Synodiporia Application
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NAME: Annabel McAlistair
CANON: New Albion
POINT IN CANON: Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera, Act 2/Scene 1. (After the birth of her son, around when he's 5.)
AGE: 32
APPEARANCE: New Albion (specifically the Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera, but there are two other albums in the series) is a musical canon, so not only is there not an official canon appearance, there’s also not a lot of description. That being said, I did see a stage adaptation of it. All of the characterization is based purely off of the songs and some extra pieces provided by the author, but I have based her appearance off of the adaptation. She’s blonde and very expressive (something that also holds true through her voice, as it clearly shows her emotions). Since it is a steampunk opera, her clothing would be heavily influenced by steampunk styles, combined with the fact that she’s a mad scientist. I’m using Katherine Heigl as a PB:
CANON HISTORY: Annabel McAlistair was born to wealthy parents who believed unequivocally in achievement over all else. They pushed her, their only child, very hard, teaching her that social interactions were a waste of time, particularly among the children that were her classmates. After all, they hadn’t proven themselves to be worthy of knowing yet. And Annabel had to prove herself because anyone worth knowing would want to know her. She did well in school from an academic perspective, submersing herself in math and science just as was asked of her, and she went to college. While there she met Jasper and fell in love with him, although he had an arranged betrothal already in existence. One night, at a party, they talked for hours and then they kissed.
Shortly after that, she got into an argument with some of her professors, about whether or not a theory she had proposed was possible. She proved that it was, but since she used stolen corpses to do so she was expelled from her college. Her parents were actually pleased about this, since they thought conflict with authority would help her to build her name with true breakthroughs. However, they died shortly after she was expelled, and Annabel was left her lab and enough money to allow her to focus only on her experiments. She also kept an eye on Jasper, watching as he entered into an arranged marriage. She was convinced he was miserable, based in large part on their conversation that one night, where he’d admitted he was dreading it.
He and his wife had a daughter, Fay, but some time after her birth, Jasper died in an accident. Annabel found a practical use for her research, and brought him back to life, under the assumption that he’d want to be with her. It was a false assumption, and after she understood that, that she had pulled Jasper out of Elysium (essentially heaven), Annabel let him die again and hid her notes away in the attic. She lost herself in other sorts of research and scientific advance, growing wealthier, even if that didn’t matter to her.
She did eventually marry, and had a son, Edgar. When she was around to raise her son, she was full of life and the center of his world, but she would frequently still lose herself in her lab and in her math equations, disappearing for days on end.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Annabel is, by nature and by raising, a bit of a mad scientist. She’s very focused, when she gets into research, and tends to lose herself in it entirely. Part of this is because of her parents, who were very focused individuals themselves. they taught her, and the lesson has stuck despite some intellectual acknowledgement on her end that it’s ridiculous, that the most important thing is to be a success, not so much to be happy. They told her that she was wasting her time when she had friends over, that they weren’t sending her to school in order to make friends.
As a result, she is absolutely a lonely person. She ends up not having any friends, and is teased at school. She shrugs it off, fine with being the weird kid as long as she has her parent’s approval. And that will only come with hard work and success.
She also tends to build up elaborate fantasies in her own head, anchoring them in what she sees but not necessarily in reality. It’s that sort of fantasy which she built up around Jasper, and it was solidified when they spoke for the first time at a university event, and he kissed her. At that moment, she fell the rest of the way in love with him, thinking that the kiss meant all of her feelings were reciprocated. Some of them might have been, and to be certain Jasper was miserable in his marriage, but when she brought him back to life, he couldn’t talk, and she was still convinced that he was happy to be her companion.
She used his company to indulge in all the things she hadn’t been allowed to do when she was a child. After all, she had proven she could conquer life and death, and surely that much excellent behavior meant that she deserved a break. That she had earned the right to a little relaxation, because everyone knew that such things did have to be earned.
She takes Jasper with her everywhere, building up their relationship and taking advantage of having a friend to go to the park with, to be in public with without having to worry about how everyone might stare. Unfortunately, fantasies that lived only in her head were destined to be shattered, and while Jasper was mute for the most part, he learned how to play the radio, and to shape his thoughts into words through that manner. He managed to tell Annabel that she had taken him out of Elysium, essentially heaven, and that he’d kind of like to go back. This — not the fact that he had married someone else and then died, but the fact that she had brought him back and it wasn’t enough — broke her heart. She let him die again and buried her notes in the attic, and threw herself into other research.
She can rely on science and mathematic to make sense, but she was hoping that Jasper would rescue her from what she recognized as a cold life, to bring light into it. He didn’t, and so she kept her faith in science and lost it in everything else.
While she did marry someone else and have a child, her heart was in the lab, since her parents had proved correct. Her knowledge was the only thing that could actually bring her happiness and while she loved her son, she loved the lab more, and would vanish there and entirely forget about the outside world. (And Edgar isn’t allowed in there, because he’s a young child and would likely make a mess of things and disrupt her experiments.) Little is known about her relationship with her husband, although the impression is that when she’s present she’s much more emotionally vibrant than him. He is most likely a trophy husband, someone suitably high in society but who married her for her success rather than because they were in love. After Jasper’s second death, Annabel returned to the lonely life that she had been raised to.
She’s always focused, even when she has decided to focus on having fun. She approaches life with an incredible intensity that comes with not knowing how long it will last and how long she’ll get this moment (even if she’s also not sure how much she likes any given moment).
POINT OF DEPARTURE: N/A, OU
ABILITIES: She’s really smart. She canonically invented a formula for bringing the dead back to life, although she’s not used it since then and wouldn’t again. She doesn’t have any magic or anything like that, though.
INVENTORY; Her labcoat, goggles, a hair-tie, an empty beaker, gloves with gears on them, her notebook
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE:
[Okay Annabel. Breathe. It’s just talking to a bunch of strangers. Lots of people do that, on a regular basis. It’s not like they even have to like her, just listen to her.]
So is having voices in your head a regular thing for most of you? I’m not judging, just curious. I mean, I talk to myself sometimes, but this seems a little different. I think I’m figuring this place out, but maybe it would be good to just run through a quick checklist.
1. I’ve been kidnapped.
2. The laws of science don’t work here the way that they’re supposed to.
3. Some of the people I’ve met don’t remember meeting me.
4. There’s no way to get a message back home.
5. No one’s found a lab properly outfitted with good equipment.
[That should cover the important parts.]
PROSE SAMPLE:
Annabel had been in the middle of working in her lab, scrawling out the equations that would lead her to what she wanted, and she felt more piqued than confused to find herself taken away from all of that. Confusion was the more enduring emotion, however, and when she found her way to some of the more interesting parts of this building, feelings of piqued vanishing completely in favor of scientific curiosity.
So now there was a blonde in a lab coat buttoned over a corset, gloves, and with goggles resting on the top of her head or over her eyes, depending on what she was trying to look at.
Jetway Tunnels
The first step is careful exploration of all the areas that she can find, and if she looks at the parts that might be considered part of a regular airport with as much examination as she gives to the other areas, zeppelins are what they use in New Albion. Those have different docking mechanisms, and besides, Annabel has never had a reason to leave the city.
She has a notebook, and if she thinks in equations as well as writing actual words, well, it’s all in careful writing, so at least it’s legible. And if she bumps into someone in the narrow passageways while she’s writing, well, the people might be almost as interesting as this place. Maybe.
V1 Lounge
This place is awesome. Annabel has thought up a microscope and a chalkboard (because it’s so much easier to write things down there than in her notebook, and she can copy the relevant parts) and she’s examining something she thinks she scraped off the wall under the microscope. She’s tried a couple of times to remove the microscope from the room, and while it’s a disappointment that it won’t come with (she has the goggles, but they’re not nearly as good) at least she has it here, and she’s run a few tests on her own clothing to confirm that it seems accurate.
After she’s been there for a while, she’ll turn towards one of the other people that she’s been carefully ignoring and talk to them. “Do you have something thought up that I could borrow?” It’s not a very good investigation if she only focuses on her own conjured items.
NAME: Annabel McAlistair
CANON: New Albion
POINT IN CANON: Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera, Act 2/Scene 1. (After the birth of her son, around when he's 5.)
AGE: 32
APPEARANCE: New Albion (specifically the Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera, but there are two other albums in the series) is a musical canon, so not only is there not an official canon appearance, there’s also not a lot of description. That being said, I did see a stage adaptation of it. All of the characterization is based purely off of the songs and some extra pieces provided by the author, but I have based her appearance off of the adaptation. She’s blonde and very expressive (something that also holds true through her voice, as it clearly shows her emotions). Since it is a steampunk opera, her clothing would be heavily influenced by steampunk styles, combined with the fact that she’s a mad scientist. I’m using Katherine Heigl as a PB:
CANON HISTORY: Annabel McAlistair was born to wealthy parents who believed unequivocally in achievement over all else. They pushed her, their only child, very hard, teaching her that social interactions were a waste of time, particularly among the children that were her classmates. After all, they hadn’t proven themselves to be worthy of knowing yet. And Annabel had to prove herself because anyone worth knowing would want to know her. She did well in school from an academic perspective, submersing herself in math and science just as was asked of her, and she went to college. While there she met Jasper and fell in love with him, although he had an arranged betrothal already in existence. One night, at a party, they talked for hours and then they kissed.
Shortly after that, she got into an argument with some of her professors, about whether or not a theory she had proposed was possible. She proved that it was, but since she used stolen corpses to do so she was expelled from her college. Her parents were actually pleased about this, since they thought conflict with authority would help her to build her name with true breakthroughs. However, they died shortly after she was expelled, and Annabel was left her lab and enough money to allow her to focus only on her experiments. She also kept an eye on Jasper, watching as he entered into an arranged marriage. She was convinced he was miserable, based in large part on their conversation that one night, where he’d admitted he was dreading it.
He and his wife had a daughter, Fay, but some time after her birth, Jasper died in an accident. Annabel found a practical use for her research, and brought him back to life, under the assumption that he’d want to be with her. It was a false assumption, and after she understood that, that she had pulled Jasper out of Elysium (essentially heaven), Annabel let him die again and hid her notes away in the attic. She lost herself in other sorts of research and scientific advance, growing wealthier, even if that didn’t matter to her.
She did eventually marry, and had a son, Edgar. When she was around to raise her son, she was full of life and the center of his world, but she would frequently still lose herself in her lab and in her math equations, disappearing for days on end.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Annabel is, by nature and by raising, a bit of a mad scientist. She’s very focused, when she gets into research, and tends to lose herself in it entirely. Part of this is because of her parents, who were very focused individuals themselves. they taught her, and the lesson has stuck despite some intellectual acknowledgement on her end that it’s ridiculous, that the most important thing is to be a success, not so much to be happy. They told her that she was wasting her time when she had friends over, that they weren’t sending her to school in order to make friends.
As a result, she is absolutely a lonely person. She ends up not having any friends, and is teased at school. She shrugs it off, fine with being the weird kid as long as she has her parent’s approval. And that will only come with hard work and success.
She also tends to build up elaborate fantasies in her own head, anchoring them in what she sees but not necessarily in reality. It’s that sort of fantasy which she built up around Jasper, and it was solidified when they spoke for the first time at a university event, and he kissed her. At that moment, she fell the rest of the way in love with him, thinking that the kiss meant all of her feelings were reciprocated. Some of them might have been, and to be certain Jasper was miserable in his marriage, but when she brought him back to life, he couldn’t talk, and she was still convinced that he was happy to be her companion.
She used his company to indulge in all the things she hadn’t been allowed to do when she was a child. After all, she had proven she could conquer life and death, and surely that much excellent behavior meant that she deserved a break. That she had earned the right to a little relaxation, because everyone knew that such things did have to be earned.
She takes Jasper with her everywhere, building up their relationship and taking advantage of having a friend to go to the park with, to be in public with without having to worry about how everyone might stare. Unfortunately, fantasies that lived only in her head were destined to be shattered, and while Jasper was mute for the most part, he learned how to play the radio, and to shape his thoughts into words through that manner. He managed to tell Annabel that she had taken him out of Elysium, essentially heaven, and that he’d kind of like to go back. This — not the fact that he had married someone else and then died, but the fact that she had brought him back and it wasn’t enough — broke her heart. She let him die again and buried her notes in the attic, and threw herself into other research.
She can rely on science and mathematic to make sense, but she was hoping that Jasper would rescue her from what she recognized as a cold life, to bring light into it. He didn’t, and so she kept her faith in science and lost it in everything else.
While she did marry someone else and have a child, her heart was in the lab, since her parents had proved correct. Her knowledge was the only thing that could actually bring her happiness and while she loved her son, she loved the lab more, and would vanish there and entirely forget about the outside world. (And Edgar isn’t allowed in there, because he’s a young child and would likely make a mess of things and disrupt her experiments.) Little is known about her relationship with her husband, although the impression is that when she’s present she’s much more emotionally vibrant than him. He is most likely a trophy husband, someone suitably high in society but who married her for her success rather than because they were in love. After Jasper’s second death, Annabel returned to the lonely life that she had been raised to.
She’s always focused, even when she has decided to focus on having fun. She approaches life with an incredible intensity that comes with not knowing how long it will last and how long she’ll get this moment (even if she’s also not sure how much she likes any given moment).
POINT OF DEPARTURE: N/A, OU
ABILITIES: She’s really smart. She canonically invented a formula for bringing the dead back to life, although she’s not used it since then and wouldn’t again. She doesn’t have any magic or anything like that, though.
INVENTORY; Her labcoat, goggles, a hair-tie, an empty beaker, gloves with gears on them, her notebook
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE:
[Okay Annabel. Breathe. It’s just talking to a bunch of strangers. Lots of people do that, on a regular basis. It’s not like they even have to like her, just listen to her.]
So is having voices in your head a regular thing for most of you? I’m not judging, just curious. I mean, I talk to myself sometimes, but this seems a little different. I think I’m figuring this place out, but maybe it would be good to just run through a quick checklist.
1. I’ve been kidnapped.
2. The laws of science don’t work here the way that they’re supposed to.
3. Some of the people I’ve met don’t remember meeting me.
4. There’s no way to get a message back home.
5. No one’s found a lab properly outfitted with good equipment.
[That should cover the important parts.]
PROSE SAMPLE:
Annabel had been in the middle of working in her lab, scrawling out the equations that would lead her to what she wanted, and she felt more piqued than confused to find herself taken away from all of that. Confusion was the more enduring emotion, however, and when she found her way to some of the more interesting parts of this building, feelings of piqued vanishing completely in favor of scientific curiosity.
So now there was a blonde in a lab coat buttoned over a corset, gloves, and with goggles resting on the top of her head or over her eyes, depending on what she was trying to look at.
Jetway Tunnels
The first step is careful exploration of all the areas that she can find, and if she looks at the parts that might be considered part of a regular airport with as much examination as she gives to the other areas, zeppelins are what they use in New Albion. Those have different docking mechanisms, and besides, Annabel has never had a reason to leave the city.
She has a notebook, and if she thinks in equations as well as writing actual words, well, it’s all in careful writing, so at least it’s legible. And if she bumps into someone in the narrow passageways while she’s writing, well, the people might be almost as interesting as this place. Maybe.
V1 Lounge
This place is awesome. Annabel has thought up a microscope and a chalkboard (because it’s so much easier to write things down there than in her notebook, and she can copy the relevant parts) and she’s examining something she thinks she scraped off the wall under the microscope. She’s tried a couple of times to remove the microscope from the room, and while it’s a disappointment that it won’t come with (she has the goggles, but they’re not nearly as good) at least she has it here, and she’s run a few tests on her own clothing to confirm that it seems accurate.
After she’s been there for a while, she’ll turn towards one of the other people that she’s been carefully ignoring and talk to them. “Do you have something thought up that I could borrow?” It’s not a very good investigation if she only focuses on her own conjured items.
