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innocentloveholic) wrote2017-04-16 11:42 pm
innocentloveholic) wrote2017-04-16 11:42 pm
[ application for recollé ]
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YOUR NAME: Bella
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YOUR NAME: Bella
18+?: Yes
CONTACT: resplendentspirits on aim, flair#7129 on discord,
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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Aligula
AGE: Unknown, but likely somewhere over a thousand, given that she's not a human and the rest of her cohorts are rumored to be long-lived; she looks something around late-teens though
CANON: Blood Blockade Battlefront
NAME: Aligula
AGE: Unknown, but likely somewhere over a thousand, given that she's not a human and the rest of her cohorts are rumored to be long-lived; she looks something around late-teens though
CANON: Blood Blockade Battlefront
CANON HISTORY: Honestly, the pasts of most of the Thirteen Kings—the crime syndicate that Aligula belongs to, even if "crime syndicate" is actually a super loose phrase to describe them—are shrouded in mystery. Aligula is no exception; there's not much to go on for her aside from what she's told Leonardo Watch in episode 5.
Which is that once upon a time, she fell in love with a criminal named Deldro Brody; he was a real bad boy, always in trouble, and he loved her, too. Unfortunately, while she loved him... she didn't love his looks half as much. They just weren't doing it for her, you know? Definitely not turning her on at all! And then along came Dog Hummer (or Hammer, depending who you ask): a total hunk! A pretty boy ex-tra-or-di-naire. So what's a poor girl to do when the love of her life and the man of her dreams are two separate people?
She liquefies one of them, hollows out the other, and puts them together in one happy package! (Note: the links are just a dramatization fit for human consumption using ketchup and a lunch container.)
So yes, in episode 5 (where we first really get to see her), it's this man she's after when she picks up Leo (picks up being the key phrase here: he asks if she's holding him hostage to get what she wants, and she refutes him angrily; you get back your things with your own power, because there wouldn't be any point if you accepted help from others). She talks at length at how it's important in love to keep pushing, because those that push the hardest win, and... she gossips with Leo about his love life. Or really,he tells her about it, and she gets mad that he's got such a boring one.
Her plans fall through thanks to Libra, the secret organization Leo belongs to, as well as Deldro & Hummer's combined efforts to stop her. (Note: Deldro definitely adores her and would love to get back together with her! Hummer, not so much, but he's willing to make sacrifices if Deldro really wants to go. ...he gets called "odd" for that.)
Episode 9 has her return; she's hanging out at Coney Island with two of her fellow kings: Femt, the King of Depravity, and the one we'll never actually have a name-name for, the King of Despair. She sasses, she snarks, but the main thing of the episode is at the end, where she reveals she's got a pair of glasses the King of Despair'd needed for his plans. They're special ones that can control the All-Seeing Eyes of the Gods (or seem to, going by the last episodes), and she's been working on them for the King of Despair, apparently. Because friends who aren't friends but still hang out together because they're a posse do stuff for each other.
(Besides, she's interested in seeing how his plans work out.)
Her appearance in episode 12 is minor; she's at a Halloween party her fellow kings are throwing, while the King of Despair is out shuffling around and making a mess of Hellsalem's Lot City. She's disgusted by the zombies (she says they're freaking her out), but accepts their existence when Femt reminds her it's Halloween and they're practically a prerequisite; they're a distraction most of all, and since it's the King's show, they deserve some entertainment.
...and that's really pretty much it. She's a minor character among minor characters.
CANON PERSONALITY: There are a lot of very unkind words for Aligula: obsessive, crazy, shallow. They're all pretty on point, too.
As her title of "Queen of Monomania" would suggest (with monomania meaning "exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing"), Aligula's very... dedicated, to put it nicely. During the series, her focus is mainly on getting her (ex?) boyfriend/sweetheart/best experiment ever back: the combined body of Deldro Brody & Dog Hummer. She tears the city apart for this, she's... really something else. It's not just about him being the perfect combination of a hot body and a liquefied criminal, oh no, not at all! If asked, actually, she'd say it was for love.
...which is her main, never-ending obsession. No one loves love like Aligula loves love; she's a fan of love stories, to the point where she uses them as small talk and gets more than a little pissed if you tease her with details about one but don't have a proper ending or plan of action for it. Despite her quick temper, she ends up being incredibly supportive about romance and things of that sort! Especially if you're serious about it; she doesn't have any time for shallow, petty stories.
Even though really, her own is pretty much that, because Aligula doesn't do feelings properly. She's very excitable, very much the "overly cheerful, go get what you want" one of her immediate group, but... She fell in love with a guy because he was a bad boy, and she fell in love with another one because he was hot, and then she decided that she didn't want to have to deal with the drama of choosing between them so she just put them together in one little Deldro & Hummer package. Like many of the other Kings, she lives for leisure and pleasure, and she just... doesn't do anything past that. She gets mad, yes, and she can sometimes be sincere when she says your love life's oh-so-sad... but she's incapable of feeling any remorse or thinking about how her actions might actually affect someone.
She's inconsiderate, shallow as hell, and pretty fucking predictable when it comes to how she's going to react about something, is what I'm getting at here.
That doesn't mean she's stupid, though; Aligula's shown to be quite clever! Not everyone can come face-to-face with the powerful and legendary All-Seeing Eyes of the God and be able to either make or get their hands on glasses that can essentially control them—the first one is implied to be what she's done, and given her track record with successfully turning one man into pure blood, hollowing out another, and putting them together while they're awake and aware with stunning results... I'm inclined to agree.
Furthermore, on her name/intro card that comes up in the anime, there's "genius" as one of the kanji—beneath it is "innocent," though. Straightforward and frank and not actually that judgmental (except over your life choices with your love life), Aligula's much like a child: she's objective on things not pertaining to her obsessions, though honestly, that's probably more because she's not half as interested in them. That doesn't mean she isn't going to listen and put in her own two cents though: she's peanut gallery personified when she's in a group situation, and she's the carefree friend you go to to forget your worries when it comes to one-on-one conversation.
She'll also be the friend that literally slaps some sense into you or kicks your ass about something. Aligula doesn't do many negative feelings, sincerely or otherwise, but then there's anger. It makes sense, too: if you can't get angry about something, can you say you truly care about it? (...Ignoring the fact that Aligula's never cared about anyone aside from herself a day in her life; she obviously doesn't care about what either Deldro or Hummer want or feel, after all.) And, like the righteous anger of a god scorned, she gets... rather violent at times, particularly if you're testing her patience or if you make her carry a conversation. It's not nice to make girls do that, after all, especially when it's about something as irrevocably important as love.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Medical/surgical procedures! Canonically, she's a mad surgeon type of person—she managed to liquefy someone and keep them alive, and also put them into someone else? And they're both alive and okay? She's very much in her element when it comes to medical stuff.
Gizmos and gadgets also seem to be an interest of hers; the implication is that she managed to create a glasses-like device that could control/tamper with the incredibly powerful All Seeing Eyes of the Gods, and that's not a particularly easy feat.
Which is that once upon a time, she fell in love with a criminal named Deldro Brody; he was a real bad boy, always in trouble, and he loved her, too. Unfortunately, while she loved him... she didn't love his looks half as much. They just weren't doing it for her, you know? Definitely not turning her on at all! And then along came Dog Hummer (or Hammer, depending who you ask): a total hunk! A pretty boy ex-tra-or-di-naire. So what's a poor girl to do when the love of her life and the man of her dreams are two separate people?
She liquefies one of them, hollows out the other, and puts them together in one happy package! (Note: the links are just a dramatization fit for human consumption using ketchup and a lunch container.)
So yes, in episode 5 (where we first really get to see her), it's this man she's after when she picks up Leo (picks up being the key phrase here: he asks if she's holding him hostage to get what she wants, and she refutes him angrily; you get back your things with your own power, because there wouldn't be any point if you accepted help from others). She talks at length at how it's important in love to keep pushing, because those that push the hardest win, and... she gossips with Leo about his love life. Or really,he tells her about it, and she gets mad that he's got such a boring one.
Her plans fall through thanks to Libra, the secret organization Leo belongs to, as well as Deldro & Hummer's combined efforts to stop her. (Note: Deldro definitely adores her and would love to get back together with her! Hummer, not so much, but he's willing to make sacrifices if Deldro really wants to go. ...he gets called "odd" for that.)
Episode 9 has her return; she's hanging out at Coney Island with two of her fellow kings: Femt, the King of Depravity, and the one we'll never actually have a name-name for, the King of Despair. She sasses, she snarks, but the main thing of the episode is at the end, where she reveals she's got a pair of glasses the King of Despair'd needed for his plans. They're special ones that can control the All-Seeing Eyes of the Gods (or seem to, going by the last episodes), and she's been working on them for the King of Despair, apparently. Because friends who aren't friends but still hang out together because they're a posse do stuff for each other.
(Besides, she's interested in seeing how his plans work out.)
Her appearance in episode 12 is minor; she's at a Halloween party her fellow kings are throwing, while the King of Despair is out shuffling around and making a mess of Hellsalem's Lot City. She's disgusted by the zombies (she says they're freaking her out), but accepts their existence when Femt reminds her it's Halloween and they're practically a prerequisite; they're a distraction most of all, and since it's the King's show, they deserve some entertainment.
...and that's really pretty much it. She's a minor character among minor characters.
CANON PERSONALITY: There are a lot of very unkind words for Aligula: obsessive, crazy, shallow. They're all pretty on point, too.
As her title of "Queen of Monomania" would suggest (with monomania meaning "exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing"), Aligula's very... dedicated, to put it nicely. During the series, her focus is mainly on getting her (ex?) boyfriend/sweetheart/best experiment ever back: the combined body of Deldro Brody & Dog Hummer. She tears the city apart for this, she's... really something else. It's not just about him being the perfect combination of a hot body and a liquefied criminal, oh no, not at all! If asked, actually, she'd say it was for love.
...which is her main, never-ending obsession. No one loves love like Aligula loves love; she's a fan of love stories, to the point where she uses them as small talk and gets more than a little pissed if you tease her with details about one but don't have a proper ending or plan of action for it. Despite her quick temper, she ends up being incredibly supportive about romance and things of that sort! Especially if you're serious about it; she doesn't have any time for shallow, petty stories.
Even though really, her own is pretty much that, because Aligula doesn't do feelings properly. She's very excitable, very much the "overly cheerful, go get what you want" one of her immediate group, but... She fell in love with a guy because he was a bad boy, and she fell in love with another one because he was hot, and then she decided that she didn't want to have to deal with the drama of choosing between them so she just put them together in one little Deldro & Hummer package. Like many of the other Kings, she lives for leisure and pleasure, and she just... doesn't do anything past that. She gets mad, yes, and she can sometimes be sincere when she says your love life's oh-so-sad... but she's incapable of feeling any remorse or thinking about how her actions might actually affect someone.
She's inconsiderate, shallow as hell, and pretty fucking predictable when it comes to how she's going to react about something, is what I'm getting at here.
That doesn't mean she's stupid, though; Aligula's shown to be quite clever! Not everyone can come face-to-face with the powerful and legendary All-Seeing Eyes of the God and be able to either make or get their hands on glasses that can essentially control them—the first one is implied to be what she's done, and given her track record with successfully turning one man into pure blood, hollowing out another, and putting them together while they're awake and aware with stunning results... I'm inclined to agree.
Furthermore, on her name/intro card that comes up in the anime, there's "genius" as one of the kanji—beneath it is "innocent," though. Straightforward and frank and not actually that judgmental (except over your life choices with your love life), Aligula's much like a child: she's objective on things not pertaining to her obsessions, though honestly, that's probably more because she's not half as interested in them. That doesn't mean she isn't going to listen and put in her own two cents though: she's peanut gallery personified when she's in a group situation, and she's the carefree friend you go to to forget your worries when it comes to one-on-one conversation.
She'll also be the friend that literally slaps some sense into you or kicks your ass about something. Aligula doesn't do many negative feelings, sincerely or otherwise, but then there's anger. It makes sense, too: if you can't get angry about something, can you say you truly care about it? (...Ignoring the fact that Aligula's never cared about anyone aside from herself a day in her life; she obviously doesn't care about what either Deldro or Hummer want or feel, after all.) And, like the righteous anger of a god scorned, she gets... rather violent at times, particularly if you're testing her patience or if you make her carry a conversation. It's not nice to make girls do that, after all, especially when it's about something as irrevocably important as love.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Medical/surgical procedures! Canonically, she's a mad surgeon type of person—she managed to liquefy someone and keep them alive, and also put them into someone else? And they're both alive and okay? She's very much in her element when it comes to medical stuff.
Gizmos and gadgets also seem to be an interest of hers; the implication is that she managed to create a glasses-like device that could control/tamper with the incredibly powerful All Seeing Eyes of the Gods, and that's not a particularly easy feat.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Alison Báthory
AU AGE: 18
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Needed to be humanized, given she usually has just one eye. Now she can have two! They'll be blue instead of purple, and she'll be a natural blonde instead of a natural pink. Also, her... mask... will not be seemingly permanently attached to her face, um. Instead, she'll wear prescription sunglasses, and she wears them pretty much everywhere. Her lolita-esque clothing is still sort of around, but it's less... blatantly lolita-inspired and more just plain frilly, girly things.
AU NAME: Alison Báthory
AU AGE: 18
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Needed to be humanized, given she usually has just one eye. Now she can have two! They'll be blue instead of purple, and she'll be a natural blonde instead of a natural pink. Also, her... mask... will not be seemingly permanently attached to her face, um. Instead, she'll wear prescription sunglasses, and she wears them pretty much everywhere. Her lolita-esque clothing is still sort of around, but it's less... blatantly lolita-inspired and more just plain frilly, girly things.
AU HISTORY: (As a note, Alison being Ferid's daughter has been cleared with Peace, Ferid's player seventhprogenitor!)
Born into a relatively well-off family in Recollé, Alison Báthory spent most of her early years in pampered comfort and not knowing her mother at all—just the gentle smiles and warm voices of, at first, caretakers her father had hired to look after her while he was still a student, and later on Ferid himself, in all his incredibly doting glory. With his wishes for her to having a more normal education than he had, she was enrolled in public schooling and remained there—though that’s also where she began her more rebellious streak. After all, the boys she crushed on and the people in general she hung out with tended to skip class and denounce their parents and things like that; why shouldn’t she?
It wasn’t exactly peer pressure that ignited it—it was more that she was encouraged and inspired to be a rebellious little shit because of her friends and other relations, and she found it incredibly fun... and good for finding boys who fit her type: bad, but sweet. To further distance herself from her father and the rest of the family, who honestly are general sticks in the mud (outside of a few distant members her father favors above the rest), she decided to forsake her family name and go by her rather pretentious but charming middle instead: Montague.
Or try to. Authority figures still referred to her as Alison Báthory despite her insistences otherwise, though her peers took to it much better. Not that they used or even paid much attention to last names anyway, outside of using them for favors or leverage—which Alison refused to do, sticking to her guns about not being part of her family. ...She just decided to cultivate her charm instead, taking a page from her father’s charismatic book.
This began to extend past just skipping class as well as she grew older: it often turned to full days of school, though she kept up with her studies in her off time out of a desire to better herself (and definitely not because her father has stressed an importance on education), and turning to petty crime like shoplifting, trespassing, vandalizing areas, generally being in places she should not be in (particularly abandoned places, with a beau or a group of truants and delinquents she’d decided to hang out with that day), dyeing her hair colors that are absolutely against school rules, and… pretty much any other minor infraction one could think of.
Sneaking out after dark also became a particularly fun past-time, especially to see her boyfriends (frequently changing, in her quest to find someone who interests her the way her mother had had her father—The One, so to say), or to go to an ex’s house to spy on him, provided he’d been the one doing the breaking up. With her forceful, clingy, and borderline obsessive nature about love and dating, the latter became pretty common in her life.
Close calls with getting caught didn’t deter her; it just made it more fun and exciting, and getting caught—and brought back to her father’s house, which she began to spend less time at the older she became—multiplied that, though Ferid’s ever-present delight (thinly veiled under the parental disappointment he would have to show anyone who brought Alison to him) did ruin it a little.
Presently, she’s in her senior year of high school; she’s still up to her rebellious tricks, more out of pride than anything anymore, though she’s looking a little further with the end of her education approaching: starting her own little band of delinquents (or gang, really) to prove to her father that her rebellious stage isn’t anything like his. It’s here to stay, and it’s here to get a hell of a lot bigger—and more dangerous.
Something she’s actually found she really likes the sound of.
AU PERSONALITY: There's not a lot changed on the surface; she's still pretty much a thrillseeker, she's still in love with love, she's still every bit of driven, dedicated, my-way-or-the-highway, flippant, and cheerful as she ever is. Dig a little deeper, though, and there's still changes thanks to her circumstances.
First and foremost is feelings. Feelings other than "mad" and "happy" at least—being human's given her a lot of different life experiences and a much shorter lifespan (as Beyondians generally seem to have a longer one, or at least she and her other King friends were implied to have, either normally or lengthened bymagic science), so things like "being sad" and "regret" and having some remorse over her actions, as well as giving some thought to other people's feelings (not that she always follows through on respecting them, but the point is she actually thinks about them) are things she's come to have by being human. Society typically hopes you have some regard for others, and even with her father being who he is (petty and flippant), that's something she's learned.
She's also less violent when she does get angry—she'll still yell and things like that, but it's going to take more for her to actually throw a punch or something like that. Being raised in a wealthy family and as a proper lady, she was taught that you've more or less lost an argument when the fists come out. That doesn't really stop her from cheering on other fights, but it definitely stops her from actually starting any; watching other people be stupid is more fun than being the stupid one, after all.
Because her rebellious thing is more or less a phase, it's not something she's particularly attached to, unlike in canon—she does love bad boys, but it's genuinely become less of a requirement as she's gotten older and she's started to mature out of being a tryhard rebel-type of girl. Them being hot isn't as big of a thing anymore either; she'd prefer them pretty, frankly, that's what she loves, but she's not so shallow in AU that she'll completely turn her nose up at someone who isn't drop-dead gorgeous if she has a thing for them. ...She is also significantly more likely to not flat-out try and Frankenstein two people together or date two people at the same time in Recollé; she's more likely to just figure it out on her own or ask some friends for advice and make a decision like that.
seventhprogenitor!)Born into a relatively well-off family in Recollé, Alison Báthory spent most of her early years in pampered comfort and not knowing her mother at all—just the gentle smiles and warm voices of, at first, caretakers her father had hired to look after her while he was still a student, and later on Ferid himself, in all his incredibly doting glory. With his wishes for her to having a more normal education than he had, she was enrolled in public schooling and remained there—though that’s also where she began her more rebellious streak. After all, the boys she crushed on and the people in general she hung out with tended to skip class and denounce their parents and things like that; why shouldn’t she?
It wasn’t exactly peer pressure that ignited it—it was more that she was encouraged and inspired to be a rebellious little shit because of her friends and other relations, and she found it incredibly fun... and good for finding boys who fit her type: bad, but sweet. To further distance herself from her father and the rest of the family, who honestly are general sticks in the mud (outside of a few distant members her father favors above the rest), she decided to forsake her family name and go by her rather pretentious but charming middle instead: Montague.
Or try to. Authority figures still referred to her as Alison Báthory despite her insistences otherwise, though her peers took to it much better. Not that they used or even paid much attention to last names anyway, outside of using them for favors or leverage—which Alison refused to do, sticking to her guns about not being part of her family. ...She just decided to cultivate her charm instead, taking a page from her father’s charismatic book.
This began to extend past just skipping class as well as she grew older: it often turned to full days of school, though she kept up with her studies in her off time out of a desire to better herself (and definitely not because her father has stressed an importance on education), and turning to petty crime like shoplifting, trespassing, vandalizing areas, generally being in places she should not be in (particularly abandoned places, with a beau or a group of truants and delinquents she’d decided to hang out with that day), dyeing her hair colors that are absolutely against school rules, and… pretty much any other minor infraction one could think of.
Sneaking out after dark also became a particularly fun past-time, especially to see her boyfriends (frequently changing, in her quest to find someone who interests her the way her mother had had her father—The One, so to say), or to go to an ex’s house to spy on him, provided he’d been the one doing the breaking up. With her forceful, clingy, and borderline obsessive nature about love and dating, the latter became pretty common in her life.
Close calls with getting caught didn’t deter her; it just made it more fun and exciting, and getting caught—and brought back to her father’s house, which she began to spend less time at the older she became—multiplied that, though Ferid’s ever-present delight (thinly veiled under the parental disappointment he would have to show anyone who brought Alison to him) did ruin it a little.
Presently, she’s in her senior year of high school; she’s still up to her rebellious tricks, more out of pride than anything anymore, though she’s looking a little further with the end of her education approaching: starting her own little band of delinquents (or gang, really) to prove to her father that her rebellious stage isn’t anything like his. It’s here to stay, and it’s here to get a hell of a lot bigger—and more dangerous.
Something she’s actually found she really likes the sound of.
AU PERSONALITY: There's not a lot changed on the surface; she's still pretty much a thrillseeker, she's still in love with love, she's still every bit of driven, dedicated, my-way-or-the-highway, flippant, and cheerful as she ever is. Dig a little deeper, though, and there's still changes thanks to her circumstances.
First and foremost is feelings. Feelings other than "mad" and "happy" at least—being human's given her a lot of different life experiences and a much shorter lifespan (as Beyondians generally seem to have a longer one, or at least she and her other King friends were implied to have, either normally or lengthened by
She's also less violent when she does get angry—she'll still yell and things like that, but it's going to take more for her to actually throw a punch or something like that. Being raised in a wealthy family and as a proper lady, she was taught that you've more or less lost an argument when the fists come out. That doesn't really stop her from cheering on other fights, but it definitely stops her from actually starting any; watching other people be stupid is more fun than being the stupid one, after all.
Because her rebellious thing is more or less a phase, it's not something she's particularly attached to, unlike in canon—she does love bad boys, but it's genuinely become less of a requirement as she's gotten older and she's started to mature out of being a tryhard rebel-type of girl. Them being hot isn't as big of a thing anymore either; she'd prefer them pretty, frankly, that's what she loves, but she's not so shallow in AU that she'll completely turn her nose up at someone who isn't drop-dead gorgeous if she has a thing for them. ...She is also significantly more likely to not flat-out try and Frankenstein two people together or date two people at the same time in Recollé; she's more likely to just figure it out on her own or ask some friends for advice and make a decision like that.