alaska paradis We need to purge the poison from our system until human beings listen. Tell me, who do you think you are? It's your own decision, but your home is now your prison. You forgot that, without me, you won't go far. singer & songwriter with an imposter syndrome.
hi everyone! my name is laurie (she/her) and i’m so excited to meet all of you and your amazing characters! i’m introducing you the disaster (affectionate) that is alaska. my discord is lauriie#9283 if you want to reach me there, but i’m very comfortable to tumblr ims if you prefer!
[[ DAKOTA JOHNSON, SHE/THEY, CIS WOMAN ]] — Don’t look now but I could swear I just saw the paparazzi chasing ALASKA PARADIS down the street! The THIRTY year-old has been signed with ‘The Real’ for the last TEN YEARS, so i guess you could say they’re a big deal. Oh, you don’t believe me? The SOLO SINGER was over the tabloids a week ago where they were being praised for their SELF-AWARENESS, COMPASSION, & TRUSTWORTHINESS, but don’t let that fool you, according to the people closest to them they’re also IMPATIENT, RESENTFUL & DESTRUCTIVE, but their fans like to just blame that on the fact they’re a PISCES if you believe in all that. According to their Wikipedia page this current L.A native was born in MONTRÉAL and a few secrets from their past tend to follow them to this day, like how she [redacted]. I’m sure they’d hate for that one to get out, so let’s keep it between us for now.
Orientation: Bisexual (strong preference for women)
Occupation: Singer & song-writer
APPEARANCE
Height: 5″7
Hair Colour: Dark blonde (has dyed her hair brown when she became famous)
Eye Colour: Blue (her left iris is a quarter yellow)
Wardrobe Style: Casual
Tattoos: 5 minimalist ones (the outline of a sun behind a cloud on her left ankle with a moon and a cloud on her right ankle, the outline of a a pine tree on her left side boob and daisy on her right sideboob, with a small monarch butterfly on the back of her neck)
Piercings: Earlobes, nose ring and nipple piercings
Defining Features: Her eyes
Faceclaim: Dakota Johnson (singing voiceclaim: Charlotte Cardin)
HEALTH
Physical Ailments: PCOS (recently diagnosed)
Mental Ailments: Anxiety (diagnosed, currently untreated)
Likes: shit posting on her finsta, flannel shirts, visiting animal shelters just to play with the pets and consider adopting that one funky looking parrot who learned how to say curse words, desserts or basically anything with sugar, listening to unreleased demos and songs by her favourite artists (and being in denial of her lana del rey phase)
Dislikes: caffeine (drinks decaf), paparazzi except when she’s having a good hair day, makeup, seafood
ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
Skills: Baking, singing, looking like she’s dead inside 24/7
Weaknesses: keeping her calm, dairy even though she eats ice cream for breakfast, attention
Hidden Talents: acting (she’s pretty good at pretending), running a MARINA fan account in secret
Languages Spoken: French & English
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2009: Discovered by a talent agent from The Real
2012: The Playlist ; first album released (consisted of covers)
2014: Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in a motion picture for “Big Eyes” from the 2014 movie of the same name [i’m stealing lana del rey’s song pretend to not see it]
2016: Paradise Motion ; first EP relased (consisted of original songs)
2020 - ?: Aurores Boréales: second EP in the works (consisted of original songs)
WANTED PLOTS & DYNAMICS
childhood friends!!
ride or die who’s noticing she’s going downhill and tries to hold an intervention against her but it’s not working and they’re kind of sick of it
estranged half-sibling who has been wronged by their mutual mother... or not? maybe they actually have a good relationship?
music industry friends (someone who’s her mentor? someone who had a similar rise to fame? someone who was raised in fame and can help her out?)
pr friendships who actually can’t stand alaska and it’s mutual ~
1 genuine relationship but it got ruined by the media
pr relationship with someone who actually cared for her and her feelings but she managed to mess it up and their breakup was all over social media and magazines for weeks and months and fans still want them to be together but it’s for the best if they never cross each other’s paths, not even at whole foods on a tuesday afternoon
song writing buddies because of... reasons <3
MORE FRIENDS please i love friendships, chaotic or supportive, anything!
BIOGRAPHY
tw for: mention of death, justin bieber, strong allusions to depression & burn out
Alaska is the daughter of Simon Paradis, a marine biologist and Stephanie Evans, a singer who has now fallen out of fame. She is closer to her dad’s longtime girlfriend, Joséphine, whom she considers more as a maternal figure than her own mother she has not seen in over twenty-five years. She does not know she has a half-sibling from her mother’s previous marriage.
The pregnancy was totally unplanned, Steffy and Simon had met randomly during one of his research trips to California. He relocated to take care of Steffy during the pregnancy, and of Alaska when she was a baby, but the mother quickly left the portrait.
She split most of her life between Los Angeles and Montréal, following her father everywhere he went. She used to call airplanes her home, since she rarely stayed in the same place long enough to develop some sort of attachment.
She does not know much about her mother, in fact everything she knows is a lie. Her mom was a famous singer who’s trying to restore her reputation by erasing mistakes from her past, and that includes an unwanted daughter. Her father told her that Steffy had to take care of her parents who live in a farm somewhere in Montana and she could not come back since they needed her help. Alaska just assumes her mom is pretty much a ghost and she has moved on from it... Not really though but maybe she’ll believe it if she keeps telling herself that.
She pulled out a Justin Bieber in 2009 and became Internet famous very fast and for very unknown reasons. Her cover of Take On Me by A-Ha (see their MTV unplugged 2017 performance) blew up and caught more attention than she could ever imagine. What started as a secret trip to her father’s office to look through his old vinyls turned into a VIP ticket for fame. The more she posted, the more famous she got. She earned hundreds of thousands of views on her covers of Britney Spears, U2, Lady Gaga, you name it, she’s probably sang it.
Her father, who’s finances have been struggling, encouraged her to pursue this as a career and sign a deal to sing her own music. It was like the American Idol experience, minus the annoying and straight-up rude comments from Simon Cowell.
She was in luck, Lacey had no clue what to do with her life. Instead of being jobless and hopeless at 18 (though, at the beginning of her fame, she did get a professional training to become a beautician, of all things!), she was promised a great future as a pop star.
“Alaska Paradis, with a name like that, you are destined to fame” was the first headline ever written about her on a tabloid. It’s been a roller coaster ever since, except she has been waiting for the final, terrifying drop.
It happened when she hit a creative block and could not provide her international fanbase, producers, and entourage, the content they desperately needed from her. The financial stability of her father relies on Alaska’s shoulders and the more research projects he throws himself in requesting support from his daughter, the deeper the abyss of her debts grows. She has resulted to desperate measures, like accumulating brand deal after brand deal, becoming pretty much the sell-out her mother grew out to be as well.
It’s almost as though she is having a midlife crisis, at the not-so respectable age of thirty. She is redefining her future, one bad decision at a time. Her poor agent has to clean up after every messes she leaves behind, whether it’s a PR relationship or friendship gone wrong, a sponsorship that does not work out or her producer that is growing impatient over the lack of new music.
Alaska uses she/they pronouns, but it is not that publicly known just yet. She might fool around and reactivate her Instagram just to change her pronouns, delete it again and disappear in the great glut of anonymity somewhere by the beach. She’s hoping reality will not come back at her with a vengeance for every time she tested the limits of what her celebrity status can provide her.
“an hour? you’re generous, i’m pretty sure it’s been an eternity. look!” she pulled out an empty wrapper of m&m’s from her tote bag. “i ate three of these before you arrived, i got too hungry.” alaska shrugged it off. “i know i’m bad at directions and i insisted we tried this café because they claim to have authentic french croissants, “she faked a french accent to those words. “but do you think we took a wrong turn and ended up in the musée du louvre? there’s no way anything else than a tiny crusty looking painting done by a just as crusty looking man could attract such a line. i’m this close to say fuck it and grab a happy meal from the drive thru across the street. do you think their ice cream machine works?!”
“cowboys are still cool, right?” joaquin slipped the cowboy hat on and turned to look in the mirror. it was the first time he was getting to see the completed costume for his latest movie in person and while the script wasn’t oscar worthy, he was excited to have some fun with his role, it gave him a chance to play up his texan accent as well. “seriously, they’re coming back into fashion, yeah? i don’t look like a total fucking idiot?” he turned to face his companion, holding his arms out so they could get a good look at his outfit. “give it to me straight.”
“cowboys? cool? yeah!” alaska took a moment to take in his entire look. “or should i say... yeehaw!” she looked down at the scratched nail polish on her fingers, trying not to snort too loud at her own joke. “sometimes you do look like a total fucking idiot, but that’s what i like about you. i must say that right now you look pretty dope. do you think you can convince the costume department to make me a custom hat? i want mine pink and glittery my little pony style while you can be clint eastwood classy. we would look fabulous. i always thought i rock the horse people energy look, i think it’s my time to shine.”
She knew everyone had their own pasts they wanted to leave behind. Not secrets, exactly, but something to be guarded just the same, with some guarding it more urgently than others.
Eric Nguyen, Things We Lost to the Water (via smokefalls)
