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Player Information
Name: Kristen
Timezone: EST
Personal Journal: astrobright68
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Former/Other Characters in the RP: Current: Kid & Fakir; Former: Femio & Meredy

Character Information
Name: Ella Frell
Canon Origin/Series: Ella Enchanted
School Year: 5th
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Blood status: Halfblood

Personality: Ella is headstrong and clever. Due to being cursed to obedience, she has grown to hate commands and bossy behavior, making her a bit of a rebel by consequence. She's spirited, can imitate people, enjoys having fun and being a prankster, is clumsy and slides down the handrails on staircases. Maybe also due to her curse, she hates being proper and cares not a wit about social class. Ella likes to learn if she considers something to be of worth or interesting, but dreads dull things and propriety. She doesn't really care what others think of her and she's stubborn and brave. She's very determined, especially when it comes to breaking her curse, and while she's not the sweetest of people, when it's really important she does what's right.

Canon Background: Ella of Frell was cursed from birth by a fairy called Lucinda to be obedient. Of course, Lucinda didn't THINK it was a curse, as obedience is such a wonderful trait to have in her twisted fairy mind. When she resists the curse, she grows dizzy and faint, feels nauseous and the room starts to spin until she obeys--and that's stalling for only a few minutes. Which means whether someone asks Ella to jump on one foot for a day or chop off her own head, she has to do it. Obviously not something most people would wish on someone.

The curse contributed to a large part of her personality. Her cook, Mandy, often bosses her around and it made her stubborn and rebellious rather than meek as she finds ways to thwart her demands. If Mandy asks her to get demands, Ella would retrieve only two, and Mandy will have to be more specific with her instructions--leading Ella to thwart those as well. After Ella tells a friend about her curse and the friend proceeds to boss her around (leading to Ella sucker punch the bint in the nose), Ella's mother, the lively Lady Eleanor gave her an order to never tell anyone about the curse.

When Ella was not yet 15, both her mother and her got sick, and while Ella drank all of her soup, her mother avoided eating the vital ingredient. This eventually leads her to sicken and die. At the funeral, Sir Peter, the greedy and enterprising merchant commanded the bawling Ella to leave until she could be silent. Upon fleeing to cry, Ella met the Prince; Prince Charmont (Char) who'd known her mother. In the repast in Ella's Manor, she meets a woman named Dame Olga, and her two daughters, Hattie and Olive. Hattie is a power hungry schemer and Olive is a dullard obsessed with money, people not exactly comforting to be around right after your mother dies.

Afterwards, Ella asks Mandy to tell her who her fairy godmother is, and Mandy reveals that SHE is her fairy godmother, and that Ella had a bit of fairy blood in her, herself and that the curse CAN be broken but she doesn't know how. But Sir Peter soon decides that the clumsy Ella needs finishing school, a school for young ladies that teaches dancing, needlework, how to be polite, etc. He intends to send her off with Dame Olga's two daughters against her will.

Before she gets sent off, Mandy gives her her mother's necklace, and a magical book with fairy tales, as well as other useful information, often showing her letters from Mandy, diary entries from Char or her father, as well as maps occasionally depending on her need. In the morning, she visits the royal menagerie, happens to run into the Prince again, and talks to parrots that speak in different languages, revealing her to be a bit of a linguist then her and Char come upon a gnome child about to be eaten by an ogre. The ogre commands Ella to give him the little gnome, which her curse compels her to follow--until Char orders her to stop. He questions Ella about why she almost gave him to the ogre and she lies, unable to say the truth about her curse.

Taking off in a coach with Hattie and Olive, it doesn't take Hattie long to discover Ella always does as she's commanded. Hattie uses this to make a servant out of Ella, keeping her from eating, and taking her mother's necklace. When they eventually get to finishing school, Ella finds a friend in Areida, a girl from the country of Ayortha who teaches her the language, and they become very close friends and confidants. The curse forces Ella to become more graceful, more proper, as the mistresses at the school have no shortage of commands. All the while, Hattie is still issuing orders and eventually orders Ella to stop being friends with Areida.

That night, Ella finds notes of her father's in her magic book, mentioning that he was going to a wedding in the land of the giants and that fairies might be there. Thinking that Lucinda might be among them and that she could break her curse once and for all, she runs away from finishing school, encountering Elves along the way before she ran into a group of Ogres who intend to eat her. She manages to convince them not to eat her by using their magical language, which she learned from a book of exotic languages she got at school.

At this point Char and his knights come upon them and after convincing the Ogres to let themselves be tied up, she goes with one of the knights to the land of the giants. When she eventually encounters Lucinda, Lucinda tells her to be happy to be obedient. Which makes Ella happy to be a puppet and she runs to greet her father and they go back home. Mandy eventually tells her to feel however she wanted to feel about being cursed and her joy ceases. Sir Peter decides to marry Dame Olga to get them rich as he has lost all of their money in a bad deal.

When Dame Olga discovers that they're poor, she makes Ella a servant after Sir Peter leaves, something she can hardly stop with her curse to be obedient. While this is going on, however, she is sending letters to Prince Char; as he is away in Ayortha for a year. When Char confesses that he loves her and wishes to marry her via letter, she realizes that she can never be with him even if she could tell him of her curse, because she could be used as a weapon against him as well as the country. She fakes a letter from Hattie saying she went off and got married to someone old and wealthy and discontinues contact with him, despite the fact that she loves him as well.

After telling Mandy what she's done, Manda summons Lucinda and bets her that she couldn't live with one of her 'gifts' for 6 months. While Lucinda goes for 3 months as a squirrel and 3 months as an obedient child, Ella waited for her to return, hoping that she would see how horrible it was and remove her own curse. 6 months pass and talk of a series of 3 balls is on everyone's lips. Lucinda returns miserable, but despite the sorrow she feels for Ella's fate, she has now renounced big magic and has to refuse. Ella decides to go to the balls anyway, masked and wearing glass slippers (that her and Char found after her father's wedding), and calls on Lucinda who procures a coach made of a pumpkin and horses made of mice and tells her they will return to normal at midnight.

With each night she grows somewhat closer to Char with the cover as a woman named Lela, but on the final night, Hattie pulls off her mask and she's forced to run, leaving her slipper behind. What proceeds is a typical Cinderella story, but when Char tells her to marry him, she has to fight the will to obey, and in a long extended moment, she finds a determination like no other and refuses to. With that, the curse is broken and she can now marry the prince curse free, which she does. And they live happily ever after~

Background (AU!Canon; HP): Ella knew of the existence of magic at a very young age--infancy, in fact. She was born to a spirited, wealthy fullblooded squib woman and a greedy and social-climbing muggle man (who is completely unaware of the magical world), so one would think her knowledge to be limited. But despite her unmagical parents, the presence of magic was undeniable in her life. The reason being, Ella was cursed. Not to be unlucky, or anything of the sort, but instead cursed with obedience. A well-meaning witch by the name of Lucinda gave her the 'gift' at birth, using a powerful spell on the infant Ella. The curse could not be removed, not even by Mandy, the cook/witch that lived among them. And so Ella went, developing into a stubborn child who disdained following orders and would thwart all of Mandy's bossy commands. Her mother would egg them both on at every turn until eventually Ella would do as asked or Mandy would turn her order into a request, and it would all end with laughter.

Ella was ever curious about the magic world, but from the unmagical county of Oxfordshire, access to things about the world of fantasy was rather limited. However, her mother told her stories of fantastical creatures and magical things, tales of dragons and gnomes and the mysteries of the world, keeping the both of them entertained endlessly. Meanwhile, Ella was completely unaware that their cook, Mandy was in fact a witch, one that limited her magic usage due to living among muggles. Ella was even more unaware that she, in fact, was a witch as well. Sure, when she slid down the handrail for the stairs she seemed to glide carefully off of it before her two left feet over took her and she tumbled to the ground, and sure plates almost seemed to slow their path to the ground when she dropped them, right before they smashed into a million pieces, but neither of these things were things that she thought anything of.

At the age of 7, she made a friend named Pamela who she told of her curse. When this lead to Pamela ordering her about and Ella breaking her nose in kind, Eleanor commanded that she never tell people of the curse. When she was nearing the age of 11, her mother and her both incurred an illness, which required them drinking a soup containing unicorn hair made by Mandy. It was actually a potion, however, and while Ella drank it while wrinkling her nose, Eleanor drank all but the unicorn hair. This led to her death merely days later. Ella was desolate, but Peter, her father, seemed more interested in her as a commodity. He introduced her to Dame Olga and her two daughters, Hattie and Olive, who seemed more interested in the grandness of her estate than her distress.

Later on, Ella asked Mandy to tell her the name of the witch who'd attempted to remove her curse and was shocked to find that it was Mandy herself. Mandy told Ella that she herself had witch blood in her, and it was at that moment that Peter called in Ella and spoke that he was considering sending her to a private academy for girls. She displayed resistance to this, and it was at this moment that a tawny owl swept into the room, a letter attached to their talon. Peter took said letter, and upon reading it and realizing his daughter was magical and invited to a prestigious school, he saw an opportunity to gain access for yet another venue and a chance for profit. So, instead, he commanded her to go to Hogwarts.

Being shocked that she was a part of the magical world she'd so admired, and that she was invited to a school that seemed as foreign as a fairy tale, Ella despaired leaving her familiar home and Mandy, but obedience was commanded of her, both by the curse and by her father. And thus, Ella made her way to Hogwarts; curious about magic, but obstinate about obeying in any way or form. She's now starting her fifth year, a somewhat short and puckish girl who is fantastic Ancient Runes due to her knack at languages, good at Charms and CoMC, horribly bored in History of Magic and more (or less) prepared for another year at Hogwarts.

Sample Interaction Post in First Person:

Mandy gave me this journal before I got on the train and ordered told me to write in it regularly. She bosses me around even while I'm at school! I ought to write naught more than a dash weekly and see how she likes it. Perhaps I'll write more if something is worth penning, but if not, she'll get no more out of me than that.

I'm everyone else with the talk of too many assignments. Maybe if they were at least interesting they'd be worth the time, but I can already see the days becoming boring quite quickly. You'd think with magic things would be entertaining but even THAT has rules.

Just to irritate Mandy:


Sample Interaction Post in Third Person:

Ella skipped defiantly down the hallway, sending a willful look at anyone who dared to stare at her. Some prefect had seen her sprinting in the halls and had chastised her with a haughty, "Stop running!"

After the owner of the snobby voice had gone off, she tried to take off into a gallop, but her legs wouldn't let her go any faster than walking pace. The curse prevented her from doing so, so she did the next best thing--skipping. She might have looked ridiculous, but she didn't care. Anyone else could have run as soon as the prefect was out of sight but this foolish curse prevented her. That idiot Lucinda! But she wasn't going to let it get the better of her, not a chance!

With that thought in mind, she skipped even faster, not noticing that there was someone leaving a classroom until she collided into them, both of them toppling over.

Apologizing for her clumsiness, she recognized the person as a house mate, one that she'd run into just a week ago. "Jeez, Ella," they said with aggravation, brushing the dust from their robes and books. "Run into someone else for a change."

The curse went to work, and next thing she knew, Ella was getting up to running down the hallway, continuing to speed off until she encountered someone to run into. She slammed into someone, and the robust scent of coffee and pained hiss came to her ears. She'd run into her Head of House and spilled coffee all over their robes--and they didn't look happy.

For the umpteenth time that day, she cursed Lucinda and her stupid, STUPID curse.

Magic Words?: [Hint; there are two.]