Deadly Belladonna (madargon) wrote in lv426, @ 2012-07-08 23:53:00 |
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Entry tags: | archive: application, character: original |
Game: Idris Academy
basic information
Name: Fiona Leanan Maire (Byrne) mac Patrick-Sarrasin
Nicknames: Lea, her friends sometimes call her Lea Sídhe or simply Sídhe after the Celtic Fairy Mistress with whom she shares her name.
Sex: Female
Age: 303 human years; 15 human years
Birthday: May 5th
IC IM: coffeecake
Nationality: Irish
Sexuality: Bisexual
Year: 5th
House: Araboth
Type: Faie
Special Ability: N/A
Electives: Astrology and Divination and Magical Disguises
Campus Activities: Student Government (senator), Dance Company, Book Club.
appearance
PB: Willa Holland
Height: 5'7"
Build: Lean
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Light brown
Leanan has a healthy look about her even if she is a bit on the thin side, a pretty round face with large expressive, green eyes, long light hair and a naturally charming smile. She has the faie bloods inherent good looks and is rather thankful for that as it seems to lend more to her charm than her actual personality does, which actually can be rather straining at times. Having always been paired with the fact that she is very active in her everyday life, dance being a lifelong passion for her, has sculpted her body into a lithe and very well toned one. Further more she had the absolute pleasure of growing up under the time where corsets and other rather uncomfortable clothing choices were grand and in, which paired with her dancing has given her a good and strong posture.
She takes care of her looks and rarely ever leaves her room without make up on, even if it's just something as simple as mascara and a slightly shaded lip gloss. She gets up half an hour early every morning just to make sure she's got enough time to make herself ready to face the day. Being as caring as she is about her appearance means she's developed a rather keen fashion sense and is completely willing to sit through a little bit of pain if it will happen to mean she'll look stunning. All the years barely being able to breath has given her a rather high threshold for wardrobe discomfort. Though, this is not saying she always dresses as fashionably as possible, she likes her slim jeans and over sized t-shirts just as well as everyone else but she does always accessorize fashionably in some manner. Maybe a cute little Bolero jacket and a pair of matching shoes to go with the jeans and t-shirt.
The only ones ever to see her dress down (and skimp on the makeup) have been her room mates as she tends to wander around the room in mens boxers and well worn shirts when she decides not to leave the room, at all, for the day or so.
personality
Strengths: Independent, curious, strong willed, accepting.
Weaknesses: Blunt, forgetful, attention-seeking, detached, aloof, two-faced.
Weird Quirks:
* Doesn't really like electronics as a whole
* Burns candles rather than turning on lights, because "they make a more comfortable light source".
* Tends to stare people in the eyes when she speaks with them.
* Refuses to eat root-vegetables and as far as meat goes, only eats beef or sheep/mutton.
Secrets
* Lost her virginity to her brother.
* Has never been in love. Has loved people and has had crushes but never actually been in love.
* Is having issues adapting to life among the faie.
* Is a brilliant baker and made a living off of this for a good couple of years.
* Has kept diaries since she was old enough to write.
* Is a romantic at heart.
* Despite her age has never lived among or in her own "world" for more than the last 75 (human) years and is blatantly ignorant about anything that isn't faie as her father never saw the importance of including that.
Likes: Ballet, classical music, baking, creating things with her hands, reading, calligraphy, french wine, ink, candles, meringues.
Dislikes: Holier than thou-people, being told what to do, the blunt disregard people today have for books, beer, chicken, pork, fish.
Lea is, perhaps due to her age, rather detached from life. For while she was allowed close contact and being around people, as her mother kept her close enough to see the life of others but far away so she would not get overly hurt by seeing how life affected those who weren't like her. And being as emotional as she was in her younger years it has caused her to become something of a recluse with her emotions. While being involved and engaged she's still not really wholeheartedly there, in anything. So while she can understand other peoples feelings she doesn't get the emotional connection and this makes it hard for her to understand the emotional reasoning's and decisions that some people make.
She's well aware that she has missed out on a lot thanks to her emotional detachment and thanks to this she is a resentful person, especially towards those that seem happy and have an easy time enjoying life and finding partners for anything that lasts more than half a night. Despite her dislike for people who have this, the one thing she can't have, she accepts that this might be her lot in life. It's not met with whining, or sulking, or hissy-fits. It is just one of those things that are and those are very rarely changeable so she does the best of it, which usually is to ignore it and think of something else instead. This makes her come off as somewhat dreamy or aloof as she more often than not seems to just zone out.
Lea's a tough cookie and a survivor through and through. She gets by, it doesn't matter what happens, she will make it even if she has to fight tooth and nail to do so. She's managed before and stayed for her own among socialites in London so she feels that she can pretty much manage anything. This gives her an air of fearless, but she's not fearless, far from it. It is simply that she's learned first hand that fear can be bested as long as you dare to try. She has a good grasp on what she's good and bad at and very rarely breaks new ground as she's comfortable where she's currently at (and honestly sightly terrified of the world that she "belongs" in).
history
Family Residence: Galway City, Ireland (Bangor, Maine, US).
Languages: Irish/Gaelic, British, French.
Father: Patrick Lóegaire, Faie
Mother: Renate Sarrasin, half-faie
Siblings: Domnall mac Patrick (Deceased), Suibhne mac Patrick and Muiris mac Patrick.
Other Family: N/A
Patrick Lóegaire was a desecendent of Lóegaire mac Néill, the son of Niall of the Nine Hostages and of royal blood. Renate Sarrasin was a commoner, a half-faie of a french bloodline that had left France after the start of the first of the French Wars of Religion. She'd retreated to Ireland in search of another life and had there met Patrick Lóegaire, who had swept her of her feet and in the spring of 1707 Lea was born. She was the first and only daughter of Lóegaire who came to dissociate himself from them when he learned of Renate's mixed blood. Leanan therefor grew up without her father in the picture. After the start of the French invasion of 1708 Renate took Lea and left Ireland, moving her small family back to her own childhood home outside of Lyon, France. This would be the place that Lea would experience her first's of nearly everything.
The night before she turned ten, her mother sat her down and told her of what, and who she was and what this would come to mean for her. It can be argued that perhaps this was not the wisest burden to put on a child of that age but with most of the people around them being just normal humans Renate had thought it vital that the young girl should know, and hoped it would serve as an incentive to keep her from growing too attached to the children in the small town where they lived. This was however uttered too late and to deaf ears as Lea had already grown too attached to her friends. This never caused any issues until her human friends reached puberty and the never-changing Lea was pushed aside by most of them.
Out of the children that Lea grew up with, there was only one, a boy named Sean that didn't seem to bothered by her barely changing looks. Just short of Lea's human 20th birthday Renate figured it time they moved and it was with great sorrow that Leanan left her friend. She still kept in touch, they both did, writing letters over the following years. While unable to be there in person, Lea was there through all the important periods of her friend's life and when he died she attended his funeral causing many people to question the young girl that seemed so strangely attached to the old man. But it was reasoned that perhaps she was his granddaughter or something of the sort.
It was this, Sean's death nearly a decade after shed met him, that made her realize just what her mother had been saying and the implications of it. She had turned twelve (faie age) when the French Revolution shook France and Renate and Lea packed their bags and left for England. They settled down outside of London in a large mansion and came to live a good life of moderate luxury and status.
It was in 1845 with the inauguration of the Queen's University of Ireland that Lea for the first time met another member of her family. Her brother, Domnall mac Patrick, had caught her fancy during the party following the inauguration and while not being older than 13, she was already a striking young woman. The pair had a lovely evening and came to share a passionate night following it. It seemed like everything was indeed great, and it might have stayed so if Leanan hadn't introduced Domnall mac Patrick to her mother. It didn't take long for Renate after hearing the name to know who the man was and she instantly forbid the pair from meeting again, taking Lea by the arm they left not just Ireland but also London, heading west for the New Country.
They settled down in New York and it wasn't until many years later that Renate finally spoke of what had prompted the move and maybe to some part Leanan still hasn't completely gotten over the fact that there was so much her mother had hidden from her. When Lea turned 14, she had had enough and one night she gathered up her most prized possessions and enough money to get her a ticket on a boat and left. It was the winter of 1926 when Lea returned to London and while still having the face and body of a very young girl she carried herself with a regal elegance, and with a name and the title of an Irish Countess no one questioned her even if the gossip spread like wild fire about the new young girl making an up and commence in society.
With making such a splash it soon became impossible for her to stay in London as the people around her would not be slow to notice her never changing appearance and youth, and perhaps out of curiosity, perhaps out of hope that she could once against meet Domnall mac Patrick, she steered her steps towards Galway. It was a small town and she managed fairly well, but without a family to support her and with no husband and absolutely NO intention of whoring herself out Lea soon found herself without much option other than to try and track down her father. It wasn't hard but then again it wasn't an easy task either. The only thing she knew was his name and the name of one of her brothers.
It was far from a happy reunion when she finally managed. But he, abet slightly reluctantly, decided to take Lea in and give her a home in his court. It was here that she learned that the brother she had met so many years ago had died in the Great War, that she had two other, also older, brothers and just what was to be expected of her from now on. A public life among the commons wasn't even to think about and to be ushered into the society of the Faie wasn't something that was high on her father's agenda. Instead Lea spent her time in the vast libraries, cultivating her interest for books and dancing as the world slowly moved on around her.
Leanan made herself scarce, while he had given her a place to live, she didn't like her father and preferred to stay out of his way. Something he never once objected to and when one day she got her invite to Idris it was pointedly denied. There was no speaking of her ever attending school and especially not under his name, though this did not sit right with Lea who opposed and it lead to a rather tense discussion but after a good long while and more than one discussion that ended on a more than happy note it was decided that the following year she would attend Idris but only and only by using the name she'd taken on when she'd returned to the British isles; Byrne.