Writer's Games: Carnival

Female #8: Perdita Desdemona [MaSoAnglomaniaHamlet] *DEAD*

Name: Perdita Desdemona

Age: Thirty-two

Gender: Female

Appearance: The only actually stunning thing about Perdita's look is probably her face and hair. Her intensive dark brown eyes are gentle, yet catching, her whole face is round but still adorned by significant cheekbones and her cheeks as well as her lips are coloured in a very light rose shimmer. The most unique thing about Perdita are probably her dark green hair. They fall down her back in slight waves and not only reflect her personality but are also kind of the only daring about her whole person she openly shows. She dyed her hair out of an artistic idea but liked the outcome so much that the look persisted. While Perdita's skin colour is a light peach, there's also something surprising underneath her clothes- her tattoos. Almost the the entire parts of her upper arms, as well as her whole mid-back, are wrapped in artistic, black tattoos, featuring different delicate pictures and writings. Perdita prefers wearing dark make-up that enhances her eyes and eyebrows. She is a pretty tall grown woman and while her face is actually really beautiful, her body shape gives away some first hints of her odd personality. Perdita is a rather slender, almost scrawny person and while she indeed has some curves, they make her body look not really beautifully but rather oddly formed. In her everyday life she always wears very decent, dark and rather unremarkable clothes but when she's alone and living her passions, her green hair gets control over her style and her entire clothes will match this rather crazy look while they'll even be revealing enough to show most of her tattoos.

Personality: Perdita is strange. Weird. Odd. Some even deem her crazy or insane. The truth is, that her personality could hardly be more divided. All in one you could say that on the outside Perdita appears like a grey shape that gets hardly ever noticed by anybody, while on the inside, there's a flower more dazzlingly colourful than you'd ever expect. Especially in her job, Perdita is a very calm, shy, quiet and reserved person who will get her job done better than most people but prefers cheering in secrecy and standing in the shadow while watching her success bloom. For her, good work done in a hard way is a natural thing and nothing special at all. It's no problem for her to sit in her office literally for several days and nights sometimes because she's an extremely passionate person who, if she falls in love with an idea, will work on it with all her deepest passion and devotion until it's truly done in the best way possible. Perdita hates unfinished things most of very all and is an extreme perfectionist. She indeed is a caring person but to those she doesn't know she prefers to seem unreachable and mysterious. These are two aspects of her personality she really likes and tries to improve whenever she can by pulling a little mystery on things about her person from time to time.

But then there's this strange and weird side of her- this side which always exists in her mind and comes out when she's home alone. Because more than everything, Perdita is an extremely passionate artist. Drawing and dancing are the two centres of her life. When Perdita unfolds the creative side of her character, the already mentioned colourful flower, she becomes even hotheaded, stubborn, proud and rash. The fact that in her job, she always has to overthink things a hundred of times and hasn't really much time for creativity, has produced the most important fact of her personality- whatever this woman looks at, for her it's art. A unique artwork. No matter if this means persons, documents, buildings or objects- for Perdita everything in this world is either a good or bad artwork and this thought fills most of her mind. It might actually surprise you that this very fact makes her work hardest and most passionate. Just remember- when Perdita Desdemona looks at you, she'll dwell and ponder on the artistic design of your person and sometimes, when she really likes her thoughts, she might even share them with you. She also loves the fact that her parents named her after a character created by such a great genius and sometimes, in very special and extreme situations, Perdita will even remind people of some odd Shakespeare character when she starts quoting persons of the works or relating to Shakespearean character-struggles.

Backstory: Perdita spent most of her childhood with her aunt and her uncle because her parents were very rich and successful business people who actually never really cared about her daughter. Ever since Perdita can remember, her parents travelled to all the craziest places of the world and eventually returned to impress their daughter with some amazing gifts and stories, just to immediately vanish again afterwards. But this had never been a problem for the special woman. She lived with her aunt and uncle in a big loft and always rather concentrated on her dancing and drawing activities in some quiet and lonely room. However her parents always had very high expectations of her only daughter- yet another reason why they even expanded the fact of their last name being Shakespearean by giving Perdita a surname of the same origin.

It was still a complete surprise for the entire family when eighteen-year-old Perdita suddenly moved out to study economy and business administration to become a very successful manager. Ever since, she worked in her office, was never doubted by any colleague and never asked if studying something more creative hadn't been a better choice. Perdita started to love her job because she could truly forget her lacking social life with in and spend days and nights passionately working on projects. After moving out from her childhood-home, Perdita continued living in an even bigger loft which she turned into her private dancing room and art studio. She'd spend every free minute in these very rooms, training or drawing to forget the world around herself and to improve her creative mind. She never lacked inspiration and over the years Perdita didn't only become perfect in nearly all dancing styles she ever practied but also collected a fair range of really interesting artworks, including all the scenes you can imagine.

Perdita only always had rather less and just one really close friend who she knows since her school time. Her love life has always been very boring and uninteresting because the right artwork hasn't crossed her path yet.

Fears: That she won't be able to finish something really important, that she'll become unable to dance and draw, that the world stops believing in creativity and that she'll find herself in a very socially awkward situation because Perdita never really learned how to handle such things

Other: Perdita went to the carnival because some of her colleagues told her that even the best artists there couldn't be better dancers than her (over all the years word got around about Perdita's after-work-passions), and that all the colourful things would also give her some great inspirations. Perdita spent most of her time on the carnival with memorising the dazzling objects around herself and trying to think of a way to get the poor animals out of their cages.

She also took a blank notepad with a small reading light and a ball-pen filled with green ink with her to record ideas about work or some spontaneous drawings.