Post by Brigitte nó Eglantine (D) on Jul 16, 2008 21:33:38 GMT -5
Name: Brigitte nó Eglantine- Clothier
Age: 19
Height: 5'9
Gender: Female
Race: ¾ D'Angeline (Namarrese/Eisandrine/Agnicite), ¼ Alban
Home Province: Born in Alba, raised in L'Agnace
Appearance: Brigitte almost looks like a D'Angeline Skaldic mix at first sight, her hair a ever changing blond occassionally showing strawberry blond hair in the summer. A strange mix of her diverse parental heritage she supposes. In deed she's far more D'Angeline then her harsher Alban heritage, which her mother bares a far greater resemblance to. Unlike her dark skined mother she has fair skin like her father, that tans easily in the summer months. Her eyes are a summer sky blue with a haunting hazel both brown spot in her right eye. She's tall at 5'9 and has a lean some what willowy form with a generous swell in both hips and breast.
History: Brigitte's background is surrounded in service to the gods, whether D'Angeline or Alban, and so seemed bound for service herself. Born in Alba, Brigitte and her mother Eirinn moved to the City Elua fourteen years ago after her father's death. Her father Remy was a Priest of Naamah at the a Temple in Bryn Gorrydum, one of the first Temple's of Naamah to be built there. Remy's father had been a Priest of Elua himself and he fell in love with a beautiful acolyte at Naamah's Temple. So Remy was born in Alba binding him to a life he never really cherished, that was until he met Eirinn, the new ollamh in the City of Bryn Gorrydum. Eirinn's mother had been a member of the Black Boar and she married one of the D'Angeline soldiers that stayed behind after the Skaldic war.
There was a connection between each other, at first Remy would moon over the young tutor Eirinn spending time around her when ever he could, even if they didn't talk. In fact it was almost a full year before he introduced himself.
Their courtship was an average one considering, but at the end of it all Eirinn and Remy decided not to marry but live together as consorts.
A total of 5 years passed between the time they first saw each other and the time that Brigitte was born. Baring a name that was indicative of her different heritages, Brigitte had a happy life in Alba, that she can remember.
Civil unrest, though, spread across Alba with D'Angeline's stuck in the middle. It was when Brigitte was five that her father's temple was attacked and Remy slaughtered out of hand.
Eirinn panicked and decided that she needed to take her child away from the fighting and blood shed, fearing that the civil unrest would turn into war and her half blooded self and child would be caught in the middle.
She bartered passage on a ship to Azzalle and when she reached Pointe de Soeurs she began to work odd jobs, saving up to barter for passage to the City of Elua.
Eirinn managed to get in contact with a aunt of Remy's, a Priestess of Eisheth and she contacted the Dowayne of Eglantine who had an opening as staff in the house. Eirinn agreed and when Brigitte turned six she came into her new life as the daughter of the head gardener, though Eirinn's duties far outreached just gardening. It was when Brigitte was eight that Eirinn decided to see that she daughter get a better education and perhaps have a better life then her, since now they were living in the land of Angels. Eirinn had no skill here, save that would have dutifully served her back home. It made her seek out a house for her daughter.
But, whether by fate or by fortune it seemed that Brigitte would not stray far from home. The Dowayne of Eglantine talked to young Brigitte and found that she was a very good tumbler and dancer. So it was that Brigitte's marque was purchased by Eglantine and at ten she was dedicated to the service of Naamah. I dare say her father would have been proud.
Four years into her training at Eglantine, Brigitte, though thoroughly loving dancing and tumbling, found that her desires were turning to fashion. She spoke with the Dowayne and after showing the Dowayne some of her drawings and items she had already made, the Dowayne agreed and her lesson's were switched to tailoring, clothing, sewing and design.
At sixteen she made an unimpressive debut to the sadness of her Dowayne, though it was more toward patron uninterest then her skills, so she would claim. For the last three years she has been working hard as a clothier in the house and had since done much better for her. Her marque completed almost ¾ of the way up her back.
Brigitte speaks Cruithne, some Eiren, and passing Aragonian, Skaldi, and Caerdicci, and though she's educated as any good adept should be in history and the high ranking family's of Terre d'Ange. Her interests lay else where.
She strives to be the best there can be, ambitious, quick, cunning and with an incredible eye for fashion, it's Brigitte's goal to finish her marque and become Second or save enough for her own salon... Whatever comes first....
Personality wise Brigitte has an off putting humour, often crash and cruel, she is guarded deeply and tends to come off as rude on first impressions. Though this is mostly because she's so driven to be the best she finds it has little time for much else. Indeed, one of her greatest fears is falling in love with a patron for she thinks it will be a distraction. And even though some may find her abrasive, which is probably why she doesn't have many friends, she is quite kind...sometimes...
In truth, most of her House mates think she would have been a Mandrake if she hadn't found a penchant for clothing. Brigitte admits that she is cruel most of the times, but she knows that she has no desire to cause pain, though she does enjoy passionate love play, often leaving marks on her partners.