CINDER
ASH .

“I WALKED ACROSS AN EMPTY LAND”
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand

AGE. Eighteen
GENDER. Female
LOCATION. Capitol
OCCUPATION . Avox
SEXUALITY. Heterosexual


APPEARANCE .

“I FELT THE EARTH BENEATH MY FEET”
Sat by the river and it made me complete

Cinder has long, beautiful black hair that was once a light gold colour. However, because she has spent so many years sleeping in the ashes of her owner's fireplace, no matter how many times she tries to clean it, it is permanently stained a black, ashy colour. In some places, it is possible to see some faint gold colour but it is most likely that her hair will always be stuck being black. Her owner decided upon the style when she purchased Cinder, so her hair reaches down to just below mid-back, and is styled in hoop curls. Her bangs are chopped off right above her eyebrows, and get longer and longer as they go outwards towards her ears. Her hair is also rather thick, making it rather hot in the summer months, so she will often wear it up in a messy bun underneath a bandana to keep the dust off her hair while she cleans.

Her skin is a white, porcelain colour, mostly because she stays inside doing all the cleaning for her mistress and two daughters. Her skin is flawless, which is rather unnatural for one kept so dirty, bit it is because her owner makes her wash herself every night. Can't have a bad looking Avox. She has wide, crystal clear blue eyes, that have a slight slant to them, and they rest under nicely shaped eyebrows. She has a bit of a larger nose than most, with a bit of a bump on the ridge of it. And underneath are average lips. Not too plump, yet not too thin either. Her face is more squarish than heart shaped, yet she has a rather delicate jaw. Because she's always cleaning, her hands are not soft at all and are in fact full of calluses, making them rather hard. Her fingers are long and thin, and perfectly suited for playing the piano.

Cinder stands at the height of five foot seven, and weighs one hundred and twenty pounds, just on the cusp of unhealthiness. Her mistress wants her Avox thin, so thin she is. For a uniform, she wears a white, long sleeved shirt, with white pants and black boots. The sleeves are usually rolled up to her elbow so she can clean easier, and her clothes are usually all dusty and ashy. So she also has a white summer dress with white flats that are worn when her mistress takes her on an outing. She has to be very carefull with these clothes, so she steps rather delicately in them.

In her pocket, resides a small white male mouse named Lion. He is her only friend, and although she can't talk to him, she loves to hold him and pet him. He's smaller then most mice, so Cinder feels quite protective of him. He's very fluffy, and has a tendency to eat the clothes Cinder tries to sew for him. He stays with her because she slips him food while she works and makes meals for her family.

PERSONALITY .

“OH SIMPLE THING WHERE HAVE YOU GONE”
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on

Cinder has a very sweet demeanor. She's a little shy as well, but she loves to care for others and is very loving to mostly everyone, even her Mistress has a special place in her heart. She'll do thoughtful little things, for example take special care to remember what someone likes so that she can specifically make it for them, even if they have only said it once. She just loves to draw out people's smiles. And of course, an acknowledgement or a thank-you also gets her pretty happy. But she's the type of person to be completely content if everyone else is happy.

She is also extremely hardworking, and always aims to please. She'll do anything and everything her Mistress asks of her, and then again if she so wishes it. it's mostly because she has nowhere else to go, and she's afraid of being reassigned to the tributes. She's a bit of a perfectionist because of this, and likes to have everything she does done perfectly. not that it ever seems to get Cinder any brownie points from her mistress. In her eyes, it seems that Cinder can do no good.

Cinder also has some very creative bones in her body, and loves to make things. She's sewn dresses, made up songs to sing in her head, and when her mistresses go out, she even plays the grand piano that they have for show in the living room. She's gotten rather good at it, but because she can't read music very well, she mostly makes up her own songs. She loves to bake and make new dishes for her mistresses to eat as well, but she's rather careful to not go over the top incase she gets the rath of her mistresses. They don't like it when something tastes too unnatural. When she washes the floors, she'll draw pictures with the soap that she then washes away with water, and her favourite task is dressing her mistresses, because then she gets to decide what they wear.

Although she is an avox, Cinder has rather large dreams. One day she wants to run away from the capitol and make her own life where she doesn't have to cook and clean for anyone but herself. Her biggest dream, however far fetched, is to meet the man of her dreams so he can rescue her from her slavery. She doesn't let the fact that she is an avox bother her. She knows how to sign a bit, and is very good at getting her point across, at least she likes to think. She doesn't see any harm in dreaming big either, because she believes that everyone needs to dream. A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. It's just her biggest wish to fall in love with a prince charming. She uses her dreams to push herself forwards when she's upset or down, and even just thinking about her handsome prince usually just cheers her up right away.

Another thing about Cinder is that she loves any animal, big or small. It doesn't even matter if it has scales, she loves them. Her favourite place to go with her mistresses is the Capitol's zoo, holding strange animals from the wilds and districts. She doesn't like the mutts however, as she finds them rather creepy. She also hates the hunger games, as they took her mother when she was only a small baby. She is also afraid of them, and in fact almost finds being avoxed a blessing because she does not have to worry about being chosen to play in them.

Avoxing made Cinder a lot shyer than she used to be, mostly because she was kind of upset about her tongue being taken out, so she began to withdraw inside herself. Because of this she has developed an avoidant personality. She would much rather just not see someone again at all then try and work things out with them. Because of this she is very meek and never tries to stand up for herself. It especially does not help when not doing as her owner asks gives her a slap. On the other hand, Cinder is also rather stubborn, and when she digs in her heels she can be hard to budge.

HISTORY .

“SO TELL ME WHEN YOU'RE GONNA LET ME IN”
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

Cinder's mother and father were both members of district twelve when she was born. unfortunately, her pregnancy was unplanned, and Cinder's mother was only sixteen when she had her. Two years later, she was chosen as a tribute and died in the games. This left her father with a two year old to take care of and a terrible pain. He ended up remarrying one of the wealthier members of the districts just so he could provide for her. The new wife had two daughters already, and put them both before Cinder. Her father was away a lot to work in the mines so he could provide for his family, so he never really noticed this small fact.

Cinder grew up with the two older girls. They both came to love her, and babied her a lot. It was too hard for them to dislike Cinder the way their mother did. One day, Cinder's father was working down a certain shaft when there was a collapse and he was killed. This happened when cinder was twelve years old. It was a lot to take on for her poor little heart, but she bravely trundled on. She felt that because it was her father who had died, it was her duty to care for her family. So she began taking odd jobs, working as a messenger, helping the baker family bake bread, knitting for the other families in the district. Although she did her best, there wasn't a lot coming in and with no more income for the family, the Step-mother's own wealth soon dwindled away till the family was getting desperate.

So Cinder's step mother did a desperate thing. She went to the district's peacekeepers at the time and tried to sell Cinder to them for avoxing. She was already a rather pretty girl, so it really was a good deal for them. But they didn't feel inclined to pay for her and sent her step mother away. She went home downer than before but did not tell the girls what she had done. Cinder watched from the corner, nothing but trust in her eyes, when she piped up with the last thing she would ever say, "It's okay mother, we all love you very much!". That night, while the house slept, the peacekeepers barged in and took Cinder away, saying that she was charged with stealing money from the baker, the people she had run messages for, and the families she had knit for. They took her away then, giving her step-mother nothing, but making a pretty penny on Cinder.

Her step mother never told her two sisters the real reason she had been taken, but instead miserably went on with their lives. They were back at square one, with even less money than before. Cinder on the other hand was in the process of having her tongue taken out, the sooner the better, because the faster it was out the less noise she could make. Everything was confusion for Cinder, but she knew the punishment for stealing, and so she tried to bite her own tongue off so that the Peacekeepers would not have the pleasure of doing it. But being a simple, and sweet girl, she didn't even know how to go about doing it, and ended up having her mouth held upon, and her tongue cut out anyway.She was happy to not have felt it because the Peacekeepers had injected her with something for 'humane' reasons, but she still passed out at the sight of her own tongue.

When she woke up she was roughly given a white uniform, got dressed, and was immediately put in a line up with a bunch of other avoxes. She was to be given an owner. She was finally chosen by a middle aged woman and her two daughters for her sweet, yet beautiful looks, and at the age of thirteen was a slave. She knew it probably wasn't what her father and mother would have wanted, but she also knew that her father would have taken solace in the fact that she was saved from the games. Cinder went into the house, she later found out that it was owned by the Paolini family, not quite expecting what she would get. Her family treated her less than human, making her sleep in the kitchens. It would get cold at night, so she took to sleeping on the warm ashes in the kitchen fireplace. They worked her day and night, never giving her a moments rest.

Cinder came to fall into a rhythm over the years, and has also come to ignore the slaps and hits she gains when she does something wrong for she feels she deserves it for misbehavior. For seven years she accepted her fate, but the year she turned eighteen things changed. All her slave life, she had dreamed of one day attending a capitol gala. Her mistresses went to it every year, and left her behind because she had gotten too pretty, but all she really wanted was to go. So one year, she washed herself squeaky clean, snuck into the neighboring house and stole a ball gown, and went to the gala. She used her mistresses's make-up so she looked rather different from normal, and it just so happened that she got quite a few requests to dance. but she chose one guy who caught her eye, her prince charming.

They danced together through the night, and just when it was twenty to twelve, Cinder quickly excused herself knowing that her mistresses went home for twelve every year. As she ran away she managed to lose a shoe, which was rather unlucky. Although it was a wonderful night, Cinder knows she will never be able to be with her prince, and laments the memory as much as she adores it. Frankly, she cannot wait for the next gala. She's going to make her own dress for it.

ANYTHING ELSE ?

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

OUT OF CHARACTER .

FACE CLAIM .
ZOOEY DESCHANEL • Cinder Ash

OTHER CHARACTERS? .
Swan Tolkein
Sovay "Prince" Pratchett

I, ELEGANT.
am seventeen. I have been rping for two years, but I love doing it. I am very into acting, and singing, and I love to read and write. I enjoy meating other people in the c-box. I am also a female, and a Canadian! Just in case you're interested, 'Elegant' comes from the name of my blog title. In no way am I elegant. hur hur hur.

CODEWORD. odair
TALKING. B0171F
TYPING. 797b6e