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hermothersfire( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Antimony Carver
- ★ AGE: 14
- ★ CANON POINT:
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: Wikia
- ★ PERSONALITY: Antimony has her mother's passion and her father's intensely reserved nature. The result is a lot like holding a small sun in an undecorated box.
To people she doesn't know, Annie seems shy and socially awkward. She's not very comfortable around humans and often either fails to pick up on social cues or doesn't know what to do with them. Having grown up in a hospital until the age of 12, she only has social experience with patients who often leave and doctors who are far too busy to spend real time talking to a child. She is far more comfortable with her supernatural friends, and the psychopomps who (naturally) spent a great deal of time in the hospital and had plenty of it to spare to talk to a lonely girl. She has had to learn to entertain herself, resulting in a love of books and learning. She spends a good deal of her time in the library, which doesn't help with her shut-in appearance.
When socially uncomfortable with strangers, Annie has the habit of putting on an air of infallible calm, much like her father who was thought by even some of his friends to be entirely cold and uncaring. This makes her somewhat intimidating to her peers, who can't seem to pierce her tough exterior. She uses this calm to approach many of her problems in life, and as such tends to find herself perfectly safe in situations that might otherwise have turned dangerous. This is also symptomatic of her strong pride, which causes her to run and hide when she feels like crying. She refuses to show what she thinks of as weakness.
Around her friends Annie opens up and becomes a bright, enthusiastic girl. She's quick to tease, be it her friend Kat or the God Coyote. She loves adventure and has the courage and resourcefullness to pursue it, resulting in her close association with the forbidden Gillitie Wood. She's not shy about affection either, though she isn't the type that hugs a person as a greeting. To her friends she is fiercely loyal.
When it comes to the father who seemingly abandoned her, Annie's tension is at an all time high. Even after she's opened up to Kat she refuses to show any emotion when he calls her unexpectedly. Otherwise, she is quick to anger when she thinks that something is unfair, or that someone needs a good shouting at. When this is directed at the wrong person or at the wrong time the results can be disasterous.
- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: Seelie
- ★ ABILITIES: Antimony is (presumably, because the spirit has been passed down directly) half fire elemental. She is able to change her body so that it is enveloped in fire and makes her look like a full fire elemental. With her blinker stone (though this is only a helper tool, until she learns to do it on her own) she can astral project, create false fire, and even touch real objects with her astral body. It is possible that given time and experience she could learn to fly. She is also a spirit guide, meaning that she can see psychopomps and ghosts and help spirits cross over.
- ★ INVENTORY:
( SAMPLES )
- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:
Excuse me.
[ The pinkish-red haired girl has a bland but polite expression on her face. She holds up a necklace for you to see, a lovely piece in gold with green gems. ] I found this lying on the ground, and I believe someone must have dropped it. I haven't tampered with the spells on it. If you wish to retrieve it, you may find me in the Seelie court.
[ She's puts it down, and looks at the watch with an expression on her face rather like someone who's not sure if they should say something else and trying very hard to hide the nervousness. It's that socially-awkward panic face. ]
Ask for Antimony Carver.
- ★ LOG SAMPLE:
Antimony found that she was far more comfortable in the forest than she could ever make herself within the walls of Caer Glaem. This was no surprise. The Caer was nice enough, and generally people didn't bother her much, but she still felt awkward and itched to get out and explore. In the forest she could talk to dryads and fairies, make friends with the creatures not welcomed within the Caer's walls, and soak her bare feet in the running stream. In the forest she was herself, and it showed in her grin and the dirt that began slowly to cake her from head to foot as the day went on.
It was in the forest and with her feet in the stream that Annie met Bean-nighe. She was fairly shy, and for the most part ignored by the more playful forest inhabitants. Annie's forest friends were off playing somewhere else, no doubt playing pranks on some other human. She let her mind and her spirit wander until she spotted the hunched woman farther down the stream, washing clothes. She drew closer to get a better look at the banshee when the creature spoke up.
"It isn't polite to spy, girl." The spirit started a little, then smiled sheepishly. In a flash she was back in her body, creeping from rock to rock through the water to reach the woman properly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. I was just taking a look around." Bean-nighe glanced up at the girl and only grunted her approval of this excuse. Annie waited a moment before speaking up again.
"If you don't mind me asking, why are you washing your clothes all the way up here? There are plenty of rivers closer to civilization." The banshee paused in her washing, her face haunted by despair.
"They aren't my clothes. These are the clothes of the dead." Then Annie knew exactly who she was talking to.
"You're Bean-nighe, aren't you? I'm Antimony Carver. My mother used to tell me stories about you." She found a seat on a rock next to the banshee and settled down. She always loved getting to meet the subjects of Surma's stories. This one's story was a terrible one, but she was willing enough to share it. Annie offered her sincere condolences, and described in returns her experiences with psychopomps and spirits.
It turned out they had a few friends in common. Annie stayed with the banshee until it got dark out, and though most of the talk wasn't cheerful she thought she saw the ghost of a smile on the woman's lips. Maybe there was something she could do to help the washer woman of lore after all.
- ★ NAME: Antimony Carver
- ★ AGE: 14
- ★ CANON POINT:
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: Wikia
- ★ PERSONALITY: Antimony has her mother's passion and her father's intensely reserved nature. The result is a lot like holding a small sun in an undecorated box.
To people she doesn't know, Annie seems shy and socially awkward. She's not very comfortable around humans and often either fails to pick up on social cues or doesn't know what to do with them. Having grown up in a hospital until the age of 12, she only has social experience with patients who often leave and doctors who are far too busy to spend real time talking to a child. She is far more comfortable with her supernatural friends, and the psychopomps who (naturally) spent a great deal of time in the hospital and had plenty of it to spare to talk to a lonely girl. She has had to learn to entertain herself, resulting in a love of books and learning. She spends a good deal of her time in the library, which doesn't help with her shut-in appearance.
When socially uncomfortable with strangers, Annie has the habit of putting on an air of infallible calm, much like her father who was thought by even some of his friends to be entirely cold and uncaring. This makes her somewhat intimidating to her peers, who can't seem to pierce her tough exterior. She uses this calm to approach many of her problems in life, and as such tends to find herself perfectly safe in situations that might otherwise have turned dangerous. This is also symptomatic of her strong pride, which causes her to run and hide when she feels like crying. She refuses to show what she thinks of as weakness.
Around her friends Annie opens up and becomes a bright, enthusiastic girl. She's quick to tease, be it her friend Kat or the God Coyote. She loves adventure and has the courage and resourcefullness to pursue it, resulting in her close association with the forbidden Gillitie Wood. She's not shy about affection either, though she isn't the type that hugs a person as a greeting. To her friends she is fiercely loyal.
When it comes to the father who seemingly abandoned her, Annie's tension is at an all time high. Even after she's opened up to Kat she refuses to show any emotion when he calls her unexpectedly. Otherwise, she is quick to anger when she thinks that something is unfair, or that someone needs a good shouting at. When this is directed at the wrong person or at the wrong time the results can be disasterous.
- ★ COURT ALLIANCE: Seelie
- ★ ABILITIES: Antimony is (presumably, because the spirit has been passed down directly) half fire elemental. She is able to change her body so that it is enveloped in fire and makes her look like a full fire elemental. With her blinker stone (though this is only a helper tool, until she learns to do it on her own) she can astral project, create false fire, and even touch real objects with her astral body. It is possible that given time and experience she could learn to fly. She is also a spirit guide, meaning that she can see psychopomps and ghosts and help spirits cross over.
- ★ INVENTORY:
( SAMPLES )
- ★ NETWORK SAMPLE:
Excuse me.
[ The pinkish-red haired girl has a bland but polite expression on her face. She holds up a necklace for you to see, a lovely piece in gold with green gems. ] I found this lying on the ground, and I believe someone must have dropped it. I haven't tampered with the spells on it. If you wish to retrieve it, you may find me in the Seelie court.
[ She's puts it down, and looks at the watch with an expression on her face rather like someone who's not sure if they should say something else and trying very hard to hide the nervousness. It's that socially-awkward panic face. ]
Ask for Antimony Carver.
- ★ LOG SAMPLE:
Antimony found that she was far more comfortable in the forest than she could ever make herself within the walls of Caer Glaem. This was no surprise. The Caer was nice enough, and generally people didn't bother her much, but she still felt awkward and itched to get out and explore. In the forest she could talk to dryads and fairies, make friends with the creatures not welcomed within the Caer's walls, and soak her bare feet in the running stream. In the forest she was herself, and it showed in her grin and the dirt that began slowly to cake her from head to foot as the day went on.
It was in the forest and with her feet in the stream that Annie met Bean-nighe. She was fairly shy, and for the most part ignored by the more playful forest inhabitants. Annie's forest friends were off playing somewhere else, no doubt playing pranks on some other human. She let her mind and her spirit wander until she spotted the hunched woman farther down the stream, washing clothes. She drew closer to get a better look at the banshee when the creature spoke up.
"It isn't polite to spy, girl." The spirit started a little, then smiled sheepishly. In a flash she was back in her body, creeping from rock to rock through the water to reach the woman properly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. I was just taking a look around." Bean-nighe glanced up at the girl and only grunted her approval of this excuse. Annie waited a moment before speaking up again.
"If you don't mind me asking, why are you washing your clothes all the way up here? There are plenty of rivers closer to civilization." The banshee paused in her washing, her face haunted by despair.
"They aren't my clothes. These are the clothes of the dead." Then Annie knew exactly who she was talking to.
"You're Bean-nighe, aren't you? I'm Antimony Carver. My mother used to tell me stories about you." She found a seat on a rock next to the banshee and settled down. She always loved getting to meet the subjects of Surma's stories. This one's story was a terrible one, but she was willing enough to share it. Annie offered her sincere condolences, and described in returns her experiences with psychopomps and spirits.
It turned out they had a few friends in common. Annie stayed with the banshee until it got dark out, and though most of the talk wasn't cheerful she thought she saw the ghost of a smile on the woman's lips. Maybe there was something she could do to help the washer woman of lore after all.
REVISIONS
2014-04-04 22:03 (UTC)Antimony could be defined as Chaotic Good. She is emotional and strong willed, which means that sometimes she behaves unpredictably or not in the way that perhaps she should, but at her core she has a good heart. She wants to help people (and things) and make things better. She acts as a medium (or a mediator, if you don't want to use magic-y words) between the forest and the court, which means that she must see both sides of any given argument and work to keep peace between the two parties. While she could no doubt get along just fine with the Unseelie, the Seelie court would be more likely to claim her for her friendly attitude and general willingness to help.
Canon evidence:
Note: I can't get this stupid e-mail client to bold for me, but this is in roughly the order of the original personality section.
We see Annie's shy behavior from the very beginning of the story when she spends her first two weeks at the Court without meeting or speaking to any of her peers, on up until her class goes camping and she is unwilling to force her company on the classmates who are so afraid to ask her for even a small favor. Throughout the story her expression is almost perfectly blank when speaking to anyone she isn't close to.
Failure to react appropriately to social cues is most obvious at the end of her second year, when she runs into Jack on her way back to her room. He tries to make small talk and even flirt a little, and Annie becomes stiff as a board and wide-eyed as she avoids his advances. She is shown to socialize with psychopomps on many occasions, and shows no fear and none of the obvious discomfort she shows around her peers.
She spends most of her first year at the Court in the library, which suggests a love of books. Once she discovers the forest, however, she is shown with a gleeful expression as she meets new creatures and discovers new places. This suggests the more basic love of learning new things and of adventure.
Annie's expression is actually primarily blank throughout most of the story, with the exception of the time she spends with friends and with creatures of the forest. In a flashback we are told that her father always wore a similar face, appearing cold and uncaring, but had revealed to a friend that he was in fact confused and terrified by the social situation he found himself in when a friend expressed romantic interest in him. Looking back on the incident on the camping trip, it is apparent that this calm air intimidates her peers. A classmate comes to ask Kat if she can ask Annie (who is sitting a foot away) to make fire for them. Kat demands that he ask Annie herself, who wears that familiar blank expression. The classmate is evidently terrified by the prospect, and is unable to form a single word before Annie hands him the blinker and tells him that she can do it from afar.
Her pride is made apparent on two occasions, first when she learns that she was the cause of her mother's declining health, and again when her father calls her. On the first occasion, she is so overcome by emotion that she runs as far and as fast as she can, until she reaches the safety of the forest where her friends and chaperones cannot come to retrieve her. On the second, she sits apparently calmly, until Kat's father points out that she's clenching her fists and she realizes that her palms are bleeding. She expresses her shame only internally, and continues to do so until she is able to restrain herself enough to look as though she hasn't been crying again.
Later in the series, when Annie's best friend Kat has found herself a girlfriend, Annie is shown almost uncharacteristically teasing. She's all smiles and devious looks, making jokes and laughing like we haven't seen her previously. She even teases the God Coyote when he behaves childishly, and spanks him when he sticks his nose up her skirt. These are both acts that may well have gotten her killed by Coyote's loyal servant Ysengrin.
Her courage and resourcefulness is shown throughout the series as she makes trouble around the court, from sneaking into the robot's only area to steal back the harddrive of a robot-friend, to running away to spend a summer among the forest people, and even venturing on to the forbidden bridge over the Annan Waters that separate the Court from the Forest.
She is rarely seen hugging, but during long talks can often be found with her arm around Kat or her fox/wolf friend Reynard. There have even been cuddle piles.
When a friend is in trouble Annie is often shown to be furious. She defends Ysengrin to the Coyote, backs him up in battle, and breaks just about every rule their is to assist a robot friend. She shows anger towards people at other times as well, such as when Reynard lectures her about cheating on her homework, or when Mr. Eglamore worries about her while she's busy worrying about Ysengrin. When she slapped Coyote on the rump for peeking up her skirt, she was very nearly killed by Ysengrin, showing that sometimes this angry streak can get her into deadly trouble.