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FULL NAME: Marlene Elodie Rose GENDER: Female PRONOUNS: She/Her AGE: 27 BIRTHDAY: December 8th BIRTH ORDER: Fourth HOMETOWN: Jersey City, New Jersey RELATION: Full Sibling TYPE: Sibling ORIENTATION: Demisexual/Panromantic JOB TITLE(S): Songwriter for Red Line Records, Barista at Think Coffee FACECLAIM: Melissa Benoist

EATING DISORDER TW, SEXUAL ASSAULT TW

Marley, as a child, was very sweet and outgoing, not unlike her current self. She loved to play dress up, she loved to draw, loved to read books, but most of all, Marley loved to sing. She could pick up songs from the radio after only hearing them once, and so she started taking piano lessons as soon as she was old enough to sit on the bench by herself. The guitar came soon after, and it was difficult to get Marley to stop singing. It would happen under her breath as she helped Millie with the chores, it would happen in the shower, and it would happen whenever she had a free moment. She was never a social butterfly and preferred the quiet cove of her mind rather than conversing with other people. She is extremely polite and will be very friendly to anyone who speaks to her, but Marley isn’t the type to reveal her innermost thoughts to anyone other than a select few.

Songwriting came easily for Marley, who always found it as a better way to express her emotions. The very first song she wrote was about the death of her father, and considering it was at ten years old, it’s a very poignant and sad way for her to grieve. Her father is the subject of many of her songs, as are her former love affairs. Sometimes she’ll draw inspiration from movies, books, and TV shows. She’ll borrow life situations from friends, too. Marley’s sexuality has always been something she’s accepted– she falls in love with a person, not a gender, and her family has been extremely supportive of this. Marley has had girlfriends and boyfriends throughout her life and honestly doesn’t have a preference to one or the other.

Food has always been a sensitive sort of subject for Marley. She inherited her cooking abilities from her mother, who always taught her how to share the love with people through food. As a child, Marley was massively overweight, so she compensated for this in high school by forcing herself to get on a treadmill, eating salads, and giving away her trays of brownies instead of eating them all herself. She went on a bingeing and purging spree in high school and is still extremely sensitive when she has to eat in front of other people. Marley doesn’t think she’s pretty, and her body image issues still tend to be persistent, so she hides in flowy, bohemian-style dresses and skirts. She tries to reassure herself that she doesn’t care what she looks like since her talent is her real meal ticket. 

Marley’s dream was to go to California for college because she wanted to get herself a good start in LA. LA was where all the bands would be playing, that was where she could get herself a job as a singer. She went to the Berklee School of Music and got her official degree in composition, and started sending out demos. One was received very well, but when Marley figured out that it wasn’t her voice that the head of the company was interested in, she tried to decline the offer. He took advantage of her at an industry party and Marley hasn’t been the same since. She fled back to Jersey City without telling anyone why or what happened to her.

Now, she’s trying to stay out of the limelight as much as possible. Marley keeps her playing to the confines of her room. While she has a job at a label writing songs, nobody there knows that she can actually sing. She never sings her own demo takes, and just writes down the lyrics and plunks the melody out on the piano. She has a job as a barista at Think Coffee in the Village to help pay the bills. That’s the real bank for her. Any royalties that her songs make go straight to Millie.