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Name/Alias: Heather
Personal Journal: belvedia
Email: ladonceto@gmail.com
I am 18+ years old
Character Information
Character Name: Monique Estille
Canon: Original character (non-native)
Canon Point: After her "death"
Character Journal: pupamancy
Appearance: Monique has long, light blonde hair, dark brown eyes, and is in many ways conventionally attractive. She's short at 5'1", and her figure tends to change along with fluctuations in her weight. She's a fan of cosmetics and jewelry, and is rarely spotted without at least some make-up and earrings on. At home she's a fan of low-waisted dresses and pastel prints, but ever the chameleon, Monique will wear whatever she needs in order to fit in wherever she is. Unlike her reluctant and stubborn boyfriend, she'll willingly go full-native in New York City, and adopt both jeans and t-shirts into her wardrobe. She keeps her nails manicured and takes good care of her skin and hair, and wears sweet-smelling perfumes. While she's careful usually not to stand out, she's far from frumpy.
Her PB is Liliya May.
Age: 27
History:
To hear Monique talk of it, one would assume she grew up in a normal, albeit conservative home with her parents and two siblings. She butted heads with her strict parents due to her wild nature, and thus ran away at age 16 to see what there was to see in the world outside the small town she grew up in. That's the product of a carefully-crafted lie by omission that Monique has been using for years on everyone she knows, even those she's close to. This is as much for their protection as it is for her own.
In truth, Monique grew up as Viviane Travers, and her parents, extended family, and neighbors were part of a mage cult that worship the Goddess of Waters, also known as the Lady of the Lake. What she grew up thinking was normal was in fact a considerable amount of ritualism practiced by the cultists that eventually she grew to abhor. While originally she simply bucked against the rigid rules the cult had dictated for its members (bare feet at all times, strict diet, forbidden communication with non-believers-- including listening to the radio or reading leisure books), once she discovered the even darker underbelly of the cult and its once regular sacrifices of young women, she made plans to leave. While her older sister assured her that the drowning ritual was no longer performed, Viviane did not trust her family or the rest of the cult. Frightened that she would be chosen to be the new "vessel of Nimue" some day, she took what few belongings she had and ran away. She adopted the name Monique Estille and spent the next few years of her life drifting from place to place. She worked jobs as a seamstress, a waitress, a nanny, anything that would keep her from living on the streets or having to go back home. All the while, she had nightmares constantly about the cult finding her and drowning her.
Around her 18th birthday, Monique found out she was pregnant. She was dating fellow mage Pascal Montange at the time, and when she told him, he insisted they marry. He procured papers in her pseudonym, and the two of them were wed by a judge in Garevia. Monique gave birth to Violette six months later. Her marriage to Pascal was stormy at best, and the couple fought often. After their fights, Pascal would disappear for days at a time, sending money home via his mother or by telegram. Monique saw her husband rarely, but had friends and neighbors who kept her company. She still had the nightmares and feared the day someone would knock on her door and introduce themselves as a member of Our Goddess of Waters and try to take her and her daughter away. Her paranoia caused her to hide away in her apartment most days, and soon her friends stopped visiting as often. When the older woman next door who used to come over regularly moved, Monique found herself only in the company of her baby daughter. Angry at his absence and feeling trapped by her marriage to Pascal, Monique filed for a divorce. Her absentee husband did little more than sign the papers and disappear again. When the divorce was finalized, Pascal moved away to Nieve and Monique stayed in Garevia to raise her daughter alone.
That was when they found her.
Monique started getting religious pamphlets in her mail box, then in the mail slot in her door. She saw a man who resembled a former neighbor watching her when she took Violette out for a walk in her carriage. She hid even more thoroughly, using the child support money from Pascal to pay rent and bribe the neighborhood kids to buy groceries and baby supplies for her. Eventually, she heard knocking noises on her door at night, and swore she heard a voice calling for Viviane. While some days she was able to convince herself that it was all in her head, other days she was so scared she couldn't sleep. She clung protectively to her daughter, but at the same time feared for her own safety, and what would befall Violette if she were to be taken back to the cult. She reached out to Pascal's parents, but aside from their lukewarm interest in their grandchild, they were unwilling to help her. Out of desperation, Monique hatched a plan she hoped would keep her and her daughter safe. She convinced Pascal's mother that she needed an evening to visit with an old friend, if she wouldn't mind babysitting Violette for a few hours.
Monique went to the house where Pascal's parents lived, dropped off Violette with her grandmother, and went out and stole a patrol car and rammed it into a delivery truck. No one was injured, but Monique was found guilty of reckless endangerment and theft of a government vehicle, and was sentenced to five years in a women's prison. Pascal took custody of baby Violette and his parents moved out to Nieve with the little girl while Monique did her time. The pamphlets and the stalking stopped entirely, and while prison was far from a vacation, Monique felt much better behind bars where the cult couldn't get to her. She missed her daughter dearly, and hoped to be reunited with her as soon as she was out. She wrote letters to her daughter regularly, and to her delight, replies came in Pascal's father's writing, dictated by little Violette as she grew older, and soon pictures with labels written in sloppy but colorful letters by her daughter. "DADY AND ME. GRANMA AND GRANPA. MOMY AND BUNY. BUNYS HOP AND ET CAROT. MOMY DO YOU LYK BUNYS?"
Five years later, Monique was released from prison and bought a ticket for a boat over to Nieve. The trip would take four days, and she spent most of it preparing for how she'd introduce herself to her now six-year-old daughter and try to make up for lost time. However, when Monique arrived in Nieve, she found that Pascal and his parents had been killed in an accident involving a run-away cable car. Violette had wound up in the hands of Pascal's business associate, Joe Nason. The vampire mob boss was not willing to surrender the girl to her mother, citing that she'd been found an unfit mother by the court that had heard Pascal's bid for custody of his little girl. Monique begged, pleaded, and even threatened the vampire, but he would not budge. Monique harassed him on a daily basis, hoping to either break him down or at least get a glance at her daughter. One of his lackeys, a skinny guy with a young boy in tow, left a train ticket in the waiting area outside of Nason's office. Rather than butt heads with Nason again, Monique took the ticket and kidnapped her daughter with the intention of getting on a train out of Nieve and never looking back.
Nason was not so easily avoided, though, and Monique's plans were foiled by an armed hold-up of the station. She sent Violette to hide in one of the trains with the promise that she'd come find her after she'd handled Nason's goons. Monique was easily overwhelmed, but was saved from being killed by the vampire goons by the arrival of a were who could change into a bear. Monique was unable to find Violette, as her daughter had taken off with another child in the middle of the chaos-- the same boy she'd seen at Nason's office. Convinced they would turn her daughter over to Nason, Monique did her best to find the man she'd seen the boy with, but was discovered when she tailed them in a stolen car and had her headlights and wheel shot out.
Monique retreated to the apartment she'd rented in a false name to gather herself and plan for what she'd do next. However, she was interrupted by one of Joe's henchmen, an incubus who took Pascal's form and tried to convince her he was alive, that the accident had been a ruse, and that if she would just come with him and bring Violette, they could be a family again. Monique took a shotgun she'd lifted from the train station hold-up and shot him in the head. She realized then that not only did Joe Nason not know where her daughter was, she hadn't been handed over at all. This was probably the only reason she didn't blow the head off Ladon Ceto when he showed up-- though it was also probably because he had his little brother with him again.
Not killing Ladon was one of the better decisions she'd made, because he helped her reclaim her daughter and kill of Nason once and for all. Once Joe Nason died at Nieve's boardwalk, his usurper Hardy Limael helped Monique straighten out custody of Violette. Monique decided to stay in Nieve, and moved into a little apartment in Immigrant Alley with her daughter. Not long after that, she started dating Ladon, because he was pretty swell for a dragon masquerading as a mobster. Things finally seemed to be looking up.
So naturally, everything had to go to hell again. Two years after Nason's death, the cult found her again. This time they were aggressive. They sent her mail addressed to Viviane Travers and called her on the phone. Monique was afraid less for herself now and more for her daughter, but said nothing to Ladon out of fear that he'd think she was crazy. One night, a fire broke out in Immigrant Alley. How much of this was the fault of the rioters and how much was orchestrated by the cult, she still isn't sure. When the smoke woke her, she sent Ladon to find Violette and get her out safely. Then her father walked out of the flames consuming her apartment and everything went black.
From what she has heard, her older sister was the burnt body Ladon found in her room when Violette's room proved empty. Violette was safe, though, she'd simply climbed out her window after a fight with her mother. Ladon, however, was inconsolable and had done everything in his power to save "Monique." It was useless, though. Her sister had been sick for years, and her parents were only keeping her alive to be a substitute corpse for their younger daughter. What the cult wants with her, Monique doesn't know, but she went along with their farce, if only to keep Violette safe. She was on a ship returning to Garevia when she suddenly found herself floating in a river in a city she'd never seen before.
Personality: Above all else, Monique is a survivor. She grew up impetuous and mouthy, constantly questioning the rules of her family's cult and back-talking her elders. This caused her parents a decent amount of humiliation, but no matter how often they disciplined her, she refused to be kept in her place or herded about. It's no surprise then that she wound up leaving and finding her own way in the world. Monique will do what she needs to get what she wants, and is both willful and stubborn. That doesn't mean she's abrasive or impolite, but if someone or something gets in the way of her own happiness, she will do her best to overcome or cut it out of her life entirely. She refuses to let anyone dictate how she lives her life. She's a handful to have around, but also very kind to those she holds dear.
Monique isn't a totally amoral individual, but she isn't a good girl either. She's not afraid to steal and break laws if it benefits her or those she cares about. While the women's prison she did her time in was no where near as rough as a men's prison, it still hardened her quite a bit. She can hold her own in a fight provided she isn't completely overwhelmed physically. She has blood on her hands and tends to play up her own toughness in her mind, partially out of guilt and partially out of a need to make hard choices should they come her way. While Monique is a loyal friend and girlfriend, her number one priority is her daughter, who she would do anything for. She has gotten into some very bad and scary situations to protect Violette, and will put herself in harm's way if it means her daughter won't be hurt. She's also willing to go to lengths to protect other people in her life, but is definitely thankful that most of them can take care of themselves. She's only (mostly) human, after all.
Over the past ten years, Monique has developed some issues with anxiety. Whether this is the product of the stressful life she's led or simply part of her genetic make-up, she isn't sure. Now and then Monique's paranoia and insecurities get the best of her, and she sees threats and enemies everywhere she looks. This can manifest in rapid heartbeat, faintness, and other physical symptoms, and sometimes she will hide away from the world until she feels she is back in control of her emotions. She feels disappointed and upset with herself when her fears turn out to be unfounded, but also justified when her instincts are correct. Her irrational behavior has cost her a lot in terms of relationships with others, both platonic and romantic. She has a complicated feelings about her anxiety because of this, considering it both an emotional flaw, but also the reason she's survived as long as she has. She does her best not to trouble others with her worries, seeing it as her cross to bear.
Powers/Special Abilities: Monique is a pupamancer, meaning she can use her magic to manipulate dolls and doll-like objects, including stuffed toys. This magic works best with the toys she creates. Mostly she uses this power to see through the eyes of her dolls, which she can display in different areas with little suspicion drawn. She can also puppet dolls and mannequins about, and the larger the puppet, the more energy this takes from her. She has purchased charms in the past to make her life-sized mannequins appear human, but those illusions are outside of her individual capabilities. Alone, her abilities are more on scale with orchestrating a teddy bear parade down the hallway.
River Power: Possession. As an off-shoot of her original power, Monique is able to very briefly possess other living beings and have them perform simple physical actions. This power is much easier to use on those without any special abilities. Animals (the ones who aren't the result of someone's transformation power) are the easiest targets. Monique won't be able to do anything so involved as possess an individual for longer than a few seconds, and her presence can be "felt" so they won't be unaware of what is happening to them. She could spend twenty minutes tops as a cat or a bird, and the cost is usually a monstrous headache if the being she possessed fought back during that time. As a note, I would only allow her to use this power on player characters with prior permission. Due to the headaches she gets from trying it out, it's likely she'll use the power sparingly at best. And well, her most likely target will be typically be Ladon.
Reason for Character Choice: Monique is a character who is pretty new to the series I've been working on, and she's only recently really come out of her shell for me in a character and plot sense. Like with when I first started RPing Ladon, Monique's personality is becoming more layered and interesting as I work on her, and I think playing her in this setting would really help me both in writing her in my manuscripts and in understanding her role in that world a little better. It also gives me the opportunity to flesh out her relationship with Ladon and show some sides of him that wouldn't be apparent without her around. There's also the issue that the lovebirds are going to face: basically lying to one another about what has happened in their world/what they remember. Ladon isn't going to be willing to tell Monique she's dead (as far as he knows, anyway) and Monique isn't going to say anything about faking her death as she's going to believe Ladon was pulled from a time prior to the Immigrant Alley fire. I'm excited both to get Monique out and around other characters in a world where she doesn't have to worry about her cultist family, and see how that impacts both her personality and her relationship with Ladon.
Name/Alias: Heather
Personal Journal: belvedia
Email: ladonceto@gmail.com
I am 18+ years old
Character Information
Character Name: Monique Estille
Canon: Original character (non-native)
Canon Point: After her "death"
Character Journal: pupamancy
Appearance: Monique has long, light blonde hair, dark brown eyes, and is in many ways conventionally attractive. She's short at 5'1", and her figure tends to change along with fluctuations in her weight. She's a fan of cosmetics and jewelry, and is rarely spotted without at least some make-up and earrings on. At home she's a fan of low-waisted dresses and pastel prints, but ever the chameleon, Monique will wear whatever she needs in order to fit in wherever she is. Unlike her reluctant and stubborn boyfriend, she'll willingly go full-native in New York City, and adopt both jeans and t-shirts into her wardrobe. She keeps her nails manicured and takes good care of her skin and hair, and wears sweet-smelling perfumes. While she's careful usually not to stand out, she's far from frumpy.
Her PB is Liliya May.
Age: 27
History:
To hear Monique talk of it, one would assume she grew up in a normal, albeit conservative home with her parents and two siblings. She butted heads with her strict parents due to her wild nature, and thus ran away at age 16 to see what there was to see in the world outside the small town she grew up in. That's the product of a carefully-crafted lie by omission that Monique has been using for years on everyone she knows, even those she's close to. This is as much for their protection as it is for her own.
In truth, Monique grew up as Viviane Travers, and her parents, extended family, and neighbors were part of a mage cult that worship the Goddess of Waters, also known as the Lady of the Lake. What she grew up thinking was normal was in fact a considerable amount of ritualism practiced by the cultists that eventually she grew to abhor. While originally she simply bucked against the rigid rules the cult had dictated for its members (bare feet at all times, strict diet, forbidden communication with non-believers-- including listening to the radio or reading leisure books), once she discovered the even darker underbelly of the cult and its once regular sacrifices of young women, she made plans to leave. While her older sister assured her that the drowning ritual was no longer performed, Viviane did not trust her family or the rest of the cult. Frightened that she would be chosen to be the new "vessel of Nimue" some day, she took what few belongings she had and ran away. She adopted the name Monique Estille and spent the next few years of her life drifting from place to place. She worked jobs as a seamstress, a waitress, a nanny, anything that would keep her from living on the streets or having to go back home. All the while, she had nightmares constantly about the cult finding her and drowning her.
Around her 18th birthday, Monique found out she was pregnant. She was dating fellow mage Pascal Montange at the time, and when she told him, he insisted they marry. He procured papers in her pseudonym, and the two of them were wed by a judge in Garevia. Monique gave birth to Violette six months later. Her marriage to Pascal was stormy at best, and the couple fought often. After their fights, Pascal would disappear for days at a time, sending money home via his mother or by telegram. Monique saw her husband rarely, but had friends and neighbors who kept her company. She still had the nightmares and feared the day someone would knock on her door and introduce themselves as a member of Our Goddess of Waters and try to take her and her daughter away. Her paranoia caused her to hide away in her apartment most days, and soon her friends stopped visiting as often. When the older woman next door who used to come over regularly moved, Monique found herself only in the company of her baby daughter. Angry at his absence and feeling trapped by her marriage to Pascal, Monique filed for a divorce. Her absentee husband did little more than sign the papers and disappear again. When the divorce was finalized, Pascal moved away to Nieve and Monique stayed in Garevia to raise her daughter alone.
That was when they found her.
Monique started getting religious pamphlets in her mail box, then in the mail slot in her door. She saw a man who resembled a former neighbor watching her when she took Violette out for a walk in her carriage. She hid even more thoroughly, using the child support money from Pascal to pay rent and bribe the neighborhood kids to buy groceries and baby supplies for her. Eventually, she heard knocking noises on her door at night, and swore she heard a voice calling for Viviane. While some days she was able to convince herself that it was all in her head, other days she was so scared she couldn't sleep. She clung protectively to her daughter, but at the same time feared for her own safety, and what would befall Violette if she were to be taken back to the cult. She reached out to Pascal's parents, but aside from their lukewarm interest in their grandchild, they were unwilling to help her. Out of desperation, Monique hatched a plan she hoped would keep her and her daughter safe. She convinced Pascal's mother that she needed an evening to visit with an old friend, if she wouldn't mind babysitting Violette for a few hours.
Monique went to the house where Pascal's parents lived, dropped off Violette with her grandmother, and went out and stole a patrol car and rammed it into a delivery truck. No one was injured, but Monique was found guilty of reckless endangerment and theft of a government vehicle, and was sentenced to five years in a women's prison. Pascal took custody of baby Violette and his parents moved out to Nieve with the little girl while Monique did her time. The pamphlets and the stalking stopped entirely, and while prison was far from a vacation, Monique felt much better behind bars where the cult couldn't get to her. She missed her daughter dearly, and hoped to be reunited with her as soon as she was out. She wrote letters to her daughter regularly, and to her delight, replies came in Pascal's father's writing, dictated by little Violette as she grew older, and soon pictures with labels written in sloppy but colorful letters by her daughter. "DADY AND ME. GRANMA AND GRANPA. MOMY AND BUNY. BUNYS HOP AND ET CAROT. MOMY DO YOU LYK BUNYS?"
Five years later, Monique was released from prison and bought a ticket for a boat over to Nieve. The trip would take four days, and she spent most of it preparing for how she'd introduce herself to her now six-year-old daughter and try to make up for lost time. However, when Monique arrived in Nieve, she found that Pascal and his parents had been killed in an accident involving a run-away cable car. Violette had wound up in the hands of Pascal's business associate, Joe Nason. The vampire mob boss was not willing to surrender the girl to her mother, citing that she'd been found an unfit mother by the court that had heard Pascal's bid for custody of his little girl. Monique begged, pleaded, and even threatened the vampire, but he would not budge. Monique harassed him on a daily basis, hoping to either break him down or at least get a glance at her daughter. One of his lackeys, a skinny guy with a young boy in tow, left a train ticket in the waiting area outside of Nason's office. Rather than butt heads with Nason again, Monique took the ticket and kidnapped her daughter with the intention of getting on a train out of Nieve and never looking back.
Nason was not so easily avoided, though, and Monique's plans were foiled by an armed hold-up of the station. She sent Violette to hide in one of the trains with the promise that she'd come find her after she'd handled Nason's goons. Monique was easily overwhelmed, but was saved from being killed by the vampire goons by the arrival of a were who could change into a bear. Monique was unable to find Violette, as her daughter had taken off with another child in the middle of the chaos-- the same boy she'd seen at Nason's office. Convinced they would turn her daughter over to Nason, Monique did her best to find the man she'd seen the boy with, but was discovered when she tailed them in a stolen car and had her headlights and wheel shot out.
Monique retreated to the apartment she'd rented in a false name to gather herself and plan for what she'd do next. However, she was interrupted by one of Joe's henchmen, an incubus who took Pascal's form and tried to convince her he was alive, that the accident had been a ruse, and that if she would just come with him and bring Violette, they could be a family again. Monique took a shotgun she'd lifted from the train station hold-up and shot him in the head. She realized then that not only did Joe Nason not know where her daughter was, she hadn't been handed over at all. This was probably the only reason she didn't blow the head off Ladon Ceto when he showed up-- though it was also probably because he had his little brother with him again.
Not killing Ladon was one of the better decisions she'd made, because he helped her reclaim her daughter and kill of Nason once and for all. Once Joe Nason died at Nieve's boardwalk, his usurper Hardy Limael helped Monique straighten out custody of Violette. Monique decided to stay in Nieve, and moved into a little apartment in Immigrant Alley with her daughter. Not long after that, she started dating Ladon, because he was pretty swell for a dragon masquerading as a mobster. Things finally seemed to be looking up.
So naturally, everything had to go to hell again. Two years after Nason's death, the cult found her again. This time they were aggressive. They sent her mail addressed to Viviane Travers and called her on the phone. Monique was afraid less for herself now and more for her daughter, but said nothing to Ladon out of fear that he'd think she was crazy. One night, a fire broke out in Immigrant Alley. How much of this was the fault of the rioters and how much was orchestrated by the cult, she still isn't sure. When the smoke woke her, she sent Ladon to find Violette and get her out safely. Then her father walked out of the flames consuming her apartment and everything went black.
From what she has heard, her older sister was the burnt body Ladon found in her room when Violette's room proved empty. Violette was safe, though, she'd simply climbed out her window after a fight with her mother. Ladon, however, was inconsolable and had done everything in his power to save "Monique." It was useless, though. Her sister had been sick for years, and her parents were only keeping her alive to be a substitute corpse for their younger daughter. What the cult wants with her, Monique doesn't know, but she went along with their farce, if only to keep Violette safe. She was on a ship returning to Garevia when she suddenly found herself floating in a river in a city she'd never seen before.
Personality: Above all else, Monique is a survivor. She grew up impetuous and mouthy, constantly questioning the rules of her family's cult and back-talking her elders. This caused her parents a decent amount of humiliation, but no matter how often they disciplined her, she refused to be kept in her place or herded about. It's no surprise then that she wound up leaving and finding her own way in the world. Monique will do what she needs to get what she wants, and is both willful and stubborn. That doesn't mean she's abrasive or impolite, but if someone or something gets in the way of her own happiness, she will do her best to overcome or cut it out of her life entirely. She refuses to let anyone dictate how she lives her life. She's a handful to have around, but also very kind to those she holds dear.
Monique isn't a totally amoral individual, but she isn't a good girl either. She's not afraid to steal and break laws if it benefits her or those she cares about. While the women's prison she did her time in was no where near as rough as a men's prison, it still hardened her quite a bit. She can hold her own in a fight provided she isn't completely overwhelmed physically. She has blood on her hands and tends to play up her own toughness in her mind, partially out of guilt and partially out of a need to make hard choices should they come her way. While Monique is a loyal friend and girlfriend, her number one priority is her daughter, who she would do anything for. She has gotten into some very bad and scary situations to protect Violette, and will put herself in harm's way if it means her daughter won't be hurt. She's also willing to go to lengths to protect other people in her life, but is definitely thankful that most of them can take care of themselves. She's only (mostly) human, after all.
Over the past ten years, Monique has developed some issues with anxiety. Whether this is the product of the stressful life she's led or simply part of her genetic make-up, she isn't sure. Now and then Monique's paranoia and insecurities get the best of her, and she sees threats and enemies everywhere she looks. This can manifest in rapid heartbeat, faintness, and other physical symptoms, and sometimes she will hide away from the world until she feels she is back in control of her emotions. She feels disappointed and upset with herself when her fears turn out to be unfounded, but also justified when her instincts are correct. Her irrational behavior has cost her a lot in terms of relationships with others, both platonic and romantic. She has a complicated feelings about her anxiety because of this, considering it both an emotional flaw, but also the reason she's survived as long as she has. She does her best not to trouble others with her worries, seeing it as her cross to bear.
Powers/Special Abilities: Monique is a pupamancer, meaning she can use her magic to manipulate dolls and doll-like objects, including stuffed toys. This magic works best with the toys she creates. Mostly she uses this power to see through the eyes of her dolls, which she can display in different areas with little suspicion drawn. She can also puppet dolls and mannequins about, and the larger the puppet, the more energy this takes from her. She has purchased charms in the past to make her life-sized mannequins appear human, but those illusions are outside of her individual capabilities. Alone, her abilities are more on scale with orchestrating a teddy bear parade down the hallway.
River Power: Possession. As an off-shoot of her original power, Monique is able to very briefly possess other living beings and have them perform simple physical actions. This power is much easier to use on those without any special abilities. Animals (the ones who aren't the result of someone's transformation power) are the easiest targets. Monique won't be able to do anything so involved as possess an individual for longer than a few seconds, and her presence can be "felt" so they won't be unaware of what is happening to them. She could spend twenty minutes tops as a cat or a bird, and the cost is usually a monstrous headache if the being she possessed fought back during that time. As a note, I would only allow her to use this power on player characters with prior permission. Due to the headaches she gets from trying it out, it's likely she'll use the power sparingly at best. And well, her most likely target will be typically be Ladon.
Reason for Character Choice: Monique is a character who is pretty new to the series I've been working on, and she's only recently really come out of her shell for me in a character and plot sense. Like with when I first started RPing Ladon, Monique's personality is becoming more layered and interesting as I work on her, and I think playing her in this setting would really help me both in writing her in my manuscripts and in understanding her role in that world a little better. It also gives me the opportunity to flesh out her relationship with Ladon and show some sides of him that wouldn't be apparent without her around. There's also the issue that the lovebirds are going to face: basically lying to one another about what has happened in their world/what they remember. Ladon isn't going to be willing to tell Monique she's dead (as far as he knows, anyway) and Monique isn't going to say anything about faking her death as she's going to believe Ladon was pulled from a time prior to the Immigrant Alley fire. I'm excited both to get Monique out and around other characters in a world where she doesn't have to worry about her cultist family, and see how that impacts both her personality and her relationship with Ladon.