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Name: Rosie Age: 28 Contact: pineapplesoda on plurk, pm journal Timezone: GMT Other Character(s): RE-APP - https://duplicitymods.dreamwidth.org/8304.html, OTHER CHARACTER = Max (Black Sails (journal = youcome)) |
Name: Eponine Thenardier (or Jondrette) Door: Re-app as submissive Canon: Les Miserables Canon Point: The Watchdog (which equates to ‘A Heart full of Love’ and ‘Attack on the Rue Plumet’ in the musical Age: 18 Appearance: https://assets.playbill.com/editorial/_defaultEnhancement/bda6f61e03436edb2abe6db4663385fc-barksep.jpg Eponine’s petite. She’s been starving for years and is described as a ‘gaunt skeleton’ in the book. Her teeth are rotten, and she’s unwashed, unkempt. Eponine has dark hair, brown eyes and a light olive complexion. She looks older than her eighteen years: a life on the streets has left her with chapped skin and a hardened look in her eyes. As a child, Eponine was pretty, but poverty, alcohol abuse and a debauched life have left their marks too. She wears her father’s old chemise and an old skirt held up with a piece of string. On occasion, when going to church to beg, she’s allowed her father’s old boots (the uppers have separated from the soles and flap). History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éponine CR AU (Optional): Whilst in Duplicity last time, Eponine very quickly met Greyson. He at first viewed her as a fun snack but quickly valued her for her brains and wit. Not realising he was a vampire, Eponine thought he was cutting her neck to administer drugs to make her feel high. She very quickly fell into lust with him and wanted him to like her. She found it difficult to cope when he didn’t. Meanwhile, she tried to make friends with the Bridgerton lot. It went really badly with Kate and Eponine loathed her in the end. She fared better with Daphne and grew obsessed with her to the point where Eponine was breaking into Daphne’s apartment when Daphne was in an AC coma and dressing her. Both Eponine and Daphne left the game shortly after this. Personality: Resilient:Eponine is incredibly resilient. As a teenager, she has experienced homelessness, starvation, begging, possible prostitution, manipulation, domestic abuse, been dragged into gang life, criminal activities and has even been to prison. She has been on the brink of death, both by her own hand and from her external environment, and yet she’s still here. Eponine freely talks to Marius, a man she has only just met, about her suicidal thoughts, and even her attempt at suicide the previous winter. She’s as unabashed as he is appalled, and candidly talks about how she couldn’t bring herself to keep stepping into the cold water. Somehow, she manages to pull herself back from it, and without any support from family or friends, move on from her suicidal ideations and somewhat recover. Eponine always seems to find a way to survive. When Javert arrests the family for trying to kidnap Valjean and Cosette, Eponine manages to escape, as she’s in an alleyway with Montparnasse. When she is eventually caught and sent to Les Madelonnettes, which was, at that time, used to house suspected prostitutes, she lied about her age and managed to get herself released even before her younger sister. Even alone on the streets, she apparently manages to find enough food to keep herself alive, a haybarn (from the state of her hair) to sleep in and even manages to find, and flirt with Marius. She’s no use in a fight and relies on her tongue to get her out of situations. When Eponine knows a person well, she’ll talk back at them, jousting with words, even if they threaten physical violence. She herself does not rely on physically fighting; she knows she is weak from starvation and in a world of men, she never has the power to win physically. Eponine reacts to danger by facing it head on and without flinching. She will accept violence against herself as well as she can, with her head raised high and a glare in her eyes. Eponine is very difficult to scare; her life has desensitised her to a lot of horror. She’s seen things, in prison and out, that no teenager should ever see, and she’s experienced more abuse and hardship than a lot of people will ever see. She is also very good at hiding any signs of her fear too. Fear is considered a weakness in the Underworld, and Eponine quickly learned to hide that particular emotion a long time ago. She will talk back at those who wish her harm, and she will unashamedly flirt and talk candidly to them. She lets insults wash over her head; she has heard so many insults in her time that they simply don't bother her any more. She’s an intelligent woman, and could have been brilliant if she had been given a chance at education. That she is even able to read, write or know numbers is a testament to her resilient and determined nature. Her mother taught her to read as a child, but Eponine has kept up her practice and despite everything, is proud of her achievements. No matter what is thrown at Eponine, she always seems to survive and somehow make something out of a situation no matter how terrible. - Low self esteem: Low self esteem: Eponine will talk to anyone who will give her the time of day – which, in canon, is not many people. Her chatter comes across as awkward at times, or even inappropriate. She flirts with Marius as best she can– but again, it comes across as awkward. Hugo describes her as a trapped bird flitting around Marius’ room, a melancholy and desperate sight. Uncomfortable amongst wealth now, she tries to fit in, but ultimately cannot. She is nervy. She speaks more than she should to people she doesn’t know, and is very open about herself and her life. Within minutes of meeting Marius, she tells him about her suicide consideration. Her words come without a great deal of thought, in a tangle of argot slang and French when she’s nervous. The more in control she tries to seem, the more ladylike she tries to act, the more it comes off as an act, a sham– sheer desperation. Hugo says that Eponine might have been gay and flirtatious, like any proper society miss, as her exuberance and feistiness bubbles from her, despite her drab life– but the reality of being poor has rendered her uneducated and out of her depth in social situations with her ‘betters’. Eponine longs to be a lady, but by the end of her story, she realises it’s something she’ll never be able to attain. Eponine doesn’t consider herself to be at all beautiful; she thinks she’s disgusting, and that she doesn’t deserve a happy life. Eponine loathes herself. She hates everything about herself, from the dirt she is encrusted in, to the criminal that her Papa has turned her into. She cannot see anything positive about herself at all; but she forces herself to continue with life. She loves mirrors, and will stand and stare at her reflection, pinking and preening, remnants of her childish vanity. This is evidenced when she goes into Marius’ room to check he is not there, and tells her father she is searching– whilst she is, in fact, staring at her reflection. Her self hatred is evident throughout. She makes a lot of self-depreciating remarks, and constantly refers to her social class as something shameful. She’s open about her imprisonment; it’s something almost expected of her after all, but again it fuels her hatred for what she has become, and the impossibility of her life. Manipulative: Eponine knows exactly what to say and how to act to elicit sympathy from different people. With her father, she’s bolshy and argues back long enough that he promises to buy her boots. With the gang members, she’s tough and defiant. When she’s with Marius, Eponine appears more sympathetic: her voice is softer and she tries to make herself attractive. On their first meetings, she talks about her difficult life, bringing up her attempted suicide and the poverty she lives in. By the end of it, she’s managed to convince Marius out of his last few sous and swiped his dinner for the night. When she’s out of prison, she makes sure to present herself as completely untidy, with hay and grass in her hair from sleeping rough, to Marius, to gain his sympathy. In the same conversation, she tells him that she lied to a guard and told him that she was 14 so they would let her free. For Eponine, who looks a lot older than her 18 years, to convince someone she’s a lot younger, she’s got to be a skilled liar. Eponine lies a lot, to her father, to Marius, the other gang members, Gavroche and the priest she meets. That Eponine doesn’t actually allow Marius to die on the barricade is of absolutely no credit to her: she saves Marius’ life for the very selfish reason of not wanting to see him die. It is only in death that she can admit that she stole Cosette’s letters, but again this last confession is pure maniplulation – she admits it because she wants him to hold her whilst she dies and tell her that she’s loved. Marius, in a rare moment of lucid thought, reacts in disgust and Eponine dies alone. Jealous She is somewhat bitter, especially towards those better off than her. Jealousy is one of Eponine’s biggest failures. She is jealous of Cosette when they meet again as adults, and this only intensifies when she finds that Marius loves Cosette. Cosette, for her, represents what Eponine’s life should be, and I think she thinks she is living Cosette’s destiny. It’s hard for Eponine to see Cosette, especially having everything, whilst she starves and freezes to death. She desperately wants a better life, but knows she will never have one. Eponine is not much of a fighter, though. As much as she hates her station in life, she has accepted it, and is willing now to ‘go with the flow’, to go where life takes her. She fights back at her end – she fights for her love – and it ends in her death. Eponine’s jealousy leads to some terrible situations: she plots a murder-suicide at the barricades for herself and Marius, so that they might die together, and hides his notes from Cosette so he will think that Cosette doesn’t care for him any more. Powers and Abilities: Eponine has no special powers or abilities beyond the capability of a human. She is a fast runner, and she can read and write, which are massive achievements for a street girl from nineteenth century Paris. Eponine can also speak Argot, which is a slang language from the Parisian underground. It is used by criminals to allow them to speak of their plans in front of those who don’t understand. Eponine tries not to use it, as it’s use marks her as the criminal class, but she does slip into it, especially when feeling an extremity of an emotion. Inventory: Eponine doesn’t have anything to bring beyond the clothes she stands up in. Samples: https://duplicitymemes.dreamwidth.org/25116.html?thread=65510940#cmt65510940 https://duplicitymemes.dreamwidth.org/25116.html?thread=65510684#cmt65510684 |
