O'LEARY, anne

[ANNE O'LEARY]

oh, anne, dear
where have you been ?

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hello, dears.
my name is sam.
i have been living in my own wonderland for seventeen years,
but have only been in the rp realm for six years.
i would also like to say that you already know me as alice !

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oh, tell us are you
big or small ?

full name • anne o’leary
date of birth • february 13^th, 1847
age • twenty four
sex • female

be careful not to
lose your head

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hair colour • a rich, chocolatey brown
eye colour • greenish-gray
distinctive characteristics • her smile; her lip quirks a bit on the right whenever she’s smiling genuinely.

overall appearance • Anne is a simple girl, not one for over-embellished clothing typical of an Underlander. Because of her upbringing, she has always been forced to wear dresses and skirts different from those of the average citizen. Her Abovelander clothing (frilly dresses that always fall to her ankles or lower) has always been her shame.

Her hair always falls in graceful curls that frame her face in chocolate and cascade down over her shoulders, and while her mother would prefer her to wear her hair up like a typical lady, Anne needs some form of uniqueness in her world of everything but.

how many miles
to wonderland ?

likes • the colour of completely ripened tomatoes, singing with the birds, her true love (when she finds him), chocolate, Hatter, Underland, ribbons and bows
dislikes • what Underland has become, her parents, flowers that refuse to speak with her, the Red Queen (doesn’t everyone?), her clothes, the lack of colour at Marmoreal, the colour black
fears • Anne fears that after what she’s been through in her short life, nobody will ever be able to bring themselves to love her.
secret • Anne killed her husband to get out of their arranged marriage.

did someone
pull you
by the hand ?

family • “We shan’t speak of them, though I will say I have a witch of a mother and a tyrant of a father.”

history • Anne was born in the then-beautiful, White Queen-ruled Underland one bright, happy February the thirteenth, the day she has regretted for her entire existence.

Her parents (not to be mentioned any further, she assures you) had also been born as Underlanders, though after a single trip up to the Aboveland, they were hooked on their ‘keen sense of style’ and ‘wonderful manners’, and so poor Anne was forced to learn the ways of the Abovelanders, and was even given a surname like they had ‘up there’. They dressed her in frilly frocks and constricting corsets, wanting her to be ‘the perfect child from Aboveland’. Of course, though, Anne had different plans…

Whenever she could escape from the constant tutoring in strange languages, (“What use is Latin in a place where nobody speaks it?”) and problem-solving with numbers, among other useless things, Anne would bolt to the Pool of Tears. She would take a change of clothes from beneath a rather large tree and would quickly switch from the strangely dressed girl to the vibrant, plucky young thing that she had always longed to be. She spent her afternoons running through town and about Underland, being certain to avoid places that her parents would frequent (fortunately, though, they didn’t like many things about Underland, so they often stayed in the house and kept to themselves).

One afternoon, before she could escape, Anne was forced into a meeting with whom her parents referred to as ‘your new husband’. The man was certainly old –at least fifty- and bald, and wasn’t anything like the man she’d dreamed of one day having a small family with. Much to her horror, they were married only days later, and that was when her trouble started.

Their wedding night had been terrible for her to say the least, and spare the details, and so, as her new husband slept, Anne snuck off to Tulgey Wood, found one of the rare, small pink mushrooms and shoved it down his throat. Seconds after he’d taken his last breath, the mushroom disappeared, leaving no trace of the evil deed she’d committed.

After an hour of sitting in the parlour, Anne realized the gravity of her situation and ran from her guilt, on the way stumbling across the path of an orange-haired madman. From the moment she met him, she knew that they would be fast friends, and it is he and he alone who knows her terrible secret. While she trusts him with her life and is forever loyal to him, he is not that someone.

Over the years, Anne has had her share of beaus. Some think badly of her because of it, but she has the best intentions, truly. Every one of the men she’s been with have always struck her as the one. And every one of them have left her without warning or even an explanation, and she can’t understand it.

Anne can see something blooming between her old friend and the young newcomer to Underland, said to be its saviour, but she refuses to say anything directly to her friend about it, only dropping subtle hints when she gets the chance.

Presently, Anne resides a little ways off from where the Hatter and Hare hold their tea parties, and frequently attends dressed in her Aboveland garb- though she still detests it with a passion, she feels this is an obligation she owes to her parents for her terrible sin.

please
tell us so we'll
understand

rules? • lost in wonderland
anything else? • Anne is loosely based on Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music. That pink mushroom? Got the idea from Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars.

oh
how will you
find your
way ?

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lyrics from alice's theme by DANNY ELFMAN.
steal this template and die.
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