OOC Information:
Preferred Form of Address on A&A: Vienna shall do, thank you.
Preferred Contact Information: aim: pinacolada5191 [potentially will change in future so I shall contact the admin if that be the case] Although in honesty I prefer PM, which I will check regularly.
Other Characters on A&A: None.
How You Found A&A: My friend, who plays Meredith, told me about it a while back. I was planning to join a long time ago but I only just now got to making the application.
IC Information
Name: Vienne Marek
Avatar: Anna Arendshorst
Occupation: Works for Andrew Marcs
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Vienne is a beauty, but in a sort where at first glance the speculator can easily tell she is vicious to be around. Her blue-grey eyes and so piercing and intense with emotion that on occasion they have been said to be highly intimidating. They are shaped like an almond, with gracefully arching brows bordering them. Her eyelashes naturally curl up, but are light in color and rather thin. Her facial structure is slightly angular, giving a high-class yet mean air about her. Cheekbones rest high on her face and her jaw squares off, ending with a chin rounded with a light cleft. Lips are full and shaped much like two rose petals, vibrant with color. They are so full that at times, especially when they are turned into a light frown, it gives her the appearance that she is pouting. Her nose is straight and bony, curving up at the end.
Flowing locks of red hair are most definitely Vienne’s best assets. With its orange color with coppery highlights, it is usually the first thing people notice about her. It falls past the middle of her back in length, however because it waves lightly, it seems slightly shorter than this. No matter how much pride Vienne takes in her hair however, she always takes good measures to make sure that whenever she is in public it is put up in some elaborate fashion with a hat. She is especially partial to the more elegant hats with ribbons and lace, which comes in beautiful colors. Her skin greatly compliments her hair as well, its creamy white color going well with the red locks. Vienne has absolutely no traces of a tan, because she takes great care to make sure her skin is nicely sheltered from the sun.
With a stature of five feet and six inches, Vienne is completely content with her height. Her weight (which was 120 pounds), however, she has a few complaints about. With very little muscle or fat, she is a bit too skinny for her own liking. Consequently, Vienne has practically no curves to brag about. If it were not for a corset, her chest would be practically nonexistent. Her arms are entirely to slim, appearing like they could snap in half. It is without a doubt obvious that she could never handle any demanding physical labor with a frame of her size. Her lack of hips makes her body seem like a one straight line instead of the desired hourglass figure. No matter how flawed her body may be, Vienne dresses it well and stands with such a dignified air that one would assume that she thought she had the most perfect body.
Personality:
Vienne is hopelessly stubborn in all situations and very decisive on her opinion. Once she has her mind set on something she refuses to let go of that. Unfortunately, her determination is only for things she truly wants to do, instead of things that she knows she has to do well in. For example, she will go completely out of her way to get one thing but care less for another. One thing that really makes her determined is when everyone around her doesn’t think she can do it. Just to prove them wrong, Vienne works twice or possibly even three times as hard just so she can show them that she can. Her determination can actually get annoying because she can go to great lengths to achieve it. When it comes to being stubborn, Vienne won’t budge on an opinion unless there is a mind-blowing fact of occurrence that can change her mind. And as it turns out, mind-blowing events do not occur that frequently.
One problem with her motivation is that as much as she would like to prove the world wrong, she hates doing any hard work. Generally, the ideas that she fastens onto and will not let go of until she has proven herself are the ones that do not require any physical effort. This is not coincidence, however. Vienne knows that if she sets out to do something that her body is not fit to do and fails, she will be highly ashamed of herself, and stays clear of such tasks. She is very good at talking her way into or out of things but she is in no condition to do physical labor. It’s one of those horrible things about Vienne; she always has to be right and knows what to do in order to be. If she ever were in the position where she was not correct, she would somehow manipulate the situation with her words to make it appear that she was.
When it comes to holding grudges, Vienne is the master. She is very much convinced that once there is any sort of fight or disagreement between her and another, there is little to no chance of a healthy relationship after that. Possibly if she receives an apology and explanation as to why the person had acted to unreasonable, Vienne could consider not setting out to make their life miserable, especially if it was partially her fault. Of course, Vienne would have to go through a lot of pain to admit that she at fault, and more often than not she will live in denial and never admit she was wrong. This is why she would rather just not receive an apology and continue having a grudge with someone. The main reason she has mastered grudge keeping is probably because she is so stubborn, therefore making the process of admitting one’s flaws practically impossible.
With access to so many books around the house, Vienne spends a lot of the day reading. She is absolutely fascinated with novels, and loves escaping from reality into an author’s fiction world. When she is not out socializing, she is surprisingly cooped up in the manor’s thorough library, cooped up in her favorite chair and reading. Over time this made her mediocre reading abilities highly advanced, and Vienne became very literate. She became very intelligent, mainly when it came to reading. Reading turned from a simple pastime to a nearly obsessive hobby, and she would spend hours at a time in said chair, scrawling notes in the margins of the books and analyzing every word of the text. On some days, she would prefer the company of the books more than the company of the people around her, for they bored her and overtime their bleak personalities lost her interest.
The young woman is incredibly self-centered and spoiled. Since an early age she has gotten everything she wanted. The feeling of disappointment and wanting without actually getting is something completely foreign to her. Vienne had never really thought about how spoiled she was, though. Growing up with that lifestyle, she had never known anything else and never thought about how her ability to get whatever she wanted was something wrong. That was just the way it was. Most of her spoiling came from the fact that she grew up in a rich household where material objects replaced love and through the years Vienne had learned how to speak to different sorts of people in a way that would make them warm up to her and get her what she wanted. If the person who had what she wanted happened to dislike her, which happened frequently, Vienne would learn to find whom that person was well acquainted with and get it through connections. It was just her nature to get everything she wanted. This didn’t make it all right but it justified it in her mind, anyway.
Determination and literary intelligence combined make for a very persuasive speaker. Vienne knows exactly how to speak in an eloquent and confident way to make those around her do what she wants. This means that she is not just spoiled with material objects, but basically every aspect of her life. Furthermore, she is an incredibly dishonest person. Somewhere in the back of her conscience she knows that lying is the wrong thing to do but she does so with ease. It is virtually impossible to tell the difference between when she is lying and when she is telling the truth. This could be a very bad thing, because Vienne is intelligent enough to understand her skills of lying and persuasion, and uses them together very cunningly. She finds that there is no problem with acting immoral, as long as nobody discovers it (which she is confident they wont) and she is happy. There is little chance that her lies will be discovered, because of the fact that she is so subtle and wise about what she says. Vienne knows how to act proper in public, but sophisticated people are usually boring and stuffy and she finds herself wishing to be away from them. When she is away from the endlessly scornful eye of the public, Vienne has a tendency to act up. She enjoys yelling very much, and often forgets that her talents of persuasion are more affective when she is angry.
Vienne finds a sort of twisted joy in toying with people’s emotions, especially men. The sad part about it is, she does it mainly because she finds nothing better to do in proper company. She will lead them on, making them believe that she is highly interested in them. This is easy for her, because she possesses all the skills of baiting them in. After a while of doing this, she will turn cruel and potentially break their hearts. Much like her spoiled life and lying, she doesn’t think much about how morally incorrect doing this is, but almost does in naturally. One reason she may do so many things wrong when she is well informed of their indecency is because a large portion of her life is absorbed in fictional books. In novels that she reads, characters are not bound to the rules and restrictions of decency and these traits eventually rubbed off on her. However, in return she does not trust anybody else. Because she enjoys lying and being manipulative, she expects others to be the same way and does not trust someone until she does not feel the need to lie to them either.
Surprisingly, Vienne shows a lot of potential for kindness, but never reveals this because she lives in a hostile environment. If she were to receive love, she would return it. Not only that, but she would be more at ease if she were in a caring environment. Secretly, she yearns to act silly and have fun but never does. Of course, even in a loving environment she would feel the need to lie, persuade people to get what she wants and act generally manipulative, but she would also be an overall nicer and more outgoing person. Vienne doesn’t only think it is important to befriend a person, but also respect takes a great role in her relationships. If a relationship with Vienne includes respect and signs of compassion, then surely she will adore him or her and majority of the time they would not be victim to her cruelty.
Another unexpected thing from Vienne is her tendency to act on impulse. When thrown into a situation she will act without thinking much about it and then end up in quite a bit of a mess. Because of her temper, these impulsive actions hardly end up benefiting anyone, really. The more panicked she is, it seems, the more completely absurd her actions turn out to be. To make matters worst, she is entirely too stubborn to ever admit that her careless decisions were wrong so once she makes them she is determined to stick by her actions. This proves that as intelligent as Vienne may be when it comes to books, she isn’t always quite aware of how to make wise choices in other aspects of her life.
History:
Vienne was born on September 6th to Christoph and Lynette Marek. Their meeting had been rather conventional and uninteresting. Christoph was a wealthy man from Germany who owned a trading company. His ships very frequently traveled between Germany and England, and consequently he did as well. These trips between the countries were rather mundane and happened often. Generally Christoph strictly went on account of business. On one of these trips, which appeared to be as regular as all the others, the beautiful Lynette caught Christoph’s attention. They were formally introduced and married in good time. They only had one child, Vienne. However, the story of how the Marek family began isn’t nearly as interesting as how it ended.
Only five years after the conceiving of Vienne, things seemed to be well in the Marek household. The trading company was not doing as well as it had been in the past, but it still was enough to support the family. They lived in a fairly large house that comfortably fit the three occupants. However, the one maid the household possessed had left the kitchen unattended for too long and a flame started. Eventually, majority of the house became engulfed in fire. Christoph had no chance of escaping and unfortunately died that evening inside the house. However, Lynette did manage to grab the small child Vienne and run out of the house. No longer having any need to remain in Germany, Lynette and Vienne returned to London, England to stay with Lynette’s sister, Georgiana Ashbury. Because she had suffered severe burns in attempting to save Vienne, Lynette grew very ill.
Life became very strange after that. Lynette could no longer be of any assistance around the house. Vienne was very young but the changes in her life were still a shock to her. At first she would wander around the house, eyes wide with marvel at her new home. She was used to living comfortably, but these new surroundings exceeded her perceptions of comfortable living. Soon after their arrival at the Ashbury Manor, Lynette passed away. Both the infections from her burns and the exhaustions of the trip had taken a toll on the beautiful woman’s health, and it came as no sort of shock when it was her time to go. Vienne, of course, was as devastated as any child would be after losing both parents, and only had the consolation of knowing that she would be adopted into the Asbury household. Attempting to put aside the travesties in her short life, Vienne began a new chapter living with her aunt and two cousins, Scarlett and Abigail.
Vienne at first wasn’t very fond of her relatives, but as time went by she became more and more like them. She was pampered in all the ways an adopted daughter of a rich and widowed woman ever could be, receiving the finest education and most everything she wanted. It was in her years of growing up that she became particularly spoiled, and her personality began to shape. She was severely influenced by Scarlett and Abigail. Scarlett, being the eldest of the three girls, was the one who had informed her that she could get anything she wanted, as long as she knew how to word her request correctly. Abigail was the second eldest, leaving Vienne as the youngest. She was very beautiful; possibly one of the most gorgeous creatures Vienne had ever met. Abigail, however, was rather cruel and enjoyed toying with men’s emotions thoroughly. Vienne adopted both of the girl’s methods of manipulation, adding her own twist.
Of course, the day Vienne discovered the Manor’s library was one that would forever change her life. Immediately she became engrossed in the many books that surrounded her. She was quite a spectacle, as she would sit for hours in her fine dresses, cooped up in one chair with piles of books surrounding her. As she discovered her new hobby, the people around her stopped amusing her. Abigail, Scarlett and even Georgiana did not actually love her, not that they had ever tried to convince her otherwise. Her prissy cousins were so silly and absorbed in their pointless lives that Vienne found their conversations shallow and dull. If she had not been so pretentious she would realize how similar she was to these hated cousins. The only true difference between Vienne and the other occupants of the house was intelligence. Often Abigail would torment her about being socially stunted, as she was the meaner of the two. Scarlett as well would try to drag her to social events, and Vienne had no choice to oblige every now and then.
Those social events were the worst of all, because it was talking to her cousins, only they were multiplied. It was at these events that Vienne started to adopt Abigail’s methods of torment. She found it most amusing, to string on some completely moronic man, only crush his hopes a few weeks later. It was not just from Abigail that she learned through observation. In the books she read, woman were often so confident and had such ways of capturing a person’s attention. Vienne took note of the way they acted and later mimicked. It worked, and nobody objected to her doing such things, so this continued. It might have seemed on the outside that Vienne was happy, but truly she wasn’t. True, she had all the things she wanted, a decent hobby and the affection of numerous men, but it wasn’t enough to keep Vienne content. She was so sick of her home life, of living in a place where nobody cared at all what became of her. By this point she was twenty and four years of age, it was time for her to marry.
Finding a husband would not be difficult, but she wanted to find one soon. Anything to escape her aunt and cousins, as pathetic as this ambition was. On the night of a ball in London, Vienne met a certain Alexander Hughes. He was handsome, rich, intelligent, but painfully cold. Rumor was that he was also seeking a wife, so Vienne immediately was drawn to him. Vienne acted on her best behavior, acting as charming as she possibly could, even hiding her intelligence to seem more appealing. This was difficult, because Alexander was a particularly dry and boring person, but would make a good husband nonetheless. After the evening was over, Vienne was not entirely sure if she had stolen the heart of the man she had so desperately wanted to. However, Alexander had been interested in the young woman, despite the fact that is stone demeanor had stopped him from showing so. Over the next couple months, the two were introduced several more times and Alexander became her regular escort to balls, parties and operas. As Alexander became fonder of Vienne, Vienne became more and more sure that there was nothing at all interesting about the man. She was well aware most marriages did not start with love, so she did not think anything of it.
At last Alexander proposed, a sort of bittersweet moment in Vienne’s life. She immediately accepted, even if she disliked the man. She wouldn’t say she hated him, no, hate was too extreme of an emotion, but she could not imagine herself ever being happy with such a person lacking love or compassion. The families agreed, and a date for the wedding was set. Vienne began to panic. She had been so caught up in escaping the love-deserted household she was currently in, she hardly noticed she was simply entering into another one. She did not want to marry Alexander. Vienne had been mulling over how to go about escaping such a horrible fate of becoming Vienne Hughes until the very night before her wedding. No longer was she thinking rationally. The only thing she could think of was completely idiotic, but she did so anyway.
Running to the family safe, she stole as much money as she could, packing only a few bags and going on the first train out of London. She left no note, no hint of where she was going, anything but quite a mess as she quietly raided her room for necessities in the dead of the night. She ended up in none other than Lindeboshire. Now by this point Vienne was starting to begin to realize what she had done was completely stupid. She was in a town where she knew nobody, with very little money and no job or place to live. The job and place to live were easily fixed, but she knew she wouldn’t like the solution. She would just have to rent a room and the boarding house and find a job. After searching for an employer for some time, her money supply becoming dangerously low, she finally found a man by the name of Andrew Marcs who would hire her as a maid.
Wait, Vienne was going to be a maid?
The idea was insane, especially to Vienne, but she had no other choice. There was no way she could face anybody if she returned now, nor did she want to marry Alexander more than she had when she left. How the entire situation was going to turn out was a mystery. After all, Vienne’s personality was still so stuck up and pompous, not to mention manipulative and temperamental that it would be difficult for her to work under another person. She would not be an easy person to get along with, that was a given. But now that she was poor, alone and rather desperate, it would be difficult to remain the same egocentric girl she always had been.
Strengths:
+Intelligence
+Persuasion
+Determination: This is only a strength in some instances while in others it is nothing but a flaw.
+Lying: Even if it is wrong, she is very good at it and it becomes highly convenient.
Weaknesses:
+Spoiled
+Cruel
+Does not ever want to work hard
+Always needs to be right
+Too stubborn
+Temper
+Impulsive :) I remember yooooouuu! Glad you made the charry at last.
Only a very few things. :D
First:
| QUOTE |
| No matter how much pride Vienne takes in her hair however, she always takes good measures to make sure that whenever she is in public it is put up in some elaborate fashion with a fat. |
:blink: I’m slightly disturbed about the fat. *pokepokepoke* ;)
Second: The last two paragraphs of your history seem to be informing a person how to obviate her… well, not to seem disparaging of her personality or anything, her witchiness. That’s fine, since people can be contradictory, but I wouldn’t want this facet to come out in a non-loving environment, if you catch my drift.
Third: I’ll say it right now, I usually cannot abide runaway characters. But, you have three things going in your favour. You’ve done a smashing job of writing up the rest of the character and history, you’ve not glorified the fact as something cool, and you’re Kel’s friend and she’s done a fantastic job with hers so far. Therefore, I let it pass on the strength of these recommendations. Please don’t suddenly change my mind. <--frightening warning, be very scared ;)
So, long and short of it (here comes the shocker): You’re approved, and you do not have to change anything about her at all, in my book. My comments are just remarks for future reference. :) Although you can change the fat in her hair if you want. ;)
:mjinga:
You just have to wait for Kris or Lina. Once again I’m glad you’ve decided to start with a charry. :wub: