Part II: Character Information
Character Name/Position:
Lara. Lara the Nymph
Fantine Lorenzo
Name Meaning:
Fantine=French: Childlike
Lorenzo=Italian. Laurel Crowned. Childlike {and} Laurel Crowned.
Birthdate and Age / Zodiacal Sign: 23 years old
October 25th/Scorpio
Physical Details:
Hair: Fantine has shining, shimmering silvery blonde hair that falls about three inches below her shoulders. It has a very slight wave to it, and it curls up ever so slightly at the ends. She has no bangs.
Eye: Fantine's eyes are a color rarely seen; they are lavender with silver rings around the pupils. They are framed by very thick lashes.
Facial: Fantine has a very clear cut face. Her forehead is high and slightly wide, and it tapers to a very cute point at her chin. She has perfectly-plucked eyebrows that arch ever so gently over her eyes, giving her almost a quizzical look. Her cheekbone are fairly high, and they give a depth to her cheeks. Her mouth is a perfectly formed pout.
Build: People generally consider Fantine willowy. She is tall, standing at 5'8", and she only weighs 130 pounds. Her arms, legs, and fingers are very long and slender. She has barely any figure to speak of; her hips are very slender, but her shoulders are somewhat wide. Her bust is ample.
Carriage: Even with her build, Fantine/Lara tends to slink about, choosing to be unnoticed rather than show off her body. It is not so much a conscious decision than a tendency left over from her last life.
Skin: Fantine has the perfect skin. It is ivory, and her complexion is very clear. Should she ever get a blemish it would show up right away, but she takes great care not to get any. Voice: Lara has a tendency to speak way too loud and raucous when she is just being herself, or when she is around other nymphs. This is because she is not quite used to having a tongue again after so many years of not having one. When she is Fantine, however, she avoids speaking as much as possible to fit in with Fantine's personality. When she is in either form, she has a strong speech impediment, caused by ear troubles (see history)
Dress: Lara generally dresses in more chic clothing. Her favorite outfit consists of tight black leather pants and a silver, off the shoulder spaghetti strap shirt. She tends to wear skintight pants, usually leather or vinyl, and a spaghetti strap shirt, generally in a solid color. She never wears blue jeans. Her favorite shoes are black Italian leather boots. If she needs to dress up she will wear a form fitting black dress that goes over only her right shoulder with black strappy sandals. For a more casual event she will wear a white peasant dress that goes to her knees with a pair of brown leather sandals. When at work, Lara wears a dress suit that consists of a short, tight black miniskirt and a tight, black double breasted blazer over a tight button up silver shirt.
Overall: Lara is generally considered very attractive and alluring.
Bloodtype: AB-proud and discriminating. That's Lara.
Gemstone: Peridot-said to heal speaking impediments ^^
Likes:
Gossip: Lara loves to gossip. That, indeed, is what got her in trouble with Jupiter in the first place. She apparently hasn't learned anything, however, because she still loves it.
Secrets, when she knows them: More than anything else in the world, Lara loves to know what she shouldn't know. It gives her a sense of power to know something that she shouldn't.
Compliments: Having chosen a beautiful body, Lara regularly gets compliments. She almost feeds off of them, they giver her such a rush.
Attention: Lara can sometimes be quite a ham, and she loves to have all eyes on her. She especially loves taking the limelight away from others; she feels she deserves it more, especially after her long imprisonment.
Music: This is the only way Lara has ever found to express herself sans Fantine's thick impediment. The lisp often dissuades her from speaking, much to her chagrin, but music needs no speech to communicate. Her first instrument is the French horn, although she plays several others.
Sirius: Sirius is Lara's black Labrador. He is rather spoiled by Lara. She tends to like dogs in general, though. When she was confined to Hades, she got to know Cerberus, and she has had a thing for dogs ever since then.
Dislikes:
Secrets, when they are kept from her: There is nothing more frustrtating to Lara than having something kept from her. She will go to extremes to discover what the secret was, and then "punish" the one who kept it from her.
Lightning: Lightning reminds her of Jupiter, and thus her imprisonment. It is not so much that she dislikes it that it makes her enraged.
Fantine: Lara dislikes the fact that she has to play a wishy-washy, dense girl. She also hates that the girl has the impediment.
Being alone: Having spent millennia alone in Hades, Lara does not appreciate being alone, and even as she hates humans, she seeks to be near them to soothe her feelings.
The Dark: Lara's hatred of the dark also comes from when she was imprisoned in Hades. She went mad as she was staring into the darkness all around her, and she still sees visions in the darkness.
Sulfur: The smell of sulfur really sets Lara off; it brings back memories of her time in Hades.
Quiet: Lara likes to have some sort of noise around her at all times; she usually plays music or leaves the TV on as background noise when she is at home alone.
Her impediment: More than anything in the world, Lara hates her impediment. It keeps her from communicating anything adequately, and it gives the wrong impression to everyone.
Hobbies:
Gossip: Lara spends much of her time gossiping, even though she frowns down on it in other people. She is a very big hypocrite in that way. Even though she does not particularly like mortals, she does like their gossip; that is about the only thing they have in common at all.
Playing music: Music, after all, was Lara's major. It is her only real way to communicate to the world what she feels, and it is something she really enjoys.
Spying: The best way to get gossip and secrets from others is to spy on them. She doesn't spy on people like someone out of Mission Impossible; rather, she usually just eavesdrops over conversations.
Designing clothes: Lara isn't a very good fashion designer, but she likes to do it for fun. Most of her designs consist of Ancient Roman themed clothes, like togas. Her designs aren't really all that good, though, and she would never be able to sell them.

Personality/Alter Ego:
First of all, there is a very large difference between Fantine and Lara. Fantine is, and always has been, a calm, quiet, somewhat dense girl. To alleviate some suspicions people might have, Lara tries to keep with this description as much as possible. She rarely speaks when she is out and about, and she usually casts an overall appearance of being very demure and shy. Her demeanor persuades some people that she is denser than she actually is, and she often uses that to her advantage. She is very apt to spy on people's conversations, and they never suspect her.
Fantine has an extreme speech impediment, and it has a very large effect on Fantine/Lara's communication skills. Generally she doesn't speak that much when she's Fantine because she has to yell almost to make herself understood. Instead, she has an intricate method of communicating without speech, which usually includes nodding and hand gestures. As Lara, however, she has no inhibitions of being loud, even though it often sounds quite ridiculous when she speaks.
Lara herself is a cunning, conniving woman who loves to get revenge for what she perceives the world has done to her. This attitude mainly comes out when she is with the other nymphs, although it has been known to creep its way in when she is pretending to be Fantine. She cannot take any sort of slight to her character at all, either Fantine or Lara, and she will take revenge whatever way she thinks is necessary. This can range from spreading rumors to actual physical harm perpetrated on some unsuspecting civilian.
When she wants to be, however, Lara can be very calm and quiet. This is usually when she is hatching a plan, though, and she should not be trusted when she acts like this. As unforgiving as she is about personal injury, however, she has a long memory for kindnesses shown to her, and she will work to repay it, even in small ways. Generally, however, she does not have to worry about this because her intense attitude scares people off.
Whatever can be said about Lara, though, she is intense. Her intensity comes through even though she is not glib of tongue or fast of wit. Even when she is just sitting down, intensity seems to roll off her. usually it is the intensity with which she hates humankind and the senshi, but other things can get into her mind, too. her one minded-ness about getting revenge is very admirable, and to her it almost already seem fait accompli. Her intensity, however, can often lead her to be flighty, as she is very prone just to take action on a whim. Her one mindedness can also be frustrating, as she is very resistant to reason. It's either her way or the high way.
Lara holds a somewhat subservient role on the nymph team, but it is one she likes. She is an information gatherer, almost something like a spy. She is very good at listening in on conversations while people don't even know she's there. In this way she gathers information to being back to the team. She can be very stingy with this information, however, and often asks for a fee before giving it out.

History:
Lara was a naiad daughter of the River God Almo. She was born in quite an unusual way. Her mother was a beautiful nymph, and the favorite wife of Almo. His other wives began to dislike her because she was the favorite, though, and they would tease her because of her lisp. One day she became so upset at the constant hazing that she fled to the most sacred river in Almo's territory. She was very fond of a grotto that was located there. She curled up in the grotto and wept. As she wept, she called out all the vices that she hated in the other wives. Her tears flowed into the river, and each one became a nymph, fully grown and clothed. Beautiful as they were, these nymphs all had the traits that their mother had called out when their tear fell in the water. Lara was the nymph that sprung out when her mother said "stupid gossip."
It wasn't necessarily that these children were all ruled by that one specific trait, however. Lara herself was a very sweet, caring, and loving nymph who was very fond of the river and of speaking with it. She was also very protective of all the small animals she found. She could never repress her tendency to gossip, however, and it is eventually what got the better of her.
When she was a teenager (in nymph years), Lara was invited to be a courtier in Jupiter's court. It was an occupation she was very fond of. She loved wearing the ceremonial robes that she was bequeathed by the court, and she loved the attention that was lavished on her; she was quite beautiful. Most of all, however, she loved the gossip she was privy to. She heard almost everything after awhile because she was so innocent looking that most people did not see her as any sort of threat.
It was just her luck, then, when she stumbled on the secret of Jupiter and Juturna. She fled from the scene and told every passing deity she saw, so that the next day the whole court knew what had happened. In his rage, Jupiter struck Lara dumb, tearing out her tongue and sentencing her to an eternity of woe in the nether areas. Hermes was ordered to take her to Hades and he complied, dutifully lugging the sobbing nymph away.
In Hades she became sullen; her hair grew out ragged and her skin began to grow gray. No longer a thing of beauty, she was condemned to be a guardian of an underworld river. From her river, however, she could hear the sounds of the humans above her, talking, singing, and laughing. Even when they died they could speak; those who had lost their tongues could speak again. She became bitter towards all of humanity, and as she skulked in her river, she became known as Tacita, goddess of silence. More than that, however, she despised the gods for sentencing her to this punishment, and as she festered in Hades, she began to plot against them. Being half mad, however, her plots never got very far, and she could not recruit others because she could not speak.
There came a time, however, when Lara could feel a waning in the power of the gods. With what little sense she had left she bided her time, waiting for the exact moment when she could feel the spell that bound her break. As soon as it dispersed, she leapt from her bondage, leaving her body far behind and opting to travel with only her soul. She traveled in the night, slinking through the world until she found the perfect child, Fantine. She was the very first child that Lara found who had the smallest bit of resemblance to her, and a child who could talk. Lara forced her spirit into the small child's body, easily killing her soul as it slept.
Fantine was the only child to Cosette and Uberto Lorenzo. The pregnancy was especially difficult for Cosette, who was unhealthily thin at the time. Fantine was always a beautiful, cheerful girl, and she laughed a lot. One thing that Cosette worried about, however, was that she didn't talk a lot. This was mainly due to ear problems. Fantine had had extreme buildup in her ears since she was born, and it had an adverse effect on her hearing abilities, so that everything was distorted. It was when Fantine was a little over five years old that Lara stole her body. The very first thing that Lara tried to do was speak, and to her chagrin, she encountered extreme difficulty with forming the words due to the impediment. In her rage she tore apart the room, sobbing and screaming in grief. Cosette and Uberto rushed in to see what was wrong with their child, and they tried to settle her down. Fantine kicked and bit, and she gave her father a black eye. In this process, Lara learned another important fact she had overlooked; she spoke a very, very archaic form of Latin, and nothing more. With despair she went limp, allowing herself to be put back to bed.
The next morning she was taken to a psychologist, who could find no apparent reason for her outburst. Fantine refused to speak while Lara stewed, frantically trying to pick up the language. Within a matter of months she had the language more or less down. The inner ear problems caused Lara to hear things so differently that she always spoke with a broad impediment, which was the difference between what she heard and what was actually said. It wasn't until Fantine was eight that a pediatrician finally noticed this and performed surgery on Fantine's ears. The damage was done, however, and Lara/Fantine has been struggling ever since then to relearn how to pronounce everything.
Fantine was a very quiet, calm, innocent girl. Fury again raged within Lara as she struggled to play the part well. She generally pulled strangers in with this act, although her parents always felt awkward around her. They felt guilty even thinking about it, but they started to believe that Fantine wasn't their daughter, and they never really trusted her. Lara could see the way they looked at her, and as soon as she possibly could, she moved out, found a roommate, and started college. She rarely visit her "parents." After graduating from the University of Rome with a major in music, Lara could only find work in a music store; she has yet to earn her place in a symphony, although that is one of her more earth-bound dreams.

NPCs:
Cosette Lorenzo
Fantine's mother, a French ballet dancer, Cosette is a very quiet, thoughtful woman. She still loves to dance, and she spends most of her time doing it, although she will never reach the professional level again. She doesn't really trust Fantine, and her woman's intuition tells her that this is not the child she gave birth to. She secretly mourns for her real child, who she is sure is dead.
Uberto Lorenzo
Fantine's father, Uberto is an usher at a major theatre. He actually met Cosette when he ushered for her show. He fell madly in love with her at first sight, and he still loves her madly. He has never trusted Lara, and he will make it quite clear that he does not want to spend that much time with her.
Adriana Melita
Adriana is Lara's roommate. She is a gossipy girl who likes to talk, and she drives Lara crazy with her inane banter. However, she is a very good source for information; she is privy to all sorts of news because she is an intern for a newspaper. Lara spends as little time around her as possible. Basically they share a small living area and a kitchen. Adriana has long, thick black hair, an oval face, and slightly crooked teeth. She has to wear thin rimmed glasses, and her eyes are green.

Part III: Villain Information
Special Skills:
Lara has the power of striking people dumb. She can basically wiggle her fingers and make it so that people are mute, or even incapable of thinking and acting. This lasts for as long as she is in the vicinity of about two blocks. If she remains in the area, the effect will usually wear off after about twenty minutes. During that time, said person cannot speak, and/or cannot think. In essence, they are a living vegetable. It can be blanketed over several people, but the more people it covers the weaker it is.
Henshin Item: Aaaahh, gee, no nifty henshin dealie for Lara….
Transformation: No henshin either? All the easier.
Colors: Silver
Symbol: A vertical line with a diamond on the bottom is the symbol for revenge.
Fuku/Costume:
Hmmm, how do you graphically represent stupidity? That's a tough one, but here's what I came up with; I think it relates nicely to the history and all. Starting from toe to head: on her feet, Lara wears silver fur/moccasin shoes, almost like slippers, that are bound around her feet with black cord. On her calves, from her ankle to her knee, she has silver leggings that are skintight. They are decorated with black fire that leaps up from the bottom towards two skulls, right at the center. A very, very light pair of silver genie type pants tuck into these leggings, so that they only cover the thigh. They are see through. Over this she wears the main part of her fuku, which is a short, silver toga-type outfit. It only reaches to mid thigh, and it only goes over her left shoulder, leaving her right shoulder and an almost undecent amount of her chest bare. Around her waist is a thin black leather belt, onto which she hooks her horn. On her upper arms she has black metal armbands with her symbol etched in silver. The finishing touch is a face painting of black fire rising over her eyebrows like some bizarre mask.
Powers/Attacks:
Mute Revenge!
To perform this attack, Lara clicks her heels once and blows a single mournful note on her horn (A-flat, to be exact). A glittering wave of silver arises from the ground at her feet, spirals once around her body, and then shoots towards the victim. Once it touches them anywhere, they can no longer speak for the duration of the battle. This means no calling out of attacks, nada. The downfall of this attack is that it can only be used on one person at a time. Once Lara aims it at another victim, the effects are removed from the first victim. It is hard, but not impossible, to dodge this attack. It is quick, but easily visible. Overall, it is a very light effect, and it could probably be used dozens of times with no ill effects to Lara.
Stupidity Spectrum
To activate this maneuver, Lara plays three short blasts one her horn. Each of these notes emerges as a ball of swirling light that encircles the area and grows to enclose it. The area it encloses is about the size of an elementary school gym. Once inside, the victim(s) are treated to tie-dye, tripped out effects which totally wipe their mind of any thoughts they may have other than looking at the pretty colors. It is very easy to dodge because it is very easy to see and moves fairly slowly. The dome will stay up as long as Lara holds it, or until someone distracts her. It also effects everyone on both sides when it is cast; ally or enemy. It will affect Lara if she is caught inside, so that is something for her to worry about. Lara can only use this attack once a battle; it is very draining to keep up the dome.
Tacita's Caress
To pull this neat trick, Lara pirouettes once, then does a glissando down the B-flat scale. A streamer of silver winds out of the horn and twines itself around a victim, caresses them once, then disappears back into the horn. The victim is left as basically a human vegetable, robbed of thought. The full effects of this attack are felt throughout the battle, and even afterwards the victim may find it difficult to think too hard for a few days. It is a pretty fast attack, and it is mildly difficult to dodge. Once it touched the victim, they become the vegetable. It is possible to redirect it back at Lara, if she can be put into the line of the ribbon or it can be turned towards her. Lara can use this on about two separate people before her energy runs out.
Weapons:
Infernal Horn
Lara's infernal horn is a simple French horn with no valves and which curves only once. It is made out of ebony and has etchings of fire on the bell in silver. The mouthpiece is delicately wrought of silver and is fashioned as a blooming flower. Lara wears the horn tied to her belt by a silver rope with black threads. She uses the horn to blow her attacks, in lieu of actually speaking them. It would be harder for her to actually speak the attack than to play its musical equivalent on the infernal horn. The horn can also be used as a simple distracting agent; by blowing a very high note, Lara could possibly distract an opponent long enough for her to escape.

Part IV: Miscellaneous Information
Why you: Why me? Well, this is kind of puts me on the spot. Okay, I have a lot of Rping experience; I am involved in several RPGs right now, and I GM two and am co-GM of one. So, I've been around a bit. Also, I have a lot of experience with Sailormoon based RPGs, mostly with otaku chars (and humble, too ^_~)
Miscellaneous: On your neat little grid thingamadealie on the cast page it shows Lara as having power over stupidity. Originally I wouldn't have chosen her, but then I researched all the nymphs and her history seemed the coolest. The only thing was that her history mentioned her being dumb, and specifically said her tongue had been torn out. From what I understand, muteness was also called dumbness. So, when writing this app, that was the idea I wanted to go with, not necessarily stupid per se, but dumb and certainly mad (as in crazy). I dunno if you're going to go for it or whatever, but the least I can do is try, right? If you don't like it, I'm sure I'll hear ^^.
Anything else you'd like to share.
Okay, I made up a music shop for Lara to work at. It's called "Bella Musica", and is well known for having quality instruments, musical merchandise, and antiques. There are three other people who work at the shop besides Lara, plus the owner. Lara rarely sees any of the other employees; she has the day shift, when it is relatively quieter, where as the others take evening shifts. Bella Musica is located in the back of a renovated apartment building; it consists of a front showroom, a back workroom, and three practice rooms.

Part V: The Writing Sample

Lara leaned back from the work table and wiped a hand across her forehead. Her masterpiece sat propped on the table. It was something she had been working on in her free time; a silver French horn that she made with her own two hands. She was currently working on the engraving, which was an amazingly tedious job. No wonder custom horns are so hard to find, she thought to herself as she tried to work the crick out of her neck. From the front of the shop came the merry tinkle of a bell and Lara scowled. Customers. She carefully adjusted her nametag, which said Fantine, and pulled aside the curtain that separated the show area from the workrooms.

A rather harried looking middle-aged woman stepped into the showroom, a young kid in tow. After her came a sulky looking teenager. Lara quickly hid the grimace that came to her face and smiled. The woman looked around at the shop almost as if she were lost. Lara waited patiently while the customer's gaze darted around the room. Finally, the woman stepped up to the counter.

"Can I hel you?" Asked Lara, struggling with the words. Plosives always gave her trouble.

The woman looked at Lara as if she had just saved the day. "Ah, yes, that would be nice. I was actually looking for a…Carl! Don't touch that!" The last part was directed at the young boy, who was sliding his face along the glass show front of the counter, leaving smudges on the immaculate glass. Lara frowned at the boy. For his part, the boy stepped sulkily back from the glass and wiped his nose which, Lara noticed, was running profusely.

The woman turned to Lara apologetically. "I'm sorry about that, Miss…Fantine. Kids can be such a handful…I'm sure you know." She said confidentially, almost as if she were sharing a joke. Lara smiled pleasantly, but inside her blood boiled. What disgusting creatures these humans are, especially the kids. The woman pulled a tissue out of a huge purse and wiped off the boy's nose, ignoring the struggle the kid put up. When she was done, she tossed it towards a trashcan, missing by several feet. She sheepishly smiled at Lara.

"As I was saying, we came to look at instruments. My daughter," she indicated the sullen teenager moping in the corner, "has been accepted into the all-city band, and she wants a new violin."

"Right thith way," Lara said slowly, making sure to enunciate every word carefully. The mother followed behind her quickly, pulling the small boy behind her. The teenager meandered over and leaned against the wall-to-wall glass case that displayed the instruments for sale. Lara smiled and indicated the string section.

"Over hewe. The violinth."

For the first time since entering the shop the teenager showed some enthusiasm. She very slowly sauntered to the glass and painstakingly examined the instruments. Her mother waited almost fearfully. With a sneer the teenager backed away from the glass.

"They all suck." She said deliberately, looking Lara square in the eye. Lara stared back blankly, then smiled again.

"Wouldent you ike to thee them?" She smiled at the prospective customers and silently cursed the day they were born. The nerve of them! And still, she had to play the good little shopkeeper. With an arrogant shrug the teenager stepped to where Lara was standing. The nymph carefully opened the door and picked out a handcrafted, rosewood violin. She handed it lovingly to the teenager, who took it gruffly. The teen started plucking at the strings roughly, and Lara was about to step in when the girl reached for the tuning pins. With a deliberate yank she turned the pin, snapping the strings and pulling the pin out of alignment. Lara sucked in her breath, her vision turning red. The girl nonchalantly tossed the violin back into the case.

"I told you it sucked." She sneered to her mother, who clucked her tongue as if she were chiding a naughty child. Lara stepped over to the mother, making to block her path, but the woman sidestepped around her.

"Well, if I had known that this store sold faulty merchandise, I would not have wasted my time by coming here. I'm sure you see why we cannot possibly buy this instrument. Such merchandise!"

Lara stood rotted to the ground. "And the damageth?" She said, slowly and menacingly. The woman shrugged.

"I'm sure you can see why we can't pay them. Come, Carl, we will leave at once." The boy trotted reluctantly to his mother's side, looking longingly at a display of metronomes. Once again the bell tinkled, but this time it heralded their departure. The teenager glanced back over her shoulder only long enough to make a snide face at Lara, and then the door shut, cutting them off from her. She stood in front of the display case, her fists clenched so tight that her fingernails made white marks in her palms. How dare these people come into her shop and treat her merchandise this way? There was no excuse whatsoever for their actions; there was no precedent, either. What gave them the idea that they could do this? With a foreboding smirk Lara picked up the violin and relocked the glass case. She worked her way back to the workroom and sat the violin on the table. Pushing her hair out of her eyes, she strode to the glass door and looked out to where the woman stood, cell phone glued to one ear. With a malicious grin she wiggled her fingers at the group. Maybe if she was lucky this little trick would cause one of the kids to run in front of a train. Who knew? That would certainly make her day.

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Dissy: OOoo! I like this nymph! I have two problems with the application, first and formost, Fantine seemed too pleasant in the first few paragraphs of your writing sample. The nymphs hate humans and it didn't become obvious how much she hated them until farther in. I'd be willing to say accept if you would just make it more obvious in those first paragraphs. Secondly, the special skill seems like an attack, not a special skill. a special skill would be a litt something, like maybe her pronunciation improves when she henshins, or maybe her voice fully goes away when she henshins, which would actually be a REALLY cool way to play her! She should be dumb when she's henshined! *really hopes she choses to do that*

Dissy's Verdict: Revise or Die by chinese water torture!!!!

Vessy: My comments were basically summer up by Dissy's concise summary. I don't quite share Dissy's to nice commetn on the story, but I can't QUITE visualize the Tacitas caress it doesn't quite flow somehow, try re-working that... I like the spectrum attack that is cool! but I agree the special skill is more an attack... I like the personality and history they're awesome! I'm not sure about the Cerberus thing because Cere-ey is a gaurdian of what's her name with the dog *sighs* it's late... but I don't know how that would work... I don't think there's ever been an instance in an RPG where this has happened so I guess we'll just ignore it and say yeah she ran into cere...

Vessy's Verdict: Revise or die by Confetti kapoofer!

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Final Verdict : Revise or die!!!!!