Post by mac on Mar 16, 2017 21:10:12 GMT
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Basics
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Name || Helena Daphne Mae
Nicknames/Aliases || Helena, she’s got a few nicknames like ‘mum’, Helly (not particularly a fan of that one), and Ms. Mae-Mae.
Age || 24
Zodiac || Her birthday is May 8th, she is a Taurus.
Alma Mater || Helena graduated from Metric Arts Academy with a double degree in business and fashion design. She hopes to be a fashion designer once she gets a career in her field, and hopes to one day create her own fashion company using her business degree.
Gender || Female
Sexuality || Helena considers herself demisexual – she’s more attracted to personality than physical appearance. While she generally approaches men and only has history with men, she wouldn’t rule out the possibility of a relationship with a woman!
Health Issues? || Nothing of note.
School/Social Life
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Job || At the moment, Helena works as a hairdresser slash cosmetologist at the local hair dressers. She works for a base rate of 16/hr plus any tips her customers give her, she enjoys her job and due to her having interned there as a college student, can make more money than she would have had she never interned before! Her job involves cutting, trimming, dying, and styling hair as well as giving people facials, makeovers, or doing their nails. She’s very good at her job and has several regulars who come in specifically to be treated by her.
Reputation || In school, Helena was known as a kind person who was easy to rely on, reliable, and someone who didn’t mind helping others out in a pinch. Most people knew her when she was dating her now ex, Micah. They were inseparable and known as ‘Micena’. She was also associated with her best friends: Griffin, Nova, and Oliver. Now a graduate, she is still often seen on campus to be with her friends in the club she used to be President of.
Friends || Helena has a group of three best friends: Oliver, Griffin, and Nova. In school, she was the former president of the Metric Radio Club until she passed the reigns down to Oliver for the beginning of this year. She lives with Griffin and the two often host the others over to their apartment for fun and games – often also inviting Nova’s brother to join them when he’s around. Helena has a few other friends from work and from school but has no one she’s closer to than those three. Of them, she would probably consider Oliver her closest friend even though she would label them all as ‘best friends’. She and Oliver are just closer, she feels, due to past experiences and ways they’ve connected.
Enemies/Rivals || Helena has her fair share of people she’s had conflict with, but the only one of major note would be her ex-boyfriend Micah. Though she does not consider him an enemy, she has decided it’s for the best that she doesn’t speak to him anymore and the two are no longer friends. She’s also no longer friends with any of the mutual friends she and Micah all used to have – most of them have always been closer to Micah than Helena in the first place.
Relationship Status || Single; throughout college Helena was in a rather toxic relationship with a boy who she thought would be her happily-ever-after someday. It was due to her best friends noticing her change in demeanor and helping her realize how awful the relationship really was that she broke out of it just before she graduated last year. Now, Helena feels so much better as a single woman and is finally herself again.
Clubs and Organizations || Former president of the Metric Radio Club.
Appearance
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Height/Weight/Body Type || 5’8”, she is a size 24 and unashamed about being plus-size. She loves her body just the way it is and, sure she’ll occasionally eat junk food, but she doesn’t binge eat and she keeps herself healthy despite how some may say that she’s unhealthy due to her weight.
Hair color/style || Helena’s hair is blonde, and reaches her mid-chest. She dyed the tips of it purple recently and absolutely loved it! She loves having her hair pink but feels as though dying all her hair pink is a bit much!
Eye color/makeup preferences || Her eyes are blue, and Helena often does her makeup, typically coordinating it with her outfit. She loves shades of pink the best though!
Clothing Style || For work, Helena has to dress formally and in a classy manner. She’s usually in dresses, and she likes to purchase
Notable Traits || Mny people immediately notice her smile – she has a gap between her two front teeth. It’s her biggest insecurity but she’s been trying to get better about smiling naturally, the little gap between her teeth be damned!
Ethnicity || English
Playby || Louise Pentland
Personality
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Likes || Going out to eat; Watching movies; Puppies; Going out onto her balcony; Country music; Going out to eat; Italian dressing; Torrid; Online shopping; Perfume; Fruit; Strawberries
Dislikes || Homophobia; Toxic people; Anyone messing with her friends; Not knowing if her friends/family are safe or not; Body shaming; People who cause a fuss in restaurants; Being alone for too long
Nervous Habits || Helena tends to overdrink (not alcohol, but tea and other drinks) when stressed out. Also, not necessarily a nervous habit, Helena tends to snore.
Hobbies || Helena loves to draw and paint in her spare time! Though her primary canvas are the faces of her friends and herself, she owns an easel in her bedroom and uses it often. She likes to hang her portraits – usually abstract designs – in the living room of her and Griffin’s apartment.
Positive Traits || Nurturing; Motherly; Observant; Personable; Neat; Responsible; Reliable; Feminine; Diplomatic
Negative Traits || Awkward; Bossy; Overprotective; Nosy; Naggy;
History
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Family ||
Cindy Mae – Mother – Telephone Operator/Waitress – 48 || Helena has always been closer to her mother than her father, and has always taken her side on almost anything. One of their favorite things to do together is go out shopping on little sprees. Though Cindy doesn’t make the most money as a telephone operator, she’s a skilled waitress, and makes decent tips that way. Helena and her mother often go out to eat every Tuesday (a day they both have off of work).
Justin Stauff – Father – Lifeguard/swim teacher – 44 || While Helena is not as close to her father, she still has a good relationship with him and his family. She took the divorce rather hard at first, but has grown to accept that her parents relationship just didn’t work out.
Antoinette Stauff – Father’s Wife – Store Manager at Maurice’s – 45 || While Helena took the divorce hard at first, she actually quite liked Antoinette from the beginning. She allowed Helena to use her employee discount whenever she went to the clothing store she runs, and though she does not see Antoinette as a stepmother, she sees her as a family member nevertheless and is glad that her father found someone who makes him happy.
Robyn Stauff – Half-sister – Student – 7 || Helena loves Robyn! She’s definitely the little sister that Helena never got as a teenager! She loves to babysit her and often Antoinette and Justin will allow her to spend the night over at Helena’s place so they can have some sibling time.
Hometown || Northampton, England
Vehicle/Transportation || Helena drives a 2005 Toyota RAV4 that she bought used from a private sale. Thus far her car has been very reliable and she loves it; her vehicle always smells neat and has pink detailing inside (like fuzzy di, pillows, and floormats).
Current Living Arrangement || Helena shares a three bedroom apartment with her friend Griffin. She pays most of the rent and utilities, having a full-time job. She could easily afford her own apartment, though would get incredibly lonely, so she begged Griffin to move in with her while she covers most of the expenses! She has the master bedroom, pictured on the upper right of the picture. She has her own little hallway, with its own closet and bathroom! She considers that whole hallway part of her bedroom. It’s decorated completely in shades of pink, and smells strongly of strawberries!
Backstory || Helena was born into a content family of herself and her parents in Northampton, England. When she was 10, her parents had a divorce. She took it rather hard and blamed herself for the divorce, although her parents tried to convince and assure her that she was not a burden on either of them. Cindy and Justin were just having problems with their relationship, it was more toxic than it was healthy, and due to financial troubles they argued quite often. While Helena never enjoyed being around the fighting, she wanted her parents to just stop fighting and stay together. Helena stayed with her mother, keeping her surname Mae while her father reverted back to his unmarried name of Stauff. Her father changing his name was the hardest part to sink in for Helena – it made her and her father unconnected by their name, which prior to that, she had been with her whole family.
Helena and Cindy moved to California when she was 14 as well, after the divorce, to stay back with Cindy’s parents and Helena’s grandparents. Unhappy with the move and change of life, Helena became a bit of a rebel, associating with the wrong crowd and lashing out at her mother whenever she was confronted about it. Helena spent much of her freshman and sophomore years grounded, but still, she never got herself in such trouble that she let her grades suffer. But as she became a sophomore, Helena’s interest in school waned. She developed more of an interest in going out shopping with her friends and even styling her friends hair and makeup in class when the teacher was looking away. By the time graduation was coming round, Helena had no idea what to do with herself afterwards. Her mother, who noted her interested in cosmetology, suggested a vocational school for that style. When Helena criticized this by saying that it was an unreliable field, she insisted that ‘women will always want to look pretty’ and that even if values skyrocketed, she’d still get business.
So Helena applied around, finding herself rejected from a few places due to a lackluster resume. By the time she graduated High School she had no school lined up to go to. She did pick up a part time job at a local nail salon as a receptionist slash bookkeeper, making appointments for people and getting familiar with the customers. By the time she was two months in, Helena was making recommendations for styles and fashion choices for customers, good ones, and she was offered a chance to train on beauty products and applications. When next fall rolled around, Helena applied to schools again with an updated resume. She was accepted to a few schools, including one a half hour away named Metric Arts Academy. One of the beauticians recommended that school to Helena, so she and her mother took tours around the campus. She liked it, so Helena decided to attend.
Fitting into the school was difficult, because even with her good resume, she was behind some of the other girls. She also was a year older than her class (general speaking) due to the delay she’d taken. She kept her job at the Salon but had to, unfortunately, cut back on some availability for classes. Helena made a few friends in classes, but nothing personal happened until she joined the radio club.
Entertaining was a hobby Helena always had and so she figured hosting the show would be fun. She befriended the club’s members and by her sophomore year made it to the executive board as the vice president. That year she met Griffin, the two became fast friends and by Junior year, Helena was president of the cub. By senior year, she was introduced to the rest of her friend group – Nova and Oliver – and had been in a steady relationship with a boy named Micah for 3 years then. By that point her relationship turned sour and she began to change, becoming more withdrawn and less social than usual. She had less interest in the things she used to love and the first to catch on was Oliver. He got her to open up about her relationship issues and helped her convince herself that letting go of Micah was for the best. The breakup was hard, and Helena thought it was a mistake for a few months, until spring rolled around and she realized how wonderful it felt not to have to explain herself to his controlling questions anymore. She broke out of her shell again, became more social, and grew closer to Oliver as a result. Many assumed after her breakup she would date Oliver, but nothing ever happened there. Rumors still flew about Griffin and Oliver as well, and neither seemed to bother Helena at all.
During her schooling she switched jobs to becoming a hairdresser in Salem where she had then moved into her apartment in. It was closer to both school and home, so she parted ways with her initial job on good terms and still goes in sometimes for her own hair appointments. In her new job, she was actually allowed to be the beautician, and gained quite a few regulars over the years. When she graduated she was promoted to a full time job with better pay, benefits, and commission based rewards. Helena now loves her job and is thankful she actually went back to school – after graduating High School, she strongly debated it. But thanks to that, she met her best friends and got her dream job.
At the moment she lives in Salem with her friend Griffin, is single and not necessarily opposed to a relationship but not desperate for one, and is a regular face around Metric since she still visits the radio show quite often.
Miscellaneous
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OOC Notes:
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