Name: Alice Kingston

Gender: Female

Age: 23

Place of Birth: Toulon, South France.

Species: Mortal.

Appearance: As a child, Alice's petite face and features were lightly dotted in freckles, complimenting very pale skin that became brightly red around the apples of her cheeks in the summer sun. The now bright red curls and waves were once a light ginger, set out in tight ringlets atop her head. Her eyes seemed to change from their infant grey to a soft blue that seemed to make her skin appear even paler and glowing. When Alice was a teenager, she hated the fact that her freckles would become darker and darker against her cheeks when the sun became its hottest. She would spread on sun lotion and wear hats to keep from burning and reddening her face.

From a twelve year old with puppy fat and curves still in development, she grew a little taller but lost her younger figure and became willowy and petite, small hands and feet, with dainty features and annoyingly bony knees and elbows. Alice would like to get the curves of her earlier youth back, but they don't seem to want to return for her. With her figure, she has small breasts and a small yet rounded bottom, which seems to compliment her when she wears her strapped shoes and gypsy skirts, or her simple jeans and blouses.

Personality: Alice is quite a sheltered woman, though not naive as such, she is sometimes a little tactless and can say things quite bluntly in the most innocent ways. She is shy to the point of blushing throughout a conversation with someone, and often turns her head away or covers her cheek with her hand in a nervous gesture. Although troubled by her past, and somewhat still lurking within its nightmares, she tends to mask it and stop herself from going crazy by talking people she doesn't know, or using being seemingly off-handed about the whole experience. The fact that she was adopted and abused doesn't tend to crop up in conversation lightly, but some people can sense people in her life haven't been that wholesome and caring.

Surprisingly though, Alice is a survivor and has the uncanny ability to endure and is more intelligent than most people first think. She is quite philosophical and tends to ponder quite a lot, whilst indulging in her hobbies or writing and watching films. Her confidence would probably be boosted more if she did get out of the house more often, but most of the time she only goes out when he friends take he rout to clubs.

History:
Warning: History contains subjects and themes of abuse.

Matilde Legard was born on 7th February, 1984, on the south coast of France, to fourteen year old Esme Legard, the daughter of a rich socialite family. The nurses at the hospital warned Esme not to name the child, but the girl seemed to feel better in doing so. But nearly two days after Matilde's birth, she was adopted by a dishonest couple who lived in the South of England. They were a couple who adopted foreign babies and sold them to the highest bidders and to family's who couldn't be approved by the system for adoption. However the married couple, James and Casey Kingston, became attached to her and decided not to sell her off, and so renamed her Alice. To cease any suspicion from social services, they moved to Ontario in Canada when she was two months old.

The Kingston’s had enough money to move into a reasonable sized house, with rooms for a study, a separate library, a cot and play room for Alice and everything in-between. Casey became a surprisingly caring and secure mother once she had settled down. Though she seemed to become submissive and unsure of herself and her opinions around James, who had the ability to make a certain fear arise in her and Alice, even as a small baby. James managed to keep this air of dominance well into Alice's pre-teenage years, and was very strict and bearing upon her whereabouts, schoolwork, crushes and appearance. Like an overly protective brother, with an obsessive streak he would drag her into the house violently when he saw any boy talking to her. Casey, in frequent failing attempts, fought and argued with her husband to let Alice have her freedom, but it never worked. The fantasies of familial bliss shattered, and soon transformed into fairytale longings and visions of knights on dark horses, a shadowy yet fair prince riding her off into a blazing sunset. These fantasies were mainly due to her love of classic horror films and visionary gothic literature. At school Alice would read the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Portrait of Dorian Grey, appreciating their essence and meaning where others her age could not.

But again, fairytales did not bode well for her, and even the books could not cover the sickness that was to come. As soon as Alice turned fourteen, James seemed to take a different liking to her. Making comments on how pretty she was, and how well she was growing into a young woman. Alice brushed these off as her father being a little parental on her growing up, but was suspicious all the same. As the comments turned into touches and more than fatherly kisses on the cheek, she began to vent her thoughts to Casey. Unfortunately, her mother went into a rage, calling her a slut and a liar, banning her from going out with her few friends before and after school, confiscating her books and films. Alice abided by her mothers grounding for several months, until James crossed the line, when he enforced rules of his own. On an evening when Casey had met her friends for a drink, James walked into Alice's bedroom and set a course of events that would change her life for the utter worse. After that one evening, it happened over and over again, with Alice making a considerable attempt to fight him away. The grounding still stayed in place, and Casey switched between her routine as loving mother and hysterical carer. By this time, Alice was seventeen and performing poorly in her studies, due to the chaos at home and the feelings and confusions that made her lie awake at night. The 'curfew' had been lifted, and now Alice was free to roam with her friends for only an hour after school, but in an attempt to dull emotions that made her become physically sick, she would disappear for days on end, worrying her mother and enraging her father beyond doubt. She wouldn't stay at friends, but would hitch rides to towns and cities, her favourite spot being Demaitre where she would stay in youth hostels and runaway shelters, reading her books and keeping herself to herself.

As Alice turned eighteen, she began working in a bookshop as an assistant on the weekends. The only careers she had ever wished to aspire in were publishing or journalism, but her confidence for the latter had been dulled to a considerable doubt in her abilities. With her studies withering, and her self-belief almost gone, she left school with graduating and kept her job in Ontario for several years, living at home whilst saving as much of her wages as possible, so she could move into a flat of her own. Alice went out with friends on occasion and even had a few boyfriends, but never got further than kissing and taking off a few clothes before she became insecure and very aware of what had happened to her as a younger teenager. As those events still happened sometimes at home, she was reluctant to experience that with anyone else, afraid that they would hurt her like her father had. It wasn't until Alice was able to move out of her parents house, to her favourite Demaitre, that they told her that she was adopted. Of course, Alice found it hard to deal with, but wasn't surprised, and actually found it quite relieving. Her new flat in Demaitre and a new job in a library gave her a sudden sense of freedom. Though she still felt shy, unsure and uneasy around people she didn't know, especially men, she did manage to go out to clubs when her friends insisted. But still, she refused to open up to any male that made advances, even when they treated her in the gentlest ways.

The years passed in Demaitre faster than Alice could have anticipated. She got used to all the people going missing, and the masses of people who seemed to emerge when the sun set. It was comfortable for her, and keeping down her job as a librarian was easy for her, as her interest in literature kept her amused until the end of her shift. Now Alice lives in the worse part of the city, but travels in her old car or takes the bus when the car seems to die or have a life of its own. She has no current boyfriend, and often questions her sexuality, but knows that when she finds the right man or woman then she will be content and feel secure.

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Parents/Carers:
Birth mother - Esme Legard [aged 37]
Birth father - Alain Belmont [aged 40]
Adoptive mother - Casey Kingston [aged 48]
Adoptive father - James Kingston [aged 50]

Siblings

Jaques Hurst [half-brother, aged 9]

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