Ms. Noelle Aspara

[Ms. Noelle Aspara]

the roleplayer

NAME: Lena
CONTACT: PM, preferably
GENDER: Senorita
AGE: 19
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: Ooh, I'd say. . .four or five years, cumulatively.
OTHER CHARACTERS: Currently, only this one
HOW YOU FOUND US: I saw your advertisement here.



Ms. Noelle Zita Jordin-Aspara
Show me how pretty the world is, 'cause I envy the way that you move
Show me how pretty the world is, 'cause I want something a little bit louder
All spun awake, I'm twisted in your heart
God, you're always burning up so bright
When there's someone there by your side

character basics

NICKNAMES: Noelle to most people, Nell to her comrades, Ms. Aspara or Mistress Spar to her students.
AGE: 28
GROUP: Somnium Staff
BIRTHDAY: November the First
OCCUPATION History Teacher
GENDER: Female

PLAY-BY: Morena Baccarin

appearance

Noelle is a rather average woman upon first glance; she stands about 5’5 and has a slender build, but her angular Brazilian features, dark eyes, and strong demeanor make her a more powerful figure than she initially seems to be. She keeps her dark, silky hair cropped short and styled very business-like, and she carries herself very professionally, yet with a quiet gracefulness. She is most often found wearing business suits , but rarely, and only during weekends and holidays off campus, can be caught in casual clothing, t-shirts and jeans and the like.

personality

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[/li][li]Teaching
[/li][li]Theater
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[li]Disorder
[/li][li]Slackers
[/li][li]Wasting her time
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For the most part, Noelle is fairly easy going. She enjoys laughing, she loves her work and her students, and she's rarely seen without a smile. Adversely to her mainly tolerant attitude, she is quite particular about everything having a place and everything being in it's place, and all things being where they're supposed to be when they're supposed to be there. She hates it when students show up to class late or skip class altogether, and she is very severe in her discipline for such students. She is also strict about assignments being turned in complete and on time. With as simple as she tries to keep her lesson plans, she doesn't see why any students shouldn't be able to do that much.

Noelle does try to be understanding of the fact that her students are still children, and especially in a school as unusual as Somnium it can be difficult and stressful to find time for everything, so she tries to be as helpful as she can be to her students, and do as much as she can to help them succeed--short of compromising anyone's integrity. While she is strict, and rather OCD about her classroom, she has her reasons for acting the way she does. But then again, doesn't everyone?

One of Noelle's favorite pastimes is going to the Theater; watching musicals and dramas and ballets, she loves it all. If anyone wants to get on her good side, a pair of tickets to a show will mend almost any broken fence with her. Although she works in History, Theater is her true passion, she just doesn't have the ability to work in Theater anymore, and History is dramatic enough that she still loves teaching it.

family & history

FATHER: Joel Jordin, 60 years old, deceased.
MOTHER: Talitha Jordin, 58 years old.
SIBLINGS: Cavin, 19, deceased
OTHER FAMILY: Evan Aspara, 26, deceased

HISTORY:
Joel and Talitha Jordan met in college. They were both straight A, honor roll, likable, high society, Ivy League students. They ended up as study partners, and as soon as they figured their parents were part of the same country club, and they were pledging brother/sister fraternities and sororities, just like their parents had, they basically decided the only logical step forward was to fall in love with one another and get married. Thus was the world Noelle grew up in: Do things logically and call it fate.

One thing in her life that was fate, was when Noelle turned ten and her parents enrolled her in ballet. She took to it immediately--a prodigy, her teachers had called her. Noelle's parents were thrilled, their daughter was going to be a prima ballerina (whether she liked it or not, but she didn't need to know that). It didn't matter to Noelle what her parents thought, particularly. She loved dancing, it was the only thing in her whole life that made her feel free. Her days were scheduled out by her nanny, who was told what to schedule by her mother's personal assistant, who was told what needed to be scheduled via hand written note on the entry hall table every morning. Noelle's life was run very strictly, but as long as she got to go to ballet twice a week none of that mattered.

Throughout her life, Noelle's best friend was always her big brother Cavin; he was two years older than her, and he was the only person she knew of who understood how hard it was living up to their high-class parents' expectations of them. While Noelle was being primed for a blooming career on tour with a dance company, Cavin was being trained in mathematics and accounting and business to take over Joel's banking empire someday. Secretly, Cavin and Noelle had a plan to escape though. Both of them would play along with their parents' plans until Noelle was eighteen, by then, Cavin was planning on having saved up enough money that they could run away to a beach somewhere and spend the rest of their lives as hobos. It was the most beautiful thing Noelle had ever heard of, and it was all she dreamed of. She thought when they ran low on cash she could dance and be a street performer, and Cavin could get a little job doing taxes or something.

Fate intervened again when Noelle was seventeen, though. She and her brother Cavin were being driven to Noelle's audition for a conservatory position at a dance academy when they were t-boned by a cement truck at a stoplight. That day Noelle lost the three things she held most dear: her brother, her ability to dance, and her dreams of getting out from under her parents thumb. Cavin was killed instantly, as was the car driver. Noelle survived, but her right leg was mangled horribly in the crash. The doctors said the chances of her walking again were slim to none, and the best they could do was perform cosmetic surgery and make her leg look normal again. Noelle was stubborn though, she would not be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life! Three years later, after seven surgeries and almost constant physical therapy, Noelle took her first steps.

All the while she was going through these surgeries, the only person who consistently supported her was her docter, Dr. Evan Aspara, and not long after her recovery, they were wed, much to the pleasure of her parents, no less. If their daughter could no longer fulfill their dreams of stardom, at least she could marry well! Oh, and she loved him. . .but that was just a bonus as far as the Jordin's were concerned. All was well and good until four years later when Evan and Joel went on a golf trip together to Scottland. One their return flight, the right wing of the airplane caught fire and the plane crashed. Neither of the men survived, and the mother and daughter at home had to survive being widows together.

It was amazing how such immense tragedy was able to bring together the two women who had for so many years barely spoken to one another. It wasn't that they hated each other, or even disliked each other, they just. . .lived in very different worlds. Talitha lived in strict high society, and Noelle lived in a world full of hopes and dreams, but the crash that took both their husband's shook both of their worlds violently enough that they smashed into each other. Talitha's world became a freer place, a place of joy, but Noelle's world became a tighter place, a more organized place, a more strict world, but hope was the bonding agent for both women. Though it felt like they had lost everything, they found each other as friends.

Shortly after the crash, Noelle finally went to college. She got her teaching certificate and double majored in English and History. Although Noelle no longer has the ability to dance, and it takes much effort and lots of medication to manage her injury, she still has found joy in her life in helping her students reach their dreams. It wasn't what she had planned to do with her life, and it still causes her some depression to think of all her life could have been, with her brother, with her husband, with any of the things that life so cruelly ripped away from her, but it's a new journey, a new experience, and a new adventure that she wakes up every morning reminding herself to enjoy while she can--because with her history, she's always wondering when she'll lose something else.

dream form

In dream form Noelle is a gypsy, a dancer. She looks basically like herself, but she has long hair, and a younger face, and--of course--her leg is healed. In the dream world, Noelle is the self she imagined she would become when she and her brother would plan their future as kids. She walks around barefoot with her hair long and loose, and she wears brightly colored, elaborate gowns and wraps and scarves. But most of all, in dream form, Noelle is free. Free from society, free from expectations, free from disappointments. Just like she used to be in ballet class as a little girl; although most of her is aware of all that is expected from her when she wakes up, as long as she's in the dream world and she can dance, in those moments, nothing else matters and she can just relax and be.
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