lorelai grace andrews

[lorelaiandrews]

-- LORELAI GRACE
ANDREWS !

-- NAME: lorelai grace andrews
-- NICKNAMES: lore, lori
-- AGE & BIRTHDAY: twenty-four, november second
-- BIRTH PLACE: st. paul, minnesota
-- ORIENTATION: heterosexual
-- OCCUPATION: street performer and barista at a coffee shop.
-- PLAYED BY: zooey deschanel

-- PERSONALITY !

-- KIND: This is to the point of almost being a fault. Lorelai is the epitome of a sweetheart. She doesn't have a mean bone in her body, though that's proved to be crippling in situations that demand she stick up for herself or be competitive. Still, she's kind to everyone, no matter their actions towards her- in fact, even if someone's completely stand offish or cruel, she still won't have the heart to be rude back. She’s more likely to convince herself that she had done something to offend them, and ultimately feel guilty for it. In other words, she’s nice to the point where it could almost be considered a fault. She thinks the best of everyone she meets, no matter what, and she goes out of her way to keep people happy. For this reason, she also is very indecisive, because she wants other people to do what they want to do. She’s much more of a follower than a leader.

-- SHY: Before Attic Ghosts, Lore was painfully shy and timid. She still is, to an extent- on stage, she managed to break out of her shell just enough. That was mostly because she knew that the people in the audience were there because they want to be there, so that tended to put her at ease. She doesn't really have that anymore, though. But when she’s meeting someone for the first time (or the second… or third, depending on the person), she’s quiet and nervous, despite being polite and friendly.

-- FRIGHTENED: She’s actually afraid of most things. Mostly, she’s just afraid of what other people think- but instead of handling it by trying to keep up the perfect public image, she would rather try and sink into the background. Ultimately, this makes her come off as sort of a nervous wreck. She doesn’t hold conversations with anyone unless they speak to her first, even if she does love people. She’s pretty obviously awkward.

-- RELAXED: Around people she’s familiar with, though, she’s always really relaxed. While she still wants to go out of her way to make sure they’re happy, she isn’t afraid of annoying them at all because they’ve seen her at her worst. She loves to laugh and she loves cracking jokes, though a lot of the time, they’re pretty corny puns. Still, they’re good natured and such. She can get pretty talkative if it’s a topic she likes to contribute to.

-- AFFECTIONATE: Also, when she’s comfortable around someone, she’s very affectionate. No matter who it is, if they’re up for it, Lorelai’s liable to cuddle up to them or hug them a lot or hold their hand. She’ll back off if she thinks she’s being obnoxious, but she’s a pretty clingy person because there aren’t too many people in her life that she’s really comfortable around. She’s loyal to a fault. She sees the best in people and loves all of her friends dearly. That’s not to say she’s flirtatious, although sometimes her affections, if directed towards a male, could seem that way. In fact, she’s extremely naïve when it comes to feelings past anything platonic. Probably because she hasn’t experienced that since Elliot, which was back in High School. On the off chance (at least in her mind) that anyone has feelings for her, she would never be able to pick up on signals. She’d have to be told straight out because she’s pretty convinced that people wouldn’t see her in that fashion. If a situation like that were ever to arise, however, she would probably go along with it unless there was a specific reason why she shouldn’t. She would probably feel sheepish in those kinds of situations, although they’d make her happy.

-- GUILTY: Lorelai feels responsible for Elliot’s death, and constantly feels the weight of that on her shoulders. It’s for this reason that if anyone she loves is into anything that could potentially be harmful, she’ll step out of her comfort zone to try and help them get out of it. Because she loves her friends and she doesn’t think she could handle another loss like Elliot’s. She feels as though she has to fix the mistake she made in the past by not telling someone before it was too late.


-- LOVES: children, her former band mates, playing shows, her banjo (which she affectionately named ‘louis’), ukuleles, pianos, flowers, springtime, hot chocolate, wine (in small amounts), traveling, snow, new york city (particularly in the winter), books, little items that token places she’s been, laughter, old photographs, watching french movies, when people are happy, hugs, cuddling, scarves, dresses, vintage jewelry, water fountains, Harry Potter, meeting new people, making friends, chocolate, caramel, and old school video games.
-- HATES: hard core drugs, drunk people, hate mail, hate in general, being by herself, loud noises (unless they’re native to the city), arguing, pants, horror movies, HIV, guns, anything that frightens her, being shy, and really high heeled shoes.

-- HISTORY !

Lorelai grew up in a quiet home in Minnesota, born to a set of upstanding citizens who had always dreamt of having a tight-knit family (which was small, consisting of her parents, Lorelai, and later down the line, her brother). She was a quiet child, always preferring to sit at home rather than go outside to play with the neighborhood kids. Her parents began to try and force her into social situations, setting her up in various play groups in hopes that she would make a few friends- for the most part, their attempts failed. She made exactly one friend before entering school, in the form of one Elliot Smith, a young boy with almost as quiet of a personality as her own. Both of their parents were eager to set them up, wanting them to develop social skills, and by the time they entered kindergarten, the two were inseparable. Throughout elementary school, Lorelai obtained a few more friends (who she would later form a band with) but Elliot was not as quick to befriend the others, too. She grew up with these two sets of friends, though Ellie had always taken priority.

In the sixth grade, she decided she wanted to pick up a musical instrument because she had been seeing a lot of her peers with such hobbies. While she pushed for the banjo, her parents were intent on having her learn the piano- eventually, they compromised that if they allowed her to learn the banjo, she would have to pick up piano lessons two years later. She agreed, begrudgingly, but eventually came to love the piano almost as much. In High School, she would come to learn the ukulele as well.

Lore, although still painfully shy, was quite content with her life by the time she entered High School. Her family was steady, she had friends, she had music, and she had Elliot. But they were growing up and things were changing rapidly; they would soon be under the pressures of life and peers and everything they’d never really had to worry about before. Her feelings for Elliot (and vice versa) were becoming less and less platonic as the days passed by, and a relationship was inevitable. Sure enough, halfway through their Freshman year, they were a steady item, though it never came as a shock.

Elliot found an actual friend their Sophomore year in the form of a Junior who was pretty notorious for his house parties. Ellie, not wanting to pass this opportunity up, begged Lore to attend one of said gatherings with him, which she agreed to. There, they both smoked their first joint, which at the time didn’t seem to be a huge deal. Lorelai was just happy that Elliot was making friends. Unfortunately, things didn’t stay that innocent.

Lore had always found a decent balance in her life, with family and music and Elliot and her other friends and school. He, on the other hand, was not quite so skilled. His newfound friends consumed his life, and after a month there was a rare moment when he was sober. She was losing her grip on him. This was her first friend, first love, first kiss. The guy she lost her virginity to. The guy she’d spent night after night over the course of over ten years talking to on the phone about everything and nothing. And though, at least for the time being, they were still together, he was no longer the guy she had once known. She tried to keep up, occasionally following after him and getting pushed into smoking weed, but the situation was getting out of control.

Especially when the group started doing harder drugs.

After hearing about Elliot’s first experience with cocaine, she quickly switched her views on everything and tried to ask him to stop. She begged. She missed her best friend but he wasn’t having any of it; they fought and, consequently, broke up. Lorelai was heartbroken- she’d lost the most important person in her life to drugs. But she didn’t know what to do about it except move on. Because as far as she could tell, he was happier with his new friends, and she didn’t want to take that away from him.

She grew closer to her now-band mates, starting to play music with them to try and keep herself distracted. They liked the sound and, while they hadn’t officially formed, they started hanging out regularly just to play. While Lorelai was still worried sick about Elliot, she felt better now that she had something to do.

It wasn’t until halfway through their Senior year that she spoke to Ellie again. He called her up and asked if they could talk- still unable to resist, she agreed. Though he was still different, when she saw him again, he was entirely sober. He explained to her that he was no longer involved with that group, that he’d been through rehab, and that he missed his best friend. For the next four days, they spent time together as though nothing had ever gone wrong. Even their relationship sparked back up. The day after that, he dropped off the face of the earth. And three days after that, Elliot got his hands on a gun and committed suicide in his bedroom.

His suicide note explained that he had contracted HIV from someone, and that “he would rather die now than live a life waiting for it to happen on its own”.

Lorelai was devastated and didn’t get back into any sense of normalcy until about six months later, when she was finally okay enough to get back to her other friends. Due to the fact that she had intercourse with Elliot during those four days, her other friends attempted to push her to get tested, but she was dead set against it. Still, to this day, she just doesn't want to know. Eventually, they dropped it.

When she was nineteen, they formed a small band (in which she played the ukulele and, on occasion, the banjo), and that proved to be a good distraction. They were never big, but they played around town and gained a small following, mostly in just their city and others surrounding it. That helped pull her out of her shell just a bit, though not too terribly much. But everyone grew up and when the vocalist went off to college, the band had an amicable split. But Lorelai didn't have any plans for her life- she was too focused on the past. With nothing left in Minnesota, she took the small amount of funds she did have and moved to Capeside, MA.

She lives, now, in a small apartment where she's taken a job as a barista in a quaint coffee shop, playing her banjo and ukulele out on the streets in the spare time for some extra change.

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