Description

Name: Antoinette Bontecou
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight
Race: Human
Physical Appearance: Antoinette is a girl who reminds you of a porcelain doll. Her skin resembles the porcelain greatly, what with its softness and paleness. She has a thin body, with a relatively normal bust. She stands at about 5'1'', and holds herself like a true heiress. Her hair is long, and blonde, and falls in messy waves. She usually clips it around to the back of her head, in a sort of "half up" style. Full eyelashes surround her bright blue eye color. She likes to dress in light colored fabrics (mostly white) with frills about them. She is quite the delicate girl of the time...

Personality

A very caring girl. Hard to anger, easy to make smile. She cares for those around her, though questioning why she does so sometimes. She follows directions very easily, and does things with a smile on her face, always. Though she has lost both of her parents, she tries her best not to get saddened by that fact. Instead, she busies herself with other matters to avoid thinking about it.

Equipment

None...

History

Antoinette was born July 17th, 1849, to the wealthy Bontecou family. They resided in the French countryside, not far from where the De Bella Monte's country house sat, now in ruin. Her parents both died mysterious deaths when she was only 5 years old, so she was sent to live with her fathers widowed sister (her aunt).

Her aunt lived in what was once the De Bella Monte mansion, but had been bought up over 300 years ago by her family. As the times had changed and the years had turned to centuries, the old house name was forgotten, and the new one had taken its place.

Antoinette's aunt was a lonely woman; no children, no husband. She took care of Antoinette like she was her own, and Antoinette loved her as such. She lived a good life in the care of her aunt, always fee to do as she pleased, but never did more than her aunt would want her to.

On Antoinette's 17th birthday, a visitor showed up on the front lawn of the mansion. She was clad in nothing but a cloak, and some rags of what once used to be a beautifully stunning gown. She was a quiet girl, with long black hair that cascaded down her back in ringlets. Her aunt ussured the girl in, and because the teen could not remember where her family was, but felt like this house was familiar to her, Antoinette's aunt decided to let the girl stay. When asked about it by Antoinette, her aunt simply replied "she has no where else to go. I did not turn you out, and I shall not do that to her."

The girls name was Emiliana De Bella Monte, as was later found out by Antoinette.

The two grew to like each other very much. Emiliana was shy, and tended to keep more to herself, but as the year went on, the two girls became almost inseparable. If one went somewhere, the other followed. The Bontecou family sort of adopeted Emiliana into their family, feeling as though she was worthy enough to live among them. She loved them more than anything...

Once a month, Emiliana would mysteriously disappear in the afternoon from the home, and would not return until the following morning. No one knew where she went, and they did not question it either. Once, and only once, when she was pressed about it, she responded eerily with "I must find a place to think... a place where I can be alone..."

Antoinette loved Emiliana like a sister, but thought it was strange how she would talk to no one at all sometimes, how she would stare off endlessly at nothing, how she would giggle at something when no one else was in the room... But she let it slide, for the girl had also lost her parents (Antoinette had assumed this). She knew the feeling...

Antoinette began to learn dance from Emiliana, of which her aunt was thrilled. She had always felt that she should be able to express herself, so she had a small dance room built in a spare room on the third floor of the mansion. Emiliana would never enter the room, but she would watch always from the doorway, to make sure Antoinette's form was right.

Then one day, a letter arrived in the mail addressed to Emiliana. It was an invitation to a ball, thrown by the D'ark brothers of London, England. Antoinette questioned Emiliana about her knowledge of such boys, and she mentioned that she had met them in her travels.

The next day, Emiliana wrote back to the brothers, announcing that she would attend, and she would be bringing a friend as well: Antoinette Bontecou.


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Other information that maybe you might want to know...
When Emiliana mysteriously disappeared, she had been bitten by a Vampire and taken off to travel with him across the world. On these travels, her "teacher" made a wrong move, and accidentally alerted some Vampire hunters to his location during one of his feedings. The two fled back to Paris.

On their way there, they met the D'arc brothers. Moving on from there, her "teacher" was killed by one of the Hunters. Luckily, he took him with him. Emiliana escaped... She wandered for a while throughout Europe, trying to find her way back to the only place she could truly call a home; the De Bella Monte mansion (which was, now, the Bontecou mansion). She made it there, and lived with the family. Every month when she would wander off, she would wander to the outskirts of town, and kill off a beggar, or someone who wouldn't be missed, so she could feed.

Emiliana intends to reveal who she really is to Antoinette eventually, and hopes that their friendship will overcome whatever thoughts she may have on the subject.