Rosalie Épine Chapelle
Name: Rosalie Épine Chapelle
Nicknames/Titles: Mistress, Mademoiselle
Age: WIP
Species: Vampire
Bloodline: Iscari
Sexuality: Pansexual
Accent: French
Blood preference: Sanguine - aroused individuals or the running hot blood during a climax
Type of eater: Messy eater, she indulges in crimson mess
Position: Switch
Positive characteristics: First timeline - Naive, excitable, adventurous, graceful, flirtatious, head is always in the clouds and playful
Second timeline - Radiantly charismatic, sarcastic, graceful, flirtatious, witty, confident and sensual
Negative characteristics: First timeline - Idle, idealizes people, selfish, worry-wart, unsure of herself
Second timeline - Selfish, ravenous, vain, slightly pretentious and full of herself, distant and self-destructive
Hobbies: Dancing, observing people is her favorite past time, reading and staring at artwork for hours
Likes: Theaters, art, golden chandeliers with diamonds that are covered in blood, vicious bite marks on women's bodies, men that see right through her, the idea of dying on a burning stage as she ends her grandiose performance, passionate lovers who aren't afraid to share blood and explore sin with her, all of the taboos
Dislikes: People who are not ready to cross boundaries, those who do not have fire within them, smalltalk, lack of creativity, modern age
The Human
Rosalie has been turned into a vampire back in 1800's, in the beautiful city of Paris. While she currently gives the vibes of a gracious, proud woman with taste and became a trend setter in Los Angeles, Rosalie's life as a woman in a French brothel can only be described as hell. Women were treated like property and men sometimes wouldn't wait for them to consent, nor even pay them. Rosalie, like most women at the time, didn't work there because they had a choice - some were forced and others did it for survival. Many whores of the brothel were mothers and in poverty.
Rosalie managed to leave the brothel and worked in a small and cheap theater as an actress and dancer, which caught the attention of both Francesca and Donovan Chapelle. A beautiful woman who has potential with some more training and supernatural enhancements. However, she needed to prove herself and she was set on a trial without even knowing.
She succeeded. But.. The story she tells everyone is that she simply impressed both Donovan and Francesca. Unfortunately, that is not the truth of her Embrace, it was far far darker.
Part of Rosalie misses her humanity and she misses the sun even to this day, the food and pure alcohol. While the upside is that she won't suffer from any disease, live longer to discover the world's secrets and indulge in pleasures without many consequences. However, a piece of her regrets the fact that she could never be a mother. Rosalie still has that silent longing, something that was ripped away from her forever.
The Vampire: 1900's
When she interacted with humans, she surprised how much attention she would draw to herself. Both men and women - they'd admire her, shower with compliments and would do anything to have her attention. She remembered seeing Donovan entrancing every single person in one chamber where he held his gallery, people stared at him with adoration unblinking, throw themselves at his feet and he loved it. He had them eating from his palm. To have such control over so many people - mental, emotional and sexual - it was dangerous. The blood of Iscari offered unnatural beauty and radiance that would attract everyone's attention, but those powers corrupt the Iscari vampire.
They'd bring people over to their mansion and indulge in hedonistic delights, feed from one another and generally make a mess in most of the rooms, while their Ghoul servants would silently clean everything up the next morning. Seducing people came so easy for Rosalie, even when she didn't intend to do so. Jokingly she asked someone to give her some money, and the person, not only gave her their money - they gave her their wrist watches, jewelry or anything else of material worth. She refused immediately, feeling severely uncomfortable. Rosalie was scared of having so much power.
Even less than hundred years later, Rosalie was still fairly naive as the Chapelles fought for some sort of recognition in the society. She was still learning, she was still the old Rosalie. Kind, gentle, patient, hopeful and starry-eyed. She wanted the world and only for the good reasons.
She also noticed how easily she loses herself in things that normally she didn't consider beautiful. Monstrous designs and creatures would mesmerize her. In the Parisian mansion, Donovan had a large statue of a nude Medusa, her body was ideal for the Roman ideals, but her face was completely terrifying. Rosalie would catch herself staring with wonder at the statue, completely lost and hypnotized by the perfection and characteristic and frightening face that she found to be very exciting - another curse of the Iscari blood - being entranced by what one may subconsciously consider beautiful. Rosalie found monsters, beasts and terrifying things beautiful. There was pain behind it - pain she felt. She felt like a monster, too.
While not everything was blood and roses, Rosalie would eventually come to Los Angeles where she met people she never thought existed, saw buildings unlike anywhere else and the beach in Santa Monica became her favorite place to visit. But Donovan needed a muse and he also needed to stay away from the public, given that technology slowly started to take over. He was once a celebrity and he'd risk being recognized by humans and officially stopped being a recognizable figure. This awoke violent tendencies within him, since he loved attention. She was entranced by his powerful presence and beauty, that she believed she was in love with him. She thought she was his muse. But he used her, scarred her body that would heal and use her as his plaything for his sadistic desires. Rosalie sometimes even forgot what he was doing to her, but she always ended up with the same feeling - she felt unclean.
Artiste Extraordinaire: 2000's
Rosalie here reached her peak - she not only has sharpened her talent of acting, her presence and beauty intensified to a level that would've normally frighten her. She was acting in Los Angeles' "Golden Angel" theater, owned and funded by Donovan, where she became the very face of it and also a recognized Hollywood star all over the world, both in human and vampire society, you could not walk the streets of LA without seeing her face on the billboards. And this was all thanks to Chapelles doing a very risque move that eventually changed Los Angeles for good. Some people think this is the golden age for LA and others say that its only going downhill. And oh, did the angel fall.
All three of the Chapelles are recognized and influential members of the vampires society, Francesca and Donovan became the parts of Inner Circle, while Rosalie is the trend setter for humans and vampires of Hollywood - which could eventually reach even outside of America, given Hollywood's importance. Because of her appearance and charisma on-screen, people desired to see her raw and passionate roles in theater plays, which made theaters IN after years of this art form being just a cultural artistic show which was mostly appreciated by the rich people who had money to attend the shows.
She has many important vampires wrapped around her finger, her personal apartment always buzzing with activity of both humans and vampires, indulging in hedonistic delights. Rosalie became a ravenous woman who craved more of everything to fulfill the emptiness in her very being. She grew bored easily, she would kill accidentally while feeding on humans, her libido went through the roof and she became less emotionally available. Dismissed as pretentious celebrity behavior, Rosalie suffered the biggest artistic block of her life, disgusted with the world she currently lives in, all optimism and hopefulness died along with the old Los Angeles. She never wanted any of this to happen. Alas, she had to become the apex predator of this day and age to survive.
She's a master manipulator, dangerous political player, yet very disloyal, her interests becoming more selfish. She still wants to be the person she once was, but that meant that she was weak in the eyes of all the players that surround her. And in the high steps of the ladder in vampire society, when you show weakness - you're devoured whole.
Happiness seemed so far away... If only she could see the sunrise again.