http://crowneth.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] crowneth.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] ddd_news 2010-09-23 09:24 pm (UTC)

elizabeth tudor ♛ afterschool charisma [2/?]

A strange cult makes an appearance - those praying to the "Almighty Dolly", named after the sheep that was the first successfully cloned mammal. They hope that her luck and success will stop them from also playing into fate's hands, and that they will be able to sever their ties with history. Unbeknownst to the students, and thus far unexplained as to why, the Almighty Dolly keychains are bugged, and one ends up in Elizabeth's hands as part of a plan of some sort. She doesn't attend the cult meetings or anything, but she accepts the doll in the hopes that it will keep her from her fate - becoming an old maid who is doomed to die alone.

Bad things keep happening. Mozart tries to hang himself, claiming that there is no point in being himself and that "Mozart is dead". Joan of Arc becomes increasingly more terrified about her fate, considering that her original died at an age she is fast approaching. Throughout all of this, most of the students, including Elizabeth, are fretting over an upcoming expo; the school expo is where all the students perform to show off what they have learnt and the accomplishments they have made so far, and it also doubles as what is pretty much an exam. They have to prove that they are progressing towards the height of their originals. Elizabeth, presumably happy with her studies, spends most of her preparation time making an extravagant dress.

Things just keep going downhill. The school's most hated person, Director Rockswell, shows up (and Elizabeth spends a lot of time understandably off-screen; the instant she sees Rockswell and he comments on her dress, she flees the room and doesn't return). A little girl called Pandora shows up, who looks incredibly similar to Marie Curie. Joan of Arc is going to be burned at the stake for a performance during the expo, which puts everyone on edge. Elizabeth may not be a central feature to a lot of this, but she's around throughout it, generally being concerned and very out-of-the-loop.

Everyone seems to be looking forward to and enjoying the expo, despite the sudden and mysterious disappearances of Shiro, Pandora and Mozart, who have been locked up by Dr. Kamiya. Elizabeth and the others all hang around and chat excitedly and make fun of each other, and soon enough they all move into the auditorium to listen to opening speeches, excited but a little on-edge, mainly because of the stunt involving Joan that is approaching. During Rasputin's speech, however, the group looking to assassinate the clones suddenly strikes again; they set off an explosion, bringing down the ceiling of the auditorium and sending everyone running screaming. Elizabeth manages to find her way safely outside, although she's in hysterics and sobbing because she loses sight of Florence and Ikkyu.

And that's as far as I can tell you because not even those bits I told you about just now are translated, I had to put it together from untranslated scans, sob. One day Viz will release the rest in English. o9

Personality:

Elizabeth actually seems to be a very typical teenage girl. She's rather cheery most of the time, she's certainly not afraid of speaking her mind, and she can be pretty loud at times. She's enthusiastic, a little dramatic, energetic, and occasionally she's boisterous and kind of overzealous. She often flits between being immature and rowdy, and mature and thoughtful (although, she considers it "mature" that she "doesn't want some high school romance" and she wants to jump straight to something more serious; getting married, that is).

She's certainly not an idiot, though, even if she does have a tendency to overreact (or at least express herself strangely, or too dramatically). It's just that she keeps the full extent of her thoughts to herself if she thinks it's going to hurt her friends - she's caring and pretty protective, as is evidenced by the fact that she snaps at Ikkyu just for calling Florence Nightingale a worrywart. She becomes reasonably concerned about both matters that don't quite involve her and her friends - she doesn't overdo it like Florence, but she isn't a drywall like Freud. Still, her friends are obviously important to her, and she cherishes them.

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