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madame_nerium) wrote2020-06-08 10:53 pm
madame_nerium) wrote2020-06-08 10:53 pm
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name | Alias: Aramat Drawdes
Age: Mid to Late Thirties or so, (35-39)
Canon: Alabaster (From the story Les Fleurs Empoisonnées/The Garden Of Poisonous Flowers)
Canon point: From the end of the short story
History:
Aramat hails from a very Southern Gothic canon with lots of horror attached to it. Monsters exist, ghouls exist, werewolves exist and all sort of the supernatural are real in her canon, but kept in secret. Aramat Drawdes was born Tamara Seward in Savannah, Georgia. Her family was from a long line of Southern Gentry. She has no ties with her blood family, since she couldn't be married off because her sexual and social proclivities were entirely too strange for even the most patient man.
An asylum patient since the age of thirteen, the stint she served for five years only made her more strange and mentally messed up. After the release, an old mansion where she makes her home in canon was given to her in a will left by Theodosius W. Ybanes the third. A scientist and one of Aramat's favorite uncles, he left her Stephens Ward, a old mansion that was built by the first Theodosius W. Ybanes built some years after the Civil War. After moving in and a name change, she grew lonely and wished for company, so she sought out women exactly like her and offered them to live in Stephens Ward, she named the group of ladies The Stephens Ward Tea League and Society of Resurrectionists.
It started with (somewhat) good intentions before Aramat and the ladies sanity began to decline over the years. They cooked together, basked in each others "company", and most strangely, found dead bodies and engaged in Autopsy simply for the fun of it, a hobby the young Aramat often delved into with her uncle ever since she was young. (Sometimes they would dig up a corpse from a graveyard, sometimes they would kill a drifter who would wander around their area, and sometimes if Aramat got bored enough, she'd kill one of the ladies and have the woman placed on the slab.) Her life was relatively without any major changes, until some house guests came in and brought with them a girl named Darcy Flammarion, after an attempt of kidnapping her, she broke out and a mishap with a gun caused Aramat to die.
Personality:
The first thing one would notice about Aramat is that she seems like a pure libertine and lives only for her own whims and whatever pleases her at the moment. Shown through her truly mercurial temperament (at times she would lose her temper and attack people, including her own women on a bat-shit insane paranoid whim), old-fashioned but occasionally extravagant tastes, and her free notions about sex. (It's implied in canon that Aramat was probably in a sort of a poly relationship with some of her ladies and most likely such an arrangement in any future relationships wouldn't really bother her much.)
Despite all this, she tries to remain polite, well-mannered and basically the picture of what a 'good southern woman' is like. That does not necessarily mean she will follow those restrictive rules to the letter however. (She was raised with the values and appreciates the aesthetics of Victorian to Edwardian times, that doesn't mean she honors them.) Due to her experiences at the Asylum when she was a young person, she has almost no regard for impulse control. Whatever she wants, she takes with giving little thought to the feelings of the person she takes from.
Despite this, she isn't without her moments of kindness. Her intentions of taking in wayward girls like her was to make a family of sorts, even if it went horrifically wrong in the end. She has a soft spot for runaways, as many of her women are former runaways and so was she in a way and even if the child is rude, she will at least show hospitality towards them. She also has a very good rapport with The Bailiff, a mysterious man that often does favors for her. (It's also implied that he's a old family friend that didn't disown her.)
When not in a compulsion of some sort (her compulsions being often violent, unpredictable, and often cruel) she is... nice, almost motherly towards the people she cares for and is often painfully self-aware about how thoroughly awful she is. This duel nature also allows her to be utterly, almost mindlessly vicious towards her loved one's enemies and the people that dare to harm them. Is it to make up for the fact that's really not all that stable?
Perhaps.
Age: Mid to Late Thirties or so, (35-39)
Canon: Alabaster (From the story Les Fleurs Empoisonnées/The Garden Of Poisonous Flowers)
Canon point: From the end of the short story
History:
Aramat hails from a very Southern Gothic canon with lots of horror attached to it. Monsters exist, ghouls exist, werewolves exist and all sort of the supernatural are real in her canon, but kept in secret. Aramat Drawdes was born Tamara Seward in Savannah, Georgia. Her family was from a long line of Southern Gentry. She has no ties with her blood family, since she couldn't be married off because her sexual and social proclivities were entirely too strange for even the most patient man.
An asylum patient since the age of thirteen, the stint she served for five years only made her more strange and mentally messed up. After the release, an old mansion where she makes her home in canon was given to her in a will left by Theodosius W. Ybanes the third. A scientist and one of Aramat's favorite uncles, he left her Stephens Ward, a old mansion that was built by the first Theodosius W. Ybanes built some years after the Civil War. After moving in and a name change, she grew lonely and wished for company, so she sought out women exactly like her and offered them to live in Stephens Ward, she named the group of ladies The Stephens Ward Tea League and Society of Resurrectionists.
It started with (somewhat) good intentions before Aramat and the ladies sanity began to decline over the years. They cooked together, basked in each others "company", and most strangely, found dead bodies and engaged in Autopsy simply for the fun of it, a hobby the young Aramat often delved into with her uncle ever since she was young. (Sometimes they would dig up a corpse from a graveyard, sometimes they would kill a drifter who would wander around their area, and sometimes if Aramat got bored enough, she'd kill one of the ladies and have the woman placed on the slab.) Her life was relatively without any major changes, until some house guests came in and brought with them a girl named Darcy Flammarion, after an attempt of kidnapping her, she broke out and a mishap with a gun caused Aramat to die.
Personality:
The first thing one would notice about Aramat is that she seems like a pure libertine and lives only for her own whims and whatever pleases her at the moment. Shown through her truly mercurial temperament (at times she would lose her temper and attack people, including her own women on a bat-shit insane paranoid whim), old-fashioned but occasionally extravagant tastes, and her free notions about sex. (It's implied in canon that Aramat was probably in a sort of a poly relationship with some of her ladies and most likely such an arrangement in any future relationships wouldn't really bother her much.)
Despite all this, she tries to remain polite, well-mannered and basically the picture of what a 'good southern woman' is like. That does not necessarily mean she will follow those restrictive rules to the letter however. (She was raised with the values and appreciates the aesthetics of Victorian to Edwardian times, that doesn't mean she honors them.) Due to her experiences at the Asylum when she was a young person, she has almost no regard for impulse control. Whatever she wants, she takes with giving little thought to the feelings of the person she takes from.
Despite this, she isn't without her moments of kindness. Her intentions of taking in wayward girls like her was to make a family of sorts, even if it went horrifically wrong in the end. She has a soft spot for runaways, as many of her women are former runaways and so was she in a way and even if the child is rude, she will at least show hospitality towards them. She also has a very good rapport with The Bailiff, a mysterious man that often does favors for her. (It's also implied that he's a old family friend that didn't disown her.)
When not in a compulsion of some sort (her compulsions being often violent, unpredictable, and often cruel) she is... nice, almost motherly towards the people she cares for and is often painfully self-aware about how thoroughly awful she is. This duel nature also allows her to be utterly, almost mindlessly vicious towards her loved one's enemies and the people that dare to harm them. Is it to make up for the fact that's really not all that stable?
Perhaps.