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Nov. 23rd, 2017 04:15 am[OOC]
Backtagging: It's all cool!
Threadhopping: As long as it's not a private thread.
Fourthwalling: Ivy will be VERY CONFUSED if you do.
Offensive subjects: I can deal with them much better than Ivy. Still give me a head's up if you're going there, okay?
[IC]
Hugging this character: Sure.
Kissing this character: Sure.
Flirting with this character: Yes, it's all good.
Fighting with this character: Yes, but she sucks at fighting.
Injuring this character: You can but FAINTING AND HISTRONICS may happen as a result.
Killing this character: WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT. NO GUARANTEES.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Her mind is a fluffy place full of hats.
Backtagging: It's all cool!
Threadhopping: As long as it's not a private thread.
Fourthwalling: Ivy will be VERY CONFUSED if you do.
Offensive subjects: I can deal with them much better than Ivy. Still give me a head's up if you're going there, okay?
[IC]
Hugging this character: Sure.
Kissing this character: Sure.
Flirting with this character: Yes, it's all good.
Fighting with this character: Yes, but she sucks at fighting.
Injuring this character: You can but FAINTING AND HISTRONICS may happen as a result.
Killing this character: WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT. NO GUARANTEES.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Her mind is a fluffy place full of hats.
MONAD.EXE APP
Nov. 23rd, 2014 04:32 amOOC Information
IC Information
IC Information
Name: Ivy Hisselpenny Tunstell
Canon: The Parasol Protectorate
Gender: Lady
Age: Somewhere in her late twenties.
History: So I'm going to be a scrub and reuse my history and personality sections from the one time I played Ivy before. I'd say I'm sorry but actually I'm not.
Ivy Hisselpenny was born in the mid-1800s to a family which was just wealthy enough to be a part of polite society and was just pretty enough to enjoy it, but she wasn't quite wealthy or beautiful enough to have anything but the most middling prospects in it. It wasn't surprising, then, that years after her coming out ball she was still unmarried. Her addiction to absolutely ridiculous hats probably didn't help things.
Luckily, Ivy's best friend was even more spinster material than she was: Miss Alexia Tarabotti, half-Italian and all preternatural. Or, in simpler terms, soulless. Preternaturals are nature's answer to vampires, ghosts, and werewolves. Their touch negates the supernatural condition, turning them mortal as long as they are in contact with the preternatural. Alexia was fairly certain no one outside the government and the supernatural set knew what she was, not even Ivy. (Ivy actually did know, she was just being too polite to mention it.)
Anyhow, after a series of adventures, Ivy's best friend ends up marrying a werewolf and not just any werewolf but Lord Maccon, Alpha of the Woolsey Pack. It's at Alexia's wedding that Ivy ends up meeting an actor named Ormond Tunstell, Lord Maccon's redheaded clavinger and sometimes valet. (A clavinger is a person who assists a werewolf in hopes that the werewolf will later change them, granting them eternal life.) It was love at first sight! The only problem, of course, was that Tunstell was completely unsuitable.
A military man named Captain Featherstonehaugh proposes to Ivy a few months after Alexia's wedding and although she doesn't love him, Ivy accepts because she knows that she has very few prospects left. However, Alexia calls upon Ivy to join her on a dirigible trip to Scotland to investigate what seems to be an anti-supernatural weapon and Ivy is repeatedly thrust into Tunstell's company again. They elope at the end of the affair, shortly before Lord Maccon abandons Alexia, believing that she was unfaithful to him due to the fact that she's somehow become pregnant despite being married to a werewolf. (Spoilers: it really was Lord Maccon's baby.)
Meanwhile, Ivy is just getting settled into married life and Tunstell is getting used to live as being just an actor and not a clavinger on top of it all. Alexia ends up running off to Europe with inventor and milliner Madame Lefoux (since there are mysterious parties trying to kill her) and Ivy ends up running Mme Lefoux's hat shop in her absence. She invents a new kind of headpiece for dirigible travel called hairmuffs, which are a short-term sensation in London.
Eventually both Alexia and Madame Lefoux arrive back in Britain, although not together. Alexia by then has reconciled with her husband and has also found out why people (read: vampires) were trying to kill her. It turns out when a supernatural and a preternatural breed the result is a child who not only cancels out the supernatural with their touch but also can steal their powers for the rest of the night. A “metanatural” if you will. Shortly before she's due to give birth, Alexia inducts Ivy into a secret society of her own devising—the Parasol Protectorate—and sends Ivy to Scotland again to do some investigative work.
(Ivy by now has just gotten pregnant and along with Tunstell is about to start her own acting troupe, with Alexia promised to sponsor the troupe in exchange for Ivy's involvement in the Parasol Protectorate.)
Ivy returns from Scotland and she and Tunstell start up their troupe. She also ends up having twins, a boy and a girl who she names Percival and Primrose. Alexia's own child is a daughter named Prudence, who ends up being formally adopted by Alexia's vampire friend Lord Akeldama in order to stop all the vampires from trying to kill Alexia. And eventually the vampires in Egypt hear about Prudence and about two or three years after her birth send summons to Alexia to bring her there to meet the oldest living vampire, Queen Matahara.
But of course this isn't something you can just do openly, so they devise a scheme for the trip wherein the Egyptian vampires invite the Tunstell's acting troupe for a command performance of their latest masterpiece, The Death Rains of Swansea, and Alexia tags along with her husband and daughter in the capacity of the troupe's patroness. Once they reach Egypt, the command performance turns out to be a hit.
And then the next day Ivy's daughter is kidnapped.
Alexia and family embark on a wild goose chase up the Nile to get Primrose back while Ivy and Tunstell wait and worry, but it's not until ten days later when Alexia returns that the kidnappers attempt to contact them. They ask for Alexia to meet them alone and she does, not really caring if she survives the meeting as she believes she saw her husband die. It turns out that when Primrose was kidnapped they were really trying to grab Prudence, because Queen Matahara really wanted to die and with the baby it could be done quietly, so that the other vampires of her hive wouldn't freak the fuck out when they become queenless.
But if they have the wrong baby then they'll just use Alexia to turn her mortal again and let the vampires freak out and probably kill her.
Luckily Madame Lefoux figures out what the hell is going on and brings the cavalry. Including, naturally, Ivy. (Also Lord Maccon who wasn't dead after all.) There is a big-ass fight with the Egyptian vampire hive and Ivy gets fatally wounded. In canon this would be when she gets vamperized and becomes the new vampire queen of the Egyptian hive, but for Monad purposes we'll just say it counts as dying anyway, okay? Okay!
Personality: vy Hisselpenny, to put it quite frankly, was a very silly woman. Of course, she was from a time when women were somewhat encouraged to silly but it must be admitted that Ivy took it to a certain ridiculous extreme. If you were to meet her in her maiden days you would have been left with the impression of a good-natured but essentially frivolous young woman with a fairly conventional worldview and an excruciating taste in hats. And this impression would not have been completely false. But that's not all that Ivy is.
To quote the woman herself, just because she's silly doesn't mean she's stupid. She was observant enough to figure out that her best friend was soulless long before Alexia thought to tell her and circumspect enough to keep that knowledge a secret from everyone. Not bad for someone whose hobbies include gossip. She's actually surprisingly good at intelligence work—if Mademoiselle Geraldine's hadn't been implied to have been shut down about twenty years previous to the Parasol Protectorate books, she'd have made a decent covert recruit. She's pretty darn adaptable too, having gone from being a sheltered gentlewoman to an actressto a vampire queen with no real ill-effects. Of course, Ivy's perfectly happy to let people underestimate her.
What else? She's dramatic. Ivy can make a big production out of anything. She was dramatic enough back when she was on the marriage market and then she eloped with Tunstell and became an actress and she only got worse. She has a tendency to mistake words and malaprop, which ties into her silliness. She's loyal to a fault, fairly non-judgemental, and she tends to follow her heart more than her head.
Powers/Abilities: Sadly, Ivy does not get any supernatural abilities in Monad, because she died instead of vampired. However, she does have a flair for the dramatics, the ability to memorize long scripts quite easily, and an excellent taste in hats, by which I mean GAUDY AS FUCK. This also extends to the rest of her wardrobe. Enjoy.
Keepsakes/Mementos: Hairmuffs. Lots of gaudy as fuck hats. Scripts and costumes for the Death Rains of Swansea. Gaudy clothing. Did I mention the gaudy hats? At least one should be a puff bonnet (for her secret agent name) and there should probably be the yellow and black one from Le Chapeau Poupe.
Sample: (500 word minimum) Please detail how your character has met their end in third person prose format. This section will be considered game canon, and is how the system will record your character's death.
Mindset: Ivy is very confused. This isn't heaven! Is it heaven? Oh dear. She will wander forlorn for a while but then she'll try to make the best out of it.
G̶̶l̨͡i̵͢t̷c͝͠h̕é͠s̷̷͡: What are some elements about your character's life, surroundings, or psyche that frighten or disturb them? Or what are some particular weaknesses or insecurities that they have? This is the part where you provide possible avenues for us to give you character-specific glitches, especially for those characters where the mods are canon-blind.
Canon: The Parasol Protectorate
Gender: Lady
Age: Somewhere in her late twenties.
History: So I'm going to be a scrub and reuse my history and personality sections from the one time I played Ivy before. I'd say I'm sorry but actually I'm not.
Ivy Hisselpenny was born in the mid-1800s to a family which was just wealthy enough to be a part of polite society and was just pretty enough to enjoy it, but she wasn't quite wealthy or beautiful enough to have anything but the most middling prospects in it. It wasn't surprising, then, that years after her coming out ball she was still unmarried. Her addiction to absolutely ridiculous hats probably didn't help things.
Luckily, Ivy's best friend was even more spinster material than she was: Miss Alexia Tarabotti, half-Italian and all preternatural. Or, in simpler terms, soulless. Preternaturals are nature's answer to vampires, ghosts, and werewolves. Their touch negates the supernatural condition, turning them mortal as long as they are in contact with the preternatural. Alexia was fairly certain no one outside the government and the supernatural set knew what she was, not even Ivy. (Ivy actually did know, she was just being too polite to mention it.)
Anyhow, after a series of adventures, Ivy's best friend ends up marrying a werewolf and not just any werewolf but Lord Maccon, Alpha of the Woolsey Pack. It's at Alexia's wedding that Ivy ends up meeting an actor named Ormond Tunstell, Lord Maccon's redheaded clavinger and sometimes valet. (A clavinger is a person who assists a werewolf in hopes that the werewolf will later change them, granting them eternal life.) It was love at first sight! The only problem, of course, was that Tunstell was completely unsuitable.
A military man named Captain Featherstonehaugh proposes to Ivy a few months after Alexia's wedding and although she doesn't love him, Ivy accepts because she knows that she has very few prospects left. However, Alexia calls upon Ivy to join her on a dirigible trip to Scotland to investigate what seems to be an anti-supernatural weapon and Ivy is repeatedly thrust into Tunstell's company again. They elope at the end of the affair, shortly before Lord Maccon abandons Alexia, believing that she was unfaithful to him due to the fact that she's somehow become pregnant despite being married to a werewolf. (Spoilers: it really was Lord Maccon's baby.)
Meanwhile, Ivy is just getting settled into married life and Tunstell is getting used to live as being just an actor and not a clavinger on top of it all. Alexia ends up running off to Europe with inventor and milliner Madame Lefoux (since there are mysterious parties trying to kill her) and Ivy ends up running Mme Lefoux's hat shop in her absence. She invents a new kind of headpiece for dirigible travel called hairmuffs, which are a short-term sensation in London.
Eventually both Alexia and Madame Lefoux arrive back in Britain, although not together. Alexia by then has reconciled with her husband and has also found out why people (read: vampires) were trying to kill her. It turns out when a supernatural and a preternatural breed the result is a child who not only cancels out the supernatural with their touch but also can steal their powers for the rest of the night. A “metanatural” if you will. Shortly before she's due to give birth, Alexia inducts Ivy into a secret society of her own devising—the Parasol Protectorate—and sends Ivy to Scotland again to do some investigative work.
(Ivy by now has just gotten pregnant and along with Tunstell is about to start her own acting troupe, with Alexia promised to sponsor the troupe in exchange for Ivy's involvement in the Parasol Protectorate.)
Ivy returns from Scotland and she and Tunstell start up their troupe. She also ends up having twins, a boy and a girl who she names Percival and Primrose. Alexia's own child is a daughter named Prudence, who ends up being formally adopted by Alexia's vampire friend Lord Akeldama in order to stop all the vampires from trying to kill Alexia. And eventually the vampires in Egypt hear about Prudence and about two or three years after her birth send summons to Alexia to bring her there to meet the oldest living vampire, Queen Matahara.
But of course this isn't something you can just do openly, so they devise a scheme for the trip wherein the Egyptian vampires invite the Tunstell's acting troupe for a command performance of their latest masterpiece, The Death Rains of Swansea, and Alexia tags along with her husband and daughter in the capacity of the troupe's patroness. Once they reach Egypt, the command performance turns out to be a hit.
And then the next day Ivy's daughter is kidnapped.
Alexia and family embark on a wild goose chase up the Nile to get Primrose back while Ivy and Tunstell wait and worry, but it's not until ten days later when Alexia returns that the kidnappers attempt to contact them. They ask for Alexia to meet them alone and she does, not really caring if she survives the meeting as she believes she saw her husband die. It turns out that when Primrose was kidnapped they were really trying to grab Prudence, because Queen Matahara really wanted to die and with the baby it could be done quietly, so that the other vampires of her hive wouldn't freak the fuck out when they become queenless.
But if they have the wrong baby then they'll just use Alexia to turn her mortal again and let the vampires freak out and probably kill her.
Luckily Madame Lefoux figures out what the hell is going on and brings the cavalry. Including, naturally, Ivy. (Also Lord Maccon who wasn't dead after all.) There is a big-ass fight with the Egyptian vampire hive and Ivy gets fatally wounded. In canon this would be when she gets vamperized and becomes the new vampire queen of the Egyptian hive, but for Monad purposes we'll just say it counts as dying anyway, okay? Okay!
Personality: vy Hisselpenny, to put it quite frankly, was a very silly woman. Of course, she was from a time when women were somewhat encouraged to silly but it must be admitted that Ivy took it to a certain ridiculous extreme. If you were to meet her in her maiden days you would have been left with the impression of a good-natured but essentially frivolous young woman with a fairly conventional worldview and an excruciating taste in hats. And this impression would not have been completely false. But that's not all that Ivy is.
To quote the woman herself, just because she's silly doesn't mean she's stupid. She was observant enough to figure out that her best friend was soulless long before Alexia thought to tell her and circumspect enough to keep that knowledge a secret from everyone. Not bad for someone whose hobbies include gossip. She's actually surprisingly good at intelligence work—if Mademoiselle Geraldine's hadn't been implied to have been shut down about twenty years previous to the Parasol Protectorate books, she'd have made a decent covert recruit. She's pretty darn adaptable too, having gone from being a sheltered gentlewoman to an actress
What else? She's dramatic. Ivy can make a big production out of anything. She was dramatic enough back when she was on the marriage market and then she eloped with Tunstell and became an actress and she only got worse. She has a tendency to mistake words and malaprop, which ties into her silliness. She's loyal to a fault, fairly non-judgemental, and she tends to follow her heart more than her head.
Powers/Abilities: Sadly, Ivy does not get any supernatural abilities in Monad, because she died instead of vampired. However, she does have a flair for the dramatics, the ability to memorize long scripts quite easily, and an excellent taste in hats, by which I mean GAUDY AS FUCK. This also extends to the rest of her wardrobe. Enjoy.
Keepsakes/Mementos: Hairmuffs. Lots of gaudy as fuck hats. Scripts and costumes for the Death Rains of Swansea. Gaudy clothing. Did I mention the gaudy hats? At least one should be a puff bonnet (for her secret agent name) and there should probably be the yellow and black one from Le Chapeau Poupe.
Sample: (500 word minimum) Please detail how your character has met their end in third person prose format. This section will be considered game canon, and is how the system will record your character's death.
Mindset: Ivy is very confused. This isn't heaven! Is it heaven? Oh dear. She will wander forlorn for a while but then she'll try to make the best out of it.
G̶̶l̨͡i̵͢t̷c͝͠h̕é͠s̷̷͡: What are some elements about your character's life, surroundings, or psyche that frighten or disturb them? Or what are some particular weaknesses or insecurities that they have? This is the part where you provide possible avenues for us to give you character-specific glitches, especially for those characters where the mods are canon-blind.
