Player Name: Laura Username: fortuitous Current/former characters: n/a
Sleeper Character: Ariadne Username: constructum Canon: Inception Canon point: Post Movie Age: 23 (exact age is never stated)
Appearance: Ariadne is a short petite girl, just reaching five feet. With long brown wavy hair, large caramel colored doe-eyes, and fair complexion. In most cases you notice she tends to be a fairly laxed when it comes to her appearance, as she seems to favor the same thing over and over with subtle changes. Never opting to makeup her appearance. The only exception she had for this was on the second level of the Fischer dream, where she was found hair up, clearly looking more professional in a dress suit and heels.
Sadly you are never truly given much detail as to who Ariadne is as a person (We will just blame Nolan and his amazing need to make you think on this), but what we are able to gather throughout the film, is that she clearly is an intelligent, inquisitive, strong-willed and extremely creative girl, who’s willing to go to great length so help others.
Of course there is a few obvious examples of this throughout the film, such as the rooftop scene in Paris with her and Cobb, where Cobb is clearly deciding if she will be able to cut it in dream-share by having her design a few slow to solve mazes on the fly. Which in turn, is clearly showing signs of her intelligence and creativity. As she rather easily (after a quick moment for annoyance on her part) is able to create an intricate circular maze in less then one minute - something that obviously impressed Cobb enough to continue on with her. It’s also clear in this scene, just how inquisitive she tends to be, as even after learning the job was “Not strictly speaking, legal.” she willingly follows a man (she had just met mind you) to a warehouse.
“I was excited that Chris had written an awesome role for a young woman who is intelligent and comfortable in her own skin. She is thrust into this completely new environment and unusual situation and deals with it very eloquently. She can very much hold her own, especially in a group that’s a bit of a boys’ club." - Ellen Page [ Ariadne ]
It’s also clear with her first exposures to dream-share, just how intelligent, creative and strong willed she can be. As she was more then willing to ask a multitude of questions – pushing things perhaps in areas she shouldn’t, just to get what she needed for a better understanding.
Her creativity is clearly showing throughout this scene as well, as she easily is able to create a Parisian city down to the littlest detail – something that Cobb clearly was impressed with enough to state.
Her wide-eyed curiosity shines through here as well, as she is taking everything in with a wonder – wanting to test the limits to the dream (disregarding warnings from Cobb as she did) just by creating new feature after new feature to the dream as they went. Clearly the scene of her defying the laws of physics in the dream was a prime example of all of this.
Ariadne: I love the concrete sense of things- real weight, you know? I thought a dream space would be all about the visual, but it’s the feel of things. Question is, what happens as you start to mess with the physics….
Upon waking rather unexpectedly from a dream (thanks in part to the attack from Mal), Ariadne has no qualms about going off in a sense about her anger over it. Clearly this shows just opinionated she can be as well. Because to her, what just happened in the dream needed to be addressed, as it obviously was an issue in her mind.
Ariadne: Arthur, maybe you can’t see what is going on, maybe you don’t want to see. But Cobb’s got some serious problems he’s trying to bury down there. And I’m not about to open my mind to someone like that.
The fact she willingly walked away from it all at first, seems to show just how truly strong willed she tends to be - along with the fact, she clearly has common sense. Because even knowing anything was possible in dream – there was even limits to what she would expose her self to. Though in the end - even after her storming out of the warehouse - her intellectual curiosity seems to win out, as she clearly can’t stay away. In turn, showing just how much of a risk taker she could be, because the opportunity to create and explore things she only dreamed about was too powerful.
Arthur: Cobb said you’d be back. Ariadne: I tried not to come. Arthur: But there’s nothing else quite like it. Ariadne: It’s just pure creation.
Ariadne is also very perceptive of others it seems (seeing issues in Cobb from the start) as she seems to take it upon herself to almost psychoanalyze Cobb throughout the film - pointing out his faults in a sense as she does. A prime example of this perception was the night she found Cobb in the warehouse after working on her totem:
Ariadne: You won’t build yourself because if you know the maze, then she knows it. And she’d sabotage the operation. You can’t keep her out, can you?
That statement from her almost seems to be the first time someone has actually confronted him on this fact as well. Obviously she felt it was enough of a concern to be stated and one she wasn’t sure others had noticed or not. Even with the vague answer Cobb gave her with that, she knew she wasn’t going to be letting it drop that easily - there was too much at stake with everything. And it was something after all that she felt needed to be fully understood. Which in turn caused her to invade Cobb’s private dreams one night in the warehouse, only to learn just how deep his secrets/problems truly were buried. This whole exchange to me, showed just how strong willed/caring she was. Because really, she knew there could be consequences to her actions, but the need to better understand things and to be of help won out over any fear she may have had with that. Proof of this part of her personality is clear in the scene following the dream as well as well, where she clearly has no issues stepping up to the plate to help Cobb and the others.
Ariadne: The team needs someone in there who understands what you’re struggling with. If you don’t want it to be me then you need to show Arthur what I just saw.
Ariadne also comes across as someone very caring throughout the film, just wanting to help wherever she can. (With Cobb, Saito, the team, Fischer, etc.) As she clearly shows just how caring/loyal she can be - almost willing to possibly sacrifice herself in some form in order to help others. Proof in the fact, she willingly went into limbo to find Fischer and to ensure that the mission was completed:
Ariadne: There’s still a way: We follow him down Eames: We’re almost out of time. Ariadne: Down there they’ll be enough time. We’ll find him-soon as you hear Arthur’s music start, you use the defibrillator to revive him – we give him his own early kick from below.
It’s obvious she is also extremely determined as well here, as everyone else was almost willing to give up at that moment, assuming that the mission had failed. But if not for her and her need to help, things might not have been completed and the inception would possibly never have taken place.
All in all, there is much to Ariadne and her looks are clearly deceiving to some. So it’s just a matter of time and you are truly able to see just how amazing she can be and why she seems to be the way that she is.
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Name: Laura
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Current/former characters: n/a
Sleeper
Character: Ariadne
Username:
Canon: Inception
Canon point: Post Movie
Age: 23 (exact age is never stated)
Appearance: Ariadne is a short petite girl, just reaching five feet. With long brown wavy hair, large caramel colored doe-eyes, and fair complexion. In most cases you notice she tends to be a fairly laxed when it comes to her appearance, as she seems to favor the same thing over and over with subtle changes. Never opting to makeup her appearance. The only exception she had for this was on the second level of the Fischer dream, where she was found hair up, clearly looking more professional in a dress suit and heels.
Her PB is Ellen Page.
Personality:
Sadly you are never truly given much detail as to who Ariadne is as a person (We will just blame Nolan and his amazing need to make you think on this), but what we are able to gather throughout the film, is that she clearly is an intelligent, inquisitive, strong-willed and extremely creative girl, who’s willing to go to great length so help others.
Of course there is a few obvious examples of this throughout the film, such as the rooftop scene in Paris with her and Cobb, where Cobb is clearly deciding if she will be able to cut it in dream-share by having her design a few slow to solve mazes on the fly. Which in turn, is clearly showing signs of her intelligence and creativity. As she rather easily (after a quick moment for annoyance on her part) is able to create an intricate circular maze in less then one minute - something that obviously impressed Cobb enough to continue on with her. It’s also clear in this scene, just how inquisitive she tends to be, as even after learning the job was “Not strictly speaking, legal.” she willingly follows a man (she had just met mind you) to a warehouse.
“I was excited that Chris had written an awesome role for a young woman who is intelligent and comfortable in her own skin.
She is thrust into this completely new environment and unusual situation and deals with it very eloquently.
She can very much hold her own, especially in a group that’s a bit of a boys’ club."
- Ellen Page [ Ariadne ]
It’s also clear with her first exposures to dream-share, just how intelligent, creative and strong willed she can be. As she was more then willing to ask a multitude of questions – pushing things perhaps in areas she shouldn’t, just to get what she needed for a better understanding.
Her creativity is clearly showing throughout this scene as well, as she easily is able to create a Parisian city down to the littlest detail – something that Cobb clearly was impressed with enough to state.
Her wide-eyed curiosity shines through here as well, as she is taking everything in with a wonder – wanting to test the limits to the dream (disregarding warnings from Cobb as she did) just by creating new feature after new feature to the dream as they went. Clearly the scene of her defying the laws of physics in the dream was a prime example of all of this.
Ariadne: I love the concrete sense of things- real weight, you know?
I thought a dream space would be all about the visual, but it’s the feel of things.
Question is, what happens as you start to mess with the physics….
Upon waking rather unexpectedly from a dream (thanks in part to the attack from Mal), Ariadne has no qualms about going off in a sense about her anger over it. Clearly this shows just opinionated she can be as well. Because to her, what just happened in the dream needed to be addressed, as it obviously was an issue in her mind.
Ariadne: Arthur, maybe you can’t see what is going on, maybe you don’t want to see.
But Cobb’s got some serious problems he’s trying to bury down there.
And I’m not about to open my mind to someone like that.
The fact she willingly walked away from it all at first, seems to show just how truly strong willed she tends to be - along with the fact, she clearly has common sense. Because even knowing anything was possible in dream – there was even limits to what she would expose her self to. Though in the end - even after her storming out of the warehouse - her intellectual curiosity seems to win out, as she clearly can’t stay away. In turn, showing just how much of a risk taker she could be, because the opportunity to create and explore things she only dreamed about was too powerful.
Arthur: Cobb said you’d be back.
Ariadne: I tried not to come.
Arthur: But there’s nothing else quite like it.
Ariadne: It’s just pure creation.
Ariadne is also very perceptive of others it seems (seeing issues in Cobb from the start) as she seems to take it upon herself to almost psychoanalyze Cobb throughout the film - pointing out his faults in a sense as she does. A prime example of this perception was the night she found Cobb in the warehouse after working on her totem:
Ariadne: You won’t build yourself because if you know the maze, then she knows it.
And she’d sabotage the operation. You can’t keep her out, can you?
That statement from her almost seems to be the first time someone has actually confronted him on this fact as well. Obviously she felt it was enough of a concern to be stated and one she wasn’t sure others had noticed or not. Even with the vague answer Cobb gave her with that, she knew she wasn’t going to be letting it drop that easily - there was too much at stake with everything. And it was something after all that she felt needed to be fully understood. Which in turn caused her to invade Cobb’s private dreams one night in the warehouse, only to learn just how deep his secrets/problems truly were buried. This whole exchange to me, showed just how strong willed/caring she was. Because really, she knew there could be consequences to her actions, but the need to better understand things and to be of help won out over any fear she may have had with that. Proof of this part of her personality is clear in the scene following the dream as well as well, where she clearly has no issues stepping up to the plate to help Cobb and the others.
Ariadne: The team needs someone in there who understands what you’re struggling with.
If you don’t want it to be me then you need to show Arthur what I just saw.
Ariadne also comes across as someone very caring throughout the film, just wanting to help wherever she can. (With Cobb, Saito, the team, Fischer, etc.) As she clearly shows just how caring/loyal she can be - almost willing to possibly sacrifice herself in some form in order to help others. Proof in the fact, she willingly went into limbo to find Fischer and to ensure that the mission was completed:
Ariadne: There’s still a way: We follow him down
Eames: We’re almost out of time.
Ariadne: Down there they’ll be enough time.
We’ll find him-soon as you hear Arthur’s music start,
you use the defibrillator to revive him –
we give him his own early kick from below.
It’s obvious she is also extremely determined as well here, as everyone else was almost willing to give up at that moment, assuming that the mission had failed. But if not for her and her need to help, things might not have been completed and the inception would possibly never have taken place.
All in all, there is much to Ariadne and her looks are clearly deceiving to some. So it’s just a matter of time and you are truly able to see just how amazing she can be and why she seems to be the way that she is.