OOC INFO;
Player Name: Erin
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IC INFO;
Character Name: Giselle
Canon: Enchanted
Canon Information: Wiki 1 + Wiki 2
Canon Point: The evening before Edward finds her in New York, about halfway through the film
Age: Early to mid 20's -- canon nor Disney seem to have made a conclusive answer on this!
God Houses:

1) SIGYN - she's the epitome of kindness and compassion and views all life as precious (cute little woodland critters, New York vermin, and definitely all people that she meets); she's maternal without ever fully realizing it and certainly nurtures herself and the lives she comes across; she also lived most of her life in the woods and is in sync with nature

2) HONIR - she is certainly whimsical to those she meets in New York, though her positive outlook on life works well for her and for happiness (so she believes and she's yet to be unflinching in being Anything Other Than Hella Positive); and she is devoted to returning to Andalasia (the whole of which she considers her home) and staying put there; she also is forever curious about stuff she doesn't understand and loves to explore

3) NJORD - she's extremely vocal with singing and weaving tales of how she feels the world should be viewed (through the rosiest colored glass); she's never malicious, but she clearly wants to change peoples' hearts and minds into being loving always

Personality: With Giselle, what you see is what you get. She is exuberance incarnate, and she is sincerely just as happy as she always lets on. She wears her heart on her sleeve, and when experiencing sadness, anger, or similar emotions, they affect her deeply and it shows utterly on her face and in her overall outward appearance.

Her view of the world is very narrow, but not to a fault. She exudes positivity because she sincerely feels that that is the only way to constantly live life. If she doesn’t have a smile on her face, she’s going to find a way to get one back on, asap. She experiences fear and worry when appropriate, but has an overall decent grip on them and coming back around when she starts to feel better and safe again -- such as when Robert and Morgan bring her back to their apartment the first night they find her.

In all reality, there isn’t a mean bone in Giselle’s body. She’s grown up in a world, tucked away neatly in a pocket of space where she’s seen primarily only the positive emotions and personalities in life -- or, that’s been her perception of what she has actually experienced. She thrives to bring joy to others, seemingly always have enough energy to do so no matter for how many people and wearing a genuine smile on her face. Making others happy brings her joy. Doing the little things in life, like giving flowers or smiling or singing a tune, are very important to her and she puts a great deal of value on them.

Giselle sees the best in absolutely everyone. From the homeless man she first meets on the street, who is dirty and who the average human would not sit down to speak with as she did -- he steals her crown and she calls him not a very nice man, but that’s the extent of it. She sees hope all around her, that people are kind and good-natured.

She believes in dreams coming true, and a disbelieving and jaded attitude from anyone else brings her deep sadness. Seeing a couple who were at severe odds with one another getting a divorce made her honestly voice to each of them that she thought ending a marriage was one of the worst things a couple could do -- that without love, there was no way to possibly be happy.

She also believes in fate, in true love and what the power of a kiss between two people in such is.

Giselle’s primary motivation in life is happiness, and she’s always seemed to have it. The next step for any maiden in her land to achieve the ultimate utopia of happiness is to find their true love, which involves getting married to your soul-mate. That’s what she wishes to do, and no matter how simple or absurd it may seem to those in the ‘real world,’ it doesn’t sway her desires. She’s firm and constant in her choices, always giving reason as to why her perception of love is a reality.

Through finding true love, all of life clicks into place. That’s what Giselle knows to be true, what is true in Andalasia. Canon does not discuss the after marriage part (as fairy tales are so wont to do), but there is not a fraction of her thought that believes any strife between two people in love cannot be overcome purely by being in love.

While at home in her cottage in the woods, she is not shown to have any human friends. Instead, all of her close confidants are animals who are completely personified. It’s not explored in canon what her family or childhood was like (although the film itself essentially takes many facets of different Disney princess films and puts them all together in one, so one can assume any number of histories for her), but at some point she must have had someone who loved her to raise her, to teach her life skills that apply in Andalasia. She lives all alone though, sometimes referencing how she’s met/is aware of other fairy tale figures (like Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf) and she is quite able to speak and hold conversations with people.

Even so, her relationship with her animal friends is one of her most important. She sees them as sincere friends, as her equals. They give advice and opinions, and she always listens to and cherishes all they have to say. One in particular, a chipmunk named Pip, offers her a role of protective best friend. He’s loud-spoken and Giselle seems only to adore and take what he says utterly to heart. With his protection of her comes the exploration of him aiding in her exploring ideas that she may otherwise not have completely thought of herself. All in all, Giselle works together with her animal friends. How she treats them is precisely how she would treat anyone, with love, care, kindness, and concern if anything happens to go awry. While a bit dimwitted during her time in New York, she maintains a respect for all life and shows her capacity for being a good friend through her equal treatment of all life. She finds out the wildlife in the city is a bit different, less fluffy and cute, but she treats them the same as she did her cutesy Andalasian friends.

Prince Edward is who she knows to be her true love, because she thinks she saw him in a dream, then he comes and finds her when he hears her singing. All of which is followed by his saving her from the attack of a massive troll. In standard fashion, of course they mutually choose to marry the next day after meeting. In Andalasia, it all makes perfect sense: that’s what people did. It’s how they achieved their destiny, their fate, their joy. From her chosen canon point, she doesn’t come to the conclusion that, perhaps, there is more that she wants in life than marrying someone so quickly after meeting: however, she has started to have the first flickers of those feelings.

She meets Robert in the city and he serves as a sort of savior to her, having seen her purely as some deranged woman who was lost at first. He offers her a place to stay, gives her money to get home to wherever she’s from, even goes out of his way to look up where this Andalasia is on her behalf. While he thinks she’s crazy (at first) he reciprocates the good nature that Giselle believes everyone to have by helping her. She sees that for what it is, gladly accepting it, but when he chose to part ways with her and give her money to find her way home, she gives it to a an elderly lady about ten seconds afterward. He chose to catch back up with her and continue being there for her. Giselle definitely didn’t understand a lot of concepts that those in the non-magical world put so much value on -- money, in this case. She’s too charitable for her own good, at least in Robert’s eyes.

While in love in Edward, totally and completely, she sees how good of a person Robert is and counts him as a wonderful sort of friend. The actual start of physical chemistry between them starts to rise up too shortly before her arrival to Asgard, but she still sees herself as in love with and waiting for Edward.

Robert encourages her to think for herself and to use more critical thinking; plus, her positive influence has a huge impact on him and his cynical attitude slowly changes over the course of the film. Her innocence may seem unreal to him, but it has an impact on him, just as his treatment of her did toward him. Not only does he teach her several important life lessons that she couldn’t possibly have known in Andalasia -- why giving a stack of cash to a homeless person, while charitable, would not serve her the best purpose -- but he also sheds light on why some of her core thought processes might be slightly skewed.

See, Giselle was pushed down through the well and into the non-magical world by the matriarch of the family she was about to be married into. While this can be easily written off as there simply being evil in Andalasia, the fact remains that Giselle still didn’t understand what had gone on. Until she met Robert, she didn’t start using reasoning skills to analyze situations. Being charitable, hopeful, radiant in life and love, none of those are negative traits by any means, but not even in her perfect world was everyone as good and true as she had thought. Knowing the truth about the difference in good and evil is important, a lesson that Giselle either didn’t learn (for whatever reason) or that she hadn’t experienced first-hand before.

Additionally, she doesn’t understand a lot of modern convenience, but asks Robert a slew of questions about how the shower in the bathroom works. She loves to learn and refers to how it works 'very magical', fascinated by it. She’s also seen reading books/otherwise at various times through the film too.

Lastly, Morgan, Robert’s daughter, believes Giselle is a princess the entire time and this goes a long way, making the young girl like someone that she could relate to, despite the age difference. While Giselle may not have seen it as such, the reality of it is that adults grow hardened over time and as a little girl, Morgan is quick to believe the truth behind the fairy tale world of Andalasia. Giselle sees her as a friend, but also cares for her on somewhat of a big sister or maternal way by telling her bedtime stories and speaking to her on equal footing.

One final note on relationships and Giselle is that she can speak vibrantly and as if she’s known someone forever, to absolutely anyone. She’s very outgoing, cheerful, and a definite extrovert. Certain social cues are a bit lost on her sometimes given her cheerful disposition. For example, the morning after she was at Robert’s, his long-time girlfriend named Nancy came by and thought they he and Giselle had been together that night. Giselle was in a towel after taking a shower, accidentally fell on Robert in the hallway, and approached Nancy with a huge smile and introduction, no idea at all that anything seemed strange. She also complimented her beauty in spite of Nancy seeming very irritated over thinking her partner was unfaithful.

Giselle is very big on physical displays, showing people how she feels. She told Robert before that love doesn’t have to be complicated if only you show who you love why you love them -- through gestures throughout the relationship, always. She’s also very expressive in general, to everyone she’s around.

After being in New York, she wanted to try as many new things as came her way. A lot of it included food, but Robert also showed her a simple magic trick, and she was absolutely enthralled.

While Giselle tries to be as happy as possible all the time, she is also very thoughtful, tactful, and empathetic. She is able to switch to an understanding tone and keep her smiles toned down while listening and talking about sad subjects, but she will always remain positive. She is also apologetic for others pain, showing her empathy.

Along that vein, Giselle experiences getting angry at Robert who continues to be against her notions of love. She raises her voice at him, but ends up smiling and giggling once she realizes that she’d gotten angry (perhaps for the first time ever.) She loves experiencing new things, even emotions that don’t feel very nice at all.

Lastly, music and song are both very important to her. She breaks out into song whenever she wishes and puts a lot of weight on what kind of emotion it can invoke from, well, everyone. Turns out she isn’t wrong either with the effect her singing always has on people, making them upbeat and happy.

Writing Sample:

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[ Too much has changed since she was pushed down that darn well, and for all that both Morgan's and Robert's kindnesses encapsulate, Giselle finds herself longing for the familiar with any passing moment. It's true that she's appreciated every single moment of being with new people, learning new aspects of life (new emotions!), but it's all very tiring, too.

She's just finished a cup of tea before bed and after washing the dishes and setting them neatly atop others in a cabinet, she feels as though all the breath she's ever breathed is knocked out of her in one swoop. There's a sky somehow bluer than Andalasia's, far dimmer than that over New York. While there's zero time to process the intrusion, a flicker of fascination and deja vu flood her all that same. It's as if she's been lifted away to somewhere else through magic. Again!

When she wakes, her chests fill with a deep and generous breath, the cushion and fluff of the bedding beneath her keeping her at peace. The bed certainly must be similar to one at Prince Edward's castle, and she doesn't try to work the grogginess away. She starts to sit up, slowly, taking in the feel of the room that, honestly, pales in comparison to any she's ever been witness to before. It's no modern-day apartment, nor is it a rustic cabin. She rises slowly enough that she doesn't feel too ill, but her brow does furrow ever so slightly as her hand moves to gently rub over her stomach. She starts to frown, just barely. ] Was is all...a dream? How very sad that would be... [ She does care for the friends she's made in the land very much without magic, after all. Then, she sees two people come into the room.

She gasps, yet happily and with excitement, not feeling intruded upon at all. Maybe the energy of the wedding day was so delightfully perfect that she'd fallen into a daze and laid down, only to sleep for the night. That she's alone in bed, clearly, hasn't entered her mind. But. Her lips part as she begins to slide out of the bed, her attention flits immediately to the woman who trails behind the other. ] Oh. I'm so delighted to meet you both!

[ She sits still on the bed's edge as the first woman speaks, her face warm and bright, lines of her expression deepening just a hair with concern. She isn't speaking as a helper in the castle might. No mention of her now being a princess, of Edward, of anything at all in the castle as a whole. No -- this is confusing, but Giselle listens intently, eyes focused only on the one who speaks.

Once excitement fills Frigg's eyes, she can't help but beam right back, clapping her hands lightly together before her expression falters, smile uncertain but her attempt at staying happy unwavering. ] I've never heard of Asgard. But I'd never heard of New York before showing up there, not more than a day ago. [ Her lips press together as she gives a sure nod. ] I'm excited, too! [ She always is! Or, she thinks she is... her forehead creases, head tilting down in consideration. ] I do have so very many questions. [ Nearly silently, she swallows and starts to stand to move toward the two women, realizing in that moment that the same feeling she'd had when first walking in the bustling streets of a foreign land. Worry. She doesn't care for it, and...well. She's in another strange new place, and this time, at least, there's someone who was honest about that fact, a someone who wants to help and explain to her.

She easily falls into step with Frigg, constantly smiling over to both women. ] You are both so beautiful and lovely, and I bet that you have the most beautiful of names. [ A beat. ] Mine is Giselle. [ Don't mind her sliding in close to each lovely woman, too, admiring their hair, their eyes. Everything. They're gorgeous!

And in spite of going along with the conversation, with the movement out of the room, she finally notices the bracelets on her wrists and fiddles with them as she walks. She hadn't sprouted new jewelry the first time she'd been swept up by magic. Disagreements and nerves may be new to her, and she likes them as little as she did when she first felt them. How ever would Edward find her now? ]