Application
( OUT OF CHARACTER )
Name: Eli
Age: 18
Roleplaying experience: Began roleplaying on neopets boards at age thirteen, supplemented with short-lived forums and one-on-one roleplays for several years. Joined a brand new Inception LJ community in July of 2010 and have improved greatly since then through frequent scenes, i.e. expanded from two short paragraphs typical at the beginning to far more in-depth and detailed responses. Unfortunately, after a year and a half, that community has died down and I'm looking for something else.
AIM: formersilhouette
( IN CHARACTER )
Name: Saxon
Nickname: Saxon (if that is allowed)
Age: 34
Stage name: "Shade"
Job: Performance Assistant to Cairne, the professional contortionist/escape-artist.
Played by: Tricia Helfer
Species: Siren
Personality: Unknown by choice, not custom, this is one woman who would ultimately rather start a whole new life than live with one. Forced into a human existence over the past thirty years, she doesn't know what may come with the release of her siren side, but whether that will be a positive influence on her life or a negative, it is only with the release of what has been pent up inside for so long that shall determine it - and whether the release will be calm or brutal. As of now, she is comfortable with her body and in command of her temperament in certain environments, but always feels that she is holding something back, even onstage. Outside of performance, she does not remain easy-going and prefers to stir up antagonism, or at least maintain a cold and unaffected exterior, the better to go through life without the kind of harassment her looks tend to invite. Naturally wary of others, she can nevertheless be surprisingly impressionable, and tends to put her hopes in the best of people.
History: Saxon was born to parents who encouraged what they discovered to be a natural talent for singing. She became rather famous for her youth and the extent to which her music was advertised, leading her name to become very well known. Sometime during puberty, at the age of thirteen, she stopped producing records and refused to sing completely, leading to a break in the family. She still cares for both her mother and father but has decided that it is best for the both of them if she exits their lives.
She is now 34 and her name still follows her around like a bad itch - the kind of thing that inevitably comes up at family gatherings, occasionally even a hook up will reference it, along with the typical 'I bet you haven't heard that one before!' joke to go. She's rather relieved to let it go and just become Saxon. Luckily, her age makes her unrecognizable, unless you're somewhat of an avid fan who reads 'Whatever happened to?' articles.
After months of searching and following leads, she found the carnival in Boston. Saxon took the time to watch the show - have to know what you're getting yourself into, after all - but didn't expect a stranger to make her an offer halfway out of the door. Now, she's the eye candy to Cairne's act, the one who shades the audience's eyes from him when he most needs it. She's more than that, though, far more, and may only just be beginning to discover it.
Roleplaying sample: She seemed to have appeared out of the blue, following on the heels of another stranger with a face so very different from her own. The world bent not around her, but resisted in its gravity, in its insistence that the concrete towering above and the tarmac curving below were reality, with just as much vehemence as she fought it.
Saxon knew that more existed. She'd known it ever since that first accidental step from what the world called reality into secrecy, back when the only hint of another truth lay in books, films, theatre. She had watched them all with a hunger to learn more, and always walked away unsatisfied. Now and again, she wondered who she might have missed, slavering away in the same audience, just as frustrated and confused as she was.
Of course, nowadays, there was no question about it. Sirens: an entire race dedicated to the coercion and murder of men. Whether that soul had come into her body by chance, or whether it was all a chemical imbalance in her body, she had no idea, no way of knowing. The only way to go had been forward, and so it still was. So here she was. Boston, 2012, a cold January evening, and halfway to a carnival she had been trying to track down for months. Hopefully it would take her in, if she could show them what lay within her.
Ever since her discovery, she had permitted herself to sing only in private, out of hearing range of other humans, although there had been a few scares (the bang of a door, the rasp of boots on stairs), and she had given herself another name: Saxon. No one would know her by any other name and that was just fine by her. It wasn't likely she'd be needing to fill out any tax returns if this worked, after all. Until then, well, wasn't it good to keep a talent hidden? That way, she would always be one step ahead of the world, long before the world could advance on her.
Name: Eli
Age: 18
Roleplaying experience: Began roleplaying on neopets boards at age thirteen, supplemented with short-lived forums and one-on-one roleplays for several years. Joined a brand new Inception LJ community in July of 2010 and have improved greatly since then through frequent scenes, i.e. expanded from two short paragraphs typical at the beginning to far more in-depth and detailed responses. Unfortunately, after a year and a half, that community has died down and I'm looking for something else.
AIM: formersilhouette
( IN CHARACTER )
Name: Saxon
Nickname: Saxon (if that is allowed)
Age: 34
Stage name: "Shade"
Job: Performance Assistant to Cairne, the professional contortionist/escape-artist.
Played by: Tricia Helfer
Species: Siren
Personality: Unknown by choice, not custom, this is one woman who would ultimately rather start a whole new life than live with one. Forced into a human existence over the past thirty years, she doesn't know what may come with the release of her siren side, but whether that will be a positive influence on her life or a negative, it is only with the release of what has been pent up inside for so long that shall determine it - and whether the release will be calm or brutal. As of now, she is comfortable with her body and in command of her temperament in certain environments, but always feels that she is holding something back, even onstage. Outside of performance, she does not remain easy-going and prefers to stir up antagonism, or at least maintain a cold and unaffected exterior, the better to go through life without the kind of harassment her looks tend to invite. Naturally wary of others, she can nevertheless be surprisingly impressionable, and tends to put her hopes in the best of people.
History: Saxon was born to parents who encouraged what they discovered to be a natural talent for singing. She became rather famous for her youth and the extent to which her music was advertised, leading her name to become very well known. Sometime during puberty, at the age of thirteen, she stopped producing records and refused to sing completely, leading to a break in the family. She still cares for both her mother and father but has decided that it is best for the both of them if she exits their lives.
She is now 34 and her name still follows her around like a bad itch - the kind of thing that inevitably comes up at family gatherings, occasionally even a hook up will reference it, along with the typical 'I bet you haven't heard that one before!' joke to go. She's rather relieved to let it go and just become Saxon. Luckily, her age makes her unrecognizable, unless you're somewhat of an avid fan who reads 'Whatever happened to?' articles.
After months of searching and following leads, she found the carnival in Boston. Saxon took the time to watch the show - have to know what you're getting yourself into, after all - but didn't expect a stranger to make her an offer halfway out of the door. Now, she's the eye candy to Cairne's act, the one who shades the audience's eyes from him when he most needs it. She's more than that, though, far more, and may only just be beginning to discover it.
Roleplaying sample: She seemed to have appeared out of the blue, following on the heels of another stranger with a face so very different from her own. The world bent not around her, but resisted in its gravity, in its insistence that the concrete towering above and the tarmac curving below were reality, with just as much vehemence as she fought it.
Saxon knew that more existed. She'd known it ever since that first accidental step from what the world called reality into secrecy, back when the only hint of another truth lay in books, films, theatre. She had watched them all with a hunger to learn more, and always walked away unsatisfied. Now and again, she wondered who she might have missed, slavering away in the same audience, just as frustrated and confused as she was.
Of course, nowadays, there was no question about it. Sirens: an entire race dedicated to the coercion and murder of men. Whether that soul had come into her body by chance, or whether it was all a chemical imbalance in her body, she had no idea, no way of knowing. The only way to go had been forward, and so it still was. So here she was. Boston, 2012, a cold January evening, and halfway to a carnival she had been trying to track down for months. Hopefully it would take her in, if she could show them what lay within her.
Ever since her discovery, she had permitted herself to sing only in private, out of hearing range of other humans, although there had been a few scares (the bang of a door, the rasp of boots on stairs), and she had given herself another name: Saxon. No one would know her by any other name and that was just fine by her. It wasn't likely she'd be needing to fill out any tax returns if this worked, after all. Until then, well, wasn't it good to keep a talent hidden? That way, she would always be one step ahead of the world, long before the world could advance on her.