tempest snorts at her cousin's face, though she attempts to cover it with a cough of her own. it's a weird sort of feeling, to be face to face with family, but to feel further away from them than she's ever been. to be a stranger with someone she's known from birth, to nearly question every word she speaks more than she's been taught to. "pretty sure we got a lecture about the 'dangers of cigarettes' at some point, but it's your funeral." the words are out before she can stop them, her face paling and her eyes wide. "shit, i'm so sorry, ro. i didn't mean it like that."
FULL NAME  ROWENA ROYCE   NICKNAMES RO, RAVEN     DATE OF BIRTH  AUGUST 1ST.   AGE  TWENTY-EIGHT   PLACE OF BIRTH REDFORD, OREGON   GENDER AND PRONOUNS  CIS WOMAN & SHE / HER.     RELIGION   ROMAN CATHOLIC .   LANGUAGE  ENGLISH, SOME BASIC SPANISH OCCUPATION MODEL EDUCATION BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN SOCIAL WORK ZODIAC LEO SUN
ii.
HAIR BROWN, OFTEN STYLED TO HIGHLIGHT ITS VOLUME EYES BROWN AS WELL, ALWAYS QUESTIONING HEIGHT 173 CM BUILD SHE'S QUITE KNOWN FOR BEING LEAN/TALL SCENT BOTH ALLURING AND SWEET, TO HIGHLIGHT THE POLAR OPPOSITES OF HER. WITH NOTES OF IRIS AND MUSK. DOMINANT HAND RIGHT ALLERGIES NONE THAT SHE KNOWS OF SCARS NONE, HER SKIN IS MILK-SOFT DISTINGUISHING FEATURES PERHAPS IT'S THE MELANCHOLY OF HER EYES CLOTHING STYLE THE MOST EXPENSIVE MATERIALS AND CLOTHING BRANDS THAT MONEY CAN BUY CAN BE FOUND IN HER CLOSET. SHE SPARES NO EXPENSES.
iii.
MBTI ESFP â THE PERFORMER CHARACTER ALIGNMENT TRUE NEUTRAL PRIMARY VICE LUST PRIMARY VIRTUE KINDNESS CHARACTER PARALLELS LAURA PALMER ( TWIN PEAKS ), JENNIFER CHECK ( JENNIFER'S BODY )
iv.
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v.
the first grandchild born to solomon royce and oh gods, what a thing it was for the royce empire. not only was she the first, but she was also a girl, and therefore tenfold spoiled, spoon-feed only the best things that life has to offer, and when you're on top, hear and trust, that it has lots to give.
affectionately dubbed as ro, occasionally called raven, for just how serious she was even as a girl, she lived with no tether to the real world, always above the rest, simply by existing.
those who know rowena know that she's always been kind. those who know her, would never have a single bad thing to say of her. those who know her well, would tell you that you're wrong. homecoming queen, beloved princess of redford, model citizen cherished by those around her, rowena's life is tragic in a way that's preventable, but she suffers all the same, mostly at her own hand.
intimately, up close, she bites simply because she can, or because that's the only thing she knows how to do. perhaps she was born cruel. perhaps the excessive attention and adulation made her this way. at best, maybe she's just insecure, but none of it could every justify the rigid duality of her personality.
she loves bad company, expensive drugs ( as long as they don't belong to her family ), and even worse loves.
she staggers through the world, half-limping, a monstrous fawn, consuming both herself and anything that gets in her path. tortured. forever. occasionally blissful. at least when she's pretending.
she's beautifulâ cruel and sad things, and womenâ always are, and she's done her best to make something of herself, but that best simply isn't enough. which is why she's a model. and a rolemodel, to little girls who think they want what she has.
both loves and loathes the other royce grandkids. loves them when they steer the attention away from her fuck-ups, but loathes them when they take the center stage.
felt incredibly close to her mother. what they did to tessa royce haunts her days and nights. she can hardly sleep anymore. she has thought of cutting her hair just to feel something close to her again. to the only person that every truly loved her.
still volunteers, helps out where she can, because that's what's expected of her. because someone must keep the polished image alive.
two-faced as it gets.... is there anyone who truly knows her? even among family? well... perhaps the answer to that question probably died with tessa royce. perhaps it's going to die with rowena too.
finally, what is a legacy? it's rowena royce dying even though she doesn't have to die. every single day. bit by bit. it's a death by a thousand cuts.
vi.
AFFAIR. dubbed as an affair because to call it a relationship would be a disservice to the meaning of that word. they're each other's poison, every ill-thought ever coined, and they simply, out of spite or stubbornness, refuse to be free of one another. impossibly destructive, yet addictive all the same. rowena would never admit to loving this person, though to call it love, feels wrong as well.
DONNA. the closest thing that rowena has to a friend is this person. why they like her, or care about her is certainly up to them ( maybe they don't, maybe they're just trying to get something from her idk ), but the point is this: they know her. and they still choose her. and what a beautiful thing it is to be chosen.
NOWHERE. an antithesis to the connection above, but someone who abhors rowena to the point where it makes them sick. don't forget that it's such a beautiful thing to be known ( awful too ). are they the two sides of the same coin? or are they simply better at seeing things than other people?
