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[glass_secret]

Player Information
*Name/Alias: Tamara
*Your Journal: tiger_dragoon
*Age: Well over 16
*Contact Information: on plurk as tigerdragoon
*Characters already in the game: Legend of Dragoon - Rose, TF: Shattered Glass - Ravage

Character Information
*Character Name: Cinderella
*Character Canon: Fables (Vertigo Comics)
*Age: Several hundred years, but looks to be in her early 20s
*Race: Human Fable
*Timeline/Pull Point: Sometime before her first solo spin-off comic “From Fabletown with Love” but after her rescue of Pinocchio.

*History:
Everyone knows the classic story of Cinderella. Orphaned girl works as servant for her wicked step mother and step sisters. Step mother and sisters go to ball, forcing girl to stay at home with only mice as company. Fairy godmother comes to girl, magics up a ball gown, glass slippers, and carriage and coachmen from a pumpkin and mice. Girl goes to ball, meets Prince Charming, has to leave a midnight, loses a slipper, carriage turns back to pumpkin. Prince finds slipper, uses it to find girl, they marry and live happily ever after.
Well, all that is true, up until the "Happily ever after" part. As it turns out, Cinderella is Prince Charming's third wife (the first being Snow White, and the second Briar Rose). He still can’t keep it in his pants and Cindy catches him with one of the servant wenches. By this time, the Adversary is starting to take over the Homelands, so Charming and Cindy escape to one of the last fortresses for Fables who want to leave the Homelands. Cindy agrees not to divorce him until they get to the Mundane World (the world where she and other Fables are known characters in stories), thus insuring that he doesn’t have to stay behind and fight.
Once in the mundane world, and she divorces from the not so charming Prince Charming, Bigby (aka the Big Bad Wolf) recruits her to act as an off the records spy for Fabletown. For the next 200 plus years she travels all over the Mundane world and protects Fabletown's interests. One of her first missions is during the French Revolution, though it is not clear as to why she is there, other than there is some concern that what happens there may affect Fabletown. She also works for the United States during the Civil War to take out Confederate spies. With Bigby, she spies against the Nazis during World War II, before the United States gets involve. During the Cold War, she has several assignments to assassinate ‘Romeo’ agents from East Germany that are planted in West Berlin. Also during the Cold War she has a rivalry with Dorothy Gale, from the Wizard of Oz fame, who is also a hired gun for the Soviet Fables. The rivalry ends for a while in the mid 80s when Cindy kicks Dorothy off a cliff to her suppose death.
In more modern times, she also works to find Fables who may betray Fabletown, such as Ichabod Crane, as well as act as an interrogator to the captured wooden soldiers after the Battle of Fabletown.
When her ex-husband won the seat for Fabletown mayor, it causes Bigby step down as sheriff, and as a result she starts to take orders from Beast, the new Sheriff of Falbetown. Her duties expand to being a diplomat to the Cloud Kingdom to help make preparations to bring down the Adversary in the Homelands.
The front for all her spy work is that she owns a women’s shoe store called The Glass Slipper Shoes. When she is not in town, which is quite often, she leaves Crispin, who is the shoe maker from the story of the Shoe maker and the elves.
Because of her status as “off the books,” very few people know that she is a spy. For a while, only Bigby, and Frau Totenkinder know about her real career, mainly because Bigby gives out the orders and Totenkinder supplies her with what magical items she needs. Not even the mayor of Fabletown knows about her work as a spy. But over time, a few more Fables learn of her work, most of which consist of animal Fables who assist her on missions, such as Puss in Boots, and Dickory, a mouse known to run up clocks.

*Personality: First impressions of Cinderella are that she's a brash, shallow, loud, carefree, fashionista party girl, who has a beef against her ex-husband and lives well above her income by taking frequent trips and thus is irresponsible. Except for the fashionista and being bitter towards her ex, for the most part that isn’t true. In fact, it is mostly a cover so that no one would suspect her of being a spy. She can be a bit carefree at times, and can even be a smart ass, but when she is on a mission she is often calm, calculating, and ruthless, showing no qualms about killing a target.
She is also quite cynical, especially when someone brings up long term relationships. Since her supposed fairy tale marriage ended due to Charming being unfaithful, she no longer believes there is such a thing as happily ever after. Rather, she goes for the happy for now and the short fun flings, and doesn’t expect someone to stick around for her. This maybe why she acts like a flirt, even when she is in "spy mode."
Even when being humble, she still considers herself one of the best spies around, mainly because while most spies have just one life time to perfect their craft, she has had several.
Cindy is also fiercely loyal to Fabletown, even calling herself a patriot, and doing most of her missions without any pay. She does what she does so that other Fables would not have to do the dirty work in order to live a peaceful life. That doesn’t mean she hasn’t taken advantage when a mission sent her an exotic location. She admitted that she’d took longer to set up her cover just so she could enjoy living the high life a little.
She also enjoys the thrill that comes along with being a spy. In fact, the job has turned her into a bit of an adrenalin junky, and she especially loves to skydive.
She has a dislike for guns, mainly because it is so easy to rely on them too much. But, she does keep a stock pile of them though, as a just in case, and will use them when it is necessary.

*Powers/Abilities: Cinderella can’t use magic, but, like most Fables whose tale is popular in the Mundane world, she is practically immortal and that comes with a few extra bonuses. She doesn’t age, and when injured, she can quickly recover. Most fatal injures would not be enough to kill her, though they may put her out of commission for a while. Also, she has well above average stamina, and can go without sleep for a whole week, which can come in handy when she is on a mission. Another bonus for her tale being popular is that she is quite physically strong. She even flipped a large SUV by herself one time in the comic, but her strength probably doesn’t go beyond that.
She is also very skilled in hand-to-hand combat, specializing in disarming opponents and using their own weapons against them. Though she doesn’t really care for them, she is a good shot with several different kinds of guns, ranging from old fashion muskets to automatic assault rifles.

*Inventory: Her luggage from a recent mission, which consists to two suitcases that contain her clothes, and shoes. There is also a false bottom in one of the suit cases that contains a hand gun and knife.

*Starting Polarity: I’m not even sure with her.

If AU, how does your character differ from canon?: N/A

Writing Samples
*First Person Sample:

[A familiar blonde has decided to grace you with her presence on the Link. Cinderella gives one of her charming smiles before speaking.]

Good evening ladies, gentlemen, and gentlebots, I have a tiny favor to ask.

[Usually her favors are never really that tiny, but oh well. She’s going to ask anyway.]

I’m looking for someone who’s from my world and may have arrived here recently. She goes by the name of Frau Totenkinder. She shouldn’t be too hard to miss. Looks like a little old lady, always sitting in her rocker knitting gods-know-what.

[Seriously, she’s not even sure what that thing the old witch has been making for the past few years. Oh wait, there’s one more thing…]

Oh, and she had a nasty habit of eating children, but she kicked that a few centuries ago. But just in case she decides take it up again because she’s no longer back in our world, it might be wise not to let kids be around her unsupervised. Don’t let that harmless old lady appearance fool you.

[Normally she wouldn’t say anything about something like that, but the witch was a real pain in the ass to her the last time she needed something for a mission. Giving her a hard time seemed only fair, even if it meant that Cindy will pay the price for it later.]

It’s important that I find her. There are a few things I need to talk with her about.

[Like if the old hag knows away to get off this rock and back home. One of the most powerful Fable magic users has to be working on some kind of solution, right?]

If you find her, just give me a buzz. I’ll be very grateful for it.~


*Third Person Sample:
Cinderella walked across from the street from the Woodland Building to her store. She had just gotten back from an assignment and figured she would check how Crispin was doing before she went for debriefing with Bigby. It was always fun to catch him by surprise when she came home early as it gave her an idea what he really thought of her. If he kept on thinking that she was irresponsible, it meant that her cover was still firmly in place. Plus, she liked how uncomfortable it made him whenever she caught him muttering to himself.

The door opened to and two women came out. Two mundy women, since they commented on the fairy tale theme that all the stores on the street seemed to have. Cindy took the chance and slipped into the store while the door was still open so that the bell wouldn't chime again to warn Crispin that another person had walked into the store.

She found him behind the counter, facing away from the door. As she got closer, the carpet muffled the sound of her heels, she heard him muttering under his breathe. "That Cinderella is going to drive the store into the ground with her spending and constant vacations. I should be the one running this place, not her."

Yep, right on queue, she thought. Though it was reassuring that her cover was still firmly in place, she still felt annoyed by it, since her trips were never real vacations. Of course she couldn't tell him their true nature, since that would defeat the purpose of her being an off the books agent. So instead she smiled, and cheerfully spoke. "Hi Crispin~ Miss me?"

That caused the young looking man to jump and turned to face her, his face paled. "Ms. Cinderella! When did you get back?"

"I've been back long enough." She got some satisfaction when she saw his face drained of what little color was left, and she cut him off before he could say anything. "Everyone in Fabletown, including me, knows how much you bitch and whine about me behind my back, and I haven't fired you yet about it. So relax."

He nodded, still looking pale, "So, how was your trip."

"Oh the usual," she started when the bell chimed and she turned to see Bigby standing in the door way. She grabbed Crispin by arm and started to lead him towards the door. "But I'll tell you about it later. You look like you could use a break. Go and I'll watch the store."

"But-" he started but she cut him off.

"Go and have lunch already." And with that she practically shoved him out the door, before she flipped the store’s 'open/close' sign and turned to Bigby. Crispin probably thought that she was having an affair with the Sheriff, and would no doubt gossip about it to the other Fables in town. That was fine. Let him spread the rumor, as it would only help her cover and keep her reputation as a loose irresponsible business woman in place.

In the meantime it was time for the debriefing.

Final Notes: Cindy can and will curse like a sailor when she’s mad, so I will put up some warnings for language.