Cinderella
From Changeling Venue
| Seeming | Elemental Fireheart |
|---|---|
| Court | Winter Court ••• |
| Freehold | None currently |
| Player | Sara Kindred |
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Overview
NOTE: THIS CHARACTER IS PENDING APPROVAL
Alias(es): Cinderella
Real Name: Berdine Whitworth
Age: Appears in mid-twenties
Concept:
Entitlement:
Physical description:
Mask: Looks to be a small Irish woman. Red hair, green eyes, freckles. Often wearing dark, but faded, clothing. Just another face on the street. She would be relatively decent looking... if she didn't look so poor and out of place. Mein: Made completely of cinders with skin made of ash, Cinderella makes a startling sight of grey frailty with her red-hair-turned-black with soot. Even her teeth look stained, and her eyes smoldering coals.
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Character Information
Known History
Basic Timeline:
- November 29, 1951- Berdine was born to breath the chilly winter air
- December 25, 1955- Berdine's house was burned to the ground, police suspect arson.
- June 17, 1969- High School Graduation
- January 3, 1970- Berdine was invited to Ryna's birthday party by a mutual friend.
- January 3, 1972- Berdine asked Ryna to live with her in an apt that Berdine pays for. Ryna accepted with jubilance.
- February 15, 1975- Berdine disappears
- February 21, 1975- Berdine's fetch is found, washed up on on shore in the Bangor Base Naval Shipyard.
Current Activities: Haven't Started Playing Yet ;)
Merit Details:
Pre-Arcadia: Berdine had a happy life before her Keepers tore her away from her beloved, Ryna Rosa Dandie. Born to good, lower-middle class parents who gave her a decent education. She became terrified of fire ever since she was five, when someone burned down her house on christmas day and she watched her beloved labrador, Winnie, consumed by the flames. She recieved some serious burns as she stood trapped and terrified before she was saved by her father. Other than a severe phobia of fire (which caused her to fail her chemistry class), Berdine grew up basically normal.
After graduating from high school, she met Ryna Rosa Dandie. They moved in together on Ryna's birthday, to a cozy little apartment in downtown Seattle. She loved her apartment, mostly because Ryna shared it with her. The beautiful west-facing windows in her apartment, with the view of the bustling city and tranquil sound waters were no match for Ryna's striking beauty. One crisp, early spring day, after Ryna sent Berdine off to work with a peck on the cheek and a dandilion to put in her hair, Berdine hopped on her scooter and rode to the ferry docks. Work that morning was the same as always, if a little chilly and the propellers seemed to be kicking up a lot more mist. But Berdine suddenly saw something in the water while she walked the starboard side of the ship from stern to bow. She leaned way over the railing to get a better look at the curious thing she saw. No one else seemed to notice the strange thing in the water. Just as no one seemed to notice when Berdine slipped over the rail and disappeared in the frothy, turbulant waters.
Arcadia: Sinking deeper into the water, Berdine thought for sure that she would drown. She then realized that it didn't feel so much like she was sinking, as it felt as though she was being carried gently downward. Then she fell out of the water and landed firmly on her rump in front of a grand, unlit fireplace. Looking around, it seemed as though she was sitting in a grand palace with walls made of waterfalls and in the air floated bubbles and a fine mist that never got you terribly wet. The strange people in the palace rarely walked the muddy floors filled with kelp and various sea creatures, except the servants who had little choice. The people swam everywhere, for that was much faster. One of these swimming air-people came to Berdine and said "I heard a story once. I want you to tell me the story again, except better." and Berdine was then and there reduce to ash and cinders.
Berdine, from there on in, was charged with keeping the fires of the palace tended. Her keeper called her 'Cinderella,' and had her sleep in the big fire place that she had landed in front of when she first came to Arcadia. Berdine's phobia of fire only worsened in this place, where the fires she was chained to represented the keepers that kept her chained there. When she felt herself going mad with the panic she constantly felt in tending those monstrous flames, she finally worked up the courage to flee from that place. She ran into the waterfall walls of the great room she came in, and began to swim. It felt as though the water was choking her. Not simply drowning her, but killing her with malicious purpose. She emerged in a wild place. A place of thorns and wicked creatures. She looked down and, to her dismay, saw her keeper coming after her, swimming with terrible grace and speed. Berdine dashed into those terrible thorns and raced away with no direction. She ran and ran, unthinking, into the hedge.
Motley
Allies
Enemies
Character Inspirations
Valerie- The woman in V for Vendetta who was sent to prison for being a lesbian.
Terry Brooks- (The Sword of Truth series) The three chimes: Vasi, Reechani and Sentrosi. Mostly Sentrosi.
Fantasia- The Firebird Suite.
Cinderella- Pick a version, any version
Morgan- The Ring
