Danielle Ivanovitch | Carmelita Spats

Sociopath. Serial Killer. Unhinged Woman. Trapped as a Child.

THE BASIC DETAILS

Name: Danielle Rose Ivanovitch
Alternate Name: Carmelita Spats
Age: 28
Physical Age: 10
Date of Birth: 07th August
Place of Birth: Russia

Race: Caucasian
Species: Human

Gender: Female.
Sexuality: Unknown.
Relationship Status: Single.

Height: 4’7
Weight: 88 lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Usually brown, though it is red with the wig that she wears.
Birthmark: None, or at least the one that she had is very faded by now.

Family:

Mother: Leona Ivanovitch
Father: Alexander Ivanovitch

Adoptive Family: The Spats Family.

Other Family/Captors: Count Olaf & Esme Squalor.

Talents and Skills:
◦ Performing Arts
◦ Manipulation
◦ Painting ∫ Drawing
◦ Poetry ∫ Singing
◦ Tap-Dancing

Likes:
♡ Attention ∫ Validation
♡ Sunny Baudelaire
♡ Fire-Starting VFD
♡ Performance
♡ Shakespeare

Dislikes:
✘ Violet & Klaus Baudelaire
✘ The Quagmire Triplets
✘ Fire-Fighting VFD
✘ Being Ignored ∫ Feeling Unwanted
✘ Her Biological Parents

THE BACKSTORY OF DANIELLE.

Danielle Ivanovitch was born to Alexander and Leona Ivanovitch, in a small town in Russia. Her parents were well-off — her mother had been a well-known performer in Russia for decades prior to Danielle’s birth.

Her father was a freelance journalist who had moved to the US for several years before coming back to his home country. The two had always wanted a child, though perhaps for more selfish reasons than one would expect.

They, especially Leona, always wanted a child who they could pass on their expectations to. Someone that would follow in her footsteps and become as much, if not more, famous than she was.

From the moment that Danielle was born, she was thrown into the strict regimen of acting — from hours of training, to dietary requirements, to vocal training. Everything that one could think of, this little girl was made to do it.

Yet she never really minded it. She believed that being a talented singer, dancer and all-round fantastic performer was the way to get the approval of her parents.

Especially her mother who constantly told the girl how proud she would be of her if she could just make it to the top; to the big leagues.

The thing was, though, Danielle wasn’t the most talented and singing or tap-dancing. She was passable, sure, but she wasn’t anywhere near as good as her mother had wanted her to be. This led to tension within the family.

However, they were rich enough that Leona could pay off people to let her daughter be the star of local plays and such — something which led Danielle to believe that money was the be-all and end-all of life.

She was supposed to be a big, famous star. However, about the time that Danielle turned ten or thereabouts, she was diagnosed with hypopituitarism; a disorder which caused proportional dwarfism and meant that she would always be trapped within the body of a child.

Now, this was something that didn’t seem to cause much trouble for Danielle when she was a child — she never thought much of it or gave it a lot of thought.

However, when she grew older, it got a little weird for her to be trapped within the body of a child while everyone else was growing older.

Her parents were devastated by this, but her father more so. Her mother decided to use this as a way to gain more visceral fame for Danielle. After all, what was more brilliant than having a daughter who could always get the cute, sweet little girl roles?

Even when she was an adult? As Danielle grew into her teenage years, her mother constantly forced her to pretend to be a child, not only for auditions but at home.

She loved the idea of having this ‘toddlers and tiaras’ and ‘Shirley Temple’-esque child prancing around, perhaps a reflection of her own childhood.

The fact that Danielle was becoming an adult woman with her own needs and desires mattered little or not to Leona or Alexander, who just went along with whatever his wife wanted.

She would be slapped or hurt whenever she tried to voice an opinion that went differently than what her parents wanted her to be.

Eventually, the interest in Danielle began to wear off and her fame dwindled. This caused her mother to become violent towards her, and she would often suffer the brunt of it.

At around the time she turned twenty-six or thereabouts, things took a very violent turn and Leona even plotted killing her daughter since she felt that she had outlived her usefulness.

However, Danielle managed to turn the tables on her abusive parents. Murdering them and setting the house on fire, she escaped into the night. She managed to evade capture by pretending to be a little girl named ‘Carmelita — a stuck-up and entitled little brat, but at the same time, a child that nobody would suspect of anything as severe as arson or anything like that.

With the little money that she had personally saved up, unbeknownst to her parents, she made her way to an orphanage in the USA. It was around this time that the Spats family, a rich and affluent family, suffered a loss of their own with the death of their two-year-old daughter in a car accident involving a drunk driver.

They decided that they wanted to adopt a child, believing that it could fill the void of the child and heiress that they had lost.

So it was that they ended up taking Danielle, under her alias of Carmelita, into their home.

After her adoption, Danielle continued her lie of pretending to be a child; this being the only thing that she knew. She became obsessed with performance, constantly singing and dancing and generally being a little bit of a nuisance to those around her. For it was the only way that she knew to be loved or cared about.

The Spats family were largely neglectful towards their daughter, too. Though never as bad as her biological parents,they would often just throw cash at her and forget about her.

This caused Danielle to become somewhat bitter towards them, though she tried to brush it off.

Under the name of Carmelita Spats, she was enrolled into Prufrock Preparatory School, where she met the Baudelaires. Still she kept up the act over and over, though it was exhausting and she hated herself for continually pretending to be a child.

She is usually aggressive, demanding, loud and attention seeking. Her Carmelita persona is one that constantly seeks validation and attention throughout everything in her life. She can behave like a complete spoilt brat because of this.

Danielle is, however, to some degree capable of feeling compassion for others but this is a possessive and sociopathic level of compassion — she views others more like property than she does people. Plus, her level of empathy is severely compartmentalized, meaning she does not feel it universally for all people but only for a select few.

She is far, far more intelligent than she lets on. Danielle is somewhat of an expert at reading people and knowing how to manipulate them. Her persona as Carmelita may seem to be a bit less so, but she is a bright girl.

She also understands a lot more about the performing arts and poetry than one might think. She is fully aware that none of her songs rhyme — but in order to ensure that she keeps in character, she doesn’t change this or attempt to be seen as more intelligent than people think she is or think she ought to be.

She also finds herself at odds with the Baudelaire children and the Quagmires for this reason, and also because she feels that they truly can’t comprehend how lucky they were to at least have been able to experience what a truly loving family was like before their parents passed away in those fires. She feels that they would never understand and she hates them for that.

Though she would never admit this to anyone, sometimes when Danielle looks at Sunny Baudelaire, she sees the daughter that she wishes she could have had. She longs to be Sunny’s mother and give her that chance of happiness that she never had, but she knows deep down this would never, ever come to pass.

It is for this reason that she finds herself loathing Violet Baudelaire perhaps the most out of the three siblings. Though Violet is so much younger than her, she takes on the mother role to Sunny in a lot of ways (at least, this is how Danielle sees it) and Danielle can’t stand that Violet, at such a young age, has gotten things that she never, ever will.

Danielle eventually got into the Fire-Starting Side of VFD, though she was not a volunteer, in that sense. However the years of her abusive childhood and her adulthood of living a lie were taking a toll.

Making the girl to be a violent and almost sociopathic personality; she was capable of killing or hurting others without remorse.

She was far more intelligent than her ‘Carmelita’ persona ever let on. Far better at being able to read people and manipulate them.

However, she was still capable of love and of feeling for other people. She desired the chance to have a family of her own that would accept her for who she was — not the person that she purported herself to be.

Danielle eventually joined up with Count Olaf and Esme Squalor, still pretending to be a child, something that nobody figured out about.

She developed a close relationship with Esme, who treated her as the daughter that she never had and allowed ‘Carmelita’ to get away with so much. Esme reminded Danielle of the faux kindness that her mother used to show to her, which Danielle always believed was real kindness. So she lapped it up and constantly tried to please Esme.

When the Hotel Denouement was set on fire, Danielle luckily managed to escape. She continues her role as Carmelita Spats, continues pretending to be a child as she seeks out the validation, love and acceptance in a world that has never cared about her.

She hopes to gain recognition and love. Due to being consistently praised and fawned over by her birth mother whenever she acted like a pageant girl, and punished when she behaved more like her normal age, Danielle has come to believe that she needs to act in a certain manner in order for people to love and accept her.

She simply is unable to let go of the past and the childhood that she had there — hence why she acts like a little girl now. In her eyes, behaving the way that she does as Carmelita is the best way for her to get attention and admiration. She is of the belief that nobody would truly accept her if she were to act like the adult that she is — because nobody has ever given her that acceptance before.

WRITER RULES & INFORMATION.

➣ Please note that the following are a series of important rules and notes that should be taken into account when writing with me.
✘ No shipping.

✘ I have taken creative liberties with Carmelita’s backstory. She’s based very heavily on Esther from Orphan though with a few changes here and there. Please respect my decision; a lot of thought has gone into it.

✘ I do not like to roleplay in the DMs. Entering into my DMs in character will lead to me ignoring you. For me, the DMs are to be used to discuss OOC and plot roleplay. Any and all actual writing will take place on the timeline.

✘ I have multiple accounts and can be busy in real life. This means that replies can take a while to come due to both life and muse. I will do my best to contact writers that I am doing SLs with to let them know
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Please don’t pressure me into replying; it leads to the opposite happening.

✘ Please, please be at least semi-literate. I completely understand that English is not always a person’s first language, however, with this being said, I won’t write with people who can’t differentiate between speech and actions. If I find the reply too confusing and I’m not given much to work with; I won’t continue the SL.

✘ I don’t believe in sharing private DMs or reporting for no reason. If something happens between me and another writer, then I will speak to them privately and provided if things are resolved or not, I will block.

I will never, ever, share any private messages or slander a person on the timeline; and I would like to have the same respect shown to me. If you disagree with me or we argue, that is fine, but I believe that disagreements should be kept between those disagreeing.

✘ With that said, I will report if I feel that someone has been bullying me or harassing other writers. I don’t stand for disrespect and bullying so therefore I won’t sit by and tolerate this.

✘ I expect to be shown respect and I will show respect in return. I’d love to write with others and to come up with SLs together. Please don’t be afraid to contact me!

❧ This isn’t an exact rule, per se, but please note that I’m quite an anxious person. Being DM’ed and asked ‘can I ask you something’ tends to give me anxiety so I’d prefer people don’t do that. If you have to ask me something, please do so outright. Again, this isn’t exactly a rule but it’d be preferable.

❧ With that said, thank you to everyone for reading through these rules and notes. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you wish to RP together; again, I’d be more than happy to come up with SLs and interact with everyone.