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Character
Name: Anne (spelled with an e!) Shirley
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables, the novel(s).
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Time Period: Beginning of Anne of Avonlea
Wing Color: Bottle Green
History: [One - relevant up until the second last paragraph under "series overview"] & [Two]
Personality: Anne Shirley is a girl of great emotional extremes; mostly, this is because she feels things rather intensely. When she first arrives in Avonlea at the age of eleven, her joy and elation at finally finding a home bubbles over as she latches onto Matthew Cuthbert and tell him how wonderful it will be to "live with you and belong to you". Just as dramatically, she falls into the "depths of despair" upon learning that the Cuthberts had originally asked for a male orphan to help around the farm and that her arrival was a mistake. In term's of Anne's personality, there is rarely a middle ground. Things are either the very, very best or the very, very worst. A great motivator for this kind of behaviour comes from her love of the fictional. An avid reader, she is keen to parrot back the kinds of dramatic phrasing she experiences through literature. This also means that she (mistakenly) expects a certain amount of parallelism between fiction and reality that simply does exist. For this reason, she tends to "supplement" the world around her with imaginative, fictitious elements--especially when trying to avoid a difficult topic Notably, she sometimes accepts it as truth that her real history never happened and that, instead, she is actually the Lady Cordelia de Montmorency--abducted by gypsies when she was three. This extends as far as introducing herself as Cordelia and asking others to "please call me Cordelia". Anne doesn't feel as though she is telling any lies. Instead, it seems perfectly natural for her to substitute the boring truth with something more wonderful. When Marilla asks her to say her prayers during her first night at Green Gables, Anne asks if she can recite them while imagining she could stay with the Cuthberts. These elements of imagination help her to cope with the less savoury elements in life. Life with the Cuthberts does teach her to somewhat rein in these tendencies, as often Anne is forced to apologize and make reparation for her more outlandish demands and behaviours (such as calling Mrs. Rachel Lynde "fat and dilapidated" when Rachel commented on her red hair and freckles).
This kind of a temper is the opposite side of the coin to Miss Shirley's girlish imagination and ambitious optimism. This is because Anne is a consummate over-reactor. She has been known to break slates over boys' heads because they tease her and to fall into dramatic stupors over minuscule hair dye accidents. Her temper is not only short but also particular; for example, she can become very irate over very particular things. One such thing is how her first name is spelled. Anne always insists for it to be spelled with an 'e' on the end. If someone ever writes down Ann, she is quick to bring them to task. She also shows little patience for anyone without the capacity for wonderment or imagination.
Despite her impulsive annoyances, Anne proves to be a very loyal ally once she approves of someone. She is forever in search of more "kindred spirits" -- which is what she calls those who become her closer friends -- and while she is not exactly discerning in her friendship tastes she at least demands a sense of courtesy and camaraderie from those she befriends. From planning picnics to hosting tea parties, she does love a social event and will love them all the more if she can be surrounded by those she cares about. She becomes a loyal daughter-figure to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert and as such she feels the ir pains -- such as Matthew's death -- more keenly than tragedies that have befallen her biological family.Beyond a loyal ally, she can be a fierce competitor. Anne Shirley loves to win -- especially within academic competition -- and is not accustomed to losing, given that her usual peer sample is a rather small one-room school house of Avonlea kids; however, she finds a rival in Gilbert Blythe whose wit and popularity becomes at one time alluring and annoying to the firecracker redhead. In the end, she beats him for a prestigious scholarship but must ultimately refuse it in order to stay and help Marilla on the farm after Matthew's death. At such point, she becomes a school-mistresses for the Avonlea School while Gilbert teaches at another school in a neighbouring town.
Finally, Anne is prone to "accidents". These are scenarios that seem almost inevitable due to her gung-ho personality and her compulsion to overachieve. One example of such an accident is when Anne invites her best friend, Diana Barry, over for the afternoon and in her scramble to serve up some delicious raspberry cordial she manages to get the girl drunk on currant wine, instead. Another example would include Anne's bravado-filled competition with the local bully, Josie Pye, which leads her to leap off of the barn roof with an umbrella just to "prove" that she could fly. Anne, predictably, ended up with a broken arm and no small dose of chagrin. These happenings are the foundation of how Avonlea sees her -- the quirky, troublesome but downright entertaining orphan girl who has endeared herself to the entire village over the years; however, by comparison? Anne simply sees herself as behaving as any self-respecting, precocious and clever young girl would.
Strengths: PHYSICAL - Anne has been raised on a farm at the turn of the century in a rural Canadian province. As such, she exhibits the predictable benefits. She is in considerable shape, as she uses walking as her made method of transport combined with a healthy recreational life outside and around the village. Through out canon she proves to be in excellent physical health. MENTAL - Anne is incredibly smart for her peer group, being the one student in her year in all of Prince Edward Island to be awarded the Avery Scholarship ($250, for a full education at Queen's University). Despite the fact that she turns this scholarship down, Anne continues her studies in order to keep her mind sharp. EMOTIONAL - She has a very forceful but genuine optimism for life's larger tragedies. She is exceptionally up-beat for a girl who has been bandied around from ill-equipped guardian to ill-equipped guardian for most of her life. This is evidenced by her ability to look ahead with hope to her placement with the Cuthberts and be truly joyous to meet them despite the overwhelming experience with poor caretakers in the past. Another canon example of this strength comes after Matthew's death, when she manages to focus on the positive initiatives she and Marilla can take instead of wallowing in grief. This canon example is also a great illustration of Anne's ultimate selflessness because although she is rather self-centered in matters inconsequential and petty, she happily sacrifices a future at Queen's University in order to stay in Avonlea and help Marilla look after Green Gables house.
Weaknesses: PHYSICAL - Anne Shirley is, physically speaking, a rather typical turn of the century teenaged girl. This means that she is exceptionally mortal and her strength is the expected average at best. MENTAL - Anne seems patently incapable of seeing the "sensible" side of some solutions. For example, if she needs new clothing she still refuses the plain but serviceable dress that Marilla makes her in favour of something more romantic (with puffed sleeves!) Also, she has a real weakness in looking before she leaps. For example, despairing over her red hair, Anne secretly purchases some hair dye from a traveling peddler and very impulsively dyes it. Though expecting it to come out a "beautiful raven black", she ends up dying half of her hair green instead. This kind of impulsive desire to correct things in what she mistakenly believes in a clever way is truly a weakness on her part--especially in so otherwise bright a girl. EMOTIONAL - Anne is exceptionally temperamental and so often has issues socializing with others. She can fly off the handle and yell at people over little things -- as she does with Rachel Lynde, mentioned above. Or she can lash out violently towards strangers who have insulted her, like when she breaks the slate over Gilbert Blythe's head for calling her "Carrots". She has no filter and can often be confusing for others as she rarely stops talking and what she says is not always to be trusted; after all, as a top notch fantasist, she often allows her imaginings to leak into everyday conversations -- such as trying to introduce herself as Cordelia.
Samples
First Person: H-hello? Excuse me? [Anne clears her throat before launching rather precociously. She is quite taken with the seemingly enchanted journal.] I have never read a talking book before. Or heard one, either. [Laughter] It is quite impressive. Like...Like something I am sure Titania would have in her fairy grove. Have you read that one? It's Shakespeare. So...so...terribly good. And I think the best part is always when Puck messes up the love potion but--oh, right. This book does seem like something a fairy would own. Are there fairies here? I've never met a fairy but I've often imagined that I have and I think that is just about the same thing, don't you? [Though...she doesn't seem to be talking to one person in particular.] Or perhaps we have all been turned into fairies, though I always suspected that fairy wings were more like dragonfly wings and nothing like...these. Though, wings are wings no matter what kind they are--oh! Which reminds me...I wonder if I can fly?
Third Person: Anne Shirley should have been wearing more than this and so she frowned as she rose from the cold, frosty ground. How is it that she fell asleep outside, anyway? Unless--oh! Her brain lit up with possibilities and the young redhead grined to herself. Sleep-walking. It could be the only answer. She read a book once where a young man had done such fantastical things while sleep-walking. Excited, she wondered if she, too, had snuck into an evil uncle's manor--just as he did--but...well, there was no manor in sight and Anne quickly recalled that she had no uncle. At least, none that she had ever met. But that still left her with the question of why she was outside in little white slip far less modest than even her best underwear. And the question of why Green Gables was no where in sight.
Though, this little river did look an awful lot like the brook by the Barry house. So perhaps she need only find it and then somehow get to Diana's room without waking Mister and Missus Barry. She could borrow a dress and then make it back to the house before Marilla even realized she was go--wait. With enough drama across her face that she should have had an audience, Anne carefully craned her neck. There was something on her back. Plural somethings. She could feel them, itchy and just that little bit sore as well. Not even Anne's imagination had the capacity to guess that she would be met with twin, tiny wings. Green, too. She pulled a sour expression at the colour.
"Green? But...why couldn't it have been a lovely, creamy white? O-or maybe a dark and tarnished black. How romantic." The last word was barely a breath as she complained to herself. Never mind that she now also had to explain to Marilla where she had managed to pick up a set of wings. She would almost call them angelic--and she would relish the adjective in her mouth--except for their horribly common colour. At least they weren't red.
Name: Alyssa
Livejournal Username: arcvertic
E-mail: green (dot) bayonet (at) gmail (dot) com
AIM/MSN: greenbayonet
Current Characters at Luceti: awaitingalbion & slaying
Character
Name: Anne (spelled with an e!) Shirley
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables, the novel(s).
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Time Period: Beginning of Anne of Avonlea
Wing Color: Bottle Green
History: [One - relevant up until the second last paragraph under "series overview"] & [Two]
Personality: Anne Shirley is a girl of great emotional extremes; mostly, this is because she feels things rather intensely. When she first arrives in Avonlea at the age of eleven, her joy and elation at finally finding a home bubbles over as she latches onto Matthew Cuthbert and tell him how wonderful it will be to "live with you and belong to you". Just as dramatically, she falls into the "depths of despair" upon learning that the Cuthberts had originally asked for a male orphan to help around the farm and that her arrival was a mistake. In term's of Anne's personality, there is rarely a middle ground. Things are either the very, very best or the very, very worst. A great motivator for this kind of behaviour comes from her love of the fictional. An avid reader, she is keen to parrot back the kinds of dramatic phrasing she experiences through literature. This also means that she (mistakenly) expects a certain amount of parallelism between fiction and reality that simply does exist. For this reason, she tends to "supplement" the world around her with imaginative, fictitious elements--especially when trying to avoid a difficult topic Notably, she sometimes accepts it as truth that her real history never happened and that, instead, she is actually the Lady Cordelia de Montmorency--abducted by gypsies when she was three. This extends as far as introducing herself as Cordelia and asking others to "please call me Cordelia". Anne doesn't feel as though she is telling any lies. Instead, it seems perfectly natural for her to substitute the boring truth with something more wonderful. When Marilla asks her to say her prayers during her first night at Green Gables, Anne asks if she can recite them while imagining she could stay with the Cuthberts. These elements of imagination help her to cope with the less savoury elements in life. Life with the Cuthberts does teach her to somewhat rein in these tendencies, as often Anne is forced to apologize and make reparation for her more outlandish demands and behaviours (such as calling Mrs. Rachel Lynde "fat and dilapidated" when Rachel commented on her red hair and freckles).
This kind of a temper is the opposite side of the coin to Miss Shirley's girlish imagination and ambitious optimism. This is because Anne is a consummate over-reactor. She has been known to break slates over boys' heads because they tease her and to fall into dramatic stupors over minuscule hair dye accidents. Her temper is not only short but also particular; for example, she can become very irate over very particular things. One such thing is how her first name is spelled. Anne always insists for it to be spelled with an 'e' on the end. If someone ever writes down Ann, she is quick to bring them to task. She also shows little patience for anyone without the capacity for wonderment or imagination.
Despite her impulsive annoyances, Anne proves to be a very loyal ally once she approves of someone. She is forever in search of more "kindred spirits" -- which is what she calls those who become her closer friends -- and while she is not exactly discerning in her friendship tastes she at least demands a sense of courtesy and camaraderie from those she befriends. From planning picnics to hosting tea parties, she does love a social event and will love them all the more if she can be surrounded by those she cares about. She becomes a loyal daughter-figure to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert and as such she feels the ir pains -- such as Matthew's death -- more keenly than tragedies that have befallen her biological family.Beyond a loyal ally, she can be a fierce competitor. Anne Shirley loves to win -- especially within academic competition -- and is not accustomed to losing, given that her usual peer sample is a rather small one-room school house of Avonlea kids; however, she finds a rival in Gilbert Blythe whose wit and popularity becomes at one time alluring and annoying to the firecracker redhead. In the end, she beats him for a prestigious scholarship but must ultimately refuse it in order to stay and help Marilla on the farm after Matthew's death. At such point, she becomes a school-mistresses for the Avonlea School while Gilbert teaches at another school in a neighbouring town.
Finally, Anne is prone to "accidents". These are scenarios that seem almost inevitable due to her gung-ho personality and her compulsion to overachieve. One example of such an accident is when Anne invites her best friend, Diana Barry, over for the afternoon and in her scramble to serve up some delicious raspberry cordial she manages to get the girl drunk on currant wine, instead. Another example would include Anne's bravado-filled competition with the local bully, Josie Pye, which leads her to leap off of the barn roof with an umbrella just to "prove" that she could fly. Anne, predictably, ended up with a broken arm and no small dose of chagrin. These happenings are the foundation of how Avonlea sees her -- the quirky, troublesome but downright entertaining orphan girl who has endeared herself to the entire village over the years; however, by comparison? Anne simply sees herself as behaving as any self-respecting, precocious and clever young girl would.
Strengths: PHYSICAL - Anne has been raised on a farm at the turn of the century in a rural Canadian province. As such, she exhibits the predictable benefits. She is in considerable shape, as she uses walking as her made method of transport combined with a healthy recreational life outside and around the village. Through out canon she proves to be in excellent physical health. MENTAL - Anne is incredibly smart for her peer group, being the one student in her year in all of Prince Edward Island to be awarded the Avery Scholarship ($250, for a full education at Queen's University). Despite the fact that she turns this scholarship down, Anne continues her studies in order to keep her mind sharp. EMOTIONAL - She has a very forceful but genuine optimism for life's larger tragedies. She is exceptionally up-beat for a girl who has been bandied around from ill-equipped guardian to ill-equipped guardian for most of her life. This is evidenced by her ability to look ahead with hope to her placement with the Cuthberts and be truly joyous to meet them despite the overwhelming experience with poor caretakers in the past. Another canon example of this strength comes after Matthew's death, when she manages to focus on the positive initiatives she and Marilla can take instead of wallowing in grief. This canon example is also a great illustration of Anne's ultimate selflessness because although she is rather self-centered in matters inconsequential and petty, she happily sacrifices a future at Queen's University in order to stay in Avonlea and help Marilla look after Green Gables house.
Weaknesses: PHYSICAL - Anne Shirley is, physically speaking, a rather typical turn of the century teenaged girl. This means that she is exceptionally mortal and her strength is the expected average at best. MENTAL - Anne seems patently incapable of seeing the "sensible" side of some solutions. For example, if she needs new clothing she still refuses the plain but serviceable dress that Marilla makes her in favour of something more romantic (with puffed sleeves!) Also, she has a real weakness in looking before she leaps. For example, despairing over her red hair, Anne secretly purchases some hair dye from a traveling peddler and very impulsively dyes it. Though expecting it to come out a "beautiful raven black", she ends up dying half of her hair green instead. This kind of impulsive desire to correct things in what she mistakenly believes in a clever way is truly a weakness on her part--especially in so otherwise bright a girl. EMOTIONAL - Anne is exceptionally temperamental and so often has issues socializing with others. She can fly off the handle and yell at people over little things -- as she does with Rachel Lynde, mentioned above. Or she can lash out violently towards strangers who have insulted her, like when she breaks the slate over Gilbert Blythe's head for calling her "Carrots". She has no filter and can often be confusing for others as she rarely stops talking and what she says is not always to be trusted; after all, as a top notch fantasist, she often allows her imaginings to leak into everyday conversations -- such as trying to introduce herself as Cordelia.
Samples
First Person: H-hello? Excuse me? [Anne clears her throat before launching rather precociously. She is quite taken with the seemingly enchanted journal.] I have never read a talking book before. Or heard one, either. [Laughter] It is quite impressive. Like...Like something I am sure Titania would have in her fairy grove. Have you read that one? It's Shakespeare. So...so...terribly good. And I think the best part is always when Puck messes up the love potion but--oh, right. This book does seem like something a fairy would own. Are there fairies here? I've never met a fairy but I've often imagined that I have and I think that is just about the same thing, don't you? [Though...she doesn't seem to be talking to one person in particular.] Or perhaps we have all been turned into fairies, though I always suspected that fairy wings were more like dragonfly wings and nothing like...these. Though, wings are wings no matter what kind they are--oh! Which reminds me...I wonder if I can fly?
Third Person: Anne Shirley should have been wearing more than this and so she frowned as she rose from the cold, frosty ground. How is it that she fell asleep outside, anyway? Unless--oh! Her brain lit up with possibilities and the young redhead grined to herself. Sleep-walking. It could be the only answer. She read a book once where a young man had done such fantastical things while sleep-walking. Excited, she wondered if she, too, had snuck into an evil uncle's manor--just as he did--but...well, there was no manor in sight and Anne quickly recalled that she had no uncle. At least, none that she had ever met. But that still left her with the question of why she was outside in little white slip far less modest than even her best underwear. And the question of why Green Gables was no where in sight.
Though, this little river did look an awful lot like the brook by the Barry house. So perhaps she need only find it and then somehow get to Diana's room without waking Mister and Missus Barry. She could borrow a dress and then make it back to the house before Marilla even realized she was go--wait. With enough drama across her face that she should have had an audience, Anne carefully craned her neck. There was something on her back. Plural somethings. She could feel them, itchy and just that little bit sore as well. Not even Anne's imagination had the capacity to guess that she would be met with twin, tiny wings. Green, too. She pulled a sour expression at the colour.
"Green? But...why couldn't it have been a lovely, creamy white? O-or maybe a dark and tarnished black. How romantic." The last word was barely a breath as she complained to herself. Never mind that she now also had to explain to Marilla where she had managed to pick up a set of wings. She would almost call them angelic--and she would relish the adjective in her mouth--except for their horribly common colour. At least they weren't red.