# 000 - Profile
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
The Jabberwock
The Basics
Name: Madison Chase
Age/Birthdate: 31 / February 29th, 1976
Occupation: Creator, writer, and the main imagination behind a twisted, late-night cartoon simply titled Myra's Madness. The story takes place inside the mind of an insane eight year old girl named Myra, who is locked away in an asylum. Her mind-self goes on adventures with her talking cat friend, Olaf, who has no skin or muscles, so all his inner organs are visible. She is a perfectly polite little girl who does not seem disturbed by the things she encounters. The animation and artwork are all top notch high quality.
Fairy Tale: The Jabberwock from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Ability: She has the ability to See what people are most afraid of. She can't manifest their fears, but just know what they are, through some sort of physical contact - a touch on the hand, or something of the like.
Personality
Madison is greedy, and craves to be rich and powerful to obtain whatever she desires. Although her career in animation is not exactly the quickest way to obtain these goals, the fact is that this is the best way for her to get what she wants, as it's what she is most talented in doing. She thinks that, because she was the Jabberwock in her past life, she is truly better than all humans, and deep down doesn't really consider herself to be one. She dislikes the fact that she is expected to hide her true self, but at the same time, also understands why. It is because of this that she wants all other Tales to call her by her true name, instead of the one her parents gave her. It gives her a sense that, somehow, in this way the Jabberwock can still exist in this life, too.
Her emotions are unpredictable, at best; while the medication she took as a child helped a little, she disliked taking it and has since learned how to control herself... most of the time. There has been occasions where her emotions get the best of her, be they good or bad. She has been known to fire people on the spot for just picking the wrong color for something in her show. However, there have been other times where she has given people a raise for doing something she liked, or providing a new and interesting idea. It is risky, although usually overall rewarding to work under Madison Chase.
As expressed in her unique taste in art, Madison is not generally good in social situations. This isn't to say they make her uncomfortable, but quite the opposite - it's usually her making people uncomfortable, and she enjoys every moment of it. She likes to have that kind of power over people, the ability to make them uneasy or, best of all, afraid. She wants to induce nightmares and fear in everyone, and nothing makes her happier than to hear about it. Not only does she find it fascinating, but also just plain fun. Nothing brings a smile to her face quicker than a scream of real terror.
Surprising as it might be, Madison actually has quite a sense of humor, albeit rather dark. She isn't as quiet, brooding or serious as she may look. In fact, when she gets excited about something, she can be downright cheerful, like an excited child. She does have a tendency to talk down to people, even other Tales. When she becomes angry, there is almost nothing more frightening - it is the one emotion that easily consumes her, as she's never been able to get it quite under control. At times she can seem very much the raging, snarling beast, but there are others - those rare moments of pure, hot-white anger that are the worst.
If one were to look into her eyes during those times, they would feel very much like the defenseless animal about to be consumed by a predator. Ah, if only!
History
Born and raised in San Diego California, there was always something a bit off with Madison Chase. She never really quite fit in, but the young girl never seemed too bothered by that fact. Still, her parents - Leslie and Kevin Chase - worried about her. But as Madison seemed happy, they decided just to keep an eye on her before considering anything like therapy. It wasn't until a concerned Elementary school teacher showed them several disturbing drawings Madison had made in class that they decided there was definitely something wrong. The drawings were like something out of a horror movie; black, shadowy masses colored in so darkly with crayon that the wax was sticky and flaked off the paper. Two red eyes - sometimes more than one set - within the shadows, while the shadows themselves seemed to be consuming cowering stick figure people with innocent looking labels, marking which one was the postman and which one was the boy who sat behind her in class. The drawings were all the same, save for the people, who differed from picture to picture - sometimes students from another class, sometimes make-believe characters, sometimes her own parents - but never herself.
When asked why she had drawn such images, Madison simply replied she had seen them in her dreams.
Her parents immediately sought help, sending her to a few different therapists before Madison realized that her thoughts and ideas disturbed people - although, she never really understood why. On top of all this, she seemed to have difficulty with her emotions. At times, she would simply not react to anything at all. For example, when her pet cat died when she was eight, Madison just shrugged and went to play outside, unaffected by the loss. In contrast, there were other times when she could not control her emotions at all, erupting into frightening fits of anger over the simplest things. Over time and with the help of several different medications, she became much more subdued, and taught herself to keep her thoughts and ideas to herself so her parents would stop making her talk to the therapists.
Madison was a teenager when she finally realized who she truly was. It wasn't quite as shocking to her as one might expect, but rather, she accepted the fact easily. Actually, she was ecstatic to finally realize this. All those dreams, those visions, finally made sense. It was as if learning who she truly was shifted something just ever-so-slightly in her mind, making everything suddenly click into place. She was the Jabberwock. That small bit of knowledge boosted her confidence, nearly changing her completely. In secret, she began to take herself off the medication her parents wanted her to take, that seemed to help her so much. The less she took of the medicine, the more her creativity finally came back to her, immediately immersing herself in art classes. It was through art, she had realized, that people saw you as creative and imaginative, instead of what others would call insane and disturbing.
Despite discovering her calling in this life, Madison still felt detached from humans as a whole. She longs to be what she truly once was, and would happily give up her artistic talent in a heartbeat if only she could become the real Jabberwock once more. However, she concentrated on her artwork, for it was the one way she could express what she really was. Madison surprised both of her parents when she decided to pursue a career in animation, as she had kept her interest in art a secret from them. After all, they had been the ones trying to get her to stop drawing when she was much younger. It was in collage that she learned how to piece together interesting stories, and invented the character Myra and her skinless pet cat, Olaf.
She invented many other characters and strange creatures over time, but it was Myra and Olaf that stuck with her the longest. When she graduated from collage, she took her work to several production companies in hopes of catching their interest to create a show based on the worlds she had invented. It was a hard process, because her ideas were so difficult to sell due to how unusual they were. Finally finding a small company to accept her, Madison developed her first direct-to-video show called The Mad Girl which, of course, featured Myra and Olaf in four separate stories on one video. Due to low budgeting and lack of staff to help her with the animation, the quality was not very high, and The Mad Girl did not see much success. It did, however, gain a small cult following due to it's dark and morbid themes.
Madison continued to work hard to improve her characters and artwork, producing several more videos (and DVDs) before her work was finally being more recognized. She later switched to a larger company that could provide more money for higher quality, and it was only then that her stories began to rise quickly in popularity. It was still a selective audience, but it was a large audience now. Her career finally took off once she landed a weekly television spot, and thus Myra's Madness was born. If there was one thing she enjoyed about being a human, it was the emotions she felt when she succeeded at something. The feeling of accomplishment was wonderful - and not to mention the money, which seemed to be the truly powerful thing in this world dominated by humans. They say money can't by happiness, but for Madison, it does.
Although she doesn't own a mansion, or has any real desire to get one, what she does enjoy spending her money on is rare antiques that have stories behind them. She hopes to one day stumble upon something that might grant her enough power to turn her back into what she once was in her first life. While she doesn't know if anything like this exists, she does not know what else she can really do about her "problem." There is one place, though, that she has yet to explore, a place she's heard of before but never bothered to visit - a place in New York City called The Pentamerone. With nothing really left for her in San Diego and having the ability to work wherever she pleased, Madison has decided to move to New York into her own place in order to meet other Tales and see what they have to offer her.
OOC Information
Player: Jenna / Poufy Werewolf
Age: 25
E-Mail: poufywerewolf (at) gmail (dot) com
AIM: PoufyWerewolf
Played-By: Cate Blanchett
Handwriting: Jey
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