Post by Tessa Burnsworth on Feb 23, 2014 0:52:35 GMT -5
Image claim: Marisa Tomei
Name: Tessa Burnsworth Aka Tess
Gender: Female
Age: 38
Occupation: Pilot/ Freelance Travel Article Writer/Photographer
Family: Peter Pan (Isn't aware he's real or that he is her distant uncle)
Albert - Pan's Brother ( great great great grandfather -deceased)
Malcom the III - Tessa's brother
Henry Mills Baelfire/Neal Cassidy Rumpelstiltskin cousins, but doesn't know this
Strengths: Flying planes, navigation, quick on her toes, musically talented (instruments, singing)
Weaknesses: holding on to things in the past and not being able to let go, family. exploring, poison ivy - deadly allergic
Quote: "Just let the music come from inside and it will sound beautiful"
Personality: She can be one of the sweetest people around, but that doesn't mean she's perfect. No, she can be a bit of a slob, and had tendencies to fall into slumps. Slumps that involve lots of sweets. She holds onto things longer than she should, but doesn't know how to just let go. Even when she thinks she has moved on from something a few months later she would be dealing with it again. She likes the idea of being in charge and having power, but is still afraid of the responsibility. She believes in magic. She is pretty clueless to the town so she might seem like an odd one till she finds out. She's never been in a relationship due to an event in her past, so she's never had her first real kiss either. She just keeps running from relationships even though she uses her imagination to picture what an idea relationship would be like.
History: A very long time ago a woman bore two boys Malcom and Albert. The two had their differences. They'd discuss the imagination and how it might have been brainwashing the other. There were some nice times between the brothers, but everything suddenly changed. Albert found himself in a bad predicament by falling into a portal.
This portal landed in London England where Albert found himself stuck and orphaned. He found a home very fast. He ended up with an adopted family that cared about him very much, one that also happened to come from money. He had even met a woman and married her. She and her brother were the last of their blood line with no cousins that she knows of existing. Her parents and grandparents both dead. She had a normal life for the most part. Yet she never felt like she was loved by her parents. When M came along all their attention with to him.
She of course was jealous that the baby could get more attention that she ever had. As time passed things seemed to grow a bit weird in the house. She wasn't sure what it was, maybe because she didn't want to know. So she continued on with her music lessons. One year on the violin, the next the harp, and then the piano. She hated the lessons and at first didnt even like playing the instruments she had learned. She grew to love music and playing it as much as she loved to use her imagination and play games such as Cops and Robbers with her brother. Then the music suddenly stopped at the age of fifteen when she was kidnapped from her home. She has never told anyone what had happened while she was there. At the age of seventeen she managed to escape and found her way home. The experience darkened her a bit, but she always tried to see the good in things. She continued her studies and found herself being asked out by many handsome men, but she always declined them.
She found herself studying at Oxford in journalism. She tried her best to get a full time job in the field she wanted, but it just didn't look like it would happen. So she started to travel more. Using a site to find places to rest her head for free, Tess found herself with a new job title "Freelance Travel Writer".. After a while she grew bored and needed something to do in-between stories so she took flying lessons and became a certified pilot. One day on one of her random flying trips her one man plane went down over the town just before the veil was being put back up. That's where she is now, in the woods with smoke coming from her plane, and isn't aware that the townsfolk were all characters in stories.
Likes: Music, Singing, Exploring, Chocolate Pie, Tea
Dislikes: Being told she can't do something, people she feels judge her too quickly, the fact she is in her thirties and has not had a proper first kiss or boyfriend.(she's sort of just been running from relationships, has to do with the being kidnapped thing)
Roleplay Example: Graham Here
Lastly... I had the idea of someone that truly doesn't know the other lands existed and still sort of be connected. Have a child like innocence and imagination and yet also hold grudges. If those she'd be related to do not like the idea of her it is fine and I'll figure something else out.