THE SCANDAL WAS CONTAINED/THE BULLET HAD JUST GRAZED/AT ALL COSTS KEEP YOUR GOOD NAME/YOU DON'T GET TO TELL ME YOU FEEL BAD
{ mikey madison, 20, woman, she/her } Is that REBECCA “BECK” HOFFMAN? A SENIOR originally from NEW YORK, they decided to come to Ogden College to study DANCE. They’re THE NEPO BABY on campus, but even they could get blamed for Greer’s disappearance.
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basics:
full name: rebecca "beck" hoffman
age: 21
date of birth: september 12, 2004
zodiac sign: virgo
hometown: new york, ny
gender: cis female
sexuality: bisexual
languages spoken: english, russian
PERSONALITY:
positive qualities: self-sufficient, talented, observant
negative qualities: aloof, blunt, critical
skills: ballet, listening, reading the fine print
character parallels: michael bluth (arrested development), caroline channing meets max black (two broke girls), beth harmon (the queen's gambit), david rose (schitt's creek)
relationship to greer: unlike many others in their social class, beck was not unused to having roommates. the student housing at the ballet academy was spartan and cramped and there were generally four to an apartment. it wasn’t exactly the babysitters club - the women were intensely competitive and generally consumed with their own inadequacy. the environment wasn’t exactly conducive to friendship. and beck is embarrassed to think back to how she had hoped she might find that friendship in the dorms of ogden.
there might have been a veneer of friendship at the start provided by a shared social circle. but beck feels greer never really warmed to her. beck’s idea of a fun night was a shared joint and an argument about sylvia plath, while greer’s involved harder drugs and less clothes. she always had the sense she had disappointed greer by not living up to her expectations. but beck was used to not meeting people’s expectations. their roommate relationship was cordial at best, violent at worst, with both girls having a penchant for silent treatments and wars of passive aggression over petty misdemeanors. by the time greer disappeared, beck was more than ready for her to go. and yet; many would say they had never heard beck speak a harsh word of her. some twisted sense of loyalty kept beck’s mouth shut and greer’s secrets safe.
bio: you’ve heard stories about rebecca on a late-night talk show before - gordon hoffman tells one every time he promotes that series of superhero movies he directs (you know, the ones with too much cgi and too much spandex), and mary hoffman always finds a way to bring her up when she’s on a red carpet for some prestige drama miniseries or oscar-bait period piece. the one you’ve probably heard over and over is this - when beck was young, just an infant, her parents realized on the eve of some buzzy awards show they had failed to secure a babysitter. rather than scramble, they simply brought her along and wheeled her stroller under the table for the duration of the night, where beck slept so well and so soundly that their tablemates were shocked when they pulled her out at the end of the night. ‘what a little professional’ , they all cooed. beck knew from a very early age the best way to please her parents was to stay out of the way.
she was a perfect little professional when she came to set for a cameo on her mother’s show, a solemn six year old who had perfectly memorized her lines. she was a perfect little professional every day in ballet class, diligently stretching and without a hair out of place in her bun. she was a perfect little professional as she signed her own field trip forms and reading logs, organized her own schedule with the family chauffeur, packed her own brown-bag lunches. in fact, beck was so professional, sometimes her parents forgot she was their daughter and not someone they employed to play her.
her parents had often thought they had the perfect family arrangement. beck was at an elite ballet school that conveniently housed and fed her, leaving them free to flit between los angeles and new york and wherever else their projects may take them. they hardly blinked when she decided to go to college instead of joining a company - beck parented herself quite capably. but after a public freakout ended up splashed across the tabloids, gordon and mary are at a loss. beck is sullen, unresponsive, and uncooperative. what do you do with a professional who isn’t performing? you fire them - so the family credit card has been cut off this year. her first discovery? apparently you have to pay for drugs.
fun facts:
beck's family refers to her as birdie
since she was essentially raised by russian ballet teachers, she's picked up their penchant for cigarettes, head scarves, and tolstoy, as well as the language.
loves bob dylan and gothic novels
her childhood crush was kim possible
she thinks of herself as very practical and down to earth but she still has weird blind spots (she did do all her own paperwork for college but doesn't know how much a banana costs)
wanted connections:
book club: pretentious book club!! maybe with a potluck component!! (beck is a pretty decent cook)
crush: beck is at her heart a Piner and a Yearner and i would love to write some kind of friend pining plot!!
childhood friend: beck isn't one who's always had a lot of friends, but i would love some connections from childhood who would be able to see how much she's changed recently
bad influences: beck hasn't exactly been a fixture of ogden's nightlife scene, but now that she doesn't care anymore, this person is more than happy to introduce beck to the wonders of not caring.
