Opaline Glass

"That's just the way the glass shatters I guess."

- Opaline Glass

Opaline Glass, sometimes called Opal, is a 2015 introduced and all round character. Opaline is the daughter of Nella from the story Verde Prato, written by Giambattista Basile. In the Rebel / Royal conflict Opaline sides with the Rebels, having no desire to hurt people and have her prince get hurt just so she can get her happily ever after. She’s very firm in her beliefs, and often argumentative about it.

Personality
Opaline is a generally calm, considerate girl, who is partial to a good romance. This likely stems from her secret relationship, which she keeps a secret due to their wishes (though the secret isn’t terribly well kept). Meeting up at night and speaking all night on the MirrorPads and MirrorPhones results in her being rather tired in the day.

She is also fairly quick witted, as her and her friend Quinn O'Kane can often be seen making snarky comments and high fiving during other people’s arguments. Not that Opal is argument free herself – her firm beliefs (especially in the Royal / Rebels conflict) and opinionated nature can lead her to butt heads somewhat often, especially with her Royal roommate Star Thalergeld. (And, after the events of Way Too Wonderland, Obsidian Tunnel.). She's not one to pick a fight though and outside of arguments she's fairly polite, albeit fairly cynical.

Her diary reveals that Opaline struggles with the expectations placed on her, especially those concerning destiny. She tries very hard to brave and feels that she is a brave person, but struggles with what is truly the brave thing to do in her diary - is following the destiny you hate brave? Or is it braver to rebel? Running away from the issue distresses her a lot, but lately she has taken to following her heart and gut over stressing over options. Opaline firmly believes any direction you take and any choice you make can be turned into progress if you try - something she learns in her diary.

Opaline does enjoy taking care of people and tending to her needs, yet she cannot stand it when people try to do the same for her. She has a fairly week immune system and is prone to getting ill and sick, but she always tries her hardest to push through it and not let anyone know (even if it is something more serious). This likely has to do with her upbringing - the idea that Opaline should put others first has always been present in her life and Opaline pushes that to the extreme. To her, being helped and having someone else look after her is a weakness - a sign she has failed at something she needs to be good at. The poor girl has yet to take a day off school due to illness and she's 16.

Hobbies
Opaline is a girl who will try anything once. Naturally this means her friends seem to end up doing a lot of high speed fun activities together and, with Opaline being fairly passive, this is something she doesn't mind. In her head, it's not about what you do but who you do it with. Unfortunately, down time is necessary. Opal seems to spend most of her downtime sewing and designing outfits, scrap booking or writing in her diary.

When not doing any of the above things, Opaline tries to volunteer in places that need her. She's worked in shops, helped with kids, assisted in animal shelters.. You name it! If it helps people, Opal has tried it.

Opaline also used to enjoy playing the piano as a young girl but seems to have stopped in recent years, likely due to how much it reminds her of her family and home.

Appearance
Appearance wise, Opaline is a young Italian girl with a notable accent. She has tanned skin with pale white patches on her face, left hand and lower legs (vitiligo). Her hair is tied up in a half ponytail, styled to look like a full ponytail. She wears very basic make up, finding things are often hard to match with her different skin tones. Opaline has grey eyes and is of an average height.

Her colour scheme mainly revolves around red white and dark grey, heavily involving medical motifs, such as the doctor’s cross and the Caduceus. This is due to her desire to help people and prevent unnecessary harm, which is Opal’s reason for not following her destiny.

Fairy tale – Verde Prato

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How the Story Goes
The story revolves around a princess, Nella, and her prince. The two are lovers and visit each other at night via a secret enchanted glass tunnel that joins their kingdoms. Every night the prince would run through the tunnel to see Nella and they would spend the night together.

Unfortunately, Nella's two ugly, evil sisters find out about the prince and princess and smash the glass tunnel. That nightwhen the prince runs to see Nella, he falls and cuts himself all over. Due to the tunnel being enchanted, the wounds do not heal and the prince is mortally ill. To try and save his son, the king of the nearby kingdom says whoever cures his son can marry him.

Nella decides she needs to cure her prince and leaves her castle in disguise to find a remedy. On her quest, she hears two ugly ogres discussing the fact the prince will never be healed, because the only thing that can heal him is to smear their fat all over the princes body. Desperate, Nella pretends to be lost in the woods and asks the ogres to let her into their house. The ogres think they're getting an easy meal so let Nella in. Once in the house, Nella murders both ogres.

Having murdered both ogres, Nella gathers their bodily fat into a bucket and takes it to her prince. She cures the prince and reveals herself to the prince, king and anyone else watching. Their marriage is quickly arranged.

How does Opaline fit into it?
As the daughter of Nella, Opaline is expected to eventually kill the two ogres in an attempt to save her prince. Opaline absolutely hates the idea of her prince becoming mortally ill because of her family, in addition to the fact she has no desire to kill living beings for her own benefit. Her belief that no one should have to harm or be harmed to get a happily ever after leads her to siding with the Rebels.

Family
Opaline's family consists of her, her mother and her father. Opaline is fairly distant from her family, never showing real excitment on Parent's Day and almost never writing home and talking to them. This stems from Opaline's resentment of them, due to their attitudes.

Her diary shows that Opaline was under quite a lot of pressure as a kid - she was raised with the ideals of being brave and heroic, all in hopes of making her a keen candidate for her destiny. At the time her diary is set these teachings really seem to have caused more harm than good, resulting in Opaline being stressed, confused and very upset.

Eleonora "Nella" Glass
Eleonora is Opaline's mother and the person who previously filled the role of Nella. Opaline notes that it is her mother in particular who is pushy about her following her destiny, despite her clear lack of enthusiasm for the role.

The role means a lot to Eleonora, which is likely why she has always been so keen for Opaline to continue the story. In her days at Ever After High Eleonora was nervous and shy, only coming out of her shell by embracing the rather big boots she had to fill. In her eyes, the story helped solved all the issues she was currently facing by giving her confidence. Rather blindly, Eleonora believes Opaline's doubt is simply nerves and that, if she signs the book and accepts the role, the problems will simply disappear.

This fundamental disagreement causes a lot of fighting and is the main reason why Opaline has distanced herself from her family, a fact which causes Eleonora a lot of distress.

The fact that Opaline is plagued by worry due to her upbringing is also something that distresses Eleonora, as she only ever wanted her daughter to have a better high school life than she did. She did this by raising her daughter to be brave and confident with, in her eyes, an amazing future ahead of her. It's obvious to anyone that this has all backfired, with their mother-daughter relationship lost among recent fighting.

Surprisingly, that doesn't stop Eleonora pushing for Opaline to follow her destiny. Still blinded by what her story did for her, Eleonora hopes that if Opaline signs the fighting will stop and they'll be able to have a mother-daughter relationship again. This leaves the family stuck in a rather nasty cycle.

Opaline's Father
Opaline's father is not the prince from the family story. To keep the families separate and to stop anything becoming incestious, Eleonora (Nella) and Glaze (The Prince) split at the end of their story and found partners completely unrelated to Verde Prato.

Thus, unsurprisingly, her father isn't as pushy about the idea of following destiny as Eleonora. He still views it as a tradition that needs to be upheld, but is more lenient towards rule deviation. He takes a backseat in the family drama, feeling the destiny issue is very much up to Opaline and her mother - it is not his story to meddle in. His role in the situation mainly involves comforting Eleonora, who now spends most of her time upset and worrying about all the things she did wrong.

Friends
Though she may not be introverted, Opaline is fairly select about who she makes friends with, preferring a smaller group of close friends. At the moment, she considers herself friends with Star Thalergeld (Her roommate), Obsidian Tunnel, Quinn O'Kane, Rose de Beaute and Linen Emperor

Star is her roommate, and although they have rather polar opinions, Opal appreciates why Star chooses to follow her destiny (even if she does think Star's views are completely wrong). There have been notable occasions where the have helped, comforted and given each other advice.

Obsidian is "a friend - just that.", and Opaline doesn't seem in a hurry to elaborate on the matter. The two are pretty touchy-feely with each other and both of them are almost always on their MirrorPhones.

According to Opaline herself, Quinn is her Best Friend Forever After. The two are often seen hanging out and enjoy quick witted, snarky conversations. Though their relationship seems shallow at first, the two have a deep understanding of the other's issues and are infinitely supportive of each other.

Rose is one of Opaline's newer friends, who she met at around the time of Thronecoming. They're not terribly close yet but the two both enjoy each others company, with Opaline keen to hang out more.

Lily (Linen) was one of the first people Opaline talked to at Ever After. The two are in the same Throneroom and were inseparable on Orientation. They hang out frequently.

Pet
Opal has a pet Nightingale which she calls Diana. Following the theme of most Thronecoming outfits, her mask and, to an extent, her dress were themed after her pet.

Romance
Currently Opaline is in a secret relationship with someone else in the school, and, due to their wishes, is keeping it a secret. It is known they sneak out to see each other at night. It's likely they're the person she's the person her phone-addiction stems from.

Outfits
As mentioned, most of Opal’s outfits contain medical themes, usually accompanied by the colours dark grey, white and red. Notably, she prefers socks over tights and wears a lot of pencil skirts. In cases when Opaline doesn't wear a pencil skirt her outfits often feature very full skirts with trains that trial on the floor. {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="article-table" style="float: left; width: 700px;" ! scope="col"|Art ! scope="col"|Doll Line

Signature - Rebels
Opaline's basic outfit consists of a dress with a white bodice, a white pencil skirt with red patterns, and dark grey peplums. The sleeves of the dress are dark red and loose, coming down to after her elbows where they are pulled in. The straps of her dress are mid-grey and made of a fairly transparent material. They connect to the top of her sleeves, exposing her shoulders, and are sequined.

Accessories wise, Opaline wears a black choker with a silver charm (that matches detailing on both the shoes and the skirt) and a silver tiara, secured near her ponytail. It has a big red diamond cut gem. Opal wears no rings or bracelets as of yet, and has a bag that isn't pictured. As with all basics, she comes with a diary.
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Legacy Day
Opaline's legacy day was designed by her. Many of the usual themes of her outfits are no longer present, with a clear lack of red and medical symbols in the outfit. This is due to Legacy Day outfits being similar to their parents - showing off the destines they will follow. The few medical / red things can be seen on her jewelry: her crown, necklace and ring. She also sports red lips in this look.

The dress has a short, dark grey skirt, a sequined white bodice and silver boots. Both the boots and bodice have glass details on them, designed to look as if they were broken / melted, representing the broken tunnel in her story. The dress also has a grey-brown chiffon train, matching the halter portion of the bodice.
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Getting Fairest
Opal's Getting Fairest doll features her in a white babydoll styled top, with matching shorts. Both pieces are scalloped at the bottom. Covering this, she has a red robe, which reaches the same length as the shorts. Her robe has a ribbon-belt attached, though Opaline doesn't wear it tied up. Her outfit is completed with dark grey over the knee socks and, unlike the other dolls in the range, a pair of sneakers in place of slippers. This is due to her sneaking out at night, something which sneakers are better suited to. The only jewelry she has is some braclets on her wrist which are meant to look like hairties.
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Thronecoming
Italians are well known for their Masquerade masks at the time of Carnival (in Venice), and for Opaline, Thronecoming is no exception. Opaline's outfit is themed around her pet, as is standard with most Thronecoming outfits. Her mask and dress are primarily black, adorned with white and brown feathers.

The dress takes a break from the traditional formula used to make Opaline's outfits, using dashes of gold and a dress reminiscent of the Hime Lolita subfashion.
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Hat-Tastic Teaparty
Opaline's Hat-Tastic outfit features a red under-bust dress with strappy sleeves. Underneath it she wears a white blouse with princess styled sleeves. Her socks are their usual grey and they have silver embellishments, made to look like teacups and teapots. Her gloves are the same dark grey with white lace. She wears brown ankle boots in this line, with the tops folded over and pinned with a silver pin of a teacup.

Her hat of choice for the party is a miniature tricorn hat in her usual grey. The white lace, silver trim and white/brown feathers make it look like it would be at home in a masquerade.
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Mirror Beach
Opaline features a white and black vertical striped one piece, with no sleeves. The bust is all black and has a red bow in the middle.

Her tiara-sunglasses are red on top of her head. They match the red of her shoes, which are modeled after gladiator sandals. She wears a black sparkly wrap around her waist, secured with a red bow.
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Through the Woods

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Spring Unsprung

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Sugar Coated

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Way Too Wonderland

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Enchanted Picnic

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Fairest on Ice

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School Spirit
Opaline's School Spirit doll came in a three pack with Star and Astrid. Each of the girls is meant to represent brains (Star), brawn (Astrid) and beauty (Opal). They also all feature the colour of their alignment. Opaline, being a rebel, has accents of purple.
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Date Night

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Book Party

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Dragon Games

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The Glass Nurse - SDCC Exclusive
Opaline's "The Glass Nurse" Doll depicts what would happen if Opaline followed the destiny that she wished. It depicts her in a blue, velvet dress with silver detailing. The dress has a lot of features that differ from most of her other dolls - the skirt nearly reaches her knees, her shoulders are covered and the sleeves cover her shoulders. It also depicts her primarily in blue, not her typical red. Furthermore, she's wearing tights and no boots. The exclusive comes with a few accessories, including a diary and a stethoscope. The bag in this doll is clearly not designed with fashion in mind, and is an old style doctors bag.
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All of the above art (c) me.

Class-ic Schedule
She also helps out with the MirrorNet and is a part of the MirrorNet Broadcast Club. Opal used to be on the Royal Student Council but left, feeling constrained and like she didn't get to put her views across in a way she was happy with.
 * Throneroom
 * 1st Period: Hero Training with Prof. Knight
 * 2nd Period: Kingdom Management with Mrs. Her Majesty The White Queen
 * Break
 * 3rd Period: Grimmnastics with Gingerbread Man
 * 4th Period: Dragon Slaying with Prof. Knight
 * Lunch
 * 5th Period: Princessology with Mrs. Her Majesty The White Queen
 * 6th Period: Advanced Wooing with King Charming

Opaline's FPA [Fairy Point Average] is 2.95, generally recieving A's in Hero Training, Kingdom Managment and Advanced Wooing; B's in Princessology; C's in Grimmnastics and D's in Dragon Slaying. Her grades aren't something she worries over. She notes that Kingdom Management is her favourite, feeling it'd be a lot more useful for her concentrate on being a good ruler for her people.

She is also looking into switching Dragon Slaying out with something she deems less barbaric and more useful (Geografairy), but has had no such luck yet.

Tropes
Everything has tropes; here are some of Opaline's:
 * Badass Princess: What her destiny demands she be.
 * Brown Eyes: Reflects her more down to earth nature, especially when compared to other royalty.
 * Childhood Friend Romance: Opaline and her prince, according to her diary.
 * Cool Crown: Her basic outfit features a silver tiara.
 * Cool Sword: Her Thronecoming gift is a sword. Not that she plans to actually use it.
 * Hot-Blooded: Don't get her started on destiny. Just. Don't.
 * In-Series Nickname: Commonly called Opal.
 * Light Feminine Dark Feminine: Opal is the dark feminine to Star's light feminine. Star is an small, light hearted and somewhat childish dreamer, and Opaline is a down-to-earth fairly unhappy cynic. Their basic outfits do a good job of showing the contrast, with Opal wearing tight fitting dark outfits, and Star wearing poofy dresses with lots of sparkle.
 * Modest Royalty: Opaline wears the simplest of tiaras, and dresses in outfits far from the typical princess aesthetic. Generally, she gets embarrassed or uncomfortable when having to wear something tying her to her royalty/her destiny.
 * Official Couple: Her and her prince.
 * Peek-A-Bangs: Her hair partially covers her left eye in her basic doll.
 * Politically Active Princess: Opaline takes her roll very seriously, what with her favourite subject being Kingdom Management.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Star's red - in contrast with their colour schemes.
 * Take a Third Option: She does this in her diary. Notably not out of bravery or actually having a good plan, but due to being scared.
 * The Medic: Self explanatory.

Trivia

 * Her birthday is the 1st of February, making her an Aquarius.
 * Nightingales symbolize love and longing, their song is also said to “shelter secret lovers”. Furthermore, Florence Nightingale was a famous Italian nurse.
 * Her pet nightingale's name comes from the Roman goddess Diana - the goddess of the hunt, moon and childbirth. She is the Roman equivalent of Artemis, who was also believed to be a goddess of good health, among other things.
 * Opaline is a type of decorative glass.
 * She identifies as bisexual.
 * Due to the smashing glass in her story, Opaline has come to assosiate loud sudden noises as dangerous, and has developed a fear of them. [E.g., Balloons popping, glasses smashing.]
 * Her SDCC Doll was inspired by Pullip dolls.
 * Opaline's MBTI is ENFP.
 * In an AU where she attends Hogwarts, she'd likely be in Gryffindor House due to how much she values bravery.
 * Her Hat-Tastic outfit is reminiscent of Victorian Maiden's Adele Bustier JSK in red.
 * Her Thronecoming outfit takes inspiration from the Ten O'Clock Cinderella OP by FanPlusFriend in black.

Timeline

 * 26th August: Sneak preview art of a new character is released
 * 26th August: Trademarks for Eleonora Glass, Opaline Nella and Opaline Glass are requested by Creator
 * 5th September: Opaline Glass’s official profile is revealed, along with finalized art
 * 11th September: Opaline's Diary is launched
 * 5th October: Opaline's Mirror Blog is launched