[cis woman andWelcome to Aurora Bay, ESTHER CLEMENTS! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like GRACE VAN PATTEN. You must be the TWENTY-FIVE year old ATTENDANT AT COOLDOWN ICE RINK. Word is you’re ARTICULATE but can also be a bit COMPLACENT and your favorite song is ANTHEMS FOR A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL by BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE. I also heard you’ll be staying in OCEAN CREST APARTMENTS. I’m sure you’ll love it! Trigger Warnings: minor mention of drugs
basic stats
Full Name: Esther Mallory Clements
Nickname(s): Estie, Est
Gender: Cis woman (she/her)
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Birthday: April 27, 1999
Hometown: Aurora Bay, CA
Current Residence: Ocean Crest Apartments
Time in AB: All her life
Occupation: Attendant at Cooldown Ice Rink
Education: High School Diploma
Religion: None
Pets: A 3-year-old orange tabby named Argyle
Family: Susan Argyle (mom), Mitchell Clements (dad), Bonnie Foster-Goldstein Clements (stepmom), Megan Clements (older sister), Ethan Clements (younger brother), Michael Foster-Goldstein (stepbrother)
Faceclaim: Grace Van Patten
Hair Color: Naturally dark brown, dyed blonde
Eye Color: Dark brown
Height: 5'5
Tattoos: tba
Piercings: Three in each ear
Favorite Movie: Interstellar
Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Pinot Grigios
Favorite Food: Cheeseburgers
headcanons
Her step-mom's full name is Bonnie Foster-Goldstein Clements. Foster is her maiden name and Goldstein is her previous husband's last name. When Estie found out Bonnie was keeping her first husband's last name she busted out laughing and that really laid the foundation for their mutual hatred. Esther also gave Bonnie's son, Michael, his first joint when he was 12 and she still brings it up to this day even though it was almost ten years ago
Esther has a cat named Argyle. Argyle is Esther's mom's maiden name, which she notoriously changed back to during her messy divorce. When Esther went to find a cat to adopt, she found an orange tabby named Argyle and thought it was so funny she kept that as the name
Hates cooking but finds baking very therapeutic and is obsessed with making bread
Has loved ice skating since her mom tried to sign her up for a class when she was eight. She hated the class but loved the skating. Her mom forced her to keep taking them for a few years until she finally flat out refused, but she's always kept practicing on her own time. She's not fantastic or anything because she hasn't actually been formally trained beyond those few years but she's pretty good and most of all she finds it really meditative just skating around the rink for a couple hours
Loves absolutely all kinds of music and obsessively tracks what she listens to on Last.fm
Every firstborn daughter on her mom's side of the family is supposed to be named Esther. Her dad, however, hated the name so much he refused to go along with the tradition for Esther's sister, and therefore had to give in when they had a second daughter
Failed her driving test the first time
Has an undiagnosed and untreated anxiety disorder that makes her kind of abrasive sometimes because she has no idea how to deal with it when she starts getting overstimulated
Almost drowned when she was 11 when a boy pushed her into the pool. She was a bad swimmer and she has a small scar on her forehead from bumping into the pool wall in her panic. The smell of chlorine still gives her a little bit of anxiety
biography
Born and raised in Aurora Bay, California, Esther's always thought that leaving her hometown seemed completely impossible, but that not leaving seemed even more so.
She's the middle of three children: her sister, Megan, who is two and a half years older, and her brother, Ethan, who is a year and a half younger. The age difference aways mattered less than the disparate personalities — Esther and Ethan clicked almost from the time Ethan started talking, while Megan found much less in common with her two siblings. Esther thinks her sister is a giant bitch and only talks to her when she has to.
When she was 11 and 12, during most of her seventh grade year, Esther's parents went through an extremely messy divorce. Following that, she and her siblings were forced to live with their mom during the week and their dad on weekends, which to Esther was massively unfair since her dad lived much further away from all her friends. She mostly left it up to Megan to fight with their mom and dad about it though — to this day, the only thing they agree on is that the divorce was fucked up and they can't figure out how their parents ended up together in the first place.
In high school, Esther was more focused on socializing and trying to fill the void of her home life and mostly got average to bad grades. Her dad remarried when she was 17 — she and her step-mom, Bonnie, openly despise each other and literally cannot share a friendly word. Megan and Bonnie get along famously, and not only because Bonnie (and her family) are loaded. Esther believes they're genuinely just cut from the same demented cloth. This is one of the few things Esther and her actual mother like to bond over.
While so many of her friends and classmates went away to school after graduation (or at least had some plan for what they'd be doing in Aurora Bay), Estie enrolled in community college and proceeded to do about as badly as she had in high school. She spent her time not only socializing but picking up a pill habit (benzos mostly, which had the confusing side effect of feeling like they helped her anxiety), and she finally dropped out after only one year. Her parents constantly harass her about going back to school, and she does want to (with a very secret ambition to become an actress), but the more time goes by and the more they nag the more spiteful and anxious she becomes and aside from that, she learned a deep fear of commitment from her parents that's followed her into adulthood and made it difficult for her to set herself firmly to a path for her future.
She has some idea that she's running around with an undiagnosed and unacknowledged anxiety/panic disorder, but so far continues to find chronic suffering preferable to a therapist, thanks to the terrible one she and her siblings were forced to see when her parents got divorced. She's been working as an attendant at Cooldown Ice Rink for about a year now after bouncing around a few different places the last couple years, and she always says she really wouldn't mind it that much if it paid more.
connection ideas
just a few close friends but plenty of casual ones and def some people she doesn't get along with
you'll catch her at the clubs and the bars on weekends. very nightlife oriented. definitely party friends, but she can also be a huge bitch so i wld also love ppl she's gotten into it with at clubs or bars. i know she's had a proper cat fight before. who got into it w her and got their hair pulled and their face slapped? TYDYJFKYGUKH
the usual stuff. exes, one night stands, friends with benefits. estie's a serial dater and almost sinisterly good at fwb without catching feelings. kind of bot coded the way she can shut down and become emotionless
childhood stuff. she bounced around middle class neighborhoods and went to the local schools. friends, enemies, lab-partners-in-sophomore-science-class vibes, neighborhood connections, family friends
anybody from the ice rink. employees there, regulars, random strangers she's helped with their technique or who have helped her w hers, or both
definitely a coffee fiend. people who work at cafes or are regular at cafes, or maybe somebody she's kind of a coffee snob with
spends a lot of time at the beach. she's still not a very strong swimmer, maybe somebody who's helping her with that
