gretchen sophia rowling

[gretchenrowling]

-- GRETCHEN SOPHIA ROWLING !

-- NAME: Gretchen Sophia Rowling
-- NICKNAMES: Sophia, Sophie. Only a select few call her ‘Gretchen’.
-- AGE & BIRTHDAY: 22, August Third
-- BIRTH PLACE: Cleveland, Ohio
-- ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
-- OCCUPATION: Cashier at a store in the airport, steals candy from babies.
-- PLAYED BY: Aubrey Plaza

-- PERSONALITY !

-- CUNNING: She likes to deceive people, and she’s pretty damn good at it. She’s quite clever in the sense that if she wants something, she’s going to find a way to get it. She’ll think out of the box and if you aren’t paying very close attention, she could easily back you into a corner. Gretchen is quite intelligent. She has a mischievous air about her, and she’s almost always up to something. Now, while she’d love to be a full-blown con artist, for the moment she usually keeps things mild, avoiding things that could get her into really serious trouble. Even if she were to get caught, she is able to talk herself out of a lot of situations. She knows what to say at the right time. She’s also clever, however, in different ways, particularly with her wit. She’s sharp-tongued and sarcastic, not to mention a quick thinker. Sophia is definitely great on the spot as well as when she’s had time to think things out. She likes to believe she’s ready for whatever curve-ball is thrown her way. Of course, along with this comes the fact that she’s a bit cocky. She knows what she’s good at and she knows how to get what she wants, and she’s quite confident in her abilities.

-- APATHETIC: Emotions aren’t necessarily her thing. Sure, she’s a bit more relaxed and open about her feelings when it comes to those she’s close to (i.e. her sister and best friend) but for the most part, she’s much more prone to being indifferent to situations. This is a big reason why she so easily cons people. There isn’t much of a risk for her to feel guilty or for her to grow attached to someone because that’s just not what she does. In fact, she likes to piss people off. She enjoys making enemies- it’s like an accomplishment to her. Sophia is pretty mean-spirited in that sense. She doesn’t care about people she doesn’t love, and she doesn’t love easily. She doesn’t really think twice about hurting someone’s feelings. From a young age, she learned that feeling things wouldn’t get her through the tough days, and although her line of thought was quite flawed, it worked for her situation. Although now might be the time for her to grow up and start admitting she’s just as human as everyone else, she’s stubborn. Angry. Gretchen does what she wants and she doesn’t let anyone stand in her way. She doesn’t like to get attached to people and she separates herself as much as possible. One might even go so far as to say that she’s afraid. But mostly, she just masks all of her emotions with apathy, and to hell with the consequences.

-- LIAR: It’s pretty much best to simply not believe whatever comes out of Sophia’s mouth. If you know her well enough, or are very good at reading people, she has a few ticks that signal she’s not telling the truth- making eye contact, rubbing her index finger, and shaking her leg are all tell-tale signs that she’s bluffing. However, she does it so often that she’s become really good at it, and the tells are so subtle that most don’t catch on. Her lies could be just minute things and yet they can stretch to an entire story. She’s even switched up her identity on a couple of occasions. Gretchen is very thorough. It’s very rare that she makes a mistake or slips up. She makes a story up in her head and sticks with it at all costs. She doesn’t like people to get to know her and she likes deceiving people, so she’ll say whatever she needs to say in order to get that to happen. Very few people know who she really is, although there are probably a lot of people who think they know her. While at first she lied just to get by (and because she didn’t want anyone to know who she really was), she’s started to lie because she wants to, and because she can. It’s becoming more of a habit than anything else. Her most common (and biggest) lie is that she tends to tell people she has separation anxiety disorder and will have panic attacks if she were to leave her best friend. This prevents her from being forced into situations she doesn’t want to be in alone and gives her an excuse to have her friend around at all times. It’s a pretty cheap lie but it’s proved to be quite handy.

—RESERVED: Gretchen certainly prefers solitude. She doesn’t latch onto people easily- that would’ve meant, ultimately, bad things while she was growing up, and she’s carried that habit into her adult years. It’s for this reason that she keeps to herself. The most she ever really associates with people willingly, with the exception of when she’s messing with them, is when she’s around her best friend or sister. The two of them are the only people who have ever gotten through to her. She’s pretty quiet and secretive. She rarely gets excited over something, doesn’t like to get her hopes up and doesn’t get over-dramatic about silly little things. Now, when it comes to her sister and her best friend, she lets loose a little bit. No, Sophia’s still not about to go jump in a random ball pit or watch Twilight or anything ridiculous like that, but she’ll let herself have some fun. Smile a little bit. Have a fight with Nerf guns or play video games or something. She even likes to crack jokes and has a sort of dark sense of humor. But again, this is only with two specific people.

-- LOVES: her best friend, playing pranks, her sister, money, pretzels, the ukulele, writing screenplays, scheming, horror movies, taking risks, her aspiration to successfully fake her own death, chewing gum, nerf gun/sword fights, chaos, batman, video games, being by herself, making people feel awkward, spending time in drug stores, coffee, reality television, ellen degeneres, pretending to have separation anxiety disorder as an excuse to keep her best friend with her at all times, korean soap operas, cigarettes, getting stuck in traffic, alcohol, gerard butler, chinese food, the elderly.
-- HATES: most people, getting called out on her own bull shit, shitty deodorant products, being too cold, being too hot, being forced into a group of people, emotions, tea, musicals, mac computers, tom cruise, oceans, drugs, germans (for no logical reason whatsoever), logic, ignorance, idiotic people, licking envelopes, catty women, frat-esque boys, commercials, animal print, spanish soap operas, education, the government, recycling, being taken advantage of, sporks, mint-flavored toothpaste, paper bags, ducks.

-- HISTORY !

There are some people in this world who are just unfit to be mothers; Gretchen’s was one of them. She was the kind of woman who went out and partied every night, waking up the next morning to a new man, never bothering to learn his name. She never knew precisely who the father was upon discovering she was pregnant, and never had an interest in finding out. She wasn’t ready to be a mother but thought she could take the job on regardless. During the pregnancy, she managed to clean up her act and do things right. But after her daughter was born, she relapsed into her old ways. From the time Gretchen was three months old to the time she was a year old, she was neglected. Her grandmother didn’t approve of their daughter’s habits but took their granddaughter in regardless when there was no one else around to look after her. Finally, though, as her health began to decline, she realized she couldn’t just sit around and watch this child be neglected, especially because she wasn’t sure how long she’d be around to help. So she did something she never thought she’d have to do- she called child services on her own daughter. Gretchen’s mother was deemed unfit and the baby was then, consequently, put into the foster care system.

Although she was a perfectly healthy kid, Sophia didn’t officially get adopted until she was thirteen years old. The years in between were spent bouncing around from foster home to foster home. In some, she would be treated kindly. Actually, that was the case most of the time. But she did experience one home in which she was physically abused for nine months and others where she was poorly treated and neglected. Ultimately, this was where her distinct personality traits developed. This was where she lied about things in order to avoid punishment. This was where she withdrew herself as much as possible because she didn’t want to get attached to her foster parents or siblings because it would hurt that much more if she had to move again. This was where she learned that if she faced her emotions, she’d probably just sit around and feel sorry for herself. And really, conning and tricking people just kind of stemmed from the fact that she realized she was good at it. Of course, all of these things combined kept her bouncing from home to home quite often.

It’s uncommon for a teenager to get adopted. Gretchen was aware of that and never really expected herself to have a permanent home after she reached the age of ten, although her hope had been slowly diminishing already as the years passed. But as cliché as it sounded, she found a family that was… Different. They took her in and it was the first time that she didn’t feel like an outsider in the family. No, she wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows- that had never been her personality. She was still wary of them. What really snagged her was the biological daughter of her foster parents. The girl, about five years older than Gretchen, was persistent. She was smart and able to call Gretch out on her bullshit, consequently getting closer to her all the same. It took awhile, but the two actually bonded as siblings. The parents embraced Sophia as part of the family and settled down in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

As a kid, she’d never been all that concerned with schoolwork. Not only had she been far more preoccupied with her “home” life (or lack thereof), but she’d been to so many different schools that moved at different paces that she could hardly keep up. In High School she’d managed to find her footing a bit better but she still didn’t get very good grades, nor did she place much value in her education. At this point, she had no idea what she wanted to be in live and didn’t want to bother with school anymore. Still, she was pushed into going to school, so she decided to attend a local community college. It was there that she first met her best friend. He was the second person in her life that was able to call her out on her bluffs and slide into her life. He was just as cunning as she was and her partner in crime.

Gretchen attended for two years before graduating with an associate’s degree that she deemed meaningless, alongside her best friend. Afterwards, the two of them moved up to Capeside and got a cheap apartment together, ready to start fresh in a town where there were new people to scam and a bunch of kids who needed convincing and cheap fake IDs.

-- SAMPLE !

-- OOC !

-- NAME OR ALIAS: ashley
-- AGE: eighteen
-- THREE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE YOU: such a headacheeee.
-- HOW YOU FOUND US: god

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