PENTAMETER, alchemy marie

[viper]

ALCHEMYMARIEPENTAMETER

“Well, tell me a little about yourself. What’s your name?”

"I thought ya were already supposed to know everything about me. Doesn't that fuckin' chart you're holding have my name on it? -pause- But of course, I have to tell ya everythin'. Well, since yer not lettin' up, I suppose I'll tell ya my name. I'm Alchemy Marie Pentameter. Just like that. No nicknames, no references to poetry, please. I know pentameter is a measurement in poetry, don't get clever with me, ya bastard. -sigh- Anyway, I know Alchemy is a strange name, but I'm from a strange place in Scotland. My entire family has strange names. I'm just glad I'm not a bloody McGuire, or MacDonald. Everyone there is a Mac someone or other. It's so ' conformist. Must say, I got meself into many a nasty clout over my name. Just so 'appens I like my name, and if ye don't, you can go fook yerself ya damned claw baw."

“Next question, how’s school?”

"My mum said school was a waste of time, that everything a young woman needed to know she could learn at home, by the side of her mother. Needless to say, she was not what one would call modern. But could my brothers go to school? Of course. Mum let them prance out the door merrily to school. Ever since I was little I wanted to go with them, wake up and dress for school like they did, wear my nice clothes. But no, mum taught me how to cook, and how to clean. But my twin brother Xanthis taught me everything he learned in school. He and I walked to the library, and we read for hours, and he taught me mathematics, and science, and history, but most of all I loved the things I read in books and I loved psychology. Something about the human mind, and it's faults were enthralling. My interest in psychology caused me to diagnose my schizophrenia long before my parents acknowledged it was even a problem."

“What did you do when you weren’t in school?”

"...I never actually went to school you twit. Didn't I just say that? I stayed home with mum while dad was workin', and my brothas went to school. But I suppose yer files there need specifics. Aye? Well enough. I cleaned the house, daily, I cooked all three meals with mum, and when mum wasn't looking, I read. Reading and the occasionally sketching was my only pleasure in life. But soon, aye, soon as I matured, my father quickly took interest in me, and he showed me the true pleasure of life. From the age of thirteen, my father's affections were placed solely on me and I spent as much time with him as possible. I walked him out of the house when he left for work, and I was the one who welcomed him home. Other than reading and sketching, and the things Xanthis taught me, my father was my only joy in life. He kept my spirit strong when my mum was trying to break me."

“Tell me about your friends and family. How are your relationships with them?”

"I feel as though I'm tell yer files too much. I feel like I'm getting too personal with ya and yer damned pen there. Maybe, maybe I need to tell someone everything that's happened. -pause- Well, as long as I'm not fighting you, and my life is flowing from my mouth, to yer pen, to yer files, I might as well tell ya about my family, like ya asked.

Friends? I had nun save my twin, Xanthis. We knew everything about each other. He even knew about the love affair between my father, Ankh, and I. Yes, we were in love. No, we are in love but he refuses to acknowledge it. I don't know why he hurts me so! I loved him from the first time my mum yelled at him when I was four. She didn't deserve him. I know how he deserves to be treated, I love him right. My mum shouldn't even be allowed in the same room as him! Curse her soul. 'Solace Ann Pentameter', curse the ground she walks on.

-shakes head- Of course, there's my yoounger brothas as well - Neacel Seadhgh Pentameter and Cinead Durg Pentameter. Neacel is here with Xanthis and I, for we're all thick as thieves, but my poor poor Cinead drowned just last year. I didn't even get to say goodbye to his poor soul, or bury him in a proper pagan burial. I miss him. He was the youngest of us, only twelve and I didn't know him much, but he was destined for great things. I could feel it."

“Well we know about your friends and family, but what do you think about yourself? Describe yourself to me.”

"Well, they tell me I have a dopamine problem in my brain, that it's causing schizophrenia. They tell me that's why I hear Tepper,and Maria, and Luc, and Wiley. They also tell me, that something that 'appened in my childhood, something 'orrible, is the reason that I'm in love with my father. I personally blame my awful mother, the auld bat. Well, they, the therapists, asked me to tell them what I thought could have caused my 'Electra Complex', something that set me apart from my siblings. I told them about mum.

As far as my looks, I suppose what you see is what you get. I mean, naturally, I have auburn hair, but I dye it blood red and ebony black. I never felt a need for tattoos, or many piercings. I mean, my ears are pierced once, but I have no other piercings. The only thing on my body that's even remotely interesting is the scar from my C-section."

“Have you had any trouble with the law?”

"The only trouble with the law I've ever had is when Ankh got out of the hospital and finally reported me for stabbing him violently to the local authorities. Somehow, he was able to send me all the way to America, to a correctional facility in Texas in which I was finally diagnosed with Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality Disorder.

“Why did you do it?”

"Not only did my beloved take our baby away from me, he killed her, and he tried to leave me! He tried to leave in the middle of the night, when Solace, my brothas, and I were all sleeping. I couldn't let him leave. I needed him. I lost my child. He was all I had. He couldn't leave me. I mean, I hated him because he killed our child, but I needed him. I told him to leave, but how could he actually try to leave me? He knows how much I love him!"

“What is the worst thing you’ve done?”

"I tried to kill the love of my life, but it was his fault. If he hadn't tried to leave me, we could have continued being happy. I mean, Ankh and I were so happy with each other. We went on walks, he whispered sweet nothings to me when mum wasn't watching, oh Ankh, why did you make me try and kill you? -pauses and cries- But, it wasn't my fault. It - it was his, his I tell you! His and the voices. The voices told me to stab him, he was leaving me, pretending not to love me, and the voices knew what to do. They knew that I had to keep him with me, and to do that, I had to kill him, and then kill myself. That way, we could be together forever."

"What the thing you're most proud of?"

"I'm proud of my knowledge. Even though I never attended a formal school, I feel I still know so much about the world. Out of my brothas, I know I am the most intelligent, even though they all attended school. I feel they took advantage of their privilege. Because I wasn't allowed to go to school until B.A.D, I know for a bloody fact, that I learned more than my brothas ever could have."

"Got any vices?"

"Doesn't everyone? Especially us 'delinquents'. Ha, strange to think of myself that way. Anyway, maybe it's a bad habit, but I do enjoy my smokes. I smoke cigarettes almost more than I breathe the air around us. Aye, I know it causes many health defects, but who gives a damn? Certainly not I. I'll drink if it's there, but I don't go searching for it.

“If you could change one thing about your life what would it be?”

"I would change the fact that mum didn't know her husband loved me, and not her. It really wasn't fair to her. Everyone deserves to know something like that. I mean, if Ankh stopped loving me, I'd want to know, which is why his attempt to leave me is so strange. I know he still loves me. I know it. But, if mum knew about Ankh and me, he wouldn't have had to try and leave me! Our problem wouldn't have been a problem. Mum would've been gone if she knew about Ankh and me. No mum, just Ankh and I, loving one another."

“What act got you sent here and who recommended it?”

"How many times do I have to tell you? Lord, you people are stupid as the buggers that roam the loch, aren't you? I tried to kill my beloved Ankh after he tried to leave me. After he became well, he no longer wanted me anywhere near him. My mum didn't want me taken into the nut house, and she didn't want me to go to jail. Honestly, she had no idea what to do with me, but I hated her every step of the way because she never let me visit Ankh. However, when Ankh finally came home, he sent me to a strange juvenile correctional facility in Texas. We have a cousin who works there. The wardens there quickly recognized I was too much for their resources and referred me to this abomination."

“Do you deserve to be here?”

"Now I'm annoyed. What kind of fookin' question is that? Of course I don't! I didn't do anything wrong to force me into this hell hole, away from my lochs and in the middle of no-one-knows-where- Oklahoma. -pauses- Though, I did try and kill my beloved Ankh. Lord, maybe I do deserve this prison."

"Tell me about your life before B.A.D. contacted you."

"I blessed the world on September 13, 1992, in a small town in Ireland, right next to one of our infamous lochs. Right before me, was my wonderful twin Xanthis Mercury was born, exactly two minutes before me. We both seemed to be perfectly normal Scottish babies. We had pink bottoms when smacked, and cried with all of our might. However, as time progressed, it would soon be found that neither of us was any definition of normal. However, anyone would gladly tell you that the younger twin, me, was far more abnormal then the first.

Mum and dad loved the both of us as much as they could, but even as a toddler, I could see I was far from mum's favorite. She gave all the advantages to Xanthis. Lord knows I love him, but I envied that fact that mum let him do everything fun, and made me stay in, and play with dolls that were missing limbs, and cross-stich, and do everything else she thought was proper for a young-woman. She stopped letting me play like a "boy" when I was four. She said I was auld enough to know better. This of course spawned a huge argument between her and my dad, Ankh. At this moment, when he was defending me against my demon of a mum, I knew he was all I would ever need. He was my prince-charming that he read to me about in my story-books. I used to tell him that, but he would just laugh at me. He used to tell me that I was a bonnie lass, and that one day, my prince charming would come, and he would love me like no other man could love me, but I knew the only man I would ever love was sitting right next to me.

My younger brother Neacel was also born when I was four. Along with Xanthis, he was a joy to me, from his birth. I used Neacel as an excuse to go outside again and climb trees, and run through the grass, and swim in the lochs when he was auld enough. I claimed Xanthis and I were watching him, and that mum knew Xanthis couldn't be left alone with Neacel because of his tourettes. When Neacey was two, and Xanthis and I were six, Cinead was born. I loved him, but not nearly as much as I loved Xanthis and Neacel. They were close to my heart in ways Cinead could not be. Perhaps it was because, even upon his birth, we all knew he was the only normal Pentameter, save my mum.

It was soon after Cinead's birth that I began hearing the voices. They told me that Ankh didn't love Solace and soon I could see it myself. I knew, as the voices knew, that Ankh was mine. Solace had no right to him anymore. Every day when he came home and he kissed me on the cheek, the voices told me he was showing that he loved me, as he had once loved Solace, but Solace couldn't know. It was our secret. The voices, Maria, Luc, Wiley, and Tepper, loved our secret. As I grew, and my three brothers grew, Tepper became my main confidant. She was perfect. She reminded me that I couldn't openly love Ankh. That my love had to be hidden as his was. I had to hug him, and simply kiss him on the cheek when he left and when he came home. It was a fun game, our love.

However, upon turning thirteen, when my body matured as far as my mind had, Ankh finally found ways to make our love more real. He would kiss my hand, or tell me how stunning I was. He explained to me how beautiful my virginity was, and how he wanted the pleasure of taking it. He ran his fingers down my spine, and through my hair whenever mum wasn't paying attention and told my brothas it was normal.

Suddenly, one week, mum's mum grew ill and she had to go tend to her. Ankh, my brothas and I bid her adieu, but Ankh and I were finally free to be alone. I was elated.

The first night mum was gone, Ankh silently crept into my room. I was already dressed in my nightgown, wearing nothing underneath but my virgin flesh. By the light of a lone candle, I could see nothing but his bare chest and I knew tonight was the night we would consummate our love. The night was passionate, and I was finally able to verbalize how much I loved him. This time, when I told him that he was my knight in shining armor, he kissed my neck, then my collarbone, and said that I was his damsel in distress.

That week was the beginning of mine and Ankh's love affair. He snuck into my room nearly every night, and every night before he left, we had the same argument. When could we make our love public? Why did we have to hide it? He would simply reply that we could not make our love public until I was of the proper age, but he never told me when the proper age was. Being so in love with him though, I never really questioned it. I knew everything was perfect, and that he loved me as much as I loved him, and that every fiber in my body needed him, ached for him when he was gone. However, my perfect love shattered when I was fifteen.

Ankh and I had been madly in love, showing each other for two years. Everything seemed perfect, until I missed a period. Without telling my beloved, I convinced Xanthis to walk with me to town and purchase a pregnancy test. To his dismay, the test read positive. However, I thought it was perfect. Ankh and I had a way to tell Solace about our love! To MY dismay, I was very, very wrong. Upon his return from work, I stole Ankh away and told him of our news, that I was with child and we were to have a child. His immediate decision was that I would have an abortion, that we were not to keep the baby. The baby would cause too many problems in the Pentameter family. Obviously, I refused. Ankh told mum a local boy impregnated me, that I was just a common slut, but I forgave him. He was only saying those things to save our love.

Nine months flew by, and suddenly I was in the local hospital in labor. With the birth came complications and in order to save my child, a cesarean was needed. However, immediately upon coming home from the hospital, Ankh 'accidentally' killed her when he was bathing her. We fought for hours, I hit him, and clawed at him, and told him to leave, that I didn't love him anymore. That night, I caught him packing, trying to leave. I couldn't have him leave me, I loved him too much. Suddenly, Tepper was in my head. She was telling me what I had to do. The greatest love was that of Romeo and Juliet, said Tepper, and Ankh and I were to be together forever, even if we had to die, as Romeo and Juliet had. I went to the kitchen and grabbed the largest knife we had. As he was walking out the door, I stabbed him in the back. Suddenly, I fell into a rage and stabbed him half a dozen times. Mum heard his screaming and rushed to see me caressing him, about to stab myself. Quickly, Xanthis grabbed the knife from me, and drug me away from my bleeding love. Mum brought Ankh to the hospital, and the rest, well, you know the rest.

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PENTAMETER, Alchemy M:

Race: Caucasian

DOB and Age: September 13, 1992 - Just turned eighteen

Age admitted to Blackwood’s Academy: Sixteen and about a year and a half

Grade: 12

Health issues: Schizophrenic and Borderline Personality Disorder and a clear Electra Complex / Allergic to Peanuts

Other: Requests that she be allowed to keep a cat she found outside the facility

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Your name: Me-sa da Viper. Hisssss.
How you found us: Off proboards support. =]
Code word in the Rules: Jukebox
Play by: Nephania. Doesn't she just look utterly crazy? Perfect, I know. Muahaha.

[JEZ]

Accepted

Please make the appropriate claims asap. Note::This is a very complex character and I am trusting you to be responsible with her. She will be closely monitored because of the mental illness.