Somarium App for Yvaine

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[Player name] Gabriela
[Age]22
[Personal Journal] tigerlily
[Other characters currently played] None!
[Character name]Yvaine
[Age] Undetermined ages, she’s the North Star
[Canon] Stardust (movie)
[Point in time taken from canon] While riding the unicorn to Lamia’s trap

[Background]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(2007_film)

[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 Tristran 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 Tristran 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 Tristran 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 Tristran 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 Tristran 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 Tristran 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 Tristran 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, crossdressing tendencies, and interests in the human world beyond the Wall. It was also a pointed reference to Tristran’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 Tristran’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 Tristran 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 Tristran to his hometown and carrying out what she thinks are his wishes. Part of this is due to her love, wanting Tristran 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 are shining and sleeping during the day. As the North Star, she helps people find their way. Will it be a problem if she sleeps during the day and has her dreams then?



[Abilities] Shining. If she’s happy enough, she shines, and it can be so bright that it’ll burn a powerful witch (and, it is implied, anyone in range who isn’t closing their eyes and in her arms.) I think this one can be left as is, since it’s only shown as powerful enough to kill one powerful witch. Of course Lamia is implied to be the most powerful witch with the land, but she’s nowhere near goddess-level powerful or anything. Lamia could magically slice off the head of another witch, turn people into animals, create furnished buildings, and other things, but they all drained her youth considerably.

Eating her heart can add to the human lifespan and restore youth. Having her heart metaphorically – her being in love with someone – will achieve the same effect. The latter is more effective, because if her heart is cut out it will only have power for a while. The witches had to ration the heart of the previous fallen star to make it last until the next.

This would be nerfed in Somarium, because we wouldn’t want to keep people from dying. Though as displayed in the movie, this is more of an ability relating to restoring life rather than to healing – her love for Tristran didn’t protect him from Lamia. As it could be reasoned that Yvaine could have brought him back if he had died (Rapunzel's power in Tangled is similar and does resurrect the dead), and possibly cured/protected him from illness during the rest of their lives, I’d say it’s nerfed and she wouldn’t know that had happened unless she fell in love and the beloved died.

[Other important stuff] N/A/

[Sample post]
[First Person]

- What do you think of your home world?

It’s my home. I should be there with my sisters, doing what stars do best: minding our own business and shining on people.

- If you could go back home, would you? Why or why not?

Yes. I didn’t want to get knocked out of the sky and get captured by an idiot with romantic delusions.

- Murder. What is your opinion?

It’s awful. It’s also tedious. People are doing it everywhere and have been doing it for as long as they’ve existed. They’re going to die anyway, there’s really no need to speed it up and hurt each other.

- There is a cake in the rain. What do you do?

Trap. I’ve watched people trap animals by using food as bait. Granted, cake is a human food and more complicated than cheese, so why leave it for an animal? And a human would be pretty stupid to fall for a trap by eating cake, but that’s because it’s pretty stupid to go and eat cake left out in the rain. So I’d leave it alone and watch the surroundings.

- Would you consider yourself a well traveled person? If so, what are some of your favorite places? If not, would you want to travel or is there some place you want to go?

I've always wanted to have an adventure, but it really isn't my place. I'm meant to be in the sky, minding my own business watching people.

- Do you prefer adventure or the peaceful life?

I’ve never had the option, really. I’m a star; I shine in my spot in the sky. However, I have wished for it. Just not by being knocked out of the sky and getting captured while having an injured leg.

- Am I asking too many personal or strange questions?

Oh no, it’s perfectly appropriate to interrogate an injured woman about her personal feelings and life history.

- Do you believe you can fly? Do you believe you can touch the sky?

Do you enjoy mocking people?

- How is space?

Clotted up with family. Not that I don’t love my sisters.

[Third Person]

The lake is the closest to open sky that she can get. Oh there’s the mountain for height – but the lake is flat and wide and it’s almost like looking up except Yvaine can touch it. If she can’t go up and home, at least she can touch a reflection.

She wasn’t the only one trapped; there was that comfort. No one else belonged here or made the rules, save for the mysterious creatures that would remain distant, if harmful. Naturally, that was also the catch: there was no one she could address or strike a bargain with. If nothing else Tristran was human, and there, and understandable in his ridiculous, pining, and inconsiderate way.

Speaking of which, the people here were friendlier, perhaps due exactly to the fact that they were all captives. When she had first tumbled into the lake – and wasn’t that wonderful, falling out of the sky again and with an already broken leg this time – a woman had pulled Yvaine out and taken care of her while she got her bearings. Her bearings. Bearings were things other people had to get from her. This was so backwards.

The lakeshore drew her back then – and now. It is the site of her second painful landing with too little time in between, but it is also her current home. The city is so big and full – actually rather a positive, what she had always wanted really, if she could have chosen it herself instead of being flung about - nevertheless she could use a place to get away from all that at will, even with some of the people being quite good companions. When she could see them, which wasn’t now unfortunately because she hasn’t yet altered her sleep cycle. The sun was rising. She had stayed up pretty late as it was.

Yvaine walks the short distance to her new cottage.

[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] I’ve been following Somarium and another game for months, and although I love them both and am thinking of applying for the other one if I can handle this (I’m enrolled in heavy classes for next semester and don't want to just apply for a character in two places and then drop them quickly), I thought I’d like to stick Yvaine in the more dreams/strange fantasy setting of Somarium first. It’s fairytale-like, she’s a from a modern fairytale, and her association with the sky would have her feeling strangely disconnected from the place she called home in a world where the sky supernaturally dictates her weeks without her having a say.

Also, looking forward to meeting people! I've been especially following the ATLA/Korra casts, the Disney cast, Sailor Moon (new anime new anime!), and the RomeoxJuliet one while it lasted, among others.

[Which rule was your favorite and why?] No god-modding. It forces people to consult with each other continuously, giving themselves a chance to play.

[Where did you hear about Somarium?] Last year, I was searching LJ for interest in RomeoxJuliet, and found a character being applied for there. RP’ing was almost entirely foreign to me, especially as fandom characters, but I grew to love reading about characters even if I’d never read/watched their canon. It's kind of like a huge crossover fic with many authors; crossover fics were a favorite thing of mine once.

[Any questions?] N/A