Ashley Boyd doesn't need no glass slippers (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} changemylife_) wrote,@ 2013-02-25 10:48:00 |
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| Name: Nathalie Email: qt4eva2214@aol.com AIM: qt4eva2214 GChat: If you have it. Timezone: US Eastern CDJ: grapecase |
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| Name: Ashley Boyd/Cinderella (she'll answer to Ash, Ashley, or Ella) Age/Date of Birth: 19/ Sexuality: Thomas/Seansexual. Housing: Random! - Alexandra's going to be with her (so anyone who wouldn't Prospective Job: (For plotting purposes!) SHIELD: Nope. Fandom: Once Upon a Time Medium: TV Canon point: Post 1x22, Pre 2x01 Arrival Date: If it'd be all right, to bring her in March 9th? If not, I could do her March 2nd (I only have one exam that the following week, though labs are in a flux). PB: Jessy Schram Personality: We all know the story of Cinderella: a girl who was sweet, kind, and impossibly innocent. She had a blue dress, glass slippers, and went to a ball. She ended up marrying a prince, lived happily ever after, and that was the end. There isn't much to her than that. That isn't exactly the entire truth. While Cinderella's wholesomeness and humbleness, at least thanks to Disney, are one of the first things that come to people's mind - this Cinderella has other traits. This Cinderella was borne of deep loneliness. Her closest friends, and most compassionate interaction, came by way of rodents. It was mostly her and the incessant orders and cruel demands of a stepmother who she once thought should've loved her (this is a part, no matter the version, we're all familiar with). Because of this loneliness and this family she was stuck with, she grew up quick, and she grew up a little tougher - if not harder - than a girl of her birth should have. Yet because of her circumstance, being so restricted to the household, Ella (as she prefers to be called) grew up very sheltered. Some could go as far as to even call her naive and they would NOT be wrong. A hopeful, optimistic girl, she always held on to the thought that she deserved better. It might have seemed opportunistic of her, her stepmother certainly would have said so if she ever caught Ella sighing in the direction of the fireworks let out by the castle, but Ella wouldn't let those negative thoughts stop her feeling that there was more in life in store for her. That isn't to say there weren't doubts. There were. There was always a hesitance when she'd get told off over her bright manner or her dreams but she'd bounce back quickly. This was an ability that didn't leave her when she became a princess and had people who could primp her ego, or do the bouncing for her. Rumpelstiltskin come to collect on a deal? What does she do? Plot a plan to go on the run and protect her new found family - even terror couldn't get her down. Ashley is those doubts. Unlike Ella who was constantly told not to want better, constantly having it drummed into her head by the actions of her step-family, and still wanted, desired, demanded - Ashley bought into it. That she wasn't better, couldn't be better, shouldn't hope for better and that she would fail. That she wouldn't be good enough. Although, Ashley Boyd - despite Mr. Herman believed of her - was a responsible ... ish teenager, who actually did fairly well in school, she didn't believe in herself. Ashley lacked Ella's hope. In a world with no fairy godmothers or evil imps (as far as she knew) how could she? When people thought she should stay down and would even pay her to go away? Ashley did retain Ella's ability to keep going even with adversity. Without the rosy hue of faith and dreams to pillow her, it became more of a mindset of 'put one foot infront of the other' rather than 'things will get better, they just have to'. On the one hand, she was less likely to willingly (if callowly) jump into shady deals to improve her life. On the other, Ashley was more likely to be shuffled into things that made her miserable just thinking about it. Despite, most others and Ashley's own, lack of faith she did do well for herself. As said before, Ella is tenacious and Ashley just ... perhaps there's just a part of her that doesn't know how to give up on herself. She is capable of taking care of herself. She took night classes and got a job. A job she was poor at but one none the less. And while she might need a push, she is just as capable as Ella of taking dangerous (reckless) action to try and ensure that she comes out - if not on top, but better in a situation. While, Ashley's motives could be said to be noble than Ella's for changing her life (she wanted to keep her baby). Ella has shown herself capable of sacrifice and putting other's before herself. She was so very prepared to leave Thomas, to leave the family and community that love had won, to protect them all from her bad decisions. Even if that meant being alone again. Both Ashley and Ella make foolish decisions but they both strive to make things right and Ella refuses to allow others to pay her price (... but princes you love can be so convincing, even when you fear that you know better). Both Ashley and Ella are loyal, a curse cannot change that; they are also quick to be honest to the ones they love. They may have secrets (and dirty shame) but it doesn't take much for them to open up. They both carry that need of wanting to belong, to be part of something, not necessarily big but with love. Ella was more aware of it than Ashley - who was kept steady by Ruby's faith in her and found peace in the love of her little family. Love, oh, how love is always a key factor. Ella wanted a better life, Ashley just wanted easier. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, neither is a bad thing on it's own. Ashley still had that innocent understanding that things like love and getting what you want should make things simpler. Something that Ella was just beginning to learn, and felt the hollow truth of in a cold castle after Thomas' disappearance, wasn't always the case. Love made things easier to deal with. It gave you backbone and will to weather; however, it didn't make things simpler. Finally, Ella matured a lot as a princess. For one she grew rightfully wary of magic. For two she jumped into things much less. She made certain to read everything her name would be signed to, Thomas', and would always gently - sweetly - suggest that the king do so as well ... even if it was someone they trusted. It became automatic. She was never fond of the idea of Thomas going off to battle/even patrol/or distant lands because she knew how easily she could lose him but she learned to let him go. It could be said that she didn't have a choice but she didn't want to be that person who held on too tightly. It was easier said than done but she did succeed most times in her trying. He had to do what to do and she wished him safe. However, she made sure to know his schedules and what he was up to. It was stress to know that he was in danger but at least she was a princess aware. She was a princess involved in her lands, her and Thomas and the king's lands. Ella wasn't just spouting details to impress Rumpelstiltskin when they'd set about to trap him. She actually knew those matters and kept well aware. Snow and Aurora weren't the only political princesses. She wasn't going to sit pretty and make herself sick while she waited for Thomas to come home. Or find herself bored while "men talked men things". It tied into her always being used to having responsibilities - so what was some more (at least she liked where she was now) beyond the regular princesses? - but it also connected to the kingdom was her home now. She would take care of it and protect it. To the best of her abilities. History: Once Upon a Time there was this rather well to do merchant (he wasn't the richest in all the land but he wasn't bad off) who married the woman that he loved. It wasn't very long until the two of them had a beautiful baby girl who they called, Cinderella - Ella for short. They loved Cinderella with all their hearts, just as much as they loved each other; however, love doesn't stop life from happening as much as it tries. In the early years of Cinderella's life, she lost a mother that she barely even remembers. Yet that was okay, well as okay as those matters ever are, because she had her father. Her father loved her but it was difficult taking care of a child - especially a little girl (what did he know of how to raise one properly?) - on one's own. Particularly when one's work required one to travel. Therefore, in his and her best interest, he married. He was very much less, if at all, in love with his second wife. She seemed a good woman and had two little girls. Clearly she knew how to care for a home and a child. For a while, everything seemed to be all right. Nevertheless, instead of getting better matters only became worse. Cinderella's beloved father also came to leave her. Instead of leaving her in a home of love, however, he unwittingly left her to a wretched life style. Where she was alone and with no one who understood her loss but herself. For some time Cinderella looked after herself and the house - and whatever else her stepmother (or stepsisters) ordered her to do - on her own. There appeared to be no end insight to their poor treatment until a fairy godmother came to visit her. She promised Cinderella a chance for something better before that cruelly was snatched away from one Rumpelstiltskin. To say she was livid was an understatement but she far demanded, likely manipulated into it by being underestimated (also her own naivety and thirst for betterment), that he give her what was promised to her. Give her a chance. And he did when she signed a contract. After meeting Prince Thomas at the ball they got to know each other and fell in love. She met and got to know his friends, Snow and Charming, and came to view them as her own - see them as her friends as well. She and Thomas married. King Christopher and Thomas became a family for her. Everything seemed perfect until Rumpelstiltskin returned demanding his debt paid. Only he didn't want gold or jewels or her wedding ring. He wanted her yet conceived child. Shocked, Ella harbored a fear inside of her and planned to run away when she discovered she was pregnant. Everything would have gone well if not for the blasted weather. Thomas discovered her packing and she eventually told him the truth. He, Charming, and the dwarves and the blue fairy, came up with a plan. It was a good plan to entrap Rumpel but it had to do with magic. Which, Ella was rightfully worried about, because in the end although they ended up trapping Rumpel - all magic has a cost - and she ended up losing the love of her life. They left one world separated and ended up in one world broken. In StoryBrooke she grew up Ashley Boyd: with no mom, a dad who ended up dying on her Ashley decided that meant breaking and entering, macing the very much feared Mr. Gold, and going on the run. Thanks to Emma, Ruby, and Henry's help (and faith in her) Ashley was actually able to have the happy ending she never had in the Fairytale World. She came to believe in herself and her capability of raising her daughter. On her own. Luckily, that wasn't necessary as Sean (Thomas) left his father's stronghold and took on a job. They were going to, finally, be a family. Sadly, that wasn't as easy as Ashley first thought. Love, like last time, wasn't made easy by life. He was constantly working and she barely got to see him. They barely got to spend time together, the three of them, with the baby. Heck, she barely got time to herself. Yet she still loved him and was still very loyal to him. She still did her best with their life. It wasn't all for naught, however. Sean ended up proposing to her. Wedding plans were slowly but surely on their way to happening. All of that seemed to pale in comparison to when the spell broken. She remembered. She remembered him and he remembered her and, she had him. She had him again and Ella (Ashley) was never letting him go. Or so she wanted. Magic (or mystical seals) never seemed to care about what she wanted, not really. Special abilities: She can talk to rodents [Note: About that, I'm not quite sure if it's like Snow's ability to talk to birds or if Ella was just lonely (as in she talked to them but they didn't really communicate back And I imagine she has memories of princessy abilities but they have no revelence here. Third-person sample:
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