Post by VIOLETTE LENOIR on Feb 13, 2012 15:27:17 GMT -5
[/b]: yes, and she has ones for each and every sees member, as well as those of who she’s met. she keeps them locked up in a chest under her bed, though, because it would be very bad if anyone got their hands on them. she also plays puppets with them when she’s bored, but that’s a secret and she wouldn’t admit to it.
VIOLETTE LENOIR
( god said, “let there be light!” i said, “say please.” )NAME,“Violette Lenoir” – hopefully this points out that she’s obviously not Japanese, but really French, with 'lenoir' literally meaning ‘dark’ or ‘black’, generally mean for those with dark hair or just a dark complexion overall – and how fitting it turned out to be! of course, ‘violette’ means ‘purple’. the reason why she was even named that was pretty simple: it just sounded pretty.
NICKNAME,while she’s never even touched a violin in her life, her parents have always affectionately referred to as viola, though technically it still fits, considering it also means ‘purple’. however, nicknames such as vivi were given to her by acquaintances for other reasons: to shorten it (because everyone nowadays lack the capacity to say the whole thing), to annoy her with a new ‘cute’ nickname, or to make a certain reference to the mysterious black mage from a certain fantasy game. these names she doesn’t really mind. however, most strangers have referred to her as “that goth kid”, even though she is most certainly not goth, she just likes wearing darker colors. those same people also call her “scary” due to her lurking habits and looking like an overall creeper.
AGE,violette is currently sixteen years old as of september 19th, which thereby classifies her as a virgo. she claims that it doesn’t really fit her, but it actually does – for the most part.
GENDER & PREFERENCE,hopefully it might be obvious that violette is female, and while she’s unsure about her orientation, if asked, she’d just shrug and say that she is heterosexual. it makes things a lot easier, anyway.
PROFESSION,as if her snobbish parents would allow her to go to some rag-tag public school, so she currently attends the much more cleaner and nicer-looking gekkoukan private school as a first year student. she doesn’t bother herself with clubs, either, as she lacks the skills to join any club. not like she’d join them either way, preferring to have more time for her self-imposed job as a necromancer; though she doesn’t get much business. life is rough.
PERSONALITY,
Oh, Violette – she just gives off that ‘creepy’ vibe and it isn’t just everyone around her being paranoid, because she is creepy. Viola tends to drift into the dark arts and is into those things that nobody really approves of: you know, dark magic, voodoo, spirits, dead things, all that lovely stuff. It doesn’t help that one of her hobbies include sneaking into peoples’ rooms and either stealing a bit of hair or actually cutting them open and taking a sample of blood, which may be seen in some cultures as fucking creepy and batshit insane.
But Violette is perfectly sane – she’s a normal person, not a cannibal (yet), not a vampire (even if she wouldn’t mind being one/ meeting one), or a vengeful spirit from the grave. This could be considered a relief to most, as she is likely to not instantly snap and slit someone’s neck or go on a massacre or something. She’s not outright violent; she’s somewhat tolerant. The way she deals with anger towards another is with her voodoo dolls, which she maims with needles and various other sharp objects in the belief that the real person is feeling the pain. Maybe she will exert some actual physical aggression if cornered, but she often doesn’t like it – mainly because she hates getting her hands dirty. And there’s also the fact that she’s nowhere near battle-ready, with absolutely no training in anything whatsoever.
Another reason why you wouldn’t see her being an all-around asshole/crazy person/aggressive idiot is because she actually has a sense of dignity. Maybe it’s being raised in a high-class French family – you know, the French have always been considered those snooty, romantic and upper-class types, and maybe even all about French-kissing, but Viola certainly isn’t into that. Hell, she doesn’t really apply to the above stereotypes, and her parents are, thankfully, don’t fit into the French stereotype – well, aside from drinking a lot of wine and being snooty and… romantic and—
Okay, okay. So they do fit into the stereotype, and Viola is really the strange one. Either way, she’s gained actual manners and discipline, which differentiate her from all the rowdy Japanese kids who have all those crazy stereotypes and tentacle rape. She isn’t really hardcore about manners, however; you won’t see her calling everyone by formal titles or bowing or anything like that. Then again, since the whole ‘manners are everything’ have been beaten into her mind, she does tend to notice when someone isn’t paying attention to their manners, and normally often points it out, which may or may not be considered rude. Then again, she makes a habit out of pointing everyone’s flaws, and usually gets all fussy about something being out of place. If it isn’t, then it will ruin all of her plans or so she says, which is bad. Being the strategist, her plans must go right. They must! Yeah, she’s a bit of a perfectionist, and that contributes to her demanding attitude. Everything must go right, so she gives everybody else a bit of a hard time to try to get them to do shit, even if she isn’t leader. When things don’t go her way, she won’t make a fuss, she’ll just be all moody and melodramatic. She’ll get over it once she mutilates the offender’s doll though.
With hobbies like creeping around and dealing with dark magic, it might occur to one that she isn’t a social butterfly. And she isn’t. While not a crazy evil antisocial bitch, she doesn’t like approaching others. She’s a little shy, even though she hates to admit it because being shy and timid is just ridiculous and weak looking and certainly not befitting an elegant young lady such as herself. But she can’t help it; she just doesn’t feel at ease around unfamiliar people, which is partially the reason why she lurks and observes from a distance. At least she benefits from being a lurker – she’s gotten a lot better at noticing things, and not just when someone’s sneakily picking their nose or trying to calm an itch in their boob in the middle of class. She’s sharp enough to actually notice the really, really insignificant details, which could actually be important. But then again she also tends to over-analyze and would probably try to find the hidden meaning behind a truly useless detail and fail spectacularly with a headache at the end of the day, but hey! The upside is that most of the time, she learns a thing or two from these completely and utterly pointless expeditions, so she’s also well-informed; this is strengthened by her habit of eavesdropping and snooping around.
She tends to be pretty critical on herself – it comes with the job, y’know, making sure that nobody dies. If anything actually happened to someone she was trying to help, then she’d probably put the blame on herself, despite the fact that she usually tells her teammates that any failures would be their fault entirely. Although she doesn’t necessarily like showing it, she cares. She loooooves her buddies. Or, in more sophisticated terms, she appreciates her friends, even if she doesn’t seem like much of a conversationalist, except for spitting out snarky insults or mumbling something about dark magic and creeping out the person beside her.
She could actually be considered motherly in some ways: supportive, kind of caring, in her own little strange way. She’d try to console someone if needed; but she lacks the worldly knowledge that only an older person would have and thus fails at actually giving useful advice. There’s also her lack of resources: the most she can actually do is give said person food to cheer them up, and maybe actual money. She’ll most certainly try to make them feel better, if not by giving them something useful, then by just being a good listener. This behavior tends to show up in times of dire need towards those she ‘appreciates’, and usually won’t show up unless if herself and said person are alone.
But despite how much she tries to be the dignified gentle-lady her parents tried to mold her as, she’s more or less of an immature kid on the inside. While still independent, she often tries to make a point of just how independent she is from her parents; the biggest point being her moving out of her comfy home to stay in the dorms. Also, while she’s somewhat happy with helping others who need it, she doesn’t like accepting help, as it reminds her of her own parents, and how she was babied throughout most of her life. She prefers to solve her own problems, and doesn’t appreciate others interfering. Hell, she doesn’t even like it when someone goes against her ideas, though that doesn’t get as much of a rebuke as when one tries to actually order her around – that’s when shit goes down. To her, even a mere suggestion to her plans would be taken as an insult: suggestions would alter her plans, and it would be as if the person suggestion was telling her that her plans aren’t good enough!
LIKES & DISLIKES,
♥ Violette loves the dark arts and shamanism. It’s a strange thing to like, but she’s always been drawn to the sort of powers it brings and the methods to which those forbidden magic are preformed, as well as the outcomes of those weird rituals.
♥ necromancy –not to be confused with necrophilia, guys– is another one of the top things on Viola’s likes. it would be pretty freaking sweet to be able to summon a horde of bloodthirsty zombies or call upon the ghosts of the deceased to hear their wisdom.
♥ dark colors; they just kind of fit well with the whole theme. she has also found darker shades to be a lot easier on the eyes.
♥ her collection of grimoires & magical objects. she’s spent years carefully collecting these prized possessions, and they range from ancient tomes to silly looking booble-headed knickknacks she’s found in dollar stores. while most of it is at her home, she’s brought as many as she could drag to the dorms.
♥ undead creatures: vampires, zombies, ghosts, y’know, the likes. she has always wanted to actually meet a vampire, or to witness a paranormal event that isn’t the result of some cheap trick. she isn’t really as eager to meet a zombie, though, for obvious reasons.
♥ scarves. they’re comfy and keep you warm and you can wrap them around your head to make a turban and it’s just the way that they just kind of flutter in the wind and stuff that makes them pretty cool.
♥ sewing and knitting started out as a hated hobby, which quickly warmed up to her after she became good at it and had made her first successful sock that didn’t look like a mutated worm. she prefers knitting more, even if it does tend to take longer.
♥ puppets. just… puppets. Violette’s always found it rather fun to play with them, and always saw puppets as just being objects of entertainment.
♥ horror movies – or anything that’s really fucking scary. it’s the adrenaline she gets from being scared out of her wits. she’s seen so many horror movies that turned out to be complete jokes;
♠ sunlight. it’s too bright! or maybe her eyes are just sensitive…
♠ fish – the smell, the taste, the feel, the look: those bulging eyes and the stink that they always have, especially when they go bad. the taste is a more minor problem; it could be easily fixed if the fish is prepared well, but half the time it isn’t and when it is, there’s those annoying bones that have been obviously placed in the fish to ensure that the poor sap eating it chokes on something.
♠ obnoxious music/people/sounds. for hopefully obvious reasons.
♠ animals, with the exception being her own pet. they’ve always had some strange dislike towards her, maybe it’s the dark aura from all that dark magic stuff Violette keeps toying with, or maybe she’s just bad with animals. it’s probably both.
♠ physical contact. she does not like being touched. she is a strict believe of the ‘my bubble’ theory which states that every person has their own personal bubble with the diameter of 2-4 feet, which is considered their private space and therefore nobody should pop the bubble. she doesn’t like the feeling of strange, foreign hands touching her. it’s just weird, and who knows where those hands have been, anyway?
♠ surprises. she’s never liked surprises, because surprises means something completely unexpected, and Violette despises not knowing things for many reasons, one of the main ones is because she’d probably be likely to be caught off guard if it is a good surprise. and that is not good at all. the only exception to this are horror movies for reasons already seen.
♠ disney – they fuck up all the good stuff. the actual stories that they use as a basis are pretty cool, but disney just mutilates it and make it something less… cool.
♠ children. little kids always follow her and bug her and even though they’re cute they’re also annoying. anything that can’t form a proper sentence and/or understand the meaning of “personal space” and “silence” would probably fit into this category as well.
ALLIANCE,while she can’t say she’s devoted to the idea to getting rid of the dark hour, she has been recruited by SEES and will stay loyal to them. she’s gotten rather fond of them in the short while she’s been there, even if they are a… erm… strange bunch. Violette works as a strategist of the group, making sure thattheir terrible leaders don’t lead them off a cliffnone of them die.
WEAPON & TACTICS,
fighting? fighting?! since when did the french ever fight?
jokes aside, you can’t really expect a sixteen year old to possibly have any training in anything.
what’s that? everybody else wields swords and axes and guns?
well, the french certainly aren’t as barbaric as that.
as for Violette, even though she really isn’t a fighter by nature, it is safer to carry around some sort of weapon, so she carries around a pair of foot long titanium knitting needles, which would be classified as pierce.
they’re not really useful for much besides stabbing.
there’s been times when desperate times call for desperate measures, and violette has been seen to slap around shadows with her bare hands, and even though it isn’t nearly as effective as an actual weapon, she has actually managed to knock out a few of them in a fit of rage and kicks and slaps. never mind that she’s ended up with her hands bruised and bloody and a lesson learned at the end of the day and probably wouldn’t try it again unless if she was weaponless and against something where bare hands would actually be somewhat effective on.
even though she’s one of the strategists of sees and therefore has the job of thinking up actual tactics, she doesn’t really have much of one for herself. it’s more like… trying to hit while not getting hit. she runs in, stabs something – anything – and then gets the hell out of there.
oh, she adopts a slightly better tactic when she’s actually being pressured to fight, be it for her life or something important. of course, her lack of fighting experience limits her to just depending on her ability to adapt to situations and her intelligence, and maybe her agility. she can’t do cartwheels and backflips and crazy jumpy moves, and she’s nowhere near as fast as a track runner, but she likes to think she’s fast enough to outrun a normal person. maybe.
PERSONA,LEMUR, death, awake.
ADDITIONAL NOTES,
- she has a familiar – or so she calls it, as every witch should have a familiar. really it’s just an average housecat who exhibits great intelligence; naturally because of Viola’s training and care. it is affectionately referred to as Jezebel.
- Violette is of french descent, if you haven’t quite figured it out yet by now. if one were to look at her would have-been noble heritage, they’d realize that she is totally and completely french, because a couple of generations back her family were enough of a bunch of stuffy and racist pricks to actually be picky about who they made babies with. however, she was born in japan; her parents had moved there years prior to her birth as a result of some family troubles and whatnot, and what better place to stay than japan? (
it was either that or america, so they didn’t really have much of a choice)- being a necromancer takes work – you gotta be prepared.
and being prepared means to have an extensive inventory asides from the basic necessities that applies to her ‘job’, just incase anything comes up.
her inventory is as follows:
voodoo dolls
sewing kit[/b]: a tiny little plastic box with buttons and needles and mini spools and buttons. just in case there’s some for of emergency.
empty vials[/b]: to hold things. what else?
not-so-empty vials[/b]: a few vials occupied by strands of hair or the blood of someone – most likely of someone she has met.
knife[/b]: not at all for actual fighting – its sharp blade is just meant to cut open skin cleanly without making too much of a mess.
gloves[/b]: but sometimes things do get messy, and one must always be prepared.
ancient grimoire of dark magic, vol. 1[/b]: of course.
yarn & croquette needles[/b]: j-just a hobby. that’s all.
handknit scarves[/b]: what? she likes making them.
handknit plushie[/b]: she has at least one of these hidden on her person at all times.
black notepad[/b]: she jots down her notes in here. super secret.
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