elizabeth lail & she/her & cis female ‷ watch out , elle rogers has crash-landed into roswell !! they look twenty-nine years old and celebrate their birthday on may 11 . they are from new haven, connecticut, reside in aurora apartments and are currently working as manager of annie's antiques. one thing you should know about them is her daughter iris is named after her favorite flower.‷
BASICS:
NAME: Elle Catherine Rogers
KNOWN AS: Elle
BIRTHDATE: May 11, 1992
ASTROLOGY: Taurus sun / Virgo moon / Gemini rising
HOMETOWN: New Haven, CT
GENDER: Cis female ( she/her )
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
HEIGHT: 5'8"
HAIR COLOR: Blonde
EYE COLOR: Green
OCCUPATION: Manager at Annie’s Antiques
ABOUT: ( tw pregnancy )
Elle was born and raised in Connecticut, peak suburban culture. A mom and dad, a brother, a sister, a golden retriever. The white picket fence. It would take a long time before Elle realized she wanted more out of her life than the bubble she grew up in, and for a long time she was happy where she was.
After high school graduation, Elle stayed in Connecticut for college, majoring in journalism with an interest in journalism, so she could continue to date her high school sweetheart. She had been accepted to schools from all over the country, but he had told her that they’d one day get married and have the perfect life, and the teenage girl fell for it. She’d continue to fall for it for years—ten years, to be exact. One minute she was a bright eyed seventeen year old with her whole life ahead of her, and suddenly in a blink of an eye she was twenty-seven and still living at home, still dating the same boy from high school that showed no sign of proposing or getting a real job. She went from being the first friend in her friend group to have a serious boyfriend at sixteen, to now being the only one without an engagement ring.
It’s unlike Elle to really complain, so used to what she knows that the idea of a life outside of her bubble was near impossible to think about. So her family and friends knew it had to be bad when she told them about her fight with her boyfriend, how he was now her ex-boyfriend. Everyone said they were proud of her, but Elle could also see they were worried about her; with the end of a ten year relationship came a crack in the blonde’s rose colored glasses, now able to evaluate her life and see how unhappy she really was.
So she continued on the rebellious streak, quitting the editorial job that she had been complaining about for nearly two years and convincing her friends to take a trip to Los Angeles with her, in need of somewhere sunny and warm. As a surprise, her friend got them tickets to see Graveyard in concert, and feeling bold, Elle convinced them to sneak backstage after the show to meet the band. It was then that she met Elijah Parker, and from there the rest was history.
Her friends thought she was insane from leaving them behind in Los Angeles to be a groupie with the band, but it was the most free Elle had ever been. She had done more drugs and drank more than she ever had in the two months they were together, though while it was a lot of fun at the time, the blonde can’t help but look back on the time and be a little embarrassed at the girl she was. Of course, it didn’t help that she eventually had to return back to New Haven, and a few weeks later she found out she was pregnant.
Her parents weren’t happy to hear their eldest daughter was pregnant, an embarrassment to all their book club and golf buddies. But with nowhere else to turn, Elle decided to stay with them through the pregnancy and after her baby was born, just until she could save up for her own place. Where else could she go? She wanted to do the single mom thing, but it took only a year of little Iris being alive for her to realize she needed more help than her parents and sister could provide.
She didn’t expect Elijah to want anything to do with her or Iris, being a rock star and all that. Elle will always say it wasn’t meeting Elijah that changed her life, but the day she showed up on his doorstep with a baby in her hands and he didn’t turn her away. Instead he helped her move out of parent’s home, following the rest of his band to Roswell where the two of them now live together as co-parents.
Elle’s been in Roswell for a year and a half now, slowly getting used to her new normal: Iris, Elijah, Annie’s Antiques. Her sister Ruby moving to town had been a huge relief with making Roswell feel like home, but she’s quickly grown to enjoy the quirky little town. It’s more colorful than Connecticut—which is what she likes about it—but Elle also found it a little difficult at first to make friends. Granted, she’s as sweet as apple pie, easy to get along with and hard to dislike. She’s polite to a fault, only growing a backbone when her daughter is involved. But having been in an unfulfilling relationship for most of her adult life, Elle is still very much coming into herself, and learning what she does and doesn’t want. There’s a restlessness in her that she has yet to shake, wanting to skip ahead to the part of her life where she feels like she has everything figured out, but now knowing how to get there.
WANTED CONNECTIONS:
new friends she’s made since being in town : neighbors, other parents, those who come around the antique store, anyone that’s interested in being friends with a women who talks about her daughter way too much.
anyone close to elijah would at the very least know of her, i do love piggybacking off of other plots <3
some kinda found family, since most of elle’s family is back on the east coast. let her be the mom friend to anyone who needs it, and they can be an honorary aunt or uncle to iris
someone elle went on an awkward first date with awhile back that went pretty terribly because she hadn’t been on a first date in like twelve years and was too nervous to function
any local babysitters in town who wanna watch iris !
someone to flirt with elle at the store and her be frikkin oblivious
that opposites attract friends that drags elle out for girl’s nights when she rather stay home watching love it or list it
a drunken one night stand she had recently that is now super awk to run into
another parent with kids a little older who she looks to for guidance a lot, especially if they’re a single parent/co-parent not with a spouse
i’d imagine working at an antique shop makes her friends with a lot of elderly people, so maybe she’s close to your muse’s grandma or something fgdufdfgf
i’m truly here for anything !
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