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Verilidali — Arielle Chevalier || Apprentice
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Application forcasually cuts the deadline really close im so sorry i got distracted by trashime
I GOT IN BRB SCREAMING
casually edits the hell out of app bc i was tired as balls while writing this and it shows
Adds in a log here for own organizing reasons...
3 May 2015: been doin it over the course of a few days but added several "Extra" facts lmao... with 80% of them being stuff I 100% forgot to add in the original app because, see: tired as balls. | Added a "relationships" section but haven't done anything with it lol. | Shuffled section orders a bit. | Fixed a bunch of indents that weren't supposed to be there...
19 May 2015 Finally did something with the relationship section, rip me. | Slightly updated the extra section again. | Added like one extra line to personality. | Note to self just effing redo personality.
Name:
Arielle “Chevalier”; Ari
Identification Number:
528611116
HP:
18
THREADCUTTER username:
thelasttemplar
Gender:
Female
Height:
4’7 ft | 139.7 cm
Level of spiritual awareness:
5
Title:
Knight (?) of the Templar Order / N/A
Personality:
[+]
Truthful || Of course, it's against the Code of Chivalry to lie, but even without that commandment, chances are that Arielle would still be almost incapable of telling a lie. She can always be counted on to give her honest opinion (albeit edited for impact) and is possibly the worst person to take on an underhanded heist... not that she thinks it's a bad thing. Whyever would a knight ever aid a wrongdoing?
Quiet || It's not that she never knows what to say -- although that's often true. For the most part, she just finds the modern world too loud to deal with nine days out of ten (especially the Public Displays of Affection--) and likes to carve out her own silent time. Such calm rarely feels awkward for her, even if someone happens to join her in taking a breather from the world at large. This pursuit has also made her into a decent listener... even if, as stated before, she often struggles with finding the right words.
Driven || Once she sets her eyes on a goal, it takes a herculean amount of effort to turn her course. She received knighthood training in medieval France. If that's not impressive, nothing is -- and while none of her recent accomplishments have needed the same unstoppable force, there is nothing to suggest that that selfsame force isn't lying dormant, waiting to be summoned to fuel her mad dash to retrieve the last Godiva bar in the store. Or... y'know... something... like that...
Generous || She wants to, from the bottom of her heart, believe the best of everyone. She wants to believe that everyone deserves a second or third chance if they want it and is a huge fan of giving out such chances whenever possible. If she could be convinced it was for the better, she would be the bystander that gives away the shirt from their own back; on the days when the modern world isn't too loud for her, Arielle can be seen in the company of those generally overlooked, trying to find the words to talk to them and understand.
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Easily Flustered || No... really. You'd think that her frequent visits to the modern world over the centuries would render her a little easier to adjusting to change, but apparently the one thing that will never fade is her inability to deal with any sort of romantic advances, whether or not they actually exist. Arielle clings to the ideas promoted by "courtly love" and continues to be scandalized if people so much as hold hands in public; once it became somewhat socially acceptable to actually kiss, there went any chance Arielle had at composure. Her face lights up like a fire alarm and her first instincts when touched are to either punch the perpetrator or run the hell away. If neither option is available, she usually fast devolves into screaming insults and accusations that become quieter and quieter as her flush removes her ability to speak coherently. Said blushes may also be summoned by those with indecent attire... and unfortunately for those around her, these standards are rather strict. Oops.
Contrary || Oh boy. See that driven trait up there? Yeah. This is the unfortunate flipside -- while Arielle will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish a task, it doesn’t mean that she always should, and several people have tried to tell her as such. Much to their dismay, they’ve discovered that if someone tells Arielle not to do the thing and don’t have sufficient reasoning to back up their argument to convince her otherwise, then she will proceed to look them dead in the eyes while doing whatever the heck she wants to do.
Ruthless || It would be a falsehood to say that she enjoys being cruel. As stated before, she longs for a world where people can be trusted to be good people and where nothing bad happens and everything is rainbows and sunshine and seven years of feasting. ...But it would be a falsehood of equal magnitude to say that she is so invested in this ideal that she’s helpless to fight back, because -- medieval times weren’t called the dark ages because the clouds decided to hang about in the sky more than they usually did. Tough decisions had to be made, and even if she doesn't remember all of it -- or hardly any of it -- she is still a product of it. If you stand in her way, she will cut you down, regardless of whether you deserve it or not. There are times when she fights for a greater good, and you are a sacrifice she would make a hundred times over.
Internally Conflicted || Let's clear up one misunderstanding: Arielle loves being a knight. She loves her strength, her potential, and she loves what she can do with her body and mind now that she's honed it. ...But there are days when she has to ask herself if it was worth it. There are days when she looks into a mirror and wonders if she wants anything else in her life -- if she's allowed to want anything else in her life. She already fought tooth and nail to be a knight; that should be enough. She has to be satisfied, because she's certain very few others can make the same claim and come from the time period she hailed. She isn't allowed to want to be recognized as a knight and as something else. That's too much... right?
Weapon of Death:
A clawed but heavily ornate gauntlet made for her right hand. Main thread-cutting blade located on the thumb. Arielle herself is not quite sure why such an impractical piece of gear is her threadcutter and will profess a dislike of it to anyone who asks her opinion. (Truthfully, it’s a rather accurate manifestation of Arielle’s internal conflicts -- she wants to be powerful, functional, and tends to favor brute force. However, she still identifies as a female member of the medieval french nobility, and as such also longs for flippant and pretty things, which doesn’t exactly mesh with the image of a knight. Her threadcutter is an attempt to unite the two into a harmonious image -- while pretty and glittery, it is, rest assured, functional in all respects. It’s also the one piece of armor Arielle has not had to heavily alter to fit her small stature, so there’s that.)
For both the sake of comfort and pure habit, she does carry around a plain Arming Sword when she can, but it is not her threadcutter.
Cell phone:
Work phone: Blackberry Classic.
Personal phone: Samsung Galaxy S4, plain case. She... kind of likes idle games. They give her something to concentrate on. But she doesn't like playing games on a "work" phone, so... yeah.
>just hold on to what you know is true<
Obituary:
mid 1100s (age at death: 21)
cause of death: execution via beheading
location: La Rochelle
reason: She doesn’t remember. She isn’t sure she wants to remember. She -- she has an inkling (female knights aren’t spilling out of every nook and cranny in the 1100s, and the Templar Order least of all), but she prefers to keep speculation to herself and simply not think about her death. It’s behind her now, and Arielle will do her Order proud, even if they cannot see her. Even if they are all dead.
Even if they killed her for wanting to help.
>BEFORE...?
She was a good girl, she thinks. For a little while, at least. After all, she always did her very best to do what Mère and Père wanted; she never asked questions, and bothered the guests only when invited to do so. She attended mass and never took His name in vain, and she didn't complain about the lessons, not like -- not like -- someone. (someone -- she forgets the name -- but she remembers this: a sunny smile. Mischievous fingers that never stayed out of Mère's jewelry box for longer than a week. Little fingers, tugging at her skirts; giggling in corners as they persuade an older sister to try on things that are not hers in quiet rebellion.) In her own humble opinion, there is little in her memory that suggest her parents could have wanted a better child.
Well. Aside from the whole knight issue -- but they agreed to help her, didn’t they? She made a bargain, and they accepted.
If they regretted it later, it’s their own fault. Their fault for not presenting a stronger face to a daughter who saw a knight in armor and wanted to wear it, not be carried by it. As for the rest of it--
The rest of it is hers.
(Arielle knows that they only accepted her pleas because being a knight -- well, a page, at this point -- is hard. The strongest and tallest boys are selected for a reason, and they didn’t think their eldest daughter could bear the weight. Small, petite Arielle, who never asked questions and was never heard unless called for. She thinks -- she knows -- that they told themselves that another private trainer wouldn’t hurt because he would only be there but a few days. Arielle would complain of the workload, and the trainer would leave. She would never bother them about the issue again.)
(Arielle also knows this: more than anything, she wanted to be a knight.)
Thinking back on it now, everything except for the lessons are fuzzy (If you don’t lift your sword up higher, girl, you are dead); common sense dictates that she had a Mère and Père, but her memory only gives her -- snippets. This is for the best. What use are thoughts of home when home is a thousand years away and home cannot help her fill her quota? (Her eyes are from Mère. Her hair is from Père. Sometimes she thinks these thoughts and her chest aches, so it is good that they slip away soon enough.)
As such, she struggles to remember much of the two decades that lead up to her death; the last year seems particularly obscured, makes her stomach ill to even contemplate trying to break through the haze... so she doesn't. (It's not nausea that upsets her balance; it is rage. How dare he. How dare he. How dare he. It felt good to-- ...This thought, too, slips away.)
Knights of the Templar Order are to live simply. Memories -- memories like this -- they are complicated.
So she lives without them, and it works.
(She wakes up in a field of chrysanthemums, tears sliding down her face and hands touching her own throat. Death is there, and her smile is so entrancing it almost covers up the bile of betrayal rising in the back of her throat.)
AFTER.<
Being an apprentice is quiet. Simple. Her biggest struggle is dealing with the longing to meet Him, like the bishops promised; there is no gate of pearl or street of gold, just -- flowers. And birds. And the people are... interesting. The kind of interesting she generally would prefer to keep on the other end of her sword, but some of them are nice enough. And at least, as an apprentice, she may retreat to Death's Headquarters when the modern world (often, cloyingly, and persistently) becomes too much to bear.
This is fine. This is good.
Arielle is fine.
Stats:
STR: 5 || Whether or not she actually made it all the way to the Knight rank in the Order, she definitely went through some sort of extensive training for it, considering she can’t exact fake her build or swordsmanship. She still piously goes through a regular exercise routine on a day-to-day basis to guard against losing these skills.
DEX: 2 || Believe it or not, she has to be pretty limber to perform the maneuvers necessary for combat in full plate armor as well as, y’know, properly wield bladed weapons without hacking off anything attached to her own person. Focus on other pursuits, however, has stymied her growth in this area.
CON: 3 || Marching and fighting in plate armor is hard and nobody understands. And sparring for knight training doesn’t evoke feelings of being caressed with silken goosefeather pillows, why are people still occasionally surprised someone as short as she is can take multiple hits before going down.
INT: 0 || As useful as it would have been, Arielle’s intelligence levels out at average on pretty much any scale. Rather than depending on any sort of natural intellect telling her what to do, she bullied sweet-talked charged bulldozed her way through knight training kicking and clawing for every inch she could get.
WIS: 1 || Oh, she’s still awful with people. But she isn’t entirely oblivious and, provided she can set aside her own personal embarrassment long enough, can be considered a decent sounding board. She hasn’t lived a thousand years of undeath and learned nothing.
CHA: 0 || Bless her dear heart, she does try occasionally, but Arielle has the personal magnetism and social know-how of a beached fish. The only place where she might hold sway is in the middle of a battlefield, and she hasn’t exactly had cause to lead an assault in several centuries.
11 / 13 points used
Team/Roommates:
D'tartagnan Leroux || Detroux
Kieran O'Donnelly || resonancecreations
Kemta || Kenb0t
Relationships:
⌊ D'tartagnan Leroux ⌉ || For the most part Arielle just feels conflicted. On one hand: a fellow frenchwoman. On the other hand -- well, Tag isn't a shining beacon of purity, and while the knight tries to give her the benefit of the doubt, for the most part she prefers to avoid her fellow kinsman. This... isn't very hard. Tag seems... busy... with other matters.
⌊ Kieran O'Donnelly ⌉ || The teammate Arielle gets on with the best. His lack of organizational skills can grate on the edges of her nerves, but as long as he keeps his clutter to his corner of the room she has nothing but positive things to say about him.
⌊ Kemta ⌉ || ...At least he dresses sensibly.
⌈ Cacira Korbis Inkidortes ⌋ || Honest opinion? Arielle is a bit starry-eyed around the gladtrix whenever they meet and considers her to be (more than a) bit of a role-model. However, she is hesitant to infringe upon Inkidortes' busy schedule and is content watching from the sidelines.
⌈ Bendigeidfran "Fran" Rhys ⌋ || Despite his noble status, Fran's mannerisms are extremely off-putting and Arielle prefers to spend as little time as possible around him; his status as a former fallen further strains the little respect she holds for him as a person in a position of authority.
⌈ Alcaeus Vorenus ⌋ || A dear friend. Alcaeus' compassionate nature and nonchalant recognition of her skill has earned her undying loyalty even as it has turned the library (and his presence) into a safe space. It only helps that she doesn't feel pressured to talk around him, which, of course, means that Arielle tends to be inclined to speak, and is subsequently fascinated by the breadth of the knowledge he's willing to impart to her. Her current favorite subject is poetry.
⌈ Citlalique ⌋ || While they have only held oblique interactions and Arielle doesn't even know the name of this pink-haired apprentice, her exuberant personality and style of dress have, so far, made the knight unconsciously shy away from the bright woman.
⌈ Asher Park || She's sure he's a wonderful person with equally wonderful characteristics and there must be many people who enjoy spending time with him. If this godless sinner doesn't stop invading her personal space, however, she's going to end up with a criminal record and he's going to end up with a sword to his gut.
⌈ Owen Quinn ⌋ || A strange boy with the disconcerting habit of not wearing pants. Also wears strange shirts he can't button up on his own. She feels bad about upsetting him by making a strange noise, but in her defense he was not. Wearing. Pants. She... has to fix this indecency somehow. ...Knitting? Does Alcaeus have books on knitting?
⌈ Joakim ⌋ || A fellow guardian and almost the same age, they should have this friendship in the bag. Instead, Arielle and this uncouth giant have had a... rocky relationship. It's gotten better over the centuries (and the very least she respects his fighting prowess, if she hasn't grown to genuinely respect him), but there are a few issues they don't see eye to eye on. Ha.
⌈ "Esme" ⌋ || Although they have yet to spend a significant amount of time in each other's company, Arielle feels cheered by the fact that she remembered Esme's name and would like to get to know her better. The younger apprentice seems... quiet. Arielle can deal with quiet.
⌊ Sendah ⌉ || She doesn't know this hunter's name, but she doesn't think she'll ever forget what she saw of his face. They met at the disaster of a masquerade, and if Arielle has her way, they'll meet again -- and this time, she have a proper weapon. Also, did he seriously call her... doll? What kind of -- Who did he think -- ...no comment.
Extra:
- Her last name isn’t actually Chevalier. Someone prompted her to give them a last name out of curiosity and she, uh, panicked and gave the first word that popped into her head and it’s literally the title for “knight” in French. Good job, Ari. Good job.
- You would think a knight would be absolutely incompetent at walking in heels but nope, turns out the bigger problem is finding shoes in Arielle’s size that will fit around her massive calves. That, and she just doesn't like wearing them.
- Of all the things about the modern age that puzzle her, she is quite upset at what she considers the “degeneration” of the handshake and refuses to high-five people. People who return her forearm-clasp greetings are automatically A+ in her book.
- Not fond of the majority of the English. For a variety of reasons, partially because of loyalty to her homeland but also she's kinda upset that they burned Jeanne D'Arc. And by "kind of" I mean she refused to speak anything except for angry french for at least a year after she died.
- Similarly, don't talk to her about the fall of the Templars and the hand that the French had in it. It's uh, it's a touchy subject and basically what is boils down to is she still loves France from the bottom of her heart but Phillip the IV should have been crucified.
- Lefthanded! However, can semi-fake being ambidextrous because she was taught how to do nearly everything with her right hand because of superstitions. She only began to teach herself how to do it with her real dominant hand a little bit before she died and continued the practice after the event. (Her threadcutter being tailored to her right hand kind of gave her a big motivation boost.)
- Set 1 of outfits she might be seen in (except for the maybe the first one lmao)
- Set 2 of outfits she might be seen in
- Awful at remembering names (unless they're of French origin or sound), just ask Esme Esther.
- Still at least somewhat religious, keeps a bible at her bedside, and does actively pray; tries to attend mass on holidays but reaping duties do not always permit. It bothered her more in the beginning of her apprentice tenure but at this point she's pretty much alright with it.
- If you're of noble birth and recognize her as a knight she will probably latch on to you and never let go fair warning. she craves that mineral.
- Ditto goes for anyone and acknowledging her prowess as a swordsman/fighter/what have you.
- Slowest texter in the world. Not because she can't navigate her phone, but because she obsessively triple checks each and every text for errors. She mistakenly made an awkward-sounding typo to another apprentice. Once.
- Pretty organized. She has a system for her stuff man. Don't mess with the system or she messes with you.
- Her, uh, stringent dress code preferences are slightly more lenient concerning non-boob-owners. Slightly.
- Cuts her hair with a belt knife which means uneven ends ahoy. Used to just slice off her bangs whenever they got long enough to fall into her eyes, but has been convinced to style them out of the way instead. (It looked awful.)
Contact:
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I only give out my skype to people I trust, sorry!
Generally do paragraph rps, but am willing to try out other methods and I tend to yell about headcanons a lot.
I tend to be a bit slow when replying, sorry -- so don't feel afraid to prod me, heaven knows I need it sometimes.
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"A flower crown from the first ever Flower Market Masquerade. The simplicity and innocence of the flower crown brings your mind clarity. One time use of +1 in wisdom for one turn when put on. But then you realize later you are wearing a flower crown and look kinda silly so your wisdom returns to normal."
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I NEVER COMMENTED HERE BUT AAAH THIS CUTIE SHORTIE PANTS
//squishes her adorable faise amg
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WINK WONK AYE AYE AYYYEEE TEAMIE
Tag: "A fucking tin can, are you serious."
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HOHOHOHOHO YES EXCELLENT. POOR ARI DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS IN STORE FOR HER lmao
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Congrats on being accepted, Veri! Welcome to our Apprentice Famireeeee~~~ ^ v ^
Fran: By any chance, child, might you be...a knight? *grins warmly* *was a descendent of Welsh nobility in the Late Middle Ages*
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That gauntlet is amazing and pretty and I love her bio
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HERE SHE IS I MADE IT IN TIME BLESS CAFFEINE
NOW I CAN OFFICIALLY KIDNAP ESTHER i mean... meet her... and... make friends... maybe... :')
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SHE IS HERE AND I MADE IT IN TIME GOD BLESS :')))
now time for hayden to make frIENDS
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HAHAH GOD BLESS
Arielle love yourself
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the struggle was rEAL MAN THERES STILL SO MANY THINGS I WANT TO ADD TO HER APP BUT I CANT UNLESS SHE GETS ACCEPTED
bUT FRIENDS, GAMZ. FRIENDS.
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a KNIGHT?!?! SWOON. She looks incredible! Awesome job on the outfit, I can't wait to see her in action!! *u*
(that's such a cute tidbit about her last name--when I first read it, I was so confused, because I speak French sort of. When I read that fact, I was just like, "AW CUTIE")
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yELLS THANK/// I was like halfway through sketching it yesterday when i realized i was gonna hate myself so bad for doing this when i lined it and i was right but im still happy with how that big came out but ajdfsa thANKS AGAIN WHEEZING
(LAUGHS yeah ari is just :')) a big dork. who let her adult. who let her make decisions. who.
but waIT YOU KINDA SPEAK FRENCH?? reverently reaches toward you * o * i actually barely know any french myself so im just coasting off of google searches here man life is difficult when you took six years of german and never make any german characters
DERAILS TOPIC TO TALK ABOUT YOUR AZTEC BABE THO. BABE.
the way u draw noses is super a+ and stellar and i have a weakness for strong noses and pink hair now apparently
also her attitude toward her former participation in human sacrifice is A+ 10/10 would read again
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sdflj AHAHA oh man!! You must've had so much patience for that but it was WORTH IT, the whole thing looks sooooo good, the details are amazing <333 LOOK AT THAT GAUNTLET. <3
YES I took some French classes in college and it was recently enough that I'm still maintaining some of it! :'D It's such an interesting language--I tried taking German and just failed. HORRIBLY. SO BADLY. I am not worthy of speaking German, omg, so I respect you for taking SIX YEARS OF IT. But French came a bit easier, and it looks like everything in the app looks great!!! (I DIDN'T NOTICE BEFORE BUT THE WRITING IN THE "BEFORE" SECTION IS BEAUTIFUL HHHHHH //REREADS A HUNDRED TIMES)
and THANK YOU!!!! Citlal is my DARLING tbh!!! I love drawing her big nose and her pink hair aaah thank you <333 She's so FUN, so elegant and dorky and bright!!! I haven't had a character like her in a long time *u* And I am also a fan of noses so Arielle's cute round nose is FAVE <3
omg though Citlal is so nonchalant about it now it's been so long
"I mean, yes, it was horrid, but on the plus side, I know several ways to ritualistically carve the bodies of our enemies, so there's that! <3"
NICE, CITLAL.
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