Character Presentations!

Hey, cast!

I transcribed what everyone said during their character presentations, so hopefully this is useful for you. I've also included a few of the sentences we created during our one-word story circle.

--Taylor

One Word Story

• When you go looking for an answer you find yourself wondering if you needed it at all.
• He needed to go to the cave to make his despair easier for bearing.
• Didn’t mention any of the illusions
• A lot of hide and seek; everyone is hiding from something and seeking something else

Presentations

Amanuensis:

Pulls out props; He most treasures his tongue because it allows him to tell his stories.

Geronte:

He’s unbreakable as steel.

Alcandre:

Her greatest illusion is that she’s good at magic, that she is magic. Her greatest fear is that she will lose her mind. She needs her mind. Her mind is very powerful, so she can’t lose it. Her greatest dream is that one-day she’ll cry. Her favorite object is her jar of tears that she’s been collecting since she came to the cave. When you open the jar, you’ll hear the souls of a thousand men; hear their torment, their loss, their love, she saves them. It’s almost full. She taught the Amanuensis everything he knows.

Pridamant:

He’s an expert in the illusion of love/deception of love. He knows what it can do. He knows how it can creep up on you when you least expect it. It can open your heart in the most spectacular way and them turn on you as if you were holding onto it so tight and then it explodes into all other emotions. The deception lies in that you think you can love for the rest of your life but what you really have is the stale emotions that come with it. He dreams that he’ll find something he can attach to. Courage, wisdom enough to remind him that life is one experience that has no other significance than desire. He fears his life is one mistake, a glitch in the system. He only has desire, chasing a mirage that falls when he reaches it, every time. His greatest possession is his coat. Whatever his coat goes through, he goes through.

Calisto:

When he was young, he was sitting in his room playing the lute. His mother came in and smashed his lute to the ground. The best thing about that story is that it’s not true. Calisto is a storyteller. His dream is to find the most important woman in the world and have her take care of him. His greatest fear is that he’ll never find her. His greatest possession is Melibea’s handkerchief.

Clindor:

His greatest illusion is charm. He serves someone who doesn’t deserve to be served. Everyone believes whatever he says. Even his master lusts after his love. He hasn’t found anyone to love him and never will. His greatest fear is being a servant forever. His greatest possession is Isabelle’s letter.

Theogenes:

His expert illusion is that he’s convinced everyone in his life that he’s worthwhile.  He thought he hadn’t found the most important woman, but she was there all the time. His greatest fear is that no one loves him. His greatest possession is his heart.

Melibea:

Her mother died when she was young; she was everything she wants to be. Her greatest possession is a picture of her parents. Her greatest fear is that she’ll grow up and be like her father if she doesn’t find her true love. Her expert illusion is choice.

Isabelle:

She’s through being led around through being told what to do. Her expert illusion is the power to break free and still be who she is.

Hippolyta:

Her expert illusion is self-persuasion. She constantly convinces herself that she can change him. She hasn’t found the right way to show him. Her greatest possession is a picture of her and Theogenes at their wedding to remind her that they’re true loves.

Elicia:

People think she’s nothing compared to Melibea, but she is something! She and Melibea are best friends. Her greatest possession is a diamond brooch that Melibea gave her (the brooch belonged to Melibea’s mother). As important as Melibea’s mother is to Melibea, Melibea is to Elicia. She wants to marry Calisto, but knows he is in love with Melibea. Her greatest fear is losing the two of them to each other.

Lyse:

Her expert illusion of mass seduction. She gets what she wants through batting her eyelashes and seducing men with her soft, soothing voice. She can put people together or tear them apart. She does it to gain something out of life. She wants to be rich in order to gain people’s respect and love. Her greatest possession is the diamond Adraste gives her. Her greatest fear is that she’ll never be rich no matter what she does and that she’ll die a poor maid.

Clarina:

Her expert illusion is maintaining her cool. Her dream was to be rich (which came true!) and now it’s to find someone who loves her as much as Hippolyta loves Theogenes. Her greatest fear is that all of her money will go away. Her greatest possession is a bottle of sand from the moon. It reminds her that all the trifles and backstabbing isn’t worth it. At all times, she keeps her cool.

Pleribo:

His expert illusion is chivalry. His dream is based on the Canterbury tale, “Sir Topaz”. His father read it to him often as a child. His greatest fear is that everything he knows and believes in is imprisoning him and preventing him from truly living and exploring the world. His greatest possession is a tapestry of two people dancing passed down through his mother’s generations. 

Matamore:

He’s a warrior, lover, son of Achilles, vanquisher of the Trojans, and lover/son of Diana Ross. When he was three years old, he scalped his father, Achilles. He’s never going to answer to anyone. He searches the world to find a worthy opponent. His favorite possession is the hair from when he scalped Achilles. His expert illusion is mortality. His greatest fear (which he must have in order to appear mortal) is snakes…no. Spiders? No. His true greatest fear is meeting his son and having him treat him the same way he treated his father.

Prince Florilame:

His greatest possession is all of the hidden cameras he has around his castle because with information, no one can ever make a fool of you. His dream is for Hippolyta to come to him, try to kiss him, and he says no. He then goes to Theogenes, who tells him that he’s always envied him and asks the Prince to take Hippolyta. His greatest fear is that he’ll live a lonely and meaningless life.

Adraste: (the 4^th)

His expert illusion is gilding the lily, or making something out of nothing. He can turn a pauper into a prince, a prostitute into a queen. No matter what’s underneath, he can make it into something else. His dream is that Isabelle will realize her folly and make him feel what he’s wanted to feel since birth. His greatest fear is that he won’t be fulfilled and spend every day hungering, but never being filled. His greatest possession is his father’s ring (which was passed down from his father’s generations). He wears it around his neck and one day Isabelle will wear it around her finger.