Real Name:
Ursula
Cursed Name:
Vanessa Laveau
Age:
46
Appearance:
At a rather short 5'4", Vanessa is deceptively un imposing, at least until you face a glare from her dark eyes. With her natural hair long and done up in braides that excentuate her rather dramatic bone structure. Her golden, russet skin is practically flawless aside from a single beauty mark just below her lips on the right side.
Pre-Curse Occupation:
Former Princess of Atlantis/ Sea Witch
Post-Curse Occupation:
Mayor of Storybrook
World Originated From:
Atlatis
Family Members:
Posiedon - Father (Deceased)
Triton - Brother (Missing post curse)
Morgana - Sister (Missing Post Curse)
Ariel - Niece
Attina - Niece (Missing post Curse)
Alana - Niece (Missing post Curse)
Adella - Niece (Missing post Curse)
Aquata - Niece (Missing post Curse)
Arista - Niece (Missing post Curse)
Andrina - Niece (Missing post Curse)
Melody - Grand Niece
Magic User?(in worlds with magic): Yes - Sea Witch
Personality: Pre-Curse, Ursula is a very dark and sinister villain. Despite this, she has a large sense of humor. Ursula is very manipulative and has a talent of making great sense and making great points when trying to strike a deal. She is known for having a silver tongue, the very thing that cursed her to be exiled from Atlantis
Post Curse, Vanessa is confident and seductive. She is quite aware of her power and has no problem using it to get her way. When crossed she is quick to take revenge and her force is one to be reckoned with. She still holds much animosity toward her brother and his ...brood.
Backstory:
Ursula had enjoyed her early life before the curse. As a princess she was pampered and wanted for nothing. Nothing but the crown, the one thing she believed to have belonged to her. Yet her father, Posiedon favoured her elder brother Triton as did their mother. Her only relief was that she was the favoured daughter. She didn't understand why the people so adored the man, he was nothing but a brutish casanova in her eyes. Barely 18 and he already had two daughters out of wedlock, yet the kingdom treated them as if they were royalty themselves. They were nothing but bastards!
Despite her resentment for Triton however, Ursula was willing to let him reign while she aided the citizens as well as she could with the help of her magic, a talent she had always posessed. At least until the accident. She had been experimenting with a new potion that would create plants that would grow without sunlight, in effort to pring about a peace with the Mantalids of the Black Coral Reef. She had been so excited that she had fouled up the recipe and when she had tried to show her parents the concotion exploded, turning them into the very plants she had tried to create. The only things left of her parents were her mothers shell necklace, the crown and Neptune's Trident.
Upon hearing the news of the Royal Couple's death, the Atlantica had called for her head. Triton did nothing to stop them as the tried to kill her, his only decree That so long as she never returns to Atlantica she would be free of persecution. It was then that she mad a vow upon her mother's necklace, that she would stop at nothing to ensure that if she couldn't have a happy ending, no one would.
Years later, after fleeing to the southern seas Ursula believed that she had the chance to do that by taking advantage of her youngest niece's niave love for a human, only to be thwarted and nearly killed. She gathered her strength and once she had amassed enough power she cast the darkness.
Post curse, Vanessa has lived a comfortable life in a seat of power, overseeing the needs of the people just as she wished to do for Atlantica. Though she is wary of what may occur in the future as she is well aware that as all power comes at a price, all curses, no matter how powerful can be broken.
