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dressedinblood) wrote2011-12-24 05:09 pm
dressedinblood) wrote2011-12-24 05:09 pm
Infopost of You Apped a What?
*microphone tap* Is this thing on? Okay, good! First off, for the rest of my crew you can head over here, with the exception that I've dropped Spock. I intended to give him a better sendoff, but then LJ decided to hose us and I just couldn't deal with it. Especially please read the section on Alex because, fear god. And now on to my new girl!
This is really long, and I apologize, but it's kind of involved.
So who is this girl?
Anna Korlov was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on...we'll say November 19, 1941, to a pair of Finnish immigrants. Her parents ran a boardinghouse, and her father was a fisherman. Her father died, and then a few years later, in 1958, sixteen-year-old Anna was killed while walking to a school dance (I decided it was the Valentine's Day dance, because I could). Her throat was slashed, and her blood stained the front of her white dancing dress, as well as the snow around her body, hence her nickname 'Anna Dressed in Blood.' Her killer was never found.
So you're playing her from before Valentine's Day, 1958?
No, she's from the present.
Wait, what?
Anna is dead. Her metabolic processes have ceased, she has shuffled off this mortal coil, she is pining for the fjords. In other words, she isan ex-parrot a ghost. About six months after Anna was murdered, her mother died of a heart attack, and when a new family moved into their house they were all brutally killed, ripped into pieces--bodies found in the basement, limbs upstairs--and the words 'Anna taloni' ('Anna's house' in Finnish) written all over the walls in blood. The house stood abandoned after that, although there were rumors, whispered around campfires and at slumber parties, that anyone who went in the house (vagrants and teenagers on dares, mostly) never came out again, and that the blood Anna was dressed in wasn't just her own, it was that of her many victims, soaking her dress until it dripped.
These rumors were true.
No seriously, what have you done?
When Cas Lowood, a teen ghost hunter, came to town, looking to use Anna as a warm-up match before facing off against the thing that killed his father, he quickly realized a few things. One: Anna was even more powerful than he'd suspected, as he discovered when she ripped apart a dumb jock in front of him. The phrases, "most powerful ghost in the Western Hemisphere," and, "She's not a ghost, she's a hurricane," come into play. Two, Anna is, aside from being obscenely powerful, not at all your average ghost--when Cas returns to the house alone, Anna presents not as a total horror show in a dress dripping blood, but as an ordinary girl, not even wearing her death wound, and explains to him that she's compelled to kill, that she doesn't want to be this way, and that for some reason, she doesn't seem to have to kill him, so he should get out of the house before that changes. Instead, he decides to help Anna, and figures out how to break the curse on her, freeing her of the compulsion to kill and of the confines of her house.
So good news! Anna's probably not going to kill you.
Probably?!
Would you prefer 'almost certainly?' You probably would. She's almost certainly not going to kill you.
While most of the time Anna will appear as herself, Anna Dressed in Blood is still in there. She's just mostly got that part of herself under control by now. Additionally, her house was the source of some of her power, and now that she's out of it (and it was destroyed by events in the book) she isn't quite mistress of her surroundings any more. However, she's still really, really powerful, and...well, she's spent the last fifty years trapped in a house with the ghosts (more standard, horrifying and trapped in the moment of their death) of everyone she ever killed, because the house sort of...ate them. So think of her as a ghost with PTSD. She doesn't quite always have a handle on herself, and sometimes her control will slip a little. More on that below.
Anna, most of the time, will appear to be a sixteen-year-old girl with pale skin, brown eyes, and long dark hair, wearing a white, homemade dancing dress trimmed with lace, fashionable circa 1958. A back view can be seen on the cover, and that's pretty much what the dress looks like in my head, too. She's not wearing shoes; this is confirmed by the recently released cover to (eeeeeeeeeeeeeee) the sequel. She speaks with a slight Finnish accent. She feels solid and maybe a little cool to the touch, but not cold.
Even if your character doesn't know for sure that Anna's a ghost, they may pick up that something's weird about her/have suspicions from the facts that she's always wearing the same dress, the pallor, the bare feet (although I do intend to eventually get her some shoes), and the slight coolness. Additionally, she doesn't breathe or have a pulse, and doesn't sleep or eat.
She's a nice girl, and she's dealing with a lot of guilt and remorse issues for all the people she was forced to kill by her curse, but she has a backbone and a temper. The temper's bad, because it can bring out Anna's other half. This can be signaled in a lot of ways. Black veins start creeping across her face, her hair whips around like snakes, she starts turning grey, or her eyes start filling with cold, dirty water or turning black. Or red can rush across the fabric of her dress right before it starts dripping blood on the floor. This can also happen when she's just upset. Generally she'll try to get herself back under control quickly, but if your character completely freaks out and/or runs screaming, she understands. She is some scary shiz and she knows it.
As Anna has been trapped in a house for fifty years with her only interaction with other people coming, in her perspective, in the last few weeks (she's actually lost a couple of months while in the hell dimension), she is not exactly up on modern events. She has a general idea of how cell phones work from seeing her ghost hunter and his friends use them, and she's heard of the internet but doesn't really understand what it is, but she has no idea the NHL has thirty teams now, including two in Florida. What's up with that?
So, let's talk powers! Anna has an aura of dark scary energy that's probably visible for miles, so you psychic types, feel free to notice/flip out! Just as herself, she can do a host of "stupid ghost tricks" like walking through walls/people, turning invisible, levitation, moving instantaneously from place to place, moving things without touching them and making the walls bleed. As Anna Dressed in Blood, she doesn't even find conventional weapons to be much of an annoyance, she's physically strong enough to rip a person in half like paper, and psychically beat down almost all comers.
And one time she ripped open a portal into a hell dimension, but due to curse-related factors, at this time I don't think that's possible for her outside of her house. Sequel could say different, who knows?
There are, however, some rules ghosts must follow, even ones as powerful as Anna. Anna cannot cross a threshold that's been warded against spirits. She cannot escape a circle designed to trap a spirit, if she's caught in one. And a weapon that should hurt a ghost (like Cas' magic athame) can hurt or even kill her, although if she's just wounded, thanks to her power level she bounces back quickly. Oh, and cats generally freak out around her.
Anna's coming to Fandom from after the part with the portal to the hell dimension--in my version of events, she fell through it, and then through another portal which dumped her by the causeway on newbie day, and now she can't leave the island. Surprise! The one good thing about being dead was that you didn't have to go to high school, and the multiverse blew it.
TL;DR: She's a megapowerful ghost with kind of a split personality who's unaware of much of what's happened in the world since 1958. Her book is really, really good and there's a sequel coming.
Questions? Comments? Cookies?
This is really long, and I apologize, but it's kind of involved.
So who is this girl?
Anna Korlov was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on...we'll say November 19, 1941, to a pair of Finnish immigrants. Her parents ran a boardinghouse, and her father was a fisherman. Her father died, and then a few years later, in 1958, sixteen-year-old Anna was killed while walking to a school dance (I decided it was the Valentine's Day dance, because I could). Her throat was slashed, and her blood stained the front of her white dancing dress, as well as the snow around her body, hence her nickname 'Anna Dressed in Blood.' Her killer was never found.
So you're playing her from before Valentine's Day, 1958?
No, she's from the present.
Wait, what?
Anna is dead. Her metabolic processes have ceased, she has shuffled off this mortal coil, she is pining for the fjords. In other words, she is
These rumors were true.
No seriously, what have you done?
When Cas Lowood, a teen ghost hunter, came to town, looking to use Anna as a warm-up match before facing off against the thing that killed his father, he quickly realized a few things. One: Anna was even more powerful than he'd suspected, as he discovered when she ripped apart a dumb jock in front of him. The phrases, "most powerful ghost in the Western Hemisphere," and, "She's not a ghost, she's a hurricane," come into play. Two, Anna is, aside from being obscenely powerful, not at all your average ghost--when Cas returns to the house alone, Anna presents not as a total horror show in a dress dripping blood, but as an ordinary girl, not even wearing her death wound, and explains to him that she's compelled to kill, that she doesn't want to be this way, and that for some reason, she doesn't seem to have to kill him, so he should get out of the house before that changes. Instead, he decides to help Anna, and figures out how to break the curse on her, freeing her of the compulsion to kill and of the confines of her house.
So good news! Anna's probably not going to kill you.
Probably?!
Would you prefer 'almost certainly?' You probably would. She's almost certainly not going to kill you.
While most of the time Anna will appear as herself, Anna Dressed in Blood is still in there. She's just mostly got that part of herself under control by now. Additionally, her house was the source of some of her power, and now that she's out of it (and it was destroyed by events in the book) she isn't quite mistress of her surroundings any more. However, she's still really, really powerful, and...well, she's spent the last fifty years trapped in a house with the ghosts (more standard, horrifying and trapped in the moment of their death) of everyone she ever killed, because the house sort of...ate them. So think of her as a ghost with PTSD. She doesn't quite always have a handle on herself, and sometimes her control will slip a little. More on that below.
Anna, most of the time, will appear to be a sixteen-year-old girl with pale skin, brown eyes, and long dark hair, wearing a white, homemade dancing dress trimmed with lace, fashionable circa 1958. A back view can be seen on the cover, and that's pretty much what the dress looks like in my head, too. She's not wearing shoes; this is confirmed by the recently released cover to (eeeeeeeeeeeeeee) the sequel. She speaks with a slight Finnish accent. She feels solid and maybe a little cool to the touch, but not cold.
Even if your character doesn't know for sure that Anna's a ghost, they may pick up that something's weird about her/have suspicions from the facts that she's always wearing the same dress, the pallor, the bare feet (although I do intend to eventually get her some shoes), and the slight coolness. Additionally, she doesn't breathe or have a pulse, and doesn't sleep or eat.
She's a nice girl, and she's dealing with a lot of guilt and remorse issues for all the people she was forced to kill by her curse, but she has a backbone and a temper. The temper's bad, because it can bring out Anna's other half. This can be signaled in a lot of ways. Black veins start creeping across her face, her hair whips around like snakes, she starts turning grey, or her eyes start filling with cold, dirty water or turning black. Or red can rush across the fabric of her dress right before it starts dripping blood on the floor. This can also happen when she's just upset. Generally she'll try to get herself back under control quickly, but if your character completely freaks out and/or runs screaming, she understands. She is some scary shiz and she knows it.
As Anna has been trapped in a house for fifty years with her only interaction with other people coming, in her perspective, in the last few weeks (she's actually lost a couple of months while in the hell dimension), she is not exactly up on modern events. She has a general idea of how cell phones work from seeing her ghost hunter and his friends use them, and she's heard of the internet but doesn't really understand what it is, but she has no idea the NHL has thirty teams now, including two in Florida. What's up with that?
So, let's talk powers! Anna has an aura of dark scary energy that's probably visible for miles, so you psychic types, feel free to notice/flip out! Just as herself, she can do a host of "stupid ghost tricks" like walking through walls/people, turning invisible, levitation, moving instantaneously from place to place, moving things without touching them and making the walls bleed. As Anna Dressed in Blood, she doesn't even find conventional weapons to be much of an annoyance, she's physically strong enough to rip a person in half like paper, and psychically beat down almost all comers.
And one time she ripped open a portal into a hell dimension, but due to curse-related factors, at this time I don't think that's possible for her outside of her house. Sequel could say different, who knows?
There are, however, some rules ghosts must follow, even ones as powerful as Anna. Anna cannot cross a threshold that's been warded against spirits. She cannot escape a circle designed to trap a spirit, if she's caught in one. And a weapon that should hurt a ghost (like Cas' magic athame) can hurt or even kill her, although if she's just wounded, thanks to her power level she bounces back quickly. Oh, and cats generally freak out around her.
Anna's coming to Fandom from after the part with the portal to the hell dimension--in my version of events, she fell through it, and then through another portal which dumped her by the causeway on newbie day, and now she can't leave the island. Surprise! The one good thing about being dead was that you didn't have to go to high school, and the multiverse blew it.
TL;DR: She's a megapowerful ghost with kind of a split personality who's unaware of much of what's happened in the world since 1958. Her book is really, really good and there's a sequel coming.
Questions? Comments? Cookies?