Character Dossiers

Name: Bettine
Age: Youngest sister
Gender: female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Profession: N/A
Physical Characteristics & Health: Long blonde hair, slim, dies.
Level of Education/Use of Language:
Societal ties: Lighthouse Watchman, Paris
Familial ties: Ophile, Clothilde, dead parents
Most values: ?
Status/Social Role: Bettine is considered the prettiest sister. She also fulfills the role of youngest. As the story begins she fills these roles, but readers do not get a specific idea of how she feels about this label. We do not know how being considered the prettiest has affected her psyche or her choices. The sisters have always been connected and Paris comes into Bettine’s life and disrupts the seeming equilibrium of the sisters.
Main Goal/ Desire: a change. Bettine gives Paris an apple. She shares, letting him in and permanently changing something between the sisters.
Superobjective: To be fulfilled in new ways. Reconsider how she’s viewed by other people, find out if that is also how she would like to define herself.
Not/But: Bettine is not naïve but sheltered.


Name: Clothilde
Age: Middle Sister
Gender: female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Profession: Magician/Sorceress/Witch
Physical Characteristics & Health: Long red hair,
Level of Education/Use of Language: self-educated
Societal ties: Lighthouse Watchman, Paris
Familial ties: Ophile, Bettine, dead parents, the Saint
Most values: personal connections. She spends so much time alone but it is those connections in her history and those that develop that Clothilde thrives on.
Status/Social Role: Clothilde both needs everyone else and can survive with out anyone at the same time. In order to achieve happiness she must lose both her sisters. As the talented sister she is both most and least connected with her two sisters. She understands the choices Bettine makes and is especially connected during the Saint’s conception, but she does not show signs of begrudging Bettine even though it seems as though Clothilde may have wanted to be with Paris from the beginning. Patience and intelligence are virtuous even at the sacrifice of herself.
Main Goal/ Desire: to strengthen connections and find someone who understands and/or accepts her.
Superobjective: To find peace of mind.
Not/But: Clothilde crazy but lost in herself.