Post by anna on Dec 29, 2009 13:34:08 GMT 10
annalise stacy tremaine
high-strung. high-class. high-maintenance.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Name: Annalise Stacy Tremaine
Nickname(s): Anna, Annie
Disney Character: Anastasia - Cinderella
Age: 20
Birthdate: November thirtieth
Birthplace: Newport, Vermont
Orientation: On a regular day, she's straight through and through, but catch her at a vulnerable time, and you never know what could happen.
Member group: Minion
Education: After graduating from high school, Anna moved to the city and currently attends Columbia University.
Occupation: Working is for the poor.
The girl is a rather pretty one, which is to be expected as she spends a very healthy chunk of time on her appearance. She dyes her hair red to match her green eyes, though she will always maintain that its her natural color. She keeps it at shoulder length, which she has determined to be the best length in order to achieve whatever look she wants. Her nose is just a tad too big, according to her mother, but, after several trips to the rhinoplasty office, it's not something that can be fixed. She sports a pair of somewhat full lips that are nearly always glossed with some fruity lip gloss.
Anna has a somewhat obsession with her weight. Despite the fact that she is what most people would consider thin, she still has days when she feels fat. Having grown up in the twenty-first century, she is well aware of the rather disgusting side effects of eating disorders. Nonetheless, the girl is never very comfortable with her weight. She works incredibly to hard to maintain her figure, though she is always wondering if she couldn't do without a few more pounds.
Anna really likes to stay ahead of the fashion trends. She is absolutely willing to shell out large sums for the latest style. You can't put a price tag on social grace, after all. She doesn't confine herself to any one style. Whatever's next, she'll accept it readily. Her closet is constantly being updated. Some outfits barely even get worn before they're tossed. Somewhere, a charity is going a lot of good with Anna's toss-aways.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Best Feature: "I'd have to say my hair. It's very shiny because I take such good care of it. Not many people have natural red hair, you know?"
Worst Feature: "I'd like to be just a little thinner."
Something Memorable: "I quite like purple. I think it goes very well with my eyes. It's a pretty significant part of my wardrobe."
High-strung
It's not very difficult to get the girl in a bad mood. An offbeat comment, a failure to notice her outfit, or even nothing at all can set her off immediately, and when she's off, she's off. Few are able to stop or even curb the effects of an Anna Attack, as they've come to be known. It starts with the rage. Anna will throw a tantrum-like fit, yelling and cursing and doing all sorts of unlady-like things. If she's particularly angry, she may start breaking or throwing things at the offender. After this come the tears. Anna will lock herself in her room bawling insufferably for at least half a day. After she comes out, she will become an ice queen, refusing even to acknowledge the existence of whomever so heinously scorned her. With time, perhaps, perhaps, Anna might decide to forgive, though, one ought to know that any niceties one might here from her lips from that point forward is merely a front. Anna has been well-known to act in revenge, and, well, just hope it isn't aimed at you..
High-class
The girl appreciates the best, and nothing but the best. From her very first moments, Anna enjoyed a luxurious life and simply never entertained the idea that anything else could be adequate. She gets an inexorable joy from receiving new things, such that she'll often find any little excuse to 'treat herself.' Of course, this type of lifestyle doesn't come cheap. It's hard to imagine what the girl with do once she finds herself riddled with debt with no one to support her.
High-maintenance
With her short fuse and gluttony for the finer things, it's no wonder that Anna can't keep a boy. After all, one can only stand so much sobbing and spending. Of course, the girl is oblivious to this and maintains that those she's dated have simply never been able to keep up with her. It certainly doesn't help that her mother never refuses her anything, even at the expense of others. Often at the expense of others. This behavior was imprinted upon Anna's psyche such that she began to believe that her own happiness ought to be everyone's first priority.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Likes:
[♥] spending
[♥] her sister (the biological one, not that other one)
[♥] being complimented
[♥] getting new things
[♥] angel food cake
[♥] cats
[♥] purple
[♥] tea
[♥] wasabi peas
[♥] slightly out of date music
[♥] anything french
[♥] lavendars
Dislikes:
[♠] being refused
[♠] being copied
[♠] the step-sister
[♠] second place
[♠] feeling fat
[♠] not being noticed
[♠] expectations
[♠] being made fun of
[♠] magic tricks
[♠] grapefruit
[♠] driving fast
[♠] dust
Positive Traits:
+ Loyal: If you've never done anything to offend her, Anna's a pretty good person to have around. She'll stick by and do as she's told. Sure, she can get annoying, but everyone needs someone to have their back.
+ Inventive: It's quite amazing how this girl can manage to take any situation and turn it in her favor. Sure, her methods might be a little... shady. Nonetheless, you've gotta appreciate her talent. If only she'd apply some of that toward her school work.
+ Obsessive-compulsive: Anna likes things to be tidy and organized. It's all about class. After all, no one ever got anywhere living in a filthy pigsty. Of course, one can't actually expect the girl to lift a finger to clean up any kind of mess. That's the maid's job.
Negative Traits:
- Unforgiving: No matter what she says, no matter how many times she smiles and hugs and says so, Anna never truly forgives. For the luckiest, her veneer of civility is merely for her own convenience; perhaps there's something she could get out of them. For the others, she's simply keeping her friends close and her enemies closer.
- Irrational: When she's upset, Anna really just doesn't think. She starts acting all sorts of crazy. It doesn't matter what anyone's intentions are; it doesn't matter if they're remorseful; the girl just goes off. All the oversensitivity can get really trying. Especially if she refuses to listen to reason.
- Sadistic: Despite her own overwhelming sensitivities, Anna has no qualms about hurting others. She won't even try to justify it. She takes more than a little pleasure in being able to make others cry.
Most intriguing quirk(s): Perhaps it's something in her upbringing, but Anna can't stand the thought of being alone. She always needs someone around, telling her what to do. She doesn't seem to trust herself with her own life, despite her incredible selfishness in just about every other area. For some reason, she feels the need to place her loyalties somewhere.
Greatest Ambition: Anna's not really the type to set goals. She's too busy enjoying her life right now. As far as her mother is concerned, though, Anna going to marry into money and lead a lovely life as a socialite.
Greatest Fear: Being humiliated. Anna's world is basically her social life. She doesn't have much to fall back on should that be taken away from her. Even she knows that the friends she has would drop her in a heartbeat if they saw reason to.
Anna and her sister were born in a small hospital during a massive blizzard, delivered by an old bed nurse and a panicky intern, the only staff who had been in the building at the time. They and their mother had to stay in the hospital for nearly a week after their birth, because the little building had been completely blocked off by nearly ten feet of snow. It had been absolute hell for all parties involved. The newborns needed constant attention, and should they ever been left alone, for no matter how brief a period, they would scream their little lungs out, and it would take hours to calm them down.
When the girls were finally allowed home, everyone let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately for their mother, the infants immediately took to their home. Sure, they still cried, but they were certainly much better than in the little hospital. In fact, they were actually rather patient children, a great relief for their mother, who had the sole responsibility over the two little girls. It was as if they had instinctively known that the sterile clinic was not their real home. Everything seemed to be alright for the moment.
The trouble started when they learned to talk. It's never easy being a twin. You need to share everything: clothes, toys, birthdays gifts. Not to mention the fact that everyone tends to regard the two of you as completely interchangeable. Even their mother seemed to think this way. Anna absolutely resented this treatment. After all, she was her own person. She was sick being lumped together with her sister. Of course, she was much too young to work out these feelings, so she simply took out her anger on her sister.
The two fought constantly, over just about every little thing. It wasn't just bickering, either. Anna was legitimately angry with her sister and would refuse to be in the same room for weeks on end. She seemed to have an actual hatred of her sister that just ate at her every day.
All the anger culminated in one horrible, horrible fight. Just as all the others. It started with something inconsequential. Something involving crayons or the like. Whatever it was, the girls just went right at each other. Somehow the verbal battle became a physical one. Anna slapped her sister and was met with a vicious scratch on her arm. Next thing you know, it became a full-on fight. It took three adults to break it up. The girls were sent for counseling, after that. There, after a whole lot of tears, Anna managed to work out her own anger and come to terms with herself. She and her sister became closer than ever.
However, it turned out to be out of the frying pan and into the fire. Not a year after the girls had managed to settle themselves did their mother announce her engagement. Her daughters had never met the man, Leo Cinders, though were told that he wrote plays, lived somewhere down in Pennsylvania, and had a daughter. Anna was justifiably peeved with the whole situation. Having never known her own father, she didn't really see the need for the man in their lives. And his daughter... she simply couldn't imagine anything good coming out of that.
Well, once again, the girl seemed to have misjudged the situation. It turned out that their new stepfather could provide them a rather comfortable living, as a opposed to the minimal life they had led before the marriage. The girls were treated well, and they absolutely loved it. They didn't even notice Ella, the stepsister. She was always closer to her father, anyways. Anna didn't care. As long as she didn't divert any of her mother's attention.
When Leo died, Anna felt nothing. It wasn't nothing, really. It was just an emptiness in her. She knew that the man had done something to make her mother happy. She knew he had tried to engage her, though she hadn't responded. She knew he had provided them with the comfort that they knew. Beyond that, she didn't know a thing about her stepfather. Even though the girl regretted his death, she didn't know how to feel sadness over him. Instead, she just felt emptiness.
It's unsure when she started to torment Ella. Perhaps she was just following her mother's example or maybe it was her way of filling the emptiness. Whatever the reason, Anna manipulated the girl, just as her sister and mother did, taunting her, blaming her for her father's death. Ella was a threat to their family, and this was her way of dealing with it.
As Anna grew, she came to realize that her mother had expectations for her. She and her sister were to be elegant, charming, and demure. They set up a trade system: the girls would get whatever they wanted from their mother in exchange for marrying well and supporting their mother into her old age. So, Anna was enrolled in all sorts of classes: ballet, music, French, oil painting. She learned diligently, but it quickly became clear that the girl simply didn't have a talent for the arts. Nonetheless, her mother insisted that she practice and become talented so she could charm a husband. Anna obeyed, though secretly resented it all.
When it came time for college, Anna was accepted into Columbia. Her grades hadn't been phenomenal nor did have any outstanding extracurricular activities, but her mother had had a little chat with some people in the admissions department and worked a few things out for her girls to receive a top-rate education. Anna excitedly packed her bags and set off for New York.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Best Memory: The wedding. Though she wasn't exactly ecstatic about the prospect of adding two new members to their family, Anna absolutely adored her mother's wedding. She got to wear a lovely dress and toss flower petals down the aisle. Her mother, too, looked absolutely radiant, she thought. Though the vows and kissing made her gag, everything else was absolutely beautiful. It was the most extravagant event she'd even been to.
Worst Memory: The first day of college. She had never been on her own, before, and the world is a very daunting place for someone who has been so sheltered their entire life. She didn't know a soul, and she was almost ready to quit by the end of her second class. Fortunately, she stayed and eventually found that things did get easier. However, the thought of that first day just reminds her of the giant void of her life after college. Thinking of that just makes her nauseous.
Top 3 life-changing moments:
- The fight with her sister. The girl regrets it more than anything. It was probably her worse moment, to have actually gotten into a fight. Nonetheless, Anna knows that, in the end, it was probably for the best. Without it, she might've never been able to make up with her sister, and that would just be completely unimaginable.
- Her mother's marriage. Anna had never seen the need for a father figure, so that bit was pretty much meaningless to her. Her new stepsister, on the other hand, was clearly going to be a problem. After all, she had only recently reconciled with her real sister. Now she had another girl to compete with? Luckily, her fears were unfounded. Nonetheless, the experience definitely shaped her relationship with her stepsister.
- Her stepfather's death. It hadn't been a heart-breaking moment for Anna, but it was traumatic in its own way. Witnessing death had changed the girl, even if she had been too young to understand it at the time. It made her more bitter toward her sister and herself.
Family relationships:
Mother: It's rather difficult to define this relationship, actually. While Anna has grown used to running to her mother for every little thing, she grows weary of her mothers constant pushing. Yes, she might just want the best for Anna, but a girl can only take so much.
Ella: She hates the girl, to put it plainly. It's difficult to pin down something exact, but every little thing the girl does just rubs Anna the wrong way. Something about her just makes it infuriating to see her happy. And all of her goddamned acting, how useless.
Twin sister: The two are pretty much as close as they could be. Oh sure, they are quite prone to sisterly squabbles, but beneath it all, the two know that they share a bond. In fact, they are regularly regarded as a unit. You can't have one without getting the other.
Maybe later.
I, Lily, promise to abide by the rules of this site, and agree to tie my drama llama at the gate and be an active member of darling, it’s better.
[/size] [/blockquote][/blockquote]Name: Lily
Age: Seventeen
Role-playing experience: Plenty
How you found us: An unfortunate series of events
Favorite Disney Movie: The one with the thing
