Torquille Mock

Torquille Mock is the daughter of the Mock Turtle from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. She was created by BarbarianKnight3.

Personality
Torquille is a caring but shy individual. Ever the optimist, she's a massive support to her friends and tries to keep those around her happy. Her hobbies include embroidery, drawing and baking. However she has low self eesteem so she fails to accept that she has talents and strengths, seeing everyone else as being better at things than she is. She isn't very outgoing, struggling with socialising and keeping things to what she can manage.

Appearance
Torquille has pale skin, green eyes, freckles on her face and curly dark brown hair with seaweed green streaks. She has a flat turtle shell on her back, although you can't see it as she wears clothing on top of it.

How the Story Goes
The Mock Turtle features in Chapters Nine and Ten of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He is a visual pun on the Victorian dish mock turtle soup, a cheaper imitation version of green turtle soup made up of calf head and feet, the joke being that mock turtle soup is made from mock turtles. Illustrations show the Mock Turtle as having the body of a turtle and the hooves, head and tail of a calf.

Alice is introduced to the melancholic Mock Turtle by the Gryphon. He tells Alice of his history of going to school in the sea, a conversation that confuses Alice due to the two meanings of the word "school" (a school of fish and an insitute of learning). The Mock Turtle is also confused by Alice's description of the school she attends. He then recites songs and poems. As he sings "Beautiful Soup", Alice is dragged away by the Gryphon for an impending trail. It is implied that he used to be a real turtle and that this is the source of his sorrow.

How does Torquille come into it?
Torquille feels unhappy with her destiny as she would rather avoid becoming depressed. She knows you can't stop it developing but she prefers to happy rather than sad and definately doesn't like the idea of her mental wellbeing being used as a defining trait for her in a story where she's just a secondary character. She also doesn't mind becoming a mock turtle as she knows if she does, she'll still be the same person inside and that's all that matters (although the thought of how much pain is involved in such a transformation worries her).

Family
Torquille's family lived on the coast of Wonderland before it was posioned. They now live on the side of a lake somewhere in Book End.

Friends
Torquille has a small amount of friends. Her best friend and roomate is Brynneth Muffet and she gets on well with Madeline Hatter.

Pet
Torquille owns a goldfish.

Romance
Torquille isn't interested in dating.

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Legacy Day
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