Owner of Le Sombre Chanson

[Alexis Barnstrum (Victoria)]

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Name: Ken, Kenpachi, Zaraki, Zara, Zacachi. Whichever.
Age: Eighteen years old, since June 2009.
Roleplaying Experience: Since about... Twelve years old?
How did you find our site?: The issues with Ciel brought my interest.
Have you read and do you agree to follow the rules?: Automatically.
Other Characters on our Site?: None, at the moment.
Cannon or Original?: Um... Caniginal? It's a "Canon" role, but I made the character myself, spiralling out of the name Le Sombre Chanson, so... Yeah.
Roleplay Sample: (Entering a topic that had been going a while at Ciel's site)

Character Name: Victoria Smith (Original name)
Allias: The Dark Minstrel ("The Dark Song" is the name of her bar); Tia Nordsen (first pseudonym, 34-44); Sebastian West (second pseudonym, 44-54 (was cross-dressing as a man at the time)); Patricia Partrice (third pseudonym, 54-64); Gwen Harth (fourth pseudonym, 64-74); Alice Black (fifth pseudonym, 74-84); Alexis Barnstrum (current pseudonym)
Race: Caucasian human.
Age: Appearance is approximately 24, but in reality, she's closer to 84, though she would never admit it.
Gender: Female
Sexual Preference: Romance is romance. If someone can capture this heart, then they can keep it.
Hair Color/Style: Black
Eye Color: Black/Gray
Height: 168 cm
Weight/Build: 49.8 kg

Likes:

• Hurting others, both mentally and physically, though she's not a murderer.
  
• Manipulating events around her.
  
• Watching people going about their day-to-day lives.
  
• Watching people under the influence of mind-altering substances.
  
• Reading fiction while on the job.
  
• Her job.
  

Dislikes:

• Being hurt by others, mentally and physically.
  
• Being manipulated by others.
  
• Being stalked.
  
• Imbibing mind-altering substances.
  
• Comedies.
  
• Valentines day, and anything related to it.
  
• People that like the thought of dying
  
• Murderer and rape
  

Strengths:

• Analysis of events and people.
  
• She's capable of good strategies, when she puts in effort.
  
• She has a lot of practice with her powers.
  
• She has good hearing, all the better for eavesdropping.
  
• She's good at aiming, for most ranged attacks.
  

Weaknesses:

• She doesn't trust people unless something incredible happens in their favor.
  
• She needs people feeling 'dark' emotions in order to use her powers.
  
• She's weak in a hand-to-hand battle, and has little melee weapon training.
  
• She can get overconfident in her abilities somewhat easily.
  
• She hates boredom, more than normal, and will go to drastic measures, if necessary, to avoid it.
  
• She's overly cynical in general, suspecting the worst of those around her.
  

Fears:

• Death
  
• Betrayal
  

Hopes:

• To find someone worth trusting, even against her own personal criteria
  
• To find true happiness (and keep it for herself)
  

Nervous Habits:

• When impatiently waiting, she will toy around with whatever's on hand; twirling a pendant, practicing with a blade, checking over preparations, whatever, anything to keep busy, rather than leaving herself idle.
  
• Will glance around herself on occasion, checking to see if anyone's following her.
  

Secrets:

• Her powers and their restrictions.
  
• Her history.
  
• Her fears.
  
• Her hopes for the future.
  

Powers/Magic:

• A dark magic that uses the feelings of sadness, envy, depression, and anger of others; essentially, all the negative aspects of a person. One purpose for this power is to maintain her youthful form, allowing her to live longer. Another use is the manipulation of those feelings in the form of miniature spirits, invisible to those who are magically inept, that can influence the world physically, their strength depending on the power of the emotions around her, and exponentially enhanced if he's feeling especially angry or depressed herself, though she can't use her own emotions as the only fuel without risking her personality being erased by the spirits. Furthermore, as the spirits emerge, a chilling aura surrounds her, and they're able to speak, meaning those who can see them can hear them, and so be influenced by them to a degree if they give in to fear. At this time, the maximum number of spirits that can be released is six.
  

Job/Business: I own Le Sombre Chanson, and also its bartender.
Relationships:

• My family died some ages ago.
  
• Love? Why bother? It's much more fun to watch others going through that hell, anyway.
  
• As of yet, I have no friends that aren't laying in their graves.
  
• I regard the owner of Le Tranquil Papillon as both an ally and a rival, since a bar and an inn aren't really that unconnected.
  

History: At least 2 paragraphs.
Ever since birth, Victoria was talented with magic, something her parents kept from the world out of shame, though it brought the girl herself great pride. She ferreted out a group of people similar to herself in ability, and became friends with each of them, eventually becoming their leader. As time passed, and they became adults, however, their spellcraft was discovered by some of the more closed-minded, discriminative and superstitious villagers, and all but Victoria were captured, as she had been out of town on an errand for her family. Upon her return, Victoria was greeted with the sight of her friends' desecrated corpses, and the villagers explained what had happened, not knowing Victoria was a 'witch' as well, leaving her in mourning for some time.

Victoria, a few years later, was given ownership of the bar her family had been running for generations. However, unbeknownst to them, she had been delving into darker and darker magics, trying to find a way to bring her friends back to her, while also searching for a way to guarantee it would never happen again, to any of them. Instead, she discovered a powerful spell that would guarantee her an eternity of life, so long as she surrounded herself with miserable people. She gave it some thought, and decided that, if she couldn't bring her friends back, she would live for each of them, and she cast the spell, planning out how she would do this. Each decade, she would travel to a new location, taking on the name of one of her friends. She renamed the bar, and followed through with this plan, leaving her family behind to whatever fate awaited them.

For about fifty years, Victoria's life was somewhat repetitious, but she had no complaints for it, enjoying being alive and energetic itself, knowing what fate she had narrowly escaped. Her travels brought her to many places, carried on the back of many lies, and leading her to a little hamlet, hidden away from most of the world. A perfect place to set up Le Sombre Chanson, as it would be called in the local tongue. Setting up shop, she noted the nearby institutions and businesses, and quickly settled in, expecting just another part of the cycle. Surprise her, would you kindly?

[Nayru Calibur]

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