Madeline

Company: Granado

Sculpt: Void
Resin: Normal
Size: SD, 62cm nuevo body
FaceUp Artist: Granado (Default)
Wig: Leeke
Eyes: 14mm random glass

Made: 2013

 

BIO
Name: Madeline "Maddie" LaTour
YO: 24
Gender: Female
Status: Single
Mother: American
Father: American
Hometown: Unknown
Hobbies: Watercolour, cartography, millinery, nature walks, antiques, pirates, retro clothing, writing prose
Religion: Catholic
Languages: English, French
Allergies: Eucalyptus
Smoker: No
Drinks: No
Special Relationships: Theo
Economic Background: Confidential
Likes: Pink, lace, things with bows, Asia, romance novels, day dreaming, making tea, Victorian ghost stories, birds, girly things, dawn, flowers, hard candy, old trucks, Dutch chocolate, old fashioned things, occasionally dressing as a boy
Dislikes: Loud noise,  messiness, mayonnaise, the smell of incense, Southern accents, clogging

Backstory:
Madeline Mae was delivered at home with the help of a doula, a midwife and her father who was a doctor of sorts. Her father was a veterinarian specialising in horses and cattle.

She was home schooled for the first 16 years of her life by her mother also named Madeline, her great aunt Josephine and grandfather Philipe. Her grandparents were originally from Beauport, Quebec and migrated to the US when their daughter married. Madelines great aunt Josephine from her fathers side was a novelist and never married. She moved in with the family shortly after learning that her sister in law was pregnant. Life was bucolic for young Madeline. She spent her days helping her father care for horses and cattle, her mother planting and hunting for medicinal plants and her grandfather in wine making. She learned sewing and hat making from her great aunt.

Her education was garnered the old fashioned way, by experiencing life first hand. Her mother taught her art and music, how to mimic the calls of the birds and insects and cartography. One her favourite lessons was being taken blindfolded into the surrounding woods and being made to create a map home. She learned math and science from observing nature and helping her father. She was often his assistant and learned to mirror him in every way. Her great aunt Josephine was a bit eccentric. Having lived alone all of her life, she often lived in a fantasy world of her creation which often didn’t stop when she was around others. While seen by some as unbalanced out-right crazy, her proclivity to act out her imaginings was also what helped her become a well respected best selling author. Young Madeline honed her reading, writing, and analytical skills in both French and English under her tutelage. And finally her grandfather taught her philosophy. And about life, death and most importantly about sex. Her grandfather was a jovial, hard working, cognac swilling, straight-forward small town man who had lost his young wife in the childbirth of his daughter. But he had never let his tragedy stop him from passing down his knowledge without tainting the future. “Life is about death but death is about life” he would always say.

So Madeline grew up knowing just by the scent in the air if the trees would bloom early or late and when the horses would begin mating. She learned to skin the animals her father and grandfather had hunted and make a simple cloche from their pelts from her aunt. She knew how to set the bones in over 26 different animals, nurse it to health and set it free.

Because she was mostly isolated, she grew up free from the influences and distractions that often cause unrest during the teenage years. Her family was such an eccentric mulch of love that Madeline grew up being encouraged to explore her own whims, which mostly revolved around romantic notions of knights in shining armor who were ghost pirates. Her imagination and genuine wonder often lead her into the woods for hours, where she would enact great plays about damsels in distress and the great king that would save them. Her musings were largely fueled by her great aunt Josephine who was a well established historical fantasy writer for more than 40 years. Often Madeline and her aunt would pack a fortified lunch of meats, cheeses, fresh bread, fruits and of course grandpere Philipes homemade wine and venture off around dawn not returning until dusk; after creating what they called “L’Histoire du Boise de la Mystere des Oiseaux.”

By the age of 16 she tested and passed her GED, and achieved an SAT score of 1539. She asked her family if she could attend college but only with their blessing and encouragement. At heart Madeline was content to live at home with her insular family and yet she was excited to experience the outside world her family had always spoke of. It was a slightly bittersweet choice for the close knit family but also encouraged because like all had done before her, it was time for their little bird to fly. So with her mother and aunt, Madeline began a month long journey touring colleges and universities. She eventually settled on a small private college,100 miles from her home that specialized in English. They also had a pair of Demoiselle Cranes that had somehow made the small college their home for 7 years.

In just under 4 years Madeline graduated from college and returned home to help with the family business before taking a trip to Asia. During her time at college she grew to love the honorary crane mascots and their ancient lore as well as Asian studies. She would spend nearly 1/2 a year traveling from India to Japan, through Vietnam, Thailand, Mongolia, China and Korea. It was in Korea where she met Twenty before returning home and eventually meeting the rest of the boys of 115 Rochenby.