Post by Flick Arden on Jul 25, 2009 1:50:30 GMT
the roleplayer
NAME: Beelzebub
CONTACT: PM
GENDER: ;D
AGE: ;o
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: D:
OTHER CHARACTERS: jack, frankie, carmen, joss
HOW YOU FOUND US: buried in a coffin.
Adria Felicity Arden
NAME: Beelzebub
CONTACT: PM
GENDER: ;D
AGE: ;o
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: D:
OTHER CHARACTERS: jack, frankie, carmen, joss
HOW YOU FOUND US: buried in a coffin.
Adria Felicity Arden
character basics
NICKNAMES: Flick. Sometimes people call her Adria and even more rarely, people call her Felicity, but she really prefers Flick.
AGE: 23
GROUP: Staff
BIRTHDAY: October 20
OCCUPATION Librarian
GENDER: Female
PLAY-BY: Olivia Thirlbyappearance
Flick's mindset is that she looks like a fifteen year old girl. This is, of course, untrue, though she doesn't look quite as old as other twenty-three year olds. For one, she isn't very tall at all. At her highest, without any sort of help from shoes, she stands at five foot four. She's not very thick, either. In general, she's sort of willowy and her tendency to stay indoors rather than exercise and such outdoors has left her a little bit on the flimsy side. She's not very quick at moving places; unless she has a specific destination on her bookshelves, in which case, she is a champion flitter.
Added to that, Flick doesn't really have much of a fashion sense, either. She tends to wear things that she likes, whether they match or not, which makes her sort of look like one of those antique homes--a lot of adorable things that don't really match, but when tossed into a big pile, they somehow fit together. She's also not particularly good at shoes, so she usually wears the same ratty boots all the time. She also has low-perscription glasses, which she keeps around her all the time just in case she ever needs to see from afar.
Behind the thick glasses, her eyes are a woodsy sort of hazel and they always just look sort of dreamy. Her lashes are fairly long, too, which make it easier to flutter when she zones out and it does happen frequently. Her hair is pretty long, since she's far too scatterbrained to remember to get haircuts, and whether she has it up or down or braided is really up to her current level of distraction or how much fun she had in the dream world the previous night. It's sort of a hazy brown color, though, and complements her eyes nicely.personality
Flick has always been on the rather eccentric side. She wouldn't call herself weird, per se [although, some might], but she is definitely not quite as...ah...there as everyone else. Oh, yes, all of the pieces of her mind are quite well put together and she is sane, thank you very much, but she's not exactly normal, and even she can see that. Her lack of normality probably stems most from the fact that she has a very hard time paying attention to things. She often gets sidetracked by her own thoughts and that tends to leave her looking spacey and oblivious. Despite her tendency to accidentally ignore them, she does find people extremely interesting and can often be found aimlessly observing them. She wouldn't exactly call it stalking since she doesn't find herself creepy, but it does border a bit on profiling. Not that it's for any weird illicit purposes, no, but Flick is very into "character studies." Being a literature buff, she has a fascination with stories and characters, even in real life. She loves to see what people do, what their habits are, what they're like. She's very likely to start up arbitrary conversations on seemingly pointless things just to see what she can glean from them.
With her fascination with stories and literatures, Flick has knack for writing and storytelling. Whether it be to a group of awestruck children or a gaggle of stuffy adults [though Flick always prefers the children], she has the ability to captivate any audience. Unfortunately, she's a little bit shy, so audience-captivation comes a little harder for her than it should. But were she to be convinced to tell a good story, she would probably get into it enough to do the captivation. She loves words and writing and stories and, even when she's not telling one, she tends to babble. Conversations with Flick are quite easy to hold on to, considering her tendency to always have something to say about everything, be it perfectly understandable to those around her or simply to herself. Either way, though generally shy, she is not particularly quiet once she gets going.
Unfortunately, Flick is easily distractable. Just like she gets distracted from daily tasks by daydreams, she frequently gets distracted midsentence by them as well. Her imagination is stuck in the stages of childhood, so it hits her almost constantly and anything around can spark it. Since she spends so much time in the library, she is often distracted by the mere sight of one of her favorite books [or even a book she didn't particularly enjoy]. And people reading, man. That really revs her talkative engine. But, alas, each up has its down and, while Flick wouldn't trade her imagination in for anything, it does have a few failures to it. For instance, just like a child, she is afraid of things like monsters and demons and ghouls [which, actually, is probably a fairly well-validated fear, what with the existence of the dream world and all] and has that child-like sense of paranoia that drives a five year old to sleep with her parents on some nights. That's not to say, however, that she doesn't fear real things--like heights or bugs or being murdered in her sleep--but for some reason, the fantastic is what terrifies her most.
Despite her fanciful nature, Flick is extremely smart. She only attended college long enough to get her AA degree before dropping out and returning to her beloved school, which some people think is a sign of a lack of intelligence, but in Flick's case, it is just the opposite. She had never been very good at paying attention or staying on top when she did things like homework and schoolwork, so college was quite difficult for her. But with her love of reading, she absorbed textbooks faster than most students and she has a knack for remembering almost everything she's read. And, for the most part, she has worked her way through the entire library at Somnium. As such, she is a veritable treasury of arbitrary trivia and information that could very well be useful and could probably teach any number of the professor's subjects just as well as they could.family & history
FATHER: George Arden; deceased
MOTHER: Felicia Arden; deceased
SIBLINGS: none
OTHER FAMILY: Hilda Arden; Grandmother; 75
HISTORY:
Originally, Flick's name should have been Adria Jane Arden, as had been planned by her parents since they'd gotten married. Felicia had always loved the name Adria and George was quite fond of the name Jane, so that was a perfect for the both of them. Unfortunately, complications arose and Felicia fell sick. It was all the doctors could do to deliver the baby before she died. George was devastated at the loss of his wife just as their beautiful baby girl was born and so, instead of her middle name being Jane, he decided on Felicity in rememberance of his beloved Felicia.
As his baby girl grew older, her curious nature soon relieved her of the name "Adria" and replaced it with the more cutesy nickname, Flick, to all except her father. She was always more of a Felicity than Adria anyway, despite George's desire to keep his wife's favorite name alive. He always called her Adria.
It was these sorts of habits of George's that, from the beginning, made Flick's grandmother think it was best for the three of them to live together. George's father had been dead for years, so she lived alone, and she wasn't certain that george could handle childrearing on his own, so she moved in with him and Flick when she was two months old. It was she, in fact, who started with the nicknames and she, too, who would make sure the child was given attention when George had his bouts of depression over his lost wife.
Hilda was always one for fairy tales and, as soon as Flick was old enough to understand, she began telling them. So now, instead of stories about hungry caterpillars and depressed spiders, Flick was getting princesses and magic and far away kingdoms. As any child, Flick loved being in this pretend world and revelled in the glory that really taking in these stories brought into her life. Which was almost a blessing, as the bouts of depression were starting to bring her father out of her life. The more fanciful his child grew, the more he seemed to shut himself in his room and fail to emerge for days, other than to go to work and the more Hilda grew worried.
It probably would have been better for her fanciful nature had George just gone and kicked the bucket when she was younger. Instead, he held onto his depression, wasting away while Flick took more and more stock in her fantasy world, her imagination never stopping even as she matured. By the time she was ten, she was in too deep and that was when her father finally let go. After all the years of suffering, he was finally at peace, and he left his beloved but nonetheless neglected daughter behind with his mother. Hilda had come to terms with the loss of her son long before he actually died and, while she grieved, she knew she had to be there for Flick.
But while Flick loved her grandmother as much as anyone could, she had found refuge elsewhere, in the arms of her stories. Had she been social enough to talk to anyone in school, she probably could have had many friends, but instead, she chose her books and stories which was why, when she went to start highschool, her grandmother decided that it would be a good idea to send her to boarding school. That way, she'd be forced to break out of the comfort zone that was her grandmother's stories and her house and get more acclimated to society.
Unfortunately, what her grandmother could never have realized was that sending Flick to Somnium Academy was no help at all for, once there, she discovered the dream world. And the dream world was everything of Flick's imagination brought to life. In that world, she flourished. She had friends, enemies, romances, everything she could have possibly dreamed of [aha, dreamed of]. When it finally came time to graduate, she was distraught about going home, but go home she did and her grandmother finally allowed that she could go to a college nearby. So, for two years, she remained in her books and with her grandmother, getting her AA degree in literature [which she obviously excelled at] at which point she decided that there was no way she could spend another minute without her beloved dream world.
So somehow, after her dropout, she convinced her grandmother that it was necessary they move to England. So they packed up and Hilda moved to London, which she adores, and Flick now happily resides, for the forseeable future, in Somnium Academy.dream form
Since Flick lives so in the fantasy world of her own, it's only natural that her dream form is a bit on the fantastical side. In the dream world, she appears as a fairy. She has all of her features, but her hair is frought with leaves. Her clothing is always a brown dress and she is always barefoot. Her wings are cream.
