Title: Drusilla Jane Poole
Description: Dancer
Description: Dancer
Jane Poole - July 15, 2007 06:24 AM (GMT)
OOC Information
Preferred Form of Address on A&A: Liz
Contact Information: mjingasafi@gmail.com
Other Characters on A&A: Lalala, let's see now... Alastair Broderick, Anna Sutcliffe, Charles Bourke-Hargrave, James Pryer, John Doyle, Jean-Luc Dargeaux, Mads Jørgensen, Nils Jørgensen, Nolan Quartermaine, Haverhill, Tamsin Pritchard, and Tirzah Grant-Freeman
How You Found A&A: Reference from a friend
IC Information
Name:
Drusilla Jane Poole
Stage name Ishtar
Avatar:
Ekaterina Katkovskaya
Occupation:
Dancer at the Lindeman Theater
Age:
25
Gender:
Female
Appearance:
Drusilla’s face is delicate and oval. She has thick hair of a dark coffee brown color that hangs almost to her knees when free. She usually keeps it in two braids that hang to her waist when dancing. Her eyes are a rich bistre and usually appear flat, and her eyebrows are dark lines that frame them. When dancing, her stage makeup accents the light brown tint to her skin and she also wears eye powder to highlight her dark eyes. She usually has a neutral expression, even though her smile is quite beautiful. Her body is voluptuous and she has well defined muscles from dancing.
Drusilla is often seen in revealing clothes such as filmy pantaloons, skirts made out of veils, and with shoulders or arms bared above a close fitting bodice. She might wear a turban-like headdress, or something with many veils, or something equally exotic. She wears many bright bangles or other jewelry in addition, and her shoes are always curled at the toes and heavily embroidered. These are beautiful costumes made in India silk, often with rhinestones or sequins sewn into them to sparkle. However these are only worn on stage and never around anywhere except the Theater when preparing for a performance. She does not own any of these costumes.
Outside the Theater she normally wears sturdy cotton or wool dresses of green or gray, or other dark shades. They do not have the very full skirts of wealthier people, because she can’t afford the many petticoats and crinolines. Her shoes are dark leather and she wears the same two hats, alternating the days she wears them. Her hair is braided and coiled around her head. This is the wardrobe that she actually owns, and it’s in good condition but very plain. Her only vanity is that she buys cheap earrings of many different kinds, because she is particularly fond of earrings. They are done in copper or brass. She doesn’t own anything expensive.
Personality:
Drusilla has a healthy, strong body and an equally strong mind. She is completely emotionally reliant on herself since the incident with Yvonne, not trusting her happiness to the care of others. She likewise will not entrust her financial or physical security to others, and does not form friends easily. She gets along well with her fellow dancers and theater workers, but does not need them. She copes very well with disappointment, being somewhat of a fatalist. She does not care that her reputation is low because she is a dancer, and looked upon as not much better than a whore. The opinions of society mean little to her.
Likewise she does not care that society says she should find only men attractive. She has, since she was a teen, found men and women equally attractive physically, and sees no evil in it. She was spared any moral dilemmas on the matter for having lost any compunction about breaking the rules of society when she was little. She has no religious constraints and regards societal constraints as things to be bypassed when needed, and hence her bisexuality has never bothered her. She is, however, not the type to blast it out in protest against society, realizing that arrest for homosexuality would be the only result of that. Most of her lovers have been men, because of the need for caution in approaching women.
She’s not very learned, can barely read and write, and has no political opinions whatsoever. She simply doesn’t even think of the bigger picture. It’s not hers to worry about. What matters to her is what’s going to affect her personal life. However, this doesn’t mean she’s stupid. Drusilla is actually quite capable of forming a well thought out plan and executing it, and she thinks of things that may go wrong in the future and has plans for dealing with them. She is poor and is always attempting to find financial security. However, she won’t be reliant on others for it, so she cannot find it through marriage.
She is not a moral person. She lies if it benefits her, she doesn’t steal but she would if she was certain she could get away with it, and she doesn’t care if her actions hurt others as long as they don’t affect people close to her. Strangers are only bodies in the way to her, not faces and people to be cared about. She has no religion and doesn’t have any ethical mores against sleeping around. She doesn’t actually sell herself, as some dancers and actresses do, but she doesn’t condemn the practice. She’s lived out of wedlock before, with both men and women. She regards the rules of society as bendable and breakable at will, as long as she can avoid repercussions. She is very good at pretending to be other than what she is to get her way. She also uses the names Drusilla and Jane interchangeably.
History:
Drusilla was born on a cold Wednesday night in a small, run-down house in London. Her father was Frederick Poole, a cabman, and her mother was Yasmeen bint Mohammed bin Omar Al-Thani, an immigrant from Morocco. However, Yasmeen did not want the bad reputation associated with immigrants and changed her name to Jasmine Poole when she married Frederick. It was not a love match, but a marriage of convenience for both of them. Jasmine was willing and able to keep a house and Frederick could provide for her. They developed a friendship eventually but it never grew into love.
They did have four children, however, and three of them lived. First Jasmine gave birth to Alfred John Poole, then to Drusilla Jane, then to Kenneth William, and then to Douglas Patrick. Douglas Patrick died when he was three of diphtheria, but both of Drusilla’s other brothers are alive. Alfred followed in his father’s footsteps and expanded on them, building a small but successful cab company, and Kenneth turned out no good at all after his mother died, becoming a gambler who lives off what he can earn.
Drusilla herself grew up well. She was a poor man’s daughter, and got only the smallest education. She learned to read and write, but slowly and with difficulty, and that only because her mother insisted that she learn something to make her more appealing for marriage. However her education stopped when she was twelve and went to work in a factory. She did her best to retain it but some of it has been lost. She did not, however, retain any of the religious training she received, thinking it all repressive claptrap. Her morals, among the company of factory girls, took a decided downhill plunge. At thirteen she blossomed into a very shapely girl, and was spotted by a dance teacher for a ballet corps. It was also at this time that she discovered that girls and boys both were attractive, although she was smart enough to hide the fact.
Her mother disapproved of the idea of Drusilla dancing. However, Jasmine died of cholera not long after, and Drusilla, seeing her future options shrinking before her eyes, persuaded her father to let her take the lessons and join the corps. Drusilla was taught ballet and, because of her darker skin and heritage, the dancing teacher decided that she would also learn “Arabic” dances. The deal was that she would get the lessons and room and board, but would have to dance for the company for four years with only room and board afterwards.
She did well, but never became star material at ballet. She did better with the English perceptions of Arabic dances, and eventually became semi-prominent in the theater where she worked in that venue. That would have been good career start, no doubt, except that it was a very small theater. She could not secure another position elsewhere, because of the contract. She was stuck in a dead-end theater. She realized this and by the time she was sixteen began to look around for a man to marry. However, having inherited some of her mother’s coloring and not being pale white, even though only about as dark as a tanned woman, she wasn’t acceptable marriage material for most men. The fact that she was attracted equally to women as men did not hurt her search but made her less vigilant in the look out for available men.
Then, when she was eighteen, Drusilla met Yvonne Vioget at a performance of Swan Lake, in which Yvonne was Odette and Drusilla was merely a swan maiden. Yvonne was caring, smart, and beautiful, and the two developed a friendship that deepened into something more. She stopped trying to find a man to marry and did not attempt to find another theater to work at. For two years Drusilla and Yvonne were as close as a married couple, although of course not actually able to be married. Then the management of the ballet company found out from a tale carrying chorus girl, and both Yvonne and Drusilla were fired and they had to leave London hastily to avoid the public reaction against homosexuals. Drusilla proposed that they should stick together but Yvonne, fearing that this sort of thing would happen again and again if they remained together, decided it was best if they stay apart.
Drusilla was unhappy with the decision and followed Yvonne for a year, always trying to get her to change her mind. Finally, Drusilla was taken ill with pneumonia, and was in hospital for three months, unable to see Yvonne. When she was released, she found that Yvonne had married a Frenchman and returned to France with him. The news was crushing to Drusilla, and she did not attempt to return to the temporary job she had gotten before the pneumonia. She went about in a daze for two weeks before reality came crashing down on her head in the form of collectors threatening her with debtor’s prison if she didn’t pay her hospital bills.
Deciding there was nothing there for her, Drusilla skipped town without paying. She took the rail as far as she could go North, ending up in a small city. It was here that she started to build her stage persona of Ishtar, profiting finally from her darker than white skin. Not caring about the correct depiction of her mother’s culture at all, she felt free to conform to stereotypes of Arabia, performing many sinuous dances to English imitations of Arabic music. She remained here for a year before she felt that she could make more with a bigger theater and better troupe, and so she moved to Lindebo three years ago. She auditioned for a place as a chorus dancer in the ballet corps of the Lindeman Theater and then, when the managers found out about her talent in other forms of dance, also became featured in “shows from Arabia” along with other dancers of her sort. Now, she is “Ishtar” in a show that also features “The Queen of Sheba” and various other fictitious Arabic dancers.
Strengths:
I don’t have any.
Picture:
Shot at 2007-07-14
Preferred Form of Address on A&A: Liz
Contact Information: mjingasafi@gmail.com
Other Characters on A&A: Lalala, let's see now... Alastair Broderick, Anna Sutcliffe, Charles Bourke-Hargrave, James Pryer, John Doyle, Jean-Luc Dargeaux, Mads Jørgensen, Nils Jørgensen, Nolan Quartermaine, Haverhill, Tamsin Pritchard, and Tirzah Grant-Freeman
How You Found A&A: Reference from a friend
IC Information
Name:
Drusilla Jane Poole
Stage name Ishtar
Avatar:
Ekaterina Katkovskaya
Occupation:
Dancer at the Lindeman Theater
Age:
25
Gender:
Female
Appearance:
Drusilla’s face is delicate and oval. She has thick hair of a dark coffee brown color that hangs almost to her knees when free. She usually keeps it in two braids that hang to her waist when dancing. Her eyes are a rich bistre and usually appear flat, and her eyebrows are dark lines that frame them. When dancing, her stage makeup accents the light brown tint to her skin and she also wears eye powder to highlight her dark eyes. She usually has a neutral expression, even though her smile is quite beautiful. Her body is voluptuous and she has well defined muscles from dancing.
Drusilla is often seen in revealing clothes such as filmy pantaloons, skirts made out of veils, and with shoulders or arms bared above a close fitting bodice. She might wear a turban-like headdress, or something with many veils, or something equally exotic. She wears many bright bangles or other jewelry in addition, and her shoes are always curled at the toes and heavily embroidered. These are beautiful costumes made in India silk, often with rhinestones or sequins sewn into them to sparkle. However these are only worn on stage and never around anywhere except the Theater when preparing for a performance. She does not own any of these costumes.
Outside the Theater she normally wears sturdy cotton or wool dresses of green or gray, or other dark shades. They do not have the very full skirts of wealthier people, because she can’t afford the many petticoats and crinolines. Her shoes are dark leather and she wears the same two hats, alternating the days she wears them. Her hair is braided and coiled around her head. This is the wardrobe that she actually owns, and it’s in good condition but very plain. Her only vanity is that she buys cheap earrings of many different kinds, because she is particularly fond of earrings. They are done in copper or brass. She doesn’t own anything expensive.
Personality:
Drusilla has a healthy, strong body and an equally strong mind. She is completely emotionally reliant on herself since the incident with Yvonne, not trusting her happiness to the care of others. She likewise will not entrust her financial or physical security to others, and does not form friends easily. She gets along well with her fellow dancers and theater workers, but does not need them. She copes very well with disappointment, being somewhat of a fatalist. She does not care that her reputation is low because she is a dancer, and looked upon as not much better than a whore. The opinions of society mean little to her.
Likewise she does not care that society says she should find only men attractive. She has, since she was a teen, found men and women equally attractive physically, and sees no evil in it. She was spared any moral dilemmas on the matter for having lost any compunction about breaking the rules of society when she was little. She has no religious constraints and regards societal constraints as things to be bypassed when needed, and hence her bisexuality has never bothered her. She is, however, not the type to blast it out in protest against society, realizing that arrest for homosexuality would be the only result of that. Most of her lovers have been men, because of the need for caution in approaching women.
She’s not very learned, can barely read and write, and has no political opinions whatsoever. She simply doesn’t even think of the bigger picture. It’s not hers to worry about. What matters to her is what’s going to affect her personal life. However, this doesn’t mean she’s stupid. Drusilla is actually quite capable of forming a well thought out plan and executing it, and she thinks of things that may go wrong in the future and has plans for dealing with them. She is poor and is always attempting to find financial security. However, she won’t be reliant on others for it, so she cannot find it through marriage.
She is not a moral person. She lies if it benefits her, she doesn’t steal but she would if she was certain she could get away with it, and she doesn’t care if her actions hurt others as long as they don’t affect people close to her. Strangers are only bodies in the way to her, not faces and people to be cared about. She has no religion and doesn’t have any ethical mores against sleeping around. She doesn’t actually sell herself, as some dancers and actresses do, but she doesn’t condemn the practice. She’s lived out of wedlock before, with both men and women. She regards the rules of society as bendable and breakable at will, as long as she can avoid repercussions. She is very good at pretending to be other than what she is to get her way. She also uses the names Drusilla and Jane interchangeably.
History:
Drusilla was born on a cold Wednesday night in a small, run-down house in London. Her father was Frederick Poole, a cabman, and her mother was Yasmeen bint Mohammed bin Omar Al-Thani, an immigrant from Morocco. However, Yasmeen did not want the bad reputation associated with immigrants and changed her name to Jasmine Poole when she married Frederick. It was not a love match, but a marriage of convenience for both of them. Jasmine was willing and able to keep a house and Frederick could provide for her. They developed a friendship eventually but it never grew into love.
They did have four children, however, and three of them lived. First Jasmine gave birth to Alfred John Poole, then to Drusilla Jane, then to Kenneth William, and then to Douglas Patrick. Douglas Patrick died when he was three of diphtheria, but both of Drusilla’s other brothers are alive. Alfred followed in his father’s footsteps and expanded on them, building a small but successful cab company, and Kenneth turned out no good at all after his mother died, becoming a gambler who lives off what he can earn.
Drusilla herself grew up well. She was a poor man’s daughter, and got only the smallest education. She learned to read and write, but slowly and with difficulty, and that only because her mother insisted that she learn something to make her more appealing for marriage. However her education stopped when she was twelve and went to work in a factory. She did her best to retain it but some of it has been lost. She did not, however, retain any of the religious training she received, thinking it all repressive claptrap. Her morals, among the company of factory girls, took a decided downhill plunge. At thirteen she blossomed into a very shapely girl, and was spotted by a dance teacher for a ballet corps. It was also at this time that she discovered that girls and boys both were attractive, although she was smart enough to hide the fact.
Her mother disapproved of the idea of Drusilla dancing. However, Jasmine died of cholera not long after, and Drusilla, seeing her future options shrinking before her eyes, persuaded her father to let her take the lessons and join the corps. Drusilla was taught ballet and, because of her darker skin and heritage, the dancing teacher decided that she would also learn “Arabic” dances. The deal was that she would get the lessons and room and board, but would have to dance for the company for four years with only room and board afterwards.
She did well, but never became star material at ballet. She did better with the English perceptions of Arabic dances, and eventually became semi-prominent in the theater where she worked in that venue. That would have been good career start, no doubt, except that it was a very small theater. She could not secure another position elsewhere, because of the contract. She was stuck in a dead-end theater. She realized this and by the time she was sixteen began to look around for a man to marry. However, having inherited some of her mother’s coloring and not being pale white, even though only about as dark as a tanned woman, she wasn’t acceptable marriage material for most men. The fact that she was attracted equally to women as men did not hurt her search but made her less vigilant in the look out for available men.
Then, when she was eighteen, Drusilla met Yvonne Vioget at a performance of Swan Lake, in which Yvonne was Odette and Drusilla was merely a swan maiden. Yvonne was caring, smart, and beautiful, and the two developed a friendship that deepened into something more. She stopped trying to find a man to marry and did not attempt to find another theater to work at. For two years Drusilla and Yvonne were as close as a married couple, although of course not actually able to be married. Then the management of the ballet company found out from a tale carrying chorus girl, and both Yvonne and Drusilla were fired and they had to leave London hastily to avoid the public reaction against homosexuals. Drusilla proposed that they should stick together but Yvonne, fearing that this sort of thing would happen again and again if they remained together, decided it was best if they stay apart.
Drusilla was unhappy with the decision and followed Yvonne for a year, always trying to get her to change her mind. Finally, Drusilla was taken ill with pneumonia, and was in hospital for three months, unable to see Yvonne. When she was released, she found that Yvonne had married a Frenchman and returned to France with him. The news was crushing to Drusilla, and she did not attempt to return to the temporary job she had gotten before the pneumonia. She went about in a daze for two weeks before reality came crashing down on her head in the form of collectors threatening her with debtor’s prison if she didn’t pay her hospital bills.
Deciding there was nothing there for her, Drusilla skipped town without paying. She took the rail as far as she could go North, ending up in a small city. It was here that she started to build her stage persona of Ishtar, profiting finally from her darker than white skin. Not caring about the correct depiction of her mother’s culture at all, she felt free to conform to stereotypes of Arabia, performing many sinuous dances to English imitations of Arabic music. She remained here for a year before she felt that she could make more with a bigger theater and better troupe, and so she moved to Lindebo three years ago. She auditioned for a place as a chorus dancer in the ballet corps of the Lindeman Theater and then, when the managers found out about her talent in other forms of dance, also became featured in “shows from Arabia” along with other dancers of her sort. Now, she is “Ishtar” in a show that also features “The Queen of Sheba” and various other fictitious Arabic dancers.
Strengths:
- Healthy
- Strong
- Emotionally coping and physically capable
- Able to present a convincing lie
- Talented dancer
- Dancer, low reputation
- Not wealthy
- Getting older and not married
- Bisexual
- Not very educated
- No morals
I don’t have any.
Picture:
Shot at 2007-07-14
Jane Poole - July 15, 2007 07:56 AM (GMT)
She's done now.
Etcetera - July 15, 2007 07:12 PM (GMT)
And I think she looks fine!
Appruved :banana:
Appruved :banana:
Mjinga - July 15, 2007 07:51 PM (GMT)
Ja, I approve meself again. :mjinga:
(I only changed the name, naught else, Kris)
(I only changed the name, naught else, Kris)