Vanellope von Schweetz | It's just pixlexia, okay?

This is my first time playing Vanellope so any concrit you've got would be greatly appreciated! Pretty please let me know how I'm doing; I'd be really grateful! Thanks in advance, everyone!

Comments are screened to protect anonymity and um, anonymous commenting should be allowed but let me know if it's not letting you do that 'cause I'm still getting used to how DW works and everything...

Player Information

Name: BB
Personal Journal: I don't have one.
Age: 21
Contact Info: Contacting me via this journal will be fine. It's linked to my email, so I'll know when people send me messages.
Other Characters Played: No one!

Character Information

Character Name: Vanellope von Schweetz
Character Series: Wreck-It Ralph
Character Age: She appears nine years old; she's actually as old as her game is (which, from what we see in the movie, is probably just a couple of years, but as her game and the people around her begin to age, she won't).
Character Gender: Female
Original Canon
Canon Point: When the Cy-bugs attack Sugar Rush during her race - she vanishes in the confusion, before the finish line is completely destroyed.
Background Link: Well, she could have been programmed with a worse backstory...

Since the movie's plot summary is a little vague, though, I'll go into a bit more detail as to how it pertains to Vanellope. General spoiler warning, as the ~big reveal~ in the movie has quite a bit to do with Vanellope's character.

As far as the citizens of Sugar Rush (and Vanellope herself) know, she is a glitch. This means she was never meant to exist within the game, which in turn means that sometimes she has little moments of... well, she calls it "Pixlexia," but really, she's just glitching. She freezes, she lags, and sometimes she appears in an entirely different place than where she started. What's worse, when she glitches while having physical contact with someone, she causes them to glitch, too (as seen when Taffyta shoves her in the scene where the other Sugar Rush racers wreck her handmade kart).

Vanellope has lived her entire life with the stigma of "glitch." She's never been allowed to take part in the Random Roster Race, so she's never been a selectable avatar. Furthermore, she's been banned from the Kart Bakery - so until she met Ralph, her only kart was pedal powered. While the Racers' homes aren't seen, Vanellope is shown to live apart from them in Diet Cola Mountain, which is, in her words, "Some kind of an unfinished bonus level." Ralph compares it to his dump, so perhaps it's not the most suitable environment for a nine-year-old girl, but she's made the best of it, despite being unable to leave the game and despite being constantly told that she was never meant to exist.

The major problem with all this?

Vanellope isn't a glitch at all.

One of the urban legends of sorts in Litwak Family Fun Center tells of Turbo - the main character of an old, popular racing game. But when another racing game got to be more popular and the children started playing it instead of his game, he sabotaged it. While Turbo was thought to have perished when his game and the other game were unplugged, in all actuality he escaped to bide his time. When Sugar Rush was brought into the arcade, he slipped into the game and altered its code by using the Konami Cheat Code.

And how did he alter it? Why, he replaced the game's main character - Vanellope herself, the rightful Princess of Sugar Rush - with himself, and became known as King Candy. As if that wasn't bad enough, he literally locked up the memories of the citizens and the racers, so that no one could oppose him.

Vanellope has never wanted anything more than to be able to race. But because there was an entrance fee of one gold coin to participate in the Random Roster Race, and because all the other racers were against her, she never had the chance... until Wreck-It Ralph came to Sugar Rush and she stole his medal to buy her way into the race. From there, she coerced him into helping her break into the Kart Bakery, learned to drive, and then had her kart destroyed after some interference from King Candy... and after declaring Ralph her "hero". However, his apparent betrayal caused her to declare him a "traitor" mere minutes after she gave him a handmade medal, and she was subsequently captured and thrown into King Candy's fungeon.

Ralph and Felix came to rescue her and she was able to participate in the race; Turbo revealed himself when he tried to sabotage her, but was quickly devoured by Cy-bugs; and Vanellope was well on her way to crossing the finish line and winning the race when she was interrupted by the emergence of more and more Cy-bugs from the ground. As they swarmed over Sugar Rush, she crashed her kart and disappeared, pulled into the Tower of Animus as the bugs swarmed the track and the finish line.

She's not aware of her status as the Princess of Sugar Rush just yet, but now that she knows that King Candy was nothing more than a lie, she's starting to wonder if maybe, just maybe, she's not actually a glitch after all.

To bad for her she doesn't have a way of confirming it.
Personality: Most simply put, Vanellope is a brat. As one might expect from someone in a game called Sugar Rush, she seems to almost be on a constant sugar high. She's a pint-sized bundle of concentrated energy with what seems to be endless amounts of confidence, at first glance. Seeing as she was programmed to be a nine-year-old girl, she's definitely got a childish streak to her - mimicking people, making up words to express herself when she doesn't know exactly what to say, and having endless amounts of fun are things she does often. She's incredibly resourceful and creative in spite of - or perhaps because of - her childish nature. One might not expect her to be able to put things together quickly, being so young, but because she's young she's also less cynical and more willing to give things a try before she understands exactly what they do. ...which, admittedly, has landed her in a lot more trouble than she'd like to admit and will probably continue to do so.

There's no denying that Vanellope is more than a little immature (See: "You'd have to really watch your step in a game like Hero's Doodie! I hope you washed your hands after handling that medal! Wait! Wait, one more! Why did the hero flush the toilet? ...say why!" "Why?" "Because it was his doodie!"), but she's far from incapable of some instances of maturity. She knows her life as a glitch is far from ideal, and she knows deep down that it's not supposed to be that way. She also knows there's no use in just sitting around and waiting for things to change - she's a definite go-getter and when opportunity comes knocking, she answers the door. (Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say she ambushes opportunity when it comes up her walkway.) Though she can be a little idealistic at times, she knows full well that she has to work for the things she wants.

It's just that her idea of working for what she wants is a little different from most people's. Many would balk at the idea of stealing from someone in order to get what they want - Vanellope didn't even bat an eye, though part of that was because she intended to return what she stole once she had what she wanted. She operates on a "means to an end" mentality and can get a little defensive when people call her out. A lot of the time she doesn't understand the reasoning behind others' decisions - and she often doesn't care to even attempt trying to understand, if their decisions are in opposition to the things she wants to do. Being a young character in an equally young game, she just doesn't have as much perspective as older characters do.

Though she's not conscious of her role as the main character of Sugar Rush, some things are ingrained into her and she can't rid herself of them no matter what. For one thing, she is a racer and no one will change her mind about that. It's in her code! She'll fight you if you say otherwise! She's also royalty, whether she accepts it or not, and this manifests itself in a couple of different ways. Perhaps she wouldn't be quite so entitled and "My way or the highway!" if she hadn't been created to be a princess. Her knowledge of the "royal we," and her demand that Ralph kneel before her so she can proclaim him a hero, hint towards her royal background.

For a nine-year-old video game character on a sugar high, she does have her melancholy moments. Her code being altered and her glitch problems mean that, under normal circumstances, she can't leave her game. She's learned to compensate for the things she can't have and can't do, and has mostly managed to accept them. Still, some days it's hard to do - her usual biting wit becomes more melancholic sarcasm when she thinks about "the joys of being [her]." She knows that things will get better someday if she keeps trying, but it's a little hard sometimes. She takes pleasure out of the little things in life to keep her going - childish games, making fun of other people, making up (often inappropriate) nicknames, and chatting with anyone who'll put up with her (and even some people who won't). On some level, her brattiness is a defense mechanism. She wants someone to accept her for who she is.

And the thing is, who she is and who others say she is are two very different things. She lives her life according to her rules, and no amount of dictation from people who aren't her - or dictation from her code - will make her stop doing that. She can be a princess according to her code, but she's also a racer. More than that, though, she's Vanellope von Schweetz, and for a long as she lives, she won't let anyone change that.
Abilities: Glitching - when Turbo messed with her code (which would be considered her genetic makeup in the "real world"), he gave her the ability to pixellize, lag, and - most usefully - jump from place to place in an instant, even allowing her to phase through solid objects or avoid them entirely. Thus far, she's not really managed to get it under control. It most often happens when she doesn't want it to, though in a pinch she can usually make it happen when she wants it (to avoid getting smashed up on the racetrack, or avoid dying in a fiery explosion of mentos and cola, etc).

Selective Regeneration - canonly, when characters die within their games, they respawn; when they die outside their games, however, they don't. That's it, the end. This (most likely) will not be the case within the Tower of Animus, but much of what Vanellope does will be done in an attempt to not die, until she figures out that she can be revived after all. ...at which point she'll be much less cautious. Which could be a bad thing for everyone, really...
Trunk Contents:
- Hoodie
- Skirt
- Pair of Socks
- Pair of Shoes
- A small, miniature version of the kart she and Ralph made - not one she can ride in, just something Hot Wheels sized that she can look at.
- The rest of her trunkspace is filled with candy. Too bad she won't be able to eat it until she has some oatmeal. To be fair, she usually just sticks it in her hair anyway...

Sample Entry: Thread at dear-mun here. However, since no one's replied at the time of me writing this, I'll also include a sample entry here just in case!

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Vanellope's eyes were as wide as saucers. Which, considering that she was part of-- excuse me, a glitch in-- a video game where characters tended to have rather large eyes, was saying rather a lot.

She'd seen a lot of things. She'd seen the other racers, zipping about the racetrack. She'd seen the places they usually didn't go - because why would they want to explore the candy forests and Nesquiksand pits and Laffy Taffy vines when they could be racing? If she weren't a glitch, she probably wouldn't have given a second thought to all of this.

But she was a glitch, and maybe she'd found something that was an even bigger glitch than she was.

Diet Cola Mountain had always seemed a little out-of-place in Sugar Rush - so it was a mountain, the place needed mountains, whatever. But Diet Cola? She'd always found that a little weird. This was Sugar Rush, not Healthy Alternatives to Delicious Sugary Drinks Rush. Maybe that was why Vanellope hung around here so much. It didn't quite fit in, just like her.

And now she'd found a place that was entirely her own. One minute she'd been leaning against the side of the mountain, looking out at her surroundings - and the next? Bam! Falling backwards through the rock face - which totally should have been solid - and tumbling into some strange cavern.

The more she saw of it, the more she knew that this was her turf. The other racers had their track? She had this, the most awesomely dangerous track in Sugar Rush! So it wasn't quite completed yet. So she might accidentally blow herself up if she dislodged some of those hanging mentos. So she didn't have a kart to practice with.

So what? This place was just like her. And there was just enough space for her to set up somewhere to sleep, somewhere she could rest and have some time to herself when the other racers' teasing got to be too much...

"It's perfect," She breathed, doing a little dance of barely-contained excitement. "It's perfect it's perfect it's perfect it's perfect! This is gonna be so awesome!"

It was a mountain, not a castle. But it was her mountain - no one even knew this place was here. They thought it was just part of the backdrop.

It was hers, all hers. And maybe that was better than having a place out there. Because this place was unique, and she was unique, and that meant this was even more special than anywhere else in Sugar Rush, right?