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FOR UNDER EVERY WING, A SHADOW

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BRACKETS/PROSE Both good, will match OOC OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS N/A BACKTAGGING Will try and backtag as much as possible, but due to RL I can lose drive and/or interest sometimes THREADHOPPING Sure, if everyone's in on it FOURTHWALLING Go for it NOT INTERESTED IN Writing smut PHYSICAL AFFECTION After having lived half her life as a bird, Odette has grown a bit skittish about proximity and physical contact. You'll need to earn her trust, before she won't try to avoid it PHYSICAL VIOLENCE Minor things are fine, ask before major injury RELATIONSHIPS F/M & F/F both fine. I generally play her as having had something with Odile as well as Siegfried. One-sided attraction from Rothbart is also implied in my backstory for her PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: No shields of defences, if there's something you need to know, ask MAGICAL INFORMATION Has been cursed to take a swan's shape from sunrise to sundown. Only resumes her own human form at night IC OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS Sexual aggression implied between Rothbart and her, possibly also between Odile and her. Several other versions than the Danish has her committing suicide at the end of the ballet and although it's not entirely congruent with the RDB version of Swan Lake, I like to run with that in my understanding of her here as well, so warnings for that

canon synopsis

Act I

The King is dead and his son, the young Prince Siegfried, faces having to seize power in the country. His friend, Benno, the Jester and the Faculty with von Rothbart at its head celebrate him as their new king. The Queen informs him that it must now be time he finds a suitable bride. In court the melancholy prince is given a crossbow as a symbol of the beginning of his adulthood.

Siegfried goes to the woods. By the lakeside he sees the most beautiful, white swan and makes ready to shoot it, but in that very moment it transforms into a woman. She tells him that she along with the other swans are bewitched; by daylight they are swans, at night they take human form again. The spell can only be broken by a man who will love her and remain true.

Siegfried and the swan princess, Odette, fall deeply in love and she asks him to take a vow of fidelity. He vows eternal loyalty to her and promises never to break his oath. Von Rothbart shows up and Odette once again becomes a swan.



Act II

Prince Siegfried must choose a wife and the Queen arranges a ball to which she invites four princesses from Hungary, Russia, Spain and Italy respectively. The princesses dance for Siegfried, but none of them are to his liking.

Von Rothbart arrives at the party and presents the Prince with his daughter, Odile, who is dressed in black, but otherwise looks wholly like Odette. Siegfried now thinks that Odile is Odette and he vows eternal loyalty to her as well. Soon the Prince realises his fateful decision and von Rothbart triumphantly leaves with Odile.

By the forest lake, the swans are saddened and try to comfort Odette. Despairingly Siegfried finds Odette to ask for mercy and in a last, loving meeting, she forgives him. But von Rothbart's evil is stronger than their love and they must succumb to his power.

canon introduction

If you know the story of Swan Lake, either from the ballet or, what do I know, The Swan Princess or wherever, you pretty much already know Odette's canon.

The prince's tutor, a great sorcerer and advisor to the queen of some fairy tale country, had decided he wanted all the power for himself, but not at his own peril, no. He wanted to bring the prince - soon to be king - under his control and use him as a puppet to carry out his orders instead. When the prince one night met and fell in love with one of the many swan maidens that the sorcerer kept in the forest for his own leisure, the sorcerer saw his chance at finally putting the prince under his spell, too. At an upcoming ball, where the prince was hopefully awaiting his white swan, the sorcerer disguised his daughter as a swan maiden just like her, only clad in all-black, and her own special brand of magic won him over completely, until he swore his love and fidelity to her, although he had promised to be true to the white swan queen. This made the evil magic that the sorcerer had put her under last forever, unbreakable, and she was doomed to remain a swan until her death. Regardless of teary farewells and desperate fights against it, it could not be undone. Evil won over good. The sorcerer made the prince live up to his word, marrying his black-hearted daughter, so she would be queen - and he could reign through them both.

The sorcerer was Rothbart, the white swan was Odette, the prince was Siegfried and the black swan was Odile.

personality

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first impressions

VISUAL At night, a long-limbed, slender woman with a bird-like aura to her movements, blonde hair, blue eyes; during the day, a mute swan AURAL Slightly hoarse, breathy voice that she rarely raises OLFACTORY Spending a lot of time by or in the lake, she smells like fresh air and, less charmingly, a bit like mud and duckweed DEMEANOUR She is the daughter of a queen and has since then been elected queen of the other swan maidens, so she has a distinct royal air about her. When not in swan form, she carries herself gracefully, although with a hint of bird to her movements. Due to her situation, there's also a certain caged desperation to be found in the way she moves, like every step is an attempt at escape.

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