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burnedrose) wrote2013-02-13 12:39 am
burnedrose) wrote2013-02-13 12:39 am
OOC; App for Institute
PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: Lane
ARE YOU AT LEAST 14 YEARS OLD?: Yes
IF UNDER 18 YEARS OLD, PLEASE STATE YOUR AGE: N/A
CONTACT: lanekana @ plurk/gmail
PERSONAL JOURNAL:lanekana
CHARACTERS PLAYED: None
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Mary (AU name: Mary Bristow but was born Mary Weiss)
CANON: Ib
CANON REFERENCE: Game: Link
More on Mary: Link
AGE: 12
GENDER: Female
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: MS-1
APPEARANCE: Link
PERSONALITY:
Mary is a young girl. She gets distracted by things she finds interesting, and her point of conversation comes first. Even if it has nothing to do with what you were just talking about at all.
She hasn't had much social interaction so she can be a little shy. The second she starts to get to know you though she becomes a lot more talkative. Sometimes more than you want her to be.
Another trait is her temper. That's even one of the things about her in-game that can change your ending. If you do things she doesn't like or agree with you can get a bad end. If you find her after she runs off, she will be attacking a mannequin head with the palette knife you found because it's in her way.
Her sanity is definitely lower than that of your average child. There is a good reason for that though. Mary is a painting, Guertena's last work before he died. She's been alone for a long time with no one else her "age" and most of Guertena's works are kind of scary. Paintings are not really the best company. Even more so when at least most of them can’t talk. Mary is the most “human” of his works. It seems like she’s also the only painting who is not stuck in a frame. She can move freely while the others can’t. That means playing with them would be much harder if they even wanted too.
Because Mary is pretty much by herself she draws a lot and reads. Among her books is a self-help guide on how to make friends. She also enjoys playing with dolls. In Guertena's gallery there are no dolls so it is very possible that Mary tried making herself friends. She doesn’t understand some very important social standards because of this. If someone’s pet dog died she wouldn’t understand why its owner was so upset. Or why that taking something that isn’t yours is bad. If she didn’t take things she found she wouldn’t have anything.
Mary longs to be in the real world with other people. She wants to be human. Have a family and friends. Just live like little girls are supposed to. To get out she, would have to take Garry or Ib's place. Ib is her first "real" friend so in Mary's good ending she becomes Ib's sister and takes Garry's spot in the real world.
She can be very sweet though. Even more so if she likes you. For example she counts Ib as a friend and is perfectly kind to her. Well, unless Ib goes near her painting... That’s more self-preservation at that point though.
But really Mary doesn’t know much about the world other than what she’s read in books. She wants to see everything so bad but can’t. She’s not a bad girl. Mary’s just been stuck somewhere no little girl should be.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
Simply put Mary’s power is Art Portals. There are three main ways she uses it.
• Using paintings, drawings, sketches, canvas based, paper based, and well 2D art in general to go from place to place. Using this power she can travel within a set property (house, apartment building, museum and ect. Plus whatever counts as it’s yard if there’s art outside.) A subsection to this use is just staying in the art. All artwork in the area is connected via a back passage but you can stay in the art as well. A picture of a forest would be a small forest for example once she got in.
• Mary can also take things out of pictures but that takes a lot more energy and if they’re not drawn/painted well they might not last long. Plus art food tastes terrible. If she wants to she can hide things in there as well.
• On the same vein Mary can bring people in with her. Only one or two at this point and they wont be able to interact as well with the things in the art. It’s still a viable way of moving if need be. She can also keep someone in one piece of art. It would tire her out quickly at her current control level.
Some major cons of the Art Portals are:
• The range
• The limit of people she can bring in/take out,
• If all the art in the area gets destroyed/removed anyone in there will be trapped if they are between art until two new pieces are placed
• If drained too much she (and whoever else) gets trapped in there until she regains her energy
• If the painting she’s in gets burned before she can leave it/go to the next one she will die as well
• Plus it can be very draining. Taking anything in or out including other people could possibly cause her to pass out from over exertion.
AU HISTORY:
Mary’s life did not start in the best of ways. Her mother died in childbirth causing her father, a highly in demand artist at the time, to start withdrawing and begin his spiral into depression. For the first three years Guertena (as he was known in the art world) took care of his daughter fairly well as the lived in Pennsylvania. For the most part Mary was a healthy little girl, maybe a tad undernourished but so was her father. A bigger issue was that she wasn’t allowed outside at all. Guertena never took her outside unless he had too and covered all the windows. He was still mostly kind and drew her pictures to cover her room, except for his small rage episodes.
Things changed for the worst when she turned four. Guertena’s rage episodes increased in frequency as well as his depressive episodes. The family next door ending up calling police multiple times due to hearing crashing and screaming but they never took Mary from Guertena because she wasn’t injured. Guertena then started ignoring Mary and the four year olds main diet for about two months was crackers, cereal, random candy and anything else edible (normally sweet) she could find. Then finally one day in September Guertena dropped her off at preschool for the first time in her life. Mary was completely overwhelmed and hid for most of the day, lashing out at anyone who came to close or cowering. When it was time for the children to get picked up Guertena never came. One of the teachers waited with Mary an hour before calling the police. When the police checked the house and all of Guertena’s things, all of his dead wife’s things and a lot of Mary’s were gone. No note or clue of where he went. With no living relatives at least in the system or family friends Mary was placed into foster care and her life went from bad to worse.
Her time in the foster care wasn’t long all things considering, but it was by no means good. The foster care system kept changing where she lived because her foster parents found her too difficult or her foster siblings did. When she did try talking her lisp would sometimes “give” an excuse for the other kids to tease her and Mary would violently lash out. They learned to leave her alone quickly. For over a year Mary was miserable and would take it out on her toys and the walls.
Just before she turned six a decently wealthy family from New York with a daughter around Mary’s age adopted her. At first Mary didn’t trust anyone in the house at all. She couldn’t comprehend why this couple tried being nice to her and she and her new sister avoided each other for the most part. After a while Eve or Ib started trying to be friends which confused Mary even more. Mary found herself trusting Ib before their parents. She even said her sister’s name before calling her parents mom or dad. It was mispronounced to Ib due to her lisp and it stuck. It didn’t take long for them to really hit it off and from then on they were almost always together. Slowly but surely Mary accepted her new parents and stopped thinking of Guertena as her father.
She got enrolled into school with Ib and got caught up with her education. Going to speech therapy and gaining a few of her adult teeth removed most if not all of her lisp which helped Mary gain some confidence. For a while things were going really well.
When they entered fifth grade that started changing her sister started developing powers and people started acting differently around her. Mary found it fascinating but was worried as well as a little jealous.
About a year later Mary stuck her hand in a painting when she fell. Instead of ripping it and hitting her hand on the back wall she fell back taking part of the tree in the painting with her before fainting. Mary went on testing her powers secretly, not even telling her sister, because she still wasn't sure if she was just imagining it. Eventually she did tell Ib about her powers but only as a reoccurring dream.
A year after that Mary overheard her parents and sister having a conversation about Ib changing schools and burst in. After slightly being told why Mary walked out of the room infuriated and locked herself in her room. The next day she walked into her parents bed room and flat out told them “If Ib’s being sent away I am too.” When they tried to explain it was a special school and only Ib was qualified Mary stuck her entire arm into a high quality copy of “Starry Night” and glared before crawling into it and going back to her room. Easy to say there was a long discussion and then another phone call was placed to sign Mary up as well.
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PLAYER: Lane
ARE YOU AT LEAST 14 YEARS OLD?: Yes
IF UNDER 18 YEARS OLD, PLEASE STATE YOUR AGE: N/A
CONTACT: lanekana @ plurk/gmail
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
lanekanaCHARACTERS PLAYED: None
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Mary (AU name: Mary Bristow but was born Mary Weiss)
CANON: Ib
CANON REFERENCE: Game: Link
More on Mary: Link
AGE: 12
GENDER: Female
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: MS-1
APPEARANCE: Link
PERSONALITY:
Mary is a young girl. She gets distracted by things she finds interesting, and her point of conversation comes first. Even if it has nothing to do with what you were just talking about at all.
She hasn't had much social interaction so she can be a little shy. The second she starts to get to know you though she becomes a lot more talkative. Sometimes more than you want her to be.
Another trait is her temper. That's even one of the things about her in-game that can change your ending. If you do things she doesn't like or agree with you can get a bad end. If you find her after she runs off, she will be attacking a mannequin head with the palette knife you found because it's in her way.
Her sanity is definitely lower than that of your average child. There is a good reason for that though. Mary is a painting, Guertena's last work before he died. She's been alone for a long time with no one else her "age" and most of Guertena's works are kind of scary. Paintings are not really the best company. Even more so when at least most of them can’t talk. Mary is the most “human” of his works. It seems like she’s also the only painting who is not stuck in a frame. She can move freely while the others can’t. That means playing with them would be much harder if they even wanted too.
Because Mary is pretty much by herself she draws a lot and reads. Among her books is a self-help guide on how to make friends. She also enjoys playing with dolls. In Guertena's gallery there are no dolls so it is very possible that Mary tried making herself friends. She doesn’t understand some very important social standards because of this. If someone’s pet dog died she wouldn’t understand why its owner was so upset. Or why that taking something that isn’t yours is bad. If she didn’t take things she found she wouldn’t have anything.
Mary longs to be in the real world with other people. She wants to be human. Have a family and friends. Just live like little girls are supposed to. To get out she, would have to take Garry or Ib's place. Ib is her first "real" friend so in Mary's good ending she becomes Ib's sister and takes Garry's spot in the real world.
She can be very sweet though. Even more so if she likes you. For example she counts Ib as a friend and is perfectly kind to her. Well, unless Ib goes near her painting... That’s more self-preservation at that point though.
But really Mary doesn’t know much about the world other than what she’s read in books. She wants to see everything so bad but can’t. She’s not a bad girl. Mary’s just been stuck somewhere no little girl should be.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
Simply put Mary’s power is Art Portals. There are three main ways she uses it.
• Using paintings, drawings, sketches, canvas based, paper based, and well 2D art in general to go from place to place. Using this power she can travel within a set property (house, apartment building, museum and ect. Plus whatever counts as it’s yard if there’s art outside.) A subsection to this use is just staying in the art. All artwork in the area is connected via a back passage but you can stay in the art as well. A picture of a forest would be a small forest for example once she got in.
• Mary can also take things out of pictures but that takes a lot more energy and if they’re not drawn/painted well they might not last long. Plus art food tastes terrible. If she wants to she can hide things in there as well.
• On the same vein Mary can bring people in with her. Only one or two at this point and they wont be able to interact as well with the things in the art. It’s still a viable way of moving if need be. She can also keep someone in one piece of art. It would tire her out quickly at her current control level.
Some major cons of the Art Portals are:
• The range
• The limit of people she can bring in/take out,
• If all the art in the area gets destroyed/removed anyone in there will be trapped if they are between art until two new pieces are placed
• If drained too much she (and whoever else) gets trapped in there until she regains her energy
• If the painting she’s in gets burned before she can leave it/go to the next one she will die as well
• Plus it can be very draining. Taking anything in or out including other people could possibly cause her to pass out from over exertion.
AU HISTORY:
Mary’s life did not start in the best of ways. Her mother died in childbirth causing her father, a highly in demand artist at the time, to start withdrawing and begin his spiral into depression. For the first three years Guertena (as he was known in the art world) took care of his daughter fairly well as the lived in Pennsylvania. For the most part Mary was a healthy little girl, maybe a tad undernourished but so was her father. A bigger issue was that she wasn’t allowed outside at all. Guertena never took her outside unless he had too and covered all the windows. He was still mostly kind and drew her pictures to cover her room, except for his small rage episodes.
Things changed for the worst when she turned four. Guertena’s rage episodes increased in frequency as well as his depressive episodes. The family next door ending up calling police multiple times due to hearing crashing and screaming but they never took Mary from Guertena because she wasn’t injured. Guertena then started ignoring Mary and the four year olds main diet for about two months was crackers, cereal, random candy and anything else edible (normally sweet) she could find. Then finally one day in September Guertena dropped her off at preschool for the first time in her life. Mary was completely overwhelmed and hid for most of the day, lashing out at anyone who came to close or cowering. When it was time for the children to get picked up Guertena never came. One of the teachers waited with Mary an hour before calling the police. When the police checked the house and all of Guertena’s things, all of his dead wife’s things and a lot of Mary’s were gone. No note or clue of where he went. With no living relatives at least in the system or family friends Mary was placed into foster care and her life went from bad to worse.
Her time in the foster care wasn’t long all things considering, but it was by no means good. The foster care system kept changing where she lived because her foster parents found her too difficult or her foster siblings did. When she did try talking her lisp would sometimes “give” an excuse for the other kids to tease her and Mary would violently lash out. They learned to leave her alone quickly. For over a year Mary was miserable and would take it out on her toys and the walls.
Just before she turned six a decently wealthy family from New York with a daughter around Mary’s age adopted her. At first Mary didn’t trust anyone in the house at all. She couldn’t comprehend why this couple tried being nice to her and she and her new sister avoided each other for the most part. After a while Eve or Ib started trying to be friends which confused Mary even more. Mary found herself trusting Ib before their parents. She even said her sister’s name before calling her parents mom or dad. It was mispronounced to Ib due to her lisp and it stuck. It didn’t take long for them to really hit it off and from then on they were almost always together. Slowly but surely Mary accepted her new parents and stopped thinking of Guertena as her father.
She got enrolled into school with Ib and got caught up with her education. Going to speech therapy and gaining a few of her adult teeth removed most if not all of her lisp which helped Mary gain some confidence. For a while things were going really well.
When they entered fifth grade that started changing her sister started developing powers and people started acting differently around her. Mary found it fascinating but was worried as well as a little jealous.
About a year later Mary stuck her hand in a painting when she fell. Instead of ripping it and hitting her hand on the back wall she fell back taking part of the tree in the painting with her before fainting. Mary went on testing her powers secretly, not even telling her sister, because she still wasn't sure if she was just imagining it. Eventually she did tell Ib about her powers but only as a reoccurring dream.
A year after that Mary overheard her parents and sister having a conversation about Ib changing schools and burst in. After slightly being told why Mary walked out of the room infuriated and locked herself in her room. The next day she walked into her parents bed room and flat out told them “If Ib’s being sent away I am too.” When they tried to explain it was a special school and only Ib was qualified Mary stuck her entire arm into a high quality copy of “Starry Night” and glared before crawling into it and going back to her room. Easy to say there was a long discussion and then another phone call was placed to sign Mary up as well.
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