Post by VICTORIA FRANKENSTEIN on Mar 14, 2012 20:05:09 GMT -5
Victoria Frankenstein
"Every act of creation, is first an act of destruction."
[/size]"Every act of creation, is first an act of destruction."
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Alias: Pollux or Mika
Other Characters: N/A, first character
Rewritten City Found Via: Leffie? On FFN.
Contact: polluxdftba@gmail.com
Comments: Yes, Victor is now a she. I made suggestions below for other gender-flipped characters, but they by no means need to be adhered to. The idea was to capture Frankenstein during his university years, before he created the monster, and prevent his/her fate. I apologize for all my OOC awkwardness and my incessant clogging up of the chat box over the last weekish with random questions. Thanks for all you people that helped me out, and I'm sorry if I was annoying.I honestly don't mean it. (I type too much. I type too much when I'm nervous. >.<)
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00I. full name - Victoria Rue Beaufort Frankenstein
0II. canon or original - Canon: Frankenstein
III. years of age - 27 (May 23)
0IV. orientation (optional) - Bisexual
00V. social status - High Class (Her family has money, she doesn't often use it.)
0VI. occupation - Graduate Student at NYU working towards a PhD in Biochemical Engineering/Stem Cell Researcher
00I. play by - Sophia Bush
0II. body type - Taller than average, only a bit lanky but solidly built
III. height - 5'7'' or 1.7m
0IV. eyes color - Green/Hazel
00V. description -
She dresses simply, never anything too trendy. Lots of black and white, countless pairs of jeans and slacks, the occasional formal dress. Everything she wears is a bit formal, excluding her single pair of sweatpants and the array of t-shirts with witty remarks that people rarely see. She rarely wears makeup other than a powder foundation, but will make up as the occasion requires. Victoria runs long distances (10mi/16km and longer) as often as she can, preferring scenery to the treadmill; preferring anything to a treadmill. Her long distance running means she doesn't really require any other exercise and keeps what she sees as her overly lanky figure a bit more solid and filled out. Despite her height and looks, Victoria manages to be the sort of person who no one pays any mind to, no matter where she sits in the room.
00I. overall personality -
Victoria is one of those people who honestly have more going on in their heads than they let on. She sees her mind as the space that is exclusively hers, and as a result is generally very honest with herself and is reluctant to clue people into exactly what she is thinking. Victoria knows that if someone doesn't know your true opinion, they can't criticize it. If one works terribly hard to gain her trust, Victoria will be much more willing to tell them exactly what she's thinking.
Raised in a political family, Victoria learned how to use this mindset to her advantage, she often appears very moderate and sometimes un-opinionated. While it grates a bit on her nerves, she can conduct small talk with most anyone and can hold long conversations with people she doesn't find completely disagreeable. She is most often seen as very polite and well-mannered. She doesn't particularly enjoy huge social gatherings, but she will attend them if she sees it as required. Ideally, she just keeps away from most people. She prefers smaller gatherings of people she knows, and one-on-one contact the best. Keeping face is hard, but trying to make /everyone/ like you as you is much harder.
Put bluntly and most straightforward, Victoria can be very sexually oblivious. She knows that she's pretty, but in her own eyes, it's completely irrelevant, so she often misses pick-up lines that comment on her looks. Seeing her own parents relationship, while she can be open to flings, if you want anything more, you'll have to work really hard to earn her trust. If you ask her out before she really trusts you, she'll be really reluctant to go any further. Though, if you find her outright insulting you, or you come home to her eating out of your fridge, even if you have yet to give her the key (or permission), you'll probably be fine. You're very likely to be friend-zoned before you can get anywhere with her.
Not saying the friend-zone is a terrible place to be. She's fiercely loyal, and when she rationally thinks it through, always keeps her word. If you find yourself among Victoria's friends, it is very likely she'd literally die for you. If there is any downside, It is most often Victoria's friends that bear the brunt of the silence when she gets caught up in her whirlwinds of emotion, or becomes inexorably obsessed with some subject. She honestly does need her friends though, because it is often only her friends that can calm her down and anchor her back in reality.
While she rarely ever gets more than seven hours every night, Victoria loves sleep. For no logical reason, Victoria has a very sentimental attachment to sleep. While not always the neatest person, Victoria is organized and never ceases to amaze people who see the way she (never) organizes her living space. Her lack of organizational system tends to not matter because whenever possible, she keeps her paperwork digital. Victoria is a bit of a technophile and has a tablet that never leaves her side as well as a desktop that rarely goes a day without use. As well as she likes technology, she also has a notebook that she writes in religiously (because computers crash) and almost always prefers reading books in print.
0II. strengths -
--Obviously, Victoria is rich, and very good looking, but she doesn't use these as strengths. She prefers it when people don't recognize this fact and abhors people using these facts to make judgements about her. She often plays them down as much as is logical to avoid such situations.
--She's highly intelligent, and values the intelligence of others.
--Victoria is strong in her convictions, always standing by who and what she believes.
--Her general demeanor is diplomatic, and she can get along with (not necessarily like) most people.
III. weaknesses -
--Victoria can also be very headstrong and stubborn, sometimes she'll get fixed with one view, and be unable to change her own opinion despite any evidence otherwise.
--This goes hand in hand with how easily she can become completely obsessed with one subject. Obsessed to the point at which she will neglect her basic needs in the pursuit of the subject. Sometimes going days with very little sleep and rarely eating.
--Despite being a scientist and generally logical, Victoria is easily swayed by emotion, and sometimes tosses logic out entirely in favor of following a whim.
0IV. goals -
Tomorrow:
-Go buy more proper coffee
Next Year:
-Actually do as her father wishes, and make some friends.
Next Five Years:
-Finish Her Graduate Degree
-Get a dual citizenship (she likes it here)
Eventually:
-Through Success, win back the approval of her mother (not that she'd ever say that out loud.)
00I. notable family & friends - Alphonse Frankenstein (Father), Caroline Frankensein nee Beaufort (Mother), Ernest (Younger Brother by 7 years) and William (Youngest Brother by 9) Frankenstein; Hennrietta (orig. Henry) Clerval (Good Friend); Wesley (orig. Elizabeth) Lavenza (Good Friend)
0II. overall history -
Alphonse Frankenstein was the only son of a well-off family, a well-off family that was generally apathetic about social issues. Early on, Alphonse was very passionate about social issues and, through the political system, advocated for every benefit that he believed the government should supply. Caroline Beaufort was also very passionate about social issues, and it was through this shared passion that the two met. Less than a year after they were married, their first child, Victoria was born. At the same time, Alphonse's career took off, postponing the birth of their second child Ernest until Victoria had reached age seven. William, their youngest, was born two years later.
Caroline was mostly responsible for raising and educating their children. All the children grew up learning French (from their mother) and German (from their father) as their native languages. Caroline was raised in a very conservative, Roman Catholic home, and she brought that experience to her own family when it came time to educate her own children.
Victoria proceeded relatively normally through primary and secondary school. Victoria had always been labeled as "the quiet one" in primary and secondary school regularly sitting somewhere in the middle of the room, never saying or sharing much with the class, but always receiving perfect marks and showing great insight. She never shared her personal life much, given her family's money and father's position, but she has two good friends that she's had since before primary school, Henrietta Clerval and Wesley Lavenza.
There was, most literally, no greater joy in Victoria's life than learning. While Victoria is well-rounded, her particular passion was always in the sciences. Victoria's father encouraged her passion, while her mother, at the time remained indifferent. Her father also fostered a love of languages in his children, teaching Victoria and her brothers Dutch as well as German, while supporting Victoria's pursuit of Italian, Spanish (Castilian and Catalan) and English.
Victoria's mother continued to remain quiet on the topic of her daughter's preference towards the sciences throughout secondary school, but when Victoria refused to be confirmed in the Catholic Church at age seventeen, tensions between mother and daughter grew much more prevalent.
While she had a passion for science, Victoria finished secondary school, and didn't specialize at all during her four years at the University of Geneva. She studied most everything; taking all the courses she could in an attempt to refine her inspiration. As she narrowed her focus onto biochemical engineering, her mother began to voice a vehement disapproval of her daughter's choice of careers. Facing this disapproval, she transferred to the Federal Institution of Technology in Zurich. In an additional two years she formally received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees.
Wishing to continue her education, but also to escape the tense atmosphere at home, at her father's urgings, she moved to New York and continued her studies at New York University. She's been working on her Doctorate for almost three years now and in accordance with her linguaphilia, Victoria has been learning Japanese, Swahili, and Gaelic.
III. sample post -Victoria stepped out of her kitchen and towards the main window of her flat. She looked out at the few parts of the characteristic New York skyline that she could see, and her coffee paused in front of her mouth.
She blinked and took a sip, effectively ending the staring contest with the many still-dark windows of the skyscrapers lining the early-morning horizon. Even after all this time, New York remained a mystery to her; she always spent most all of her time, working, in the university and only rarely did she step out to truly enjoy the city for what it was worth. Despite being in New York for about 3 years, she still hadn't expanded much socially, as per her father's wishes, but socialization had always been a secondary priority in her life.
She sipped the coffee mug in her hand. The idea of studying abroad hadn't even occurred to her until she had effectively chosen her major. Being the daughter of a politician, she knew what it was like to travel, but at the time she hadn't had plans to ever live anywhere other than Switzerland. Now, three years into her graduate degree, she had decided she rather liked New York. Of the people, she wasn't as sure.
Victoria walked back sofa in the middle of her apartment. She put her coffee cup on the table and laid down. Staring first at the ceiling, and then next towards the invitation she had put her coffee cup next to. She thought about how despite a successful three years for work she'd had, her social life was as dismal as ever, especially with Henrietta in England and Wesley back in Switzerland. She had managed to not meet anyone new, and only find rare occasion to Skype with her brothers. She had seen her father a little more than a year back, while he was on a trip to the states, but even now, she marveled at how efficiently she had managed to close herself off.
She looked at the letter she had left on the table a few days previously.
Paper and Ink, Handwritten even.
It was from her father, it had asked all the usual things, it asked after her studies, her new vocabulary, and always about any new friends. Occasionally there'd be a letter from Henri or Wes included that talked of all the fun they'd been been having. She always dreading writing her comparably lack-luster responses.
She glanced back at the invitation, letting the anxiety creep slowly into her mind before she washed it away. She continued this cycle for some time, lulling herself into an uncharacteristic early morning nap.
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SYR INTEGRA of CAUTION 2.0 created this, modified by Yols with Shakespeare lines.
