Meet IRENE BJORGMAN, a SIXTEEN year old who resembles KATHERINE MCNAMARA. She hails from ARENDELLE and lived with her parents, ANNA & KRISTOFF BJORGMAN. Unfortunately for you, she is UNAVAILABLE.
“And I won’t let anybody tell me no, I won’t take anything for granted. Cause I know that nothing good comes easy, if it did I wouldn’t be me, let it go and let me do it cause, I won’t…”
+ venturesome, erudite, happy-go-lucky
- defiant, naive, impressionable
Her story goes like this—
Sheltered. That’s the type of life that Irene has led for her short sixteen years, and the life that she was excited to leave behind in coming to Walt Disney Academy. She grew up not only the youngest, but the only girl, so while Anna likely would have allowed her get away with a world of crazy antics, Kristoff wanted nothing more than to shield her from just about everything. Instead of being allowed some leeway to go on her wild and impromptu adventures, Irene was sent to her royal lessons– and because she knew her parents only wanted what was best for her, she went without a fuss. She may have been stubborn, but she never reached her father’s levels, and while she had a real thirst for adventure to boot… she wasn’t unruly. Her tutors expected her to be so, but she quickly proved them wrong as she began to excel in her lessons. With natural grace, and the easy picking up of the mannerisms expected of a member of the royal family, Irene was the picture of a perfect princess. And even better, lessons distracted her. Sometimes she would find her gaze pulled to the window, and she’d think about what it would be like to disappear into the gardens for a few hours– but she’d come back and she would throw herself back into whatever she was supposed to be learning that day, keeping herself so distracted that for a few years she was nothing but her parents well behaved, happy-go-lucky little girl. Had she stayed home, she’d likely have continued as she was. After all, she wasn’t necessarily unhappy with the way her life was, at least not very much so. But, then parents made a decision. They’d always been shaky about sending her away to school, wanting to keep her close… but, Anna thought that getting to see a bit more of the world would be good for her, and very quickly won the argument against Kristoff. And then, everything changed.
Walt Disney Academy is an adventure– at least, that’s how Irene views it. When she first arrived she was timid and scared to get involved, conditioned as she was by her over protective upbringing. But, she spent sixteen years living like that, putting off exciting exploits and instead staying inside and studying. She put up with it without complaint, she sat in those royal lessons and learned everything they were telling her to learn… but now that she’s here, she’s finally able to engage in activities that she wants to, and she very quickly realized that now was her time to take her chance. It’s new and it’s exciting, and for a girl who’s spent most of her life trying to kill that wanderlust deep inside, being free is like a strange drug. It’s not unusual to find Irene heading off on a brand new escapade, or for her to try get random strangers to join her in trying something new– nor is it unheard of to hear her name being called on the intercom, to come to the office immediately. She’d never gotten in trouble before, and now it seems like she’s in trouble every other day, but do you think she cares very much? Not even a little bit. Irene is finally free to do as she wishes, and that’s exactly what she’s going to do.
Be careful around her, her powers are—
MENTAL NONEXISTENCE → When you’re causing trouble and you can’t avoid not being seen, what’s the next best thing? Simply making anyone that does see you forget, of course, and that’s exactly what Irene does. Though, she has no real idea of the extent of her power. She believes that it erases the past few minutes, which is all she ever really needs– she doesn’t realize that it makes them literally forget about her existence in the time before they saw her. It doesn’t effect any other part of their mind except the part with her in it, and she has no idea that if the power gets out of hand, if she maybe tried to make them forget a little bit more than those few minutes– she could well make someone, a friend, even a family member, forget about her existence completely.
PSYCHIC SHIELD → Like with her mental nonexistence, Irene’s understanding of this power is limited. All she knows is that no one can read her mind, and no one with powers which affect the mind seem to be able to do anything to hers. She has no idea how strong this really is or if there’s a limit to what she can fend off, and she’s really not that desperate to find out– she’s just happy in the knowledge that no one knows what she’s thinking except for her, and no one (at least, no one as of yet) can make her do anything she doesn’t want to do.
You can see her around with —
HAROLD & LOGAN BJORGMAN → Irene and her brothers aren’t as close as they maybe all would like, though she’s not exactly sure how she could ever change that. Even when they were kids, they weren’t exceptionally close or real good friends, and the gap only widened when they were allowed to go to Walt Disney Academy and she was stuck at home because she was still the baby. There’s always been a little bit of jealousy on her part, considering that as the oldest and boys they were never as sheltered as she was. But, now that she’s here, she’s putting that behind her– or at least, trying her best to forget it ever existed. Though they don’t really have much in common (even their personalities are different, and she’s a little put out by how grumpy both of them seem all the time), she’s doing what she can. It mightn’t be working as of the moment, but she’s pretty determined, and if she gets her way– soon enough, they’ll be one big happy family. Hopefully.
ARENDELLE NATIVES → The one thing which can be said about the Arendelle natives is that, despite growing up in close quarters, none of them are as close as they really should be. Rose and Irene have a world of things in common, yet her cousin always seemed to be too busy for her– and, when they should have been attending some of the same lessons, she had often disappeared off into the gardens and left Irene to herself. She always wanted to follow after her but couldn’t, and for a very long time almost envied the other girls freedom. Now that she’s at school with her, though, and can do just about anything that she likes too…. the envy is almost completely gone. Now, she just wants to try develop some sort of a friendship with her. Cassidy has never been anything but nice to Irene, but aside from being her big brother’s best friend, she’s never been a huge influence in her life. Again, it’s something she’d like to change but isn’t sure how– after all, Cassidy is older and has a group of friends which doesn’t include sixteen year old her. And then, there’s Mathias. He confuses her, because back when they were at home, he was actually one of the few people who treated her like she wasn’t some little kid. They were never really friends, instead just something more than acquaintances, but now that he only gives her the cold shoulder she notices. She’d like to try find out what’s caused this change to come about, and maybe even help him a little because she doesn’t understand how someone so nice could turn so rude– but, he won’t even give her the time of day, which complicates matters.
ALEXANDER KALIGARIS → He was her first crush, and though she’d like to think she succeeded in hiding that fact– she really didn’t. Like any young girl trying to get the attention of her newfound crush, Irene would try strike up conversation, try find reason for them to hang out or something. Nothing worked, and in one final bid to get him to actually notice her, she joined the soccer team. She didn’t even know how to play football, and though she fell flat on her face the first time she was out training and majorly embarrassed herself, she certainly got the attention she’d wanted. Alex, more out of pity for her than anything else, helped her out, teaching her the ins and outs of the game and, doing what seemed like the impossible, managed to teach her how to be a useful member of the team. In the process, she lost the little schoolgirl crush she’d had on him, and started seeing him more as a friend. There’s an age gap, and that means that they don’t tend to hang out for lunch or anything, but they get along really well– and, considering that her interest in soccer is actually pretty new, they have some pretty interesting conversations about it.
NARI WHITMIRE → She has no idea what she’s done to make the other girl hate her, but– Nari hates her. Really, she hasn’t done anything wrong. She and Nari are just in multiple classes together, and the other girl is pretty allergic to niceness. She can’t stand how bubbly Irene usually is or her positive outlook on life, and has simply taken it upon herself to try sour the other girl’s day whenever she appears. It doesn’t work, of course, and Irene has just made it her own mission to find out why the other girl doesn’t like her and change that completely. After all, she feels like she’d be a lovely person to be friends with once you get to know her.