[Valerie Scarborough]

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"mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"

the character;

--name; Valerie Marie Scarborough
--nickname(s); Val
--age; 38(or so she appears)
--birthday; March 15
--gender; Female
--class; Royal
--playby; Teri Hatcher

the relations;

--mother; Marie Von Strauss
--father; Edgar Von Strauss
--sisters; Lucinda Von Strauss
--brothers; Rupert Von Strauss
--pets; Hestia(Raven)
--extended family; Christopher Scarborough[Husband, deceased], John and Mercy Scarborough[Stepchildren]

the appearance;

--eye color; Brown
--hair color; Brown
--build; Slim
--other features; N/A

--overall appearance;
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Valerie is a pretty woman with long, dark brown hair and eyes of amber brown. She has a nice figure with pretty curves. She is a somewhat stern looking woman with slender eyebrows and there's always something else lurking beneath the surface of her smiles.

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the personality;

--likes; Men, Looking Youthful, Feeling beautiful, power, Being queen, Sex, her mirror
--dislike; Her step children, young girls, stupid people, when people don't follow her orders
--traits; Vain, Conceited, Evil
--strengths; Her ability to use black magic
--flaws; Vanity
--habits; Brushing her hair, humming
--fears; Growing old, losing her beauty
--ambitions; To find a way to stay young forever, to rid the kingdom of pretty, youthful girls, to have her stepchildren slaughtered
--secrets; She's a witch and uses black magic. She also is responsible for her husband's death.

--overall personality;
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Valerie is a very pretty woman on the outside, but on the inside, she's twisted, evil and absolutely hideous. The thing she cares most about is her appearance. Without her beauty, she believes she would be nothing. Though she doesn't always seem it, she is actually quite cruel an twisted. She is sly as a fox however, very cunning and tricky and good at convincing people that she is something other than the witch she really is.

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the history;

--home village; Bronwyn
--occupation; Queen

--history;
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Valerie was born into a wealthy family, the second child of Edgar and Marie Von Strauss. She was always a spoiled little girl, the pride and joy of her parents. Valerie and her older brother were always close, but things became... just odd when the two were still young. Valerie had met someone in the forest, an older woman who would tell her things, things about magic. It was then that Val started practicing black magic, despite her tender age of seven. Not long after, Rupert was involved in a terrible accident and stopped talking, becoming somewhat fearful of his younger sister. She only grew more and more manipulative of him though.

When Valerie was nine years old, her younger sister was born. Suddenly Valerie was no longer the most important and she wasn't too happy about sharing with this little demon who took over. Valerie began practicing voodoo and, soon after, her baby sister mysteriously died. This devastated the family and in her family's mourning, Valerie just become more and more angry. Unable to deal with the pain of sucha cruel life, Lady Von Strauss grew sicker an sicker in her grief, finally letting go of life when Valerie was twelve years old. By then though, her family had long since moved on, seeing her as nothing but a burden on them.

It was the wishes of he father that Valerie marry well, but she went for year without doing so. Something about her always scared her lovers away. Valerie's first marriage ended tragically with her husband's death, but people don't know the actual story behind it. She had caught her dear husband in bed with another woman and, in her fury, used her black magic to end both of their lives.

A few years after her father's death, Valerie married again and this time, she married better than her father had ever imagined. She married the King of Faylinn. Valerie's greed grew, though she was always careful not to show her true colors around her husband. Her step daughter was something else though. For a few years, Valerie watched Mercy blossom into a girl so gorgeous that any man would kill to have her. No matter what Valerie did though, she never seemed to be able to rid herself of the girl.

It wasn't until the end that her husband, King Christopher, began to see what she really was. He did not live long enough to do anything about it though for the King, although he had always been an excellent huntsman, died after a terrible hunting incident. On his death bed, he told one of his men that is was his wish that his son, John take the throne after him as it was now his time and he was the rightful heir. Seizing her chance for ultimate power, Valerie performed her darkest of magic... seduction, convincing this man to support her in taking the crown.

The moment that Valerie took the throne, she declared her stepchildren as outlaws, telling people that the two had plotted the death of their father. She wanted them dead and she wasn't going to give up until she literally had their hearts on a platter at her dinner table.

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the backstory;

--cbox name; Name
--other characters; Mercy and John
--rp experience; 8 years or so
--secret phrase; *REMOVED BY ADMIN