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//With the severe lack of Erika content I’ve been making lately, I figured I’d share some new facts and tidbits about this lovely lady!

1. Erika is a big comfort food person, noodles? soup? Sign her up!

2. Due to the ‘incident’ with her ex boyfriend, Erika has a large salt burn scar down the inside of her right leg, as well as suffering rather strong occurrences of brain fog and even migraines from time to time, due to the blow to her head.

3. Erika is the vocalist of a band formed with a few of her friends outside of the mansion. Music being a main passion of hers and potentially her biggest dream. Though she doesn’t concern herself by the concept of fame, she absolutely loves to perform and to express herself through song.

4. Though her hands tend to shake often, she is quite skilled with embroidery! This is often evident whenever she patches up clothing. Rather than simple patches or stitches, she won’t hesitate to create a small, intricate artwork.

5. Erika takes pride in her endurance. Having had to take a year of rehabilitation after the ‘incident’ before she could even think about dancing again, only to be able to put her pointe shoes on again and say ‘suck it’ to the man who tried to ruin her, as well as recover from various challenges in her unlife. She’s very well known for claiming her parents didn’t raise a quitter.

6. Erika likes to float rather than walk quite often- why take steps when you can move through the air?

7. As a Child, her hair was extremely long- reaching just par her rear- and the curls often got difficult to manage. It wasn’t until her mid teenaged years that she cut it to a more manageable length. It certainly saves her hours when having to wear a formal hairstyle.

8. Most of her clothing originally consisted of pieces she altered herself from the mansion, or pieces made by her father.

9. Erika is fluent in both French and Japanese, and has a love of both cultures. So much so that they hold an influence over her personal style.

10. Though she is much more quiet and reserved as a teenager and young adult, she was actually quite an outgoing child- though- she was also extremely clumsy. Thankfully ghosts don’t get hurt easily right?

11. Many of Erika’s physical traits come from her mother, and it is something she takes pride in. Though, there are a few indistinguishable traits that she gets from her father that she also quite enjoys.

12. Erika is Bisexual and proud of it!

13. She’s also a massive sweet tooth- especially for baked goods and chocolate. Even at her most stubborn or upset moments she just can’t say no to the idea of a sundae.

14. Being born as a ghost, she was hailed as a sort of ‘miracle’ throughout the mansion due to just how rare it is for such a thing to happen.

15. Alongside Singing and Ballet, she’s also quite the pianist!

//Alright!! Thank you!

1. What made you decide to roleplay this muse?

In late 2016, a good friend and Roleplay partner of mine and I, who were both fans of Descendants and loved making ocs, came up with the concept of Descendants characters based on the Disney parks and obscure Disney franchises. We came up with a multitude of these characters (who went alongside our regular ocs of the more mainstream franchises) and individual stories for all of them, alongside their relationships with one another.

My first idea from this concept was to do a Haunted Mansion character, I tried to think of what would fit best and decided to go with my two favourite characters! The Beating Heart Bride and the Hatbox Ghost! With that Erika De Claire Pace was born (originally named Emma!)! Alongside various other characters, ghosts (yes, more mansion ocs were made! Including Conner Hatchaway (made by myself) and Micah Ravenswood (made by my friend) as well as some from the Tower of Terror and NMBC!), mermaids, cyborgs, monsters, pixies and various other interesting characters! (All is which I would love to introduce at some point).

I ended up growing a huge connection with Erika in particular as I was dealing with a very similar experience to her, recovering from a heavily abusive relationship (though in my case, only a friendship), recovering from an eating disorder, bullying and various other issues. Writing a character who was able to come out on top of these issues was really important for me and helped me to recover (“if I can write it, I can do it, surely!”). I wanted the chance to use this character more outside of our main Roleplay verse (and multiple AU’s), so I took the chance to make a tumblr blog for her! The rest was history!

11. What’s a thread you’d like to do in the near future?

Oh so many! I would love to do a few more threads in Auradon, or more in the Mansion of course!

But I especially would love to do more with AU’s! Especially my VK/Isle of the Lost AU, Mermaid AU, Victorian/Human AU or even the Modern/Human AU (such as what I’ve done with @theheadlessgroom )

13. Three of your favourite threads

- Videodrome with @theheadlessgroom - Oh. My. Gods. This was SO much fun! The Modern AU, Giggles as a fluffy little dog, the old man turned eldritch abomination trying to feed on Erika’s fears, Randall setting a building on fire!! I adored this thread and would love to see a follow up at some point!

- Welcome Home with @beatingheart-bride - this was just so heartwarming and was such a nice thread to work on Erika’s relationship with her mother, and definitely captured the feelings of coming home to your loved ones after a long journey or in Erika’s case, school semester.

- I also did a thread way back when this blog first began with @islesfairest where both Erika and Evie experienced their first sleepovers! It was a very short lived thread but it was nice seeing Erika actually having friends in Auradon and a positive experience, and who doesn’t love a good sleepover?!

18. Your muse’s theme song

This one has changed so much over time to a point I usually give Erika multiple and even have a playlist for her. However, one that’s always been consistent since the beginning, and which I consider her main theme song would have to be:

‘The Show Must Go On’ - Queen.

You can listen to it here -> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKLMYZlbIb8

22. Three interesting little tidbits or facts of your muse

1. Erika is actually left handed!

2. Erika’s fashion sense is quite alternative, wearing various styles inspired by Lolita Fashion, Cult Party Kei, Vintage (She favors the 1950’s style), Victorian Inspired, Renaissance Inspired, Gothic, Mori Kei/Cottagecore and various cute or girly styles, she also wears platforms practically all of the time.

3. Erika has a 4 octave vocal range and a strong vibrato, she was lucky enough to be classically trained which allows her to hit operatic notes- though she prefers much more modern styles of singing.

Birthmark- Do you have a favourite tale?

“A fa-favourite tale..?....hm..well, if w-we’re discussing fa-fairytales, then I’m an a-absolute sucker for The Little Mermaid and The Twelve Dancing P-Princesses, they’re b-both so special to m-me and were my absolute favourites all through my ch-childhood, I’ve g-gotten to read many t-tales in my life but those t-two will always have a special pl-place in my heart..”

Teeth- What is your favourite meal?

“Oh, th-that’s a hard one..it seems t-to change a lot b-but recently, I di-discovered this thing called ‘two minute noodles’, n-now, it’s dried n-noodles and vegetables, th-that you put hot water I-in and in two m-minutes, you have thi-this warm cup of cooked n-noodles! Isn’t th-that fantastic?! Oh- I a-also found out ab-about bubble tea, which is l-like regular t-tea but sweeter a-and with all different additions!! If you th-thought I had a normal t-tea addiction then th-think again! I’m o-on my fourth bubble t-tea c-cup for the day..”

Tongue: How Many Languages can you speak?

“A f-few actually, I-I c-can speak English..obviously, French, J-Japanese and Irish! I h-had to pick up a f-few languages to s-speak with my f-family in other regions! Part of m-me would like to learn s-some more languages at some p-point, like Chinese perhaps? Or perhaps I c-can get my friend t-to teach me some German- now that c-could be interesting! Father t-taught me Irish and M-Mother taught me both French a-and Japanese, all three of wh-which I still use in my d-daily unlife..learning languages really provides a n-new outlook on the world a-around you..”

//thanks to the anon that asked for these!

- Erika never really had any body insecurities up until she came to Auradon, the way that people looked at her and the way that she stood out made her feel extremely insecure.

- She's extremely skinny, to a point that she is basically skin and bones (said bones being visible poking out some places), she gets it from her father and being dead.

- There's not a single dark spot anywhere on her natural 'body' except her pupils. She's got blonde eyebrows and blonde hair, a completely white complexion, white eyelashes, no freckles and very pale amber eyes.

- When she blushes, she blushes a purple colour. Very different compared to the lively pink of a human.

- Erika stands at 5'1"

- Her style in terms of clothing normally consists of a frilly dress, incredibly reminiscent of 'Lolita fashion' which she even began wearing occasionally. Or she will wear a basic white button up that she's rolled up the sleeves of with a long, blue skirt, regardless of how frumpy it may look, she just finds it comfortable.

- Her hair is naturally very curly, even in little ringlets at times. Though when it's been brushed enough it keeps in very loose curls.

- She often styles her hair half up half down.

- She's got very long fingers.

- Erika manages to stay fit through ballet.

- Her legs are very long compared to the rest of her body.

- The colours that Erika normally wears are white, Pastel blue or a lavender.

- One of Erika's favourite accessories is a white flowercrown, though, quite a few of the roses having wilted.

//I know I keep doing these but it's an interesting way to develop Erika as a character and show more of her personality

- Her stutter was never natural. It was caused by a blow to the head during the attack. As a child she never had any issues with speech. It happened during the attack so Erika couldn't call for help while he escaped. She woke up to the voice of another ghost who believed another story, Erika merely going with it as to not concern the others or explain the issue.

- Her best talent is being able to dance ballet while playing the violin or sing while dancing ballet.

- She's visited multiple haunted locations around the world during her time.

- singing, playing music or even writing is a good coping mechanism that she uses when things are too troubling.

- Sometimes she has days where she just can't face the world and usually doesn't leave her dorm room, she just keeps herself comfortable and tries to help herself mentally so that she can get better faster. Though it's difficult and usually it's a day full of panic attacks and tears.