AU NAME: tentatively considering Cecilia Dumont AU AGE: 18 AU OCCUPATION: tentatively a freshman in college BLURB:
I'm still working out a lot of this, so sorry it's gonna be a bit shaky and all over the place! I haven't quite decided how much or how little I want her to be alike to her former self. Tentatively, I've been considering the following things (please let me know if I mess up any game related things, I have a very bad memory):
• Naminé has been living in the city for her entire life, with very well off parents.
• She's always been very sick and frail, so her parents always kept her at home as much as possible, and schooled her there as well.
• As such, she's very very sheltered, doesn't have a lot of friends, and has very little understanding of what the world is actually like, and what it's like to actually need for anything.
• Most of her socialization has come from the internet, and she has developed a fondness for coding, and aspires to combine that with her art and create video games that are more artsy and don't involve fighting, think along the lines of Journey.
• Her parents are very very strict, and have very high expectations of her. Naminé has to excel in everything she does in order to garner any sort of attention from them, and thus is a very big people pleaser and a bit desperate for recognition.
• If I do have her be in her first year of college, this will be her first time ever away from home and on her own, which she forcibly insisted on. Being as sheltered as she is, she is completely lost as to what to do with herself, besides attend classes and ???? at everything.
• Living on campus, at the school's dorms.
• She's majoring in art, I'm tentatively considering illustration, but what she really wants is to design video games, as mentioned earlier. Her parents won't pay for her to go to school if she does, letting her major in illustration was already stretching it enough as it was.
• As a random fact, Naminé's pretty good at playing the clarinet, since her parents had her learn an instrument in order to strengthen her lungs.
• Major differences in character: the biggest thing is, of course, she doesn't really despise herself and think that, as a Nobody, she isn't supposed to exist. Her canon self is resigned to doing what she can to help on the sidelines and let everyone's lives go on without her, but Cecilia is different. She wants to be involved, she has significantly more self worth and confidence in herself (though she does have a lot of performance anxiety and worries, and a need to be recognized), and doesn't have any belief that she deserves to be in someone's shadow. She wants to make friends, and have a place to call her own, and would like to attempt to step out and do so if she can. Cecilia isn't necessarily shy, but she is a little clueless as to how exactly you approach people with the intents of making friends, so she's a little anxious about that sort of thing. Naminé tends to speak with a lot more confidence than Cecilia though, who has a lot less assurance of what she does and says, and what her role in life is, since Naminé already knew exactly what it was she needed to do to make an impact. ??? More stuff maybe? Who knows yet.
LOOKING FOR: Critique and suggestions, most of all! But potential sources of CR are fine, too. She would've somewhat regularly seen the kids of her parent's friends, so being childhood friends isn't out of the question. You could also go to school with her and have seen her around, and maybe have talked to her a bit, or tried to take her under your wing. I think she'd still be working a bit on the actual like, real legit friendship thing though.
Naminé | Kingdom Hearts
CHARACTER: Naminé
CANON: Kingdom Hearts
AU NAME: tentatively considering Cecilia Dumont
AU AGE: 18
AU OCCUPATION: tentatively a freshman in college
BLURB:
I'm still working out a lot of this, so sorry it's gonna be a bit shaky and all over the place! I haven't quite decided how much or how little I want her to be alike to her former self. Tentatively, I've been considering the following things (please let me know if I mess up any game related things, I have a very bad memory):
• Naminé has been living in the city for her entire life, with very well off parents.
• She's always been very sick and frail, so her parents always kept her at home as much as possible, and schooled her there as well.
• As such, she's very very sheltered, doesn't have a lot of friends, and has very little understanding of what the world is actually like, and what it's like to actually need for anything.
• Most of her socialization has come from the internet, and she has developed a fondness for coding, and aspires to combine that with her art and create video games that are more artsy and don't involve fighting, think along the lines of Journey.
• Her parents are very very strict, and have very high expectations of her. Naminé has to excel in everything she does in order to garner any sort of attention from them, and thus is a very big people pleaser and a bit desperate for recognition.
• If I do have her be in her first year of college, this will be her first time ever away from home and on her own, which she forcibly insisted on. Being as sheltered as she is, she is completely lost as to what to do with herself, besides attend classes and ???? at everything.
• Living on campus, at the school's dorms.
• She's majoring in art, I'm tentatively considering illustration, but what she really wants is to design video games, as mentioned earlier. Her parents won't pay for her to go to school if she does, letting her major in illustration was already stretching it enough as it was.
• As a random fact, Naminé's pretty good at playing the clarinet, since her parents had her learn an instrument in order to strengthen her lungs.
• Major differences in character: the biggest thing is, of course, she doesn't really despise herself and think that, as a Nobody, she isn't supposed to exist. Her canon self is resigned to doing what she can to help on the sidelines and let everyone's lives go on without her, but Cecilia is different. She wants to be involved, she has significantly more self worth and confidence in herself (though she does have a lot of performance anxiety and worries, and a need to be recognized), and doesn't have any belief that she deserves to be in someone's shadow. She wants to make friends, and have a place to call her own, and would like to attempt to step out and do so if she can. Cecilia isn't necessarily shy, but she is a little clueless as to how exactly you approach people with the intents of making friends, so she's a little anxious about that sort of thing. Naminé tends to speak with a lot more confidence than Cecilia though, who has a lot less assurance of what she does and says, and what her role in life is, since Naminé already knew exactly what it was she needed to do to make an impact. ??? More stuff maybe? Who knows yet.
LOOKING FOR: Critique and suggestions, most of all! But potential sources of CR are fine, too. She would've somewhat regularly seen the kids of her parent's friends, so being childhood friends isn't out of the question. You could also go to school with her and have seen her around, and maybe have talked to her a bit, or tried to take her under your wing. I think she'd still be working a bit on the actual like, real legit friendship thing though.