Name: zephy DW Journal: locketries Contact:asterismic at aim Current Characters: previously homura akemi
Character Name: lizzie middleford Canon: kuroshitsuji Age: 14 Gender: female
Canon Point: chapter 79 History:Here. This history only takes you up to chapter 66, but she only makes minor appearances after that, mainly to watch the match of cricket currently going on at the academy that her brother and (for the moment) Ciel are attending. Personality:
There are two very important things to keep in mind when talking about Elizabeth Middleford.
One: The expectations of a noble lady in Victorian England. Two: That her family has produced knights for the Crown for generations, with the current leader of the British Knights being her father (who is only outmatched by her mother).
Lizzie was raised with the expectations of both worlds: to be pretty and naive and always sweet, surrounded by lovely things; and also to practice training with a sword regularly. Here is another important thing about Lizzie: she didn't just learn how to fight with a sword. She excelled at fencing and swordplay, and when she'd learned enough to practice against her older brother, who'd already been training for months, she defeated him effortlessly. She's been called a genius with a sword, and not without good reason, capable by the age of 14 of wielding two at once with confidence and precision.
❝I wanted you to think of me as cute...until the very end.❞
But that, until very recently, is not something she took any pride in. After all, a lady should not be stronger than her lord, nor more knowledgeable. A lady should concern herself with poetry and embroidery and looking beautiful, being dainty, and wearing gorgeous clothes. These are the societal expectations Lizzie grew up with, and furthermore, she likes cute things. She gets along very well with the tailor Nina Hopkins, and the idea of getting new dresses, going to fancy balls, and eating pretty desserts genuinely delights her. She regularly goes out of her way to drag Ciel into dances and outings and has been known to take over his mansion and servants, covering them with bows and frills in the name of making them especially cute.
Though there's more to that than meets the eye, too. While Lizzie could easily pass for frivolous, overbearingly insisting Ciel take time away from his plans and duties to please her whims, the fact remains that she is anything but. She grew up with Ciel and cares about him a great deal, looking forward with pleasure for the day she will get to marry him and take up the place of being Lady Phantomhive. She and he used to play together often, and she was quite familiar with his family.
Familiar enough to know the place that the Phantomhives really hold with the Queen of England, how Ciel is now known as Queen's Watchdog - taking orders directly from her that involve the darker dealings going on in England, stamping them out when the Queen deems necessary. The Phantomhives are not an unrespectable family, holding a high enough status in society, but their work runs a long way from what a respectable noble family would ordinarily concern themselves with.
This knowledge doesn't seem to bother her, outside of her concern for Ciel. She's perceptive enough to realize that something awful might've happened to him when he was missing for a month after his family's deaths, and this is where we return to the way she regularly bursts in on his life with some new demand or other. She admits to Sebastian that she tries very hard to cheer Ciel up, after everything that happened and with everything he has to deal with. She doesn't pry into his work or what he doesn't want to tell her, though it saddens her that there's so much he doesn't seem to feel like he can, so instead she tries very hard to help him have fun. Dances, vacations, romantic boat rides - it's all in the hope of getting him to smile, leave aside the darker matters for at least a little while, maybe return a little bit to the cheerful child she once knew.
While she'd once wanted to be a proper lady he could watch over, she now more than ever wants to protect him. She lost him once already, after all - and while it would seem like such a happy little girl has never known sadness, she does know loss. The losses in his family affect her as well, and she's far from forgotten the month he was missing (presumed dead), when she, in her own words, was "wearing my pitch black clothes with my pitch black feelings, one month of pitch black winter passed before Ciel returned." It's also implied she felt some resentment at how the rest of society felt the loss of the Phantomhives only until the next interesting thing to gossip about came along. But until recently her protection had taken the form of bright smiles no matter the situation, being perceptive enough to read his moods but never admitting to it around him, going out of her way to bring him cakes in his favorite flavors, and visiting him on his birthday. Until the events on board the Campania, where she was forced to take up sword to protect herself and him from the Bizarre Dolls.
❝Low-heeled shoes, mother's teachings, a sword to protect you...those are the 'nice things' my current self is made of.❞
Part of her rejection of her abilities had come from a comment Ciel had made once when they were young, calling her mother scary and saying he was glad that Lizzie, who wasn't tough like her, was the one going to be his wife. Terrified that he'd reject her completely if he knew, she kept it all from him until the last possible moment, when if she didn't fight they likely both might have died. She comes to be able to accept this duality in herself - at least, much better than she has thus far - when she is able to protect him like she's wanted, and also when Ciel accepts her, fighting and all. That's not to say, however, that she gives up her insistence on cuteness. She organizes an Easter celebration at Ciel's mansion, painting a special egg herself for an Easter egg hunt (and hiding it, it's worth noting, in a tall chandelier that she reached by pure acrobatics).
She is also still a little girl, known to be overbearing and talking right over people to make plans whether they like it or not - and whether those plans are reasonable or not. Never mind that a wing of Ciel's mansion has been destroyed, what they really need to do is call a tailor right now so he can have appropriate clothes for going on a boat ride today (though she doesn't push the point when he falls asleep at the end of the day). She's been known to throw tantrums when things don't go her way, such as when she destroys the Phantomhive family ring in one of the first chapters, and she gets upset when people don't go along with her plans because she worked so hard to plan them just for you! It's all very well-meaning, but she still doesn't quite have a sense of taking into consideration what other people want. She'll wibble and tear up when Ciel doesn't immediately agree to do things with her, and she's often scolded for being overly familiar with him - literally flinging herself at him many of the times she sees him. She just has a lot of feelings!!
Powers: Lizzie is a completely ordinary human being! However she's been trained in swordplay since she was young and is considered a genius with the weapon. She can excel at using one or two at once and was able to take on a roomful of Bizarre Dolls (while wearing the remains of her fancy gown and low-heeled but still formalwear shoes).
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DW Journal: locketries
Contact: asterismic at aim
Current Characters: previously homura akemi
Character Name: lizzie middleford
Canon: kuroshitsuji
Age: 14
Gender: female
Canon Point: chapter 79
History: Here. This history only takes you up to chapter 66, but she only makes minor appearances after that, mainly to watch the match of cricket currently going on at the academy that her brother and (for the moment) Ciel are attending.
Personality:
There are two very important things to keep in mind when talking about Elizabeth Middleford.
One: The expectations of a noble lady in Victorian England.
Two: That her family has produced knights for the Crown for generations, with the current leader of the British Knights being her father (who is only outmatched by her mother).
Lizzie was raised with the expectations of both worlds: to be pretty and naive and always sweet, surrounded by lovely things; and also to practice training with a sword regularly. Here is another important thing about Lizzie: she didn't just learn how to fight with a sword. She excelled at fencing and swordplay, and when she'd learned enough to practice against her older brother, who'd already been training for months, she defeated him effortlessly. She's been called a genius with a sword, and not without good reason, capable by the age of 14 of wielding two at once with confidence and precision.
❝I wanted you to think of me as cute...until the very end.❞
But that, until very recently, is not something she took any pride in. After all, a lady should not be stronger than her lord, nor more knowledgeable. A lady should concern herself with poetry and embroidery and looking beautiful, being dainty, and wearing gorgeous clothes. These are the societal expectations Lizzie grew up with, and furthermore, she likes cute things. She gets along very well with the tailor Nina Hopkins, and the idea of getting new dresses, going to fancy balls, and eating pretty desserts genuinely delights her. She regularly goes out of her way to drag Ciel into dances and outings and has been known to take over his mansion and servants, covering them with bows and frills in the name of making them especially cute.
Though there's more to that than meets the eye, too. While Lizzie could easily pass for frivolous, overbearingly insisting Ciel take time away from his plans and duties to please her whims, the fact remains that she is anything but. She grew up with Ciel and cares about him a great deal, looking forward with pleasure for the day she will get to marry him and take up the place of being Lady Phantomhive. She and he used to play together often, and she was quite familiar with his family.
Familiar enough to know the place that the Phantomhives really hold with the Queen of England, how Ciel is now known as Queen's Watchdog - taking orders directly from her that involve the darker dealings going on in England, stamping them out when the Queen deems necessary. The Phantomhives are not an unrespectable family, holding a high enough status in society, but their work runs a long way from what a respectable noble family would ordinarily concern themselves with.
This knowledge doesn't seem to bother her, outside of her concern for Ciel. She's perceptive enough to realize that something awful might've happened to him when he was missing for a month after his family's deaths, and this is where we return to the way she regularly bursts in on his life with some new demand or other. She admits to Sebastian that she tries very hard to cheer Ciel up, after everything that happened and with everything he has to deal with. She doesn't pry into his work or what he doesn't want to tell her, though it saddens her that there's so much he doesn't seem to feel like he can, so instead she tries very hard to help him have fun. Dances, vacations, romantic boat rides - it's all in the hope of getting him to smile, leave aside the darker matters for at least a little while, maybe return a little bit to the cheerful child she once knew.
While she'd once wanted to be a proper lady he could watch over, she now more than ever wants to protect him. She lost him once already, after all - and while it would seem like such a happy little girl has never known sadness, she does know loss. The losses in his family affect her as well, and she's far from forgotten the month he was missing (presumed dead), when she, in her own words, was "wearing my pitch black clothes with my pitch black feelings, one month of pitch black winter passed before Ciel returned." It's also implied she felt some resentment at how the rest of society felt the loss of the Phantomhives only until the next interesting thing to gossip about came along. But until recently her protection had taken the form of bright smiles no matter the situation, being perceptive enough to read his moods but never admitting to it around him, going out of her way to bring him cakes in his favorite flavors, and visiting him on his birthday. Until the events on board the Campania, where she was forced to take up sword to protect herself and him from the Bizarre Dolls.
❝Low-heeled shoes, mother's teachings, a sword to protect you...those are the 'nice things' my current self is made of.❞
Part of her rejection of her abilities had come from a comment Ciel had made once when they were young, calling her mother scary and saying he was glad that Lizzie, who wasn't tough like her, was the one going to be his wife. Terrified that he'd reject her completely if he knew, she kept it all from him until the last possible moment, when if she didn't fight they likely both might have died. She comes to be able to accept this duality in herself - at least, much better than she has thus far - when she is able to protect him like she's wanted, and also when Ciel accepts her, fighting and all. That's not to say, however, that she gives up her insistence on cuteness. She organizes an Easter celebration at Ciel's mansion, painting a special egg herself for an Easter egg hunt (and hiding it, it's worth noting, in a tall chandelier that she reached by pure acrobatics).
She is also still a little girl, known to be overbearing and talking right over people to make plans whether they like it or not - and whether those plans are reasonable or not. Never mind that a wing of Ciel's mansion has been destroyed, what they really need to do is call a tailor right now so he can have appropriate clothes for going on a boat ride today (though she doesn't push the point when he falls asleep at the end of the day). She's been known to throw tantrums when things don't go her way, such as when she destroys the Phantomhive family ring in one of the first chapters, and she gets upset when people don't go along with her plans because she worked so hard to plan them just for you! It's all very well-meaning, but she still doesn't quite have a sense of taking into consideration what other people want. She'll wibble and tear up when Ciel doesn't immediately agree to do things with her, and she's often scolded for being overly familiar with him - literally flinging herself at him many of the times she sees him. She just has a lot of feelings!!
Powers: Lizzie is a completely ordinary human being! However she's been trained in swordplay since she was young and is considered a genius with the weapon. She can excel at using one or two at once and was able to take on a roomful of Bizarre Dolls (while wearing the remains of her fancy gown and low-heeled but still formalwear shoes).