Post by Madeleine Gauthier on Feb 9, 2013 12:04:26 GMT -5
Madeleine Gauthier
"Your devil's face...and angel's voice! There are plenty of angels in hell, do you know that?"
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Player Name: Silence
Years Roleplaying: 7-8 years
Gender: female
Contact me: pm
How you found us?: RPG Dictionary
Anything else?: I also play Raoul Jacques de Chagny and Gerard Carriere
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Basic Information
Age: thirty-three
Canon or OC?: Canon, Susan Kay's Phantom
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Appearance
Body type: Madeleine is on the taller side, not skinny but not stout either, somewhere in between.
Eye color: Her eyes are dark brown, although they seem lighter in the sunlight.
Wardrobe: Madeleine's clothes usually consist of fabrics of nicer quality, such as velvet, satin and furs.
General Appearance: Madeleine, standing at about five feet and five inches, has curls of dark brown that are usually worn up and out of her face but sometimes you can find her with her hair down. She has brown eyes as well, but more of a dark almond or clay color not the deep chocolate color of her hair. She's on the taller side and always stands straight in her high quality clothes made from satin, furs and velvet. She's not skinny, but then she's not stout either, her body weight settles somewhere between the two.
Played By: Helena Bohnam Carter
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Personality
Dreams and Goals: Madeleine dreams about having a son that isn't deformed and perhaps sometime marrying Etienne.
Strengths:
1) Faith
2) her voice
3) skill in violin and piano
Weaknesses:
1) Erik's music
2) Childishness
3) Stubbornness
Fears:
1) Erik's face
2) loosing everything
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The Past
Mother - Angelle Larue
Father - Christophe Larue
Husband - Charles Gauthier
Son - Erik Gauthier
Friends - Marie Perrault, Etienne Barye
History: Born to an elderly pair, Madeleine, being an only child, was the center of her parents' worlds. Her father was an architect in Rouen, who loved music and was delighted by the interest that Madeleine showed for it. She was often sent out to display her vocals and skills on the piano and violin. Her mother sent her to an Ursuline convent in Rouen, while her father set up singing lessons, which disgusted the nuns. She went to voice lessons every week, escaping from the life at the convent. Her voice was good, but she didn't think she had the self-discipline or talent to conquer Paris opera houses. However, while accompanying her father to a site, at the age of seventeen, she abandoned all wishes to conquer the stage when she met Charles Gauthier, who was fifteen years older than Madeleine. He was a master that her father adored so it wasn't a surprise to Madeleine when he approved of the two's courtship. Her mother, on the other hand would have rather Madeleine married rather than dream about the stage.
After marrying, Madeleine and Charles traveled to London for their honeymoon, where she received a letter from a bellboy on the last day of their visit. On the last day of their trip, Madeleine conceived her first child the same day that she received the letter that both of her parents had died from cholera. After their deaths, Madeleine knew that she couldn't stay in Rouen. At this point, when Charles won't let her inside her father's house for he feared she too would catch the disease, they were sure that she was pregnant which made Charles all the more protective.
They imagined a beautiful child and Madeleine believed her husband when he promised her perfection. She never had any doubts. She didn’t know that her child would be more beautiful on the inside then the out.
Madeleine and Charles bought an ivy covered house at the edge of the village of Boscherville and soon enough the house was refurnished with all the Parisian styles. She, and her spaniel, Sasha, were home alone with the housemaid, Simonette, on May third, 1831 when the news came. After childishly demanding a new rug when her current one was stained, Madeleine was met with the news that there had been an accident down at the site that had left Charles dead.
She had prayed for a son that would remind her of Charles and that's what she got, a son but it hadn't been the son she had been wishing for. When Erik was born, Madeleine was struck to the bone in a moment of breathless denial. She didn't believe that he could be her son. The first thing she ever gave him, so that she wouldn't have to look at the disfigurement of his face, was a mask.
She couldn't ever bare to name her own son for she could only see the outside and therefor asked Father Mansart, a local priest, to name the boy after himself. And so her son came to be known as Erik. However, not even as his mother, could she bare the cries that came feebly from his mouth, he shouldn't have lived, it was a miracle, a miracle Madeleine rather hoped hadn't have happened. Anyways, she fashioned a mask so she wouldn't have to look at his disfigured face.
Her high status in the village vanished overnight after Erik's birth and she was advised by Father Mansart to keep the boy inside for his own safety. Marie, after overcoming her own horror of the Gauthier boy's face, often came by to help out with the caring of young Erik and it wasn't until one day, when Marie dragged an unwilling Madeleine upstairs to stand outside the door to Erik's room where Marie had hung bells over his cradle (due to the fact Madeleine wouldn't handle him), that Madeleine realized just how special her son was despite his facial deformities. Madeleine's little boy was playing out a little melody on the bells hung out of pity on his crib, but Madeleine still could not get past the horror of his face.
During a storm, six months after the birth of her son, while looking for the family dog, Sasha, Madeleine heard a crash upstairs and fled up them to see whatever had happened. She burst into her son's room where Sasha was prodding a white bundle that was lying in the center of the room. Her motherly instinct kicked in and she ordered the dog to "leave it alone". However, what happened next frightened the woman out of her wits. Erik was crawling towards her and her first reaction was to move away in fear until she realized, which only made her fear mount, that the boy was not going for her but for the dog. Then, remarkably, the little boy began to speak, saying the dog's name slowly. Madeleine was shocked. That night was the night that she first heard a giggle escape the little white masked child's lips.
Only about three months later he was walking and copying Madeleine's words. The way that things used to be, her completely ignoring his existence except when he cried for food, was over. Now his hands seemed to be everywhere, just the same as his voice. He took to sleeping with Sasha, who adopted him, but much to Madeleine's dislike started calling Madeleine 'mama'. Marie protested to Madeleine's harsh treatment of her son and proclaimed she was raining Erik to believe he was an "animal".
Despite her dislike for his physical looks, Madeleine decided to make sure that he was educated. However, she soon became frightened by his advanced way of thinking. She didn't understand how he could understand so much, let alone read the Bible at age four. He was constantly experimenting and taking apart inanimate objects. But despite Madeleine's best attempts he wouldn't copy out a Hail Mary and she would often try to beat him into submission - to no avail. He understood everything, but music was the one thing that he loved above all else.
As he grew older, he asked questions of the village and the organ in the church and Madeleine had to constantly figure out new ways to prevent him from wandering into the waiting arms of the villagers, remembering Father Mansart's fear for the boy's safety, and Madeleine's for that matter. In the end, however, Madeleine found that the only way to keep him inside the house and away from harm was to not go out at all. She took to spending every day at the house, while Father Mansart took to coming every Sunday to celebrate Mass in Madeleine's living room since she could no longer leave her home. That led to more problems because the priest insisted on having Erik sing, something Madeleine didn't agree with. She saw his voice as a sin considering his horrid face.
When he turned five, Madeleine was prompted about the mask. It was his birthday and Marie was coming over to celebrate it, even when Madeleine thought it unnecessary. The day had been going perfectly until Madeleine, baking cakes was asked by her son if the Father was going to say Mass and therefore being led into explaining to him that it was his birthday and that Marie would be bringing a present. That statement led into being asked if she would be giving her son a present. Put on the spot, Madeleine had obliged and nodded, saying that she would indeed give him a present if he told her what he wanted. He asked for two kisses which sparked Madeleine's anger and revulsion at her son's face. She burst into tears and ordered him never to ask for such a thing, which led to him hating birthdays.
However, the evening just got worse for Madeleine. At supper when Erik came back down he wore no mask and Madeleine, fear coursing through her, ordered him to put it back on. When he refused she dragged him in front of a full length mirror and showed him why he had to wear the mask, prompting him to lash out in terrible fear at the "monster" in the glass. After the incident with the mirror, Madeleine was ordered, by Marie, to go down stairs and that she would handle Erik, who later asked for his mother - to Madeleine's surprise. It was then she found out that her shoving him mercilessly in front of that mirror had deprived him of a sleep without facing nightmares of "the face".
Father Mansart suggested that Erik be sent to see Professor Guinzot, at the School of Fine Arts in Paris that Madeleine made no protest against. After their visit, which showed once more how exceedingly intelligent Erik was, Madeleine was asked by him to be given a mirror and therefore he figured out how it worked and became obsessed with them and the "magic" they contained. So obsessed that Madeleine became worried for his safety due to his reckless ideas for experiments.
Despite her locking his door at night, he was somehow able to sneak out and into the church long enough to play on the organ that he'd been told resided there, much to the annoyance of Father Mansart as it upset some of the villagers. At that point, some were starting to come up by the house and yell at them to let Erik come out so that they could see him and undoubtedly make fun of his deformity. She took to walking into town everyday, returning to Mass where she met Monsieur le Doctor Etienne Barye. It wasn't long before Madeleine Gauthier found a liking in Etienne and the two became close. And when Erik finally questioned Madeleine lost her temper and it ended in her telling her little boy that she hated him, which she regretted the moment she said it.
Father Mansart had suspicions that Erik was inhabited by a demonic being after the boy went on a rampage after being told that when Sasha died she wouldn't go to Heaven. It was to Madeleine's great discomfort, and Etienne's shock, that an exorcism was performed. After it was performed however, Madeleine found that her son acted quite strangely and objects often went missing only to reappear in other places. After that, Erik mastered the skill of ventriloquism, to Madeleine's annoyance. Not long after his success, Madeleine grew angry with Etienne and walked away from him creating her own little reality.
One fateful night, while Erik was busy composing old Sasha was bothering him and he placed her outside, only to later on forget blaming it on Madeleine, which baffled her quite a lot and went out to get her, ignoring Madeleine's protests. Not long after though, there was a ruckus outside, a great cacophony of noise; terrible noise. The night ended with the villagers there to torment the Gauthiers killing Sasha and stabbing Erik in the side. Luckily, Etienne turned up in Madeleine's hysterics as she had no idea how to treat a stab wound. And so went the meeting between Etienne and Erik, in which Etienne's skills in the medical field saved the boy's life. She went to sleep that night, heavily with exhaustion to wake the next morning to an empty house.
Erik had gone. She was utterly alone.
RP Sample
Do you regret it? The voice in her head asked as she paced, back and forth in her bedroom, mauling over the scene that had just taken place. Do you regret shoving him in front of that mirror so that he would see the monster he truly is? She stopped in her pacing, standing still for a moment, a sigh passing through her down turned lips. "No." she growled childishly. "He was bound to find out."
But does that justify your doing, Madeleine? That voice in her head asked as she sank onto the bed, running her hands over her face. Strands of her dark brown hair fell down across her face and she drew in a deep breath. She could still that God forsaken sound of horror that left his lips, that devilish sound that made the hair along her back stand up.
But to say that Madeleine wasn't regretful would be a lie. She did regret placing him in front of the mirror and shouting at him too look at himself. Then again, he had wanted to know why he was always to wear the mask...she had shown him, just as he had asked, right? Thinking about it that way lessened the blow and she was content with thinking that no matter how cruel it sounded.
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Credits
Template & Graphics © Admin Leffie
Song Lyrics Used: "Old Souls" from The Phantom of the Paradise. Music & Lyrics by Paul Williams.
Song Lyrics Used: "Old Souls" from The Phantom of the Paradise. Music & Lyrics by Paul Williams.
