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Created on 2007-03-18 21:54:34 (#12527639), last updated 2007-08-18
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Basic Info| Name: | Candide de Cunegonde de Roucher |
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| Birthdate: | 1988-05-23 |
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| Name Candide de Cunegonde de Roucher Age 18 Birthday May 23rd, 1988; Gemini; Earth/Wood Dragon; Inner: Shoman Snake; Secret: Snake Height 6' 0" Weight 165 (she says it's 130) Visible Markings A small butterfly tattoo at the base of her neck, coloured blue and purple. Appearance Candide maintains a careful control over her tawny curls, making sure they fall in waves, not ringlets, to her shoulders, not her back, smoothed, no frizz! Down to the way she outlines her lips every morning, everything about her is effort, fashion, principle, exterior. She manages herself in such pristine care that sometimes, perhaps, it seems her compact is her heart - and her eyeshadow pumping through her vains. She's consistently trying to sneak past the lockers with her cute heels, but fails miserably. PB: Anime Adora from Magna Carta PB: RL Naomi Harris History Candide was born, originally, in Brazil. Her mother and father, two Parisians who'd met as anthropologists just outside the rainforest, raised her there for the first year of her life - before promptly carting her off in another anthropological excursion to the mountains of That Country, where Candide was left with nanny after nanny in the impeccable city of Beethoven. Despite this she took care to entertain herself - despite her pampered living, the constant devotion paid to her looks, she liked to wander around the city in a pair of ruddy shorts and a torn t-shirt from even a very young age, sneaking out to find trees and other things at four. Through events at her elementary school, she made friends with a girl named Fusako - and though the two were very close for a time, Candide was soon whisked away on another anthropological excursion at eight years old, and found herself living in the distant lands of Africa. Here, more than anywhere, Candide's personality took a sharp turn. Speaking French and being taken care of in pampered Ethiopian style, she soon felt a disconnect from her obvious position as a french child who occasionally wandered outside and these people, who lived outside and breathed outside. Through her tumultuous adolescence of 10-14, she tried to become Africa as much as it reviled her, and found herself tripping into being beautiful, and tripping out of managing to rough it. The more she grew the more she was encouraged not to get the dirt under her nails, the more she was encouraged not to be her parents. The first and only time she was noticed by whom she tried to be so badly was the day she went through the effort of doing EVERYTHING; her make-up, her hair, her clothes. This she'd remember. It was at 14 she was again ripped back to Beethoven - this time her family had a new purpose. She lived alone in an apartment for a year while her parents continued in Africa. Here, she was to prepare for entry to Second Heaven. That was it. That was all. Her entire African adventure gone so she could go to her parent's alma mater... ...as much as she'd tried, she felt she had been a failure as an African, or even as a Frenchwoman, or even as a Brazillian, or as a That Countryian. Everything about her came down to her face, how she presented herself, what kind of heels she wore. To Candide, it became beauty, it became presentation, it became being better. If she was only accepted when she did it all, if she'd live alone if she didn't - well, damn! So here she was! But she wasn't the smartest, so she'd just... well she'd just have to be the prettiest. And maybe when she was done, she'd move back to Africa, and REALLY show them. Personality Keywords Charming, disrespectful, sex-obsessed, braggart, fake, insecure, quick-to-judge, suspicious In-Depth Candide wants to be noticed, loved, and accepted. What she doesn't remember or realize is that most of her life she's been wandering into new areas seeing if they'd shine on her entrance. After the one rewarding experience of being noticed as something she tried for, she finally accepted the words of her parents. Be pretty! We'd had such a pretty child! How french and beautiful! However, by allowing this acceptance to enter her, she realised that there was nothing else to... well, define her. She didn't care about anything but trying to be African or trying to be That Country or trying to be Brazil. In this emptiness she took to fill herself with her own vanity, and now she sometimes looks in the mirror and wonders who's looking back. The crisis of growing older, for certain. Year 3rd Student Rank: Entering 19 Student Rank: Current 20 Classroom 3-1 History? World History Science or Humanities? Humanities Choice 1; 2? World Literature; Writing Clubs and Sports Photo Club M+F 2.30-3.30 Journalism Club T-Th 6.00-8.00 Drama Club M-W-F 7.00-8.30 Orchestra (ditches occasionally) T, Th 3.30-6.00; Clarinet Specifics Birth Location Brazil Why Second Heaven? Parent's Alma Mater Favourite Color; Food; Activity; Subject Burgundy; Mangoes; Shopping; Anthropology Least Favourite Color; Food; Activity; Subject Green (looks bad on her); Faux le Gras; Homework; Science anything Other Likes Jewelry, looking at good art but not doing it, gossip, cell phones Other Dislikes She feigns a dislike for almost everything, but really just hates popular music, having grown up without it. Not readily visible Markings A few omg-you-idiot-you-fell scars on her knees. She hides them with cover-up. Family Father and mother, anthropologists in Africa | ||
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