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- ̗̀ development! ̖́- #001

ONE: what is your parental situation like?? are both of your parents in the picture? are they married? divorced? what’s their names? what’s their occupations? feel free to answer with as much or as little detail as you’d like!

sometimes jane’s young adulthood has felt like one massive statistic, because she’s a single mother who’s the daughter of a single mother. when ally gillespie suddenly found herself pregnant just as young, she decided not to tell the father ( who’d never been much more than a one-night-stand anyway, she’d later confide to her daughter ) and raise the child on her own ; having that resource and support helped jane to come to the decision that she could raise sammy on her own too. jane doesn’t know who her father is, and has never paid him much mind ( it’s hard to miss a father figure when you’ve got eighteen guys in the tech crew who’re more than happy to show you how to change your first tire ). she’s still clung to the few details she does have about him, but mostly out of the idea that she should.

TWO: do you get along with your parent/s?? if both are in the picture do you have a favored parent?

ally gillespie: the woman, the inspiration. jane’s grandparents, of a more traditional mind, weren’t in the picture after they discovered their daughter had gotten herself knocked up, so ally didn’t have any on-hand family to turn to when she needed a baby-sitter. thank god her work in the costume dept allowed her to bring jane along so long as she was well-behaved. so there wasn’t a second jane didn’t spend at her mother’s side as she was growing up — and even tho they did have a falling out around the time jane was entering puberty and faced the insecurities most middle-school girls have to deal with, they reconciled later. and jane would 110% be that lame-oid who means it when they say that their mom is their best friend, because they’ve only grown closer out of the shared experience of raising sammy. when jane needs someone to look after her son, ally’s the first to volunteer, eager to provide for her daughter what her parents never did for her.

THREE: do you have any siblings? if yes, what’s their names? age? how do you get along with them?

n/a - jane was a “ happy accident ” baby, or so her mom tells her, and ally hasn’t jumped to have any other kids since.

FOUR: in childhood, what was your favorite toy?? if you didn’t have one; what was your favorite game or past time?

jane was big on “creative creativity” as a real little kid — meaning that she’d take the walls with markers and paints or drag all of the pots and pans out of the cupboard to make an amateur’s drum set if she had to. this got old real fast, and ally decided to hunt around some local flea markets for Proper Art and Music Supplies for jane, b/c if she was going to follow in her mom’s footsteps for creativity she’d rather her daughter not follow the example of treating her stuff like shit. so jane went from wall art to canvases, and from pots and pans to toy instruments scrounged from garage sales. it worked out p okay

FIVE: as a child what was your favorite color, animal, food, television show, and hobby?? feel free to replace any of these with something of your choosing, or add more all together.

color: rotated every day of the week jesus h christ ; as she got older, she got fonder of white since it;s helpful when she’s painting ( that’s not something she shares tho, because it’s just so damn boring ) ; animal: sugar glider ( one of the boom ops always carried one around in their pocket ) ; tv show: barney, 100% here for the crafts and singing purple dinosaur ; hobby: see above !!

SIX: who was your childhood best friend? what were they like? how did you meet? are you still friends to this day?

jane was much more open as a kid, making fast friends of........literally everyone lol, but her closest friends were her fellow children on set. whether it was the child actors or the kids of the crew. she still keeps in contact with a few of them, but mostly divorced herself from a lot of her early positive memories in media to preserve them since her experience since has been so shitty. like, she completely cut a lot of her closest friends out and it wouldn’t be surprising if a few held a grudge against her for that

SEVEN: what was school like for you?? did you go to a public or a private school? were you home schooled? did you love it? hate it? tolerate it? what was your favorite subject? feel free to answer with as much or as little detail as you’d like!

jane fluxed between being home schooled and in public school all her life ; it just depended on ally’s availability, and if they needed to jet off to the caribbean for months at a time for the latest c-com they both had to go. she learned pretty quickly that she preferred the freedom of home schooling, able to study what she needed to know however she liked, and suffered but made do with the rigidity of public school. college was the best time of jane’s schooling, and she’s still so sour over having dropped out to commit to b u. she fully plans on going back to school as soon as she can.

EIGHT: what was a fear you had as a child that doesn’t make much sense to you now?? did you have one? if not; what did you want to be when you grew up? did you change your mind a lot?

l i s t e n ; after spending almost her entire childhood around sets, jane grew up thinking that quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem in her adult life than it turned out to be. there wasn’t hardly an adventure series that didn’t feature the stuff, so she just assumed that was something she would need to be prepared for

#stardom:development #+20 #❪ be mindful of your intentions ❫ character study .

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hey y’all !! name’s em, i live in ye great olde tornado valley ( that puts me in the cst! ), i’m twenty and always a struggling psych major ( the s stands for “strangled by her own perfectionism” ) but enough about me, this is about jane, the uber cautious! single mom and the “artsy” member of the band b u. i prob haven’t done an oc in . . . god, so long,but i’m so excited to take this chance to develop janey here. this is a flying post & run because i’m about to head into work, but if you maybe wanna plot or whatever that is like !! this post and i’ll slide into your im like i’m about to cha-cha real smooth.

- ̗̀ PAULINA SINGER ⋮ CISFEMALE ⋮ SHE/HER ̖́- that’s JANE GILLESPIE on the cover of castle magazine. the TWENTY-FOUR year old is mostly known for her MUSIC career on the castle channel. the tabloids exposed her to be CAUTIOUS & ASSERTIVE, but people close to her know her to be CLEAR-HEADED & DEDICATED. she has been a part of the castle channel for THREE YEARS and is MUSE D4 in B U. ( EM ⋮ 20 ⋮ CST )

janey here has been affiliated indirectly with the castle channel practically since birth b/c her mom works in the costume dept, so she’s been hanging around the sets since . . . forever ?? ( like there are legit stories in all of the tech aspects of her waddling around as a toddler getting up to mischief. easiest way to embarrass her is to bring up one of these stories, which the crew will happily share b/c it’s basically a family )

when she was almost 21 and looking for an internship to fulfill some college credit her mom hooked her up and talked the management at castle into giving jane an interview for the costume dept — obvi not working under her mom, b/c yikes. jane cinched it in the bag and so has officially been working with castle for around three years

first of the three years she spent with costuming, which led to her getting to know the cast and band members that were around that early, which . . . led to sammy, her two-going-on-three-year-old son. jane fulfilled gabriel santo’s connection of his secret baby momma

quote - “ they had a baby when they were together a few years back but his management are making him keep it a secret because they don’t think the scandal will help his career. the only reason is he going along with it is because he’s brainwashed into thinking its the right thing to do. plus gabe and the mother want to keep their child out of the limelight as much as they can. they are no longer together but he sees his child as much as he can. ”

jane nearly lost her position at castle over this, though of course the channel will staunchly deny it. actually, the channel denies any rumors of gabriel santos having a child with one of its other employees, not wanting to get the bad rep as a scandalous company for youth entertainment.

the scandal and jane’s ensuing job loss was what actually led her to b u as it was just being pulled together by the company. the music label was promoting this all-girl empowerment band and one more opportunistic higher-ups at castle thought that the story of an empowered young mom putting her energy into raising her newborn son on her own would be a good image for the band to sell

it didn’t hurt that she could carry a tune either, nor that her mom had saved up money all throughout jane’s childhood so that she could buy her cheap art supplies and musical instruments from local flea markets so that her daughter could practice

so jane caught another job just in the nick of time, and samuel gillespie came screaming into the world entirely unaware of how dangerous his very existence was

since then, jane has been VERY CAREFUL to keep her son out of the limelight — not only because of her terrible experiences under castle’s scrunity, but also out of spite towards the company. she wasn’t about to let them use her son to promote their image when they’d been about to fire her over it

this cautious and assertive nature hasn’t garnered her much fans in castle’s management, so any time she’s stuck in a meeting with them she’ll let the other girls in b u talk for the band and just keep quiet to herself

but meanwhile ALL THAT SCANDAL ASIDE jane’s presented a very different story to the public eye ; she’s not nearly so DEFENSIVE when it doesn’t come to her son or her past at castle

publicly, she’s got the rep as the “ artsy one ” in b u as she’s always open to talking about her love for design and etc. arts. she jumps @ the opportunity to help out at the costume dept when she can

sometimes she feels a little out of place in the band since she’s one of the oldest there, and v removed from the problems of the younger members since she . . . already got a son from one of her romantic dalliances yikes and hasn’t been interested in the dating pools since

but she’s 100% ready to be the “ voice of reason ” and “ mom friend ”, offering advice whenever the situation calls for it

and sammy often works as her ice-breaker whenever she brings him to work with her, so that doesn’t hurt either

sOOOOOOOOOO TL;DR version of all that: janey g is the epitome of a mama bear, no one can touch her kid and get away with it, and she’s something of a “ difficult employee ” @ castle and is 110% ready at all times to fight a company but would rather swerve into a ditch than hurt any of the people she really cares about

plotting’s super open since jane’s been around the company before she was even there in professional standards, so if you’ve got a connection idea or just wanna headcanon the shiznit out w/ me like this message and i’ll im you once i’m free from Retail Hell(tm) or im me and i’ll get back to you once i’m ............. well ditto !!

#stardom:intro #❪ he goeth down ; i yelleth timber ❫ ooc .#❪ be mindful of your intentions ❫ character study .#( intends to write short bullet points to express the summary ) ( writes paragraphs in the bullet points instead )#( wtf was the point then @ me )

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