Post by Gustave de Chagny on Apr 17, 2012 0:35:07 GMT -5
GUSTAVE DE CHAGNY
"Mother's Little Miracle"
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Player Name: Kristine
Years Roleplaying: 8 years
Gender: Still a chick
Contact me: PM (preferably on my Christine account because that's where a message is most likely to reach me), skype: Christine_Marie1992, twitter: @christineimarie
Anything else?: Lady B is my Mommy twice over now XD Christine Emilie for little Gustave and Mamma Valérius for Christine XD …and just as a fair warning, the word “beautiful” is going to appear at least once in every single post from Gustave XD
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Basic Information
Age: 10
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Appearance
Body type:short and skinny, childish
Eye color: a dark root-beer brown
Wardrobe: Gustave wears a lot of browns, whites, off-whites, greys, and other fairly neutral colors. When his parents make him dress up, he has a brown and goldenrod suit that he wears with a matching top hat. He dresses fairly simply on a general basis: a shirt, and pants, sometimes with a vest. Being a child, Gustave dresses in clothing he is able to play and explore in. He doesn't mind dressing up, but prefers to avoid it whenever possible – a big contrast from his fop of a biological father who always wears dress clothes, even if he has nowhere to go.
General Appearance: Gustave is boyish and fairly casual, but also neat, as he has to appear as and represent nobility, due to his father's rank and title as “Vicomte de Chagny.” He is very small and delicate-looking, a sweet little boy. He dresses in neutral colors for the most part, and has very innocent-looking, naïve eyes, like his mother. He has dark hair and dark eyes like his biological father. He is very small like his mother as well. He has a squared jaw, typical of the Scandinavian side of his heritage, thin eyebrows like his mother, and almond-shaped eyes. He is very skinny, but by no means scrawny, and weighs in at a little less than eighty-eight pounds. He has straight brown hair, like the natural color of his mother's and the same texture of that of his biological father's. He has a small, tip-tilted nose and a weak chin.
Played By: Jack Lyall
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Personality
Gustave could easily be considered a mamma's boy. He is very close to his mother and often clings to her for comfort. He loves both his mother and his father very much, but sometimes feels like his father doesn't love him back, which upsets the poor boy greatly. He's often very shy around new people, and finds that he does not think the same way that they do, hearing music in his head and such, and so he often keeps his innermost thoughts to himself.
Gustave has a great love and talent for music, much like his mother and his biological father. He has been singing since before he could speak and is a very talented boy soprano. He is also quite skilled at the piano and likes to write down music which he makes up and hears in his head. Music has become a sort of friend to him, along with the old piano in the parlor at home, as they were there to be his companions whenever his father refused to play with him.
Gustave is also a fearful boy. While he s not, nor has he ever been, afraid of the dark like many of the children his age, he does have many other fears, from little every-day things like dogs and spiders, to things like death with which he has had the misfortune of experiencing at such a young age after it took away his little sister. Some of his fears, like the fear of death, can easily be explained. For instance, the boy never learned how to swim, and so he is a little afraid of being around deep water if it is possible that he could fall in. His greatest fear, however, is losing his mother and father forever.
Dreams and Goals: Gustave dreams of some day becoming a brilliant musician, just like his mother and (though unknown to him) his father as well, or maybe even to become a composer and write music for his mother to sing. He also hopes that someday, his father (or the man he thinks is his father) will be more openly show love to him.
Strengths:
- is a brilliant pianist, especially for his age.
- a gifted boy soprano
- good at hide-and-seek because he's small and can easily fit into hiding places
- very studious, likes to practice his music diligently
- is good at making up music
- Is good-mannered
Weaknesses:
- Cannot swim
- His short stature makes it difficult to reach high things
- naïve, due mostly to his young age
- Can be irritating sometimes to adults
- Can be a bit shy around new people
- Can be a bit impatient
- His curiosity can sometimes get him into trouble
Fears:
- Mr. Y's face
- Spiders
- losing his mother and father
- being alone
- death
- big dogs
- thunder and lighting storms
- getting lost
- deep water
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The Past
Mother: Vicomtesse Christine Emilie de Chagny, née Christine Daaé
Father (though not biological): Vicomte Raoul Edouard de Chagny (unknown to him that he is not his real father)
Father (biological): Erik (Mr. Y) (this is unknown to him)
Grandfather: Gustave Daaé (deceased)
Sister: Christina-Anné Marguerite de Chagny (deceased) (often went by “Marguerite” or “Marie”)
History:
Gustave was born on on the fifth of August in Paris, France to the Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Chagny. Although he is unaware of it, the Vicomte is not his biological father, but instead his father is the former Opera ghost who used to haunt the cellars of his mother's former workplace, the Opéra Populaire. The Vicomte himself is also unaware of the child's true paternity. The child was named after his grandfather, the late Gustave Daaé, Daaé, of course, being his mother's maiden name.
The first few years of Gustave's life were splendid. He was loved by his parents and cared for dearly, being the son of nobility. He began to show musical talent at a very young age and was sort of babbling songs that he made up in his head before he could even speak. When the boy was three years old, Christine gave birth to another child: a little girl named Christina-Anné Marguerite de Chagny (being named after her mother Christine, her mother's best friend Marguerite or “Meg”, and the woman who practically raised Christine, Madame Antoinette Giry). This was quite difficult for little Gustave to pronounce though, so he simply called her “Marie.” Gustave loved his sister and liked to hum to her the music in his head when she was crying.
It was at this point that matters began to take a downturn. Gustave began to see his parents less – his mother because she had begun to sing again, and his father because he had begun to go out, drinking, and getting sucked into gambling while he was drunk. Gustave was just barely five years old. A little over a year passed after little Marie was born when the girl became terribly sick and died of her illness. This was Gustave's first experience with death. He did not understand what it was – only that it took his little sister away and he never saw her again after that. After then, he feared someday that “death” would come to take away him or his parents as well.
After his sister's death, his mother stopped singing and was at home with him again, but his father continued to be away from the home, drinking and gambling away, although little Gustave, being young and naïve as he was, did not understand this. All he knew what that his father never seemed to want to play with him and often seemed angry or upset when he came home. Gustave remembered vaguely what his father had been like before this started and it confused him because his father didn't seem to love him any more, or at least not like before. The poor boy often wondered if he still liked him at all. His mother made every effort she could to coddle him and to play with him, but there was still a bit of a void in the boy from what he remembered of before.
In order to fill this void, Gustave began to take an interest in instruments, particularly in the piano. He ended up having a natural talent for the instrument and found that he could plunk out the melodies of the music that he often heard in his head and in his dreams. He asked his mother to teach him how to read music and was soon enough reading and playing quite well.
After a few years, his parents seemed to grow more and more unhappy, struggling to make ends meet, though they did the best they could to hide this from little Gustave. As far as the child was aware, he had a family and life not much different from any other child's, although he couldn't help but to feel that he was different in another way. He had strange dreams and would often hear music in his head, which to him seemed quite beautiful. None of the other children he met or played with seemed to understand this though, so he wouldn't talk about it very often. He did, however, like to sit in the dark after his parents were fast asleep, and hum aloud, for only himself to hear, those strange, beautiful melodies which went through his head. Sometimes, he would sneak downstairs to the parlor to play the on the piano.
It was on the child's tenth birthday that his mother received a strange letter in the mail, inviting her to perform for one “Mr. Y” on Coney Island in America, and offering a large sum of cash if she obliged. Gustave asked where Coney Island was and it was explained to him that the place was a sort of giant amusement park, full of rides and sweet treats. Gustave (like any child would) liked the sound of this very much. The family had already been planing to go to America, so his mother could sing for a man by the name of Oscar Hammerstein, who was apparently very well-known in America, and given the large sum of money involved with the performance, Raoul agreed to let Christine go to sing.
Soon after, the family departed on the ocean liner Persephone, heading toward Manhattan Island – New york City. Gustave clung to his mother as they departed from the ship. He was a little afraid of being around the deep ocean water, as he did not know how to swim, but hoped that here he would have the opportunity to learn how. All of the reporters and people around did not make him any less afraid, and she shyly stayed close within his mother's embrace. They spoke to him and asked him a few questions, but their voices seemed almost mean. Gustave didn't like it and was going to ask if they could go home, when he spotted an odd site: a wonderfully strange carriage with metal mechanical horses. Why, it was just like something out of one of the boys dreams! Three people appeared from the carriage and began to perform magic tricks. Everything was just as he'd dreamed it would be. The boy was amazed to say the least, but his father did not seem so pleased. Leaving behind the crowd of crude reporters, The family stepped inside of the carriage to be whisked away to Coney Island where Gustave's mother was to sing for this Mr. Y's Phantasma.
When they arrived in the hotel suite, Gustave was quite excited to see that there was a piano there, and immediately rushed toward it, but was even more excited when he reached there and found that someone had left for him a wind up toy that played music. He took the toy and say down to play with it, begging his father to come look and to play with him, but he seemed to be ignoring the boy. He asked and begged again and again until finally, he fat out told him no. His mother began to speak to his father though and the man seemed to be soothed for the moment. Gustave tried again to show his father the toy. He wound it up and it began to play a tune, but his father knocked it away and went off, grumbling.
The poor boy was crestfallen that his father still refused to play with him and asked his mother if father loved him. His mother replied that sometimes people show love in funny ways and that it can be easy to misunderstand, but that if he were to look with his heart instead of with his eyes, he would find his answer.
Gustave went off with a nanny to go to bed, but when he fell asleep, he began to have strange nightmares, nothing like the wonderful, fantasies which usually filled his dreams. This time, there was a crazy person who took him away and was trying to drown him. The boy woke up in terror and quickly ran back to where he had left his mother, raving about his dream and running into her embrace. His mother hushed him and calmed him, and then introduced his to a man who she said was a friend of her – Mr. Y. The man seemed very nice, and the boy was quite curious. Shyly, he asked the man if sometime he could show him all around the strange, dark mysteries of the island and its parks. The man promised to show him the very next day, and then mysteriously vanished. Before the boy could remark, his mother sent him back to bed.
The next day, Gustave went out with his mother to see the place where she was to perform, but the boy was quite anxious about going with Mr. Y to be able to explore the park. His mother laughed and told him to be patient, but then came across a woman who she seemed to know and the two started talking... and talking... and talking.... Gustave was growing bored, and was tired of waiting, but it was then that he noticed the three people from the day before, who had brought them to Coney Island in the strange carriage with mechanical horses. They were gesturing for him to come, and so glancing back at his mother, he did so.
The trio took him to a place full of all sorts of strange machines and he asked them if this was where Mr. Y lived. They replied that it was his workshop. Gustave went and met Mr. Y there in his workshop and Mr. Y began to show him around. It was all so strange and beautiful, just like something out of one of his dreams. Mr. Y's world was just like the one he had always dreamed of. He asked Mr. Y if he heard music in his head too. The pair seemed to be getting along splendidly. They were so much alike... And then something happened which shattered that completely. Mr. Y removed the mask he was wearing and Gustave saw his face. The boy was terrified and screamed, running away as fast as he could. He screamed so much and was in such a panic, that the boy passed out from hyperventilating. It was at this point that Gustave arrived in the manor.
RP Sample
Images of far off lands and mystical creatures raced through the child's head. They all seemed so strange to him, and yet somehow... they were all so very beautiful! Strange, yet beautiful! The creatures danced about on land, sea and air, all dancing so beautifully. And they sang too! Every single one of them. It was all so beautiful. Oh, the singing. It was a song which he hadn't heard from them yet...
Gustave's eyes flew open and he practically leaped from his bed, not bothering to change out of his night clothes. He had to write it down! That music! That singing in his head! It was so beautiful! He had to write it before it went away! He raced, half-tripping down the steps, heading to the piano in the parlor. He didn't care that it was four o'clock in the morning. This was important!
When he reached the piano-forte, he quickly began scrambling and feeling around for some paper and a pencil, humming the music to himself over and over, taking the time to plunk it out on the keys on occasion. Oh, this was the best one yet!... Oh, wait until mother hears this he thought to himself. He loved to play for his mother the on the piano all of the songs that he wrote. He liked playing them for his father as well, but he wasn't there to hear them very often. Perhaps he would hear this one though....
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