OOC
GAME: Audeamus
DESCRIPTION:
DATE: April 2008
PB: Kristen Bell
JOURNAL: bloofer
IC
Name: Caroline Lucy West
Nickname: Lucy
Age: 19
Birthday: March 1, 1989.
Zodiac: Pisces. Imaginative and sensitive, compassionate and kind, selfless and unworldly, intuitive and sympathetic — escapist and idealistic, secretive and vague, weak-willed and easily led.
Location: Las Vegas.
Occupation: Freshman at UNLV, Las Vegas.
Horror: Lucy Westenra
Tale: Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
Attributes & Abilities: Mild hypnosis; she can make people come to her extremely easily, particularly men and small children. They become passive and malleable around her. She's not officially a blood-suckin', daylight-fearin' vampire, but has some of the powers typically associated with a lesser ~walker of the night~. Unfortunately, she's also quite anemic, which means sometimes becoming weak and breathless upon physical exertion. Which means Lucy had to quit cheer squad. Yes, she's still nursing a grudge over that.
First Impression:
Personality: At first glance, Lucy doesn't seem like one of the brightest crayons in the box — and plainly put, she isn't. Not exactly. She was never one for book-smarts and academics, but instead, she was the pretty blonde ingratiating herself with the awkward geeks in order to get quality tutoring for free. She may not be the best student, and she immediately trips over herself if you bring up maths or politics, but Lucy exhibits a viciously keen social intelligence, honed from years of being one of the most stereotypically popular girls in her grade. Three handsome seniors asked her to the high school prom on the same night — and her process of choosing the best candidate was an exercise in practicality, worthy of even the best primetime reality television.
Lucy feigns the appropriate amount of humility, but is actually quite aware of her flaws and strengths, and monopolises on the latter as much as possible. She passes herself off as all wide-eyed innocence and naïvité, but the act belies a much different, more flagrantly sexual personality. The girl carries herself with coquettish confidence in social situations, along with an actual, genuine honesty which usually ensures her a good handful of friends. Lucy West is a powerfully social creature, thriving on attention and interaction, and is mostly nice to her peers — the home life is a bit detached and strange and odd, which means she doesn't often fall back on her family for help. For Lucy, it's all friends, all the time. She's honest enough and means well, which means she approaches her friendships with an open-ended lack of guile — she may be talented at weaselling her way through a Mean Girls-esque world, but Lucy's definitely not shrewd. She might be queen of the hill in high school and college, but her fierce social cunning doesn't apply to the real world; she'd be incredibly easy to be manipulated by anyone, well, not a student.
Lucy is somewhat airheaded, flighty, and honestly a bit of a slut; she's had jocks trailing after her for years, and has most of them wrapped around her finger, thanks-very-much in part to her horror power. She worked out very quickly that boys liked her better when she paid attention to them, particularly when there's some cleavage in on the bargain. Times have changed since the 1800s — today's version of Lucy Westenra doesn't have a problem with booty calls and having all sorts of friends-with-benefits strewn throughout her history. She has a tendency to make out with girls if you get her drunk enough, too, but who knows if that's due to some genuine confusion over her sexuality, or if it's just 'cause it's hot.
Her dream is to get into Journalism & Media Studies, but let's be honest, she probably doesn't have the talent or the grades to get into the highly competitive program. Her photography, on the other hand (which probably looks a bit like this), has been steadily improving since high school, and she's pretty awesome at it. She likes snapping candid photos of people when they're off-guard, and posting the results to her blog. Lucy's also, surprisingly enough, a huge fan of A Softer World; people wouldn't have expected it from the blonde with the preppy skirts and the cheerleading prizes on her shelf, but it's a bit of her morbid side creeping in. She may look like sunshine and optimism, but the girl carries an edge of fascination with the grotesque. Call it her horror or what you like.
Likes: Art, design, scrapbooks. Photography, especially lomography, old cameras and polaroids. Believes in ~openmindedness~ but is actually really kind of uninformed. She would practice what she preaches if only she, um, knew what her stances were. Lucy likes Obama, but just because most of her liberal peers seem to.
Dislikes: Mormons.
Trivia:
— Isn't all that smart on literature, but really likes books following a certain theme, often Gothic romance and the innocent damsel getting whisked off by a tall, dark, brooding man: Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, The Phantom of the Opera, Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe stories, and so on.
— Massive Tim Burton fan, particularly Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Went as Ragdoll Sally last Halloween and probably owns a Jack Skellington tote bag (yeah, she's a bit of prep mixed with indie).
— She doesn't like show-off skateboardists all that much, but her last boyfriend was good at doing stunts on a bicycle.
Status: Single.
Orientation: Questionable.
Songs:
"Lake Fever"; The Tragically Hip
"Delicate"; Damien Rice
