Post by Joan Plantagenet on May 7, 2018 6:51:08 GMT
Daughter of PRINCE JOHN
BASICS
Full Name: Joan Isabella Plantagenet
Nicknames: Princess
Age: 16
Birthday: July 29th
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual, Heteromantic
Group: Villain
Parents: Prince John & Isabella Plantagenet
Canon: Robin Hood
APPEARANCE
Height: 5"5 ft.
Weight: 151 lbs.
Build: Average, somewhat Dainty
Hair Color: Chocolate Brown
Eye Color: Slate Blue
Most Memorable Feature: One of the first things that people might notice about Joan is her resting bitchface. It makes her look so utterly miserable most of the time, which can undoubtedly leave a sour impression with some people.
Given her upbringing in anthropomorphic medieval England, it’ll be a rare sight to see Joan in a pair of pants. Instead, she greatly prefers to wear dresses with low hemlines, with the rare exception of raising them when she’s trying to catch a prince. This villain is also rather partial to simple gold necklaces and wouldn’t be caught dead without some sort of jewelry with bright gemstones somewhere on her. All this coupled with never leaving her dorm room without a full face of makeup, usually perfectly done mind you, help her to present herself a princess should. She also carries herself with a certain air of confidence that helps fuel this image. In fact, she makes it a point to always present herself as strong in some sort of capacity in order to shed the unflattering expectation of her being weak and cowardly, courtesy of her father. However, this contrasts sharply with her other image of being the unassuming girl who was unfairly robbed of her title, so, it really just gives her an air of aloofness to her peers which isn’t helped by her near-constant sour expression. It’s no wonder this girl hasn’t had success with having a prince fall for her...
Face Claim: Odeya Rush
PERSONALITY
Although some may be fooled by her charming exterior and the cowardly genes she possesses, Joan is not someone to cross without a second thought. Even though she hides it well, she is a seething mess of jealousy and bitterness, who has a vendetta against those who have taken what is rightfully hers. (Namely her right to call herself a princess. Her father is a prince after all.) As she has a deeply rooted “It’s me vs. the world” attitude, it’s really impossible for her to forgive people who have wronged her or even look past their transgressions. This is somewhat hypocritical on her part as even though she expects everyone to treat her justly and as her birthright says she is supposed to be, but she would be hard pressed to find her giving the same respect to other people. In fact, among the villains, Joan is known for using people without so much of thanks in return. She just can’t find it in her to care about other people and what they want in life. Thanks to her high self-preservation instinct, inherited from her father, of course, her world really just revolves around Joan and her goals. Plus it doesn’t help that she’s quite possibly more stubborn and determined than anyone you could ever meet. If you find yourself at the center of this girl’s attention, don’t think for a second that it’s because she actually enjoys your company; no, instead you just have something that you can offer her. So, don’t get too attached because she certainly won’t.
However, to most people at Silver Springs, who don’t really bother with a second-rate villain's daughter who poses no real threat, Joan can appear to be a very different girl. Especially to the Princes here. It’s no secret that she wants to find someone in that group who will fall head over heels for her, so she appears to be a little boy-crazy, a reputation she doesn’t really mind. As a result, she can be a bit of a flirt, to say the least, as it’s probably the one power she can have over people at this place. (After all, what else can she use? She has no title and no magic like some of her peers.) Joan also tries to present herself as some sort of demure princess but figuring since we’ve already covered the angry, selfish side of her, it’s just as fake as Robin Hood’s disguises. However, years of practice has made her a good actress. She’s also a bit of a social butterfly and she can be found at the center of any party, letting loose for a few hours and actually having some fun.
Despite all of this, she has some severe self-doubt that lingers in the back of her mind. Most likely it’s a side effect of all the years of being told by her father that they weren’t good enough to be royals in her uncle’s eyes. Clearly, it had a bit of a negative effect on the girl and is the direct reason why she’s so eager to establish herself in some other line of succession elsewhere. Also, one of her favorite activities on campus is taking part in the theater productions that are put on every now and then. She has yet to score a good part, probably because she can’t sing to save her life, but maybe that could change in the future
HISTORY
With a last name like Plantagenet, you’d think that Joan would have been born with a silver spoon in her mouth. By all means, she should have been, if her father hadn’t succeeded in utterly ruining her family’s name long before she was born. Though then again, any antagonist to Robin Hood is probably unlikely to be the most upstanding member of society. If you haven’t been able to tell yet, Joan is the daughter of Prince John, the regent for her uncle King Richard during his crusades and his sole success was filling the treasury. However, no one looks upon this accomplishment favorably given the extent he went to do this and he became the greedy, weak prince that cared for only his own pockets.
It wasn’t like her father made much of an attempt to counter this narrative either. John never put for any real effort in regaining his brother’s trust after everything that happened and thus never earning the royal titles back that was stripped from him after the whole mess. Instead, he just preferred to just tote his children (which Joan was the second oldest of four children) around at royal events to shame Richard for not giving them any sort of title. However, it did nothing to help the Plantagenets as the king knew that any title the children had would have to be managed by their father and John had given him no reason to do so. Joan didn’t know this though and these events gave a taste of what she had missed out because of her father’s actions. Even from a young age, others could see the bitterness that was festering in the girl. At first, John tried to direct this towards Richard, but little did he know that Joan placed a portion of the blame where it was rightly due.
Granted, the whole of her jealousy was aimed at her uncle’s family, that’s for sure, but what her father couldn’t hide or blame elsewhere was his own behavior at home. Not once in sixteen years had Joan ever seen the man take responsibility for anything. It was always someone else’s fault, no matter what it was, but whenever things went right for them, he was the one who took the credit. Even the children’s accomplishments always related back to him. (Mostly by him claiming that he had taught them whatever they were being praised for, which was not the case most of the time.) As someone who relished being the spotlight, this didn’t sit well with Joan. Plus it also didn’t hurt that he never lost his temper or cowardly ways, throwing a larger fit than the kids when things didn’t go his way. Yes, her father wasn’t someone Joan was keen on holding him in high esteem, especially not when she had the stories of the brave Robin Hood and valiant Richard to compare him with. Perhaps things would have been different if her father wasn’t a source of embarrassment for her...
When she was thirteen, Joan was enrolled at the academy; she had no choice in the matter, but she was eager to escape her father’s horrible reputation. Her family knew that this school was just teeming with princes and other members of the nobility that could very easily sweep this disgraced princess off her feet. If she could manage to win the heart of one of them, then her family could rise once again to their rightful place in the eyes of history. (Clearly, the cowardly Prince John was not above using his children for his own gain.) Of course at first, because of her young age, Joan wasn’t overly aware of what her family seemed to think her goal should be. Still, the hint was there with parting words joking about how Joan was going to find her “prince charming” at Silver Springs and how she was to outshine any of Richard’s or Robin Hood’s brats that she came across. Simple enough, right?
That may be somewhat difficult considering that once she arrived at the academy, she was pegged as a villain and had minimal contact with the Royals, the people that she should have been friends with from the start. Even worse, she was excluded from the princess classes, something that she should have been a part of from the moment she set foot on campus. It was a severe insult to the girl, she knew that her family was not in favor with King Richard, but it didn’t feel real until that moment. Needless to say, her father’s temper began to bubble up to the surface for the first time. There was no way that they would get away with treating her, the niece of a king and a princess in her own right, in such a manner.
So, even though she seemingly walked away from that fight, understanding that without allies she wouldn’t win, Joan refuses to come to terms with the school’s decision and she’s determined that they would regret this transgression. So now this manipulative girl is on the prowl, searching for useful fools who are also eager to see the academy suffer or anyone who can otherwise be of some use to her… in addition to any suitable princes that could help her rise through the ranks of course.
By hell or high water, this girl is getting her happily ever after and lord have mercy on the idiot who tries to stop her.
SAMPLE
If there was one thing that Joan more than practically anything in the world, it would have to be not being the one who was in control… Or at least she thought that was what she hated most. Little did she know that a bunch of thirteen-year-olds would prove that notion wrong. Oh no, as she knew now, the thing that she couldn’t stand to bear was being thrown off her game by a bunch of thirteen-year-olds. How dare they, she bitterly thought as she gritted her teeth and glanced around the busy dining hall, searching for an empty table to claim for her and her friends. Normally, the group of villains had a small table in the center of the dining hall staked out just for them. By all the unspoken rules of cafeteria etiquette, it was their table, it had been for years. Now, these little brats who probably needed a map just to find their way to the cafeteria had the nerve to steal it from them!
At that moment, as she stood awkwardly looking around the room, Joan wanted nothing more than to walk up to the thieves and tell them bluntly to bug off. Oh, it would be so satisfying to do just that. A small smirk crossed the girl’s face at the thought of their terrified expressions, scurrying off like field mice to hide away until she graduated. In her mind, they would be too scared to even think of showing their faces while this villain was still at Silver Springs. Yet, she knew that she needed to hold back. She saw how nice their clothes were and they had to be full of foolish bravado to think of crossing her friend group; meaning that these kids belonged to the one group that Joan could not afford to let them see the bitter side of her. Clearly, they were royals and who knew how many of them had older siblings at other tables, ready to jump down her throat if she threatened them? If that happened… no, she wouldn’t even consider that.
So, she knew that they weren’t worth lashing out over. Today would be the one and the only day they had that table. Speaking of which, she still needed to find somewhere to sit and it didn’t look like there was anywhere left to claim. Great, just great she silently thought as her frustration mounted. Luckily for her though, it was quickly abated as she spotted an almost nearly empty table near the back of the room. There was already one person sitting there, but no doubt they’d move once her friends descended on the table. People tended to give the gaggle of girls their distance which was the smart thing to do.
Confident that she had found their table for today, Joan sauntered over and set her tray down on the table somewhat forcefully, commanding the attention of the other person away from whatever they were doing. Already moving to sit down, showing that this person had no say in the matter, she smiled sweetly at them (bringing out her well-practiced charm) and asked, “Do you mind if my friends and I sit here? There doesn’t seem to be room for us anywhere else.” With any luck, this person would immediately get the message and they wouldn’t make a big fuss. That would be no fun, now would it?
EXTRA
Your Alias: Maxie
Other Characters: Kristian Haldansen , Adrian Stabbington
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I'm a little too obsessed with the Plantagenets for my own good.
How did you find us: I fell down a rabbit hole, but instead of landing in Wonderland, I found myself here.
