Down the Rabbit Hole Again

[Nephriel]

Whirlwind, your character is accepted though psychopaths and sociopaths share tendencies except that sociopaths don't enjoy being around people much at all... except maybe one person or a specific group and psychopaths like to blend in with others. :)

[Whirlwind]

Nephriel said
Whirlwind, your character is accepted though psychopaths and sociopaths share tendencies except that sociopaths don't enjoy being around people much at all... except maybe one person or a specific group and psychopaths like to blend in with others. :)

Oh well then I'll just remove Sociopathic tendencies. I was reading an article that said manipulative was socipathic, so that's why I added it. :)

[Phloem]

I'll have my sheet up soon-ish, just need to finish up the personality portion and find a picture. :Y

[Nephriel]

Kk :) If any of you need help on your diagnoses just let me know and I'll help you out. I'm still trying to decide on a background I like, I had two ideas for the reason she acts the way she does so I shoved them together but that was overdramatic for some... So now I have to figure something else out. -le sigh-

[Phloem]

Alrighty, I'm about 95% done with mine. A bit befuddled as to how I'm gonna work the tea part in, though. Any ideas?

[Whirlwind]

Hmm... caffeine addiction?

[Nephriel]

XD Well, he won't eat or drink anything not out of a tea cup and I'm going to suggest that someone in his family was a stickler for tea time manners? So maybe it just got twisted up in his head somehow? Maybe he is OCD and his fixation is teacups and proper teatime etiquette?

[Dragonbud]

Name: Cordelia Walker

Alias: Dormouse

Age: Thirteen

Personality: Quiet, Passive, Submissive, Skittish, Easily Bossed around, Often yawning or sleeping, often anxious and nervous, Shy. Doesn't like suddenly being gradded unless it's by Hatter or March Hare. Horrible fear of cats and loud noises. Despite this she is sweet and sensible, when she is calmed down. She has become a bit of a hoarder, especially of things that seem to be of little value.

Appearance:

Picture

Background: Cordelia was quite clearly the runt of her family. She was the youngest of seven older brothers and sisters. And while being the baby of the family seems like an easy walk through life, Cordelia found it to be quite the opposite. She was often pushed around and bullied by her siblings, something that her busy parents never caught onto. They would torment her small and timid demeanor and try to scare her with loud noises, even going as far to throw the family cat at her from time to time.

To make matters worse Cordelia was born with extreme narcolepsy, meaning she was often tired or fell asleep at seemingly random moments of the day. She could also be heard humming or quietly singing to herself, Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat. Her parents, thinking their strange and quiet child might be a danger to their other children, quickly sent her away.

Shortly after being admitted to the ward, Cordelia made friends in the form of two other children who shared a similar love for tea as her. She didn't mind being the two older children's stress ball or arm rest because they still invited her to attend for tea. She found herself being much more comfortable following behind others then being by herself, so she often just repeats what her friends say

Diagnoses: Narcolepsy and possible Autism.

[Phloem]

Okay, here it is! It's pretty rambling but it's nearly 5 am here and I'm super tired. If there's anything I need to fix, I'll do it once I get some sleep. Also, the tea part is a bit hackneyed because I'm an idiot and put it in only after I was done with everything. :x

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Name: Zachariah Finch

Alias: March Hare

Age: 17

Personality: Afflicted with a rather unfortunate menagerie of mental disorders, Zach is an incredibly skittish young man. Whereas he used to be quiet and mild-mannered, his condition has drastically changed his behaviour. The first thing most people see when meeting Zach is his spirit. He's always been an energetic one, ever since his 'near-death experience', almost to a fault. The guy is extremely impulsive, both in the things he does and the things he says. As far as he's concerned, life is just too short to sit around let shit just happen - it's all about the now, and how you handle the people and things that surround you. If he likes something, chances are he'll let you know it, and if he doesn't, well, he's never been shy about voicing his opinion in that matter as well. Try as he might, he's never really had the best poker face in the world, and it tends to give him away more than not.

Zach has never met a boundary he wouldn't cross, and he'll often exhaust himself to gain someone's undivided attention. All in all, he is an extremely passionate, and emotional person. When he truly takes interest in something, he puts all of himself into it, and momentarily forgets about almost everything else. He’s very often obsessive about the things he does, the things he thinks about, and the people he chooses to follow.

Background: As the son of an art director and an antiques collector, Zach was fortunate enough to have led unusually charmed life full of blessings. While that was never a bad thing, it did bestow upon him a slightly skewed perspective of the world. Since his parents was quite well-off, they often hosted fancy dinner and lunch parties for their friends. Even at a young age, Zach found helping to set up cutlery in the correct order therapeutic. His pride and joy though, was a tea set. It wasn’t any ordinary tea set, but an ornate, many-cupped affair whose elements each fit into the formfitted cubbies of a velvet-lined mahogany box. When his mother showed it to him for the first time, Zach had been more than happy to learn to handle them with care, painstakingly laying out the cups in their saucers with china spoons. It was a strange interest for a young boy to have, but his parents had always encouraged uniqueness and he never really got bullied about it. Needless to say, the meaning of struggle was unfamiliar to him.

The lenses of his rose-tinted sunglasses were shattered a little after his 14th birthday. Zach began to experience intense stomach pains, but thought nothing much of it. Soon, he found it painful to even eat, and as a result, lost 35 pounds over a four month period. His parents knew something was incredibly wrong, and with much pleading, finally convinced Zach to see a doctor. Multiple blood tests and biopsies over the course of two months time came back with results showing that he had contracted Acute Myeloid Leukemia. It was terrifying, not only for him, but for the rest of her family as well. There were so many things he had planned to do after graduating that became impossible. Not only that, but the crippling fear of death was overwhelming. Luckily, a combination of chemotherapy medications worked well enough to put him in remission for his leukemia, and the only thing lost was his hair.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of his problems. While his physical health had improved greatly, Zach's mental health was at a decline. Coming as close to death as he had is never easy, and it caused him stress for many months. At his doctor’s request, he began attending cancer support groups, but Zach found they weren’t helping in the slightest. He couldn’t help but think back to the time where he believed he wouldn’t make it past his diagnosis, and the realisation of just how quickly he could've been gone set in.

If there was one thing he took away from his support groups, it would be the phrase carpe diem, or sieze the day. It became a mantra to him as he applied it to practically every aspect of his life, and often times used it as an excuse for his erratic behavior. The truth of the matter was that he was (and still is) more scared than ever. Not of living, but of death and what comes after. The terror of being forgotten is something that has rooted itself in Zach's brain, gnawing at his psyche constantly.

Because of this, Zach is incredibly uncomfortable if he is not the center of attention. He exhausts himself trying to make his mark in the minds of those around him; often times forcing himself to make a fool of himself. This behavior was such a contrast of the person he once was that his parents immediately took notice. Support groups and one-on-one therapy were obviously not enough for him, and they wanted Zach to get the best help he could. It was a hard decision for everyone, but they decided that sending him off to a psych ward would be for the best.

Zach's latest obsession, however; formed soon after he arrived. After hearing about the countless medicinal benefits of tea from a TV commercial, he became convinced that tea was a miracle cure, and that it would prevent him from ever having a relapse. To him, tea is the lifeblood. He may not love it, but he certainly has a neurotic fixation with it. Green tea, oolong tea, hibiscus tea - whichever kind it is, Zach'll drink it day and night, if only to keep any and all life-threatening illnesses at bay. Combined with his peculiar infatuation with tea sets, he soon found himself inviting a few other patients to join him in this tea-drinking.

Diagnosis: Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorder, with growing signs of OCD.

[Nephriel]

Accepted Phloem! I very much like the way you went with him.

Accepted Dragonbud! Dawww she's cute.

Edit: Dragonbud, I took out you knowing the characters when I posted the first OOC as they are all going to be arriving around the same time and so she won't have had a chance to meet the others yet. :)

The ooc is up, once I officially have a profile from the guy who asked for Hatter I'll mark him as taken as well. ^_^ Here is the address: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/61724/posts/ooc

[Diminuendo]

Kay, I'm working on my CS for Hatter, so it'll be up in... half an hour, maybe? ^^

[Diminuendo]

Kay, I'm working on my CS for Hatter, so it'll be up in... half an hour, maybe? ^^

[Nephriel]

kk :) Looking forward to seeing it.

[Diminuendo]

Name: Katherine Hawthorne

Alias: Mad Hatter

Age: 13

Personality:
Katherine is... strange, to say the least. Of course, everyone is, but not everyone has such a strange obsession with hats as this girl does. It's fedoras, boaters, and homburgs every day. In fact, there hasn't been anyone who's seen Katherine without any of her head-wear on. Why, you ask? Well, that's simple- it's classy. Class is everything to the girl, and she would be embarrassed to death if she went out without adorning the solidification of classiness. Very loyal, Katherine will never betray her friends and will go against incredible odds to fight for them, which has caused- and will cause, as well- many injuries, especially to her own mental health.
Katherine is usually quite sensible and polite, but sometimes, just out of the blue, the girl can have episodes of rage in which light blue eyes darken somewhat, and the only thing on her mind is to destroy whatever angers her. In those times, only Dormouse and the March Hare can calm her down.

Appearance:
-Bright, pale blue eyes that turn dark when Katherine is... 'having an episode'
-Long, wavy blonde hair
-Always adorns some type of hat
-Pale skin
-Likes to wear fancy skirts and dresses

Background:
Katherine was... not supposed to be born. Her parents were very far apart on the social scale- a wealthy English merchant and his family's traditional private milliner, who lived in the glorious city of Venice. Having fallen in love, the couple had decided to move to England, but there was just one little problem- the man was already married. They didn't love each other, but with their parents as best friends, they just weren't allowed to get a divorce. The merchant was forced to lie to his mother, informing her that he was going on a long business trip back to London, his hometown, and needed the milliner for a client who had asked to see her. Before the date of the flight, the man had already bought a small, secluded cottage for his love to live in- she was already pregnant, and could raise their child in London. During the summer and winter, he could go to visit them, and the three could be a family. The plan was fine, and a year later, Katherine was born. Everything was perfect for 6 years... 6 years of warmth, happiness, and sunshine. Well, alright, maybe it wasn't that great, but there was always that air of happiness around Katherine and her family.
It was the year of Katherine's 7th birthday when it finally happened. It was almost winter; when the merchant was supposed to visit them. But that year... it was when his family found out about his infidelity. It was bound to happen - they had been expecting it, but everything had been so great that they just couldn't bring themselves to talk about it. And so, that year was when it all fell apart. That winter... nobody came. There was only the mother and daughter, standing hopefully, waiting, at the door every dawn, for the merchant to come. But the season passed... and there was still no one. Katherine was confused. Where was daddy? Where was her father? And why was mommy acting so strange? But the questions went unanswered for the young girl, and the year flew past. Summer, winter, summer, winter... Two years passed, and the merchant did not come back. Two years later- two years later was when the milliner finally snapped. One summer morning, when Katherine walked downstairs to have breakfast with her mother... there was no mother. Just two words- a final message from her dead mother, severing their tie; Goodbye, Katherine.
That year was when Katherine Hawthorne committed a murder. There was no real reason behind it other than the fact that... the girl was angry. She was enraged at the world, for finally cracking apart the solid rock that was their family. But she was only 9 years old, and was sent to a psych ward, along with the collection of fancy hats her mother had made, buried, in her last few years, under all of the merchant's possessions he had left behind at their small cottage in London.

Diagnoses:
-Bipolar
- Sociopathic tendencies

Bleh. So... I kinda rushed on this whole thing, so please excuse any grammar or spelling errors in here ^^

[Nephriel]

The rp starts tonight ladies and gents. :)

[XxFellsingxX]

Are there still spaces open for this?

[Eyeris]

This is interesting, I'll be brainstorming a character.

[Nephriel]

Please start posting in the ooc as after tonight I won't be looking at this interest check. I currently have 6 accepted characters and the limit is 10. Keep an eye out though because if someone drops out once the limit is reached you can take their place