Cordelia Chopper

"The thing about hearts? Just because a person has one doesn't mean they know how to use it."

- Cora's card-quote Cora Chopper is the daughter of the Tin Woodman, also known as Nick Chopper, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels.

Technically speaking, while Cora is royalty due to her father ruling the West after a certain Wicked Witch was defeated, she considers herself a Rebel. She would be more than happy to rule the Winkies and succeed the throne on her own (or alongside her sister, Nikole), just without the whole potential falling-in-love-with-some-random-guy-and-getting-chopped-up-and-going-on-some-pointless-adventure-thing-while-some-evil-magic-user-takes-over-her-father's-land bit. Besides: In her opinion, she'd rather there be a story about her, Niki and their dad kicking the behind of the future Wicked Witch of The West as said Witch attempts (and fails) to seize the land.

Personality
Casually assertive and often walks a fine line between acting cheeky and indifferent. Cora is something of a heart-filled enigma, as her frank, if not teasing demeanor gives off an air of flippant, lighthearted pride. For obvious reasons, her dabbling in facetiousness alone makes some question her adoptive parent's legitimacy.

Though it may be easy to generalize her ludic nature, this self-assured teen may have more to herself than she lets on. Sure it takes a bit to crack, but those spontaneous moments where she takes a sudden liking to a person --- or when, you know, once jibber-jabber/getting used to her ensues? That lucky person (or people --- hey, you never know) will find a bigger heart in her than she'd care to admit. Not that she was trying to be an impudent little twerp. Or was she?

Appearance
Being an Ozian from a certain locale, Cora is rather short. If it weren't for her size she might give off a more androgynous appearance, her slender arms both toned and muscular due to years of experience under the art of proper ax-wielding.

Her scarlet, perhaps less than shoulder-length hair has an interesting tenancy to defy gravity, which she uses a small dosage of harmless hair gel to make the ends slightly curl as through they were snarling flames. Violet eyes dawn Cora's somewhat angular face, with such and the rest of her body bearing neutral, medium brown skin.

She usually outlines the thin upper portion of her mouth with black lipstain, while her pouty lower lip, though it may be dappled in a color that matches her ensemble, is usually smeared on with ruby red lipstick. On a regular basis her useage of makeup is somewhat miniscule aside from eyeliner and the aformentioned, but she's rather fond of dolling herself up on certain occasions.

Fairy Tale: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (and succeeding books)
Basic Summary We all know the tale, or at least so it seems: A little girl from Kansas gets swept away to a magical land and goes to seek the titular Wizard, meeting three quirky companions while defeating not one, but two Wicked Witches all by accident. Of course, including plenty of differences between the books and a certain renown film, there is plenty more to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz than Jade Encrusted Bugs cares to describe.

And of course, since the creator has obviously copied her own description from Barley's page, it is time to inform you of something new that those who read the book may be more aware of than those who only have watched MGM's The Wizard of Oz: How Nick Chopper became the Tin Woodman:

Nick Chopper, a woodman of course, was a Munchkin man who fell in love with a lovely lass named Nimmie Amie. Miss Nimm is the servant to an old woman who didn't want her to marry because she (said woman, not Nimm) is a cheap and lazy bastard. So of course, the woman made a deal with the Wicked Witch of The East, said Witch enchanted his ax so that it chopped off all his limbs (which were lovingly replaced with tin joints), and then his torso was severed by said enchanted ax and that, of course, was replaced as well.

How Nick would even plausibly survive is such a scenario were to have happened outside of Oz Cora's creator will never know, but that's how he lost his heart.

Oh yeah, then he rusted and stayed in his seemingly emotionless, frozen state for a year until a quirky little girl and and a living scarecrow met his acquaintance. And then he became the Emperor of the West after enduring more madness, ruling over the Winkie people. Confused? Well then, it is time for Jade Encrusted Bugs to put this section of Cora's wikia to a halt and give you a nifty link to Wikipedia's article on her kind-hearted father who suffered and sacrificed quite a bit for his former love and friends.

How Cora Ties Into It
Cora and Nikole, unlike their dear father, are neither Munchkinlanders nor made of actual tin. It is expected that, once they graduate, either one of them will reenact the heartbreak he went through in order to take the appearance of his metallic form. However, neither of them know just who is destined to take his place, for a certain violet-haired girl defied her destiny before either of them could pledge.

Having been adopted sometime after her sister, it was Nikole, a Winkie girl, whose namesake was based on that of her father's. As an infant, Cora was discovered one evening wrapped in blankets made of animal skins, presumably abandoned near the Tottenhot village south-east of Winkie and Quadling territory, in front of the mountains separating the West and South of Oz. The Tin Woodman upon finding her, who had intended to meet with Glinda to discuss trading routes at the time, stopped by the village at night in search of the unnamed girl's guardians.

The villagers had stopped their leisurely activities upon the site of the peculiar Emperor with the parentless newborn. However, none of them once claimed her as their child, let alone knew where she came from, an odd case as the village was not all that big. Even their leader and ambassador hadn't known of her existence until just then. When no one else had shown a strong interest in fostering her, the Tin Woodman didn't have the heart to leave the little one without a family, and so decided to raise her as her own.

Since the girl appeared in their likeness, the leader approved for the Tin Woodman's adoption on one condition: Maintain good ties between her and the village, and to not push aside where she comes from just because of who she might turn out to be.

Nick, being a fair ruler and father both, kept this promise ever since that fateful night.

Family
The Choppers are a small yet tight-knit family, living comfortably in the Tin Palace. Of course, the girls being made of flesh and not likely to easily adjust to sleeping on metal mattresses, both siblings' bedrooms are exceptions when it comes to their father's all-tin-all-the-time house decor. Although Cora's bio template somewhat pokes fun at her sister, in reality they are as close as any two sisters can be.

Friends
First and foremost: The children of the villagers from a certain part of Oz. A well established relationship between her father and the Tottenhots has well benefited Cora, being respected among them as equals and vise-versa. Along with her semi-frequent visits (which have understandingly decreased since attending a certain boarding school), she keeps well in touch with the students whose homes dwell near her place of discovery that attend Ever After High.

As for Barley, the next Scarecrow of Oz, they met when he literally crashed into her while arriving as school using a mirror portal, a heirloom owned by the family of one of the Munchkin farmers who made him. The odd duo have been friends ever since, Cora being amused by his quirky mannerisms and Barley, well, honestly he's just a people person and his sometimes literal mindedness makes him immune to her snark.

Ever since a certain happening during Legacy Day, however, an elephant in the room has appeared in their relationship: While Barley is looking forward to getting brains and meeting a strew of interesting people through the retelling of Baum's books, Cora doesn't see the point in in it. At all. Her dad being dethroned only for either she or Niki to get it back with the help of some random Kansas girl (or boy)? Losing her heart and every other organic limb on her body? Not very appealing.

Romance
Other than bearing the occasional, though fading crush on many a passing lass, Cora isn't a hopeless romantic nor one to throw herself at whatever random student that comes her way. She isn't necessarily closed off to the idea of being in a relationship, but is nonetheless not a hit-and-run kind of girl.

Opon the possibility of having to fall in love with the offspring of Nimmie Amee and Chopfyt --- the latter being a man who was, by no exaggeration, constructed by a tinsmith using the leftover body parts of Nick Chopper and the former Munchkin soldier Captain Fyter --- Cora preferably would rather not. Even with the potential that their child might be female rather than male (as she would rather not pretend that she doesn't root for the other team, thank you very much), she'd rather follow her heart, as cheesy as it sounds, than be forced to fall spell-over-heels over whoever is destined to have a fetish for Frankenstein-esque persons.

Outfits
Basic

Cora's ensemble consists of some rather interesting accessories worn over (and compliment then some with) her orange and yellow striped tank top and baggy, leather-belted yellow pants. Over her shoulders are a pair of layered, homemade pieces of tin armor plated in nickel, with the asymmetrical left portion overlapped by the strap of a stylized, tan, and studded leather chest binder secured and wrapped around her with belt loops. A golden, star-like or diamond-shaped design is embedded on the binder in front of where her heart is.

On her lower legs and feet are a pair of knee-length, leather sock-like legwear with open heels and toes that slip over her red and steal-tinted high heeled shoes, which are held up by tin and gold-bolted armor strapped around her calves.

Remaining metal accessories include the following: A tin armlet with golden trim, a tin-engraved bracelet on the same arm, a (once again) tin pair of funnel-shaped earrings, a metallic beaded choker made of various metals, a pair of metallic goggles molded from various metals that wrap around her head and hairline, and over her left wrist is a wide bangle with gold, tin and copper strips that surround another bracelet made of  mousey brown fur. She also has a red heart-shaped purse with a tin zipper and long yellow straps.

Fanfics, Journal Entrees and Other Appearances

 * The Road to Oz Ain't Paved in Gold
 * And more to come~

Portrayal
In English her voice actor would be Jessica DiCicco, known for her roles including (but not limited to) Flame Princess in Adventure Time, Olette in Kingdom Hearts II, and a young Viper from Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five. Live action-wise, between her petite stature and fitting features, Teala Dunn would be wonderful fit.

Disclaimer
The Tottenhots first appear in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the seventh Oz book by L. Frank Baum. With the name alone unfortunately being an obvious pun of a certain outdated slur, Jade Encrusted Bugs very much ensures the public that she is doing her best to pull off having Cora being associated with a controversial grouping in the books while dealing with them accordingly and appropriately as to make her a well developed character rather than that of a stereotype as they were formerly written. If only Baum was ahead of his time when it came to writing race and women/gender expression, but it is what it is and Cora's creator is willing to learn from his mistakes.