Post by Henrietta Langois on Apr 28, 2008 19:22:08 GMT -5
Name: Henrietta Langois
Age: 21
Race: d'Angeline
Gender: Female
Description: From a young age Henrietta was forced to keep herself in spectacular condition, self-care held at a high level. She learned to walk as if floating early on, and though her striking roll of her hips was self-taught, it was worn to near perfection by using it on household staff as well as her brother, Jean. Her face naturally holds a serious, guarded expression, but when she gives a natural, genuine smile it crosses across all boundries of her features and lights her face. Eyes a bright green, they shine against her rich auburn locks that readily gain highlights in late spring and during the summer months. She's of an average height for a d'Angeline woman, standing around 5'7, most of it in her legs.
History: From birth, Henrietta had always been coveted by her mother, kept close, primped, beautied and praised. She noticed at a young age that it intensified whenever her father, the Vicomte Henri Langois, was around, and as such she learned by the example of her mother to flash her father bright smiles, to pout prettily, and over the years she learned, and eventually mastered some, of the arts of plotting and acting to get what she wants. Much of that was attributed too to her mother, who set examples for her, and taught her many things when Henri was not around.
For all her mother pretended and wished, Henrietta was not the eldest child of the household. Her older step-brother, Jean, was orphaned and taken in by the Vicomte and his wife many years before Henrietta was birthed... and of all the things her mother wished to teach her of, of how the boy was not blood and not deserving, Henrietta looked at him with different eyes.
Whether she loved him or whether it was an act had never been spoken of, or admitted to, but her mother cared not. By the time it was decreed that Jean would become the heir and not Henrietta, her mother already had in mind a plot to wed the two together and, by doing so, securing Henriettas future. She twisted the girl and told her what to do, how to act, to try to seduce Jean into marriage.
Marriage was something Henrietta wanted, but more than that she wanted immediate satisfaction, wanted something that she'd been thinking of for a long time. She set about attempting to seduce Jean, to urge him into bedding her; if she did that, she not only would get what she wanted, but it would undoubtedly make getting him to marry her that much easier. So far Jean has resisted her, likely knowing what her mother wants for the two of them, but Henrietta persists out of her own will and not her mothers. She wants Jean, and she so far, he is the only thing she has ever wanted and not gotten.
She travels into the City for two distinctive reasons: Partially to follow Jean, and partially to experience more than she could in Azzalle. Half Kusheline, Henrietta has always been curious at the darker arts of love, though it is something she has kept hidden from all her family members. For the first time in her young life, her mothers finges are not upon her, guiding her steps and her actions. She wants Jean and hasn't lost focus of him, but she wants more, too, and knows when Jean comes to her she likely might not ever get the chance again.
It's never crossed her mind that Jean might not want her, or that she might not be able to seduce him into her bed in the end.
Update: Having successfully bedded Jean and discovered his own hidden passions for her, Henrietta realized she truly did not want him, just as Jean did not wish to wed her. When Jean traveled back to Azzalle, Henrietta remained in the City, ignoring her mothers demands for her return, suffering the wrath of her disappointment in not wedding Jean, weathering the ugly words and insults. She remains, looking for her own retribution and security in life, for how long she is allowed to remain in the families townhome is uncertain, and on a moments notice she may well be kicked out onto the street, or called home to wed some minor lordlings son. [/i]