WHEREVER THERE IS ENTERTAINMENT, one can be sure to find Phoebe Poyntz somewhere in the vicinity at one point in time or another. Whether it’s Astley’s Amphitheatre, so beloved by her ever since its creation, Tattersall’s, or simply the stores of Bond Street, she enjoys soaking in everything the city has to offer whenever she lives there for the duration of a Season. This time, however, she chose to spend the evening attending the premiere of a new play, O’Keeffe’s Wild Oats, at Covent Garden.
Sitting in a very good spot of the theatre, purposefully selected to have no trouble with following the play, Phoebe tries to focus, but it doesn’t come easily. As the intermission between act two and three begins, she frowns, turning to her next-seat neighbor, Lady Lamb. “ I must apologize for convincing you to attend with me; had I known this play previously, I never would have insisted.” With the smallest of laughs, she continues. “ This all seems so needlessly complex! I can barely recall who is pretending to be who anymore.” @ladylamb
hello everyone! i’m dede, and it’s my pleasure to present to you phoebe poyntz, the lady poyntz, also known as everyone’s favourite giggling airhead (or is she? ). i’m so excited to plot with everyone, so here’s her bio and you can find the quick facts template i shamelessly stole from our admin over here. now, let’s get into it!
BASICS.
skeleton title : lady poyntz.
character name : phoebe theodosia poyntz, née hatton.
age & d.o.b. : 35, born on the 11th of july 1755.
sexuality : heterosexual, heteroromantic.
faceclaim : natalie dormer.
how is your character viewed by the ton? : phoebe's reputation isn't the best, as she's widely considered shallow and vapid, with no real substance to her, considering her somewhat airheaded public persona and love for all sorts of entertainment. many think her to be naive and not worthy of their attention at best, and simply irritating at worst. while these descriptions of her actual personality are not accurate, combined with her very public affair with duke cavendish, it oftentimes makes her disliked or dismissed among the ton.
QUESTIONNAIRE.
how does your character’s early life differ from their current life? on the surface, some of phoebe’s life has been a constant through all thirty-five of her years. she lived in london as a child, and she does so now, albeit not officially, and she’s been just as actively invested in the lives of the ton when she was younger as she is now. she’s, at least in some, smaller or greater, capacity, still a similar person to who she was as a young girl at the time of her debut. cheerful, fun-loving, always there to have a great time. but over the years, what was once her authentic personality became a superficial facade. her marriage to edward poyntz, who, to put it mildly, wasn’t the best of partners, and the frequent mistreatment she suffered from him, ultimately leading to her not wanting to even see him as he was dying from influenza, has turned her bitter and jaded. however, a few years after she returned to london, her life took another turn for the better as, while working for his wife as a lady-in-waiting, she met and fell for amon cavendish, the duke of devonshire. this was the love she never had with her husband; eventually, as their affair became public, she had to face the fact that they could never be together in a way that society would find acceptable. and that is where she stands now, sometimes regretting that she let her private matters be known to most of the ton - but never regretting the affair happening in the first place. now, she’s living the life her late husband would never let her have, and that’s as good a reason to wake up in the morning as any.
how does this character’s reputation differ from who they actually are? to put it in the simplest possible way, it differs wildly, and the divide is completely intentional on phoebe’s part. it was as a young girl, no more than fifteen years old, that she realized she wouldn’t get people to do anything she wanted by convincing them with an argument or explaining her needs rationally. no, it was by fluttering her eyelashes and smiling at them sweetly, even if, deep down, she hated them with every fiber of her being. no one really cared if she was intelligent, as long as she could be sweet and charming. she internalized this, and learned to project an image of the giggling, shallow, fun-loving airhead, which dominates her public persona to this day. however, deep down, she hasn’t lost any of her sharp wit and intellect, and while always somewhat of a realist, she turned much more jaded and cynical than she was as a girl following the mistreatment she suffered at the hands of her late husband. now, while bitter and witty on the inside, she still presents the vapid, excitable persona to the world; it makes people underestimate her, which is exactly what she benefits from. nothing like a reputation to keep everyone in the dark about how capable she truly can be.
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