Name:Alice Viola Alexander

Avatar: Gemma Ward

Occupation: Work? Alice has never worked a day in her life, something which subsequently makes her feel a bit ashamed.

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Appearance: Although she is possibly the furthest think you could get from the 'gibson girl' ideal, Alice is, in her mother's eyes, the epitome of what a lovely aristocratic young lady should look like.

She's very pretty in a young, innocent and pure way. She has very nice, very pale skin that looks as if it has never seen sunlight except for when a little bit of color floods onto it when she's a bit embarassed or when she exerts herself. In her opinion her eyes are her best feature. They're the soft blue color of the sky on a brisk autumn day and are larger than the average eye and set fairly far apart. Though they are the only part of her being that she really takes pride in, there are certain people who insist that they are eery, and to unearthly and childish looking.

Miss Alexander was not blessed with a nice curvaceous body. Oh no, Alice has a 'boyish' figure. This isn't entirely true, she does have a fairly small waist due to excessive corset use but she doesn't have a very large chest and she has very narrow hips.

Her face is roughly the shape of a heart. She has a ski-slope nose and upside down heart shaped lips that form an easy smile. Overall she's a pretty girl. She's attractive in her youth and delicate appearance even though she's not what you'd call a conventional beauty.

Personality:
Alice is most often described by people who know her as 'sweet'. She finds this statement ridiculous for what girl hasn't been taught over and over again to be sweet? Alice truly is a good-natured girl though. She has a certain soft spot for animals and disadvantaged people that has no ulterior motive. She truly cares about other living things and is at times perhaps a bit too empathetic. She can become sulky and not her usual charming self after witnessing any sort of injustice.

She appears to be a docile, complacent delicate little thing but that is really just because of her 'excellent breeding'. Alice has a very active mind. She often can't stop thinking and has very strong opinions and is very stubborn even if she doesn't always act on it. She often thinks horrible thoughts about all the people she meets. How superficial that woman is, what a bigot that man is. Things like that.

Once Alice is comfotable she will come out as charmingly stubborn and if she gets upset, unfortunately bitter. She's generally good-natured but at times she's rather spiteful of the world.

History:
Alice Alexander was born into a wealthy, noble family. Well. Noble if you consider a knight noble. Her father had written a book of poetry in his twenties which sold like mad and after writing a few more good literary works, was knighted. Her family home was large dark, and most vividly cold. Alice never particularly liked it and spent most of her time outside. She had numerous tutors up until her 8th year.

It was at this time her father began his little problem. She suppoeses he always had it, it was just now that he got bad at it. He had a terrible gambling problem and squandered away the family fortune. Before Alice's mother new what had happened she was the wife of a common gambler with the title of Lady she'd always dreamt of but absolutely no money.

Thankfully it was at this time that Alice was sent to finishing school. Alice deeply hated the place though she was popular and did well in her subjects. Her unconditional kindness for everyone made the cruelest girls see her as someone who was not a threat so they treated her with polite kindness and purely social friendship at times. Alice had a few close friends and excelled at most of her classes with the exception of embroidering. It was here that she got very good at the harp which played for 2 hours each day.

A few months ago it was finally time for Alice to graduate, which meant that her quest for a husbund and introduction to society was finally about to begin. She truly did not wish to return home and prayed for it every day. She got her wish. After her father's badly covered up suicide Alice was sent to live with relatives in Lindeboshire. Alice, who was once a happy, cheerful girl has been very melancholy for the past few months but now that her mourning period is nearly over it's time for her to be thrown into society.

Strengths:
•Her 'Good Breeding' [though that could be a weakness as well]
•Her looks. Even if it's in a strange way she's still fairly attractive.
•Her musical skills.
•Her good taste in music, clothes and art.
•Her genuinely kind nature.
•Her good manners and everything else learned at finishing school.

Weaknesses:
•Her naivity
•Her inability to not blame herself.
•Letting her stubborn nature show, it doesn't happen often but it does happen.
•Her current sulkiness.
•Being bad at Embroidery
•Being bad at Sewing
•Being bad at Consoling small children, she is still sees herself as one.
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Oh, Just a side note. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to be Alice's 'Relatives. It'd be really great. They'd just have to be wealthy and part of society and all. Thank you!

You should know that one of our admins is visually impaired and has a hard time reading small text. Please keep to the board standard.

I will look over the app momentarily.

Alright, having read it, I can say... Nice job on the charry! Just a few things before you can get started. :)

You'll need to be consistent about calling her either Andrea or Alice.

This is the biggie, coming up. You cannot be the daughter of a Duke. That is the highest peerage rank, and being the daughter of Duke, no matter how disgraced, would put you above the status of the wife of an Earl. Currently we are disallowing characters with equal or greater status than the Lady Lindeboshire.

Since you would control your relatives in Lindeboshire as NPCs, I would much prefer if they were not of higher rank than a baronet or knight, certainly no greater than a Baron or Baroness. If you wish to live with a Baron or Baroness, then you will need to explain also in your history why those people are in Lindebo. A knight or baronet will not need such an explanation since those are not peerage titles.

Since this will require you to rework your history, I will look over it again at that time and see if I have any further comments on it.

And the third and last thing:

I might possibly be able to conceed that seeing herself as a child might be a weakness, but I am afraid that being consoling towards them is not really a weakness. I do not understand how sewing and embroidery can be weaknesses.

But other than the duke thing, those are minor changes. :) You should be good to go in no time.

Please post here again when you have finished making your edits, so that I can know to look at her again.

Oo! Oo! Oo! Her name is Alexander! She could be the daughter of Rebecca's brother!! He DID squander away his money!

Hmmm?? She'd have to live at the castle though. And stuff. And Rebecca would have to try and get a sulky girl back into society, which is NOT something Rebecca would like to be doing... Hehehehe, this could make for some fun posting... She'd probably hire someone to take care of it a lot of the time though. So you could have an npc to sort of... work with. Like a governess, but... not. A tutor-thing.

K, tell me what you think.

Ummm... and I think maybe she means she's not good at consoling children and sewing and embroidering? Is that it?

Anyway, you'll be appruved soon enough. ;) We just need to place her, sort of.

Eep. Sorry about changing the font.

Google failed me and I couldn't find ranking orders while I was writing her application so I sort of convinced mysel a duke could be lower than an earl which now thinking about it, really does't make much sense. :)

Okay, so I changed her father's title to a Knight.

And yes, I did mean that she was bad at all those things listed in weaknesses. I just made it a bit clearer.

And I think that's a really good idea making Alice be Rebecca's neice! Lots of good RP opportunities. And Rebecca doesn't have to do anything that's out of character so don't worry about that.

And basically what happened with the name is halfway through I decided to change her name to Alice so I guess I must've missed some of the Andreas still there.

I fixed my application :D

Just say if there's anything else.

P.S. I was wondering if my signature's okay. Photobucket says it's the right size but it looks a little big. Just wondering.

Siggy's okay!

Appruved!

I can change the brother's age, making him a couple of years older, maybe, and hmmm... I'll look through Rebecca's profile and see if there's anything else that looks like it needs to be changed. Do you have msn/aim?

EDIT: K, I made him 37, so he'd have become a father at 20. That's not too far-fetched methinks, hm?

Thank you! And the brother thing sounds fine to me.

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So now I just have to wait for one other stamp of approval right?

HAhaha! And here was me posting "It's fine with me, you just have to talk to Kris since you're related to her charry." (Yes I started writing this post long before I finished it, got distracted)

But you've already settled that. :)

As the niece of a Countess-by-marriage, your status is approximately equal to that of a Baroness. I think. This one I'm not sure on, whereas the Duke thing I can find you refs for. :)

Hihihi, you're also a prime target for a Baron trying to find a wife so that he can improve his status... I wonder if there's any of those floating around? ;)

I don't think that being bad at sewing and embroidery particularly counts as a good weakness, since you'd never have to do them for a living anyway, but... meh. Me no want to sweat it.

Appruuuuuuved! :mjinga:

Moving your status so you can post and suchlike, reserving the avvy if Kris didn't already do it, adding you to the masterlist and all that jazz.