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PLAYER

NAME: laura
CONTACT: on my plurk at geekyshoelaces.
OTHER CHARACTERS IN THE PINES: none.

CHARACTER

NAME: Caroline Forbes
CANON: The Vampire Diaries
CANON-POINT: 5.21 after Stefan dies.

DOSSIER

HISTORY: TVD wiki

WHAT ARE YOUR CHARACTER'S STRENGTHS?:

"Look, about Caroline, no matter what her flaws are, when push comes to shove, you're going to want that girl on your side."

Caroline is a fierce and loyal friend. Despite the bitchiness and the shallowness, she can be just as kind and caring and sweet. She's protective of her friends and is willing to take on whatever comes that keeps them safe, whether that means pain or suffering or exposure or even death. She can make friends with a variety of people, she's very compassionate and tries to understand people on a deeper level.

Caroline always tries to remain positive and strong despite the horrible things that happen to her (like being turned into a vampire, being rejected by people she loves for being a vampire, being kidnapped and tortured more than once.). She's quite confident in her vampire-ness, who she is now that she is a vampire. Even when her father tortures her for being a vampire in an attempt to free her of her bloodlust, she accepts/understands that she cannot change, however she knows that she has a good grip on her need for blood. It's that control freak and her ability to stay true to her humanity that gives her unparalleled control as a vampire, that keeps her from giving into the urges, the need for blood.

Despite her ability to hold a grudge, Caroline has a capacity for forgiveness that is sometimes downright unbelievable. She tries to see the best in people whenever she can; she's not a big believer in lost causes. She's fairly self-aware, she knows how shallow she can be and she understands that this and her tendency to be a bitchy and controlling are two very serious flaws. She very much wants to change and work on her flaws; she wants to be "abyss deep" and her "kiddie pool" level frustrates her.

WHAT ARE YOUR CHARACTER'S WEAKNESSES?:

"I'm a terrible, awful person-but I'm working on it."

Like every teenage girl, Caroline comes with her issues; she can be petty, immature, insecure, and jealous. She gets wrapped up in things that don't really matter to most when there are 'bigger things' happening. The denial can be strong with this one. She hyper focuses on dances and town/college events, and holidays wanting them to be perfect, to go perfectly in her struggle to keep things 'normal' in a life that is sometimes spinning out of control. She is also scared of giving into her darker side, the vampiric side of herself again.

Caroline can be VERY judgmental and downright hypocritical at times. She has strong convictions and can hold a grudge quite well. And she expects the same loyalty out of others as she gives to them.

Caroline has a bit of a competitive streak too, especially where her best friend Elena is concerned. It feels like, to her, that she tries so hard, and yet, Elena doesn't have to try at all and she gets everything while making it seem so effortless.

She can be gossip sometimes and has an uncanny ability to find out information from any source and fast. Her 'Little Miss Innocent' act comes in handy because she's good at providing a distraction on demand and just a terrible liar.

Caroline has a continuous struggle with love. She gives herself fully to those she falls in love with and she can be insecure about that. She is consistently set aside by those she loves in favor of something else. With Matt it was his fear. Tyler wanted revenge. And Klaus, if you can call him a love, was power and his family. She remarks a few times, in so many words, that she worries that she isn't lovable. Before becoming a vampire, she was incredibly insecure and while she's grown into herself as a vampire, grown more confident and comfortable, she still fears not being loved for who she is.

WHAT EVENTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES IN YOUR CHARACTER'S PAST HAVE IMPACTED THEM THE MOST?:

Turning into a vampire has been the most significant event in her life. Becoming a vampire helps her towards the grand understanding that it's not all about her, there's a bigger, more crazy life outside of being Miss Mystic Falls. It puts her in situations that have forced her to grow up, to face danger and make decisions she never though she'd have to. See her weaknesses? Most of those start to fade once she becomes a vampire. She's more comfortable with herself now.

"You prefer who you are now to the girl you once were. You like being strong, ageless, fearless."

WHAT MOTIVATES YOUR CHARACTER?:

First and foremost, keeping the people she loves safe. She'll do anything to make sure that stays true.

Next: to be as normal as she can, to be true to her humanity but at the same time, not limit herself to being a small town girl forever. She struggles with the fact that she felt good killing when she first turned, which is part of her motivation to try to stay normal, to do normal teenage girl things.

She doesn't like being told she can't do something, if anyone doubts her, she strives to prove them wrong and she does it with a sweet sort of gusto, she said it herself perfectly, "Whenever anyone tells me I can't do something, I prove them wrong."

WHAT IMPRESSION DO OTHERS TEND TO HAVE OF YOUR CHARACTER?:

Outwardly she's confident, an overachiever. Caroline is charming, peppy, beautiful, sassy and smart. She can come off as a bit of a perfectionist, impatient, a control freak and a little shallow, at first.

IN WHAT WAYS DOES THAT IMPRESSION DIFFER FROM WHO YOUR CHARACTER REALLY IS?:

Caroline can be a pretty open book, mostly because she's not a very good liar. However, she's quite good at hiding how vulnerable she can be. She feels things deeply, she's got abandonment issues. She's also not as confident as she might appear nor is as normal as she might be.

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER HANDLE CRISIS OR ADVERSITY?:

She goes into LET'S DO THIS mode. She is ready to act, to make a plan, to figure out how to fix things. Caroline is a fixer, she wants to help. She will either lead a charge or will be a second in command. She doesn't run away from the burning building, she runs into the fire. She can get a little high strung in crisis mode but mostly that manifests in snarky/sassy commentary to hide her stress levels.

WHICH 5 THINGS WILL YOUR CHARACTER REMEMBER UPON ARRIVAL, AND WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THEM?: Upon arrival, characters remember five distinct things about themselves. Those five things carry them through until their memories begin to return on their second or third day back. (See our FAQ for more info.)
- Her name and the names of her parents
- She grew up in Mystic Falls and was Miss Mystic Falls
- She should never take off her daylight ring
- Magic is real.
- She watched Stefan Salvatore die.

Instead of her remembering that she's a vampire and all that's happened to her, I thought it would be more fun for her to forget that she is one and to have a sense of WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU FEEL WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER?:
I think I've covered it, almost.

SKILLS, ABILITIES, & PHYSICAL WEAKNESSES:

Caroline is an expert level gossip. She was a cheerleader and former Miss Mystic Falls, she's organized, makes amazing grades, can sing, and is obsessively good at throwing parties. As a vampire, Caroline gets the usual perks of being one including:

Invincibility minus being staked in the heart with wood, being bitten by a werewolf or being exposed to sunlight.
Rapid healing (unless wounded with wood) and never aging.
Super-human strength, speed, and heightened senses.
Compulsion: She's got the ability to control someone, remember certain things or forget them entirely.
Daylight Ring: Caroline has a ring made by her best friend Bonnie, who is a witch, that allows her to go out in sunlight, but very few vampires have this thus helping her hide the fact that she is a vampire.
Dream walking/sharing by touch. This is something vampires in the TVD have but Caroline hasn't been seen to use it or know how to.

Physical weaknesses:

The only way to kill in the TVD-verse vampire is sunlight, a werewolf bite, fire, or removal of or stake to the heart.
Anything involving wood or the herb vervain is extremely painful and debilitating for a vampire.
She is bloodline connected to Klaus Mikaelson, if he dies, she dies because of the bloodline magic.
She can be compelled by any Original vampire (The Mikaelsons)

INVENTORY:
Her daylight ring.
Her clothes: Tights, skirt, boots, a leather jacket.
Her purse that contains:

A wallet with ID
A small container of vervain.
A photo of her, Bonnie and Elena.
A set of keys that has a snow globe ornament/keychain that Stefan gave her.
A cosmetic bag.

SAMPLES

PROSE-HEAVY: one | two | three
DIALOGUE-HEAVY: caroline's ic inbox.for eudio. (thought i'd give you lots of options).