Anouk Gallant

[Anouk Gallant]

She's a rebel
She's a saint
She's the salt of the earth
And she's dangerous

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Name: Anouk Estelle Gallant. D.O.B: February 7th, 1988 Age: 20 Origin: Brisbane, Australia Height: 5’6’’ Eye Colour: Light Brown Hair Colour: Dark Brown Skin Tone: Tan Fashion: Anouk does not adhere to any strict principles of fashion; you’ll find her wearing whatever she finds comfortable, or whatever befits her mood. One day she’ll be wearing a light summery dress, the next she’ll look much like a tomboy. It has something to do with her personality. Read on to find out how. Personality: Anouk can’t stand being static. She craves change of scenery and if she does not get it, her mood turns sour and cranky—she’ll descend into a state of depression which can only be lifted if she is introduced to a fascinating stranger, if her life is somehow turned upside down, or if she simply packs up and leaves. Her ever varying wardrobe is testament to Anouk’s restless behaviour. Of course, Anouk cannot escape her heritage, either. To friends and family in Brisbane, Anouk’s laid back attitude and sometimes crass language is to be taken for granted. To those whom she has met overseas, however, she is an element of surprise. At first, she appears well-to-do and sincere, but she is like a jack-in-the-box. She laughs a lot and is a ball of energy, hard to contain. Anouk, never a fan of vagueness or lies, always says what she is thinking, and if asked a question she will give the truthful answer without the sugar coating. Some find her confronting, but much of the time she is accepted and loved by all simply as a person who can brighten any dark situation. Anouk has her serious side as well. At times she can become very introverted, and at these times she’ll be philosophizing her life and the meaning of it. Although she is not faithful and does not believe in any one god, nor does she believe the world is simply black and white.

[/b][li]Kittens and Puppies, for their energy.
[/li][li]Thunder Storms.
[/li][li]An Adrenaline Rush.
[/li][li]Surprises.
[/li][li]Falling in Love.
[/li][li]Traveling.
[/li][li]Poetry.
[/li][li]Good, loud music.[/li][/ul][/font][/size][/td][td]

[/b][li]People with no sense of humour.
[/li][li]Drunks.
[/li][li]Boredom, dullness.
[/li][li]Being told what to do.
[/li][li]Being chained to a place or person.
[/li][li]Pain.
[/li][li]Unnecessary Cruelty.
[/li][li]Fish.[/li][/ul][/font][/size][/td][td]

[/b][li]Song: I Need a Life – Born Ruffians
[/li][li]Band: Birds of Tokyo
[/li][li]Music Genre: Australian Alternative, Alternative in general.
[/li][li]Film: Rebel Without a Cause
[/li][li]Author: George Lord Byron.
[/li][li]Food: Chicken Kebab, with onion, lettuce, tomato, cheese, sweet chilli sauce and sour cream.
[/li][li]Drink: Apple and Guava Juice. (For the alcoholic version, simply mix this with either Smirnoff Black or Bicardi).
[/li][li]Season: Spring
[/li][li]Scent: The blooming Jacaranda tree in Spring.
[/li][li]Colour: Purple
[/li][li]Scene: Again, the blooming Jacaranda[/li][/ul][/font][/size][/td][/tr][/table]

[Anouk Gallant]

"The sun is shining but we stay inside
Oh but we go out at night
We stay in looking for a better life
Oh but we go out at night
We put up curtains, block out the light
Oh but we go out at night
& We stay in bed until we feel all right
Oh but we go out at night"

• 1988
  • February 7th - Anouk Born at 7:11am.
• 1989
  • February 7th - Anouk takes her first step at her first birthday party. A first sign that she will be an exhibitionist, wanting everyone to witness her fine achievements, if she should have any.
• 1991
  • April 2nd - Anouk's sister, Ana-Marie born at 4:36pm.
    
  • April 3rd - Anouk's mother dies from loss of blood and other complications.
    
  • April 10th - Anouk and Ana-Marie placed in the care of their Aunt Loretta, their father being unable to take care of them due to his grief.
    
  • October 15th - Anouk and Ana-Marie placed back in the care of their father.
  
  [Henry Gallant was/is a construction worker who could not quit his job. He tried his hardest to be home as much as possible, though the babysitter, Cara, became like a second mother to Anouk and Ana-Marie.]

[/li][li]1993

• February 18th - Anouk starts her first day at Kindegarten.

[Thus began a turbulant school career consisting of many frustrated teachers who knew Anouk had potential, though they had no idea how to tame her or put that potential to good use. Primary school saw many detentions, as Anouk was always getting into fights with her fellow school mates and debating with her teachers, especially where religion was concerned. The school she had been enrolled in was a Catholic school, and the students were forced to go to church, to confession, to the first reunion and confirmation. Anouk hated being preached to, and only wanted proof.]

[/li][li]2002

• February 20th - First day of High School.

[If anything, in high school Anouk got worse. Her argumentative skills strengthened and she found the teachers easier to pick on, much of the time. Her skills were garnered by the English teachers and Anouk was placed in the debate team as a form of punishment. Anouk enjoyed it, though it and Art class were the only things she enjoyed about high school. Her father thought it a better idea to place Anouk in a public school where there were no religion classes. He hoped it might please Anouk. By this time, however, she only caused trouble for the fun of it.]

[/li][li]2003

• March 6th - Anouk gets her first boyfriend, Thomas. He was her first crush, and she didn't stop until she got him in her clutches.
  
• July 27th - Anouk's relationship ends with Thomas; Thomas breaks up with Anouk, and in her anger Anouk stole Thomas' bag, took it to the back of the oval where she then proceeded to set it on fire.
  
• July 28th - Due to almost burning down the agricultural department, Anouk is suspended for two weeks. This is her first taste of freedom, as their father could not afford a babysitter and Anouk was allowed free reign of the house.

[Anouk spent much of her free time exploring the suburbs, so that she now knows the city of Brisbane like the back of her hand. Much of the time she was given money, as people mistook her for a stray.][/font][/size][/li][/ul][/td][/tr][/table]

• 2004
  • February 15th - Anouk refuses to go back to school.
    
  • March 23rd - To her utter and indescribable excitement, Anouk is again sent to be cared for by her Aunt Loretta, whom she has the most in common with in her extended family. This time, however, she is not sent to her Aunt's house in the slums of Woolloongabba, but instead to London.
    
  • June 1st - Being the kind hearted soul Anouk's Aunt Loretta is, she allowed Anouk a few months of freedom. On this day, however, Anouk started her first job at a nearby restaurant as a waitress.
    
  • July 12th - Anouk has her first encounter with a 'mysterious stranger', a man whom immediately caught her interest and held it. As with everything Anouk does, she would not stop until she had sated her curiosity. Thus, on this first night Anouk accosted the stranger with the sharp and witty charm which she had perfected over the years. The man was frustratingly vague, though Anouk took careful note of his uber pale skin, his bright eyes and his tendency to order nothing but red wine.
    
  • July 28th - Anouk is fired from her job for being overly obnoxious toward some of her stupider customers. The only reason Anouk was disappointed because it shortened her chances of meeting the mysterious stranger again.
    
  • July 29th - Anouk is celebrating her first night of freedom and spending it on the town, even if she was horribly underage. Many of the friends she had made mistook her for being older, and were older themselves. Just after midnight, as Anouk was wending her way home after being refused entry into her last club. She was abducted by none other than the mysterious stranger. Although She ought to have been afraid, Anouk was morbidly enjoying the adrenaline rush of the situation, and if she were going to die she was glad it would happen at the hands of such a handsome and mysterious man. He had not got very far with her, however, before the two of them were surrounded by three men who were armed with strange looking weapons. They spat their distaste at the pale stranger, called him 'vampire' and 'scum of the earth' before shooting him down and killing him dead. Anouk, at this point, was hysterical - she didn't know whether it was becuase she had nearly been killed by the three hunters herself, or because this mysterious stranger whom she had become so attached to had been murdered in front of her.
    
  • July 30th - Anouk wakes up with a headache in her own bed. She vaguely remembers being told not to worry, to calm down, before her face was smothered with a white cloth. When she told her story to her aunt, her aunt didn't believe her but scolded Anouk on the dangers of drinking, and the uprise of spiking in clubs.
    
  • August 25th - Anouk's aunt pushes her into yet another job as a temp. Her main, or only, duty was filing. Her aunt thought it better that Anouk get a job where she didn't need to deal with customers.

[/li][li]2005

• February 9th - Anouk, being loyal to her aunt, stuck with the job for as long as she could. Sooner or later, however, the tediousness of it got to her and she could no longer stay there. She quits, without telling her aunt.
  
• February 10th - Using the money Anouk saved, she ran away, catching a plane to Dublin.

[Over the next two years, Anouk becomes a professional backpacker, travelling all over Europe. When she ran out of money she'd start a job at any old restaurant or bar. Once she had saved enough money she'd move on to the next place.]

[/li][li]2007

• December 24th - Anouk returns to London to spend Christmas with her Aunt. They had long since reunited, Anouk's aunt understanding Anouk's restlessness and finally coming to terms with Anouk's chosen lifestyle.

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• 2008
  • January 1st - When out celebrating the new year, Anouk discovers a pale faced, bright eyes stranger in the crowd. The man had the same kind of allure that the pale stranger of years before had had. Of course, Anouk was highly intrigued. She followed the stranger discreetly and witnesses his 'feeding' in one of the darker, seedier alleys of London. At this point, Anouk's reaction got her caught. A verbal struggle ensued. Anouk's curiosity was a great thing to contend with, and though the man threatened to kill Anouk he was far too intrigued to snuff her brightness from the world. But for reasons of his own, he would not, could not, have anything more to do with her. Instead, he gave her a map which led to a city called 'RavenBlack'. Told Anouk that if she did not fear for her life like she ought to have tonight, that she should go to the city and see what she might find there. He was almost as vague as the first man Anouk had met, and his final words to her were thus; "I have a feeling your vitality will save you. I hope to meet you again, in RavenBlack." He then disappeared.
    
  • January 26th - After much difficulty and frustration, Anouk finally finds RavenBlack.

• Mother - Estelle Gallant [As she appeared the age of her death].
  The only thing Anouk can remember about her mother is her scent. And she only knows she remembers this because it is a scent which had always comforted her and she didn't know why or how. It was only when her father told her it was the scent of the perfumed powder her mother used to always wear that Anouk became aware. Of course Anouk misses her mother and has always wondered how her life might have turned out had her mother lived. She wonders idly whether she would have been as rebellious or carefree.

Father - Henry Gallant [As he appears now]. Anouk has little respect for her father, even if she does love him dearly. She is always of the opinion that he never did take care of herself and Ana-Marie to the best of his ability. Perhaps she is a little harsh. Perhaps it was simply because she herself was so hard to take care of. Whatever the case, Anouk never did agree with Henry's tendency to let sleeping dogs lie. He never got excited, and never did anything which initiated any kind of change. He was boring, in Anouk's eyes, and thus someone she had to get away from in the end. Aunt - Loretta Harvey. Anouk gets along with her aunt like a house on fire. The two of them have plenty in common, and Anouk believes it is because they have the same starsign. Her Aunt Loretta understands Anouk's urges and flaws, and sacrifices a lot to let Anouk do as she will. She knows there's no point in trying to stop a girl like that - she knows from experience, as she was exactly the same at Anouk's age.

• Sister - Ana-Marie Gallant.
  Anouk and Ana couldn't be any more different. Learning at a young age that her mother had died while birthing her, Ana lives with a perpetual guilt. It wasn't that anyone ever made her feel guilty, it was just a sub-conscious thing that she couldn't and would never shake. Because of this perpetual guilt, Ana became the resident 'goody-two-shoes'. She did absolutely everything she was told and excelled in everything she put her mind to. Anouk may not show it, but she's incredibly proud of her sister, even if the two never agree on anything.

[Anouk Gallant]

But first, on earth as Vampire sent,
Thy course shall from its tomb be rent,
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And such the blood of all thy race:
There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
At midnight drain the stream of life;
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corse:
Thy victims, ere they yet expire,
Shall know the demon for their sire,
As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
Thy flowers are wither'd on the stem...
Wet with thine own best blood shall drip
Thy gnashing tooth and haggard lip;
Then stalking to they sullen grave,
Go - and with Gouls and Afrits rave;
Till these in horror shrink away
From spectre more accursed than they!
LORD BYRON, The Giaour

Sire: Ian Noble 2008 October 10th - Anouk is sired by Ian Noble. He keeps her from harm by 'disabling' two thugs, and consequently offers Anouk a place to stay. Anouk, obviously curious, queries Ian about his Vampirism. One thing led to another and Ian didn't resist Anouk's insistence. There was nothing he did or said which deterred Anouk from her decision, which was that she wanted nothing more than to become a vampire. Ian, obviously unsure, asked Anouk how she felt immediately after the turning - she replied in a spontaneous manner, leading to a situation which the two just might have considered a little awkward the next night. 2009 May 27th - Anouk Sires Shyloh - the girl asked, why shouldn't Anouk give?

Family Tree

• Anouk Gallant
  • Shyloh (Anika)

[Anouk Gallant]

"But I have lived, and have not lived in vain:
My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire,
And my frame perish even in conquering pain;
But there is that within me which shall tire
Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire;
Something unearthly, which they deem not of,
Like the remember'd tone of a mute lyre,
Shall on their soften'd spirits sink, and move
In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love."
LORD BYRON, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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IGN: Anouk Gallant Sire: Vigilante_Noir (Ian Noble) Siblings: None Childer: Anika (Shyloh) Bound: N/A Stamina – One || Two || Three || Charisma – One || Two || Three || Shadows – One || Two || Three || Thievery – One || Two || Three || Telepathy – One || Two || Three || Celerity – One || Two || Three || Locate – One || Two || Three || Second Sight Suction Surprise Perception Blood Rank – Elder IGS – 34

[Anouk Gallant]

Ian Noble - Sire Anouk met Ian on her first night in RavenBlack – her day had been the worst. Her flight had been delayed and waylaid, her car had broken down, her luggage had been stolen and the cab wouldn’t take her all the way to RavenBlack. When she got to the city she was set upon by muggers. Ian killed them. Ian is still a relative stranger to Anouk, though she can't help but be a little attracted to the man—especially after the night of her siring, which was more than a little steamy.

First Childe - Shyloh Shyloh is a bright spark in a dull world. Anouk was immediately taken with the girl simply because she reminded Anouk of herself - restless, energetic, and deathly curious. Shyloh asked for immortality and Anouk willingly gave it. It was something Anouk had asked for, and she'd love it. She knew Shyloh would be the same. She considers Shyloh more of a best friend than a childe, though Anouk will do her best to help this new best friend through the transition from human to vampire.

[Anouk Gallant]

"There's pride in wanting to die,
I think I'll give it a try," she said
"I can't make it on my own
and it's so hard to be alone
When I die I'll be alright,"
and now at least she knows
Where it is she has to go
She'll need supplies before she arrives."

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[Anouk Gallant]

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