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AU OR OC: AU
NAME: Annabelle Lee Curry
NICKNAMES/ALIASES: Belle (or Baby Bell), but only to her father.
AGE/DATE OF BIRTH: 19/Dec. 25, 1990
RELATIVES: Michael Curry, father. Rowan Mayfair, mother, deceased. Mona Mayfair, cousin, undead. Merrick Mayfair, second cousin, deceased.
POWERS: Annabelle's powers have a wide range in terms of effectiveness, largely due to the fact that she has not yet truly learned enough to control them.
Conjuration- (fair); Any Mayfair witch is capable of summoning or speaking to Mayfair ghosts by focusing on wishing to see them. This likely extends to other ghosts and spirits, though Annabelle has only ever tried to speak to Rowan with very few successes.
Precognition- (fair); Annabelle sometimes has dreams that come true down to the smallest detail. She does not have any precognition ability when awake.
Spell Casting- (weakest); Unlike her second cousin, Merrick, Annabelle is completely untrained in the discipline of casting. She can do some simple things, like light candles, or make a boy notice her. The chance of her spells working is about 25%. Annabelle does not know very many spells at all and lacks the understanding of how to properly go about casting anything with more than one or two steps.
Telekinesis- (weak); Annabelle can move objects with her mind. She lacks control, and when very emotional, will cause objects to fly around unchecked. On very rare occasions, she can also move people across rooms.
Biokinesis- (strong); Annabelle can harm human beings on a very damaging level, down to the core of their cells. Like her mother, she is capable of causing anueyerisms, heart attacks and similar events. She is also capable, however, of willing an amount of damage to be undone, though not at all to the extent that Rowan was. Where her mother could perform more complicated surgeries because of the level of her biokinesis, Annabelle can do things like close a papercut or take away headaches.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Annabelle has polyploidy, just like her mother did. It's not a special ability per se, but it does mean that if she ever gets pregnant, there is a chance she could give birth to a Taltos. There are other innate, small things that are tied to polyploidy. There is a theory among the Mayfairs that this trait makes the witches stronger, and Rowan did some studies on this very thing. It does seem to make biokinesis innate and sometimes an unconscious ability. Without the extra genes, the power seems dormant or impossible.
STRENGTHS: Exceptional intelligence. Annabelle has really applied herself in school, and she's gone out of her way to get the best level of education she can without compromising what she wants. She'd like to one day have a job like her mothers, but is not sure what type of medicine she would like to pursue.
HANDICAPS/WEAKNESSES: Annabelle does not know enough about her abilities or even really who and what she is. After Rowan's death, Michael did his best to raise her alone--and he did an excellent job. But he did not provide any details unless Annabelle asked specifically. He did not volunteer a single piece of extra information. And while Mayfairs were never out of her life, Michael kept them away as much as he could, and they all just sort of assumed she knew the family history. She does not. Even for all of her recent prodding.
APPEARANCE: Annabelle is five foot six and about 120 lbs. She's slender and slight, but still looks feminine.
She has long, dark hair that hands past her shoulder blades, and light brown eyes. She is classically beautiful where her mother was androgynous and more polished where her father is rough-and-tumble handsome.
It's easy to make her smile, though Annabelle often appears lost in thought. She's also seen with art supplies tucked into her bag or under her arm and paint on her clothing.
She's fond of bright colors, and she wears a silver ring with a big turquoise stone on her left pointer finger. She isn't big on make-up or dressing up, but looks gorgeous when she does.
PHYSICAL QUIRKS: There is a good chance at any given time that Annabelle will have oil pant on her clothing, fingers and hands.
PERSONALITY: Annabelle is a willful girl, but also intensely loyal to her father. She is opinionated and will speak her mind, and she'll focus almost exclusively on things she wants to do vs. things that she should do. This isn't to say she's irresponsible; she gets straight As, even in college, and manages her time and her life quite well.
She's creative and focuses that creativity on painting. Her paintings have taken a turn toward a voodoo theme, lately: her most recent one is of a priestess framed by Spanish moss.
Annabelle doesn't have many friends, but this is by choice. She is good at being alone. She's liked by her peers and simply prefers to spend her time mostly on her own. She does not date--not because she isn't interested in dating, but because she has not yet found anyone she feels worth her time.
She fears hurting people with her power, the way she has in the past, and will often choose to withdraw from those she cares about--including her father-- if she's very emotional.
In many ways, Annabelle is still figuring out who she is. She knows who she doesn't want to be, though-- another Mayfair with all the money and power in the world that still isn't happy.
She takes after her father in temper and in love of reading, and is known to fly off the handle over something seemingly small. The two have fought about what line of a poem comes next.
DEEPEST DESIRE: To understand her family's past and why her father hides it from her. To learn more about her 'powers' (quotes are hers) and what they mean.
GUILTY PLEASURE: Mallomars. And marshmallows in general. It's almost embarrassing; when she was 17, Michael left her alone for a week while he went to consult on renovations in Savannah for a historical house. He left her grocery money.
She literally only bought Mallomars.
OCCUPATION: Student at Tulane University. Artist with a preferred medium of oil paint.
EDUCATION: Public high school, despite Mayfair hemming and hawing for a private school enrollment. Annabelle is in her first year of college at Tulane. She elected to stay close to home intentionally. She does, however, take Mayfair-funded trips to world renowned museums on a fairly regular basis.
TELL US SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW: This should be some secret belonging to your character that is about them. Something they don't tell people, or might not be obvious.
Annabelle often sees Lasher. She'll say she doesn't, but she does.
She says she's never seen him. Rowan's banishment of him did not last, though, and she's seen him skulking around quite regularly. The first memory she has of him dates back to when she was a toddler. Her sightings never last more than a few moments, though.
She has also seen Julien, though she doesn't know anything other than that he's a male ghost.
HISTORY: Annabelle Lee Curry was born to Rowan Mayfair on Christmas Day, but it cost Rowan her life.
As the 13th Mayfair witch, Rowan was the best candidate for Lasher, the 'spirit' who haunted the Mayfairs for centuries, to use to come back into the world.
The clan of witches have a rich and twisted history dating back to Scotland and medieval times. Their first witch was a merry-be-got-- a baby who would never know her father and was conceived during a town festival where it was normal for people to couple outside of marriage and sometimes with more than one person.
With each generation came another witch.
The family settled in New Orleans, in a large house in the Garden District, and grew wealthy and successful. The Mayfair name was on everything from charities to schools and medical centers. But behind the power and influence was a dark side--even darker than the rumors of witchcraft.
Julien Mayfair, the only male witch in the brood, parented children with his daughters. No one knew all that much about Uncle Julien or his motives, but as this inbreeding occurred, the witches in the family grew more and more powerful.
Annabelle's mother, Rowan, was the 13th witch in the line, and was said to be the most powerful yet. She did not grow up with the Mayfairs and their money, and was raised by adopted parents until such time as her own mother, Deirdre, was dying, and she was invited back to New Orleans to become the designee of the Mayfair legacy--moving into the large house, taking on the role of figurehead for the family and stepping back into the sordid mine field of relatives.
Rowan, a neurosurgeon, wanted to use the money the family had for medical research, and took a large role at Mayfair Medical. She married a contractor named Michael Curry who specialized in restoring older houses, a dark-haired charmer, and she was happy.
But Lasher wanted to use Rowan's happiness for himself.
Lasher would visit Rowan, speak to her, and try to seduce her. He would plead with her to help him back into the world, to make him flesh. She had the power, he said. Everyone knew it. She was the strongest witch the family'd ever seen...
Rowan became pregnant with Michael's child. And while Michael was away, she decided to try to bait Lasher and finish him off once and for all.
On Christmas Day, Rowan set a trap for Lasher, inviting him to take over the baby inside of her, to be born again. Naturally, since the spirit had wanted this for centuries (and even tried it with other Mayfair witches, with horrible and fatal results), he could not resist. Rowan took a risk; as soon as Lasher tried to take her child over, she used her entire arsenal to push him away, to hurt him, to banish him. She'd set up spells, she was prepared.
It worked. Rowan went into immediate labor, however. And while if she hadn't tapped her energy out so much trying to push Lasher away she may have been able to heal herself or slow her own bleeding until an ambulance arrived, she was unable to do so.
Rowan died, and her baby daughter was born via C-section on the floor of the First Street house mere minutes later. Rowan had a telephone in her hand. She'd called for an ambulance, and the paramedics were able to save the baby.
The Mayfairs called Michael immediately and he cut his trip short. He went to the hospital first thing, right off of the plane in New Orleans. He held his daughter, cried, and recited a poem to her as a promise to never leave her: Edgar Allen Poe's 'Annabelle Lee.'
Lasher was furious.
He could not directly harm the child, because that child could provide another opportunity for coming back into the world, years down the line. He was unable to even approach the baby. He could not get close to her, and, in fact, found himself hurtled out of the house whenever he attempted to step into it. He could also not harm Michael, though he tried.
Michael was unaware of what his wife did, but he was aware of the existence of Lasher. He and Rowan had talked about the spirit, and Michael had met with Aaron Lightner of the Talamasca to talk about Lasher and the Mayfairs in general. After Rowan's death, Michael decided that it was better to heed Lightner's warnings while he still could.
Though he remained living in New Orleans, Michael moved out of the big house and into a slightly smaller one elsewhere in the Garden District. He protected Annabelle from the Mayfairs as much as he could, even refusing them the satisfaction of giving her their last name, as was their custom. He kept her clear of all of the Mayfair bullshit as much as he could.
The Mayfairs still helped financially, and Annabelle still met her cousins, saw them at Christmas and Easter... but that was about it.
Annabelle was a happy child. She spent her time playing in parks and taking dance lessons. She grew to love drawing and painting, and pursued art much more the older she got.
When she was 11, Annabelle, who had her father's temper, got in a fight at school, in the hallway outside the cafeteria. Inexplicably, Haley, the girl she was fighting, went blind after the fight.
Michael began to get nervous, but still, it could be a freak thing.
When she was 14, Annabelle, who by now was a very, very pretty girl and looked much like her mother, was pressured into drinking at a party. She was having a great time-- at least up until a boy she'd liked up until that moment tried to force himself on her, thinking she was more drunk than he was. Annabelle stared at him, and he collapsed.
And he died.
Michael knew then that he hadn't fully escaped the Mayfair family or their legacy. He knew that Annabelle had more than just her mother's eyes, and he began to wish Rowan could explain how to control this power to her daughter.
Annabelle began to wish that, too.
She'd concentrate on it, on wishing her mother was there, and on two occasions, Annabelle was able to see Rowan, briefly. She felt both scared and happy about it.
She went behind Michael's back and contacted Mayfair cousins, and while they were sympathetic, the best they could do for her was tell her to seek out Merrick Mayfair's old stomping grounds. No one said much about the witchcraft that ran in the family. It wasn't proper. Merrick was half Mayfair, and she'd spent a lot of time in Algiers, and in the areas of New Orleans where the tourists didn't dare go.
So Annabelle began to do that, too.
She'd bring home voodoo spell books and read up on them, and try small charms and spells on her own with mixed success.
When it came time to apply for colleges, Michael wanted to send her as far away from New Orleans as she could get, but Annabelle fought back. She said she wanted to stay near him. After an hour-long screaming match, Annabelle won.
She enrolled in Tulane, in general studies courses with a focus on art. She's been thinking about going into medicine, like her mother.
Her first year has been uneventful, but an excellent vehicle for learning more about her family. Her dorm room isn't far from home, but it's far enough that Annabelle can keep notes about the Mayfairs there without her father really knowing.
Annabelle got a phone call two days ago asking her to meet with Lauren Mayfair, of the Mayfair and Mayfair law firm. There were things to discuss, Lauren said. Her cousin, who'd been the current designee of the Mayfair Legacy, had just died.
The Mayfairs want Annabelle to consider taking that title.
CANON PUNCTURING: Are you okay with people telling your character they're fictional?
Yes.