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[astorkinncys-blog]

( bex, twenty one, they / them ) WAIT, IS THAT zoey deutch  WALKING THE STREETS OF PARIS ? OH NEVER MIND, THAT’S JUST astor kinney, THE TWENTY TWO YEAR OLD WHO’S KNOWN AROUND PARIS AS the demure ! I’VE HEARD THAT THEY’RE PRETTY soft BUT ALSO PRETTY melancholic. I WONDER HOW THEY LIVE UP TO THEIR EPITHET ?

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her father was a professor at harvard, her mother was a socialite. they were the picture perfect couple. they married while he was in grad school, she was finishing up her own degree. nearly a year later, they had their first and only son, collin, and three years later, their daughter, astor. both of their children were their prides and joys.

astor grew up quiet, not like her brother. he was the golden boy. he was smile and charm, while she was blushes and ducked gazes. she kept her nose in a book, while he could chat up the room. but still, he was her best friend. he’d take her hand and lead her wherever, no matter how scared she was. so long as colin was there, she knew she was safe.

she was the spitting image of her mother, who wanted her to be a picture perfect match. she did ballet and other dance. she learned how to bake ( not because it was feminine, but because everyone should be able to cook and provide for themself ). she was quiet and soft. she was a good child.

in school, she flourished in art classes. she loved art class. it was her favorite. she would check out art history books from the library. she put prints of her favorite paintings on her binders. she was talented with pencils and pastels herself. from when she was twelve, she knew it was what she was destined to do.

when her brother was a junior in college, he passed away. she blamed herself ( though, it was never her fault ) and she has missed him every day since. from that point on, she tried to be a little bolder, a little more like him. he wouldn’t have wanted her to be quiet. he would have wanted her to find her voice.

and so she tried. it was hard. her heart was a butterfly in her chest with every new thing, with every time she spoke up, but she had to do it. for collin. her parents were surprised at her noisiness. she started speaking up at dinner, she played music a little too loudly in her room. she was being someone she wasn’t, but it wasn’t all bad. she liked going out with her friends, she liked laughing until her stomach hurt, even if it was a little too loud to be considered polite.

little things started her change, but really she’s on a trajectory steeper than ever before. she is in paris for an art fellowship at the sorbonne. it’s magnificent. it’s all she’s ever wanted. her flat overlooks the seine and she’s living her best life. really, she never imagined herself elsewhere. but she didn’t imagine the parties and friends and fun. it’s not what she dreamed but maybe it’s better.

anyways astor is ... a bit of a contradiction. around her parents and their friends and people she like those she grew up around, she’s quiet and smiles and softness. she knows her place. she knows how to be quiet. but on the flip side, she’s a little wild. she doesn’t know how to set limits. she’s pushing barriers she was bound by before. it’s not the greatest, but she thinks she’s living life to the fullest. she needs a reality check.

wanted connections

give my girl a girlfriend pls thank u

someone who doesn’t like her bullshit dual personality. someone who thinks she’s not being real. someone who calls her fake and a liar. i don’t think astor would react well to it and i kind of love that idea ?

best friend ??? i think she needs a friend. someone she doesn’t pretend around. someone she isn’t too wild, someone she isn’t too quiet around. they see astor. they get her. that’s al she wants.

someone who is a fair weather friend. they explore paris together and can have fun and go to parties but when it comes down to it, they would never be there for each other. they’re not close. they don’t see each other as anything more than just temporary friends.

bad influence ?? someone who is just .. bad influence. they party and do dumb shit. it’s fun and reckless and wild.

[lainevs]

    okay i just want to start off by saying hello everyone ! i’m so freaking excited for this roleplay to finally start off you have no idea. overall just really excited for this roleplay because ? that means i get to play my baby lainey finally. but seriously, i’m super excited to be here ! i’m nina & below the cut you’ll get to know a little bit about my dear ol’ baby lainey.

( nina, twenty two, she / her ) WAIT, IS THAT cindy kimberly  WALKING THE STREETS OF PARIS ? OH NEVER MIND, THAT’S JUST lainey sedano, THE TWENTY FIVE YEAR OLD WHO’S KNOWN AROUND PARIS AS the enigma ! I’VE HEARD THAT THEY’RE PRETTY phlegmatic BUT ALSO PRETTY reticent. I WONDER HOW THEY LIVE UP TO THEIR EPITHET ? 

TW: death, drug use & alcohol mention.

↪  the sedano family.

lainey’s family is the definition of messed up. i’m going to start off by talking about her relationship with her father because i think that’s the most important relationship to talk about. so here we go.

james sedano is her father, people know him as the face of sedano hotels. as a child, lainey never had a good relationship with her dad. why ? because he resented the fact that his first born child was a female instead of a male. hard to overcome that kind of resentment right ? right. growing up lainey had always tried to show her father that she could be everything he needed in a child. but he wouldn’t give her the time of day. instead, he would force himself to stay later at his office instead of coming home & being a father to his only daughter.

talia sedano is her mother, the only light in her life that she’s ever really known. her mother cared for her no matter how hard her father pushed her to go cold toward her daughter. talia wouldn’t let up the fact that she knew that her husband hated their child. which was why talia would later on come to realize that james was no longer what she wanted in a husband. not someone who was controlling, verbally abusive, extremely distant & just overall an asshole. as a child her mother was the only thing she knew, her mother bathed her, shopped for her, cooked her home cooked meals and just showered her in love that she never got from her father.

later on around when lainey turned ten, she had come to realize that the reason why her father was spending late nights at the office was because he was cheating. so this is where things really went down hill for their family. her mother ? became closed off, wouldn’t give lainey the attention she needed due to the drugs she was pumping into her body. her mother died a year later of a drug overdose. this was the day that lainey’s life turned upside down.

her father wanted nothing to do with her so he did the one thing he could afford to do, sent her to an all girl’s private school so he didn’t have to deal with his daughter. instead he shipped her off, got married, had another child … ITS A BOY. this was another thing that made lainey resent her father in so many different ways. she hated the fact that her new brother would gain all the attention that she had wished she had gotten herself. instead … it was like she didn’t matter.

for the summers when she would come home from private school, her dad would ship her off to her aunt faye’s. her aunt faye became the motherly figure that she needed to stay sane. although, she wasn’t as proper & poised as she once was. when lainey turned sixteen this was when she really started to “grow up” or tried too anyways. she started partying, doing drugs & just becoming a complete miscreant. her aunt started to realize what was going on & suggested to lainey’s father that she get some help. but of course her father being her father, he didn’t give a rat’s ass that his daughter was going through some serious shit.

lainey went to rehab, got the help she wanted and never looked back after she was released.

↪  lainey sedano.

lainey might just be the sweetest yet most reserved person you will ever meet. she’s very closed off & has a hard time trusting those around her. but she tries the best that she can because she knows that she doesn’t want to be known as someone who is alone. being alone is her biggest fear. she is always craving attention, which is why she moved away in the first place. she moved because she wanted her father to realize that she COULD do this & she would make a living on her own & that she didn’t need him.

as a child, she was a totally different person from who she is now. she was sweet, innocent and a bit sensitive. but because of her cruel up bringing. but she’s had no issues getting through the ill interactions that she’s had with her father. for the longest time, lainey often blamed herself for the way she was treated. she thought she was weak &wasn’t tempered enough to stand up for herself. but that was FAR from the whole truth. the truth was, she was scared of him. which was something that took her YEARS to get over. as a child, she will forever be known as the “quite” one. a child who hardly spoke in school, but did what needed to be done to get through it. due to her personality before she grew up, this will forever be apart of her personality. she will always be a bit sensitive, innocent & have a bit of a sickly sweet side.

a question that is NEVER asked by those who look up to lainey sedano, would be — who exactly IS lainey ? she’s an unassuming, smart, cunning, cold, ruthless, petty, manipulative, carefree, self centered brunette who’s had her whole life mapped out since the age of eleven. behind her innocent suburbanite guise, she is a stone-cold girl. she has to balance her nurturing personality. lainey’s analytical mind has made her pretty detached from empathy & emotion. she sees the world as one large problem. she has very little concern for the people she may hurt or may have hurt in the past. but one thing she always does, is justifies her actions as being for the “greater good.” even though she has a cold exterior, on the inside she is a deeply disillusioned woman, who’s faith in the world & mankind has been completely shattered. her reason being what she had gone through with her mother & father. she’s had many opportunities knock on her door, that might’ve brought her happiness but she’s to jaded to embrace it.

even though the brunette can easily be described as the “ice princess,”  if you give her a little bit of time to defrost, you might be surprised with just how caring she could actually be. she gets a lot of her positive traits from her mother. however, her cold exterior was brought up due to a wall she had made for herself because of  her father’s relentless actions on she & her mother. she will always have a warmer & more caring side to her, but this side is only brought out if she truly TRUSTS you. even though, she may have a sarcastic tongue &  will always be the life of the party, there’s never a time where she wishes things were different. that she was different.

↪  wanted connections.

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[lifeaccordingtojosie-blog]

( brenda, twenty two, she & her ) WAIT, IS THAT [ abigial cowen ] WALKING THE STREETS OF PARIS ? OH NEVER MIND, THAT’S JUST [ CHARACTER NAME HERE ], THE [ TWENTY ONE ] YEAR OLD WHO’S KNOWN AROUND PARIS AS [ THE PRISTINE ] ! I’VE HEARD THAT THEY’RE PRETTY [ HUMOROUS ] BUT ALSO PRETTY [ NAIVE ]. I WONDER HOW THEY LIVE UP TO THEIR EPITHET ?

hi my name is brenda i love lana del rey, old movies and mimosas. i’m a scorpio! 

anyway a little about josie 

she was always a quiet child never really talked to anyone and just followed her twin sister jenna around. when they got older they both started doing their own thing and josie fell in love with films, theater and especially musicals. 

josie was in every production in her school plays all through out high school and college. acting was and is still very much her dream she has an agent in paris currently and she books some rolls. 

during her freshman year josie had tried out for the cheerleading team but was rejected for being too fat that with the added pressures of her mom always making her weight a problem. she had enough and started making herself throw up. this went on for awhile until her sister found out and made her stop. forcing her to get help without their parents knowledge. even though she promised her sister it’s still something she does when she feels life is out of control for her. 

the older josie got the more out of her shell she became she started becoming more social and gaining a lot of friends on her own. she became more talkative and people started to take notice of her.

 josie’s a fucking sweetheart and super kind, she’s a people pleaser and do most things to be someones favorite person. she’s just a dumb bitch that way lol.

bc of this when she’s in relationships she always goes for the bad boi it’s her thing and she’ll just put all of her feelings out there.

she came to paris bc it’s the film capital of the world AND IT’S FUCKING BEAUTIFUL

PLEAS PLEASE PLEASE PLOT WITH MEEEEE!!!! I DON’T EVER SAY NO TO PLOTS BC I’M ALL ABOUT THAT DRAMA MESSAGE ME ON DISCORDDDDD

[exrawilliams]

( bex, 21, they/them ) WAIT, IS THAT [ CODY CHRISTIAN ] WALKING THE STREETS OF PARIS ? OH NEVER MIND, THAT’S JUST [ EZRA WILLIAMS ], THE [ TWENTY-THREE ] YEAR OLD WHO’S KNOWN AROUND PARIS AS [ THE NEOPHYTE ] ! I’VE HEARD THAT THEY’RE PRETTY [ GENIAL ] BUT ALSO PRETTY [ AGGRESSIVE ]. I WONDER HOW THEY LIVE UP TO THEIR EPITHET ?

this is ezra. he was born in new york city to a woman who worked two jobs his entire life and a man who was a piece of trash. needless to say, he did not grow up with a keenness for his father. he never met the man. instead, all he knew about him was what his mother told him. none of it was kind, and he didn’t know how much of it was the truth and how much was lies. either way, it didn’t matter.

he grew up roaming the streets from a young age, much younger than he should have been allowed. but his mother always worked, and no one was there to tell him no. he got into scraps and came home scraped, but his mother always greeted him with a smile, albeit a tired one, and told him she was proud of him.

and maybe she wasn’t. but she could never tell him that. she wanted to see him grow and improve and become better than she was and most definitely better than his good-for-nothing daddy. so as long as he came home with decent enough grades, that was good enough for her. eliza williams didn’t care if her son stayed out all night or got tattoos or listened to music too loud. those things said nothing about him as a person, nothing that mattered at least.

he was a good person. that was always clear. ezra was nice enough and cared for others. he was rough around the edges and got into more fights than he should, but he had a big heart. even with his black nails and bloodied lips, he’d be the first to help someone with their groceries, or volunteer to help the old lady upstairs clean up her apartment.

as he got older, he didn’t care for school, which was his mother’s biggest disappointment. she wanted her to get out of the life she had, to do something better. but he never had the motivations. he wanted to live his life doing what he wanted. he never had the same motivation and drive that really fed people.

but it turned out he didn’t need to have ambition. his mother, his work-every-day and work-til-she’s exhausted mother, met a man who she feel deeply in love with. and it turned out, he was rich, incredibly so. eliza and ezra never imagined having money, especially not that much money, and suddenly they were thrust into a new life.

she adapted. she wore the dresses, she learned how to name drop and bite her tongue. gone were the nights of cereal with no milk because they couldn’t afford it. gone were game nights making fun of movies that were in black and white because it was all they had when the cable shut off.

ezra never fit in. he was dirty with scuffed shoes. his leather jackets never fit in, neither did the tattoos or the swears. but he loved his mother and she was happy. that was what mattered most to him. that his mom was happy. so he did his best. he forced smiles even when he was uncomfortable. he did what he could.

his step-dad ( paul. his name was paul and he only ever called him paul ) never understood him. he thought if he threw money at him ( something ezra had never had ) he would change overnight. he was the one who suggested he go to paris. his mother thought it was a good opportunity -- and how could he say no to her ?

icb my punk son is a mama’s boy at heart. he swears a lot and spends his nights out. sometimes he parties, sometimes he just wanders. his fingers are nicotine-stained and he almost always has a crumpled pack of cigarettes in his pocket. he likes getting into fights. not because he’s mad or mean, he just likes the adrenaline rush, the feeling of it all. he doesn’t like “ rich people bitch events ”. he can’t understand smiling when he’s not happy. he can’t understand lying and smiling just to make someone pretend to like him.

connection ideas

fight friends ??? maybe they go a few rounds at the gym. they don’t stop until someone has a bloody lip and someone has a black eye. afterwards, they go to the bar and they just laugh it off.

exes !!! give my boy an ex !!!!! i just !! love exes

rich friend ??? give me someone who is rich and privileged and just not like ezra. someone who tries to make him cultured and better. it could be fun. very lady and the tramp-esque.

someone who doesn’t get along with ezra !! they don’t like him !! maybe they’re judgemental !! i don’t care !! but !!!!! enemies !!!!

let’s just brainstorm yo

[epithethq]

ok but what are the tags we're using? everyone is using different ones and it's confusing

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