Post by Penelope Trente on Jan 6, 2011 20:38:06 GMT -5
~|[Penelope Trente]|~
BASIC INFO
~Name (w/title): Penelope Trente, Vicomtesse de Vért
~Age: 21
~Home Province or Country: Siovale and Aragonia
~Gender: Female
~Race: D’Angeline/Aragonian
~House: House Trente
APPEARANCE
~Height: 5’9
~Eye Colour: Emerald green
~Hair Color: Golden brown
~General Appearance: Penelope is statuesque in her frame, honed from years of acrobatics and ridding. Her slender appearance is deceiving though as she is quite strong and muscular for some one her size. Everything about her seems small though, even her breasts and hips which hold an almost boyish configuration. Her skin seems mutable and depending on the light, how much sun she’s been exposed to and the colour of the clothing she’s wearing can vary from a pale ivory, to a peaches and cream complexion all the way to an olive tone. But more often her skin holds a bronze colour reminiscent of her Aragonian heritage. Her eyes are one of the more noticeable features of her face, though her button nose, high cheek bones and voluptuous mouth are attractive, it is her deep green eyes that tend to draw people in. A little taller then the average female, when she chooses Penelope can play a quite convincing male version of herself.
~Played By (name of actor or model): Emmy Rossum
BACKGROUND
~Skills/Weapons: Bow/archery. Horse back riding. Languages (mostly Aragonian and D’Angeline), Skaldic, Cruithne, Hellene, Caerdicci. Staff. Passing fair at sword fighting but she’ll prefer to use a staff or a bow.
~Family Lineage: House Trente, House Aragonia
~Father: Sebastien Trente (deceased)
~Mother: Neva Trente y Jiménez (deceased)
~Siblings: Brother- Pepin Trente (Penelope’s alter ego)
~History: Penelope’s story really started with Amaury Trente, her grandfather who had been Queen Sidonie’s commander and an influential noble through the many years he was alive. Amaury had three children, two boys and a girl; his eldest Maurice became heir to Amaury’s wealth, lands and eventually the title of Comte which he was granted by the crown for his years of unfailing service. His only daughter Margot married a member of the Aragonian royal family which is where her father Sebastien met her mother Neva.
Sebastien had the unlucky happenstance of being born last, but more then that his older siblings were born quite far apart from him. His sister was 10 years older then him and his brother Maurice 13 years. This often meant that Sebastien was left to his own devices and because his mother died during his birth, Sebastien was often left on the outside looking in with no real family. Lacking in family and often raised by the staff of the house he was quiet and withdrawn. Worried that he would be unable to find a suitable wife with this disposition Amaury sent him to Aragonia to spend a summer at court. This is where he met Neva whose father was the Aragonian Ambassador to Terre d’Ange. Being only fifteen at the time, the pair did not court but began to correspond regularly and where often in the same place at the same time; Neva would spend spring, fall and winters in the City of Elua with her family as would Sebastien. In the summers they would both be in Aragonia. For three years this was how the two came to live until they both gained there majority, a marriage made their courtship official and Sebastien was given a Vicomty in honor of the match.
The pair settled down, deciding to live in Siovale as it seemed like the best in between point for the City of Elua and Aragonia. For years they ferried between the two doing the duties that their families asked of them and their marriage was a happy one save for the fact that the pair had trouble conceiving. Eventually though Neva became heavy with child and they all rejoiced in the beginning until she went into labour too early in her pregnancy and the child, a boy, was still born. But despite everything, only two months after Neva was again with child and this time she carried through to full term, giving birth to Penelope. But their happiness faded as Neva truly recovered from the birth suffering headaches that would leave her bedridden with a severe pain in her left eye. When Penelope was only six weeks old she went to bed one night never to wake; the chirurgeon suggested that she may have had bleeding in her brain due to her strenuous labour that caused her demise. Because of Neva’s death Sebastien withdrew from just about everything, even Penelope. He loved his daughter but Neva had been his world and after she had died it was though his heart had no room to allow anyone else to become close with him.
Consequently Penelope was raised by a myriad of people, from staff on the estate to tutors all the way to her grandfather Amaury despite his age. As she aged Penelope proved to be very much like her father in personality. Quiet, reserved, observant and loyal; she had an aptitude for her studies and excelled so much so that she often didn’t need tutors because she would fly through her work. But despite her keen intelligence Penelope was often passed over and considered plain or boring by those around her and the one person she deeply wished to catch the attention of was her father who just never seemed interested in paying attention to her. By the age of ten Penelope was caught some where between a shy child with no real family and a girl coming into an age where she should be thinking about things like boys and catching their attentions. But Penelope wasn’t interested in such things and often found that the only interest she had in boys was watching the sons of the staff and guard practice their routines. On a whim one day she attempted to join them in their practice and discovered she had a natural athleticism that made her popular with some of the others. Penelope began to have instruction on gymnastics and then other items like the staff, sword and bow; though it was the bow she was most skilled at. Loosing interest in impressing anyone, Penelope became near obsessed with her new found skills and began to ignore others in order to spend hours doing what she needed to be better. Sadly though the older she became and the more advanced she became; the less the boys liked her (though Penelope never realized they were not only jealous but also attracted to the girl coming into her femininity). Ostracized she became unsure and confused by the way the boys would act around her.
At thirteen she stopped practicing with the boys and went back to her studies, though she near fanatically continued to study her bow and staff skills in secret. When Penelope was only fourteen her father was attacked one day and accidentally killed after struggling with a group of vagrants looking for money. Penelope didn’t understand why her father had been attacked and when she asked her grandfather he explained about the poor of the country who didn’t have the sort of lives she was raised with. It was then that Penelope decided she would change that. She wasn’t as wealthy as some of the nation but she soon understood what some of her fellow D’Angelines kept. She made it her mission to help those that could not help themselves. It was only six months after her father’s death that she received word that her brother Pepin was to inherit the Vicomty and that he needed to contact the magistrate to make it official. When she questioned her now frail grandfather about it, she learned that her mother and father had been so caught up in her brother’s death and then Neva’s quick pregnancy after, that they had neglected to sign Pepin’s death certificate. As far as the crown was concerned Pepin was alive and well. Hatching a plan she posed as her deceased infant brother and sent word that Pepin would decline the title so that his younger sister would inherit on her 18th natal. After that it was just a matter of testing the waters.
Penelope began to dress as a boy and ventured to villages that did not know of her family and pretended to be Pepin. Eventually she found the right combinations of wigs and bindings as well as watching the men on her estate, and soon she had made her alter ego; a man that stole from the rich to give to the poor. A year later Amaury died in his sleep and Penelope was alone again. She released most of her staff, finding them jobs in other houses and keeping on only a few of whom she trusted then began to go to work. Using her skills at acrobatics and archery she began to target the wealthy houses of the province, stealing what ever she could to give to those that had nothing.
For the past four years she has been honing her abilities as thief and actor to continue her mission to balance the scales of justice. But her acts have garnered so much attention that she’s become worried that she’ll be exposed. Deciding that it was time to move on, she has packed up her small amount of belongings and moved to the City of Elua with the knowledge that some of the most wealthy of Terre d’Ange are living there just waiting for her to take what they have.
Personality: Because of her focus on the life she has created for herself, Penelope has had very little chance to understand the game of courtship. This means she’s a virgin and also extremely unsure of how to flirt. In fact then any man has ever flirted with her she’s either been completely oblivious to it or so nervous that she becomes clumsy and flighty. Penelope is also an unassuming soul, she gives everyone the benefit of the doubt and believes just about everyone, thinking they are as honest as she is.
PLOTS- The plan is for her to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Eventually she may be caught at this game which could lead to some interesting consequences.