Application: Ruby City
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hemlockgardenAfter all, Marie Curie didn't invent the cotton gin in an afternoon!
PLAYER
Name: Elem (Elemental)
Age: 29
Personal Journal: n/a
E-mail: incidental.girl@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: razorgirlmolly Tumblr: elementalsight
CHARACTER
Name: Morticia Addams (née Frump)
Canon: Addams Family (TV Series)
Age: Unknown/30's
Timeline: Mid season 2, post 'Psychology"
Personality:
Morticia is a woman of layers, a housewife of the 60’s and is both a stereotype and a warping of what it meant to be a woman, a mother, and a wife at that time. She is kind, forthright and inviting to almost everyone, though she is quickly callus and cold (if ever polite) to anyone who wrongs her or her family. A gracious and welcoming hostess, Morticia takes everyone she meets at face value, giving them not only the benefit of the doubt but outright assuming that they are good people. She is often oblivious to things that might have a person read as less than 'good': Cleanliness, wealth and class are secondary to her, and a man carrying a loaded weapon or wrapped in bloody bandages is no extraordinary thing. Morticia's standards for people are far different from the 'norm'. If faced with Grimm’s fairytale, she would cry for the poor slain dragon or the misunderstood witch, and rage quietly at the terrible knight or the wicked children who had hurt them. Morticia likewise has little personal bias against thieves, murderers or crooks, as long as they’re not directly threatening her family. It is a sort of innocence, in a way, which comes from the Addams attitudes towards wealth, safety and death that means a murderer is simply a charming cleaning man, and a thief someone who simply doesn't know how to ask for money. Morticia, like all Addams, doesn't believe these actions are done to harm anyone and, more importantly, doesn't believe that anyone is hurt when they are done.
Morticia is a mother figure and has a distinct need to nurture. She has two children she dotes on, and her husband Gomez can often be seen as a larger child himself. In addition to her family she regularly takes in strays, (though the human ones tend to run away after a week of 'Addams care') and her charitable nature means she will be the first to offer help in a situation where she feels she can do something. She’s not actually meddlesome, but she will involve herself into any situation that seems to invite her to it, and is unlikely to leave until it is resolved or she has been properly asked to. She's unerringly polite, and even in her anger will remain frosty but composed. She expects the same politeness in return, and while she will explain if someone makes a seeming mistake in manners, she will not forgive repeated transgressions against propriety.
One of Morticia’s strengths is her even disposition, which allows her to work calmly through any of the chaos her family puts before her. She’s extremely quick witted and it’s rare that a situation leaves her without some plan of action or solution at hand. While her husband Gomez is technically the head of the family, she is truly the matriarch who rules the house with an even hand. This can leave her with somewhat muted reactions to things – it takes a great deal to upset her beyond a mild ‘oh dear’, and likewise an exclamation of joy might be a simple smile and ‘wonderful’. She's not a woman of outbursts and will rarely surprise herself, but she does express how she's feeling, often moved to poetic descriptions and mangled platitudes to try to convey herself.
Morticia is fiercely loyal to her family and to the Addams clan, and an attack on any of them is a personal insult of the worst kind. She's expelled guests for unkind words to her family and has helped develop complex schemes to ensure her family's happiness - up to and including plots to have teachers fired from her children's classes and dressing up as Santa Claus just to ensure the children knew he did exist. She does build friendships, and is protective of those within her social circle, but she hasn't had a great deal of luck developing any deep connections. It probably has something to do with the way people leave the neighbourhood/town/state/country after knowing her family for some time...
This is due again to Morticia’s rather differing baseline. It isn't 'normal flipped', but something much more complex. Morticia's ideals for beauty, safety and normalcy are all far from the norm. For the Addams, a broken mirror is seven years of good luck, and vultures are glorious birds. Likewise tulips are pedestrian flowers and songbirds are headache inducing pests - but neither are 'evil' nor 'wrong'. A clean home is still an important thing, but a room that is musty with age and disuse is homey and welcome, and being informed that her house is gloomy, dreary, or looks like it should be haunted are all great compliments to her, but she'll respect a neighbour's room in pastels and cream. She does not think that others who lack her sense of style or beauty are wrong – she simply views them as less fortunate, and does her best to see good in everyone, no matter how strange their tastes might be. For all that an Addams might play Throw The Hatchet At The Magpie or Alligator Wrestle, or suggest arsenic as a seasoning for your tea, there is absolutely no malice in their actions, and no intent to harm. To an outsider, the Addams might appear dysfunctional, and Morticia a mother intent on seeing her children dead. The truth is quite the opposite: the Addams family is a loving, deeply connected group and Morticia a mother who just wants her children to have the very best childhood, including the finest in axes, explosives, and poisonous pets.
Background: To be honest, Morticia has very little history before her marriage, as she rarely speaks on it. She was raised with her older sister, Ophelia, and was a dark, brooding child with a deep attachment to the occult. She met Gomez while he was courting her sister, and the sight of her cured him of all his ills. It was love at first sight, with Ophelia's blessing, and the pair were quickly wed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morticia_Addams
Abilities: The Addams are almost human, but not quite. Morticia's appearance is only slightly 'off' compared to much of her extended family and she emphasizes it further, but she comes across more as a gothic woman who's read a bit too many books on magic than an actual magic user to the casual eye. Those with powers would need to be very astute to sense anything awry.
Morticia is almost immortal: if it doesn't kill her outright, it’s probably not going to kill her. Chopping off her head or stabbing her through the heart would most assuredly end her life, but most other injuries heal in a matter of days to minutes. She is immensely strong (she can flip a man into a wall), is capable of short bursts of speed (a few seconds at a time), is familiar with dynamite and can build simple bombs, is impervious to loud noises (such as explosions), and is immune to any form of poison or hallucinogen. She does feel pain, but it rarely interferes with actions, and she finds many forms of pain pleasurable. She is known to smoke to relax – an act which means smoke literally emanates from her body – and is a very accomplished swordswoman, specifically fencing. She speaks a dozen languages including French, Italian, German and Spanish and Japanese, and can play the shamisen. She’s a passable cook, a rather terrible artist, and an accomplished dancer, knitter, and gardener. She is one of the few gardeners who has raised an African Strangler from a clipping and not yet died in its embrace.
One of Morticia’s greatest problems is that she thinks everyone she meets is just like her. She is probably going to accidentally hurt people.
First Person:
[Morticia's walking down the street, parasol up against the sun to prevent a tan and seemingly unbothered by the heat, despite her floor length lace dress. She certainly doesn't sweat, that would be horrendous! No, she's only bothered by the brightness of the sun, set at ease once she's inside the pleasantly dim tea shop for a few purchases. One thing about this city and it's strange portrayal of the future - the selection of tea has greatly improved!.
Purchases done she takes a seat in the corner with a cup of oolong steaming in front of her.]
Does anyone mind if I smoke?
[She takes the lack of response as approval and sighs in contentment as her hands wrap around her cup and smoke starts to seep from her skin, thicker than the steam from her tea. It's white and thankfully odourless and dissipates a foot or so away from her, before it threatens to fill the corner entirely.
She takes a sip from her cup and her blue eyes twinkle.]
This is lovely.
Third Person: Test drive: http://rubycity-ooc.dreamwidth.org/412503.html?thread=13172055#cmt13172055
PLAYER
Name: Elem (Elemental)
Age: 29
Personal Journal: n/a
E-mail: incidental.girl@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: razorgirlmolly Tumblr: elementalsight
CHARACTER
Name: Morticia Addams (née Frump)
Canon: Addams Family (TV Series)
Age: Unknown/30's
Timeline: Mid season 2, post 'Psychology"
Personality:
Morticia is a woman of layers, a housewife of the 60’s and is both a stereotype and a warping of what it meant to be a woman, a mother, and a wife at that time. She is kind, forthright and inviting to almost everyone, though she is quickly callus and cold (if ever polite) to anyone who wrongs her or her family. A gracious and welcoming hostess, Morticia takes everyone she meets at face value, giving them not only the benefit of the doubt but outright assuming that they are good people. She is often oblivious to things that might have a person read as less than 'good': Cleanliness, wealth and class are secondary to her, and a man carrying a loaded weapon or wrapped in bloody bandages is no extraordinary thing. Morticia's standards for people are far different from the 'norm'. If faced with Grimm’s fairytale, she would cry for the poor slain dragon or the misunderstood witch, and rage quietly at the terrible knight or the wicked children who had hurt them. Morticia likewise has little personal bias against thieves, murderers or crooks, as long as they’re not directly threatening her family. It is a sort of innocence, in a way, which comes from the Addams attitudes towards wealth, safety and death that means a murderer is simply a charming cleaning man, and a thief someone who simply doesn't know how to ask for money. Morticia, like all Addams, doesn't believe these actions are done to harm anyone and, more importantly, doesn't believe that anyone is hurt when they are done.
Morticia is a mother figure and has a distinct need to nurture. She has two children she dotes on, and her husband Gomez can often be seen as a larger child himself. In addition to her family she regularly takes in strays, (though the human ones tend to run away after a week of 'Addams care') and her charitable nature means she will be the first to offer help in a situation where she feels she can do something. She’s not actually meddlesome, but she will involve herself into any situation that seems to invite her to it, and is unlikely to leave until it is resolved or she has been properly asked to. She's unerringly polite, and even in her anger will remain frosty but composed. She expects the same politeness in return, and while she will explain if someone makes a seeming mistake in manners, she will not forgive repeated transgressions against propriety.
One of Morticia’s strengths is her even disposition, which allows her to work calmly through any of the chaos her family puts before her. She’s extremely quick witted and it’s rare that a situation leaves her without some plan of action or solution at hand. While her husband Gomez is technically the head of the family, she is truly the matriarch who rules the house with an even hand. This can leave her with somewhat muted reactions to things – it takes a great deal to upset her beyond a mild ‘oh dear’, and likewise an exclamation of joy might be a simple smile and ‘wonderful’. She's not a woman of outbursts and will rarely surprise herself, but she does express how she's feeling, often moved to poetic descriptions and mangled platitudes to try to convey herself.
Morticia is fiercely loyal to her family and to the Addams clan, and an attack on any of them is a personal insult of the worst kind. She's expelled guests for unkind words to her family and has helped develop complex schemes to ensure her family's happiness - up to and including plots to have teachers fired from her children's classes and dressing up as Santa Claus just to ensure the children knew he did exist. She does build friendships, and is protective of those within her social circle, but she hasn't had a great deal of luck developing any deep connections. It probably has something to do with the way people leave the neighbourhood/town/state/country after knowing her family for some time...
This is due again to Morticia’s rather differing baseline. It isn't 'normal flipped', but something much more complex. Morticia's ideals for beauty, safety and normalcy are all far from the norm. For the Addams, a broken mirror is seven years of good luck, and vultures are glorious birds. Likewise tulips are pedestrian flowers and songbirds are headache inducing pests - but neither are 'evil' nor 'wrong'. A clean home is still an important thing, but a room that is musty with age and disuse is homey and welcome, and being informed that her house is gloomy, dreary, or looks like it should be haunted are all great compliments to her, but she'll respect a neighbour's room in pastels and cream. She does not think that others who lack her sense of style or beauty are wrong – she simply views them as less fortunate, and does her best to see good in everyone, no matter how strange their tastes might be. For all that an Addams might play Throw The Hatchet At The Magpie or Alligator Wrestle, or suggest arsenic as a seasoning for your tea, there is absolutely no malice in their actions, and no intent to harm. To an outsider, the Addams might appear dysfunctional, and Morticia a mother intent on seeing her children dead. The truth is quite the opposite: the Addams family is a loving, deeply connected group and Morticia a mother who just wants her children to have the very best childhood, including the finest in axes, explosives, and poisonous pets.
Background: To be honest, Morticia has very little history before her marriage, as she rarely speaks on it. She was raised with her older sister, Ophelia, and was a dark, brooding child with a deep attachment to the occult. She met Gomez while he was courting her sister, and the sight of her cured him of all his ills. It was love at first sight, with Ophelia's blessing, and the pair were quickly wed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morticia_Addams
Abilities: The Addams are almost human, but not quite. Morticia's appearance is only slightly 'off' compared to much of her extended family and she emphasizes it further, but she comes across more as a gothic woman who's read a bit too many books on magic than an actual magic user to the casual eye. Those with powers would need to be very astute to sense anything awry.
Morticia is almost immortal: if it doesn't kill her outright, it’s probably not going to kill her. Chopping off her head or stabbing her through the heart would most assuredly end her life, but most other injuries heal in a matter of days to minutes. She is immensely strong (she can flip a man into a wall), is capable of short bursts of speed (a few seconds at a time), is familiar with dynamite and can build simple bombs, is impervious to loud noises (such as explosions), and is immune to any form of poison or hallucinogen. She does feel pain, but it rarely interferes with actions, and she finds many forms of pain pleasurable. She is known to smoke to relax – an act which means smoke literally emanates from her body – and is a very accomplished swordswoman, specifically fencing. She speaks a dozen languages including French, Italian, German and Spanish and Japanese, and can play the shamisen. She’s a passable cook, a rather terrible artist, and an accomplished dancer, knitter, and gardener. She is one of the few gardeners who has raised an African Strangler from a clipping and not yet died in its embrace.
One of Morticia’s greatest problems is that she thinks everyone she meets is just like her. She is probably going to accidentally hurt people.
First Person:
[Morticia's walking down the street, parasol up against the sun to prevent a tan and seemingly unbothered by the heat, despite her floor length lace dress. She certainly doesn't sweat, that would be horrendous! No, she's only bothered by the brightness of the sun, set at ease once she's inside the pleasantly dim tea shop for a few purchases. One thing about this city and it's strange portrayal of the future - the selection of tea has greatly improved!.
Purchases done she takes a seat in the corner with a cup of oolong steaming in front of her.]
Does anyone mind if I smoke?
[She takes the lack of response as approval and sighs in contentment as her hands wrap around her cup and smoke starts to seep from her skin, thicker than the steam from her tea. It's white and thankfully odourless and dissipates a foot or so away from her, before it threatens to fill the corner entirely.
She takes a sip from her cup and her blue eyes twinkle.]
This is lovely.
Third Person: Test drive: http://rubycity-ooc.dreamwidth.org/412503.html?thread=13172055#cmt13172055
