( Application for Canon (From Here) and Au (The Shadowlands) )

Career Opportunities [May. 4th, 2007|01:16 pm]
the_shadowlands
[dhoffryndemon]
Who: D'Hoffryn
What: Vengeance Demon Recruitment
Where: Arashmahaar
When: September 19th
Invited: Harmony & any other takers



( We can certainly add some Arashmahaarian flare to it, no? Maybe, Harmonicus, Harmonium, or Harmoniser? How about, Harmonyanka? Or Accordian?“ )

I miss it, the golden rays on my skin. Outside on the school grounds cheering and jumping around, the air pumping fire into my lungs, or family barbecues on the beach when I was six. We'd take the family boat out to one of the nicer beaches and then Daddy would go to the grill. We'd have roasted meats, vegetables and drink lemonade and I would lay in the sun, covered in the scent of coconut and pineapple, a book laying open next to Mom, blankets half covered in fine white sand, it would stick to our thighs. Even as I got older, my friends and I would go to the mall in the early mornings on a Saturday, then hit the beach by mid afternoon, play volleyball, lay and sleep in the sun, then boogie board or surf and swim.

When I was eighteen that all changed. I couldn't see the sun anymore because it would burn. Consume my flesh, like the grill my Dad used consumed the meats he was cooking. I had to live and adapt to the night. Many days I just wished to walk out into the sun and I could have done that with the Ring. The Ring of Amara, the one I wore the time Spike staked me and tried to kill me. That was the turning point for me and my hatred, the day I turned away from being sunshine and into being evil. Now, I am here, in Lythenia. So wet and dark all the time. Yet, I don a bikini and head out to the beach when I can to swim. People must think I am nuts but I don't care! I supplement the Moon for the Sun now. Basking in its silvery glow. It is not the same. My skin doesn't warm, my breathing is no longer on fire, my skin is pale as snow and not golden like it used to be. I miss sunlight. I was willing to give into once, just for a kiss from you. Not that I wanted to die, just that I so desperately wanted to have you want to touch your lips to mine. Instead, you saved me, rushed me home and protected me. My hero, my white knight, my sunshine. I will always remember that day, the day you accepted I was not human and yet you kept with me anyway.

I miss the sunlight, I miss having it warm my skin, the way my breath would come into my lungs like fire, and even when I closed my eyes the white light would pierce the delicate flesh but I was at home.

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In Character Information:
Character Journal: Sunshine_n_evil
Name: Harmony Kendall, Nickname[s]: Harm, Barbie
Age: 18 when bitten, about mid twenties during this roleplay
Alignment: In between, right now, the side of Spikey!
( Bloodsucking Barbie )
Personality:
Harmony is well Harmony. She is vapid, eager to please whomever can protect her best, submissive, evil as it suits her needs, dark only because she needs the attention, tired of being a carpet, so she tries through a comedy of errors to kill the slayer, her sister, hell to impress Spike who could give a rat's ass about her. She is a lost soul even for a vampire. She needs a hierarchy, a place, but given the chance she will betray and grab for a life she isn't quite sure how to live. In the end she is good, even soulless because she is too weak, to shallow, to incompetent to be anything but...deep down inside she really was good. It was the reason she decided to help the Scoobies that fateful day of Graduation. Probably turned because she was pretty and could make for a fun toy.

History:
Brief Bio (again, we know the histories but we want to see if you do, also if applying as someone whose history has yet to be divulged then elaborate Harmony was a vapid teenager, who was second in command of the 'Cordettes' in High School. That was until Cordelia Chase began dating Xander Harris, then Cordie became a pariah and Harm became the belle of the ball. During the Graduation ceremony, the Mayor was ascending and giving a speech at Sunnydale high school. All the students knew what was going to happen at the ceremony and they all planned to fight and help kill the Mayor. Harmony never knew how to fight...So, she was instantly bitten and killed by a vampire.
By season 4 she came back to Sunnydale with her new boyfriend, her platinum baby, Spike. Spike had an itch for Buffy, the Slayer. After Spike tried staking her (she didn't realize it, but she had the Gem of Amara on her finger, the same Gem Spike was looking for and the reason he had staked Harm in the first place, he was pissed off) and his obsession with the Slayer and how he always treated her poorly, she set Spike free. Even if she occasionally went back to Spike for help and shelter. Harmony Kendall became her own woman, but due to her weak blood generation and her inability to fight, she was always a weak fighter. She did try for a spell to go up against Buffy and her sister, and each time had her ass handed to her. Her minions were terrible and easily killed off by Buffy and soon Harm realized she sucked as the Arch Nemesis thing and left for Los Angeles. Going there to ask Cordie for honest to goodness help. In the end though, Harm being Harm set up Cordie and Angel and thus dissolved their friendship for good. Harm disappeared for a while and began working at the evil law firm, Wolfram and Hart. In the steno pool with others. Then Angel and his group took over, Wesley hired her to be Angel's personal assistant, Angel never trusted Harmony, but she did try to be good. Even giving up on human blood for animal blood.

Harmony was always inherently good, even if she was a demon. She tried as Angel's assistant to remain good, and did whatever she was told to do. Until, she got pissed enough with the way Angel, and Wesley and others treated her. Her and Spike having become friendly when she was working for Angel and he came back from the dead. Angel was still leery of her and knowing she'd betray them, due to a vision Cordie gave to Angel. Angel eventually slipped false information to her, telling her to take care of Marcus Hamilton and keep him busy, he was new liaison to the senior partners. She did it with a relish (having been having a secret affair with him), using him to get along in Wolfram and Hart, he took care of her, gave her his blood and protection and she gave him the info. In the end...never having had Marcus as her real boyfriend, and Angel was pissed off with her and fired her, but not without a reference letter. A smile and a wink to Marcus and with the reference letter from Angel in hand... She blew them both a kiss and wished both boys good luck. Walking out with a smile while the Apocalypse fell down around them.

With no friends, no life, no nothing, Harm found herself bored and longing for the people she left behind and betrayed. Hearing rumors in the wind about the Scoobies making it out of Sunnydale when it collapsed, she came back to America. After finally traveling the world some and visiting France, well it all just seemed useless and pointless without the people in her life that she both hated and needed. Cleveland, look out, here comes Harmony Kendall.

Harmony always needs to look faboo, she is always up on the latest trends and clothing styles. She is vapid, self loving, in need of a dominant man to take care of her at all times. She is strong, strong in spirit, not in powers.

(Also, a paragraph outlining any important personality traits, canon facts or other pertinent information: Harmony befriended Buffy Summers on her first day to Sunnydale High School and soon ostracized her and Cordelia Chase, when Cordie began to date that loser Xander Harris and began to Scooby Slay with the rest of the group. Not that Harmony really knew what they did for fact, but Demons, death and so on was a well known fact to the population of Sunnydale. Harmony swallowed her pride and decided to help the Scoobies defeat the Mayor who wanted to kill and eat her graduating class so that he may become one of the most powerful demonic forces out there. Harmony got bitten and killed by a vampire very close to the beginning of the fight, because she fought like a girl, worse then a girl even. She then was seen dating Spike, Buffy's greatest opponent, who tried to kill her and turn her vampire boyfriend, who was also his Grand Sire back into something evil. Spike did not like the way Angel was treating Drusilla, Spikes all time love and sire and he did not like how he treated him while he was in a wheelchair. He helped Buffy and her crew to defeat Angel and send him back to hell. Soon thereafter, Spike began to realize, with time that he was falling in love with Buffy. When he was not trying to kill her and Harmony was getting on his nerves all the time, he stabbed her with a stake. She lived, because she just so happened to be wearing the ring they had been searching for months. She was so upset she broke it off with Spike, learned how to not fight as a girl, created her own gang and tried to take down Buffy herself. Once by trying to capture Buffy by kidnapping Dawn. Buffy saved her sister, killed her gang and Harmony, who is a vapid and vacuous creature, was running scared and went back to Spike. She tried to help him remove the chip that was put in his head and forced him to fight the good fight and even though he was evil, with no soul. He was always trying to do the good thing. He was a poetic soul and always in love with those who never loved him back. Harmony did love him, undying unyielding, but he never returned it. Soon, when she realized he was using her and she had an all out battle with Dru, Buffy and Spike. Harmony hightailed it to L.A. to find Cordelia. She wanted to do good and Cordie thought she could change, if Cordie could and in essence Harmony had, because she realized she sucked at being evil and she was really good at being a supportive, assistant type. So, she empowered herself, realized she didn;t need a man and became a working girl. The rest of the canon then goes, Willow goes evil and tried to kill the world. She was in so much pain, Xander helped her fight it off and Willow went to England to be with Giles and to get Magic rehab, which worked. Angel put a spell on his gang to make them forget that he and Darla had had a child. Darla killed herself because the humanity was killing her. Connor was kidnapped to a hell dimension and soon came back as a teenager. He would help the guys at the Hyperion, and soon fell in love with Cordelia. They had sex and Cordie went into a coma and gave birth to Jasmine, she made the world at peace and only Connor could see her true nature. Once they figured out that Jasmine was a hell god, things literally went to hell. Angel was sick and tired of how things were going and wanted people to forget Connor and all the crap that had happened. Angel and Cordie turning evil, Lilah dying, Angel trying to kill Wesley when he kidnapped Connor to try and save him because she was noticing a prophecy that went along with Darla and Angel having a baby, that Angel would try and kill his son. Well, that went to hell in a handbasket and he tried to kill Wesley, Angel had gone ballistic and set Dru and Darla on fire. The point being there was way too much in the way of pain and badness. Angel agreed to take over Wolfram and Hart, to put a spell on his friends, that they eventually broke. Spike won his soul and the first came to Sunnydale with a power hungry priest and vampires that were virtually unable to kill. Except someone from Wolfram and Hart sent Buffy a pendant meant for Angel and Angel was meant to kill all the first's minions and die. Instead it was Spike that did so and then the pendant wound up being mailed to Wolfram and Hart, with Spike's spirit attached. They made Spike real again and Harmony, somewhat over him, but not quite freaked out on Spike, her eyes turned bloody and this curse seemed to be going around the office there. They figured out the puzzle, but Harmony and Spike realized they both always would love the wrong person and tried to do the right things anyway. In the end, Angel pissed off the wrong people and another grand battle happened. Harmony sold out Angel and everyone for some good sex with the Demon Marcus Hamilton, who wasn't really a demon, but more of a son of Wolfram and Hart. A fight between him and Angel and Connor ensued, Harmony left with her letter of recommendation and a good-bye to the best man. She was tired of being walked all over, really. Spike, Angel and Illyria survived and Gunn and Wesley die, as well as a few others, Lorne just did his job, killed Lindsay and said good-bye to the gang to try and live his life, of there was a life to be worth living after the grand battle. After that L.A. got sucked into Hell, people that no one believed would get together and save L.A., with Angel coming back with a big surprise. That, in essence, is the best summary that I can give of her cannon)

Skills & Powers: Skills & Powers: Superhuman strength, speed, sight, hearing, smell, and reflexes and I can totally type like a superhero.

What is your quest? Huh, well, like my quest it to, like totally own the coveted Butterfly, Pink Manolo Bahlink's. I must always and forever look amazing! Well, 'cause I am, like hot, being a vampire erased all the possibilities of zits, greasy skin or aging badly. Lots of aerobics, Pilates and workouts kept my body slammin' hot, thank you very much! (Snaps bubblegum.) I will forever be 18. I want to live, live a long life. I need to find a man, who I can worship and who can worship me, completely. (Rolls eyes, thoughtfully.) Well, I wish, but a girl can, like wish, ya know? I just want a man to protect me and take care of me. I will do anything he asks, he'll be my everything. I will be his evil, love slave. Whatever his goals and quests are--are mine. Totally! (Loopy grin.)

Answer this simple question: If you could do whatever you wished, what would you do? I would go to Rodeo drive, with a gun and a bunch of evil minions and like totally rip off each and every store there. I would totally, like take every shoe made by Manolo and heist every Prada bag, every piece of diamond jewelry, pink diamonds in a titanium setting is a must. I would pilfer Shishedo, I would own every single collection ever to be drooled over. Then when I am done I would offer up my evil minions to whatever guy, like totally could take care of me and we would have a totally evil empire.

What items do you always carry on you? Or at least, what are your favorite possessions? Perfume, lipstick, powder, gum, unicorn pendant, clear nail polish for touch ups, nail file and a wooden stake. Can't be prepared enough. My FAVORITE possessions, like totally ever????? My collection of unicorn memorabilia, my bubblegum-pink, unicorn tank top, unicorn, gold pendant, my 15 unicorn statues, my pink pen with the fluffy pink feathers of doom on top, my 'I break for unicorns' mug, from which I drink my morning blood out of. My unicorn fuzzy poster....

What are your best qualities? What are your worst qualities?
My best qualities? Well, like I am totally hot, I have all these veins, that I don't use and they travel everywhere, it's fascinating, I have a great body, a super ass and breasts to die for...I have silky, soft and shiny blonde hair. I am always perky and punctual. I dress to impress, I am sex in stilettos,

Like...eewww! My worst qualities? How can you even say that? There is nothing worse about me! I am just all that. I don't like need book smarts, I read enough romance novels, I know plenty. I watch a lot of movies, I am totally down with current events. I am, like a super awesome friend, well, OK so what if I tried to kill all my friends at one time or another, but that doesn't matter. And I don't make a good evil minion all by myself, but like that doesn't matter. ( Eye roll.) Please, as if!

What gets under your skin?
Blondie bear, people who don't take care of their skin and hair, poverty, ugly people, people who don't believe in unicorns.


Writing Sample:
1st and 3rd person writing samples:http://jenna-fri13th.insanejournal.com/5718.html?mode=reply

They are things we can never say...
out in the open, in the 'day'.

Hearts that don't beat, danced beautifully through words.

Simple words fell from our lips, close and hot.

Memories so rich, I've painted them in bright colors on the back of my eyelids.
To savor and enjoy.

Sometimes painful, sometimes sexy, sometimes angry, sometimes sweet.

Discussions, between you and me.

Stolen, so soft and fragile.
I keep them close to my heart.
Any "other" would think it a betrayal...
It could never be.

Pure, full, grown and rich.
Stolen moments.

"He'd" laugh if he saw these....
in context and out.

The duality of "Him".

All because of stolen moments.

I miss them...
I miss you.

Effulgent moments.

::Harmony had the night off, it was a tuesday night. She had both her dogs with her and decided to go out for her weekly stroll around the island. She found herself at the cemetery, near the masoleums. She decided to lay down in the grass, near one of the tombstones. A dogs head resting on each thigh. Her coat was billowed out under her and she decided to light a cigarette. Hard in thought about all that had been going on. enjoying the night, her freedom and her I-pod. She lost track of time and her surroundings.::

Pre: Angel, Pre Lythenia. Around the time of the gem of Amara, Adult:

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That I scare you? How can I not? You are human and I, well, I am not. I can feel and hear the flutter of your heartbeat and sometimes,I smell it on your blood. You think I didn't know...you have no idea. Sometimes, I find it thrilling because I don't want to hurt you but I like how you react to me when you think I might or someone else.

You think I didn't know you wanted me? You wanted to savour me? Taste me? You think I didn't know the things I made you feel? The need? The hard and wanton pangs? You think I didn't know...I did and I liked enticing you.

You think I didn't know.... I know more than you think.

::Harmony had curled up next to James with intent to sleep and it was fitful. So, she got up and wrote in her diary, a few entries. Just venting, things that have been bugging her. When she could no longer take that, she didn't want to wake James, she hopped in the shower and began to soap up. She forgot to put the book away and had left it wide open too, she felt so scatterbained lately. Soon, she found herself sitting on the floor of the tub, contemplating everything, she had no idea how many hours had passed. Even when the water went from hot to luke warm to ice cold::

It's too much. Too much pain. I don't remember as a human all this pain. This guilt, this anger. Where is it coming from? Why now? When I was souless, I never cared, I just did what I needed to do. Sex, blood, power. That was my life. Now, I have this overbearing conscience. It's an AGONY. I tried to sleep. I tried to make the pain go away but James and Marie brought me back and I hated them for it, just a little. Then the pain in my stomach, this worm. I want to take a knife and dig it out. It is too much. Too much to have the burden of a soul when you've done what I have done! Some days it makes me want to go crazy and just gouge out throats and hearts until I had my fill and sit back and smile, languid and fat in my beast. They don't understand, the knowledge is too much, what I face is too much. It is too much.

This hunger, its a betrayal. This life, this body. I want to hunt, I want to feed, but I can't, I won't, I don't. I truly do not want. I wish to start a life over again and yet, how can I? When the first person to anger me causes my body to launch into a tirade of bloodlust and rage? Trying to kill someone just because they don't like you or look down on you is wrong and it feels so right!

I've messed everything all up, my body has betrayed me and I wonder if it has destroyed the man I love. The man who came to my rescue, saved me, cared for me. I am not sure he loves me but I know he cares and this betrayal may have ruined everything.

I am so angry, I am so afraid. He will do the one thing I have been petrified of since day one, him walking away. The betrayal of my body provides on thing, the fact that if all is lost, one single thing can end it. One opening of the door, or a window. I feel so at a loss. I feel so conflicted, so tender, so emotionally sore. This betrayal, this betrayal.....

Snapped, cracked and chipped. That is how I feel. This pain I feel in my gut each day, the eternal questions I have now of "Why?"

"Why did I kill countless humans? It wasn't me in there, not truly me. It was a demon, wasn't it?"

"Why can't the people I love see that I am a monster? Why has coming to Lythenia made me feel so, unreal?"

I wake up each evening and feel this niggling, this worm, the crack in my veneer. It keeps opening and opening. I think I am going crazy! I nearly killed a man, because he was broken. He was what I despised of myself and countless others, like me, like the ones who made me the way I became. He was an outlet for all my fear, my demon, my rage, my blind hunger. It cracked me open further, made me a savage thing. It scared me to my core and I cannot ever take it back! I can't ever walk up to this person and say " Hello, sorry for trying to kill you? It was not what I wanted." I gave up human blood long before I joined Wolfram and Hart, soon thereafter I tried to be the girl I was once. The one, who was shallow, arogant and futile but gave up her life for the greater good. I was too broken to make a difference. I didn't care that I betrayed them all, they treated me so poorly. I just wanted to stick it in their facesthat I was better than them, and have plenty of money for clothes. Then again, everyone usually did treat me poorly, but I too treated them just as bad(even when I tried to do good, people still treated me poorly) and I think I deserved it. Yet, I came here and now I want to make good on what I have done. I spend the money I earned to help others, I try and seek honor and belief and love. Yet, I am still broken. I am afraid the wrong thing will make that crack ripple and quake until I am just pieces on the floor and nothing more. How can he love me? He keeps saying I am a better person then he is, yet he doesn't see that he is the one, his heart may stutter, his rage may boil over, his pride may hinder but these things are all walls his heart has put up, because he too is broken. Can we fix each other? Can we make this work? I cannot give him a family. I am not even sure I know what he wants but he wants me, its obvious. Even if I am broken? This visceral process may be the glue that eventually puts me back together, who knows?

God, if anyone sees this they are going to wonder where this brain came from? I guess working for Wolfram and Hart challenged me, you had to have some kind of intelligence to learn all the legalease.