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Character Name: Alrianne Cett
Series: Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson.
Age: 19
From When?: End of the final book of the Mistborn trilogy.
Inmate/Warden: Warden! For several reasons. Despite her youth, Alrianne is (and is canonically regarded as) unusually insightful, strong-willed, and manipulative. She often diagnoses situations accurately at a glance, with a wonderful ability to slice right through bullshit, and despite taking a frivolous attitude, she has a strong moral compass and refuses to let injustice stand if she can do something about it.
It's worth elaborating on her manipulative abilities. She is a Rioter, which essentially means that she can enhance emotions in other people. She uses this all the time. She manipulates her father into taking the right side in a war, she uses it to push someone she's fallen in love with into realizing he loves her back, she uses it to almost start an actual riot when she's furious at a public injustice. She would take a by-any-means-necessary approach in redeeming an inmate, and wouldn't be above shifting their emotions, playing on their sympathies, and forcing them into certain decisions.
Item: [Wardens Only -- What Gives you Your Information While Here? Examples -- a compass, a book, a palm pilot, a tarot card, etc.]
Abilities/Powers: Alrianne is a Rioter, as mentioned earlier. Rioting is a type of Allomancy, a subset of powers in the Mistborn trilogy. Allomancy involves wielders ingesting certain types of metals and burning them to produce certain effects. Allomancers fall into two categories: Mistings, who can burn one type of metal, and Mistborn, who can burn them all. Alrianne is the former; she can burn Zinc.
Zinc allows the wielder to enhance, or Riot, certain emotions. With practice, it can be used to work on one person or a group of people. Alrianne personally is a very talented Rioter, and can target multiple people with very fine Allomantic nudges.
Rioting cannot create emotions, and does not allow the wielder to read the emotional state of the riotee. With practice, an Allomantic touch can be detected and shrugged off; aluminum is also Allomantically inert and can be used to block emotional Allomancy. The power is also limited by the amount of available zinc; if she runs out of that, she is no longer able to use her power.
Personality: The first impression one has of Alrianne Cett is that of a pink ball of fluff and ruffles. With pretty blonde hair, impeccable makeup, and a fondness for frivolous clothes that make her look younger than her already-young age, Alrianne is often judged as an airheaded idiot, a soft noblewoman, a silly girl. And that's just the way she likes it.
Alrianne is in fact a very calculating soul. She grew up in an environment of nobility, one of constant balls and dinners, dresses and frills and jewels -- and political scheming. With the nobility, everything has meaning, sometimes two or three layers, and subtle plays of social power translate into large economic, political and social consequences. Alrianne has lived and breathed this since she was small, and she's always been good at it. As a result, she has a keen understanding of people and their motivations, and very good instincts.
She can often cut through situations with a few words that others can't begin to confront. In one book, she goes dress-shopping with Vin, a character that has recently been elevated in the public mind to a religious status. A crowd begins to gather around them, and Vin tries to avoid them; Alrianne blurts that if she wasn't so mysterious and keen on staying in the shadows, that maybe she wouldn't be bothered so often. Vin finds moments later that Alrianne was right. And Alrianne senses that Vin needs someone to help give her that final push to go out and interact with the crowd, so she takes Vin's arm, even though she's nervous, and pulls her right on out there.
Beneath Alrianne's fluffiness and her manipulations is a fierce will and a strong conscience. Alrianne feels everything very deeply; emotion is her strong suit, and she flares with constant passion. What she believes isn't specific -- it isn't a set of rules, or a religion, or a legal code. She goes by what she feels. If something feels wrong, then it's wrong; if something feels right, then it's right. To the Lord Ruler with what anyone else says!
Her moral code is visible several times in the books, most notably when she sees a handful of part-noble-blood skaa being executed in front of her. She cries, but unflinchingly -- she does not allow herself to look away -- and she Riots the emotions of everyone around her, inflaming anger and the desire to help. This is particularly notable because noblemen are raised to disregard skaa, who are the vast peasant underclass of the Final Empire. They casually kill skaa, and often don't even regard them as human. Alrianne, however, has a somewhat different point of view. Likely this is because her family mixed with skaa blood a few generations back, as stated by Lord Cett, her father, in The Well of Ascension. It could also be from observing that her emotional Allomancy had the same effect on both skaa and nobles, leading her to conclude that both were at heart the same.
It's probably easiest to think of Alrianne as a lot like, say, Elle from Legally Blonde, or like that popular cheerleader who is a truly nice person to everyone: a girl who can love pretty things and who has exhaustive knowledge of fashion and appearance, but who has a steel core and a very, very strong moral compass. She's one of those rare people who, despite living in a backstabbing environment her whole life, turns out kind and true and really good at maneuvering between social circles.
Barge Reactions: You need to include how they are going to react to the Barge, possibly addressing the other character types, genres, and fandoms they'll be encountering or how they may react to floods or breaches. If the character has stayed on the Barge before, what effect did it have on them?
Please write this in complete sentences, and in paragraphs as you would in any normal area of the application. Do not divide into sections and label each with adjectives. This makes it seem choppy and harder to read.]
Path to Redemption: n/a
History:
Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 sentences (of spoken/written monologue, not including narration) 1st Person POV. This sample should reflect the character's day-to-day behavior and a distinctive voice. Must be Barge setting specific.]
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV. Must be Barge setting specific.]
Special Notes:
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AIM/IM: none, cornichaun @ plurk
E-mail: cornichaun@gmail.com
Other Characters: none
Character Name: Alrianne Cett
Series: Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson.
Age: 19
From When?: End of the final book of the Mistborn trilogy.
Inmate/Warden: Warden! For several reasons. Despite her youth, Alrianne is (and is canonically regarded as) unusually insightful, strong-willed, and manipulative. She often diagnoses situations accurately at a glance, with a wonderful ability to slice right through bullshit, and despite taking a frivolous attitude, she has a strong moral compass and refuses to let injustice stand if she can do something about it.
It's worth elaborating on her manipulative abilities. She is a Rioter, which essentially means that she can enhance emotions in other people. She uses this all the time. She manipulates her father into taking the right side in a war, she uses it to push someone she's fallen in love with into realizing he loves her back, she uses it to almost start an actual riot when she's furious at a public injustice. She would take a by-any-means-necessary approach in redeeming an inmate, and wouldn't be above shifting their emotions, playing on their sympathies, and forcing them into certain decisions.
Item: [Wardens Only -- What Gives you Your Information While Here? Examples -- a compass, a book, a palm pilot, a tarot card, etc.]
Abilities/Powers: Alrianne is a Rioter, as mentioned earlier. Rioting is a type of Allomancy, a subset of powers in the Mistborn trilogy. Allomancy involves wielders ingesting certain types of metals and burning them to produce certain effects. Allomancers fall into two categories: Mistings, who can burn one type of metal, and Mistborn, who can burn them all. Alrianne is the former; she can burn Zinc.
Zinc allows the wielder to enhance, or Riot, certain emotions. With practice, it can be used to work on one person or a group of people. Alrianne personally is a very talented Rioter, and can target multiple people with very fine Allomantic nudges.
Rioting cannot create emotions, and does not allow the wielder to read the emotional state of the riotee. With practice, an Allomantic touch can be detected and shrugged off; aluminum is also Allomantically inert and can be used to block emotional Allomancy. The power is also limited by the amount of available zinc; if she runs out of that, she is no longer able to use her power.
Personality: The first impression one has of Alrianne Cett is that of a pink ball of fluff and ruffles. With pretty blonde hair, impeccable makeup, and a fondness for frivolous clothes that make her look younger than her already-young age, Alrianne is often judged as an airheaded idiot, a soft noblewoman, a silly girl. And that's just the way she likes it.
Alrianne is in fact a very calculating soul. She grew up in an environment of nobility, one of constant balls and dinners, dresses and frills and jewels -- and political scheming. With the nobility, everything has meaning, sometimes two or three layers, and subtle plays of social power translate into large economic, political and social consequences. Alrianne has lived and breathed this since she was small, and she's always been good at it. As a result, she has a keen understanding of people and their motivations, and very good instincts.
She can often cut through situations with a few words that others can't begin to confront. In one book, she goes dress-shopping with Vin, a character that has recently been elevated in the public mind to a religious status. A crowd begins to gather around them, and Vin tries to avoid them; Alrianne blurts that if she wasn't so mysterious and keen on staying in the shadows, that maybe she wouldn't be bothered so often. Vin finds moments later that Alrianne was right. And Alrianne senses that Vin needs someone to help give her that final push to go out and interact with the crowd, so she takes Vin's arm, even though she's nervous, and pulls her right on out there.
Beneath Alrianne's fluffiness and her manipulations is a fierce will and a strong conscience. Alrianne feels everything very deeply; emotion is her strong suit, and she flares with constant passion. What she believes isn't specific -- it isn't a set of rules, or a religion, or a legal code. She goes by what she feels. If something feels wrong, then it's wrong; if something feels right, then it's right. To the Lord Ruler with what anyone else says!
Her moral code is visible several times in the books, most notably when she sees a handful of part-noble-blood skaa being executed in front of her. She cries, but unflinchingly -- she does not allow herself to look away -- and she Riots the emotions of everyone around her, inflaming anger and the desire to help. This is particularly notable because noblemen are raised to disregard skaa, who are the vast peasant underclass of the Final Empire. They casually kill skaa, and often don't even regard them as human. Alrianne, however, has a somewhat different point of view. Likely this is because her family mixed with skaa blood a few generations back, as stated by Lord Cett, her father, in The Well of Ascension. It could also be from observing that her emotional Allomancy had the same effect on both skaa and nobles, leading her to conclude that both were at heart the same.
It's probably easiest to think of Alrianne as a lot like, say, Elle from Legally Blonde, or like that popular cheerleader who is a truly nice person to everyone: a girl who can love pretty things and who has exhaustive knowledge of fashion and appearance, but who has a steel core and a very, very strong moral compass. She's one of those rare people who, despite living in a backstabbing environment her whole life, turns out kind and true and really good at maneuvering between social circles.
Barge Reactions: You need to include how they are going to react to the Barge, possibly addressing the other character types, genres, and fandoms they'll be encountering or how they may react to floods or breaches. If the character has stayed on the Barge before, what effect did it have on them?
Please write this in complete sentences, and in paragraphs as you would in any normal area of the application. Do not divide into sections and label each with adjectives. This makes it seem choppy and harder to read.]
Path to Redemption: n/a
History:
Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 sentences (of spoken/written monologue, not including narration) 1st Person POV. This sample should reflect the character's day-to-day behavior and a distinctive voice. Must be Barge setting specific.]
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV. Must be Barge setting specific.]
Special Notes: