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an_openbook) wrote2015-10-31 07:04 pm
an_openbook) wrote2015-10-31 07:04 pm
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Out Of Character
Name: Lily
Age: 40
Personal Journal:indilwen
Contact: plurk @ lilbeejack
Name of Player Who Invited You: Jackie
In Character
Name: Emma Swan
Canon: Once Upon a Time
Canon Point: 3x11, before leaving Storybrooke
Sex/Gender: Female
Actual Age/Apparent Age: 29-30
Belongings:
Only what is on her which is her clothes (red leather jacket, black pants, black boots), and what is in her pockets (about $40 dollars cash, and some coins). Jewelry consists of two necklaces worn around her neck (one swan pendant and one circle pendant) and a brown shoelace wrapped around her left wrist.
Skills and Powers:
Bookmark Description:
Emma's bookmark will be black in color with a silver circle and the swan silhouette set inside it - also silver.
History and Personality: Here
On the outside, Emma Swan can be seen as your average ordinary person. She doesn't dress in anything too splashy or extravagant, nor does she appear indigent. If anything, she appears a fairly well rounded person, all in all. Someone who might be interesting to talk to, or perhaps the opposite with a look about her that might suggest that this woman is closed off and uninterested, which is usually the case. Maybe she is, maybe she isn’t. Really, there's no way to tell. Emma Swan is quite simply a mystery that spent most of her time literally flying under the radar. And that is the way she preferred to live.
In truth, that mystery isn't quite all that mysterious. Not to Emma, at least. She knows why she is the person she is and who is to blame for it. Her biological parents are at the top of the list when they gave her up at birth. And while that is something she has long since come to accept, there is still a profound lingering anger, as well as sadness under the tough surface she’s meticulously built for others to see; and it is continually renewed throughout her entire life as she finds herself being shipped around from foster home to foster home. At every turn she never fully gets to experience that family aspect that so many get to have and the unconditional love and support that comes with it which is all she ever wanted. In the end, Emma surrenders to the simple fact that only one thing will ever remain constant and that was herself and from that point on, the natural instinct to survive is born.
Surviving meant to Emma that she had to take any means necessary to keep that upper hand over herself and anyone she came into contact with. But even still, by sheer fate, two important figures enter her life (and who have pivotal roles in her future) and manage to break through her carefully built walls. For the first time ever, Emma got to learn how it felt to trust someone, and love them each in a way that had been foreign to her. She might have even admitted to the times shared with each as the happiest days she’s ever experienced. Unfortunately, that becomes another sad ending in that both betrayed her trust that left her feeling even more hurt, bitter and angry than she had been and worsened after she discovered she was pregnant. Thus it started a new, far more conflicted and damaged woman that saw a list of contrasting qualities define her.
To say that Emma considers herself her own worst enemy would be an understatement. Where she’s rational, she shows impulsivity; when she is strong, she shows weakness. Where she takes precaution, she leaps into danger. All of these qualities follow her up until she enters Storybrooke for the first time where suddenly she has a son, a mother and father, people that look up to her as a “Savior”, as well as enemies on a completely different, and unbelievable scale. But as she starts living this new life, Emma also realises she now has a place in this world and slowly comes to understand that she is no longer lost and alone. And despite how overwhelming that is, Emma can honestly say she’s relieved. It's a new feeling for her given how fast she went from worrying about herself to suddenly having so many people she wants desperately to keep safe from that inevitable feeling of dread that someone will try and take them away.
Sure, some of her opposing traits are still quite evident up to today. But instead of channel that in opposition, she does so with the safety and well being for those she cares about in mind. Her son, Henry, is at the top of that list. There is quite literally nothing she wouldn’t do for him. She would travel the realms and kingdoms if he was ever in danger, and has. The lack of confidence in being a mother was quickly banished and in good time. Without Henry, she’d still be the person she was. Or worse.
In the end, Emma will never be without her skeletons and, they will continue to shape and influence her choices, as well as her actions into the best version of herself. That’s all she hopes for.
Samples
First Person/Action brackets: Here and Here
Third Person/Prose: Here
"Emma, stop being so damn proud and let me help you!"
The look she gave him was nothing short of murderous. Why should she take help from anyone? Why on earth would she even admit to needing help when it always came back to slap her in the face later? No. She had been doing fine on her own; long since able to take care of herself in ways that women were assumed they couldn't. But she resorted to it as a default because in the end, he wouldn't stick around forever. No one did.
He knew that.
Yet she stared at his hand for what seemed like minutes, his palm up and available to her, his eyes beseeching to just take it; rely on him.Trust him.
"You need to hurry, Swan. We don't have much time."
He was right, they needed to make the jump in order to escape the danger that they'd found themselves in. And here she was delaying and putting him into danger because of a sense of pride that had been protecting her for years. That pride that muffled the blow of yet someone else giving up or abandoning her in favor of themselves.
Yet the look in his eyes told her he wasn't going to do that. His eyes plead with her to take his hand so he could make sure she went with him. This time, looking into his eyes she felt compelled to take it. Not because she had to, but because making the decision to not take it would mean losing him and that was something she knew she couldn't do. And she didn't know why.
Sliding her hand into his, they made the leap to safety and for the first time ever, Emma Swan was glad she put aside that face.
It felt good.
Name: Lily
Age: 40
Personal Journal:
indilwenContact: plurk @ lilbeejack
Name of Player Who Invited You: Jackie
In Character
Name: Emma Swan
Canon: Once Upon a Time
Canon Point: 3x11, before leaving Storybrooke
Sex/Gender: Female
Actual Age/Apparent Age: 29-30
Belongings:
Only what is on her which is her clothes (red leather jacket, black pants, black boots), and what is in her pockets (about $40 dollars cash, and some coins). Jewelry consists of two necklaces worn around her neck (one swan pendant and one circle pendant) and a brown shoelace wrapped around her left wrist.
Skills and Powers:
As of her canon point into the game, Emma is a child born from True Love and thus has several abilities included into what is known as Light Magic. Her strongest ability is the skill to detect lies in others. But, she also has powers that include:
- True Love's Kiss: a magical kiss that has the ability to break any curse as long as there is True Love between them. This is not limited to romantic love, but also that love shared between mother and child.
- Telekinesis: the ability to manipulate and move people and inanimate objects without physical touch.
- Pyrokinesis: able to create, control and manipulate fire.
- Healing: Can heal those hurt with an emitting of white light from her hands.
Other abilities Emma has used in the show, though not as frequently are Eclipse Inducement and Abjuration. Emma is also immune from having her heart removed, which users of Dark Magic have the ability to do.
Bookmark Description:
Emma's bookmark will be black in color with a silver circle and the swan silhouette set inside it - also silver.
History and Personality: Here
On the outside, Emma Swan can be seen as your average ordinary person. She doesn't dress in anything too splashy or extravagant, nor does she appear indigent. If anything, she appears a fairly well rounded person, all in all. Someone who might be interesting to talk to, or perhaps the opposite with a look about her that might suggest that this woman is closed off and uninterested, which is usually the case. Maybe she is, maybe she isn’t. Really, there's no way to tell. Emma Swan is quite simply a mystery that spent most of her time literally flying under the radar. And that is the way she preferred to live.
In truth, that mystery isn't quite all that mysterious. Not to Emma, at least. She knows why she is the person she is and who is to blame for it. Her biological parents are at the top of the list when they gave her up at birth. And while that is something she has long since come to accept, there is still a profound lingering anger, as well as sadness under the tough surface she’s meticulously built for others to see; and it is continually renewed throughout her entire life as she finds herself being shipped around from foster home to foster home. At every turn she never fully gets to experience that family aspect that so many get to have and the unconditional love and support that comes with it which is all she ever wanted. In the end, Emma surrenders to the simple fact that only one thing will ever remain constant and that was herself and from that point on, the natural instinct to survive is born.
Surviving meant to Emma that she had to take any means necessary to keep that upper hand over herself and anyone she came into contact with. But even still, by sheer fate, two important figures enter her life (and who have pivotal roles in her future) and manage to break through her carefully built walls. For the first time ever, Emma got to learn how it felt to trust someone, and love them each in a way that had been foreign to her. She might have even admitted to the times shared with each as the happiest days she’s ever experienced. Unfortunately, that becomes another sad ending in that both betrayed her trust that left her feeling even more hurt, bitter and angry than she had been and worsened after she discovered she was pregnant. Thus it started a new, far more conflicted and damaged woman that saw a list of contrasting qualities define her.
To say that Emma considers herself her own worst enemy would be an understatement. Where she’s rational, she shows impulsivity; when she is strong, she shows weakness. Where she takes precaution, she leaps into danger. All of these qualities follow her up until she enters Storybrooke for the first time where suddenly she has a son, a mother and father, people that look up to her as a “Savior”, as well as enemies on a completely different, and unbelievable scale. But as she starts living this new life, Emma also realises she now has a place in this world and slowly comes to understand that she is no longer lost and alone. And despite how overwhelming that is, Emma can honestly say she’s relieved. It's a new feeling for her given how fast she went from worrying about herself to suddenly having so many people she wants desperately to keep safe from that inevitable feeling of dread that someone will try and take them away.
Sure, some of her opposing traits are still quite evident up to today. But instead of channel that in opposition, she does so with the safety and well being for those she cares about in mind. Her son, Henry, is at the top of that list. There is quite literally nothing she wouldn’t do for him. She would travel the realms and kingdoms if he was ever in danger, and has. The lack of confidence in being a mother was quickly banished and in good time. Without Henry, she’d still be the person she was. Or worse.
In the end, Emma will never be without her skeletons and, they will continue to shape and influence her choices, as well as her actions into the best version of herself. That’s all she hopes for.
Samples
First Person/Action brackets: Here and Here
Third Person/Prose: Here
"Emma, stop being so damn proud and let me help you!"
The look she gave him was nothing short of murderous. Why should she take help from anyone? Why on earth would she even admit to needing help when it always came back to slap her in the face later? No. She had been doing fine on her own; long since able to take care of herself in ways that women were assumed they couldn't. But she resorted to it as a default because in the end, he wouldn't stick around forever. No one did.
He knew that.
Yet she stared at his hand for what seemed like minutes, his palm up and available to her, his eyes beseeching to just take it; rely on him.Trust him.
"You need to hurry, Swan. We don't have much time."
He was right, they needed to make the jump in order to escape the danger that they'd found themselves in. And here she was delaying and putting him into danger because of a sense of pride that had been protecting her for years. That pride that muffled the blow of yet someone else giving up or abandoning her in favor of themselves.
Yet the look in his eyes told her he wasn't going to do that. His eyes plead with her to take his hand so he could make sure she went with him. This time, looking into his eyes she felt compelled to take it. Not because she had to, but because making the decision to not take it would mean losing him and that was something she knew she couldn't do. And she didn't know why.
Sliding her hand into his, they made the leap to safety and for the first time ever, Emma Swan was glad she put aside that face.
It felt good.