Post by jenny claude macdermott on Oct 28, 2012 10:41:17 GMT -5
[/justify]JENNY CLAUDE MACDERMOTT
| B A S I C S |
Name Jennifer Claude MacDermott
Nicknames Jenny most commonly, Jen and Mac occasionally
PB Anna Christine Speckhart
Age 20
Sex Female
Year Sophomore
Major Graphic Design
Minor English
Occupation Waitress
Hometown Tallahassee, FL| P E R S O N A L I T Y |
It isn't that Jenny can't tell the difference between right or wrong, it's just that she doesn't care. Throwing all social custom aside, she does things not according to her cultures mores or values, but to suit her own wants and needs. For her, 'I felt like it,' is explanation enough, not that anyone deserves to know anything about her. She is rash, impulsive and rough- her parents were almost glad to get rid of her first year of university, since they'd had so much trouble dealing with such an intense daughter who flagrantly broke important laws for the sake of having fun and once hopped a train to Alabama when she found out that her family wasn't going to have a vacation that year. Jenny finds it hard to think about the consequences of her actions before she makes a decision to do something completely unreasonable, and has a difficult time empathizing with others. That's not to say she can't do it, but it takes too much time and she's only got one life to live.
Jenny lives to do everything. If there's something she hasn't done, chances are she'll do it even if she thinks it's a bad idea, for the sake of having done it, and so she can brag about having done it. Most of the time this ends badly, but Jenny hasn't learned her lesson even after an eating disorder, a drug addiction, a national scandal and expulsion from middle school. But, it's also led her to do many good things, like helping the homeless (although that was inspired by a short stint of being homeless), cleaning oil off birds after that big BP oil spill, running support groups for street kids, the list goes on. She doesn't do these things because she wants to help people, however. she does them because either she has nothing else to do, or because she hasn't done them before.
Jenny can sometimes be unsettling. She'll occasionally get angry and go absolutely shit-stir crazy, beating the living crap out of anyone who confronts her, planning murders, or just sitting very still and staring intensely, radio turned to static, for hours on end. The thing about Jenny is that she's unpredictable at best, and nobody would really be surprised if she actually did kill someone. This is only occasional, most of the time she's perfectly calm- stoic, even. She lets her feelings build up behind a casual mask until one day around once a month she lets it all loose, kind of like a period. But she'll still fight any time. A Jenny without bloody knuckles is only half a Jenny.
Her fascination with violence is actually a big part of her. It's nothing like developing sociopaths torturing neighborhood cats, but she is an enthusiastic member of a local gun club (the youngest of three female members) and has always been interested in hand-to-hand combat styles. Where other university-age girls are taking lame evasive action-style "self defense" classes in the event they get mugged or raped or whatever, Jenny was learning from her co-worker a few crazy prison-riot fight tactics, designed to create mayhem, not keep her body safe from harm. Jenny is quicker to ball up her fist than to speak about her feelings, and she's not going to discriminate between assholes: be you the Queen of England or a twelve year old girl, she works out, and punches like she's got nothing to lose.
Talents & Skills: bread - Having grown up in a bakery, this girl knows bread and she's vocal about it. She judges people on their bread-buying choices, and makes bread every Sunday, regardless of whether or not she wants to eat it.
intelligence - despite her terrible decision-making skills, Jenny still has enough street smarts and book learnin' to go around. She is deceptively committed to her education and her studies.
persuasion - Jenny could talk a snake out of its skin. She's always been able to say what people want to hear and get her own way as a result.
patience - Try to wear Jenny out and you'll soon find it's impossible. She's almost annoyingly patient, content to sit for hours and do the same thing, or nothing, until the cows come home.
Weaknesses: first impressions - Normally, if Jenny doesn't like the kind of person you are, she won't put on any kind of show to pretend that she has no problem with you. Her up-front nature doesn't come off so well on other people.
social custom - Jenny has trouble observing it for any culture. Mostly, she just does whatever the hell she wants.
expressing her feelings - in a constructive way. Jenny has a tendency to not be able to deal properly with the things she's feeling, and ends up either fighting about it or completely self-destructing.
Likes: Breakfast, Doing Groceries and Laundry and other domestic tasks, museums, the ocean, bread, design, puzzles and logic riddles, history books
Dislikes: Being restrained/Small spaces, being weighed down, having many possessions, meaningless conversations, kale, wearing tights.
| H I S T O R Y |
Jenny's tale is one of much struggle and overcoming obstacles, and this is because it is so damn hard to be a badass when you grew up in Florida. Sure, some people pull it off, but they're definite outliers, since the surroundings aren't exactly conducive to creating badasses. Even when she was little, Jenny felt that her little bit of Southern USA was too small, or at least too homogenous for her. She was four or five, and already dreaming of something bigger. The world, perhaps, or beyond it, who knew what things would be like when she was big enough to go out on her own.
Obviously she didn't make it very far.
Jenny grew up in an apartment above her family's business in Tallahassee, Florida, where her dad ran a successful boulangerie. She grew up immersed in the wonderful smell and taste and process of baking bread, which everyone knows is the best thing ever. Her father taught her how to make every single loaf of bread in the place, and by the time she was ten, she was helping her dad out in the store for pocket money, and making bread for the shelves and to deliver to restaurants. At that point, it was pretty much the only thing she was interested in. She didn't have many friends at school, due to her being all intense and moody, and she didn't play well with others, so sports were out of the question. Bread and puzzles were perfectly reasonable solitary activities, and she was fine with them for a while.
Until she discovered how much fun it was to try new things and get in trouble for it. Being an only child, it wasn't as if she was starved for attention, she just loved the notoriety that being the class criminal gave her amongst her classmates. And she didn't always have to get into trouble, either. By going out and doing things that she had never done before, she found that outside her cloistered little world of puzzles and bread, it was actually pretty fun as long as she kept everything new. Of course, half the time this led to trouble, and her parents didn't know what to do with a child that had made such a dramatic turn for the worse. After she was expelled from public school, they tried sending her to one of those troubled kid schools, and in a way, Jenny was reformed.
She learned not to get caught. For the most part, the criminal kids in there were losers, or kind of dirty and gross, or weird and depressed. She didn't want to be any of them, so she vowed not to get caught, even for little things. This was sophomore year of high school. When she returned to public high school the next fall, she was celebrated as a legend of crazy troublemakin', and because she was so well-adjusted and clean from her stint in trouble school, she was deemed 'harmless crazy' and granted the highest of honours, a spot at the popular kids' table in the cafeteria.
The popular kids were alright, but what Jenny really liked about her table was the vantage point for starting food fights.
Jenny was on the principal's list and graduated with honours, but that expulsion and the detentions and bad behaviour really didn't put her in line for the best universities. She settled on Orange Island University, since it was close enough to her parents for them to drive up if she got herself in some kind of accident (their demand) and far enough away that they wouldn't find out about whatever she was doing by word of mouth.
Next stop, the world.| E X T R A S |
- Jenny is REALLY CREEPED OUT BY GHOST STORIES. She has a very overactive imagination and gets worked up really easily.
- Her favourite food is beets. She is in love with beets.
- She has this one ring she found once that she wears all the time. It has no real value, but she has grown attached to it somehow.
| S K I L L S |
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