[ HAILEE STEINFELD // FEMALE // SHE/HER ] – Shoot, is that [ OPHELIA JACOBS ]?! The [ 19 ] year old [ DANCER ] has lived in Hollywood Pointe for [ 1 YEAR ] now, and has earned quite the reputation. People say, they’re [ + ARTISTIC ] and [ + LOYAL ], yet also [ - STUBBORN ] and [ - NARROW MINDED ]. Rumor has it they're [ SUFFERING FROM PTSD FOLLOWING HER EX-GIRLFRIEND’S DEATH ], but with all the gossip in this town, who really knows? I guess we’ll just have to find out for ourselves.
under the cut is a timeline of ophelia’s backstory in this verse. tw: death (car crashes), rape
0 - Ophelia is born in San Francisco, California. She is the first biological, but the second child of the Jacobs family.
2 - Ophelia begins ballet with her older sister. Unlike Juliet, Ophelia sticks with it.
3 - Lysander Jacobs is born, making Ophelia an older sister.
4 - Ophelia meets Faith Bell in dance class. The two become best friends.
13 - Faith comes out to Ophelia as ftm transgender and changes his name to Adam. Ophelia enters eighth grade as Adam enters high school.
14 - Ophelia starts high school and meets Leia Foster.
15 - Ophelia briefly dates Leia (in secret) before publicly coming out as bisexual. That spring, Adam crashes his car one night and falls into a coma. He later passes away during surgery. Over the following summer, Ophelia goes to a house party at which she is raped.
16 - Ten months after her assault, Ophelia identifies her rapist, taking him to court. She also begins attending therapy.
18 - Ophelia graduates high school and moves to Hollywood Pointe to pursue her art career, while teaching dance and working as a professional dancer, primarily in music videos. She meets the Riddles and briefly dates Fay before the two decide they are better off as friends. That summer, Fay and Ben get into a car crash caused by a drunk driver. Fay is killed on impact.
19 - Current. Ophelia quitely returned to therapy and has been diagnosed with PTSD. She is afraid of cars and tries not to drive, but also does not want to worry anyone else, especially her sister, so she is not open about this fear or the distress it causes her.
also happy birthday to my bbf (bi best friend) who is really out here thriving in the year twenty bi teen despite no longer being a bi teen! he’s got a new song out rn and you should stream it on spotify as a birthday present to this Special Boi
sometimes in life, if you’re lucky, and you learn to be quiet, you find someone electric. someone with a magnetic pull so strong you find yourself on the edge of your seat hoping for just a bit of their spark.
despite the popular opinion, our spark never ignited a flame, but your magnetic pull still kept me in. eventually we looked back at our late night whispers and constantly linked pinkies and knew better than to call it love. it was something more. some great cosmic friendship sent to us by all out lucky stars.
your plaid skirt i stole is still on my bedroom floor back home and my favorite coat is still hanging in your closet. you’re inked into my skin in a visible way but i carried you with me even before that and i always will. you’re my courage on the bad days and in the strangest twist of all you’ve given me so much hope for the days ahead.
happy 20th, fay orion. i’d give you all the stars if i could.
Ophelia: it's just that we were actually kinda getting closer and that stuff freaks me out and then all the speculation and stuff it started to get to me
Ophelia: like i know people do it all the time like i should be used to it by now but its just... i feel like you and i aren't just friends and it's confusing me
