the whole kaleidoscope, [1]

[LENA DEMI ROUSSEAU]

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[atrb=style, width:250px; height:150; overflow: auto;][atrb=valign, top] lena demi rousseau she is from bath, england where she was raised by an unfaithful father, a devoting mother, over protective brother and in time, a doe-eyed sister. her father ended up leaving the family when her mother fell pregnant with the third rousseau child and has never been heard from since. lena fell in love with the art of dancing in the sixth grade and she was competing in the national division by high school as she had developed a passion and a skill for it early on. she was invited to go to paris after high school where she went to every single summer, visiting her grandparents who had a place in boston, and jumped at the chance to leave the over bearing, sheltered nest and fly on her own. she started school in london, met a boy and fell in love but the dance company advanced and she was forced to choose between her two loves--lucas or dance. he made the choice for her and she was on a plane to the united states where she has been staying for about two years and is now returning back to boston after an injury has side staged her. lena is honestly one of the most cautious twenty one year olds that you will ever meet. she is flighty and insecure about her appearance and her all around personality. she is more open to breaking out of her shell but she does not have the strength to actually fight her fears and step into the world. everything about the world scares her and yet, she finds humans to be a shining light on the cruel world and she cannot see the bad in people. she is overly sweet to the point that people thinks she is fake until an anxiety attack comes along and people realize that she is just scared. her attacks are frequent and vary from one extreme to another. she is used to them and knows how to handle them but they are triggered by being touched, feeling like she is going to cry, the actual physical dark, the unknown, talking about her futures are just some of the trigger points that cause these attacks. as a result of not speaking for a year and a half after her father left, when lena decided to finally open her mouth to say anything, it came out in stutters and has been there every since. [style=font-size: 25px; font-family: wire one; letter-spacing: 3px; text-align: center; color: #BF9666;]FRIENDS despite being a friendly girl, sweetheart at best and always willing to help a stranger, she is not one for social relations as she finds herself too strange to be apart of the human race. lena actually feels very inhumane and hates it but she enjoys watching other people. these friends that she gains will be either complete opposite of her that are outgoing and party friendly and are looking to shelter her further from the world and protect her innocence. the other side would be people like her, who she can sit and have a cup of coffee with and not have to beg the person not to go to a party or someone that won't drag her off to a place that makes her uncomfortable. these friends have to be able to understand her fears and also accept her stutter and her all around anxiety of social interactions. her friends are important to her, very important and she will drop anything and do anything for them if they call upon her and even if they don't ENEMIES she does not hate, it's a strange concept but lena is too forgiving and too caring to actually have hatred for another. if she has nothing nice to say, she says it in her head and then feels guilty about it and bakes cookies to make up for the guilty to give to her "enemy". people believe that she is completely fake but she's not, lena is very genuine but she gets on people's nerves too and she accepts that. LOVERS is not so ....easy for her. lena is not a fan of the physical aspect of a relationship until she learns to trust that person unconditionally. dance is her first love and she tries to place it above all else but a male could come along and shatter her illusion that dance will be the only love she needs. exs are not likely except for her university boyfriend who she is still pretty hurt about but she is not a virgin (shocking) but she has only slept with one guy and the thought of doing it again scares her because again, she does not like to be touched and will most likely have an anxiety attack if she does.[/style]

[NINA ANYA WORTHINGTON]

NEIL

i think, for some odd reason, neil ad lena would have met. he owns a local coffee shop that is secretly used as the irish mafia meeting place, but he cannot stand the mafia. perhaps she comes in for a cup of coffee and they talk and he doesn't mind her stuttering and anxiety? neil is an odd man, he's super cautious of the world after his stepmother basically sold him into the mafia. he doesn't trust easily and he's only ever been in love once, but she broke his heart. he would love to have a coffee buddy, where they awkwardly stare at each other and drink coffee. he doesn't push conversation and he doesn't really out himself out into the world all that often. so basically, my irish man could be perfect for a friend for her.

TEGAN

tegan would be on the opposite side of the spectrum. she's outgoing and wild, crazy and smart. she'd be the one to randomly introduce herself to lena and then try to drag lena out to parties or something on the weekends. she could be the one that may push lena into doing something other then dancing. but she'd also be super interested in the dancing and would probably go and see lena perform wherever she was performing or something.

[CRESSIDA AHRI MANCINI]

while i'm sure lena could be plotted with a few of my characters, the one that stuck out to me when i was reading through her app was cressida. cressida is a ballerina too! she's younger than lena by a few years, but she's super outgoing and friendly. like jessie said about tegan, cressida would be likely to try to pull lena out of her shell. she'd be charismatic enough for both of them. i could see them becoming best friends and cressida finishing her sentences when she stuttered (which would probably irritate lena, perhaps? lol). she'd be all, "i already know what you're going to say before you say it." haha

i propose an epic trio with lena, tegan, and cressida. the three of them together would be a hoot, and probably be on the news all the time, if only for the simple fact that tegan and cressida are crazy and they'd drag lena into all of their shenanigans. xD