Annelise

Information

Player: Esthrunil

Character Full Name: Annelise Dori Arkwright

Character In-Game Name: Annelise

Nickname(s): Anne, Dorian, Derek, Angela, Patricia (The last four will be explained, don't worry.)

Association(s): Gilneas, None.

Race: Human

Class: Priest

Age: 29

Sex: Female

Hair: Black, shoulder-length hair. Often styled in different ways.

Eyes: Blue.

Weight: 135 lbs.

Height: 5'9"

Appearance

Usual Garments/Armor: Here we go...

Dorian wears dark, very fanciful clothing. That is, it's not unlike him to prance about with dress clothing, regularly. He enjoys purple and black, primarily. He typically carries a cane and wears a nice hat.

Derek typically wears rather simple clothing in nature-based colors. Typically, Dorian would be seen wearing a white undershirt with a brown vest, holding a pocket-watch. He wears a fairly simple brown hat to accent this.

Angela is more reserved in her style. She typically wears somewhat nice, simple clothing. She doesn't dress elaborately, but she takes pride in her hair and often wears it up, with hair-pins. She favors the color green.

Patricia is rather flamboyant in her style, wearing beautiful dresses, skirts and corsets. Her particular favorite is a red dress. She likes to wear her hair parted over her left eye.

Annelise herself likes to wear robes and fairly nice clothing of that sort. Her hair is worn the way the model has it. She favors the color white.

Other: Nothing particular to mention, other than a propensity for binding her chest.

Personality

Annelise is a very fanciful and whimsical girl. She views the world as a sort of game, typically, and likes to play with the situation when she gets the chance. She's a deceitful manipulator, but rarely has malevolent intentions when doing so. That said, she is an actress who takes that role a little seriously. She does not suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, but rather enjoys taking different aspects of her own personality, grouping them together into a character and playing that character out in everyday life. That said, each character is very different:

Dorian is a very flamboyant man - a perfect Vaudeville or Circus Master of Ceremonies. He tailors all of his own clothing, preferring dark dress clothing to anything. He is loud, expressive and likes to get people involved. Above everything else, he is an entertainer. Quick witted and sharp tongued, he is good with charisma and charm. Etiquette is high on his list.

Derek is a man who has a mission, in a way. He has somewhere to be. Very official, very serious, typically. He takes passion in clockwork, building and rebuilding watches and clocks, when he gets the chance. When taking time off, he likes to visit bars, his favorite drink a nice brandy. Quite polite, he is often a stoic gentleman.

Angela is typically a quiet, reserved young woman. She spends a great deal of time reading and writing - specifically poetry and short stories. She likes to read novels, biographies and informational manuals. She is polite, shy and somewhat avoidant, though very intelligent.

Patricia is a dancer, at heart. She likes to entertain, loves music and is a very open and straight-forward person. She loves life and she wants everyone else to, too. Almost as charming as Dorian, Patricia is good at speaking to people.

This said, Annelise herself embodies each of these characters. Depending on her mood, she can be brash and confident or reserved and quiet. Like everyone else, she fluctuates between these points - she just makes it more pronounced. She goes to great pains to make each separate character as convincing and different as she possibly can. That isn't to say that someone with a good eye couldn't spot Dorian when speaking to Angela, but it would be difficult.

Skills and Abilities

As a shadow-priest, Annelise specializes in playing tricks and affecting the mind.

Specifically, she employs auditory and visual illusions a great deal, considering it her particular forte.

Likewise, she uses it more violently when prompted, but tries to avoid this. She has no specific skills that are out of the ordinary for a Shadow Priest.

Otherwise, she is a moderately skilled clockmaker, tailor, writer and dancer.

History

Annelise was born to a well-funded family in Gilneas. Her childhood was interesting, to say the least. She was put through a number of different studies, ranging from literature and writing to theology. Her parents were dead-set on her being a, "proper lady," in a way. She did not disagree with the education at all, but grew to resent them for pushing this standard upon her. She lived a fairly normal life until her teen-aged years, around the end of which she got into a particularly nasty spat with her parents on the subject of being a, "proper lady," the definition of which they seemed to believe to be, "a lady who can get a good man for the family." Her parents said things they would regret, and Annelise decided that she'd pull off a run from the family, just to show them a thing or two.

Annelise decided to fulfill every child's dream, at this age, and ran away with a traveling troupe of entertainers. A wonderful group of people, in reality. They treated Annelise rather kindly and took her in, teaching her a rather large number of skills. They were a tight-knit group lead by an interesting fellow, a Gilnean native named Lyndon Greyshaw. Lyndon was, as the entire group knew, a Shadow Priest with a very interesting view of the world. He brought them together as a sort of family, a group of outcasts, rogues and vagabonds who didn't really have anywhere to call home, out of what many would recognize as his own necessity, whether they knew what he needed them for or not. He treated them well, however, and gained their trust. He taught them his views and took a few of them, Annelise included, under his wing to continue the spread of his knowledge and seal his mark on the world.

Annelise began studying the shadow and various ideas that Lyndon taught. It was an interesting theory based around the preservation of individuality and the self, before aiding others. Likewise, he showed them all that the world they live in was just a game, so to speak. A stage, of sorts. She devoured it, being the knowledge-craving person she was. Time passed and her anger toward her parents disappeared, becoming general apathy - her true family was this troupe. Around this time, she realized fully that her home was closed off to the world, completely. She could not see her parents again - possibly forever, and yet she was perfectly fine with this. She continued to learn the shadow, alongside speaking, acting, dance, tailoring and even clock-making! She loved the variety of skills they provided to her, and treated them more and more like siblings, uncles, aunts and parents as time passed.

Time passed, the troupe kept moving. They stopped in a town, entertained, got a new prospective member or two and kept moving. Life was good, for the most part. The troupe was in Lordaeron at the time the plague had started to spread, so they started to move back near Stormwind. The roads kept getting more and more dangerous, but the troupe never stayed in a town for long enough to get noticed, and they never let anyone but those who joined them where they'd stop next. By this point, Annelise had developed her tendency of taking different characters on - starting primarily with Dorian. She became something of an impromptu Master of Ceremonies, every once in a while. The group welcomed her changing personas, and even helped her learn the skills to bring them out and make them more distinct.

Tragedy befell the troupe, however, when Defias got ahold of them more recently. A number of members were slain in the ensuing attack, but they fought the group off. It was at this point that Lyndon spoke to the specific people he taught the shadow to. He pointed them in different directions, separately, and told them to leave. He said he feared for their safety, in the troupe, and that he would continue to lead them as time went on. Like a caring father, he let all of his children out of the nest. It was from there that Annelise decided to keep travelling, but on her own. She couldn't just stop, really. Settling down was too much of a hassle, so she went to Booty Bay, Stormwind, Ratchet and the like, putting on a show or doing odd jobs to get money. She did well for herself, and kept up her change in personas when she felt like it.

In modern days, she still travels around primarily, not really sure what to do with her life.

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