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Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
[FANDOM] ÉPONINE THÉNARDIER || Les Misérables || reserve || 1 of 4
Name: Shea
Age: 23
Personal Journal:
E-mail: sheaburke@mchsi.com
AIM/MSN/etc: SheaWheatley @AIM, Sheakespeare@Plurk
CHARACTER
Name: Éponine Thénardier
Canon: Les Misérables
Age: 18
Timeline: Right after her death at the barricade.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
[FANDOM] ÉPONINE THÉNARDIER || Les Misérables || reserve || 2 of 4
Eponine has no sense of morals, understandably, given that she'd been raised at her father's knee, learning to charge the patrons of the inn for absolutely everything. This then translated to proper theft in Paris, when her father fell in with a gang of layabouts, the Patron-Minette. Eponine, as the eldest Thenardier child, came in quite often to do their work, playing distraction, look-out, or even taking part in their schemes. Eponine is fearless, for she's seen the worst of people, and the worst side of life, and knows she can take it. This is something she's quite proud of, and has no qualms about sharing. She's proud, in a strange sort of way, of who she is, just as much as she is ashamed of herself. The shame, however, comes in from comparing herself to the wealthy people around her, and daydreaming about lives she will never have, but could have once belonged to her. Within all of this, she has grown to hate herself, and her lot in life. Shortly before her death, when she was called an angel, she corrected the man, informing him that she was indeed a devil. And she believes it. She sees no reason to live most days, and has even spoken openly about the desire to kill herself. This has turned her into a bold young woman, who will not let anything stand in her way.
She's seen the way the other half lives, and she hates it. She envies them, but somewhere within all of that, she loathes these people for having what she can't have. Not because she's never had it, but because she once had dolls and kittens and fine woolen petticoats, and now, she remains dressed in threadbare rags with no shoes to call her own. While her parents have made part of their living soliciting wealthy aristocrats for money, Eponine, if left to her own devices, will refuse it. She'd rather steal then have someone give something to her, because it implies that she needs help and that only they can help her. Eponine is extremely capable of helping herself. If she was in a bad position that she didn't want to be in, she would leave. She'd fight her way out, tooth and nail, and refuse to play the victim. She's poor, and terrible, but she has some pride left over.
Living in such poor conditions, Eponine spent the majority of her life alone. She had no one to relate to, save her mother and younger sister, and longs for someone she can call a companion. When she finds someone that will speak to her, she'll prattle on for hours and hours, dogging their steps to simply be near them. She creates relationships in her head that aren't truly there, desperate for friendship and companionship. And for those that she gives these roles, she loves dearly. She's a strange woman, with no decent way to express these emotions, and subsequently, comes off as too strong, or even delusional.
She is, of course, delusional in some ways. Living in poverty, Eponine hasn't seen a proper meal since she can remember. The hunger often effects her by giving her hallucinations. In order to starve off the hunger, she turns to drink, which only, in the end, makes everything worse and causes Eponine to be extremely mentally unstable.
Having gone from having so much to having nothing at all, Eponine has turned into a very selfish young woman. If she wants something, she will not let anything stand in her way until she gets it. The reason she went to the barricade, in the first place, after all, was to die alongside the man she loved, believing that if she couldn't have him, no one else will. In order to do this, she hid the letter that his beloved had given to her to give to him, and manipulated him into going to the barricade, too, with suicide in mind. The only reason Eponine even attempted to stop the bullet from killing him was because she didn't want to live in a world without him, and knew he would die shortly after she fell.
And yet, Eponine is friendly, for all her quirks. She likes to speak to people, even if it oversteps boundaries. Having been conversing with men since she was younger, she finds it easiest to flirt with them in order to achieve conversation (or whatever ends it is she wants). She's been around, to put it politely, which, in 19th century France, was rather frowned upon. But she is under no illusion that she's beautiful. She isn't. She's skinny and starved, but, like everything else, Eponine refuses to let that hold her down.
Though much of her personality seems to be contradictory, this in and of itself is very characteristic of Eponine herself. She's hard to predict, and is often subject to the whims of her emotions at any given time. She will scream and yell at you, or sing in the middle of a robbery or in public with no shame at all, but then she'll blush to be seen without a shawl at the same time. It's been hypothesized that, had Eponine been alive in modern times, she would be a strong candidate for borderline personality disorder. Eponine is wild, Eponine is free, and Eponine is as terrible as she is loving. And she will never make any excuses for it.
[FANDOM] ÉPONINE THÉNARDIER || Les Misérables || reserve || 3 of 4
Business never did well for the Thenardiers, and M. Thenardier found it easiest to choose a less-than-honorable way to make ends meet, bringing his whole family into a life of crime. They lived together in Gorbeau House, a boarding house, and that is where Eponine met the love of her life, Marius Pontmercy. Marius was a boy a few years older than her, and Eponine fell madly in love with him, though he never viewed her as more than a friend, remaining oblivious to her affections.
One day, while Eponine and Marius were together, Marius bumped into a young woman dressed in black with an older man beside her. Marius was instantly stricken, and demanded that Eponine do her best to find her. Eponine recognized the girl as a ghost from her past, Cosette, come back to haunt her. In an effort to keep Marius' attention, and to see him smile at her, Eponine lead Marius to the home where Cosette lived with her 'father'.
That same night, Eponine's father and the Patron-Minette, who had also recognized Cosette and her father, moved to rob the house. Eponine spotted them, and knowing that Marius was in the garden, stood up to her father, and screamed to warn Marius and the Fauchelevants that they were in danger. Patron-Minette scattered, and Valjean, Cosette's father, panicked, believing that his past as a convict and parole breaker had been discovered, promised to spirit Cosette away to England. Hearing this, Cosette left a letter for Marius, which Eponine intercepted.
Reading the letter, she learned of Valjean's plan, and knew what that if Marius ever received this letter, he would know where to find Cosette, and leave to live with her forever. Having nothing to live for if Marius was gone, she kept the letter from Marius. Believing that Cosette had abandoned him, Marius resolved to join the revolution that his fellow-students had been planning, with the express plans to get shot and die.
Luckily, Eponine had the same thing in mind for the both of them. Disguising herself as a boy, Eponine joined Marius at the barricade, deciding to get herself killed first, for Marius would certainly fall after. She saw her chance when a member of the French National Guard aimed a musket at Marius. Acting quickly, she grabbed the barrel of the gun, and turned it towards herself. The shot was fatal.
But not instantly. Not before Eponine had time to confess her feelings to Marius, and give him Cosette's letter. In turn, she asked for Marius to kiss her on the forehead after she died, which he obliged.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponine_Thenardier
Strengths/Weaknesses: STRENGTHS: - Manipulative
- Stealthy when she is in the mood for it
- Screaming, she has a full set of pipes
- Lying
- Eponine can hold her liquor like few others can.
- Wonderful at climbing anything, from trees to gates.
- Very street smart
- Tracking and stalking people.
WEAKNESSES: - Well, she's 5' 1'' and hardly weighs 90 pounds, so her physical size is quite a weakness.
- Marius Pontmercy
- Often lacks common sense
- Unstable
- Socially awkward, often unable to pick up social cues.
- Doesn't know when to back down
Abilities: Eponine is literate, a somewhat rare quality for girls in her situation, and is very proud of this. She's a wonderful climber, and can steal and pick-pocket with the best. If you need someone to be found, feel free to ask Eponine.
Other than that, Eponine really has no special skills that would set her apart from the usual person on the street. She's an impoverished human girl who has learned to survive on the streets.
[CANON] ÉPONINE THÉNARDIER || Les Misérables || reserve || 4 of 4
It's a small mirror. With more buttons, but it's a watch. Wonder where it came from. I didn't bring it with me to the barricade, and I didn't loot any corpses. I was the-- [She stills, glancing around her.] I was the first to die.
Perhaps this place is hell. [She laughs, tossing her head back.] What a fine thing it is! Me, in hell, with only a mirror to look at myself with and think of all the things I've done! And here I thought my fate would be worse!
Third Person: The last thing Eponine remembered, before the train, was looking up into the eyes of Marius Pontmercy, shivering as blood left her body to mingle with the rain that fell. She remembered, she was sure Marius had kissed her on the forehead, but perhaps, that was just the jolt of the train coming to a stop.
Eponine opened her eyes and looked around as she stood up, assessing her surroundings. She was on a train and had apparently been laying down on one of the benches. Looking down, she realized the dark stain of her own blood on her chemise was only just beginning to dry. But… She reached down and gingerly touched it. Her skin, where the bullet had pierced her, was solid.
Where the hell was she?
She was the only person here, was the next thing she noticed, followed shortly by the darkening skies and mist outside. Adjusting her hat, she made up her mind then and there to find a way out of this train. It didn't take long, marching in a straight line till she found a door leading out to the platform.
"Hello?" She called, her voice low and hoarse. This was not Paris. This was… nowhere she'd ever been. Pulling her coat tighter around her, she began to search for some sort of indication where she was. Or, better yet, how the hell she was still alive. She'd taken a bullet to the stomach. She'd felt her life leaving her. She had her blood on her shirt, and yet, she was living, breathing.
"Hello? Is anyone here?" She called louder this time, slowly beginning to traverse the platform. "This isn't a place I've ever been, and I'd like to know where I am! Or if I'm alone- which is hardly unusual- Then, I--!" she cut off with a small shriek as the train behind her blows the whistle and speeds off into the blackness.
Eponine watched the train as it disappeared, hardly daring to breathe in the intense silence that followed the departure of the train. Once again, she realized, as she stuffed her hands into what was now her over-sized coat, she was completely and utterly alone. Despite that grim fact, she couldn't help but smile into the blackness, a hoarse laugh bubbling from her throat. Alone. Of course. She was always alone, why should death be any different?
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