#plus she actually has the financial and physical ability to try new shit so easily

[cesium-sheep]

she's starting to get into tarot now too, and I think I get prickly about her picking up interests I already picked up for myself (or tried to) because like. I have very very little self, between how I grew up and how sick I've been. she gets to have a career and a passion and a self and a gender and all this shit I don't. so it bugs me when she starts to step into these surface level things because I don't really. have anything else.

[conoscenze]

salice // salice & allen.

I mentioned this Allen guy a couple of times, and I also posted what he looks like, but what do we actually know about him besides the fact that he is a lawyer that works alongside with Salice, in the same studio? Nothing much.

This is a brief resume of who he is and what his relationship with Salice is like.

1 // basics.

Full name is Allen Owen.

He’s half-English half-Scottish; he hates his country, England, similarly to Salice (who hates Italy).

He is about 2 years older than Salice, which means he’s 34-35 years old.

Allen’s born on the 8th of November.

Forced to work as a ballister by his father.

He typically handles financial fraud, conning, gambling and robbery. He will, however, also handle graver cases such as murder or violent / sexual assault if he’s requested.

Would like to drop out of law to become a graphic novelist, or to generally pursue any career related to visual arts. Allen does in fact demonstrate good drawing abilities---his favourite hobby is doodling caricatures of colleagues both he and Salice don’t like.

Bisexual, has a preference for men.

Closeted-not-closeted, it’s complicated.

Also desperately seeking a partner: however, he seems to have a disastrous, inconsistent and troubled love life, in which he’s been dumped numerous times.

2 // personality.

A similarity she shares with Salice is the difficulty in showing all emotions except for annoyance, frustration and irritation. Much like his friend, working as a ballister seems to be numbing down his feelings for the sake of professionalism.

Going through the cold surface, Allen is actually a rather excitable man. He gets really invested especially in things he likes, and he can be quite the open book.

Unlike Salice, it is not so difficult to get him to smile. While his colleague grimaces at the mere thought of them, Allen instead loves being smothered with puns, and all terrible jokes alike.

The guy that wakes up at 6AM even on free days.

He always has a plan for the day even when said plan is doing nothing. His agenda is ridiculously structured and he feels the need to fill it no matter what, even with the most flimsy of events or happenings.

Thanks to said agenda, he knows each one of his colleagues’ birthdays. He only cares about Salice’s, seen as they are good friends.

Once walked in an exam while wearing loafers. Considering he got out with an excellent grade at that very same test, he prides the memory as some sort of victory.

At work, he is a meticulous and precise lawyer, making him one of the most reliable around. He is punctual, always has alternative plans for everything, and always seeks out the most peaceful way to resolve issues so not to stir more trouble. He’s known and renowned for his ability to deal  with the most difficult of clients---not even Salice knows how he makes them play along with his script.

He often mocks Salice because of her undercut, but he just earns, in return, a snarky mock regarding his own dated mullet. Touché.

Allen considers himself a romantic literature fanatic, which he very much is. He owns a handful of books from the specific time period, and he also enjoys Renaissance and 1800′s art / painters / paintings to a great degree.

He always has something to say, even on subjects he isn’t extremely informed about. He’s simply very skilled in keeping a conversation lively, even when the topic at hand is bleak and rather dull. This “talent” of his is what grants her favour in court most of the time, as argumentation is very essential when it comes to handling court cases.

He is a hopeless romantic. This is why he’s been in quite the number of relationships; when it comes to love, he can be quite impulsive and reckless. Along with that, he can’t quite clearly separate love from sex---he’s trying to get better at it, but it’s still difficult. In fact, he often finds himself mulling over one-night-stands, even though he is conscious that it was a one time event, and that he won’t cross paths with them again.

3 // physical.

A good looking young man. He is nor excessively fit, nor thin. He keeps himself in shape just enough to not have physical issues.

Black hair, brown eyes, thick brows, straight nose, and strong jaw. He’s very typical when it comes to his facial characteristics.

What does stick out, though, is that mullet which he wears proudly. He still thinks they’re cool and to stay true to his belief he got himself one.

He’s 180cm tall.

Mostly wears suits and clean, elegant clothing. Unlike Salice, he likes wearing this stuff.

In his free-time, he likes to dress with typically 70′s fashion items, or generally with clothes from the seventies he bought at some random market. Yes, he owns platforms. In general, he enjoys wearing typically masculine clothing with a tinge of androgyny to it; he loves wearing shapely, tight clothing as well as ascots.

4 // allen and salice.

They met while studying at the same law school, as all good old friendships start---but they didn’t like each other at first. Being both rather competitive and hot-headed when they were younger, they were basically rivals, the friends that surrounded them both often supporting this mutual “soft hatred” they shared. With time, they ended up making a joke out of their banters, and eventually calmed down. Now they rarely ever fight, and if they do, they’re going to get over it quickly and painlessly.

Many, many people think they are in a relationship or engaged simply because they’re not afraid to show that they feel comfortable with each other’s presence and that they do not reject the other touching them (like shoulder patting, hugging, hair ruffling, poking); while Salice doesn’t care---she easily dismisses stupid assumptions---Allen actually feels a little offended by it. As much as he likes Salice as a person, his worst nightmare is to get engaged with another lawyer. Plus she is not his type at all, no matter how pleasant her company might be in his opinion.

Allen is ignorant of Salice’s necromancy activity. He doesn’t think of her unusual sleep patterns as odd, seeing he’s in the same situation as she is (basically a chronic insomniac). He does, however, find weird her interests: aka dead people, black magic, and gore horror films---it may well be because he has entirely different tastes. He is more of your average white guy, that doesn’t mind the typical mindless horror movie, but that also cannot stomach for the sake of him anything beyond fake splatters and cheap eerie stories.

While he avoids going out with most other lawyers he knows, he and Salice often meet up out of work to chat and generally to relax a bit. There’s a café not far from the London city centre they often visit during the weekend, or even during the week. They like to discuss about their job---or, more specifically, talk shit about the ambient they work within---but also a large variety of other topics, such as philosophical matters, fashion, music, etcetera. He is much more talkative than she is, but it’s a good balance overall.

Salice knows every detail of Allen’s messed up love life---he always updates her on it. Salice doesn’t mind hearing about it because she likes giving him advice, within her own certain knowledge and beliefs. She always jokes about putting an eventual new partner he tells her about through a “worthiness test”: but knowing her, chances are she would put them through such a pop quiz, if she ever came across them.

Overall, Salice considers Allen a good friend, as well as a good person. Unlike most other ballisters, he still hangs on the spirit of justice and just judgement that he entered law school with, even if only a bit---and considering he did not want to study jurisprudence in first place, she really does find it an amazing thing. He may not be her best friend, in her mind---but in her heart, she knows that if he ever got hurt, she’d go out of great lengths to rightfully avenge what was taken from him.