Post by Princess Katie on Feb 7, 2008 0:30:04 GMT -5
Name: Eleanor ‘Nellie’ Clementine Peep
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Group: Dream, Anti-Nightmare because her Daddy said to be.
Occupation: Shepherdess, Keeper of the Counting Sheep
Appearance: Nellie is the very image of pastoral prettiness and feigned coyness, as if she stepped right out of Jean-Honore Fragonard’s The Swing. Her face is round and flushed, surprisingly pale for someone who works in the pastures all day. Of course, it’s not the eerie, Nightmare-type pallor, it’s porcelain, angelic. In accordance with the Rococo ideals of beauty, Nellie has what one could call ‘chubb’. She is by no means fat, but she is all together rounded, with no sharp angles to be found on her body. Of course, she has pretty, pale blue eyes, heavy, dollish lashes and small, but full, cherry lips.
As she was raised in an old-fashioned environment, she reflects that in her choice of dress. The fluffy, ankle-length, filmy pastorale gowns typical of the 1700s do not seem practical, but her pastel outfits seem to be impervious to dirt. She likes to wear her white-blonde hair slicked back in the front, the curls pinned loosely in the back. The most practical things she wears are her hats. Usually made of straw, she alternates between various hats and bonnets, heavily adorned with flowers, ribbons, and lace (much like the rest of her outfit.)
1. Nellie - Princess Katie
2. The Swing - Jean-Honore Fragonard
Personality: Nellie believes in the age-old philosophy of ‘walk lightly and carry a big stick’; or, as it applies to her ‘skip about the pasture and carry a crook wrapped in ribbons and wildflowers’. Due to her old-fashioned upbringing, Nellie displays a personality typical of a 18th century teenager. She acts much younger than the modern-day 16 year old. She is still very into playing games like Cat’s Cradle, Blind Man’s Bluff, Jumpsies, and Hide and Seek. As the only daughter of the Peep Empire, she often has to search for other people to play with, typically those her juniors, since her peers aren’t usually down with playing “Queenie, Queenie, Who’s Got the Ball?” But don’t let her fool you, Nellie isn’t only innocent games. She is prone to sneaking out to have a late-night tryst with a farmhand, or one of the neighboring boys, who she charms with the coquettish persona she seems to save for just an occasion.
Since she is a farmgirl, born into a work-first, play-second, education-third family, Nellie has very little formal education. She can read and do basic arithmetic, but prefers not to. Sometimes, when very bored, she’ll read Alice in Wonderland while swinging in the tree grove outside the pasture. However, she is terribly ignorant. She lives in her own little world of lace, betseys, and hopscotch, and has little mind for politics, higher thinking, or thinking on her own, for that matter. She tends to let her mother and father think for her. Nellie has an overwhelmingly strong sense of family pride. This is the same pride that spurs Nellie to brag non-stop about Peep Farm’s crops, livestock, and contributions to Dream society. The Peeps are very passionately (and openly) anti-Nightmare, a trait which innocent young Eleanor picked up. She assumes every Nightmare is bad upon meeting them. However, her inborn prejudice is easily overridden by any individual Nightmare, justified by a “well, they’re obviously not like the average Nightmare”.
Powers: No ‘real’ powers to speak of, but she has excellent control of her Shepherding Dogs, a knack for navigating small, country dances, and a great talent for graceful leaps.
She also dabbles in the Pennywhistle.
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Group: Dream, Anti-Nightmare because her Daddy said to be.
Occupation: Shepherdess, Keeper of the Counting Sheep
Appearance: Nellie is the very image of pastoral prettiness and feigned coyness, as if she stepped right out of Jean-Honore Fragonard’s The Swing. Her face is round and flushed, surprisingly pale for someone who works in the pastures all day. Of course, it’s not the eerie, Nightmare-type pallor, it’s porcelain, angelic. In accordance with the Rococo ideals of beauty, Nellie has what one could call ‘chubb’. She is by no means fat, but she is all together rounded, with no sharp angles to be found on her body. Of course, she has pretty, pale blue eyes, heavy, dollish lashes and small, but full, cherry lips.
As she was raised in an old-fashioned environment, she reflects that in her choice of dress. The fluffy, ankle-length, filmy pastorale gowns typical of the 1700s do not seem practical, but her pastel outfits seem to be impervious to dirt. She likes to wear her white-blonde hair slicked back in the front, the curls pinned loosely in the back. The most practical things she wears are her hats. Usually made of straw, she alternates between various hats and bonnets, heavily adorned with flowers, ribbons, and lace (much like the rest of her outfit.)
1. Nellie - Princess Katie
2. The Swing - Jean-Honore Fragonard
Personality: Nellie believes in the age-old philosophy of ‘walk lightly and carry a big stick’; or, as it applies to her ‘skip about the pasture and carry a crook wrapped in ribbons and wildflowers’. Due to her old-fashioned upbringing, Nellie displays a personality typical of a 18th century teenager. She acts much younger than the modern-day 16 year old. She is still very into playing games like Cat’s Cradle, Blind Man’s Bluff, Jumpsies, and Hide and Seek. As the only daughter of the Peep Empire, she often has to search for other people to play with, typically those her juniors, since her peers aren’t usually down with playing “Queenie, Queenie, Who’s Got the Ball?” But don’t let her fool you, Nellie isn’t only innocent games. She is prone to sneaking out to have a late-night tryst with a farmhand, or one of the neighboring boys, who she charms with the coquettish persona she seems to save for just an occasion.
Since she is a farmgirl, born into a work-first, play-second, education-third family, Nellie has very little formal education. She can read and do basic arithmetic, but prefers not to. Sometimes, when very bored, she’ll read Alice in Wonderland while swinging in the tree grove outside the pasture. However, she is terribly ignorant. She lives in her own little world of lace, betseys, and hopscotch, and has little mind for politics, higher thinking, or thinking on her own, for that matter. She tends to let her mother and father think for her. Nellie has an overwhelmingly strong sense of family pride. This is the same pride that spurs Nellie to brag non-stop about Peep Farm’s crops, livestock, and contributions to Dream society. The Peeps are very passionately (and openly) anti-Nightmare, a trait which innocent young Eleanor picked up. She assumes every Nightmare is bad upon meeting them. However, her inborn prejudice is easily overridden by any individual Nightmare, justified by a “well, they’re obviously not like the average Nightmare”.
Powers: No ‘real’ powers to speak of, but she has excellent control of her Shepherding Dogs, a knack for navigating small, country dances, and a great talent for graceful leaps.
She also dabbles in the Pennywhistle.
