Claudia, Quentin & Mrs Laderman

Here are my ideas for the three characters, along with the three words I want to use to help with the characterisation.

The Princess and the Grimm

Claudia- Ascend 

I want Claudia to be the grown up version of the 'Lost Princess' from the TV series- the daughter of Sean Renard and Adalind Schade. As she is half Zauberbiest and half Hexanbiest along with being of Royal bloodline I went along the thinking that she will age quicker due to her special blood and magic. As the character profile says that she is agoraphobic, I wanted this to be because she has so much magic that she doesn't know what to do with so believed the outside world was attacking her whenever she went outside, this was due to objects floating and glass & mirrors shattering whenever she became emotionally unstable. I wanted to use the idea of the 'Lost Princess' because ever since birth many different parties have been looking for her, so I wanted her to have been stolen by Mrs Laderman (who is coincidentally a Grimm) and she changed her identity to Claudia. However due to the lack of tutelage from Mrs Laderman, she is unaware of who she is and thus has been driven agoraphobic by the magic that she has. I also want the magic to be the reason why she has imagined Quentin, along with why she abuses him and lashes out with her magic. I think the fact that Claudia is obsessed with horror films could be her trying to find a solace away from her troubles or looking for a reason as to why she is like she is.  I chose the word Ascend due to her birth right to Ascend the throne of the Royal family. 

I would like her to have purple contact lenses, which is what she has in the programme when she is younger and is doing magic.

Quentin- White Rose

I want Quentin to be the victim of Claudia's magic, but also use the idea from the Character Profile that he is actually 'having an affair' behind her back to give fuel to the fire. I'd like to use the element of the White Rose in both the photos of Claudia and Quentin (if I choose them both) with her holding a white rose, and Quentin having thorns poking out of his face/neck as if Claudia has cursed him. Furthermore I would like for him to have gashes/bruises on his face as if she has been abusing him. Having the male being abused by the female creates a distortion because in TV and Film usually the male is the abuser. In order to add in the element of an affair into the picture, I want to have an element of lipstick on either the neck, cheek or on a shirt collar. 

Mrs Laderman- Face 

I want Mrs Laderman to be a Grimm who has been tasked with looking after Claudia, making sure that she is okay. However due to the lack of tutelage that she has given Claudia, she is the reason that Claudia has gone off the rails and isn't in control of her magic, but she still looks after her nonetheless. I would quite like her to have partly black eyes that Grimms do have, but not completely full as Claudia does not woge, she just uses magic. I chose the word face, as the eyes are the most important part of the Grimm's identity as they can show Wesen who they really are. Furthermore technically Mrs Laderman is hiding her true face from Claudia as she is not telling her the truth regarding who she really is or her birth right. 

Rapunzel

Claudia - Glass Prison
I was looking at the original Grimm story of Rapunzel, and I thought that the series has yet to use this story so it would fit in quite well. I thought that Claudia could be either the Lost Princess that I mentioned in my previous idea, or just a girl that was abducted when she was a baby. I think that I'd like to go down the route of the abducted baby, because it would fit in with the police work of Nick Burkhardt  as an old case of missing persons they need to work through to see if they can figure out what happened. I thought that the character profile of her being an agoraphobia could be described by Mrs Laderman telling her that people are trying to hurt her so that she won't want to go outside, furthermore as her neighbour and the other holder of the key to her flat she can lock her inside to keep her 'safe'. I thought that the words 'Glass Prison' would refer to her apartment, even though it has windows to the outside world she is a prisoner inside it because of her agoraphobia as well as Mrs Laderman.

Quentin - Save Us
I pictured Quentin as being the Prince in the story, however he is a complete figment of Claudia's imagination as the character profile writes him to be. I quite like the idea of in the original story, he is thrown out of the window into a pile of thorns and blinded- I thought that this could link to Claudia abusing him and blinding him accidentally, but I would rather it was Mrs Laderman doing the abusing. I thought that her could become abused as a result of Mrs Laderman abusing Claudia through her use of magic.
I thought that the words 'Save us' would be good to use as it refers to the 'Prince' side of Quentin's character, who is there to save Claudia from Mrs Laderman.


Mrs Laderman - Ascend
 I thought of Mrs Laderman as the 'Mother Gothel' character in the story and also I thought that to fit in with the Grimm universe she should be in the form of a Hexanbiest. I chose the word 'Ascend' because I thought it links to Mother Gothel in the story, and how she climbs Rapunzel's hair to reach the top of the tower.