Post by smokey on Mar 31, 2013 22:23:56 GMT -6
Your Character’s Name: Emmanuelle Louise Lalancette
Your Character’s Age: 24
Your Character’s Gender: Female
Occupation: Cellist with Opera Garnier Orchestra
Physical Description:
Personality: Emmanuelle is a fairly reserved young woman when it comes to social situations. Having been isolated from other kids growing up, she has a hard time using things like humour and sarcasm with the ease of other people. The things she finds funny don't always match up with the senses of humour of other people, and after many disappointing reactions to her 'jokes', Emmanuelle has all but given up on trying to be funny or playful with others, or make use of sarcasm and irony in any way. This tends to give people the impression that she takes herself too seriously, although it isn't entirely true.
Having been raised a child prodigy in a very conservative, strict household has made Emmanuelle very good at hiding her feelings and intentions from others. She doesn't tend to trust quickly, but when she trusts a person they begin to see a friendly side of her that smiles openly, touches and kisses people affectionately and has actual personal conversations rather than the all business back-and-forth she usually engages others with. Emmanuelle is one of those people you could work with for years and never actually know, or she could connect with you in the first moment and create a lifelong friendship. When she's familiar enough with someone, the reserved and slightly stiff young woman gives way to a very affectionate version of Emmanuelle who is generous with herself and invests a lot of emotion in her people.
The thing Emmanuelle values most, though, is her independence. If she can do something herself, she will, and doesn't like when people try to help her. Even more than that, she hates having to ask others for help, humiliated by being an imperfect (i.e. normal) person. When she can't solve her own problems, she ignores them and internalizes the pain they cause. She likes to think she's channeling it into something constructive, but really it just festers inside her and poisons her soul.
Emmanuelle also sees the value in hard work, and takes her job and her education very, very seriously. She loves her position at the opera, and works harder than many to advance her skill and become the best in her field. She bases almost her entire identity on being a cellist and is definitely married to her job. She believes that she's not worth much more than her skill, and so being bad at something really scares her.
History: Emmanuelle was born in Bruges, Belgium, in the living room of their family home. She was an only child, and a prodigy in music, picking out tunes on the piano by two years old, and advancing very quickly with her cello throughout her youth. During her childhood she wasn't interested in much else, but her parents, both straight-laced and strict intellectuals, a psychologist and a professor of mathematics, gave her lots of extra activities to do and a varied educational curriculum (Emmanuelle was homeschooled until about sixteen) to stimulate the brain: advanced mathematics, literature, language, all kinds of logic puzzles, but the only other thing that really stuck was chess, which still remains a favourite hobby of Emmanuelle's- she's a regular amongst the old men in the park.
She didn't ever talk much with other kids, and even less so with other little girls. Mostly she just kept to herself and studied music or read her books, or played football with some neighborhood boys. Once she figured out the math behind it, it was really fun to play. Her parents saw the value of sport to a growing brain, but didn't really have an interest in it, so they neither encouraged nor discouraged it.
When Emmanuelle began attending secondary school with other, normal kids, she began to realize how different she was. These kids knew a little about all kinds of different subjects, where she knew a lot about a few select subjects. She excelled in her music class, but didn't do very well at all in other arts courses or natural sciences. She didn't really know how to talk to them, either. She had had loads of experience speaking with intellectuals and professor types about certain topics, but not as much with actual teenagers. Until she began school, Emmanuelle had considered herself somehow better than these other kids, but she began to see that they were really the ones who had the advantage. She wanted to learn how to socialize effectively like they did, but it was hard when nobody actually wanted to speak to you.
It was around this time Emmanuelle started to actually grow up. She had managed to make a couple of friends by around the time she was seventeen, and, ever a late bloomer, developed a first crush on a girl in her class. She'd never considered being anything but homosexual as a possibility. It was only recently that Emmanuelle discovered that normally, people had complicated feelings about that kind of thing, and that it was traditional to tell one's parents when they discovered they were gay. Emmanuelle didn't do this. By this point, she barely spoke to her parents anymore anyway, always at odds with them now that she'd adjusted to the normal world and saw that other peoples' kids were given time to relax, hang out with their friends and watch T.V. She blamed them for her isolation, since they had never taught her the same social skills as her peers.
After finishing secondary school, Emmanuelle attended the Université Catholique de Louvain, where she studied music. She was recruited to the Opera Garnier in Paris from a local chamber orchestra after finishing her Bachelor's degree, and moved there without a second thought. She didn't like Paris as much as she thought she would, but it was acceptable, and her job was absolutely wonderful. A washed-up child prodigy, Emmanuelle doesn't really think she has much going for her except the orchestra, but she finds little things to occupy her time.
Your Character’s Age: 24
Your Character’s Gender: Female
Occupation: Cellist with Opera Garnier Orchestra
Physical Description:
Personality: Emmanuelle is a fairly reserved young woman when it comes to social situations. Having been isolated from other kids growing up, she has a hard time using things like humour and sarcasm with the ease of other people. The things she finds funny don't always match up with the senses of humour of other people, and after many disappointing reactions to her 'jokes', Emmanuelle has all but given up on trying to be funny or playful with others, or make use of sarcasm and irony in any way. This tends to give people the impression that she takes herself too seriously, although it isn't entirely true.
Having been raised a child prodigy in a very conservative, strict household has made Emmanuelle very good at hiding her feelings and intentions from others. She doesn't tend to trust quickly, but when she trusts a person they begin to see a friendly side of her that smiles openly, touches and kisses people affectionately and has actual personal conversations rather than the all business back-and-forth she usually engages others with. Emmanuelle is one of those people you could work with for years and never actually know, or she could connect with you in the first moment and create a lifelong friendship. When she's familiar enough with someone, the reserved and slightly stiff young woman gives way to a very affectionate version of Emmanuelle who is generous with herself and invests a lot of emotion in her people.
The thing Emmanuelle values most, though, is her independence. If she can do something herself, she will, and doesn't like when people try to help her. Even more than that, she hates having to ask others for help, humiliated by being an imperfect (i.e. normal) person. When she can't solve her own problems, she ignores them and internalizes the pain they cause. She likes to think she's channeling it into something constructive, but really it just festers inside her and poisons her soul.
Emmanuelle also sees the value in hard work, and takes her job and her education very, very seriously. She loves her position at the opera, and works harder than many to advance her skill and become the best in her field. She bases almost her entire identity on being a cellist and is definitely married to her job. She believes that she's not worth much more than her skill, and so being bad at something really scares her.
History: Emmanuelle was born in Bruges, Belgium, in the living room of their family home. She was an only child, and a prodigy in music, picking out tunes on the piano by two years old, and advancing very quickly with her cello throughout her youth. During her childhood she wasn't interested in much else, but her parents, both straight-laced and strict intellectuals, a psychologist and a professor of mathematics, gave her lots of extra activities to do and a varied educational curriculum (Emmanuelle was homeschooled until about sixteen) to stimulate the brain: advanced mathematics, literature, language, all kinds of logic puzzles, but the only other thing that really stuck was chess, which still remains a favourite hobby of Emmanuelle's- she's a regular amongst the old men in the park.
She didn't ever talk much with other kids, and even less so with other little girls. Mostly she just kept to herself and studied music or read her books, or played football with some neighborhood boys. Once she figured out the math behind it, it was really fun to play. Her parents saw the value of sport to a growing brain, but didn't really have an interest in it, so they neither encouraged nor discouraged it.
When Emmanuelle began attending secondary school with other, normal kids, she began to realize how different she was. These kids knew a little about all kinds of different subjects, where she knew a lot about a few select subjects. She excelled in her music class, but didn't do very well at all in other arts courses or natural sciences. She didn't really know how to talk to them, either. She had had loads of experience speaking with intellectuals and professor types about certain topics, but not as much with actual teenagers. Until she began school, Emmanuelle had considered herself somehow better than these other kids, but she began to see that they were really the ones who had the advantage. She wanted to learn how to socialize effectively like they did, but it was hard when nobody actually wanted to speak to you.
It was around this time Emmanuelle started to actually grow up. She had managed to make a couple of friends by around the time she was seventeen, and, ever a late bloomer, developed a first crush on a girl in her class. She'd never considered being anything but homosexual as a possibility. It was only recently that Emmanuelle discovered that normally, people had complicated feelings about that kind of thing, and that it was traditional to tell one's parents when they discovered they were gay. Emmanuelle didn't do this. By this point, she barely spoke to her parents anymore anyway, always at odds with them now that she'd adjusted to the normal world and saw that other peoples' kids were given time to relax, hang out with their friends and watch T.V. She blamed them for her isolation, since they had never taught her the same social skills as her peers.
After finishing secondary school, Emmanuelle attended the Université Catholique de Louvain, where she studied music. She was recruited to the Opera Garnier in Paris from a local chamber orchestra after finishing her Bachelor's degree, and moved there without a second thought. She didn't like Paris as much as she thought she would, but it was acceptable, and her job was absolutely wonderful. A washed-up child prodigy, Emmanuelle doesn't really think she has much going for her except the orchestra, but she finds little things to occupy her time.
