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Alice Boucher; The French Bitch
Topic Started: Dec 11 2009, 08:11 AM (528 Views)
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Name: Alice Boucher
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: 12th
School: Bayview Secondary School
Hobbies and Interests: Cooking; reading; music; swimming

Appearance: Alice stands at a moderately tall height of 5’7”, and weighs in at 130lbs. She has a thin structure, with little apparent muscle, although closer inspection reveals she has an acceptable degree of strength. She speaks with a thick French accent, but other than that her voice is somewhat deep.

Alice has long hair reaching down to below her shoulder blades in the back and only slightly past her shoulders in the front, which she keeps out of her face with a hair band; it is incredibly dark and has been mistaken for being dyed black at one point. Her face is slightly pointed at the chin, and her forehead is of reasonable proportion to the rest of her face. Her eyes are light blue and somewhat large and narrow. Her nose possesses a bump, and her nostrils are small and neither up or down turned. Her lips are slim and dry, and her teeth are slightly yellow due to natural discolouration.

Typically Alice will wear a long, dark coloured skirt, usually black, with a contrastingly bright, often white, shirt rolled up to her forearms when out in public or relaxing at home; on colder days she has been known a long black coat over a pair of trousers.

Biography: Born to a pair of wealthy parents in Nantes, Alice has lived essentially the entirety of her life in France. She was raised quite strictly by her family, but other than that her life was relatively normal for the first seventeen years.

As she grew older, her interests developed: her parents noted quite early on her interest in baking and cooking, and so they began to nurture that interest as it took hold in the young girl. By the time she was ten she was capable of preparing a simple meal on her own, and by the age of fourteen she had completed her own roast. She is currently specialising in Italian cuisine, although her favourite food to prepare is a roulade, enjoying its simple nature and the variety of different tastes it can incorporate.

When not cooking; hanging out with friends; or doing homework, Alice would enjoy spending time in her room either pouring over the internet or reading one of the books in her collection with her CD player on in the background, another interest her parents had been willing to support. She has managed to build up quite a selection of all varieties music from around the world in her room, a large portion of which is pop, and a respectable amount of modern and classic literature of most genres, although she strictly detests romance novels since she finds them too melodramatic.

Physically, Alice has always preferred to exercise through swimming; she believes in the idea that it’s the best sort of exercise, and finds moving through the currents to be both relaxing and beneficial to her health.

One thing that stood out for Alice, however, was the media’s effect on her view of Americans. As she had never met an American in real life, and her strict upbringing left her reasonably suggestible, television and the internet left her with a rather stereotyped view of the American population, thinking of them as made up of fat, lazy and arrogant people. Although it never grew into outright hatred for them, she does tend to look down upon them. Her parents did insist she mastered English though, and so she is able to communicate reasonably with them.

As she entered her final year of secondary education, her parents grew worried about their daughter’s attitude to the American population; they did not want their daughter to grow up to be intolerant. At first they merely tried coaching her to be more supportive, but the techniques seemed to be unresponsive.

Eventually, an incident occurred at the Passage Pommeraye whilst she was with her friends: a pair of innocent tourists that were walking by at the time happened to accidentally knock over the coffee she was drinking down her front, and in a fit of anger she had screamed several racial insults at them, despite their apologies. Even after calming down, she continued to deride the two hapless Americans, with the support of her equally bias friends at her side, before climaxing in spitting on the male. After being apprehended by a constable on the scene, Alice's parents were not happy to receive the phone call regarding their daughter's behaviour; stronger measures had to be taken.

Alice’s uncle happened to be living in the states at the time, and so Alice’s parents discussed the possibility of her staying with him for a few months in order to develop a more realistic view of Americans. After several nights of deliberation and contacting her uncle, Alice’s parents decided to go ahead with the plan.

Upon being told she would have to finish her secondary education in the states, Alice was less than pleased. Whilst her parents had raised her to a level of discipline, they decided to play fair on their end by making her a deal: if she finished her education to an acceptable level in the states, then she could go to any university that she wanted, no matter where it was in the world (being as wealthy as they are, the only matter of concern was whether Alice would meet the qualifications.)

Grudgingly obeying her parents wishes, Alice prepared to leave four months before her designated graduation. Wishing a temporary goodbye to her close friends, and awkwardly saying her farewells to her parents, Alice was forced to fly into America.

Currently living with her uncle in his suburban house in St. Pauls, Alice is still wary of Americans. Though her initial stereotypes were very quickly dispelled upon arriving in the country, she still holds deeply built in beliefs about them and their behaviour, and so tends to be seen as standoffish and uneasy to approach by most of Bayview’s student body, although her upbringing still dictates she maintain a standard of courtesy to anyone who greets her: though she will not bark at anyone approaching her and will give them a reasonable degree of her attention, she will not engage in open conversation easily either.

One attitude she does maintain, however, is that she is the best chef at all of Bayview Secondary School, which she is not afraid to make apparent to anyone who happens to bring up a food related topic. Her smugness is especially apparent in cooking classes, where her snide scoffs at other students work has earned her a negative reputation beyond being merely standoffish to any other culinary students.

America has proven to be beneficial to Alice’s grades however; with little in the way of friends to distract her, Alice has focused a lot more on her studies since she moved and is currently maintaining Bs in most of her subjects. Unfortunately though, her relationship with the teachers is no better than with the students.

Her physical form is average for a girl her age: she does not exercise on a strict basis, but she tries to maintain a reasonable figure and sense of health, which she maintains through regular visits to the local pool for doing laps.

Although her relationship with her uncle is fine, Alice does hold a grudge against her parents. Although she still loves them, she is by no means happy with them at the moment. All she wants to do right now is finish her education and get back to France, meet back up with her old friends (who she still chats to online on a daily basis) and get back to normal, as well as look towards a future as a chef.

Advantages: Alice is detached from all of the American students at Bayview; she holds little regard for the American population. Whilst this doesn’t mean she’s willing to kill off her classmates on a whim, she is unlikely to have to worry about holding back due to relationships. Her skills with cooking means that as long as she has basic supplies she’ll have no problem preparing a meal. She is also a capable swimmer.
Disadvantages: Alice’s distrusting, racist behaviour will make it very hard for her to develop any alliances or co-operate at all, which won’t be helped by her distant reputation to the students at Bayview, and neither will being outright disliked by the cooking students. She has never experienced any form of violence personally, and so is not at all prepared for the large amount she’ll definitely experience on the island.
Edited by Slam, Mar 11 2010, 10:27 AM.
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This was a nice first attempt, but Alice Bouchet is temporarily DENIED.

Alice seems to skew very heavily to the pre-built Player end of the spectrum. Her detachment from her fellow students, combined with her history of hated for Americans, gives her a pre-packaged reason to start killing people as soon as they arrive on the island.

If I removed her dislike of Americans, it doesn’t seem like there is very much to her. The framework is there for a really interesting character, but it is very sparse right now. Alice could also use some more details in her bio. You mention music and reading as Alice’s hobby, but I would like to know what type of music she listens to and the genre of material she likes to read. As a cook, is there a specific cuisine or dish that Alice enjoys making? Things like that give readers more insight into the personality of your character as well as providing depth.

Also, since this hatred of Americans is such a key part of Alice’s personality, I would like to see it fleshed out in more detail. What is it about Americans that Alice dislikes so much? Where did these feelings come from? You mention “an incident” involving Alice, her friends,and some tourists. Please elaborate more on this, since it seems to be a key factor in her parents’ decision to send her to the US.

Post here once you have finished the adjustments, and I’ll take a look at Alice again.
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Edited in all those changes you asked for, including an elaboration of the tourist incident.

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Thanks very much. Alice Boucher is APPROVED for pre-game.
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