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Post by Cecile Saxe-Meiningen on Jun 5, 2012 11:41:36 GMT -5
cecile saxe-meiningen
biological information
Full Name: Cecile Elizabeta Saxe-Meiningen
Nickname: Mama Cecile, Voodoo Queen
Alias(es): Vodouien
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Age: Twenty Six
Date of Birth: September 7th
Marital Status: Single
Place of Birth: Thuringia, Germany
Race: Magic User - Voodoo
Occupation: Corporate Banker
Physical Appearance: In her younger years, Cecile was always considered the cutest of her siblings, much to the fury of her brothers and sisters. Her features are very striking and angular and as she has aged they have turned very aristocratic. Her hair is what some would describe as snow white, it is of the fairest blonde and she has never had to dye it before. Hairstyles like for most girls all depends on mood and occasion just as her mother had always told her, but wearing it down would be for a very special occasion as this is one of her personal pet hates, she prefers to wear it up in a high pony tail when she can. Her eye’s are a callous mixture of blue and green which gives them an almost terrifying hue to whoever meets her gaze. At the bottom of her neck just above her collar bone is scar of two small circles, now to the average person they would confuse this with a vampire bite and be really shocked, however it is far from the truth and is actually a snake bite from Zombi.
With regards to the build of her body, Cecile is very slender and always has been; a trait which runs her family. She is quite tall for a girl standing at five foot ten and a half, but most of the girls in her family are very tall. Like most girls her age she enjoys keeping fit, and regularly goes to the gym and jogs in order to keep in shape. This also helps her to focus her mind a lot when she has something important or stressful on her mind
When Cecile first left home when she was fourteen, she decided as an act of independence she would go and get a tattoo; to prove a point to her mother and father. On her left leg she has a set of rosary beads, with the cross falling just on her ankle; she can remember as she had it done she couldn’t even feel the pain as she was that excited. Her second tattoo is what she got in memory of her beloved teacher, Miz Minerva. On the right side of her ribs she has a snake coiled around a small paragraph which say’s:
décès Comme une ombre Beckons sa proie Dans l'inconnu Par un doux murmure Dans l'âmeUndo
Cecile was always used to the finest of things, and now due to her job she has stuck to her childhood ways. She would never been seen without designer on, even if it was just her jogging bottoms and a sweat top. Her style is somewhat neo-gothic, however she isn’t afraid to wear color and don a ball gown if need be, she likes to surprise people.
Celebrity Claim: Jessica Stam
special abilities
Powers:
Voodoo – Vodou, also written as Voodoo; Vodun, or Vodou) is a syncretic religion practiced chiefly in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. Practitioners are called "vodouists" or "servants of the spirits”
Vodouists believe in a distant and unknowable creator god, Bondyè. As Bondyè does not intercede in human affairs, vodouists direct their worship toward spirits subservient to Bondyè, called lwa. Every lwa is responsible for a particular aspect of life, with the dynamic and changing personalities of each lwa reflecting the many possibilities inherent to the aspects of life over which they preside. In order to navigate daily life, vodouists cultivate personal relationships with the lwa through the presentation of offerings, the creation of personal altars and devotional objects, and participation in elaborate ceremonies of music, dance, and spirit possession.
Vodou originated in the French slave colony of Saint-Domingue in the 18th century, when African religious practice was actively suppressed, and enslaved Africans were forced to convert to Christianity. Religious practices of contemporary Vodou are descended from, and closely related to, West African Vodun as practiced by the Fon and Ewe. Vodou also incorporates elements and symbolism from other African peoples including the Yorùbá and Bakongo; as well as Taíno religious beliefs, and European spirituality including Roman Catholic Christianity, European mysticism, Freemasonry, and other influences.
Vodouisants believe in a supreme being called Bondye, but also worship many lesser spirits, as the lwa. This belief is held in several West African religions, such as that of the Yoruba, Odinani, and Vodun. When it came in contact with Roman Catholicism, the supreme being was associated with the Judeo-Christian God, the lwa becoming the saints.
Because Bondye is unreachable, Vodouisants aim their prayers to lesser entities, the spirits known as lwa, or mistè. The most notable lwa include Papa Legba (guardian of the crossroads), Erzulie Freda (the spirit of love), Simbi (the spirit of rain and magicians), Kouzin Zaka (the spirit of agriculture), and The Marasa, divine twins considered to be the first children of Bondye.
These lwa can be divided into 21 nations, which include the Petro, Rada, Congo and Nago. The Petro and the Rada contrast most with one another, because the Petro are hot or aggressive and restless, whereas the Rada are cool or calm and peaceful.
The lwa also fall into family groups, who share a surname, such as Ogou, Ezili, Azaka or Ghede. For instance, "Ezili" is a family, Ezili Danto and Ezili Freda are two individual spirits in that family. Each family is associated with a specific aspect, for instance the Ogou family are soldiers, the Ezili govern the feminine spheres of life, the Azaka govern agriculture, the Ghede govern the sphere of death and fertility. Each of the lwa is associated with a particular Roman Catholic saint.
Those in the Haitian Vodou practices that serve the lwa are the Bokor. The Bokor are the Vodou priest/priestesses who can be hired to perform various sorcery. The Bokor practice both light and dark forms of magic. The Dark magic that they practice mainly revolves around the creation of zombies through the use of a mixture of poisons. These poisons are mainly derived from puffer fish and other poisonous substances.
Through this art Cecile can call on the spirits and energies around her by doing voodoo rituals, spells and incantations. The bigger the effect the longer the ritual or spell, some big feats of power can last for hours involving dancing, singing, drinking, self harm all dependant on the spell of course.
Cecile has learnt her art from a powerful Vodouien called Miz Minerva who was her nanny back at home in Thuringia, as soon as Miz Minerva began to teach her Cecile soaked it all up like a sponge. By the time time Cecile came to leave home at fourteen she was already quite accomplished Vodouien , she would still meet in secret up until Miz Minerva was killed still learning from her as when Cecile left that was when Miz M decided to teach Cecile some of the darker things to help keep her safe along the way.
During her final “exam” when she was eighteen, Cecile spent seven hours in a hugely complex ritual which almost led to her death; summoning the spirit of Marinette of the Dry Arms. The summoning was successful and Marinette was a violent spirit who had flung Cecile into a wall before she managed to eventually subdue the spirit. Once this has been done she sacrificed a boa constrictor called Zombi and bound Marinette to the animal. In the process the snake bit her which is why she has a scar on her neck, but now Marinette serves her through Zombi as her loyal servant.
Skills:
Expert Pickpocket– By the time she had left home at fourteen Cecile had already been clever enough to secure herself financially without her parents knowing, however when your fourteen and from a well known family in your area you had to resort to more shady means of getting around. Around the time she was squatting/street living Cecile had made friends with the local thieves and bad guys, and they quickly showed her their ways. By the time she was seventeen and moved into her own apartment Cecile was an adept at pick pocketing, being able to take a mans wallet from his suit jacket without him even realizing.
Superb Businesswoman – Cecile has always been extremely intelligent much to the dismay of her ridiculous mother and father, however this served her in life quite well. It wasn’t long after she had moved into her first apartment when she soon got a job working for a banking firm in Berlin. This was her beginnings of being a Corporate Banker and how she soon climbed the ladder to be the best Banker in all of Germany, also with a little help from a spirit or two here and there.
Excellent Strategist– During her time in the banking world she quickly realized it was a shady place just like the rest of the world and knew that to stay on top of your game, you have step on a few head while climbing up that ladder. This is what Cecile did, and she does not care what so ever. She has the uncanny ability to assess a situation, and fire out different results as to get her in a better position than them.
Personal Possessions:
Five Mambo Dolls – These dolls were each taken from a powerful Mambo who Cecile had seemingly hunted down as she saw them as a threat, each doll contains part of the energy of the Mambo that she killed as when someone of power is destroyed in a violent way it leaves an energy trace which Cecile placed into the Mambo’s doll. She has five of these in her possession all different shapes and sizes, she also has a favorite; which is the one she didn’t kill of her precious Miz Minerva.
Bone Necklace – The Bone Necklace was given to Cecile by Miz Minerva when she was sixteen. This necklace was worn by Marie Laveau one of the most famous Voodoo Queens of all, and Miz M gave it to Cecile to as a gift on passing her exam. The necklace itself allows a Vodouien to focus their abilities while completing a ritual.
Zombi – This is the Boa Constrictor which Cecile sacrificed in her first Mambo ritual, while summoning the spirit of Marinette. She had been researching and trying to perfect the ritual for weeks as she wanted to impress Miz Minerva, and it had payed off. On sacrificing Zombi the Boa, and draining the blood into a goblet with her own; Cecile bound the violent spirit inside the snake to give it new life. Now Zombi serves Cecile like a loyal servant being powered by Marinette the Ioa spirit. Zombi has the ability to change his shape thanks to Marinette coursing through his veins, though usually he either sticks to his snake form, or his human form which is that of a large west african man who acts as Cecile's, chauffeur, guard and friend. He can also communicate telepathically with Cecile at all times no matter how great the distance is.
Weapons and Equipment:
Poppet’s – These little dolls may look like nothing but they sure pack a punch to the unsuspecting person who happens to have one made for them by Cecile. All she needs is any kind of possession of that person be it a piece of hair, paper they have written on, clothing it can be absolutely anything, and once one is made she can inflict pain and sometimes even death if the person is that weak, probably already sick to die.
Saxe- Meiningen Bracelet- Though you wouldn’t believe it her family is actually a magical one, and this bracelet is an heirloom that she could feel had power to it so she took right before she left home. The bracelet itself used to be passed down to the eldest daughter and was blessed with power in each generation, it is solid platinum with tiny engravings of initials of everyone who has marked the ring previously in the family completing the ritual. The head of the ring is set with sapphires and rubies, but these days it looks quite gaudy due to it being centuries old. As the ring has been blessed with the ritual for over three hundred years, it grants the user the gift of telekinesis with which Cecile can lift almost four times her own body weight, however using the ring for large tasks drains its power extremely quickly.
Grimoires and Journals – Cecile has acquired three Grimoires from the Mambo’s that she killed and also two journals from the other one, inside are all the knowledge and rituals that she knows as she has already mastered most of them. However there are still a few of the big ones which she can’t yet quite get to grips with.
Steyr Tactical Machine Pistol - Though she may be a Vodouien she is also not stupid, and knows that her abilities can't always get her out of situations, so she has this safely on her person at most times just in case the situation arises that she might need it.
Limitations: Cecile though she had learnt everything that Miz Minerva was able to teach her in that short period of time, and she learnt it strong and fast, she still doesn’t know everything. In her own mind which is she has made it this far this fast, Cecile likes to think she is the biggest, baddest around however this statement is far from true. There are a lot of people out there who are far more skilled Vodouns than she is, in the grand scheme of things she is far from mastering the art she has just been extremely lucky to know as much as she does so quickly; which is where the whole cockiness comes from.
Even though she can lift four times her own body weight with the telekinesis this is extremely stressful on her body, and she can’t do that weight for that long. Also if you bear in mind she doesn’t way all that much either, as far as telekinesis goes it isn’t very high level, after all the power does come from an heirloom.
While completing rituals Cecile is in an extremely vulnerable state especially if it is a big one, as some rituals can involve going into trances and drunken states/dances, so alls it would take would be for a normal human to walk in and shoot her down. Also the rituals can be extremely draining in the sense that she would be bed ridden for days if it was a huge spell or magic.
Part of the Vodoun is the trance like state which can happen at random moments, once in these states the soul is essentially trying to communicate with the higher plane. She can usually feel when these are coming on, but sometimes it could just happen in a place that she wouldn’t want it to.
One of her major weakness’s which she hates herself for and is determined to change is the fact that besides her abilities and her gun, Cecile is virtually defenseless. She has no combat training what so ever, she would barely even know how to throw a punch if someone tried to grab her, and plus her being so slender it wouldn’t take a lot to knock the poor thing out.
psychoanalysis
Personality Description:
Cecile has a somewhat of a complex personality, overall she is a very cool, almost cold and thoroughly sensible person, she does not like to over react to situations; straight away that is. After leaving home and climbing the banking ladder she has a very no nonsense attitude about her, she doesn’t like beating around the bush.
Due to taking it upon herself to leave home at fourteen, and now she has excelled the banking world in Germany as well as the Voodoo that Miz Minerva taught her, she does have somewhat of a chip on her shoulder. Cecile believes that because she hit the ground running, and because she is the top of her game on the banking front that she is the best person ever. When obviously this fact is far from true, Cecile is just used to surrounding herself with people that don’t tell her any different, which is what makes her cocky and almost bratty at times for a twenty six year old woman.
Even though she moved away for good reasons she does always miss her family, and she believes that loyalty is a big thing. If you can’t be loyal, then you can’t be anything and you don’t even deserve to be on the planet. The same goes for friends that she has, she is extremely loyal to them and would defend them to anybody no matter who it was, even if it meant getting herself into trouble.
With climbing the corporate ladder she is a formidable strategist, and the way the she can assess a situation is phenomenal almost psychic, and she is almost certain that this is nothing to do with any psychic abilities. She can look at people and instantly decide what she wants from them and how she is going to get it. She is a master manipulator, especially with men she has always managed to get them around her little finger.
Even though on the outside she has a cold and calculating exterior, she can be extremely loving like the way she was with Miz Minerva; and when she was killed she was absolutely heart broken and just sat on her apartment floor for days crying. I suppose Cecile is longing for someone to give her the love that Miz Minerva gave her and maybe that would stabilize here a little bit, melt her icy heart.
Strengths:- Determination – This is something that has put Cecile where she is today, it was sheer determination that has driven her to push her career forward, and her life. It is this that has made her get up and practice her Voodoo every day, to check the stock markets every day and the shares it is this driving force that has been pivotal in her life.
- Stubborn – Now some may look at this and think, a strength, what? But being stubborn is something that Cecile is great at and she see’s it is a serious strength in her personality. Once she believes that she is right you will not budge her on anything, and she will stick her guns out until you give in.
- Intelligent - Cecile is very intelligent and has used this to her advantage in almost every situation she has ever been in, there is very rarely a time that she has not thought something through before doing it.
- Manipulation - As was highlighted above Cecile knows how to get people right where she wants them, especially men. She thinks that they are so much easier to bend them to her will, and the best part of it is that she doesn't even need to use her magic.
- Observant - Cece has a very secret way in order to watch people and situations and see what is really going on, she thinks this is an utmost for any loner as you always need to know how to play a situation.
Weaknesses:- Lonely - As part of being so independant and getting to where you want to be in life, Cecile has rarely had the time to have a real relationship. Sure she has had flings, but they were all to get what she wants. She has never had a real loving relationship and that is something that she longs for even though she would never admit it.
- Uncoperative - Being so stubborn this the down fall in that Cecile has never quite been a team player and likes to do things her own way, unless she agrees with you which in that case everything is cool.
- Over Confident - Due to Cecile being the best/strongest/richest/ whatever you want to call it person that she surrounds herself with she is very naive into the fact that there are people out there who are a lot bigger than she is, which is something that she can't quite get her head around.
- Cold - Her coldness can come across as stand offish and make people scared to talk to her which is why she finds it so hard to make new friends, she has tried to change this but she just can't seem to shake it off.
- Closed Book - Cecile finds it very hard to let men into her life, which is why she liked it so much back in Germany cause she had her close knit little friends and that was all she had to worry about, and now the big city beckons and she can't seem to open up.
Fear/s:
Anyone hurting Zombi, she would be absolutely fuming!
Goal/s:
To become the best Voodoo witch there ever was
biography
Their Story:
Cecile was born as the eldest daughter of a just noble German family. Her family were once very magical and served the German Royal Family but that was centuries ago and the family had since preferred the money over the power so to speak. However luckily for a Cecile her nanny just happened to be a Mambo by the name of Miz Minerva, and she could sense the power within Cecile and began to learn her in the ways of the Voodoo from a very early age, she would often play ‘games’ with her from the age of seven. Cecile’s parents had very little to do with her and the siblings growing up, her father was to busy at some Duke’s hunting trip trying to remain relevant while her mother was too busy at Tea Parties and Balls to ever be bothered with them.
Just before she turned fourteen and her lessons with Miz Minerva were in full swing Cecile could not of been any happier, her childhood up until this point was blissful to a certain extent. Right up until the moment that her father had come in to tell her some “amazing news” that she was engaged to the son of a Duke and how amazing this was for her, and the family and how happy she will be. All’s that Cecile thought was disgust; she would not do what her father wanted and told him to get out and that she wouldn’t not in a thousand years. However her father was very adamant that she would need to do this, or she would make a laughing stock of the family.
This is where her cunning side first came about, from that day forward she slowly began to take chunks of money from the family bank and put it into her own, ready for her great escape. Everyone knew that Cecile was smart, she always had been but this was something in a completely different league, even Miz Minerva didn’t see it coming. Then one day she packed a bag, with some clothes and a tooth brush and some tooth paste, bad breath was one of her compulsive hates; and she left in the dead of night. She wasn’t quite sure where she was going, and her elaborate master plan went a little bit frazzled right at the point when she left her family’s estate, and had to hitch hike into just outside of Berlin.
Luckily for her she didn’t get a seedy pick up driver, which when you’re a fourteen year old girl alone is a very good thing. When she got to a small town she realized it wasn’t going to be as easy as to just get an apartment as when your so young people ask questions, so Cecile had to think on her toes and soon found her way to a local hostel. It was the grubbiest, dirtiest place she had ever seen; far from the luxury back at home. However, she never once doubted leaving; she knew it was something that she had to do. Whilst in the hostel she befriended a local boy who was only a few years older than her called Wilhelm, it was thanks to him that she started to learn the art of the streets as he called.
During this time she used to steal, but she made it quite clear that it was only from bad people. Like old men who would try to grope her, or known criminals who still lurked about the back streets. She never had any fear in her, Wilhelm had taught her all the secrets of how to steal wallets and purses when your stood right infront of them without them even knowing, it filled her with excitement. But the learning curve reminded her of Miz Minerva, and knew that she had to see her again, she knew that Miz Minerva hadn’t taught her everything yet.
So one night Wilhelm hotwired a car and the two drove back to Thuringia, seeing one of the maids in the local town Cecile left her a small fortune to go and get Miz Minerva and bring her to the café where she would be waiting. Within the hour Miz Minerva came in her usual flamboyant attire, a cerise pink blazer and yellow feathered hat kept her hair up in a tight bun. Cecile thought that Miz Minerva would scold her for leaving and not letting anyone know, however she didn’t. She simply smirked and said she didn’t know she had it in her, Cecile cut to the chase and said she still needed to know more and Miz Minerva agreed and the two exchanged phone numbers.
For the next three years the two met in secret practicing the art that Cecile had been taught from such a young age, Miz Minerva loved every second of it and Cecile was like the usual sponge she had been since she was a child. It was around the time that Miz Minerva had said she had taught her everything that she knew, and in order to complete the training she would need to do her own Mambo ritual. Cecile was excited and knew that she had to do something big, she prepared for nearly two weeks for the ritual, and when it happened it happened with a bang.
Cecile had a favorite spirit who she would often call upon during her rituals, it was Marinette of the Dry Arms and she was violent, vengeful spirit who struck fear in most Vodouns. However, Cecile relished this fact and wanted to impress Miz M, so she sacrificed her Boa called Zombi, and after draining his blood into a goblet filled with her own she called forth Marinette. The ritual itself went on for hours and ended in a violent struggle but in the end the outcome was true, she bound Marinette to Zombi as her servant.
Miz Minerva at the time of the ritual was afraid that Cecile was too corrupt to complete the ritual and would die but she was wrong, and she was very proud of her but told her to never try that again as she did nearly die. When Cecile recovered a few days later, she promised her and told Miz Minerva that she would see her soon. This was something that she wished she had never said, within a matter of days after the ritual Miz Minerva was brutally killed as she was walking back from the town in Thuringia. Cecile got drunk for days, and just cried on the floor and felt helpless, not even her new servant could comfort her.
She vowed to find out what happened to Miz Minerva but she knew now was the time to sort her life out, and she was now old enough to get an apartment. She got the subway into Berlin and went to the nearest estate agents and asked for the most expensive apartment they had, within a week she was living right in the center of Berlin in her penthouse apartment over looking the city, she felt on top of the world. Not long after she secured her self a job in a downtown bank and soon began climbing the ladder, using all of her many talents supernatural or not to help her on her way.
By the time she was 21, Cecile was at the top of her game and a senior Corporate Banker for one of the biggest firms in Germany. It wasn’t long before she began to catch wind of a few Mambo’s dotted around, and as the story went they felt big ju-ju and killed the one who made it. What had actually happened was the group of Mambo’s were bullies who were dotted around rural Germany, and after sensing Cecile’s ritual they thought it was Miz Minerva and decided to get rid of her, to get rid of the competition.
Cecile flew into a rage and vowed to get them all, telling Zombi how she wanted them all dead. When you were at the top of the corporate world, it was very easy to find out information that you need. She soon found out where they lived and her and Zombi went and did their thing. Then as if to put salt in the wound, Cecile trapped the violent energy from their deaths inside five dolls which she now keeps in her possession as a kind of war token.
After the Mambo’s were out of the way she craved a new challenge, she knew she still had stuff to learn with her craft and she had heard rumors on the grape vine of place where she knew something exciting could happen. It was then that she decided to leave Berlin for the bright lights of Arc City.
Other Information:
rp sample
olivia could not contain her frustration as she sat staring outside of the small bistro window, she had been sat alone now for around fifteen minutes and wasn't happy about the wait. then again she should be used to this now, pagan gods can never stick to time schedules as they seem to think that they own it.
seeing all of the cars outside, and the planes going past in the sky she always felt so bewildered when she had moments like this. planes and cars were all fantasy when she was born, people hadn't even dreamed of the stuff yet. she quickly snapped out of it as the same exotic woman that she had gotten so used to over the centuries came and sat down across the table from her.
"your late." was olivia's simple answer to the mighty goddess, who many would tremble before. kali however let the comment fly straight past her. "and you my dear should remember how to speak to your elders, i dont know how many times i have to tell you that. then again it has been a while, what is it now fifty, sixty years?" the goddess proceeded to pull a lipgloss out of her gucci purse and lather it on her lips, and olivia just rolled her eyes.
"and you should remember after all this time that i hate it when people are late, especially you! so come on then what was so important that you need to speak to me after all this. i was starting to think that you had forgotten about little old me." olivia always had a sarcastic tone to her voice, it was just the way she was, she presumed it was because of her age but who knew.
kali stared at her, her teal coloured blazer was ruffled slightly and she was quick to fix it before replying to her. "forget about you, oh dear you are so hard to forget about with all the trouble that you have caused over the years. anywho so word is going around a few higher circles you know what i mean, that big mumbo jumbo is happening down here and they dont know who or why but this is major fairy godmother stuff were talking about"
behind the scenes
Your name: Nova
Age: 20
How long have you been RPing? six years
Where/How did you find us? The Rising Sun
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