Post by Regina Mills on Apr 25, 2015 8:44:54 GMT -5
** The snow glows white on the mountain tonight Not a footprint to be seen
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Full name: Ariel Nicknames: Mergirl Age: 28 Birthday: October 31st. Loyalty: Good/hero?
** Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know. Well now they know... [font size="1"Smart, ah yes so I suppose I would be considered smart because even though I have the capacity of getting into trouble I usually can figure a way to get myself out of it. It's not the typical book smarts though, as it's so much more than that.
Musically inclined- I can sing with every fiber of my being, and it sounds almost angelic. It is my voice that Eric was able to recognize first, before he had known what my face looked like.
Warm- Despite being from the sea, one would think that mermaids such as I would not be as warm to others, given what people think of us, it's not that we are "bad" or anything. I am warm to anyone who deserves to be treated with the respect they have given me.
Honest- I have never been one to outright lie to anyone. (although sometimes I have a hard time saying the truth because I'm afraid of rejection especially from someone I love.)
Loving- When I love, I love with everything that is within me. This goes to whether I love you as a friend, as a family member or like in Eric's case, someone whom I'd travel the world in order to be with again.
Trusting- This can either be a good thing or a bad thing, but I'm willing to trust anyone that will help me. No matter what it is, this is especially a dangerous quality given in Storybrooke one can never be one hundred percent certain who to trust and who not to.
Courageous- When it comes to doing things that are dangerous I have a tendency to run right for it instead of against it. Which doesn't help due to my adventurous spirit. Flounder always tried to reign that in, but he never could.
Brave- Even in the face of danger when someone I care about is in trouble, I'm not going to just sit on the sidelines and do nothing about it. If it means risking my own life for them, so be it.]
Musically inclined- I can sing with every fiber of my being, and it sounds almost angelic. It is my voice that Eric was able to recognize first, before he had known what my face looked like.
Warm- Despite being from the sea, one would think that mermaids such as I would not be as warm to others, given what people think of us, it's not that we are "bad" or anything. I am warm to anyone who deserves to be treated with the respect they have given me.
Honest- I have never been one to outright lie to anyone. (although sometimes I have a hard time saying the truth because I'm afraid of rejection especially from someone I love.)
Loving- When I love, I love with everything that is within me. This goes to whether I love you as a friend, as a family member or like in Eric's case, someone whom I'd travel the world in order to be with again.
Trusting- This can either be a good thing or a bad thing, but I'm willing to trust anyone that will help me. No matter what it is, this is especially a dangerous quality given in Storybrooke one can never be one hundred percent certain who to trust and who not to.
Courageous- When it comes to doing things that are dangerous I have a tendency to run right for it instead of against it. Which doesn't help due to my adventurous spirit. Flounder always tried to reign that in, but he never could.
Brave- Even in the face of danger when someone I care about is in trouble, I'm not going to just sit on the sidelines and do nothing about it. If it means risking my own life for them, so be it.]
Likes: Prince Eric, Her voice, music, Sebastian, her family, Flounder, The Sea, being able to walk, to be with my true love. Adventures, Helping others Dislikes:Being lied to, Ursula (who was posed by the Evil Queen). Ursula (herself) Not being able to speak (when it happened), The idea of losing someone I love. Not having my mother in her life. Being apart from family/Eric. Strengths:Compassionate, strong, Loyal Weaknesses:Eric, my tail (at times), Not knowing enough about humans (such as objects), The belief that there's good in everyone. Habits: At least 3
** And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all looks. looks. looks. looks ***
Play by: Joanna Garcia Swisher Hair: Red, Long, soft, curly (unless straightened). Eyes: Color, Shape, Shade Face: No Body: 5'6, 120, slim, Clothing: Casually depending on the day (or event), but still professional as a princess is.** I'm never going back, the past is in the past history. history. history. history ***Mother: Athena Father: Posideon (Triton?) Siblings:Attina (Eldest sister), Alana (Second oldest sister), Aquata (Third oldest sister), Arista (Fourth oldest sister), Adella (Fifth oldest sister), Andrina (Sixth oldest sister) Other family: Eric History: Before the Curse:
They say that no one knows the sea’s calling better than a mermaid herself. And if this is true, this is my story. I was born in Atlantica. I was the last of seven children, all daughters. My sisters were each a year a part so we were all relatively close in age. As a small girl, I stuck close by my mother. I idolized her voice, her music. Did I forget to mention I’m a princess? Yes, my father is King Triton, and my mother, is Queen Athena. They’re loving souls, friendly to all who meet them. They of course inspired so many around the kingdom, myself included. Music was something that was always encouraged. My mother liked it, she said it gave her the happiest feeling in the entire world, aside from father and of course my sisters and I. Stories were always told and there was nothing I loved more than hearing my mother sing. The stories that were shared had made me develop an interest in humans. Especially hearing all that they could do. How they didn’t live in the water but up on land. How they walked and did everything.
But life wasn’t always to be as serene and peaceful as it had been. When I was a young mergirl, my mother and father were celebrating their anniversary. They took my sisters and I along with them, as a family celebration. My father had given my mother a music box that had been filled with their song. Everything was fine up until pirates showed up. My father scooped all but my eldest sister and was able to swim away with us. My mother realized that my sister was going to die, because her tail was stuck between two rocks. So my mother pushed the rock out of the way allotting for my sister to get away. My mother, realized that she had left the music box and so she went back to get it. It was then that the pirates ship grew too close to her and she was lost to us forever. Her death signified the end of everything that was truly happy. Music was banned from the kingdom. We all were upset having lost my mother. But we were as upset that we no longer had music. My sisters and I were all displeased at this rule. We wanted to be able to sing and to dance just like before. But father refused it. He just didn’t understand that we all wanted to keep the tradition that mother started alive.
When Sebastian and a few others snuck away to the Catfish Club, where they were part of the band they had to do so without letting my father know. I was the first to discover what Sebastian and the others were doing. They all ran at the sight of me, thinking I was going to tell my father. I was initiated into their little club, and I did so after singing a tune about how I would always love music and to honor my mother with it. But I never did tell anyone. I kept going, without father knowing. Then one day, my sisters seemed to catch on to what I was doing and followed. On that day my sisters and I were curious and had followed them. We didn't tell father of what we had seen because we were having fun. I was able to be with Sebastian and Flounder, as well as my sisters. It was all great fun.
Of course this was not the only time that I would find myself breaking the rules that my father had laid down. He didn't want any of us to have any contact with anyone not from the sea. Said it would get us killed. But of course, I was stubborn and curious. And I fell in love with watching the boats. The people. One particular human turned my world upside down. It was the day a ship had wrecked. There was a man that had fallen into the sea, and I rescued him. I took him ashore and I thought that would be the last I would see of him. But it was then, looking into his eyes however briefly it was, that I had truly fallen in love with him. I also had been able to sing to him, something of which later I'd learn he looked for me, for my voice. After returning back into the sea, I think it was easy to say that I had changed, that saving this man had changed me. I wanted to learn more about humans, and to keep taking little trinkets that I found upon the ocean floor. I put them in my secret cave, one that only I went to. One that I was sure my father would never find.
Flounder was the only one to support my "strange" obsession with human things. He even gave me a statue of the man I rescued, whom I later learned was named Eric, and he was a prince too. Of course, my sisters and flounder did the best they could to cover for me when I was acting "strange" according to my father. Flounder was always looking out for me, something of which I appreciated. He tried to protect me, and for that he's a good friend. Although he wasn't the "best" protector, he did his best despite so many things scaring him.
One day while swimming in the sea, I met Snow White. A woman who would have been killed, by an evil queen nonetheless, and the two of us soon become friends. Snow of course tried to convince me that I should have been upfront with Eric about how I felt, but I didn't. I was too afraid. I didn't want to be rejected and how could I tell him about what I truly was? But Snow White and I went to a ball that was being hosted by Eric and his family. Snow taught me about the various human things that were on the table including a "fork" which I thought was a mini trident. I stuck it in my pocket as a keepsake. I was shy at first but Snow White told me to go talk to him. So I did, and we danced. Eric invited me to travel with him. I wanted to go, really I did.
It was then that the evil Queen "Regina" whom I thought was Ursala, attacked. She did it in a clever way. Said that If I wanted to be with Prince Eric then all I had to do was put this bracelet on Snow White. So I did. Only later did I realize that it was me betraying Snow. And it also made me realize that the woman I had believed wasn't who she said she was either. I ended up stabbing her with the fork I found at the party and needless to say it got chaotic. And I didn't want to do that, I didn't want to abandon my friend, no matter what it would cost me in the end. I was able to get the bracelet off of Snow and we were able to swim away. I was given back my fins and she retained her legs. It cost me the chance to really be with my true love. It cost me my voice. I was left alone while Eric sailed away.
After the Curse: I left and went into the sea. I don't remember how long I was there, just by myself. (About 29 years) When Regina summoned me. Needless to say I wasn't so pleased to see her. But she gave me a chance to go find Eric who was apparently living in this town called Storybrooke. I was the only one who could "help" her because mermaids like myself were able to cross the worlds as Regina put it. I didn't want to trust her and I didn't. But she gave m the bracelet the same bracelet she had tried to give Snow, and it would give me the ability to have legs. She was only doing this because she wanted me to procure a weapon that would help stop Pan. I first got the attention of a man named Leroy who was with six dwarves. Leroy let me borrow his jacket to cover myself with. He brought me to this diner where I was met by Belle. I gave her the sand dollar that Mr. Gold had given me. Belle figured out Mr. Gold's riddle and soon brought out the weapon he spoke of, Pandora's Box. My curiosity was more linked to an item, a button, that was eerily familiar to one that Erik once had, and I was sure it was his. I found this while changing into more "appropriate clothing" as Belle had said.
We were soon kidnapped by John and Michael, two men who were under Pan's orders. They wanted Pandora's box destroyed on Pan's behalf. Belle was able to take the bracelet off of me which allowed me to wiggle free of my binds since I again had my tail. Something of which you can't stand if you have. Once we were free, I was given back my legs and we went to the mine in order to stop those two. Eventually we were able to convince the two men that their only chance was if they helped us stop Pan. Whom they were afraid would hurt their sister, Wendy.
After Pan was successfully taken out as Belle said, we returned the box to Mr. Gold. Regina praised me for my 'good work' and uses her magic on the bracelet which I still was wearing, to allow me to have control over being human. I made a promise that I would help save Wendy. I returned to Storybrooke and was soon given information that my price, Eric, was working as a fisherman.
I worked up my courage, to talk to him after I saw him chopping up fish. A fact that I was displeased with as I was sure I knew many of them. But Eric and I shared a passionate kiss, and all was right again. Of course this was not to be the only kind of circumstance that would lead us into trouble. While undoing the first curse, as it were, Regina caused a mayhem of things to occur. Including to lead all of us into the enchanted forest. I was apart from Eric once again which frustrated me to no end. I later learned he was kidnapped by Black Beard, after having procured his blade. I had gone to Hook hoping that he could help me, but he was a coward. When Hook wouldn't give up claim on his own ship the Jolly Roger, after Blackbeard asked him to; it was evident that Black Beard had information about Eric's whereabouts and wouldn't say where. But when Hook wouldn't do it, he told me he was saving me from a never-ending torture of always searching for my loved one. Last I saw Hook I told him he'd never be happy and would never find love before diving once again back into the sea to find Eric. I even was able to save Black Beard from death without Hook even noticing. I still have not seen Flounder, and have no idea what had happened to him. I miss my little friend, and all the chaos we have gone through together. More recently I have chosen to live on an island known as Hangman's Island.
** It's time to see what I can do, to test the limits and break through ooc. ooc. ooc. ooc ***
Name/Alias: Rose or Rosemarie Age: Late twenties Time Zone: You don't have to share this if you don't want to Other Characters: No. Contact Information: PmThere were so many things that could happen. Years you had spent in the sea, in a prison in which you knew everything about. It wasn’t a bad life, but it wasn’t the kind of life you wanted. It wasn’t the kind of life you had dreamed about. To find some nice merboy and settle down the way that your sisters had been willing to do. But there were always the legends, the stories that were passed down from one generation to the next.
Stories of which you had heard plenty of when you were a young girl. It was something that she had loved most especially when her mother was still alive. Of course that was now but a memory. But most importantly, the stories she loved the most were the ones that her sisters always seemed to cringe at. The ones where there was adventure and danger. Of near escapes. Even the romance stories were fun to listen too as well. And the way her mother used to tell them it left her captivated. But it wasn’t just the stories that captivated her but the way that her mother spoke. The way she enunciated each and every syllable. And there wasn’t a day where she wished she could hear one of her mother’s stories again.
But it wasn’t just the daring sword fights or the rescuing the maidens that they happened to leave out. Oh no. It was a lot of work. But she didn’t have the kind of story that would be one of legend. Or one that was worth sharing. Oh no. Life under the sea was pretty tranquil for the most part. Unless one got on her father’s bad side. Then it was quite dangerous.
But being in the water, she had been perfectly capable of finding things to keep her busy. Sebastian and the others were off doing their own thing and so she was left to...her own devices. But the fact remained she was up on top of the water, near the cliff side. Here she was combing her hair out and just laying there. Allowing the sun to wash over her. But then while she was combing her hair she had happened to look up and to see something fall over by the cliffs. She jumped into the water, and quickly took off.
Taking a deep breath she had swam as fast as she could towards the object or whatever it was that had fallen with an incredible amount of speed to the depths below. It hadn’t taken long to get to where the object had fallen and yet she swam down, further. Until she happened to see a woman there. The next thing she knew she had reached over to the woman and had helped to get her to the surface. It wasn’t easy to swim upward with the girl’s weight and her own moving against the current. Still it was the better alternative than to let her drown. Yes, she could have let this human die, but that wasn’t like her. She wasn’t the kind of girl that would turn a blind eye to someone who was truly in trouble.
She didn’t have to fret about being unable to breathe underwater as it was a part of who she was. After all she was a mermaid and that was a natural course of life for her. But it was evident that not everyone who entered the water was able to swim let alone breathe underwater. She knew it would take some time before they reached the surface but she was going to go as quickly as she could. She never got cold, and if anything the water was a perfect temperature. Just right in all it’s glory. But she didn’t know how things would work. What if this human wasn’t as kind as she was? What if after she saved her, that she would try to kill her? It wouldn’t be the first time that someone had done that against one of her own kind. As soon as she reached the surface she took a breath of air as she waited for the young woman to also gasp for air. But there were still so many questions that needed to be asked. Especially why she would have risked her own life to jump into the frigid waters, as most humans would do no such thing unless they were in danger. She looked at the other woman and sighed softly.
** The cold never bothered me anyway.