(art by Irene Horrors)
But it is that beauty that comes at a price . . .
FULL NAME: Diana Margaret Blumenthal
ALIASES / NICKNAMES: 'Snow White', Di, Didi, Snow, Mary
PLACE OF BIRTH: Born in Belgium, the family soon moved to the East Coast of the United States following her mother's death
DOB: September 25 1995
AGE: 22 years old
FAMILY: Celeste Blumenthal (mother) deceased; Frederick 'Freddie' Blumenthal (father) living; Dolores Blumenthal (nee Sander) (step-mother) living
OCCUPATION: N/A
BLOOD-TYPE: AB +
CRIMINAL HISTORY: Attempted suicide, attempted murder/manslaughter (of her step-mother), assault on another person (step-mother), animal cruelty, which all of these charges are untrue but there is (false) evidence to support otherwise
MENTAL DIAGNOSTIC: Generalized Eating Disorder (not technically anorexia as her fear isn't from being overweight), Bipolar I Disorder, diagnosed or suspected PTSD and / or severe anxiety disorder
SUPERNATURAL POWERS: Unknown to her, but she can summon certain kinds of animals by song (mainly birds)
TRIGGERS: Eating is something that often easily sends her into an anxiety episode, mostly foods that are solid or great quantities (really anything that reminds her of the night her step-mother tried to kill her). She does not eat much to this day, only soup broths, juices, and bread on occasion. She still gets sick sometimes eating, regardless. Being grabbed or touched is another easy way to upset her, as it causes flashbacks to her abusive home life. Loud voices, shouting, being yelled at, being cornered, all these things give her bad flashbacks that will almost definitely give her an anxiety attack. The name 'Dolores' and similar sounding names.
IDEAL ENVIRONMENT AND STIMULI FOR THEM: Snow is most comfortable when she is not alone but also has a safe and comfortable distance between herself and someone else. This is usual a span greater of arm's length away, where she cannot be grabbed. This does not always effect her, but can and does on occasion. She enjoys having her back to the wall or generally in a position where her back is not vulnerable. She likes to be covered, mostly with blankets or jackets, as it invokes the sensations of hiding successfully from her step-mother in / under her bed and in the laundry. Having people too close to her or feeling exposed upsets her.
PERSONALITY: Diana aka Snow never really got the chance to come into her own. From a young age, she was abused, and because of this it really damaged her and how she would have normally developed her personality. What we could say of this alternate reality Diana who was not nearly killed several times, who knows? Perhaps a bubbly and happy-go-lucky girl with a song on her tongue and her heart on her sleeve. But the Diana we know today is no such a girl. Diana is reserved, skittish, and generally uncomfortable of all those around her. She is very emotional, quick to change between varying degrees of the emotional range, but is a lot of the time more prone to sorrowful fits of tears and self-harm. What might lurk of her personality appears to be saved for her 'little men', the dwarf men who she invented as a child to soothe her terrified mind. When she speaks to them, she is either alone or greatly distressed, rapid words that portray what the girl might have been like if she had not suffered the life she had. There is, strangely enough, some moments where she comes around to those that inhabit the institute. Her heart is vulnerable, she may beg and cry she isn't supposed to be here. She may become hysteric and shove fingers down her throat to safe herself from a poison she believes is in her stomach. She can be manipulative at times if she is sound enough to try and get her way from someone.
HISTORY: Diana was born an only child in Brussels, where her mother would die only years into her life. The death was extremely distressing to her father, who felt so wounded that he was unable to stay in the country and made the drastic decision to move to the United States. There, six year old Di and her father tried to start a new life. It was not long after unboxing their belongings that her father met a woman by the name of Dolores and things quickly moved between them. While Dolores appeared kind, she seemed to randomly spout hurtful things to Diana when her father was not around. Diana didn't understand why this happened, but as a child she thought not much of it and said nothing to her father about it.
The two were married when Diana was seven years old. Hell moved in with Dolores after the honeymoon was over. Abuse started almost immediately after Dolores joined the household, picking times when her new husband was not around to be utterly nasty and hateful to her step-daughter. As time went on, things did not improve. Physical violence ensued, beatings, starvings, general tormenting behavior. The first time Dolores tried to kill Diana, it did not go noticed by anyone. Not enough poison, made Diana just sick enough to stay home with what her father thought was a stomach flu. With him picking up with work again, he was spending less and less time at home, which gave Dolores a lot more time to torture Di. Burns, psychological torture, cuts, beating the girl with whatever she could get her hands on, Dolores was getting increasingly more violent towards her step-daughter. And yet no one was any the wiser about it, as Dolores had long since made it clear that if Diana told anyone, especially her father, about what was going on she would pay two men to kidnap her and kill her and she'd never see her dad again.
Life became a nightmare, and it would be in her early teen years she began to recede into her own imagination for protection from the terrible reality she faced. She imagined a group of little men defending her from her step-mother's attacks, about her size at age thirteen, men who would sing with her and tell her that things would be okay. That was her way of coping, pretending these men were there somewhere, protecting her, caring for her, loving her. Even as fists rained upon her, when knives jabbed her, slaps and kicks and voice shrill piercing her ears, she thought of those men helping her. She eventually gave them all names, talked to them when she was alone and scared, whispering in the night how she wanted to run away and live in the forest away from everything.
The next attempt on Snow's life also was unnoticed, mainly because her father wasn't home at the time and, since Snow had been missing a lot of school for a few months now, no one at her school paid it much attention. This time, Diana knew it had been her step-mother's doing. Her belly felt like it was on fire, her lips were dry like sandpaper. She truly thought she was going to die. But she woke up the next morning, dehydrated and aching, alone in the house. Her step-mother had fled, thinking she had actually killed Di this time. Diana didn't know what to do. Dolores eventually came back and found the girl still alive and in a rage at this snatched Di up by the hair and cut as much of it off as she could. Seeing that Di loved her long hair (and it had finally grown back from the last time), she cried for hours. She was terrified by this point, and it was several days before her father returned from his travels for work.
The only thing Snow knew to do to avoid being poisoned again was to not eat. Once a plump and shapely girl, within a year she had dropped so much weight she looked like a skeleton. This got people's attention, especially her father's. He was horrified at the thought that his daughter was anorexic, blaming the media when he should have been worried about the threat that lurked within his own house. He talked however with Dolores on what they should do, and of course this inspired Dolores to try one last time at taking Diana's life with poison. The intense hatred and jealousy Dolores felt for her step-daughter truly knew no bounds, as she told her husband that she would make Di's favorite foods and try to encourage the girl to eat.
Satisfied with his wife's apparent solution, as she acted very sympathetic and concerned for Diana's well-being, he truly had little choice but to go the next day on his work trip to leave Dolores and Diana alone. The food was prepared, but it was not a favorite of anyone's on this earth. Sludge, garbage, literal shit; all this and more was mixed up with tons of rat poison. Diana tried to hide but being so frail she could not fight off her step-mother. Dolores forced her into a chair at the kitchen table and tied her down, shoving the waste down Snow's throat with the hopes that finally she could eliminate her. Vomiting was probably what saved Diana's life that night, but truly at what cost? She was taken to hospital where they were able to save her. Police came to question her. It was now, she had decided, to come clean, to tell her entire story to the cops. She was so afraid, so hurt. She missed her life in Brussels, missed her mother, her real mother. But going in to question her, they already didn't believe her. Dolores had told her side first, and it included how Di was a pathological liar and a danger to herself and others. Dolores had convinced the officers that Di had tried to kill herself that night by eating poison, an impressive show of tears and hysterics that made her story completely believable. Everyone feared for Diana after hearing her step-mother's story, believing the girl was a suicidal anorexic who had, according to Dolores, on several occasions threatened her step-mother with blades and blunt objects. Diana couldn't understand how it was all happening. More lies about Diana having started to kill animals in the back yard when her father was away, displaying concerning behavior in her seclusion from her peers and teachers, 'self-harm' wounds on her body from the cuts and burns. It all happened so fast she felt completely blind-sided. They locked her up in The Wonderland Institute and she's been there ever since.
RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER INMATES: Currently none worth noting.
PROGRESS: Since being institutionalized, Diana has gotten horribly worse in her mental health. Seeing she was already suffering abuse and intense anxieties related to that abuse, the Wonderland Institute has secured a dark and dangerous mindset for her. Her little men have now manifested into auditory hallucinations that she knows are not real but has gotten so desperately lonely and afraid that she submits to the delusion to console herself. Currently, medications are being tested on the patient to see what will work, along with speech therapy. She is not very cooperative with treatment as she feels she doesn't belong in the institute. She also is paranoid the staff is somehow working with her step-mother to finally kill her, so she is generally distrusting and can become hysterical if not properly sedated.