Background/Personality: Victoria's youth was a time of relative normalcy, her family was fairly well off, both her father and mother work within the banking industry, thus affording the young girl anything her heart could desire. However, this also meant that she was often left alone and forced to entertain herself for hours and, on occasion, days on end. This life style led to Victoria leading a rather isolated existence with few friends. Those friends she did have came from her time at school and their friendship seemed to begin and end at the school gates. Victoria found most of her companionship from the various dolls she kept as her constant companions. Being mostly of the Victorian or Japanese style, these dolls were often the type to be wearing long flowing dresses with elegant ribbons and lace as decoration. This style would later form the foundation of Victoria's style of dress and lend itself to her vision of an ideal human being as well. Moving on, Victoria found in her dolls a something beyond comfort and an odd one sided friendship, the young girl's lonely mind saw them as an idealized form of humanity, they were forever beautiful, would never die or grow old, and, more then anything else, were in constant contact with their “master”, someone who would take care of and love them forever. Later examination of Victoria by a psychologist marks this as the beginning of Victoria's dysmorphic views of her own body, though signs of it beyond her obsessive admiration for dolls would take close for a decade to manifest themselves.
In high school, Victoria began to branch out from her self imposed isolation and began talking to other people and joined the school's sewing and art clubs, which, of course, was only to further her own knowledge of cloth making and painting, both integral elements of her doll hobby. Most of Victoria's new found friends saw her as a mere eccentric, prone to dressing strangely and talking incessantly about her hobbies. They found when she was not spouting nonsense about her hobbies that she was a fairly decent person who, deep down, just wanted to be liked by other people. However, as Victoria's out life took a turn for the better, her inner life, that of her heart, mind, and soul, began a powerful decay. No longer able to deal with her own body, seeing it as disgusting and useless, Victoria began to develop an array of bad habits that, in her mind, would somehow fix her. During this time Victoria ate very little and began avoiding going outdoors any time the sun was shining to harshly. The former because she believed she was to heavy, despite weighing a fairly normal 130lbs, and the latter because she felt that any skin tone other then a very pale white was completely unacceptable. Her destructive tendencies drew the attention of her teachers and parents who worked to have the young girl commented to a hospital for treatment. Forced to see a psychologist, Victoria was diagnosed with body dysmorphia, the constant and unshakable feeling that something was wrong with her body. After a period of observation, Victoria was deemed fit for release and was put on several medications to focus her thoughts on better things. Victoria eventually, with the medications help, eased her way back into a normal life through the rest of her stay in high school and into college.
Victoria Carter | OC 2/Long
Background/Personality:
Victoria's youth was a time of relative normalcy, her family was fairly well off, both her father and mother work within the banking industry, thus affording the young girl anything her heart could desire. However, this also meant that she was often left alone and forced to entertain herself for hours and, on occasion, days on end. This life style led to Victoria leading a rather isolated existence with few friends. Those friends she did have came from her time at school and their friendship seemed to begin and end at the school gates. Victoria found most of her companionship from the various dolls she kept as her constant companions. Being mostly of the Victorian or Japanese style, these dolls were often the type to be wearing long flowing dresses with elegant ribbons and lace as decoration. This style would later form the foundation of Victoria's style of dress and lend itself to her vision of an ideal human being as well. Moving on, Victoria found in her dolls a something beyond comfort and an odd one sided friendship, the young girl's lonely mind saw them as an idealized form of humanity, they were forever beautiful, would never die or grow old, and, more then anything else, were in constant contact with their “master”, someone who would take care of and love them forever. Later examination of Victoria by a psychologist marks this as the beginning of Victoria's dysmorphic views of her own body, though signs of it beyond her obsessive admiration for dolls would take close for a decade to manifest themselves.
In high school, Victoria began to branch out from her self imposed isolation and began talking to other people and joined the school's sewing and art clubs, which, of course, was only to further her own knowledge of cloth making and painting, both integral elements of her doll hobby. Most of Victoria's new found friends saw her as a mere eccentric, prone to dressing strangely and talking incessantly about her hobbies. They found when she was not spouting nonsense about her hobbies that she was a fairly decent person who, deep down, just wanted to be liked by other people. However, as Victoria's out life took a turn for the better, her inner life, that of her heart, mind, and soul, began a powerful decay. No longer able to deal with her own body, seeing it as disgusting and useless, Victoria began to develop an array of bad habits that, in her mind, would somehow fix her. During this time Victoria ate very little and began avoiding going outdoors any time the sun was shining to harshly. The former because she believed she was to heavy, despite weighing a fairly normal 130lbs, and the latter because she felt that any skin tone other then a very pale white was completely unacceptable. Her destructive tendencies drew the attention of her teachers and parents who worked to have the young girl commented to a hospital for treatment. Forced to see a psychologist, Victoria was diagnosed with body dysmorphia, the constant and unshakable feeling that something was wrong with her body. After a period of observation, Victoria was deemed fit for release and was put on several medications to focus her thoughts on better things. Victoria eventually, with the medications help, eased her way back into a normal life through the rest of her stay in high school and into college.