SOMERST, marionette alena

[nettie somerst]

marionette alena somerst

a little bit of back story

Nettie was born on January Eighteenth; with a family of her mother Marianne Crosby and father Joseph Somerst (who was the brother to Leighton Somerst's father), with two older brothers; Seamus Somerst and Bailey Somerst, who were twins, and both three and a half years older than herself. Her parents had met five years before her birth, having fallen in love over a chance meeting in France and two stand ups.

The Somerst family had always been very family oriented, and both sides of the Somerst family were always together; having cute little get-togethers and such. However, even at the young age of five, her naturally sweet disposition turned rapidly. Nettie could turn on you on a dime, and she had a terrible time focusing on the little things. Her family decided to take her to the doctors, hoping it was just something simple like her growing up. But after numerous tests, they found it was much more; but with her being so young, they didnt know what. So she was put on a small dose of anti-depressants and sent on her merry way.

The next to years, she was going on fine. However, Nettie (even so young) began to experience some odd things with her body. She'd feel the need to bey at the moon at night, especially when it was full. While these things were happening, she began to drastically mature personality-wise as well. She became very serious in her work at school, and took everything serious. She'd bring home an addition page and would be completely silent until it was finished. She never put down a book once she started reading it; and her reading level was well over what it should have been. Her parents continued to ignore it, figuring it was normal.

When she turned ten, her parents decided to bring her back to the doctor. Nettie had begun to talk to herself and have full on conversations with herself; and though it seemed as though she just had an imaginary friend, Joseph was convinced something was wrong. She got tested for multiple things again, and still they couldn't tell. The doctors said her blood was tainted with something that made it unable to read; nobody, at the time, realized that it was the wolf blood from her mothers side of the family. They put her on a bit stronger anti-depressant; and hoped for the best. However, on her eleventh year, her mother got diagnosed with the final stages of Cancer, and died that summer due to fact they couldn't save her.

Everything become open. The history of Marianne Crosby's family became realized; with Lycantrophy deep in the lines of her ancestors. Joseph admitted to his family about his seer blood, and Nettie mastered the whole "wolf-to-human" thing.

That was over a period of two years. While her powers were being mastered and such, she could finally be diagnosed with a type of split-personality, and Nettie ended up naming the two 'imaginary friends', Leon and Cordelia. They didn't come out a lot, normally, but sometimes they would. She was put on a crapload of meds, that somewhat worsened it. Another thing that didn't help, was Appolina, or her wolf-self. When she was Appolina, she was a whole nother person/mind.

The years after that were simple; however, she began to get extremely violent with her friends. With being depressed and having the issues, she couldn't handle it anymore. On more than one occasion, had she let loose on her younger cousin, Leighton; using extreme physical actions to quiet her. When she was fifteen, (due to extreme self-harm and harm to others), her father made the heart-breaking choice to send her to a mental hospital. She spent an entire year in that mental hospital, and got doped up on medication. After a while of having to be on morphine (due to a hip problem), she found herself very addicted. Most of her sixteenth year was dealing with the morphine addiction.

But then she came to her seventeenth birthday, when a letter came into the mail saying she had been accepted into Beauxbatons. You could say she was all over that one.
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[nettie somerst]

i get by with a little help from my friends

all you need is a little bit of love and my hand

inside marionette's head

in general, nettie's the kind of girl who'll stick her neck out for anyone and come to you when she's called. she's not a leader by any means, she's a follower. she's very loyal until the end, you could consider her to be one of the best people to have in your life. you could say nettie's easily manipulated, and she can be a bit naive when it comes to certain situations, she is normally quite aware of what you're trying to get her to do or trying to get her to say. she is also honest; so don't be fooled if you ask for her opinion and except to hear what you want - because this tiny little thing wont be afraid to be straightforward, because she is a blunt person. you won't see her being a b*tch to people, because she tends to stay on the sweet side, even when being blunt.

fearless and carefree could also describe nettie. she can be a bit of a risk-taker, and someone who is infatuated with adventures. her love of nature and the outdoors allows her to want to discover new things and enjoy life, instead of being cooped up all the time inside. this girl is highly energetic, and always feels the need to be moving around; you could call her hyper, that's for sure. when she's sitting still for a long time, she tends to fidget and get a bit irritable, often finding it hard to pay attention when in such a situation. she tends to need breaks in between her classes so she can walk around for a minute or so and then return back, often feeling refreshed. she isn't easily worn down, and can go for hours on end with just one cup of coffee in the morning.

i suppose you could say nettie's a 'suffer in silence' type of person. she loves talking and expressing herself; however, when she's upset, she kind of keeps quite as to why she's upset, though she has no shame in talking out her problems when they're addressed by someone. needless to say, this little ginger's a social butterfly. she likes basking in the talkative students of cornish, and is quite fond of learning of people's stories. nettie tends to be a bit of a therapist, herself. loving to listen to people vent and open up to her, she's a joy to talk to because she can 'relate' to most of what someone says.

you could call her a nerd, she won't mind. the simple things keep her happy; such as photography, pokemon, writing.. she loves it all. a lot of the things people might call small or even stupid, you'll probably find nettie obsessing over. she has a strong passion for photography, and her dorm is full of her pictures and such of friends and animals. she's also an avid pokemon player; whether it's the games or the actual cards, she's probably involved with it. she has a lot of clothing and stuffed animals of pokemon, yogioh, digimon, and so on. nettie's also a very talented poet, and she writes about nature. a lot of the things she writes about has to do with the animals she shares secrets with (because they're her closest friends). she is very protective of her animals, whether they're wild or not.

intelligence runs in her family, so she always says. nettie takes great pride in admitting she's smart (though she obviously doesnt gloat about it), but she does like the feeling of getting an A+ on a paper. and when she fails, she's near-devastated. she likes to keep her grades up and make her family proud, especially trying to follow in the footsteps of her mother, who died of cancer. her mother was often referred to as the bookworm of the household; and now, nettie takes her place.

oh my food. one thing nettie (surprisingly) loves more than writing, animals, and pokemon? is food. although she loves animals and nature, she loves meat. however, she only eats organic things; or meat of animals raised on a real farm. she's researched for the best places to buy organic foods, not just meat. you could say she's a health freak, though she likes to slip up sometimes. she's a great hostess as well, and often will have little dinner get-togethers with her friends and family, and end up serving them all. she takes great happiness in making others happy. she obsesses over making people smile; often saying, "you don't know what a person's life is like. a simple 'hello' or smile to someone you pass by while walking could make their day. or even month." she's a very smiley person, to say the least.

but theirs other sides to nettie, as well, the darker ones. a lot of the time, when nettie is at home or in her dorm studying or doing homework, she finds herself thinking of the past, and how it could've been so much different. she dwells sometimes, though doesn't hold grudges. she hates the thought of hate, actually; but she can dwell on something for a long time, before ever even thinking about letting it go. she also tends to get quite lonely sometimes, thinking that she's weird or out of the ordinary, she kind of beats herself up at times because people find her strange (though nobody, so far, actually has anything against her). nettie isn't a self hating person, but she goes back to when she had problems and when her family had problems. sometimes those memories stick with her for a while and put her into a funk.

rainy days also do that to her; make her look at her past and what happened. sometimes, she'll look into the future and put herself down saying she wont amount to anything near what her mom did. another thing she blames herself for is her mothers death, "maybe if i wasnt so hard on her" she'll tell herself. (obviously its not true though). but she's easy to cheer up, that's for sure. talking things out and getting her own help (from an animal or human) makes her day.
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[nettie somerst]

cordelia may somerst

all you need is a little bit of love and my hand

the dark side of her

Cordelia. this one, herself, is very bi-polar and how she is. looks wise; she's the girly, colorful side of nettie. when you piss nettie off enough to awaken cordelia (the monster of the two), you see just how much damage she can do; with words and physical actions. cordelia is violent, and she loves to get herself into trouble, piss people off, and get revenge on those who have made her mad / upset. she is EXTREMELY sensitive when she comes out, and the littlest things can get her to start on you. she loves using secrets against people. this is the monster that nettie is scared of, actually.
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