump in the night being one herself. She's definitely used to the freaky and weird, not to mention dealing with scary/horrible things. But she's a fighter, a survivor, and has been through some rough situations that will help her to deal with anything that gets thrown her way.
Writing Samples
Network Post Sample:
[Here, have a very peeved Caroline. She doesn't like being kidnapped. At all. Been there, done that but at least she's not in a cage and she's not being shot at. Her voice is deceptively sweet as it is firm.] Look, who ever brought me here, you might as well let me go. You don't know who you're messing with. I can take you. Any of you. I don't care if you're with.
[She's wrinkling her nose] And by the way, you kind of suck at kidnapping.
Third Person Sample:
Like a lot of people, Caroline tried to imagine what death was like. You know dying of old age, walking towards the light, feeling that compulsion to stay but giving in and letting go. Was there even a light? Did you go to a place with endless shoe sales and puppies? Or was it just darkness, nothing? Okay, so she didn't think about that much. She dreamed about other things too, wondered about what he life would be like once she got out of high school, graduated. Maybe she'd marry Matt and he'd get a football scholarship and they could go to college together. They'd have babies, lots of them. Or maybe not. Either way the future used to be filled with endless possibilities. Now it was just plain endless. She wouldn't get any answers, thanks to the whole being dead thing. Which, she liked to point out whenever possible, was definitely not her fault or what she wanted. Stupid Katherine. Katherine had shattered her typical teenage since of immortality and replaced with the real deal.
But the thing that kept her grounded was, well, it was a person really. It was Matt. And now he wanted nothing to do with her. If Caroline had figured out anything in her short life, it was that nothing happened theway you planned it to. And that wasn't the way she saw herself telling Matt what she was, what she is. Sure, she expected him to freak out, to be scared, to ask questions, maybe to shout. Actually, his initial reaction was pretty much how she feared it would go but it was realistic right? She couldn't expect him just sit there and say 'Oh, okay, so you're a vampire. That's okay, that's hot, let's make out.' Although, that would've been just fine with her if it had gone that way. But it didn't.
This is too much. All of this is just too much. I don't want to know this…. You can make me forget. You've done it to me before…. Please make me forget, Caroline. I don't wanna look at you and see what I'm seeing right now.
Caroline thought she knew what heartbreak was but, really, until that moment, she had no idea. I don't wanna look at you and see what I'm seeing right now. Those words hurt the most, he saw her for what she really was, the thing she didn't want to see herself as. A monster. She was a monster. And no wooden bullet, vervain dipped dart could hurt worse than that realization. There was no humor in this, there was no cute joke to be made, no convincing him otherwise. Caroline wasn't going to get her vampy-Elena-Stefan-esque happy ending. Matt didn't want to love her for who she was. He didn't want to give it time, he wanted to be rid of the burden she laid upon him. And she couldn't blame him. As selfish as she was, she couldn't deny him his request, she couldn't say no as much as it hurt to do it.
So she made him forget. Forget the truth about who she was, who she'd be forever.
Anything else? Here is a log/psl thing I did with Caroline for more of a Third Person sample thingy mabob!