Writer's Games: Carnival

Female #14: Viola Fern Rigby [AshesOfGlory]

Name: Viola Fern Rigby

Age: Fourteen

Gender: Female

Appearance: Viola is small and skinny, with long brown hair and green eyes. Her face is long and thin, with small features and freckles dotted across the cheeks. There is a nervous, tentative expression on her face.

Personality: Viola is a strange child; she hardly ever speaks, and when she does it is so quiet you can barely hear her. Inside her head she is creating multitudes of elaborate imaginings, where she has many friends and goes on great quests. In real life she is very shy and withdrawn, and finds it hard to navigate the treacherous waters of social norms. If you engage her you will find a talkative, if slightly odd child, but every step she takes her stomach will be churning. Inside Viola is very insecure, and has crippling social anxieties and can often barely talk. She worries constantly, and prefers to take refuge in her imaginary worlds, or in books or music or art. Her music taste is wide and varied, and not always one you would expect from a shy girl like her. Most often Viola can be found plugged in to her music, reading or drawing or writing or sometimes just thinking. Viola is a very intelligent and creative girl, but despite her seemingly sweet demeanour and longing to make friends, inside she is coldly logical and analytic, analysing everything as her way to deal with things, or sometimes even just making new realities so realistic she gets confused. She also isn't really a very good person, and has no qualms about killing, stealing or lying. She is extremely mature for her age, but often underestimates herself.

Background: Viola grew up in a perfectly normal family that could have been seen as coddling her, until school arrived. She was never bullied as such, but the pressure to make friends left her feeling extremely left out and stressed.

Fears: Socialising (seriously), fire, clowns