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CHARACTER NAME | CANON | RESERVED/NOT RESERVED
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Samples: Please provide either (A) a sample written within the game verse or (B) two threads, only one of which may be network, wherein at least one is set within game verse (i.e., tdm).
Miscellaneous Notes: Is there anything you would like the mods to consider that didn't quite fit into the above sections? For original characters, please note your PB here. Otherwise, feel free to add anything pertinent that didn't quite fall into the above categories.
Julianne "Jill" Stingray | VA-11 HALL-A | RESERVED
Player
Name: Jon
Age: 31
Contact: Private messages through DW work fine.
Preferred Pronouns: Male/Him
Other Characters: None
no subject
Character
Name: Julianne "Jill" Natalie Stingray
Age: 27
Memory Option: Option 1, Memory Deterioration
Established Status: 2 Years
Canon: VA-11 HALL-A
Canon Point: Post-Game, "Good" Ending.
Citizenship: Westerly.
Job: Bartender at The Royale.
Abilities Jill has no special abilities. She's just a typical human.
Personality: Jill is as down-to-earth and relatable as one can get. Though she’s the main character of her game and lives within a city full of crime, corruption, scandal, and inflated prices, she has absolutely no desire to take down the corporations that are controlling the city she lives in. Instead, her main concerns are making sure that all of her bills are paid and that both her and her cat have a roof over their heads. Though she’s ended up living paycheck to paycheck, Jill understands that sometimes life just doesn’t turn out the way one wants. After making it through college and finishing all her courses, she realizes that she’s already in her 20s and has no idea if she was actually comfortable with the direction that life was going in.
Rather than accepting a promising offer to go straight to work and waking up in her 40s to find out that she’s just going through the motions, Jill takes a leap of faith to instead take back control of her life. It was control she felt was slipping away largely due to her (at the time) girlfriend’s insistence to keep on her college education and to accept that job offer, wanting to make the decision for her. Terrified of the idea that she would spend the rest of her life doing something she won’t enjoy, Jill abandons both her relationship and the job opportunity so that she can pursue a life of “freedom.” The violent split is something that she keeps thinking about throughout the years, wondering about how she should at least get back in touch to at least apologize and to "formally" break up, despite still having feelings for her.
She takes a job at a relatively unknown bar located in one of the rougher parts of Glitch City and makes the best of it. Though it isn’t an outcome she ever expects for herself, Jill genuinely enjoys her job as a bartender and goes about it with all the professionalism it deserves. She makes sure that her clients are taken care of and receive good service and have an overall pleasant experience. As pleasant as it can get in a Glitch City bar, but she still gives it her all.
Her clients comment at how she gives off a “cool bartender” impression, while a few anonymous comments mention that she’s just “full of herself.”
Though Jill isn’t necessarily hard to talk to, she’s largely sarcastic and withholds a fair a bit of information about herself. She has low tolerance for people encroaching on her personal space and for being the center of attention, in addition to overall foolishness at her expense or at the expense of the sort of peace and quiet that she’s come to expect in VA-11 HALL-A. Admittedly, the bartender also admits to having an immature sense of humor, trying to hold back laughter whenever she has to serve a “Bad Touch” to her clients, or when one of her regulars makes repeated weiner jokes.
Aside from that, Jill herself remains very frank and intelligent. She’ll speak her mind and even play devil’s advocate as often as she can get away with while being on the clock. Jill also swears and drinks regularly and will openly talk about sex if the conversation goes that way, though she'll still keep details about herself a bit closer to her heart, unless it's someone in her circle of friends that really wants to know. In comparison to that same circle of friends (an attractive hacker, an android sex-worker, a co-worker with a mysterious past, and a boss with a mechanical arm and a past in pro-wrestling) she remains largely ordinary. Ordinary, yet endearing. She loves her job and loves being able to hear all sorts of stories from her clients. Not because of any love for gossip, or to sell the information to the news outlets, but out of a simple love of knowing that people can come from all walks of life and they all come to her for a drink a little piece and quiet.
She refers to herself as just a friendly ear. Someone who won’t judge and will instead just listen and talk to you, and hand out some advice when needed. Maybe laugh at a corny joke or pun when nobody else will.
Unless it's an objectively unfunny joke.
In that case you're just shit out of luck.
AU History: Jill's family and upbringing is a typical case of wanting to work hard so that you can eventually find something better for yourself. It's an incredibly long-term goal, and these are very uncertain times, but Jill has just kept on marching forward and doing what's expected of her. Sometimes one plus one really does just add up to two. People need jobs filled and Jill needs a roof over her head.
And food. You need that, too.
There's no real tragedy, or story of vengeance, here. The worst you'll find is that she prefers to go by "Jill" instead of her full name due to name calling and ridicule back during her childhood years. Aside from that, she doesn't really keep in touch with parents as much as she'd like. Not because they're on bad terms, but because she prefers to unwind and relax in her cramped apartment after a hard day of work.
Shit still sucks now that she's an adult, but she just takes it a day at a time. Jill herself has always been smart and dependable. Someone who really gives their best effort at a job without asking for anything in return. It's just unlucky that she's born a Westie and that no matter how hard she tries, there will always be wall that she will never be able to break through. So she just takes whatever job she can find until finally settling as a bartender over at The Royale. It's hardly what she would've wanted for herself, but at least her licensing and paperwork is in order and her bills are paid almost on time.
What she would really like is to up the quality of the drinks there, as the cheap shit they serve is practically an insult to real beer. But as much as she'd like, it's not like Jill has the money or the social standing to make it happen. Still, she's a reliable worker and at this point, she's even earned herself a couple of regulars that specifically ask for her.
Occasionally she'll hear some of the clients make conversation or plans that may or may not be legal, but Jill just keeps minding her own business. She's not really looking to join anybody's revolution.
She can just change lives one drink at a time.
CRAU: N/A
Original History: Background Information
Inventory: Her coat, work uniform, and smartphone.
Samples: "Thanks for stopping by. Please come again."
The rush was dying down and she finally had a moment to take her break. She stepped outside for a moment, the cold air not enough to warrant bringing out her coat. Leaning against the wall, she pulled out a cigarette and lit it up. It was infrequent habit of hers, sometimes going without one for months and months, only to pick it back up for a night or two. It was really a night just like any other. People coming and going, all of them wanting their fix for the night, or just a place to get away from it all. The Royale... was far from perfect, that much was obvious.
You could find a better, less shady bar just about anywhere else. But even so, it was her job to serve drinks and damn it all if she wouldn't do her best at that.
The people that would stop by, some of them had truly hit rock bottom, and she saw it as her responsibility to change that. Serve them a drink and just listen to what they had to say. From where she stood, what she could do was pretty limited. But honestly, some people would be happy with just someone who would listen to them.
Someone to talk to.
Jill was the type of bartender who would offer that, along with apologizing every now and again to how shitty the drinks were known to taste. Sometimes her clients would talk to her about changing the way things are and going about that with some pretty extreme methods. It wasn’t something that she always agreed with. Yeah, being a “Westie” was pretty rough, but using violence and just outright murder… Jill couldn’t really agree with that. If they wanted to do that kind of stuff, fine. Just keep her out of it, or don’t tell her to begin with. She had enough problems to begin with.
“Break’s over.”
She put out her cigarette and headed back inside.
“Time to mix alcohol and change a life.”
Though Jill shook her head shortly after saying that to herself.
“Bah, still doesn’t sound right.”
Miscellaneous Notes: Can't really think of anything here.
REVISIONS REQUESTED
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Money is still important, but not as much as her own personal comfort. For better or worse, she’s the type of person that wants to make sure that she’s the master of her fate. Whether the choices she makes end up benefiting her, or they end up screwing her over, Jill’s abandoned both relationship and opportunity in order to keep control of her life. She would rather turn down a well-paying job that she could end up hating and instead take a job that barely pays enough but at least makes her happy.
Despite her obvious struggles, Jill genuinely enjoys her job as a bartender and goes about it with all the professionalism it deserves. She makes sure that her clients are taken care of and receive good service and have an overall pleasant experience. As pleasant as it can get in a Glitch City bar, but she still gives it her all, enough that her boss sometimes suggests that she take it easy and not work herself to the bone, though Jill simply won’t have any of that.
Though Jill isn’t necessarily hard to talk to, she’s largely sarcastic and withholds a fair a bit of information about her past. Her clients comment at how she gives off a “cool bartender” impression, while a few anonymous comments mention that she’s just “full of herself.” She has low tolerance for people encroaching on her personal space and for being the center of attention, in addition to overall foolishness at her expense or at the expense of the sort of peace and quiet that she’s come to expect in VA-11 HALL-A. Admittedly, the bartender also admits to having an immature sense of humor, trying to hold back laughter whenever she has to serve a “Bad Touch” to her clients, or when one of her regulars makes repeated wiener jokes.
Aside from that, Jill herself remains very frank and intelligent. She’ll speak her mind and even play devil’s advocate as often as she can get away with while being on the clock. Jill also swears and drinks regularly and will openly talk about sex if the conversation goes that way, though she'll still keep details about herself a bit closer to her heart, unless it's someone in her circle of friends that really wants to know. In comparison to that same circle of friends (an attractive hacker, an android sex-worker, a co-worker with a mysterious past, and a boss with a mechanical arm and a past in pro-wrestling) she remains largely ordinary. Ordinary, yet endearing. She loves her job and loves being able to hear all sorts of stories from her clients. Not because of any love for gossip, or to sell the information to the news outlets, but out of a simple love of knowing that people can come from all walks of life and they all come to her for a drink a little piece and quiet.
She refers to herself as just a friendly ear. Someone who won’t judge and will instead just listen and talk to you, and hand out some advice when needed. Maybe laugh at a corny joke or pun when nobody else will.
Unless it's an objectively unfunny joke.
In that case you're just shit out of luck.
AU History: Jill's entire family line has resided on Westerley, with her immediate relatives living in Old Town. Both her mother and father are your typical blue-collar workers, the type to just keep their heads down and keep on working for The Company. They did as they were told, staying out of trouble and fully buying into the promise that some point, they would finally find their salvation.
She was told to do the same as she grew up. Obey and stay out of trouble.
As the years pass, she takes on whatever jobs she's able to work at the earliest allowed age. An only child, it's a typical case of wanting to work hard so until you can find something better for yourself. It's an incredibly long-term goal, and these are very uncertain times, but Jill has just kept on marching forward and doing what's expected of her. Being part of the Seventh Generation, she knows that all that work will finally pay off. Though she's not letting herself get overconfident or think that it's already in the bag. She’s the type to keep working and giving it her all until she’s actually crossed the finish line.
In the case of Jill, sometimes one plus one really does just add up to two. People need jobs filled and she needs a roof over her head.
And food. You need that, too.
There's no real tragedy, or story of vengeance, here. The worst you'll find is that she prefers to go by "Jill" instead of her full name due to name calling and ridicule back during her childhood years. Aside from that, she doesn't really keep in touch with her parents anymore. Not because they're on bad terms, but because both her mother and father worked themselves into their graves. It was a sort of eye-opening moment for her, stirring up further ambition. The ambition to not end up the same as everyone else, and not be and old lady who still works for scraps.
Shit still sucks now that she's an adult, but she just takes it a day at a time. Jill herself has always been smart and dependable. Someone who really gives their best effort at a job without asking for anything in return. It's just unlucky that she's born a Westie and that no matter how hard she tries, there will always be wall that she will never be able to break through while she remains on Westerley. She just takes whatever job she can find until finally settling as a bartender over at The Royale. It's hardly what she would've wanted for herself, but at least her licensing and paperwork is in order and her bills are paid almost on time. It offers a strange mix of stability and variety in that her functions and responsibilities never really change, but every day offers a different set of clients to serve.
Or drunkards.
What she would really like is to up the quality of the drinks there, as the cheap shit they serve is practically an insult to real beer. But as much as she'd like, it's not like Jill has the money or the social standing to make it happen. Still, she's a reliable worker and at this point, she's even earned herself a couple of regulars that specifically ask for her.
Occasionally she'll hear some of the clients make conversation or plans that may or may not be legal, but Jill just keeps minding her own business. She's not really looking to join anybody's revolution. Although, that hasn’t particularly stopped the authorities from stopping by and questioning her multiple times, just because of the nature of her job and her exposure to those revolutionaries.
She hasn’t been pinned with anything just yet despite being genuinely uninvolved, but when has that ever stopped the ones at the top?
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