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ABOUT

name
Pauline Vivienne Bonheur

alias
"Pauli"

age
16

birthdate
09/09/1994

pronouns
She/Her

family
- Armand Bonheur (Father)
- Charlotte and Henri Bonheur (Grandparents)
- Camille Bonheur née Westbrook (Mother, estranged)

PERSONALITY

QUICK SUMMARY
Pauline is an ordinary teenager; she's friendly and kind, if not a bit excitable, but also anxious and insecure with something of an inferiority complex. She has a strong desire to be liked by others and is often willing to follow along with others to achieve this. Part of her believes she must work hard to earn the affections and friendships of others and will often take on menial tasks and extra work to get on her classmates' good sides and seems to settle for being useful rather than popular. While she wants people to like her for her, her sense of inferiority makes her believe this isn't entirely possible. It's easy to steamroll her into doing things and, as a result, tends to get pretty busy. She tends to panic in unusual or unfamiliar circumstances.

IN DEPTH
Pauline is a typical teenager; it's rare that she experiences anything extraordinary and wants to fit in. She wears her emotions on her sleeve and it's not difficult to get a reaction out of her, though she doesn't usually open up about her problems freely.


Being liked and accepted by others is something Pauline values very much. She's a people pleaser and it's easy to talk her into doing extra work for little to no reward. Also, while she is pretty friendly and gets along with people, she generally has difficulty forming close bonds with people due to her own self-consciousness. However, once she makes a friend, that person will mean a lot to her and, unless what they want to do is very obviously wrong, will have little trouble getting her to follow their lead.


She doesn't hold the highest opinion of herself or have any abilities she considers “real talents” and is generally content to see others succeed, having resigned herself to the idea that she will always be less interesting, less intelligent, less…everything than others. However, she genuinely tries to get better and works hard at what people ask her to do so she can be more helpful to others; as a result, she tends to pick up mundane skills here and there, though she rarely considers them important or impressive. However, this also means that when she has any measure of success she feels a little more pleased with herself than others would in the same situation. However, she can be just as easily discouraged. She’s a bit contradictory in this way; she wants so badly to be able to stand on her own and be taken seriously, but due to her own insecurities she would rather follow someone else’s lead than take charge herself.

HISTORY

Pauline was born in Lille, France. Due to her parents busy schedule, she spent much of her formative years in the care of her grandparents. At the age of three, the family moved to Key City, New York when her father was transferred to another branch of the company he worked for. Over the course of the next year, her parents' marriage would break down and they would divorce not long after Pauline's fourth birthday. Camille, for reasons unknown to Pauline, would relinquish her parental rights and move to Chicago. Armand, thinking he was doing what was best for his daughter never offered an explanation because she never asked and having no explanation offered Pauline found herself afraid to ask.


Feeling as if she was rejected by her own mother, Pauline became a very shy child and had a hard time making friends with other children when she started school. It was in kindergarten that she met Peter Hartell, an equally shy boy who had difficulty making friends due to his unintentionally angry-looking way of holding his face and generally quiet nature. They soon became close and the Hartells became like a second family and Pauline would stay with them on nights when her father worked late.

Many years later, just before Pauline entered middle school, her father was promoted to a position that required him to work later and take trips over seas. They moved across town to a neighborhood closer to the local branch of the company he worked for and Pauline transferred to an all-girls private school. The relative abruptness of the move and separation from her best friend caused her to regress; to a ten year old Pauline, across town was a long way, especially with having to start over at a new school.



However, it was at this new school that she met Patty Summers who had just moved to town (coincidentally in the same neighborhood as Pauline) and the two became friends. Patty, who was a little more outspoken and positive than Pauline, helped her new friend become more outgoing, though she still remained awkward when meeting new people and in unfamiliar situations, even as they entered high school.

ABILITIES

Pauline is a regular human and doesn't have any outstanding or extraordinary abilities or talents. However, in a bid to make herself more likable, throughout her middle school years and into high school she would become something of an “unofficial club member,” willingly helping out and taking on tasks from clubs and other extracurricular school groups when they needed extra help, despite not actually being a member of any of them and, at times, not having any actual “friends” in a particular club. By doing this, she has picked up various bits of knowledge and miscellaneous skills (basic sewing, set painting, spreadsheet organization etc) though she's hardly a master of any of them and doesn't consider them noteworthy or special. (EX: She can sew up a small hole in a pair of pants, but she can't make major clothing alterations.)


She posseses above average baking skills and can make things that are a little more complicated, though she's nowhere near professional.


She's also become pretty good at general housekeeping as she takes care of the household due to her father's busy work schedule.

MISC

Pauline is from around mid-2010 so her level of tech isn't quite up to current levels; EX: she has the equivalent of a first gen iphone. Also I prefer not to fourth-wall, so her Earth is full of "knock-off" canons ex: "My Tiny Llama" "Turbo the Armadillo"

OOC

PLAYER Mel AGE 30+ TIMEZONE CST, but with a weird schedule CONTACT PM this journal!

Voice: An approximation; Sounds a bit like Danielle Judovits as Osaka Naru but higher pitched.

Visual: General looks and fashion sense.




Permissions

[OOC]

Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: Generally no (ex: she will never acknowledge someone being fictional) but if it's to poke fun at her world's knockoff canons, sure.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): N/A, but if you think something might be too extreme, drop me a line via PM or Plurk.

[IC]

Hugging this character: Yes
Kissing this character: Yes, keep it to similarly aged characters (14-18) for romantic kisses, please!
Flirting with this character: Yes
Fighting with this character: Yes, but she's not a strong character so mileage may vary
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Yes, minor to severe injuries as the scene requires (memes), nothing excessively gory (ex: dismemberment), no sexual violence
Killing this character: Discuss with me first
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Yes
Assumed CR is okay, as memes allow. Also willing to AU her into canons for meme purposes.
Shipping: Yes! I generally play her as straight, but I'm cool with playing F/F stuff as well. Generally interested in shipping with similarly aged characters, but if there's a bigger age gap, we can discuss it!
Smut generally not interested at this time; I am cool with fading to black or implied sexual activity.

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