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sent_to_try_us) wrote2023-09-21 02:15 pm
sent_to_try_us) wrote2023-09-21 02:15 pm
(re)app: duplicity
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Name: Glinda Arduenna Upland Door: Reapp: Dominant Canon: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Canon Point: Leaving the Emerald City alone Age: 18 Appearance: PB: Evan Rachel Wood The easiest way to describe Glinda is to say she is like a fairytale princess. She is classically beautiful, with ringlets of golden hair and big blue eyes. Her skin is, of course, roses and cream; her complexion is perfect. Being a pampered, coddled child has left her the same kind of adult, with perfectly smooth skin and hands that have never so much as lifted a broom. She looks small and delicate, a dainty little flower, and nothing in Oz could persuade her to venture out of the house in a less than acceptable dress or without enough make-up. History: Wiki time! Duplicity History: Duplicity, for Glinda, was both a dream and a nightmare. From early childhood she has been taught that there is a right way and a wrong way to do things; she has been taught that the only way to maintain the privileged lifestyle she has is to conform to the right way to do things; and most importantly of all, she has been taught that what she wants doesn't matter at all. Like so many other characters in her canon, she's trapped in a cage of what society expects from her. Unlike them, she has an opportunity to break free - but not the inner strength to see it through. Elphaba chooses to stay in the Emerald City, and Glinda returns to Shiz to live the life she's expected to live - including marrying a man much, much older than her, because it's the match her parents chose and he's rich. She spends the rest of her life missing Elphie, but never steps a foot out of line. Duplicity is in many ways a mirror version of her home: she's still upper-class, still privileged, still desirable, but what society wants from her is the exact opposite of her prim, proper, chaste home. Glinda is spectacularly bad at saying no when someone is insisting that she should do something, no matter how much she would prefer not to do that thing. When Duplicity's society insisted that she explore kink, she protested - but she obeyed. To her horror, she also found out that she liked it. Glinda is still doing her very best to pretend that she's exactly the same person she was when she arrived, but the city has definitely gotten under her skin. Since she is, after all, supposed to be a Dominant, Glinda has done her best to learn how to mimic the behavior of more dominant Dominants. It works as long as she's not challenged - or if the Submissive in question is motivated to go along with it, to look as though they're doing what's required of them - but as soon as a Submissive stands up to her, Glinda's attempt to be dominant almost inevitably comes crashing down. Still, she understands it's what she's supposed to do, and that means she never really stops trying. Even if it's completely out of her comfort zone, she's conditioned to behave the way the society around her wants. Personality: - naive Even after having spent time in this most deceptive city, Glinda tends to believe what people say - regardless of what they do afterwards. Her first impulse is to try to explain away someone's aberrant actions based on what they've told her. She has a hard time with the concept that authority figures might not have everyone's best at heart, something that shows strongly in her confusion about why Elphaba distrusts the Wizard and, in Duplicity, her tendency to believe that the city's official description of events, places or people is truthful. Just because some people are taking a bartending class as an excuse to drug their fellow citizens - or not realizing what's in the drinks they're making - that doesn't mean the city intended anything of the sort to happen! - deceptive It's not just that she lies to other people - although she certainly does, usually to avoid punishment or to get something she wants, and in most cases while telling herself it's not really a lie, it's just a way to smooth things out. It's also not just that she lies to herself, convincing herself that she's happy to do what's she supposed to be doing, and later on in life telling herself and everyone around her that she absolutely loves being in a loveless marriage with a man so old he barely speaks, spending her days swanning around in society. Glinda's very personality is crafted to make her seem like something she's not: a beautiful blonde bimbo who doesn't care about anything but fashion and popularity. Hidden deep inside her is someone who cares deeply, someone who wants to be seen for who she really is - intelligent, empathic, and intuitive. It comes out only in glimpses: when she tells Fiyero that she misses Elphie, when she takes Liir under her wing, and in Duplicity when she bought Eowyn from the human zoo just because it hurt her to see a proud person - someone who reminded her of Elphaba - humbled and broken. The rest of the time, Glinda pretends - and does it very well. - submissive In the end, Glinda always retreats into submission. She might question a rule, or a law, or an instruction, but she will almost always obey. It can be something she very much doesn't want, like her parents' expectation that she will do what's best for the family by getting married right after leaving Shiz. It can be something that will make things worse for others, like her efforts to get Elphie to walk away from the Wizard instead of speaking up for the Animals. It can even be something she thinks is actively dangerous and foolish, like sneaking out of Shiz to get to the Emerald City. Faced with someone more dominant or more persistent than she is, Glinda eventually folds and does what she's told to do. She might try to evade it by doing something else she thinks will accomplish the same goal, or to twist it to make it less unpleasant for her...but in the end, if her efforts don't let her avoid it, she'll submit and obey. In Duplicity, her submissiveness has been her major problem. With so many people who are significantly more dominant than she is, Glinda has been teased, coaxed, and coerced into doing things she finds embarrassing, unpleasant or painful. To her dismay, she's also discovered that being made to submit can be quite enjoyable...in the right circumstances. + intuitive Glinda presents herself as a chatty society butterfly, which often comes in handy to learn little scraps of information about other people. Although she may seem as though everything she discovers goes in one ear and out the other, she's actually paying close attention - and putting all the details together to understand things the other person may not even realize about themselves. Without any concrete information, she's able to deduce that Fiyero has seen Elphie; later in her canon, she stuns Elphaba by saying that owning her sister's shoes won't make their father love her - something that Elphie wants desperately, but has never mentioned out loud. Glinda seems to patiently keep these painfully true revelations for an ideal moment, shocking other characters with something she shouldn't have had any way to know but that they need to hear right then. Even then she picks her time carefully, not revealing the secret to anyone else and never attaching a price to her silence. Powers and Abilities: For the most part, Glinda is a perfectly normal human with no particular special qualities. Her one small talent is that of sorcery - although at eighteen years old, her best trick is to briefly levitate a sandwich before accidentally exploding it. She will never be particularly powerful, but her skills are at their lowest possible point and almost never used. Inventory: A makeup kit, perfume, and a box containing her favorite jewelry. Samples: one, two |
