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Player Information


Name: Tigerlily

Age:
Removed after acceptance
AIM SN:
Fluff Nugget
email:
red_raven20042000@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before?
Yes, I’ve been in somarium since last summer and in Marinanova. since last October.
Currrently Played Characters :
N/A

Character Information


General

Canon Source:
Stardust
Canon Format:
2007 film
Character's Name:
Yvaine
Character's Age:
She’s billions of years old and looks like she’s in her twenties.

What form will your character's NV take?

A locket engraved with a telescope on the cover. She will wryly appreciate the humor when she’s in the right mood.

Abilities


Character's Canon Abilities:

Yvaine can glow when she’s happy enough, and control how brightly it happens. She burnt the most powerful witch in the land to dust this way in canon, and has appeared as a fiery ball of light when falling to Earth. This – or being blinded - can be prevented if she’s holding you at the time and you close your eyes. Her heart can also temporarily restore youth and health if eaten, or if she is in love with you. She herself is immortal, in that she will live as long as she isn’t killed.
It’s also revealed that stars can speak to people in dreams, but that is only shown to happen with other stars. Yvaine has lost this ability because of being on Earth, along with the ability to see across distances.

Weapons:

None. She’s never wielded a weapon, canonically.

History/Personality/Plans/etc.


Character History:

Yvaine lived with her sisters and extended family in the sky, watching the planets. One night she was knocked down by a necklace – thrown by the king of Stormhold, but she wasn’t looking when it happened - and hurt a leg when she crashed into the Earth, specifically into Stormhold. When she began to stand and look around, the film’s protagonist Tristan flies into her and she goes down again. They have an argument in which she is very sarcastic; he wants to take her back to the town of Wall as a present to the woman he wants to marry, and puts a magic chain on Yvaine to force her. Then he promised that he will send her back with the same tool that helped him find her, if she will come. The Babylon candle had one use left. Yvaine gave in.

As they travel – with her continually frustrated and disgusted at Tristan – Yvaine convinced him to let her rest because she’s tired. Stars sleep during the day and she’d never stayed up so late, especially with her leg hurt. He tied her to a tree and left to find food. At some point when it became night, a unicorn cut the chain and invited her to ride. They arrived at an inn, a trap for Yvaine set by the witch Lamia, who wanted to cut out her heart to eat and restore her youth and that of her sisters. There, Lamia soothed Yvaine until she felt well enough to glow, but her attempt at murder was interrupted by Tristan. He transported them away, but they were both thinking of different places to escape to and ended up on the clouds in a storm. There they are captured by Captain Shakespeare and his pirates.

Tied up with Tristan, Yvaine told him how she used to wish to come down and have adventures. She became snappish when he said ‘careful what you wish for,’ and more gentle as they continued to talk. She thanked him for saving her and reassured him when he said he was just a shop boy. This is followed by Captain Shakespeare revealing that he isn’t bloodthirsty but pretends to be, and they faked Tristan’s death and Yvaine’s becoming a concubine to fool the crew. Then they disguised Tristan as a relative of the captain who was given Yvaine. She enjoyed catching lightning with the pirates and Tristan, being taught the piano by Captain Shakespeare, and practicing the waltz with him even as she was bad at it. She and Tristan began to fall in love on the ship – at the same time Yvaine tried to hide her nature as a star because she overheard the captain being told the news of her fall had spread and people searched for her to eat. The captain knew but kept it a secret as he promised, and they became friends.

Yvaine and Tristan left the ship eventually and had moments of teasing and tension, before meeting another witch. This one had been put under a spell earlier by Lamia, so that she would not be the one to have the star. She could only see Tristan, and tricked him so that he became a mouse until she fulfilled her promise and took him to the market near Wall. Yvaine became angry and threatened to become a poltergeist if Tristan wasn’t turned back. She hid in the trailer and confessed her unconditional love to Tristan, as well as that love was sometimes the only thing that made watching humans bearable.

When they arrived at the market, Yvaine helped him recover from his transformation and they stayed at an inn, where he revealed he had understood everything she’d said in the trailer but pretended not to so that she would say it. They had sex and Yvaine glowed until morning. He’d left with a vague message and Yvaine thought he would still marry Victoria, so she resignedly headed toward Wall. Then the slave of the cart witch stopped her, because stars turn to rock when they leave Stormhold for the non-magical section of the world. But Lamia arrived and chained them both, successfully taking them to her hall and her sisters. There Yvaine was bound to an altar. Tristan interrupted again and killed two sisters before freeing Yvaine, who was now happy and glowing. Lamia pretended to let them go before attacking them once again; Yvaine held Tristan and told him to close his eyes before burning Lamia away with her light. Her joy at Tristan coming back for her allowed her to glow. Then they discovered the slave was Tristan’s mother and Tristan was the last heir of Stormhold. He and Yvaine became king and queen. His mother gave them a Babylon candle. After ruling for many years, with Yvaine’s love keeping Tristan young, they left Stormhold to their children and became twin stars in the sky.


Point in Canon:
She will be taken from Captain Shakespeare’s ship, when she has befriended both him and Tristan.

Character Personality:

Confident. Speaks her mind, courageous, playful.

She watched people for ages as the North Star, so she’s familiar with human behavior through observation and is confident in her assessments of people and emotions. For example, her words to Tristan about where people are meant to go and what they’re meant to be. Yvaine knows that just because you start off one place and people have expectations of you based on it, doesn’t mean you have to stay in that place forever. She’s just as sure when she tells him love is one of the things that make watching (and presumably being around) humans bearable. Her confidence is also present in how her behavior is never timid – she tells people off when it’s deserved, and is frightened but not whimpering when she gets attacked.

Yvaine’s experience as the North Star affords her some distance that she does keep to an extent while on the ground. She holds Tristan in contempt for hurting her and capturing her, but reevaluates him after he rescues her from the witch Lamia. She doesn’t act like what he did previously is all right, but his rescue and their subsequent capture by pirates inspire her to make a wry comment about her previous wishes to be an adventurer, revealing a bit of herself. This is when she starts talking to him about love and belonging in places, comparing his situation to others that she has observed, showing that she can see what he’s like partly due to being around him but also due to her previous knowledge. It gives her a basis for comparison, for wisdom and understanding that he can’t see from his perspective.

The time they spend together on the ship under Captain Shakespeare’s protection gives her the chance to relax somewhat around him as their both in it together, though she still uses mockery, more playful now than resentful or with contempt, to hide her new romantic interest in him and keep him at a distance. After their time on the ship, she’s gone from being sure he’s a contemptible and unintelligent jerk to being sure he’s a good, fun guy with ideas about life that she can’t correct by insisting that he’s wrong even if that’s true, with no space of uncertainty being emphasized in the film. She’s that confident in her knowledge and judgment.

From the moment of her appearance, she says what she thinks. This isn’t because she can’t hold back – later she waits a bit to tell Tristan she loves him, joking to hide it instead, and only tells him because he was turned into a mouse and pretended he couldn’t understand. But if it’s merited, she’ll voice her outrage and be sarcastic and insulting. She was righteously angry at getting knocked out of the sky and angrier when Tristan chained her up to force her to go with him. Even then, she wouldn’t go with him until he suggested that he’d help her return home in the sky after she did as he wanted. Then she verbally insisted on getting her rest when she needed it, following it up by sitting down at a tree, instead of going along with his wish to hurry while she had an injured leg and couldn’t sleep at night.

Despite needing to get home and knowing no other way to do so, she immediately left Tristan after he chained her to the tree she rested beneath and the unicorn rescued her. Yvaine’s courageous to do so. She chose to make her own way with the unicorn’s help rather than take any more bad treatment from him in the hopes he’d get her home. This also relates to her adventurous streak. Yvaine confessed to having wanted to be an adventurer when she was up in the sky. Despite her observations of how awful human behavior can be, she still wanted to be part of that world and explore it from the inside.

Her sense of justice is also strong: when Tristan tells her ‘be careful what you wish for’ in response to the revelation of her adventurous leanings, she quickly and sarcastically states she deserves to be murdered by pirates or have her heart cut out for wanting adventure. This isn’t someone who’s going to blame herself unfairly. She finds it wrong that Tristan wants to buy Victoria’s love, or prove his own - “and what is she doing to prove her love for you?” is her answer to that. It isn’t right to her that a person should have to try so hard to be accepted by people who wouldn’t like the person and who said person doesn’t really want to be like. This is what Yvaine says upon facing Captain Shakespeare’s efforts at disguising his effeminacy, cross-dressing tendencies, and interests in the human world beyond the Wall. It was also a pointed reference to Tristan’s efforts with Victoria. She will respect their choices and not try to sabotage them or be unpleasant, but she makes it plain that she doesn’t think it’s right or good for people to behave in this way. She goes along with pretending Captain Shakespeare is a nasty ruthless pirate and with Tristan’s plan of giving her to Victoria; the latter is particularly interesting because it’s right after they have sex for the first time and her heart is broken thinking that Tristan acted like he wanted her and her love when he still only truly wanted Victoria. This part is a misunderstanding of course, but she reacts to it by following Tristan to his hometown and carrying out what she thinks are his wishes. Part of this is due to her love, wanting Tristan to be happy with the person he loves; another part is respect for what he wants to do with his life (after they’ve overcome the hurdles of his chaining her, treating her like an object, and wearing her out in travel) and now wants to help him accomplish it. It is also resignation. She went all that way, sometimes against her will but eventually out of choice, and so she feels she might as well go through with it.

Her habits before falling to Earth were shining and sleeping during the day. As the North Star, she helped people find their way. She also enjoys music.

Character Plans:

Yvaine will not choose between SERO and AGI at first. She won’t like the feuding, especially if they have the same goal, and in the movie she was willing to be on her own in the world rather than go with Tristan, a man whose motives and methods she couldn’t respect. She only changed her mind then because he’d chained her and had offered a definite chance for her to return home. It is possible she will do the same here if she is convinced, but it would take much effort on the part of the person persuading her unless they have immediate proof that they can help her.

Other than that, she will be depressed at being taken somewhere new yet again, but try to adjust to living here while searching for a way home. Yvaine is going to feel worn out from how often this has happened to her lately, but she has a long life and the perspective that comes with it. Terrible things have never lasted forever, and Yvaine can be patient. She can get a job if an employer will have her, and learn as she performs it. She will observe the city and the people, collecting information and trying to weigh SERO and AGI. Yvaine will also want to help people where she can manage it.
Appearance/PB:

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Writing Samples



First Person Sample



[Yvaine is calm and serious as she begins the video. She is dejected – things had begun to improve as she befriended Tristan and Captain Shakespeare. This is the fourth time she’s been abruptly transported to an unknown place against her will in only days. But she hasn’t given up on making things better. At the moment, that includes finding someplace to work. Yvaine doesn’t want to be helpless here, and she will be forced to pay for a dwelling in any case. So she is looking straight into the camera as she hides the extent of her unhappiness.]

Hello. My name is Yvaine. I am a recent arrival here, and I would like to work.

[How unfortunate that she has no skills. She also has no wish to reveal that she is a star, or the accompanying abilities. It might be dangerous here as well as in Stormhold.]

I have studied human literatures and history until the nineteenth century.

[Yvaine had watched and remembers it well enough. Of course she might have to explain coming from that last century at some point, but the statement was still true and hopefully believable.]

If there is unskilled work I could help with, I will put in the effort and do as well as I can. Thank you.

Third Person Sample

She is practicing the piano – the Captain is kind to teach her, and she enjoys it – before she is pulled out from the world. Yvaine’s astonishment is accompanied by a sense of familiarity, but she only understands why once she drags herself into sitting and sees the pit next to her. So she is lost in a new world again. As soon as the thought comes, she runs her hands over her legs slowly. At least this time her body was spared injury.

Yvaine doesn’t want to get up yet. Being taken away like this makes her weary, and besides she doesn’t want to repeat the experience of being knocked down by a flying fool. Even if he might not come this time. Instead she looks around at the old trees and broken…benches of some sort. Like a small abandoned stadium. Had anyone been here recently? Someone could be using this place precisely because it was abandoned. These abrupt changes in location were always due to somebody’s actions. Yvaine rises slowly, still watching her surroundings for any movement, and begins to walk. There’s a group of people not too far away and she doesn’t know where else to go.