( hunter schafer, trans female, she/her, muse i ) oh snap ! is that KENNEDY QUINN ? they work over at high volume where some of the other employees have labeled them as THE AVERAGE JOE. that’s probably because they can be a bit ( maverick ) but also pretty ( untrustworthy. ) they’re 22 and they’ve been living in woodstock for THEIR WHOLE LIFE, TO THEIR DISMAY. it must be their shift because i totally hear NO DOUBT blasting from the record store. / @volumeupdates
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basics. introducing kennedy jane quinn
birthday: november 28, 1976 astrology: sagittarius sun, aquarius moon, libra rising mbti: intp-a, the logician alignment: chaotic neutral character references: christine “lady bird” mcpherson, lindsay weir, dan humphrey, richard papen
about. familial death tw
honestly, per the skeleton, there’s very little to say about kennedy’s life. she’s woodstock through and through so her existence is honestly very cookie cutter. her parents were nice, and her siblings ( charlie & fiona ) were nice, and she didn’t have a ton of friends but the ones she had were nice like it’s a whole long list of fine
for whatever reason, kennedy’s never really been content with that. as a middle kid, she was overlooked a lot so she learned how to entertain herself and that was primarily through literature so it became this rory gilmore deal where she was reading such compelling and interesting stories about people in other places that she couldn’t help but want the same thing so she’s honestly been wanting out of woodstock since like. probably middle school
in her senior year of high school, her brother was diagnosed with cancer. he was in college in california playing football, but obviously after this he moves back home so they can seek treatment.
kennedy, who was accepted into her dream college in boston by some miracle ( average grades and extracurriculars that she definitely inflated to sound better on paper ), defers her enrollment by a year to stay home and be with her family
it is a brutal year-long battle, and, unfortunately, charlie doesn’t win. they bury him just after the holidays.
this is devastating to kennedy in a lot of ways, charlie was one of her best friends and one of the few people who knew how badly she wanted to get out of woodstock and has always been one of her biggest supporters. but, more selfishly, paying for charlie’s treatments for a whole year drains the quinns’ financials and even though her spot is still open at her university, she just can’t afford to go
she ends up staying home even though it’s the last thing she wanted, and sort of… loses her sense of direction? she was originally going to be a journalism major ( rory moment ) but she loses any optimism about actually being able to do it when she can only do it from woodstock and in general, just becomes very disillusioned with her future
after a while her parents get sick of her moping around the house and push her to enroll at the community college and even though she had other plans before, she decides to try for an associate’s in business
her parents help her move out of the house after realizing how unhappy it made her, and she’s been living there ever since! it’s not a very nice apartment, she’s got a revolving door of roommates, and she lives basically paycheck to paycheck but it’s hers!
has been working at high volume for about three years, and honestly started skimming money from the register about a month after working… she was desperate what can i say
on jerry’s disappearance. at first jerry going missing is great for kennedy because she can take a little more money than she usually does and can go to work as late as she wants, but now, she is a tiny bit worried. i will say though that, as worried as she is, she probably isn’t as invested as some of the other characters? like mostly, she is worried about her job because she doesn’t really want to work anywhere else because nowhere else will she have a boss as chill as jerry, but at the end of the day, this is still very much a job to her. she can be very easily convinced into staying around, but i think that if high volume is a crew trying to go down with its ship, she’s definitely the one looking over the side like, fr? like maybe we can make it if we swim
personality. assertive, romantic, maverick, finicky, untrustworthy, hubristic
from christine mcpherson. i unfortunately think kennedy would be an annoying a24 girlie who watches lady bird and acts like it changed their life, and im allowed to say that because EYE am like that. i think they are both the same “stuck in a small town, not that sacramento is even a small town lol, and want to go somewhere to find themselves.” very annoying of them but ❤️ kennedy parallels a lot of christine’s desires and motivations in life and, similar to lady bird, kennedy can be a little childish when it comes to any criticism towards her but it also all comes from a very earnest part of her
from lindsay weir. i think lindsay embodies kennedy’s aimlessness? like i havent watched the show in a while so bear with me but i get the sense that lindsay sort of just. stops being motivated to do well in school because she realizes that she wants to do something else or even just wants to enjoy her life. i feel like kennedy kind of went through the same thing? she had all these big dreams about going to college and making something of herself and like she didn’t necessarily choose it, but like even when she has the opportunity to do something even slightly similar she pivots and does something else entirely.
from dan humphrey. pretentious & annoying <3 do i need to say more?
from richard papen. it’s the unreliable narrator of it all, you know? like kennedy do be lying. also i feel like both of them are prone to being overlooked by people, but they contain multitudes: richard can figure out they killed someone, and kennedy steals from jerry
optimistic isn’t the first word that people would use to describe kennedy. it’s not like she looks through life with rose-colored glasses. it’s more like, kennedy believes there’s this version of another life she could have and that’s essentially what she’s working towards. she romanticizes things that she doesn’t know because she’s only ever been able to read about them.
strong middle kid energy, she’s used to slipping through the cracks in her family and in her life in general like definitely the kid who was “a pleasure to have in class” like she’s very annoying and pretentious but it’s not obvious unless you get to know her better. in all other senses of the word, kennedy has just sort of always been… there but she prefers it that way? she likes no one having expectations of her because she feels like it allows her more freedom
kennedy is one of those people who is annoyed by almost everything and complains perpetually about everything in her life including her friends and family etc, but as soon as you say something mean about them she’s like shut the fuck up. very strong “only EYE can say that about them because i love them even if i dont show it”
headcanons. proud cat owner of shirley “shirl” jackson quinn
she came out to her parents when she was pretty young and they’ve always been very supportive!!
kennedy doesn’t have a single last name in her name so people call her quinn, and people call her kennedy
total klepto, probably why she started pocketing some extra change from the register but she literally can’t walk out of a building without stealing something. so many little knick knacks in her apartment are various things she’s stolen over the years
honestly she’s never really been a stellar student, like on top of just not being particularly motivated and wanting spend her time doing other things like reading, she also just thought she was too good for traditional schooling and she’ll front and be like well the education system doesnt rly do a good job catering to students who learn different etc etc like kennedy just do a goddamn worksheet for once
kennedy’s music taste is very basic LMAO she tries to front that it isnt but she tends to enjoy whats popular and thats basically it
super annoying to share a shift with because she ALWAYS wants to choose the music, and its always based on her mood. she’s like everyone has to experience the same feelings as me
literally always keeps a book on her person, she’s jess mariano with a book in her back pocket, if she’s ever sitting around for more than a minute, she will take her book out and she absolutely absolutely annotates everything she reads which also means she’s the worst person to lend a book to
doesn’t like celine dion and she thinks my heart will go on is a corny song
she DOES have a car that she inherited from charlie, but tries to use it as sparingly as possible and mostly bikes everywhere. not really because she likes it or anything but mostly just because she’s trying to save on gas
doesn’t like drinking or getting drunk much BUT will always say yes if people begin offering weed
lives in a shitty little apartment with none other than nisa <3 it’s a mess but they have new furniture now so better than it used to be before
kennedy’s the resident hater but here are some of her favorite things !
movie: rear window
books ( because it would be criminal to make her choose just one ): breakfast at tiffany’s, the lottery and other stories, a moveable feast, carrie
season: fall
color: white
ooc.
i have absolutely no sense of foresight so my wanted connections page may be sparse, but off the top of my head, maybe a work spouse, someone who knew her brother (would’ve been 25 so a little older than her), the OPPOSITE of a work spouse aka her least fav person to work with (i know, i’m really putting in the work), but i’m game for anything and we can talk it out ❤️
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