Adoette White

Adoette White [she/her], sometimes called Gwen, is a 2019-introduced original character, bleh, and bleh. She is destined to be the next Prince in the opera Rusalka. She is currently attending her Fourth Year at Ever After High.

Personality
If there was only one trope to describe Gwen, it would be the brooding bad boy who tends to stray kittens in secret. Not that Gwen is particularly brooding or bad or boy, but she does have a rather intimidating image.

Gwen is someone who strives to be self-sufficient. She enjoys independence, whenever she can get it, and being able to carve out her own path. To others, Gwen's free spirited nature feels unapproachable. Not owing anyone anything, not needing to rely on others in order to act. It's sort of a response to how she actually has strict limitations on her freedom, due to her family's status.

See, her relationship with her parents has fundamentally shaped her as a person. Brought up constantly told that she was not good enough, she's less than fond of them, and always making extremely subtle backhanded and cryptic remarks to the public.

Even so, she desperately wants to prove herself to them. They're still her parents after all, and she wants their approval, no matter how much she tries to fight it. However, she views herself as cowardly for trying to appease her parents, wishing she could just not care about their validation.

Gwen can be extremely competitive, often getting riled up if she doesn't do well on something, no matter how lightly the subject at hand is supposed to be taken. While she enjoys succeeding over other people, winning doesn't go to her head. She's not arrogant, and she's not trying to compete to prove that she's the best to other people. She's trying to prove to herself that she's good enough.

Because as confident she appears to the public, Gwen actually has a lot of self doubt. She constantly worries about how other see her, wanting to be a good role model as a Charming, and wanting to avoid the criticism of the press. However, she doesn't want to express these thoughts, thinking they make her look weak, and so pretty much always bottles it up.

Just like her twin, Gwen is slightly obsessed with her public image.

Currently, she goes for the pure and curious image, a perfect complement to Ilandere's charismatic frivolousness. Ilandere is more mature, prettier, tidier, better with crowds. Gwen is supposed to be the shy, smarter one. They love her, but never as much as they love Ilandere.

Appearance
Gwen is an East Asian girl of average height. She and her sister are fraternal twins, relatively alike in appearance, and Gwen is slightly shorter than Ilandere, at 5'3". Ethnically she's Chinese and Malay, and her family is from Macau. Gwen, unlike Ilandere, knows a little bit about her mother. They've not had a talk about it yet, as she thinks that Ilandere already knows.

Her skin is naturally a warm light brown, darkened slightly by her tendency to forgo sunscreen reapplications. Her build is average, not betraying how strong she is. You can barely see a few freckles scattered across her face and arms.

She has long, cascading, bright white hair, which she dyes in soft sunset colors. You can see her roots showing here and there through the oranges, peaches and pinks. She usually wears it wavy in a high side ponytail.

Hey eyes are round and framed with short lashes, iris a dark brown that looks almost black. You'll usually find Gwen with impeccably done hair and makeup.

Cats
Gwen is very fond of animals, cats especially. She likes taking care of them and hearing their purrs, and generally just having a warm body to cuddle with. It's probably because she received little to no affection as a kid, so these days Gwen is very touchy when she finally lets her guard down.

Gwen owns multiple cats, most of which were strays that she cared for and nursed back to health. She also owns a lot of miscellaneous cat paraphernalia.

Gymnastics
stretch

Beauty Products
i like this but my sister likes this too?

Music
flute and drums

Abandoning Her Interests for Princely Activities
yeah boi

Abilities


Gwen has the ability of zoolingualism, where she can communicate with animals. She doesn't hear everything they say as actual words though, not by default. She needs to tune into them and focus in order to hear what they're really saying. However, animals are able to understand her a lot clearer than with other people, and are more prone to help her than they would an average person.

She is also able to summon a sword by will, though she's only learned of this ability after she started training in swordsmanship. Although she learned to handle a sword somewhat recently, she caught onto it rather quickly. Right now, Gwen is considered one of the best at Ever After High, though that title was only granted during her third year.

The sword that she summons has a replica of a deer skull built into it. It's pretty cool actually. The metal on the blunt parts of the sword appears to be rose gold, but it's probably not for practicality reasons. Little floating pieces surround the handle, for most likely aesthetic purposes. Gwen insists they help defend her in a duel, but that remains to be seen. A pink gem in the shape of a broken heart is inserted into a space on the sword. There's a minuscule inscription on the handle that's indecipherable.

How The Story Goes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusalka_(opera)

How Does Gwen Fit Into it?
Adoette was born as Ensanguine Charming, to a family of D-list Charmings. Her father remarried when they were quite young, to none other than Apple White's aunt.

As new members of the White family, it really wouldn't do for their children to be destinyless. There must be somethingright? That's sort of the reason why the Rusalka DCA happened in the first place. A Fairytale Authority worker got pissed at these high and mighty royals making more work and being generally snobbish so they thought, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I took my frustrations out on not these assholes but their children? (to the tune of Momoland's "I'm So Hot") I'm so smart!"

Thus, Adoette got the role of the white deer, and Ilandere got the role of the prince. Obviously, one child was favored and given a much more prominent role.

Now, an interesting thing happened. Ilandere wanted to switch with Adoette. "To make amends," she'd say, "to give you the larger role." Later, she would run to Adoette's room in the middle of the night, tears in her eyes, whispering how sorry she was, how she didn't know what she had condemned her to.

Gwen herself figured it out much later. She was going to die.

She was going to die.

shewasgoingtodieshewasgoingtodieshewasgoingtodieshewasgoingtodieshewasgoingtodieshewasgoingtodie

It took a long time for her to speak to her family again. When she did, she realized Ilandere was just as regretful as she was. "It's alright," she brushed the topic off. "I forgive you." And ever so slowly, she got used to her destiny.

Viewpoint on Destiny
Gwen has a lot of problems with her destiny. But she doesn't want other people to die. Following destiny = she dies. Not following destiny = she dies still, but so do other people? The Roybel alignment is the solution! Just. don't pick a side.

Name
The surnames are quite boring in this case! Charming is uh, Charming. And White is the same as the Apple White.

Adoette is a name meaning "large tree". That's not very relevant to anything, but I do think as a name it's quite pretty, and sophisticated. I mostly chose Adoette because it contained the word "doe". Back when she was named Ensanguine, her nickname was Gwen. She still prefers to go by Gwen to her friends.

Her name used to be Ensanguine Charming, which is a little clever yohoho on my part. Ensanguine sounds like an adjective, perfect for the name of a Charming. In actuality, it's a verb, meaning "to make bloody". Even though Gwen is slightly confused on why exactly she was named something that wasn't an adjective, she thinks Ensanguine is a really pretty name. And also metal as hell.

Animal Shelter
Gwen volunteers at the local animal shelter in Bookend, usually asking to be placed with the cats.

Trivia

 * Ilandere and Adoette's birthday, September 28, is National Hunting and Fishing Day 2019, a day where the white deer is celebrated.
 * Gwen's design was called Dorito Nose Dorito Hair.
 * Gwen's page sat unfinished for 2 days because I was busy writing Ilandere's. Life imitates art.
 * Her go-to slushie order is a cherry peach mango gradient. She first tried it as a joke after her friends pointed out how similar it was to her hair, but ended up really enjoying it.