Post by georgie on May 3, 2010 16:44:28 GMT -5
Hi, my name is Katie and this is my First character. I found this site through an ad on London Times. Something you should know about me is I'm going to a theater college in October.
Canon: The Phantom of The Opera
Custom Title: Petite Blonde Angel
PHYSICAL
Age: Sixteen
Gender: female
Appearance: Meg is a rather beautiful girl. She has golden blonde hair with a gentle curl that, while dancing at the opera, fell down to almost her butt but she cut it so it falls to her mid-back now. She has a round face that has some angles to it. She has large, wide, wide-spaced dark blue eyes with dark blond eyebrows over them. She has a thin, rounded nose and wide, high cheekbones that are prominate. Her lips are a bit on the thin side for her face but the work for her and her chin is rounded. She has a long, slender neck and thin shoulders. She has long thin limbs and thin hands with long fingers. She has a dancer's build but is still rather curvy.
Height: 5'5"
Body: A dancer's build, thin and willowly yet curvy
Other distinguishing features:
Wardrobe: Meg likes to dress nice and keeps her appearence tidy. She is usually seen in dancewear like leotards, skirts and pink tights. She's loves converse sneakers and is usually wearing them, unless she's dancing. If she's dancing, she wears pink satin toe shoes. When she's not dancing, Meg likes to wear jeans and just a plain tee shirt or tank top with perhaps a sweater over it. She likes to wear her hair down, unless she's practicing, but does pull it up when it's hot out or it's annoying her that day. Apart from her dance clothes, Meg really doesn't have any sense of style at the moment. She knows almost nothing about fashion and she doesn't realize dance attire isn't very fashionable.[/ul]
Play By: Jayne Wisener
PERSONALITY
General personality: Meg is a very sweet girl. She becomes overexcited very easily and almost seems to bounce as she walks. She almost constantly has a large grin on her small face, which makes everyone else around her smile. She cares greatly about her friends and animals because "she has a large heart", as her mother use to always say. She would never stab a true friend in the back. Miss Giry is a dancer, first and foremost, and is usually taking some kind of dance class when she's not at school. She misses the opera dearly and knows she always will and can't go back, since it burned down.
Meg can come off as a bit annoying at times but she's really just enthusatic. Her overexcitement gets the best of her. She can't help it, it's just how she is. When you get passed her enthusism, she's a very sweet and kind girl. She's a very loyal friend to all. She holds friendship in very high regard, along with ballet (With is her first love). She also loves reading, which is what she would do backstage at the opera, when she wasn't performing or practicing. She loved hearing stories about The Phantom of the Opera and remembers everyone. While she is afraid of him, she can't help but feel sorry for him and want to meet him. She knows her mother knew the Phantom, since she always had messages from him, but she never introduced her to him. She would very much like to meet him, if he is still alive (since she was told he died by her mother before she moved to New York).
Quotes, frequently used expressions: "He's here, the Phantom of the Opera" was heard quite a bit through the opera house when Meg lived there.
She is also called the "petite blonde angel". She also likes to tell a story about the Phantom, describing him and warning people to be on their guard.
Likes:
Dislikes:
Strengths: (please name three)
Weaknesses:(please name three)
BACKGROUND
Family: Pierre Giry - father [deceased]
Antoinette Beaumont-Giry - mother
Education: Finishing High School
Occupation: Ballet Dancer
Worst past experience: Leaving Paris after the Opera House burned down
Best past experience: Dancing at the Opera House and meeting her best friend, Christine Daae
Image:
History: Marguerite Lilianne Giry was born to Monsieur Pierre and Madame Antoinette Giry in Paris, France on August 27th. Shortly after her birth, Pierre died in an accident at his work, leaving Antoinette to raise their daughter alone. She became the ballet mistress at the Opera House in Paris and she decided to raise her daughter there while training her to be a ballerina in the Opera's Ballet Corps. As she grew up in the Opera House, Meg knew every inch of it and loved to wander around when she wasn't practicing. As soon as she could walk, Madame Giry (her mother) put Meg in training to be a ballerina at the opera and she had a feeling she would love it.
When she was six years old, her mother brought an old friend's child to live and train at the opera house. That child was Christine Daae. Meg and Christine became friends very quickly and have always been best friends. They became as close as sisters and they told each other everything. The years passed quickly and, just after she turned fifteen, the two friends were performing in the opera's new production of Hannibal starring the opera's diva, Carlotta Giudicelli, as Elyssa and the opera's leading tenor, Ubaldo Piangi, as Hannibal. When a drop fell on La Carlotta and she stormed off the stage, vowing not to perform until "these things stopped happening", the young Miss Giry quickly suggested her friend, the young Miss Daae, could sing the part since she was taking lessons from a great unknown tutor.
Christine performed the role to great success. While being happy for her best friend and almost sister, Meg couldn't help but feel a little jealous. She never had that much attention and felt rather forgotten that night, especially when her mother said Christine did very well and the ballet corps, including Meg, were "a discrase". She saw Christine wander off not in the direction, totally distracted. She followed her friend and told her she thought she was perfect. The two friends went to Christine's dressing room and she told her that her unknown teacher was really the angel of music that her father spoke of. She was unsure if she believed her best friend but before they could talk anymore on the subject, her mother burst in the room and told her to come and practice.
Meg practiced with the other ballet girls and then went to look for Christine but the key that was always in her dressing room door with the great tassel on the end was missing. She went and got the spare. Miss Giry opened the door and Christine was no where to be found. She saw a light coming from the mirror and she went towards it. Pushing Christine's dressing room mirror open, She discovered there was a passage behind it. It was dark and damp behind the mirror as she walked down that hall and she had to try to avoid the rats. Before she could get too far, her mother stopped her, took her by the wrist and took her back to the ballet dormatories. She still wondered where her best friend could have gone to.
In the next opera, Il Muto, Christine was to play the Countess but that role was given to La Carlotta. Instead, Christine played the page boy lover of the countess and Little Meg played the small featured role of the maid and danced in the ballet corps. Hald way through the performance, La Carlotta began to croak and Christine was announced to play the Countess. Meg was jealous again but she had little time to be jealous, as she had to dance in the ballet from act three of the opera in the mean time. Durning the dance, scene changer Joseph Buquet (who told the best stories about the Phantom) was dropped from the catwalk, after being hung by the Phantom, whose shadow the ballet girls saw on the back wall durning the dance. Meg ran with all the other ballet girls to her mother, wondering where Christine was.
New Years Eve came which mean the Opera's annual Masquerade ball. Meg dressed up as a circus ring master, with a pink jacket, of course, and complete with top hat with mesh vail. She loved her costumes and was having so much fun, dancing all night. She didn't really see much of Christine that night, since she was with her date, the Vicomte de Changy named Raoul, and she rather missed her friend. She had no idea her friend was engaged. The Phantom showed up, dressed as Red Death, as he commanded his opera, Don Juan Trimphant, would be performed with Christine in the starring role. As rehearsals started, she saw less and less of her best friend.
For Don Juan Trimphant, Meg was given the small featured role of a bar maid. She was losing hope she would ever get to "break out" of those roles fast. When Piangi reentered for his scene was Christine, Meg knew something was different about him though she didn't know what. When Christine unmasked him, she realized it was The Phantom and she watched as her best friend was kidnapped. She didn't understand how The Phantom knew Christine but she knew she wanted to help get her friend back. She spotted her mother taking the Vicomte Raoul to Christine. She said she'd go with them but her mother said it was too dangerous. She joined the mob and was the first in the Phantom's lair, sliding on her stomach under the portcullas. She went over to where she saw a figure sitting on a stone throne with a cloak over him. She went over silently and kneeled beside the throne. Pulling the cloak gently off, she found that there was nothing there except a white mask. The Phantom's mask.
That night, the Phantom cut the chandelier down and it burst into flames, burning down the Opera house. Meg lost her home that night. She knew she would always miss her home but she had to move on. She stayed in Paris for two years but no other opera companies had any opens for ballet girls. She decided it would be best for her to move to another city and get different training so she could become a proper ballerina, not just an opera ballet girl. As much as it pained Madame Giry, she gave her now seventeen year old daughter her blessing and Meg left for New York City, which had one of the world's best ballets. She still wonders every day what happened to Christine, the Vicomte Raoul and The Phantom and hopes one day to see them again.
THE SAMPLE
In Character Sample: (this is basically the area to show us that you can write, and give us a feel of who your character is when doing something. This could be anything from buying groceries to beating up the police, as long as it shows off what a general post on the forum is going to look like.)
Meg Giry was sound asleep in her bed, dreaming of the Opera House. That's what all her dreams seemed to be about anymore. She awoke to the annoying buzz of her alarm clock, which she promptly turned off. She sighed as she sat up on her bed and ran a hand through her blonde hair. She was far from the Phantom's prophesy for her. He predicted she would be an Empress and her mother always reminded her of that. Wow, being an empress isn't much different than being a ballerina in training. She thought bitterly as she pulled herself out of bed. She quickly made her bed and then went over to her small closet. She chose a black leotard and sheer black skirt that tied with a black ribbon around her thin waist and a pair of her pink ballet tights.
Meg quickly went into her living room/kitchen and put her two pairs of point shoes in her bag; her new ones for lessons and her shoes from the opera. If she had time before or after class, she would hook up her iPod to the sound system and play an song she danced to at the opera and dance. That was what she considered fun at the time and she loved doing it. She made sure everything else she'd need was in her dance bag before she went into her kitchen. Only seperated from the living room by a counter, it was very small but worked for the young Miss Giry. She quickly pulled out a chocolate fudge poptart and a water bottle and went back over to her bag. She put her water bottle in her bag and slung the bag over her shoulder.
Meg slipped her thin, dancer feet into her pink high top converse sneakers and tied them up quickly. Pulling her hair back at the top with a black silky ribbon, she headed out the door, eating her poptart on the way. She loved walking in New York just as she did back in Paris. Cities always made Miss Giry feel at home, even if New York was different from Paris. She reached the dance studio in not very long time at all and made her way inside.
Tell us WHY your original character would fit with the theme of this board: (Provide two paragraphs here - only use this if you are applying with an original character. If you are applying with a canon character, there is no need to fill out this section.)
Marguerite Lilianne Giry
Middle Class
Middle Class
Canon: The Phantom of The Opera
Custom Title: Petite Blonde Angel
PHYSICAL
Age: Sixteen
Gender: female
Appearance: Meg is a rather beautiful girl. She has golden blonde hair with a gentle curl that, while dancing at the opera, fell down to almost her butt but she cut it so it falls to her mid-back now. She has a round face that has some angles to it. She has large, wide, wide-spaced dark blue eyes with dark blond eyebrows over them. She has a thin, rounded nose and wide, high cheekbones that are prominate. Her lips are a bit on the thin side for her face but the work for her and her chin is rounded. She has a long, slender neck and thin shoulders. She has long thin limbs and thin hands with long fingers. She has a dancer's build but is still rather curvy.
Height: 5'5"
Body: A dancer's build, thin and willowly yet curvy
Other distinguishing features:
Wardrobe: Meg likes to dress nice and keeps her appearence tidy. She is usually seen in dancewear like leotards, skirts and pink tights. She's loves converse sneakers and is usually wearing them, unless she's dancing. If she's dancing, she wears pink satin toe shoes. When she's not dancing, Meg likes to wear jeans and just a plain tee shirt or tank top with perhaps a sweater over it. She likes to wear her hair down, unless she's practicing, but does pull it up when it's hot out or it's annoying her that day. Apart from her dance clothes, Meg really doesn't have any sense of style at the moment. She knows almost nothing about fashion and she doesn't realize dance attire isn't very fashionable.[/ul]
Play By: Jayne Wisener
PERSONALITY
General personality: Meg is a very sweet girl. She becomes overexcited very easily and almost seems to bounce as she walks. She almost constantly has a large grin on her small face, which makes everyone else around her smile. She cares greatly about her friends and animals because "she has a large heart", as her mother use to always say. She would never stab a true friend in the back. Miss Giry is a dancer, first and foremost, and is usually taking some kind of dance class when she's not at school. She misses the opera dearly and knows she always will and can't go back, since it burned down.
Meg can come off as a bit annoying at times but she's really just enthusatic. Her overexcitement gets the best of her. She can't help it, it's just how she is. When you get passed her enthusism, she's a very sweet and kind girl. She's a very loyal friend to all. She holds friendship in very high regard, along with ballet (With is her first love). She also loves reading, which is what she would do backstage at the opera, when she wasn't performing or practicing. She loved hearing stories about The Phantom of the Opera and remembers everyone. While she is afraid of him, she can't help but feel sorry for him and want to meet him. She knows her mother knew the Phantom, since she always had messages from him, but she never introduced her to him. She would very much like to meet him, if he is still alive (since she was told he died by her mother before she moved to New York).
Quotes, frequently used expressions: "He's here, the Phantom of the Opera" was heard quite a bit through the opera house when Meg lived there.
She is also called the "petite blonde angel". She also likes to tell a story about the Phantom, describing him and warning people to be on their guard.
Likes:
- dancing.
- spending time with her best friend, Christine Daae.
- hearing stories, especially about romance or The Phantom.
Dislikes:
- being forgotten.
- not being able to dance.
- feeling unloved.
Strengths: (please name three)
- her best friend, Christine Daae.
- dancing, especially ballet.
- her mother, Madame Antoinette Giry.
Weaknesses:(please name three)
- handsome guys.
- her memories of the Opera House (since she lived there her whole life, she has many, many memories).
- ballet music she danced to at the opera (She can't help but dance when she hears it).
BACKGROUND
Family: Pierre Giry - father [deceased]
Antoinette Beaumont-Giry - mother
Education: Finishing High School
Occupation: Ballet Dancer
Worst past experience: Leaving Paris after the Opera House burned down
Best past experience: Dancing at the Opera House and meeting her best friend, Christine Daae
Image:
History: Marguerite Lilianne Giry was born to Monsieur Pierre and Madame Antoinette Giry in Paris, France on August 27th. Shortly after her birth, Pierre died in an accident at his work, leaving Antoinette to raise their daughter alone. She became the ballet mistress at the Opera House in Paris and she decided to raise her daughter there while training her to be a ballerina in the Opera's Ballet Corps. As she grew up in the Opera House, Meg knew every inch of it and loved to wander around when she wasn't practicing. As soon as she could walk, Madame Giry (her mother) put Meg in training to be a ballerina at the opera and she had a feeling she would love it.
When she was six years old, her mother brought an old friend's child to live and train at the opera house. That child was Christine Daae. Meg and Christine became friends very quickly and have always been best friends. They became as close as sisters and they told each other everything. The years passed quickly and, just after she turned fifteen, the two friends were performing in the opera's new production of Hannibal starring the opera's diva, Carlotta Giudicelli, as Elyssa and the opera's leading tenor, Ubaldo Piangi, as Hannibal. When a drop fell on La Carlotta and she stormed off the stage, vowing not to perform until "these things stopped happening", the young Miss Giry quickly suggested her friend, the young Miss Daae, could sing the part since she was taking lessons from a great unknown tutor.
Christine performed the role to great success. While being happy for her best friend and almost sister, Meg couldn't help but feel a little jealous. She never had that much attention and felt rather forgotten that night, especially when her mother said Christine did very well and the ballet corps, including Meg, were "a discrase". She saw Christine wander off not in the direction, totally distracted. She followed her friend and told her she thought she was perfect. The two friends went to Christine's dressing room and she told her that her unknown teacher was really the angel of music that her father spoke of. She was unsure if she believed her best friend but before they could talk anymore on the subject, her mother burst in the room and told her to come and practice.
Meg practiced with the other ballet girls and then went to look for Christine but the key that was always in her dressing room door with the great tassel on the end was missing. She went and got the spare. Miss Giry opened the door and Christine was no where to be found. She saw a light coming from the mirror and she went towards it. Pushing Christine's dressing room mirror open, She discovered there was a passage behind it. It was dark and damp behind the mirror as she walked down that hall and she had to try to avoid the rats. Before she could get too far, her mother stopped her, took her by the wrist and took her back to the ballet dormatories. She still wondered where her best friend could have gone to.
In the next opera, Il Muto, Christine was to play the Countess but that role was given to La Carlotta. Instead, Christine played the page boy lover of the countess and Little Meg played the small featured role of the maid and danced in the ballet corps. Hald way through the performance, La Carlotta began to croak and Christine was announced to play the Countess. Meg was jealous again but she had little time to be jealous, as she had to dance in the ballet from act three of the opera in the mean time. Durning the dance, scene changer Joseph Buquet (who told the best stories about the Phantom) was dropped from the catwalk, after being hung by the Phantom, whose shadow the ballet girls saw on the back wall durning the dance. Meg ran with all the other ballet girls to her mother, wondering where Christine was.
New Years Eve came which mean the Opera's annual Masquerade ball. Meg dressed up as a circus ring master, with a pink jacket, of course, and complete with top hat with mesh vail. She loved her costumes and was having so much fun, dancing all night. She didn't really see much of Christine that night, since she was with her date, the Vicomte de Changy named Raoul, and she rather missed her friend. She had no idea her friend was engaged. The Phantom showed up, dressed as Red Death, as he commanded his opera, Don Juan Trimphant, would be performed with Christine in the starring role. As rehearsals started, she saw less and less of her best friend.
For Don Juan Trimphant, Meg was given the small featured role of a bar maid. She was losing hope she would ever get to "break out" of those roles fast. When Piangi reentered for his scene was Christine, Meg knew something was different about him though she didn't know what. When Christine unmasked him, she realized it was The Phantom and she watched as her best friend was kidnapped. She didn't understand how The Phantom knew Christine but she knew she wanted to help get her friend back. She spotted her mother taking the Vicomte Raoul to Christine. She said she'd go with them but her mother said it was too dangerous. She joined the mob and was the first in the Phantom's lair, sliding on her stomach under the portcullas. She went over to where she saw a figure sitting on a stone throne with a cloak over him. She went over silently and kneeled beside the throne. Pulling the cloak gently off, she found that there was nothing there except a white mask. The Phantom's mask.
That night, the Phantom cut the chandelier down and it burst into flames, burning down the Opera house. Meg lost her home that night. She knew she would always miss her home but she had to move on. She stayed in Paris for two years but no other opera companies had any opens for ballet girls. She decided it would be best for her to move to another city and get different training so she could become a proper ballerina, not just an opera ballet girl. As much as it pained Madame Giry, she gave her now seventeen year old daughter her blessing and Meg left for New York City, which had one of the world's best ballets. She still wonders every day what happened to Christine, the Vicomte Raoul and The Phantom and hopes one day to see them again.
THE SAMPLE
In Character Sample: (this is basically the area to show us that you can write, and give us a feel of who your character is when doing something. This could be anything from buying groceries to beating up the police, as long as it shows off what a general post on the forum is going to look like.)
Meg Giry was sound asleep in her bed, dreaming of the Opera House. That's what all her dreams seemed to be about anymore. She awoke to the annoying buzz of her alarm clock, which she promptly turned off. She sighed as she sat up on her bed and ran a hand through her blonde hair. She was far from the Phantom's prophesy for her. He predicted she would be an Empress and her mother always reminded her of that. Wow, being an empress isn't much different than being a ballerina in training. She thought bitterly as she pulled herself out of bed. She quickly made her bed and then went over to her small closet. She chose a black leotard and sheer black skirt that tied with a black ribbon around her thin waist and a pair of her pink ballet tights.
Meg quickly went into her living room/kitchen and put her two pairs of point shoes in her bag; her new ones for lessons and her shoes from the opera. If she had time before or after class, she would hook up her iPod to the sound system and play an song she danced to at the opera and dance. That was what she considered fun at the time and she loved doing it. She made sure everything else she'd need was in her dance bag before she went into her kitchen. Only seperated from the living room by a counter, it was very small but worked for the young Miss Giry. She quickly pulled out a chocolate fudge poptart and a water bottle and went back over to her bag. She put her water bottle in her bag and slung the bag over her shoulder.
Meg slipped her thin, dancer feet into her pink high top converse sneakers and tied them up quickly. Pulling her hair back at the top with a black silky ribbon, she headed out the door, eating her poptart on the way. She loved walking in New York just as she did back in Paris. Cities always made Miss Giry feel at home, even if New York was different from Paris. She reached the dance studio in not very long time at all and made her way inside.
Tell us WHY your original character would fit with the theme of this board: (Provide two paragraphs here - only use this if you are applying with an original character. If you are applying with a canon character, there is no need to fill out this section.)
