Post by Inès nó Camellia on Feb 5, 2011 15:45:16 GMT -5
Character Played By: Lydia Hearst-Shaw
Name: Inès nó Camellia
Title: Adept
Age:17
Race (Lineage Origin)'Angeline
Gender:Female
Height:5'9”
Home Province/Country: Namarre
Appearance (1-2 Paragraphs):
Beautiful to the point of heartbreak. A woman that seems to have come from the dreams of another, or, at least the fantastical stories of a Mendacant. Perfectly rendered features are set upon a milky complexion; framed by silken tresses of spun gold. Clear cerulean blue eyes sparkle and catch the light. Long golden lashes give her already arresting blue eyes a near shaded look. Her nose is slender and sloped and Inès' lips are exquisite almost themselves longing to be kissed. All of which is given the presence of a slender frame, perfectly proportioned and, in fact, blameless.
Personality (1-2 Paragraphs):
Inès embodies her House Canon with seeming little effort. Perfection in the very way she moves to the smile upon her lips. Naamah's service, to her, is sacrosanct and she desires to see it through. While she too has ambition it is different, though that difference is kept to herself. Older adepts, however, might know the source of Inès' own desire to succeed.
History (At least 2 detailed Paragraphs):
It is a tale of obsession.
An obsession that is still whispered about that resulted in Inès' birth.
Inès mother was a woman named Isabelle nó Alyssum. Isabelle was a beautiful woman, though her golden hair nearly always hidden beneath a Hellenic veil. She was a woman who's soft voice and especially blush would bring the patrons near. Wishing, for that point, where Isabelle's sparkling blue eyes would look upon them and tremble.
The man, was Eugène d'Herbois. He was born the son of a wine-merchant and Sommelier a respected man of Namarre. Eugène inherited his fortunes as well as the family business. Which, thankfully, he allowed his more skilled brother to take care of. Euègne, himself, frittered through life on his own whims. Spending it upon drink, gambling and the occasional dalliance. Of course, he would loose interest after an intense love affair with it. It wasn't, for him, a matter of if but when.
The players set upon their stage, Eugène met Isabelle on a visit to Alyssum. A lark, honestly. He much preferred the other flowers to Alyssum. To say he didn't quite understand the spice before his entrance to their salon would be an understatement. That was the time when everything for two people would change. Eugène believed himself madly in love with Isabelle and nearly spent all of his fortune upon patronizing her. She was at first reluctant but in time, believed herself to have fallen in love with him. When her last bit of her marque was to be made, Eugène pleaded with Isabelle to leave the service of Naamah and be with him.
That night, under his guidance she lit a candle to Eisheth, and Isabelle left behind a promising service.
And in a few months time, Isabelle was a married woman and heavy with child. Eugène's interest in the soft-spoken beauty was waning but at first he did not say. Once Inès was born, however, it seemed that his interest was re-kindled. Isabelle carried her burden in quiet, softly crying in her chambers. In fact, it is the earliest memory Inès has. It began slowly truly, though Isabelle was a perceptive woman, later nights at the business. Trips to the vineyard, or so he said. His money, what was left of it, not going to his child.
Finally, Eugène's debtors caught up to him and left him for dead in a solitary alley in Night's Doorstep. Isabelle knew that his once mad-love was long dead and withered upon the vine; it was Eugène's one redeeming feature that he kept his duty to his child and the mother of that he kept them around.
Isabelle, however, was devastated. For she had grown to truly love her ne'er-do-well husband. Inès tried desperately to bring cheer to her closed off mother's being. Her child-like innocence having no idea as to the level of depression the former Adept of Alyssum has come to.
A depression so dark that when Isabelle took Inès to Alyssum at six, she was a ghost of a woman. A slip and a shadow of her former self. Inès was accepted and she waved good by to her precious mother. It only took a few days afterward, when Isabelle was found floating upon the Aveline River, drowned by her own hand.
As it turns out, Inès did not take after her mother. She was not shy and was not modest in the least. And so, the questions as to where she would go was a bit of idle gossip amongst the Adepts and Novices of the Night Court. They wondered Dhalia she was certainly upright enough. But, there was enough bend in Inès to not make her a model Dhalia. But, it is Inès breath-taking perfection that brought her to the attention of the Camellia Dowayne of the time. And so, Bryony cashed in on long-held bets and Inès was adopted by House Camellia.
A lovely novice, she attracted potential buyers of her Virgin Price quite early. And when she finally did debut, almost as soon as she reached the age of Majority, she attracted quite a handsome price. Now, early into her Service, Inès hopes to escape the shadow – still whispered about in pity laden murmurs - of her family's past.