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Say Yes

2007-02-16T22:42:06Z

I want to be normal.

Bled White

2007-02-10T15:49:51Z

In light of past circumstances... today seems rather nice.

Would anyone like to take a walk? Or meet me for lunch?

No Name No.5

2007-02-05T22:00:35Z

It seems so when I
Speek, I trip upon my words
Left with this pattern.

I don't; I dream

2007-02-02T23:36:29Z

I truly do not like this curse. Many have been affected, and will feel very foolish tomorrow. ~~Though, for the more mysanthropic types I have noticed a sudden trend in sociality, which is nice.~~

If anyone I know has been affected, please inform you, and I will do my best to keep you from doing anything you will readily regret tomorrow.

Je commence vraiment à desserrer ma patience avec cet endroit...

stay who you are

2007-01-30T19:49:12Z

I am quite pleased to have my clothing back, thank you. I had only... nightgowns and flowing dresses yesterday, and while that in it's self it not unbearable, they where sized for a small child. Needless to say, I did not... leave the house so often yesterday.

Hmm... In other news, I hear several people have gone missing recently. Is this a reglar occurance here? And, could I assist in any way? Not that I have much backround in this area, but I would like to help.

[ooc Switched with Wendy Darling (of the Peter Pan fame) yesterday.]

Drown Tomorrow Out

2007-01-28T22:13:37Z

Nnn... The cursed day that caused all of that happiness... left me in a bad state... I am better now, for all purposes.

I had located a preist on that day...?

Bon Dieu...!

XO, mom

2007-01-23T19:17:25Z

Thank you, Sir Cobray.

And now to the matter of a preist. Where could I find one?

[ooc If anyone wants to make me numbingly happy and mention seeing dead birds lying around outside of Building 11 with bullets in them, feel free ♥]

2:45 am

2007-01-22T20:01:29Z

Ugh... Pardonnez-moi, je suis légèrement contrarié à l'heure actuelle, il est cette fois du mois, je croient... Do forgive me for being brusque...

There are things I need. Guns. I will pay the price that you ask, should I have it... Actuellement j'ai quatorze francs... un manteau, initialisations, une chaise... ce qui est le taux de change ici?

I also need to know the location of a preist. I would like to go to confessional.

And, if you think you may be from my world, please contact me.

Chère Vierge, je déteste ceci...

[ooc She breaks into French when she is slightly... put out? Depressed? Apathetic? All of the above! You'll know if she's angry if she yells at you in German. Need a translation? Just ask, hon.]

Waltz #2 (Xo)

2007-01-21T16:17:35Z

I feel much better now, and apologize to anyone to who I was very... skittish around.

I found an flat in building 11, room 100 had all of the furnishings I desired, and many CDs I have had at home, plus some! ~~When did he publish 'Basement On A Hill?'~~ Ah, but I have taken a bath, rested and feel much better.

There seems to be a war brewing. I will take no part in it, but still... Everyone is so helpful here... So:

Where could I find some rifles? A Lee-Enfield No 4 Mk I (T) would do, along with a Springfield M1903A4, or a SMLE Mk III* (HT), but I would really prefer a Mosin-Nagant M91/30. And no Mauser K98k!

[ooc Strikes hackable to anyone who knows what the hell I'm talking about; and her rifles are hopelessly outdated because IT AMMUSES ME!]

Waltz #1

2007-01-20T16:09:50Z

Tant d'Anglais ici...

This seems to be the main form of communication between peoples, here. And there are many people. So far I have met two... three Japanese, two English women, and someone who may possibly be German! Such an odd place- are there no French? No Americans? I do wonder...

I shall practice my English by writing my private entries in English... it was getting rusty, I only practiced with the Americans, and their English was... odd.

I had a diary at home. I wrote my most private thoughts in it. Though this- this is not private. I am lucky the American Military used computers so often, or I would know little of them.

Oh Holy Father in Heaven, I am in Hell. I know why... but, when did I die? I do not remember that...

Anyway... I have met interesting people here! Three Japanese! One most definitely has radiation poisoning- he speaks of meeting God-... I feel so sorry for what the Americans did to his country... but it was necessary. This Masaki boy, I will have to help him, in the future. He needs it.

And one English girl- named Swann- was so very nice! I do not know why... She knows I am French...

Hell is such an odd place.

I will need to aquire new gunning equiptment...

At least these Computers play Elliott Smith.

OOC yaesz~

2007-01-18T02:33:02Z

Character;

Adèle “Adeline” Meillassoux

Name/Nick; Pitsy/ Pitseleh
LJ name; pitseleh_smith
E-mail; Waif_eight@yahoo.com
AIM/messenger; N/a

Abilities;

Nothing supernatural, but she has been classically trained a sniper shooter.

Flaws/weaknesses;

She is very afraid of letting her country down due to France (yes, she’s French) being an open city for most all of the World War Era. In romantic relationships, she is controlling, jealous and possessive. She is very religious, a catholic. If she didn’t work for the government, she would be a nun. She is bisexual, and rather ashamed of the unions she has had with women due to her affiliation with the Catholic Church. She has is also slightly masochistic, and thus purposely careless when on missions so she often gets hurt.

Social politics ftw;

Because of the indelable permiance of The War Era, Adeline's world's social politics are a biiiiit screwy. I'll be blunt:

~~These are generalized statements, but whutev...~~
*Brittish people generaly spit on French people
*French people are very subservient to Brittish people
*Everyone spits on German people
*Americans are thought of as 'weird', but on equal footing with everyone but Germany
*Italians are pitied ♥
*Everyone is sympathetic towards Japanese people
*Finnish and Polish people are respected and ostricised
*Russian people are met with indifference
*Greeks are respected

How this filters into Adeline;

Adeline follows all of those steriotypes with the exeption of the Americans. Because the military division she worked with had so much contact with Americans, she feels on equal footing with them, and rather likes to practice her English with them. She had a few American friends, who are too infintessimal to name here, save that they do exist.

History/background; I tried to shorten it best I could ;_;

Adeline’s world is not unlike our own, up until the Phony War(what historians call the first few battles of WWII and Germany’s invasion of Poland), because some time around 1935, Hitler was killed in a freak accident. Immediately taking his place was Korbinan Wagner. He led Germany in the same fashion as Hitler, but he had a Napoleonic level of intelligence, cunning, and persistence. This caused the Phony war to end in 1936, instead of 1940, and started the official WWII years earlier. The battle raged on in Europe for a total of 16 years, WWII ending, officially, in 1952. Europe was left ravaged by war and chaos.

World War II, now lasting 16 years, is often called ‘The War Era’ along with WWII.

Most notably where the changes caused by the war; because it raged for so long, Europe was irreparably transmuted. France, most notably Paris, is rather the laughing stock of Europe, first for their grand humiliation and failure of the Maginot Line, and second their being an open city (and thus at the mercy of Germany) for so long in the war. Because of the German occupation in Paris lasted as long as it did, most Parisian residents (Adeline included) can speak German, along with French. (And English, due to school teachings)

Brittan had to take up much more territory than it’s little island in order to have enough land-artillery to defeat the German invasion. They had occupations and/or Navy ports in Spain, Ireland (duh), Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Because of that, many of those countries speak English, along with their native tongues, in the present day.

Brittan’s prime minister for much of the War Era was Winston Churchill, though he died five years after the war ended, in 1960 at the age of 85 (that is five years prematurely) due to a heart attack, possibly from the stress of leading his country for those many long years (he did not have a break between his reigns like in this life, and instead ruled for most all of the war, retiring two months after it was officially over). He has come to be remembered as a figure of much pride and promise -almost a martyr- to all of Europe, possibly an equivalent of today may be America’s view of Martin Luther King Jr. or Abraham Lincoln.

Finland survived an astonishingly long time against the Russian forces during the rather prolonged Winter War, though many of it’s residents now speak Russian quite fluently, along with Finnish, to the point that their national language has become a garbled mix of both.

Poland did not fare as well as Finland, and was laid waist to by the German forces. Warsaw was eventually declared an open city. Many Polish peoples also now speak German because of this, though German and Polish remain separate languages.

Germany occupied the Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary (thus many inhabitants of those countries speak German as well as their native tongue) for most of the war. Though, on a rather interesting note, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus played a much larger role in keeping German forces from spreading farther into Europe, and ultimately, into Russia, where they had their own Socialistic problems. Because of this, Russia is mostly the same as it is in our world, though the Cold War was postponed for some time due to The War Era lasting as long as it did. Though, Russia and Germany still did have an alliance, but due to the efforts of Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus, they had difficulty communicating and/or exchanging goods. But, as fate will have it, Operation Barbarossa still did take place (wherein the Germany betrayed Russia) along with the Battle of Stalingrad, where the war ultimately started to end.

Italy did not fare very well in the war, and was in a kind of anarchy for most of it, only rebuilding after the war’s end in 1952.

Japan also faired horribly, due to prolonged air raids from the United Stares, along with a third atomic bomb being dropped in Nagoya. Because of this, not many people still live in Japan, most have immigrated into China. They are currently trying to set up their own Japanese state, on mainland China. On a slightly more whimsical note, anime was never produced with the fervor that is has been in this world, and is virtually unheard of outside of Korea, Vietnam, Japan and China.

Israel was never created.

History then continued onward, with all population slightly diminished from the War Era in all countries. Though, The Beatles are still a huge success worldwide, Martin Luther King Jr. still fought and won for equality, and the Berlin Wall was still knocked down. Vietnam still took place, but for a much shorter period of time, along with the Korean war. JFK was still shot, Elvis is still the King, and America is still the world’s epicenter for pop culture and fashion. Elliott Smith, through an odd turn of events, is more of a world wide success, no doubt to his playing at a WWII annual commemoration ceremony that was broadcasted throughout much of Europe, the American continent, and parts of mainland China. This success will lead him to commit suicide a year early, in 2002, due to the stress from his success. But the future is neither here nor there, we are in 1991. Why is this relevant? Because Adeline is a bit of an Elliott Smith fan, and will be quite surprised when no one knows who he is in the city~

In summary, it is now 1991 in Adeline’s world. The war is long over, but Europe is still healing. Brittan’s territory is much larger due to their occupation of several countries over such a long period of time, including parts of Spain, Norway, Denmark and an unsurprisingly large amount of protestant Ireland.

France is still a sovereign country, but all public business is spoken in German, casual conversations in French, and speech to either foreigners or Englishmen is spoken in English (Due to English being taught mandatory, and rather well, in most European schools). All governments, France included, have a much more serious policy towards warfare.

France, of course, overcompensates fantastically, and has the largest military force in Europe. Irony rules, though, and it is by such trades a badly trained army. That is why those with top qualifications, skills and mental prowess (Like Adeline) naturally rise to the top.

In short, Adeline is VERY subservient to Brittish peoples, very apologetic towards Japanese peoples, rather hateful towards Germans and trusting of Polish/Finish people.

This is Adeline's world, 1991.

Character Relations;

tasteofgrief Illrya- She feels as if she was very rude to Illyria on her first day, and hopes to mend things with pure 'niceness'.
b_q_smee Smee- She rather likes Smee, and thinks he is very kind.
[Unknown LJ tag]Capt. Jas. Hook- She distrusts and dislikes Hook, but is putting this aside for Smee.
swannly Elizabeth Swann- She hopes they can become friends.

Personality;

Adeline has good manners, is fluent in French (for casual conversation), English(for foreigners and diplomacy) and German (for official business), and likes music, ballet, going to church, sex and pastries.

She is not very emotional, and will not cry or show negative emotions (i.e. sadness, angst, fear, doubt, pain) if she can help it; the exception to this rule being when someone whom she was deeply in love with/deeply respected dies/leaves. Expect crying fits, emotional breakdowns, yelling and general property damage.

She will show positive emotions (i.e. happiness, glee, joy, friendliness), but that is mostly superficial, due to her distancing herself from most emotions because of her job: gunning people down. She is especially superficial with coworkers, engaging in idle conversation with no real meaning.

The emotions she does display openly are violent ones, anger, rage, ire, sadism and masochism.

She has a very raunchy sense of humor, along with a strong sex drive, though afraid to act on both due to her Catholicism. She believes she is going to hell, and it is just a matter of time. Thus, she believes herself scum; she has very low self worth, and her only confidence is in her ability to kill, a sin, in her eyes.

In the end, Adeline is a deep person with dark needs, baleful dreams and devious thoughts, but to the average passer-by, she is polite and kind, if a bit brusque. In the end, she has two sides, one with restraints (the kind and mild mannered girl) and one without (vindictive, cruel, gun slinging heroine); they are not so different to be considered flipsides of a split personality, but maybe the more extremes of someone who’s temperament holds no middle ground.

Background setting;

Adeline is from a higher middle-class family in Paris, France. She received all of her schooling, and graduated with slightly higher-than-average scores. Then, deciding not to go to a college or nunnery as she had initially planned, instead turned to the military on a whim. As all European countries are much more militarily oriented after The War Era, the French military was happy to bring her in. They started her as a rather common foot soldier, but with time her strength with artillery was noticed, and she was hired as a gunman in 1987. She was 21.

In 1991, a small conflict started in the Middle East, the beginnings of The Gulf War, and after promoting her to that of full a sniper, Adeline was sent in to ‘deal with it’. She killed seven people. This was not the first time she had killed, but it was the first time she had killed so many, and the impact was finally starting to hit her.

She was given a triumphant return party by her parents(very proud of their oldest daughter joining France’s military and working off the shame of what The War Era did to France), and while eating the cake broke down sobbing. She explained that she killed eight people in Iraq(she had only killed seven, but saw one of her targets fall and assumed he was dead), and her family consoled her.

What she never explained was she did not feel any remorse for the killings, but instead, cried because of that lack of remorse. Shouldn’t a human feel sad when she kills another? Adeline feels no remorse, and for that, she is afraid.

She was sent back to Iraq several times, killing men and women in each instance, and learned to stop crying.

Since she has ended high school, she has been in several relationships, two with men (Mathieu and Vespasian), and thrice with women (Romanie, Swanhilde and Honorine). All of which she broke off for various reasons, with the exception of Romanie, who was killed in a car crash, and Vespasian, who dumped her when she told him she was bisexual.

(Further detail about Adeline's past unions;

Mathieu- Her first date, amoungst other things. She broke up with him because she became interested in Honorine.
Honorine- Adelines first homosexual union, they went on five dates before Adeline left her for indirect Catholic guilt.
Swanhilde- A one-night-stand turned addiction, Adeline comes crawling back to Swanhilde from time to time.
Vespasian- The first person Adeline 'really fell for'. She would have done anything for him, but it ended badly.
Romanie- She finally started to get over Vespasian when she dated Romanie, but when she died in a car crash, Adeline took it as a sign- or punishment- from God.)

Her parents are government officials, one in legislature and her mother in economic control. Her little sister’s name is Lucrece, she is seven years old.

Physical description; Rather like Zooey Deschanel: ♥~! Usually, though, she wears more black leather, high heels and a skirt with black leggings. Her military uniform is more like this, but with boobs ♥ And, y'know, hair...

Sample RP;

Crap. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap! The target moved, he moved! The little bastard- Where was he now?

Building A- empty. Building B- demolished. Building C-... interesting possibilities lay wherein. So! Adeline readjusted her equipment, fire towards the east, now! What window would this bastard poke his ugly head through? Hmmm... That one!

The window for room C42, facing the nearest escape route out of the area. You’d have to be an idiot not to be in that room. On the other hand, you’d have to be an idiot not to realize the target’s gonna take that chance.

And then she waited... The bugging equipment chirped, ready. Everything was ready. The only thing this bastard needed to do was show his ugly head so Adeline could shoot it off. Right on time.

Waiting...

Waiting...

“Hey, Charot,” Adeline whispered into her headgear, “Charrry~”

“I told you to call me Charles.” Charot answered from the military base in Baghdad, “Char-les. Charles. Now, repeat,”

“No time, Charot, I got something to tell you,” Adeline continued to watch the target’s supposed window.

“What, Adeline?” Charot was growing tired of this.

“Do we have gummy worms back at base?”

“...huh.” Charot mumbled, over the static, “Let me check,” and there was the sweet, sweet sound of him bumbling away from the microphone, into the freezer. Right on time.

Adeline’s tracking equipment bleeped loudly. Right on time. Something- Someone was coming out of that goddamned window. Right on time.

A head. Arab, full with turban and beard. Briefly, Adeline wondered what this man had done to make the Americans angry enough to tell the French artillery service to finish him.

The moment ended.

She pulled the trigger. Right on time.

“Hey, Adeline,” Charot returned, “Sorry to say, but we don’t have any gummy worms.”

“I’m sure I’ll live with the disappointment,” She sniffed, “Send a team to pick me up, I’m in sector five.”

“Yea- you finished?”

“Yeah, he’s gone.” Adeline sighed.

“B- bu- I missed it-” Charot’s breathing could be heard through the headset, “I missed it again!”

“Yeah, I know.” Right on time, “Now pick me up, I need a smoke.”

Sample post;

Dear Diary,

I talked to Father Aubert today, and he said a few hail Mary’s would cleanse me. I tried it... I don’t feel any better. I killed that man. I killed him. I pulled the trigger, and Boom! He was gone! Just a splatter on the side of an Iraqi hotel.

He’s dead, and I don’t know what he did to deserve it and... I... do not care. I don’t care I killed him and I don’t care.

And that scares me. It scares me so much. Unrepentant sinners are punished the worse by the hand of God, and I-... I don’t care. I am unrepentant because I cannot feel guilty. I have a job, and the boss told me to kill him, and I did and-... I don’t feel bad at all...

Heh. Well.

Well, on the bright side Charot- or as he’s like me to call him Charles, but Charot is such a cute pet name- he didn’t see it- hear it, actually. I distracted him with gummy worms. Gummy worms! Ha! You’d think by now he’d figure out I always send him away before I shoot! Its happened three times, already! Three!

Charot is a dolt.

~Ta!

Adeline