[hider=Lady Northam] [color=DA70D6] [h3]Lady Cora Prideaux-Northam[/h3] [/color] [color=DA70D6] [h3]Age:22[/h3] [/color] [color=DA70D6] [h3]Appearance:[/h3] [img]https://i.imgur.com/J7sERBz.jpg[/img] Long darker reddish blonde hair that she tends to wear up in elaborate braids or a loose bun, fair skin and light blue eyes with a scattering of light freckles across her cheeks and nose. She has a petite delicate frame and shorter stature of roughly 5’. Given her rather large preoccupation with cleanliness, she is rarely seen not wearing gloves except for to play her violin. She has a love of finer silks and linens and LOVES to adorn herself with jewelry and anything that could be considered fashionable in public. Although to those closest to her, she's known to sneak out at night in men's clothing to do as she pleases. And her parents may have caught her a time or two sneaking out in her chemise without her corset to go horseback riding on their estate at night. Which that coupled with her other disobedient ways played a huge part in her parents sending her to an all women's finishing school. [/color] [color=DA70D6] [H3]Occupation/Relation:[/H3] Betrothed by her parents to marry Lord Northam [/color] [color=DA70D6] [H3]Personality:[/H3] She's a bit temperamental and neurotic. Often viewed as a bit of an obsessive clean freak, she likes things to be just so and very much in order. Dust and dirt bother her and she usually is never seen without gloves on due to this. She was raised to take pride in her house and her appearance so much so to the point she has become rather vain and obsessed over outward appearances. She feels rather constrained by Victorian principles and has a serious rebellious streak toward them because of it. So while outwardly she puts on heirs, inwardly she wrestles with the inner turmoil of never feeling accepted enough in society. Cora values education and independence above all else, but still has the outward need to feel “proper” and please everyone else. She has a strong love of music and fine arts and fancies the violin. She’s a bit impulsive and impetuous as well and can be a bit of a handful when things don’t go her way. She’s been known to throw things when angry in particular. Her wild and rebellious nature and love of alcohol and high society hasn’t garnered her the most ladylike of reputations - neither has her desire to follow her heart instead of societal expectations. In an effort to do "damage control" to her reputation her parents arranged for her to marry Lord Northam to try to salvage what little respect she had left. Temperamental and fiery, it fuels her passion and love toward music...often shutting herself off from the world to play her violin for hours at a time, pouring her soul and pent up emotions into every pluck of its strings. If she had her way, she would marry for love and passion. But she has come to accept that marriage for women of her time rarely comes with real love. [/color] [color=DA70D6] [H3]History[/H3] [list] [*]No experience of the supernatural, still very young and naive. She has heard wives' tales and rumors about the family she is marrying into, but she doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or the supernatural as she's never seen anything in her young life to lead her to believe otherwise. So she blindly thinks that it's all just rumors about her new home [*]She had fallen in love young and had been woo'ed by the ways of a very rich, very defiant socialite who cared very little for her reputation, but more for adding her to his collection of mistresses. But she didn't know much better and let his lavish gifts and trinkets dazzle her and lure her into his lavish lifestyle. Upon realizing he had no intentions of actually marrying her and feeling shamed and disgraced by her family she was sent off to finishing school. [*]Soon after completing Finishing School, her parents were quick to find someone to marry her off to. Her family had made a fortune off of the gas lighting industry, but they were considered “new money” so what they had in riches they lacked in formal titles or holdings. Seeking to further their family name and position in society, they arranged to marry her off to Lord Northam in order to make her formally a “lady” and to try to salvage what they could of her reputation and have a further leg into what they thought would be high society. Her parents had been all too eager to unload their more difficult untraditional child though, and didn’t really pay much mind to where they were sending her to as long as they could call her a “Lady”. Although, clearly upon arriving it wasn’t the lavish well kept estate she had grown accustomed to living in or what she had expected and it rather unnerved her the state of disarray and disrepair it had fallen into. All the dust and darkness crept under her skin, and she was often afraid to touch anything. She had been brought up through her parents transition to wealth having gone from a normal life living an average existence as an average business man's daughter to a life of privilege and she became accustomed to her rather new lavish lifestyle. She liked everything to be well kept and tidy and wanted the more finer things. Marriage to her was nothing more than a business arrangement to further her status and holdings. For all intents and purposes she had become rather spoiled and used to getting her way. Although she often rejected her upbringing and wealth feeling it rather confined her being a woman of the time. She was much more interested in pursuing her own goals and ambitions of furthering her education and higher learning than being a wife or mother yet. But her family and the circumstances of the time had given her little choice in the matter, and she wasn’t about to say no to marrying above her “station” in life, leaving her to live begrudgingly with Lord Northam. [/list] [/color] [color=DA70D6] [h3]Quirk:[/h3] A rather obsessive compulsive neat freak. Resentful of her family for them leaving her in such a dismal place, and a bit aloof and reserved toward Lord Northam and the rest of the residents . She also annoys everyone with her constant playing of her violin. [/color] [/hider]