Name: Persephone (Effie) Grace Celt
Age: Twenty-one
Sex: Female
Appearance: Effie is at the height of five foot five which is a rather average height. She also has a pale skin tone, as she isn't a huge fan of the sun and doesn't go out too much. She's just pale in general. Effie weighs about a hundred and eleven pounds weighing a litle less than she'd like sometimes. Effie had dirty blonde hair and a pair of blueish grey colour. Her hair is fairly mousy straight and it goes down to lay on her shoulders. Effie is known best by her eyes and you can normally point her out in a crowd.
Personality: Effie is a woman of standard. Or so she was before when she was horribly insane. Effie was the type to be honestly blunt, she was a leader, adn she had to lead her people. She showed dedication and wits as she had never been caught in the forest. That one day when she was caught she was looking for a savior at that point and she could only withstand herself that much longer. Effie is a girl with guts and she's rather a bad ass most of the time. Truth was though, before going horribly insane she had been charming, kind, and loyal to whoever. She was stubborn though and rather dedicated. Dedication never left her.
Demon: Effie had started to hallucinate for no reason, and she saw things that weren't really there. She had a fake life brought upon her. She had just been living in the woods where she lived as if it were her kingdom. She had ruled it and she did a lot of things. She ended up being deep into the forest and when she was found she had been in the small creek soaked to the bone. It was a group of hunters who had found her and they had brought her to the god forsaken place. Although contrary to Effie's beliefs this new place was like a castle.
Brief History: She grew up in a small town. She was born to a mother and father who hardly wanted her but they kept her anyways. They were with her until she was at the young age of three and then they had hung themselves. That's when she first saw signs of seeing things. She saw people who would guide her, and they stood with her whispering things to her, of course she didn't know much since she could hardly remember when she was three. Her friends she saw led her to an orphanage.

There in her orphanage all the sights had stopped and she grew up there, they taught her to knit, sew, paint, sing, and dance. They were molding her into a proper lady. They often made her wear dresses and they had taught her to read. If she didn't do as she was told then they'd pull out the leather strap on her. So in most cases, Effie was a good girl and did as she was told, but she watched other kids get beat day in and day out. She couldn't go to their aid until the dead of night. When the people who ran the orphanage passed out. She sneaked out of her room and into theirs and she'd give them the medical attention they might need.

Effie used to tell tales to all the girls and she would talk with them with ease and soon their girl whispers were mostly in code. They developed one over night, and made it sound like they'd be talking about politics or boys or just anything. That's how smart Effie was and eventually. Three of them hatched a plan to escape the orphanage and never look back. Of course she didn't hatch this plan by herself, she was only nine years old and she couldn't have possibly done it alone. She had the help of her friends guiding her again as always. They supposedly knew the way out and she would have to follow. They told her she was the golden one that could save them all. They used her weakness of helping others and led her astray.

Eventually they had sneaked out of their window and soon had found the old tunnels that Effie knew were there, from over hearing some of the leaders of the orphanage. They had gone through the tunnels and eventually came up in a wheat field. Although all good things may come to an end. People knew they had escaped and they had bolted. Running for their lives and they were separated. One of them was caught, and almost beat to death and dragged back home. Another ran in the completely opposite direction and Effie had never seen her again. Effie sprinted and she ended up hiding in a hollowed tree for the night.

Ever since, Effie has lived off the land, Effie had made it her home. She wasn't so much as homeless and she didn't need to worry about starving. As she soon found where she was supposed to be. They taught her to be ruthless and fearless. She got many wounds from fighting different animals but she eventually got meat. It was a slow process but living off the land was easy for her. Then came the moments when the voices wouldn't stop and they kept controlling what she did, and they gave her a huge illusion. It was her kingdom and she ruled it. She ordered people around, when really they were just trees.

The night in the river had been her breaking point. She had been screaming and sobbing from all the things she was seeing and thing began to morph and they were turning twisted and cruel. When she was in the creek she wasn't in her little boat with her umbrella like she had thought, she had been in a bed of snakes and she was absolutely horrified. Then the pack of hunters had been soul suckers to her and she screamed the whole time they grabbed her. Then she came upon, the place that was her new home. There it was easier to live. Until she woke up of course.
Duration: She has been there for three years, ever since she was at the age of eighteen. She lived in the forest for nine years. She's been awake for about a year though. She was in her usual state of being there, she was living doing the same routine over and over again, but she felt more like the dead. She had wandered the halls pretending they were her kingdom for two years. Then it was when she stood in front of that mirror for five months and she was more like a dead than ever. Just staring blankly at herself, and she would open and close her mouth repetitively until something just snapped inside of her and she looked around and realized where she really was and that was the time she felt like screaming for real. How she ended up there was a big mystery for her for the biggest part since she hardly remembered part of her life, although slowly the memories faded back.


Writing Sample:
[Prompt: chose a scene from the characters life, and write it. It can be anything from a first memory to an enjoyable time, to a not so fun time, to the moment they hit the breaking point. Make it accurate to the history of the character, and make sure to develop the character's personality through the sample. Show us how the character is who he is in action. Length does not matter.]