so i am in fact a mess and ended up having a few margaritas with my roommate instead of finishing up this intro , so ... as soon as i am of sound mind in about four hours i will be coming in and adding the rest of her background ! right now i just ... cannot edit it .
do you see who that is cheering in the stands ? no , not them — i’m talking about her , you know , the one with the perpetually sun - kissed skin with a new array of freckles blossoming every other day ? it’s bondi gerard , & wait until i tell you about them . apparently , they’re a junior here at biscayne studying environmental sciences , & a lot of people know them because they’re always in the middle of that stupid , never - ending rivalry . they’re a legacy student who loves reminding everyone unprovoked that their family’s worth , like , $235 million , or something , & i think that’s why they’re always feuding with someone or only sticking with people from alpha xi , the beach volley ball team , & yachting club . time & time again , they’re known for melted ice cream dripping sticky pink down fingers adorned in gold bottega veneta rings aplenty , the subliminal message of bosch's garden of earthly delights etched into the grooves of your brain , and lips stained a faint pink from drunkenly eating an entire jar of maraschino cherries , & it’s not all that surprising that people refer to them as being bodacious & imaginative , but also censorious & capricious . have you seen the things they’ve said on twitter ?
* ⎛ 𝐨𝐧𝐞 : 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 ⎠
𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 : bondi cerise gerard . 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 : she had been conceived on a yacht anchored right off the coast of bondi beach , henry and taryn had always found it far more amusing than most . 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉 : idk i just changed it , 1999 . 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕 : libra sun , aquarius moon , pisces ascendant ( did i base half of her personality off of this ? the answer is unfortunately yes . ) 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 : sydney , australia . 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 : key biscayne , florida . 𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 : bisexual ╱ biromantic . 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 : fluent in english and french , conversational in swedish and german . 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 : henry gerard ( 56 ) , a “ self - made ” luxury hotelier with a penchant for all that glitters , but not necessarily all that is gold ( as his slew of greatly unimpressive wives and girlfriends might’ve suggested ) . hailing from a middle class family of seven adopted children from corsica , france , his hedonism and proclivity to borderline gaudy extravagance ( a side effect of his unruly and expensive blood ties ) concocted an irreplicable brand modeled after the 1920′s art deco , all gold glass , dark mahogany and animal - printed armchairs ( the chatwal in new york vibez but on a global scale ) . money - hungry and boyishly charming , henry successfully sought to create a gilded legacy for himself from long forgotten humble beginnings ( if you could truly call it that considering the arbane grape vineyard the cast out and reclaimed champagne heir had inherited at the impressionable age of nineteen ) . taryn gerard née hobbes ( deceased ) , the descendant of one of old hollywood’s biggest stars and an oil tycoon with money older than even his great grandparents spilling from pockets , was a study in creating the perfect societal darling gone terribly ( or perhaps greatly ) awry — prudence learned and long forgotten , the hobbes prayed to a god that taryn herself had spurned that she would relearn the old , timeless traditions they had sought so greatly to teach her . instead the debutante gone rouge continued to cause quite the uproar in proper society with her blatant refusal to conform to expectations and her announcement that she had converted to buddhism following a two year - long sabbatical in thailand . after the decision to donate over half her trust fund to green cross international and the reef check foundation , and her ultimate ( though not permanent ) disownment , she took off in the night once again to pursue the study of environmental sciences in sydney , australia where her love affair with henry gerard came to its fateful start and tragic end sixteen years after the birth of their one and only daughter . greta gerard née hobbes ( 39 ) was sycophantic and a bit too pretty for her own good ( all thanks to husband #1 , renowned plastic surgeon to the stars , and his hyaluronic acid and botulinum toxin ) , greta traded in that ... measly ... 6 carats for henry gerard’s garish 10 carat rock and his equally as gaudy hotel empire . king midas and damodice , the ruling coalition of gerard’s carefully curated brand of old world glamour . but some women simply weren’t meant to be mothers , and greta came far too close to topping that list — a beautiful but empty beast , with a thick and tumorous resentment towards her late sister’s child ( after all she’d taken her freedom , refused to share what little remained of her husband’s adoration , and to top it all off , she’d been left with nothing but a few worry wrinkles to show for her lackadaisical efforts in rearing the little brat . it was enough to turn anyone cold ) . 𝒎𝒚𝒆𝒓 - 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆 : the adventurer , isfp . 𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒔 : censorious , flippant , eccentric , indolent , supercilious , self-centered , opportunistic , capricious , bodacious , sincere , persuasive , charming , critical , wily , devoted , exuberant , idealistic , self - assured , impulsive , and imaginative .
𝒾 . from paris on monday , to nepal the following wednesday , bondi gerard was toted ( certainly not private . . . after all , they were trying to keep their carbon footprint minuscule , but first - class , of course ) from continent to continent like a precious and panting designer dog tucked into a sustainable designer purse . the daughter of a new - on - the - scene hotelier and his impressive wife , environmentalist , philanthropist , and founder of the taryn gerard foundation ( dedicated solely to securing a sustainable future for our planet ) , bondi’s childhood was a hybrid of her father’s ridiculously extravagant hotel openings and her mother’s humbling humanitarian aid . it came as no surprise that the product of such a convoluted environment would be exactly that , a walking contradiction — spewing impassioned rants about the hazards of climate change as she sipped on a bellini from the comfort of henry’s larger than life yacht as if boats weren’t just as bad as a private jet . but at least she drove a tesla model 3 !
𝒾𝒾 . despite hotels aplenty strewn about the world with her father’s name branded across the front in shimmering gold , she hadn’t aged a precursor to eloise at the plaza ( the lack of the actual plaza and the consistency that made the plaza a home quickly quelled that comparison ) — nor did she ever get the chance to vacation in santorini , cannes perhaps , or even southhampton like most kids in her economic class did . she and her father spent their days following taryn from norway to alaska , iceland to connecticut as she sought footage for yet another eco - themed documentary . yes , she might’ve aged rather friendless and alone with nothing but a collection of transitory private tutors and fruitless hobbies to keep her entertained , but bondi much preferred the irregularity of chasing after her parents heels to being chased through the hotel lobby by a string of nannies that waltzed through grand revolving doors only to storm out weeks later . her petulance was unmatched , as was her childlike dedication to leading a somewhat sustainable lifestyle — after all an adolescence spent surrounded by environmentalists and influential ecologists alike had made it impossible to not absorb at least half the information . but the combination did make for the oddest of interactions ( overturned plates of wagyu after she had declared she was a devout pescatarian , melt downs in the middle of saks over the collection of real fur coats , and complaints about the dirt beneath her nails after days spent in the sun attempting to restore damaged ecosystems ) .
𝒾𝒾𝒾 . her upbringing had been rather unorthodox , lax even , little was expected of her other than basic displays of concern for the environment ( henry and taryn’s reputation had been lain on her shoulders ) — little mind was paid when she presented her report cards to her parents , even less regard was offered when she and a few adolescent acquaintances had broken into the wine cellar at the ripe age of fourteen , but god forbid she appear ( even in passing ) on instagram , or in a snapchat story going against taryn’s set environment - considerate moral code . joy rides in her friend’s aston martin vanquish ( an admirable car if you didn’t take the fuel economy and pollution level into consideration ) were a big no - no , and she would always receive an earful when she’d fly home for thanksgiving on a private jet with a few classmates — it didn’t seem to matter that whether she were on the flight or not , the same amount of co2 would’ve been emitted . but despite several complaints about her mother’s parenting and her father’s refusal to ever go against his dear wife , bondi had aged in an environment brimming with love ( something her peers at an international boarding school in switzerland made her appreciate even more ) .
𝒾𝓋 . bondi was barely sixteen , and still studying abroad when word erupted that the beloved taryn gerard had been hospitalized after boarding a plane a bit too soon after a scuba - diving expedition . and before taryn’s untimely passing had even been publicized , tabloids aplenty were mourning the loss of such a devout humanitarian — a loss that rocked both herself and henry to their very core . there one day , gone the next , it was always the unexpected that hit the hardest . and that day , front seat in the cathedral ( a large - scale service planned entirely by the hobbes , she knew her mother would’ve loathed it ) bondi sat stoic and dry - eyed in a room overflowing with tearful friends , family , acquaintances , and acquaintances of acquaintances , silently mourning her second loss of the day — henry gerard as she knew him had been laid to rest alongside her mother .
𝓿 . bondi spent the rest of her teens right where she had been brought into being , along the edge of the sea — no matter how strange the immense comfort she felt there in light of what had happened might’ve been . it was there that she had grown to feel most at home ( after all her late mother’s sister had taken up residence in her own ) , toes curling into the warm sand as she flipped through pages upon pages of environmental ethics books , or doled out volunteer shirts to those that chose to join her beach clean - up all in a half attempt to preserve her mother’s legacy after her father had spurned it entirely . perhaps he had simply blamed the planet for taryn’s passing , taking his anger out on the environment that had failed her despite her immense efforts in ensuring its preservation , or perhaps greta hobbes had simply sunk her ravenous claws in too deep ( where taryn wanted for little , greta wanted for everything and henry was always happy to comply — a private jet since economy was to unreliable for her go - go - go lifestyle , a yacht docked in several ports across the globe , and all the newest designer clothes ) . from leading a half ( more accurately one - fourths ) humble lifestyle to drowning in excess , bondi's yearning for the familiar continued to fester .
𝓿𝓲 . as of now , she is a junior at university of biscayne flordia , greta’s alma matter , she reluctantly ( but only initially ) rushed alpha xi as a legacy there , is a proud member of the beach volleyball team , and her love for sailing and the sea in general led to her joining yachting club as well . an odd hybrid of two opposite women’s mothering ( or lack thereof in greta’s case ) , bondi is an environmental sciences major though her drive to make a major change had been quelled in the slightest by the convenience and her reluctant enjoyment of greta’s lavish lifestyle .
