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[iitsace]

( zoey deutch, 25, ciswoman, she/her ) GRACIE-LYNN “ACE” GELLER has been living in Point Place for 21 YEARS. Their favorite song is TURN THE BEAT AROUND BY VICKI SUE ROBINSON. They’re currently up to ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AT POINT PLACE HIGH SCHOOL, but they’d rather be SKATING AT THE ROLLER RINK. First impressions usually stick around here, and others describe them as HUMOUROUS, SARCASTIC, & SOCIABLE. Stick around to get to know the real them.

BIO & HEADCANNONS

► Absolutely hates her name (which started when she was little and had a super huge mega crush on a boy who was her neighbor at the time, but after he found out  she liked him, he started picking on her and making fun of her name).

► When meeting someone new, she'll always introduce herself as Ace.

► Begrudgingly only allows her family to call her Gracie-Lynn (but that’s  only cause her mom always gives her grief about having such hatred for  the name she ‘ever so carefully’ picked out for her all those years ago).

► Has always been a social butterfly and loved any opportunity she had to be with her friends. Whether it was at school or play dates on the weekends, she could hardly ever hold her excitement  in. Unfortunately, a lot of the time she ended up being a little too excited for others to handle; more often than not she’d ended up coming across as annoying instead. This is still a trait that rings true for her as an adult, but she has a bit more control over it now. She can usually tell when she’s crossing the line into obnoxiousness, but there are still times when she really doesn’t realize it’s happened until it’s too late.

► Easiest way to her heart is through her stomach. Whether it’s swapping lunches, allowing her to steal some of the fries off your plate, or even something as small as sharing your bag of chips with her, she will love you forever.

► Has only really experienced life outside of Point Place during her college years

► Immediately moved back to town after her senior year of college when her father suffered a back injury at his factory, hindering his ability to work anymore. Not wanting her younger brother to lose focus on his own studies and career dreams, she immediately moved back to town to help around the house with the bills and caring for her father as much as she can while both she and her mother are the sole breadwinners for the family.

[perpetualeve]

hi, i'm zero (he/they/xe) and i've never written on tumblr, it's been intimidating, so bare with me! pls & ty! anyways, this is eve and i think she's absolutely perfect. the perfect mom friend. :) more info below, of course, so go read it and leave a like if you'd like to plot!

( winona ryder, fifty, cis female, she/her/hers ) EVELYN 'EVE' DUBROIS has been living in Point Place for HER ENTIRE LIFE. Their favorite song is THE BOY NEXT DOOR BY JUDY GARLAND . They’re currently up to TEACHING KINDERGARTEN AT OUR LADY, but they’d rather be SEWING AND SELLING HER OWN PERIOD DRESSES. First impressions usually stick around here, and others describe them as NURTURING, METICULOUS AND DETACHED. Stick around to get to know the real them.

so, evelyn or eve, was born here in point place in 1927. her parents were high school sweethearts that married each other at eighteen, living modestly but happily in a mobile home park; her mother was a beauty school student turned hairdresser and her father helped run the family tailoring business. she remembers spending time at the tailoring shop after school, her grandmother helping her with homework before she watched her dad perform alters; the art of sewing being something she learned very early on.

(tw for fertility talk) eve's mother had fertility issues, which left eve the only child and left her with the same fate in the future; this ultimately led her down the path of becoming a teacher at the school. she's able to educate young minds and nurture them as she is naturally a nurturing woman. she's a great mom friend so please let her protect all the babies.

(tw for religious themes) both her parents were catholic, they both grew up in the religion so it was instilled in eve through mass and prayer. weekly and sometimes daily practices. she, herself, goes weekly because she feels obligated to - she works there. i would describe her as a casual catholic, she's spiritual with herself but never forces it on others!

her love of sewing period dresses came from films like musicals or disney and dolls that her grandmother bought her occasionally. it's something nostalgic and comforting to her. she's an og disney adult, beware!

two more connections i want are an ex-fiance (any gender) and someone, closer to her age, that she can confide in like a best friend. she started teaching kindergarten in at 30 (1957) so she could even be a 20 or youngers teacher! (i think i did the math right- help sdjffdkjn)

her detached trait is mostly in romantic relationships as she has had a failed engagement. meticulous because she's a perfectionist when it comes to her career, she wants to appear professional but also prove to be a success at what she does; always improving and learning.

today, she lives alone in a two bedroom house, filling the spare with guests from time to time; other days her pet st. bernard - eeyore. other than sewing, she enjoys cooking and baking for church potlocks or gifting her food in general. she also enjoys sneaking away for a hike to clear her mind and admire nature.

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( ellie bamber, 23, cis female, she/her ) RHIANNON 'RHIA' ANDREWS has been living in Point Place for TWENTY THREE YEARS. Their favorite song is KILLER QUEEN BY QUEEN. They’re currently up to WORKING AT THE RECORD STORE, but they’d rather be ATTENDING CONCERTS. First impressions usually stick around here, and others describe them as EASY GOING, CHARISMATIC AND 'WILD'. Stick around to get to know the real them. ( sky, 21, GMT-3, she/her )

☆ born to carefree, and self-proclaimed hippies during the 60s, parents -- rhiannon was given a childhood that would set her up for what the rest of her life would be like. david & johanna instilled the basical morals & values that you'd teach your child if you wanted them to grow up into a decent person, but apart from that? they didn't believe or rules. or limitations. there was absolutely no pressure from either of them to go into a specific path. she didn't even have a curfew. they wanted her to have fun. enjoy life. and discover herself.

☆ this sounds cool, right? the other kids sure thought so! they always complained about how jealouss they were of her. and it is, in a way. it's something rhia talks about fondly, says how it made such an independent person out of her. how it made her 'free'. but, in the back of her mind, it's always nagged her. she wishes they'd given her some structure, and acted like parents instead of friends -- it bordered on neglect, at times, and made her feel like they didn't really care about her.

☆ in the end, it didn't really matter. because, whatever she didn't get at home, she got outside of it. she was the type of girl to have a lot of friends, back at school. popular, but kind. kind, but not boring. that sort of thing. she got along with all sorts of groups of people, not sticking to one -- mostly because she changed her personality around to suit whoever she was around with. that way, they'd find her cool. and, that way, she'd have attention on her. after all, why be yourself when you could play along with people's dreams and ensure their love?

☆ this is a behaviour she carried into adulthood. old habits die hard. she doesn't even know who 'herself' is, anymore.

☆ a little bit before her senior year of high school, she picked up at job at grooves, the record store. she was starting to think long term, so she figured she'd start saving up money /now/. it was easy enough. cashier. say hi, learn to work the register, wrap up the product -- and just hang out by herself, when no one was around. a good experience, to set her up.

☆ in fact, it was so good she grew to love it! she offered to close the store more often than not, and work late shifts. she liked to sit on the floor, and go through the records. use the jukebox to listen to them for free, because employee's benefit (not really, her manager wasn't aware, but she reckons he didn't care). she discovered a bunch of bands that way, and had a rerun of a few that her parents used to play in the living room when she was a kid.

☆ suffice to say, the money she'd been saving up ended up going to concert tickets. if she liked it enough, she just HAD to go and see them live! whenever they showed up in town, anyways. she wasn't invested enough to travel yet. but, when she was, she took rides with other in vans with people who were going to the same location as her.

☆ she graduated, and decided she was happy enough with her job -- happy enough to stay in it, and not pursue further education. she'd been there long enough for the manager to be fond of her, and allow her to get away with some stuff. that, and she wanted to devote herself to music. not participate in it, per se, but support those who did. live it. dance to it all night. if that were a career, she'd be employee of the month!

☆ her parents helped her with enough money to buy herself a tiny apartment, and bid her goodbye (it didn't feel like she was living there anymore, anyways, so not much changed). not too expensive, but not completely cheap. she was able to keep up with rent, and support her 2 cats (who started off hiding, but then were just accepted by the landlord because it'd been too long by the time he found them).

☆ she's known around the world of music just by how often you can find her in the audience, and backstage (she almost always has a pass around her neck). it's reached a point where she gets tickets for free, sometimes, and she's been seen numerous times in magazines just standing in the background chatting with band members. her flashy, glittery makeup, COLORFUL clothes (feather boas, mini skirts, platform boots, flowy dresses) & red hair don't allow her to go unnoticed -- but no one really knows who she is. she's been mentioned, at most, as 'a mystery groupie'.

[ssiahr]

SAGE SOMMERS has been living in Point Place for 3 YEARS. Their favorite song is DREAMS BY FLEETWOOD MAC. They’re currently up to BEING A CASHIER AT GROOVES, but they’d rather be WRITING MUSIC. First impressions usually stick around here, and others describe them as EXPRESSIVE, INDULGENT, & CHARMING. Stick around to get to know the real them. 

sage sommers, talented musician, handsome guy, all american dreamboat. he has been in point place for three uneventful years, as he'd been on the college education grind, working at grooves, and living his not-so-best life. if you asked him how he was, he'd give you that bored-to-tears midwesterner ❝ living the dream ❞.

he can play eight instruments to varying degrees and although most of them, like the trombone, are things he doesn't ever pick up, he will whip out his ukulele and start strumming a tune if ever the opportunity presents itself.

he'd like to get an actual job at an actual record label as a songwriter, seeing as he already does that as often as he can. he's always writing in notebooks, on napkins, and to-go bags little bits of songs that he'll probably never turn into anything more, but he has to get it out or the ideas mutate in his head until he can't think straight.

doesnt talk to his parents or his older sister but they live just a few hours away in the even smaller town he'd felt so compelled to leave as soon as he could.

he has a cat named tiny tim.

[mccndance]

( jennifer coolidge, 61, cis female, she/her ) GLADYS AYCOX has been living in Point Place for SIXTY-ONE YEARS. Their favorite song is TEQUILA BY THE CHAMPS. They’re currently up to HOMEMAKER, but they’d rather be GOING TO COLLEGE. First impressions usually stick around here, and others describe them as SHALLOW, CARING, VIBRANT. Stick around to get to know the real them.

Born Gladys Hoffman on April 1st, 1916 to as well-to-do a family as Point Place could offer. From birth she would be held to a standard above all her neighbors lest her parents be seen associating with the lower class.

But Gladys was not like her parents and made friends everywhere she went from all walks of life. Even so, many of her peers regarded her as shallow, and somewhat ditzy despite her having quite the head on her shoulders. By seventeen, in 1933, she found out her parents had arranged a marriage for her to a Clive Aycox, a somewhat tolerable but uninteresting young man from the same social circle. To say she didn't want to marry him was an understatement. She did not want to marry any man, for that matter.

The nuptials did go ahead as planned, despite all of her protests. Within five years of the wedding, they had four children and they became the joy of her life. She dedicated her every waking moment to their care, but always took into account their wants and desires when making decisions for them and vowed they would be allowed to marry whom they loved regardless of station if indeed they wished marriage at all. Decades passed with her being a dutiful homemaker, but it would come to an end after her last child moved out and she n longer had someone to turn her attention to.

Now with a lot of free time on her hands, Gladys actually had time for her own interests, and indeed find out what those interests were. And a desire to go to college and study. her husband just laughed at her. Why would a woman of her age go to college ? There was no point.

Fed up, she finally filed for divorce, moved to a small ( very pink ) apartment and enrolled in a local university. Now to be truly happy, all she needs is to find the woman of her dreams. But one step at a time, right ?

[honkyccat]

( hande erçel, 23, demigirl, she/they) ZEHRA KARAN has been living in Point Place for TEN YEARS. Their favorite song is FLY BY NIGHT BY RUSH. They’re currently up to DJ/HOST AT WFPP RADIO STATION, but they’d rather be SEEING THE WORLD WITH THE BAND. First impressions usually stick around here, and others describe them as SCATTERBRAINED, FEARLESS, PASSIONATE. Stick around to get to know the real them.

tw: kidnapping, abuse, drugs/drug addiction,

• 𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄. zehra meriç tandoğan karan

• 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄(𝐒). zee

• 𝐀𝐆𝐄. twenty three

• 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇. november 24th

• 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍. ízmir, turkey

• 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 / 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐒. demigirl ; she/they

• 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. pansexual panromantic

in a lot of ways, her parents sending her to live with her aunt and uncle in america was the worst thing to ever happen to zehra. she was the only child of two very loving parents and dreamed of being a professional painter. she spent nine years enjoying her childhood and studying art to her hearts content, never knowing what was in store for her. they thought they were helping her by sending her to a fancy art camp in ankara, where she would stay with her mother's sister and her husband. and at first, it was great. the art camp was amazing and she'd write home every week. but when it came time for her to board the train home, she never made it. her parents haven't seen her since. to her knowledge, they passed away when she was eleven.

now forced to live a lie, and punished often and severely if she didn't do so believably, zehra struggled to figure herself out. while most kids her age were worrying about puberty and boys and homework, zehra was learning how to lie to the police and paint just like the master painters. anywhere money could be made, her uncle had his fingers in the pie. and while he had no artistic talent of his own, his artist niece was too afraid of him to ever say no. he had them run out of every major city in america, either by the police or the local criminals, eventually settling down in wisconsin, where her uncle began his forgery business. identification cards, documents, and, of course, his niece's fake masterpieces. it was good money and with the efficiency of the postal service, he could do so from their home without really drawing much attention. zehra turned to desperate measures to balance his increasing demands on top of her already struggling grades and pretending to be normal. it started with coffee to keep her awake for hours, until coffee wasn't strong enough. she started experimenting with harder and harder substances, and now she can't stop.

it wasn't all terrible, thankfully, as zehra has made friends in the last ten years since she's been here. she discovered her passion for music, after a couple of friends in high school inspired her to start learning the bass guitar. music was easy. she didn't have to worry about a language barrier when she was strumming. music was real, she didn't have to lie or fake it. her friends were her saving grace. right out of high school, she got a job sorting and filing records at the local radio station. undiagnosed learning disorders and a controlling uncle prevented any chance of a college career, but she was happy. she has worked her way up to co-hosting a show, spending her free time causing trouble with her friends and playing in the band. she still lives with her uncle because she's too scared of what will happen if she tries to leave, but at least she's got mizrak, or mizzy for for short, with whom she is inseparable.

[mccndance]

( cara gee, 40 , cis female, she/her ) NAKOMA KEEN has been living in Point Place for FIFTEEN YEARS. Their favorite song is MR SANDMAN BY THE CHORDETTES. They’re currently up to MANAGER AT THE JEWELRY STORE, but they’d rather be STUDYING TO BE A GEOLOGIST. First impressions usually stick around here, and others describe them as FAIR, STRICT, RELIABLE. Stick around to get to know the real them.

Born in Northern Minnesota in 1934, Nakoma was the first child of her parents, though by the time she was six there were four more. She took her role as oldest sibling seriously, and would often mediate her siblings and help her mother with their general care. This sense of responsibility has followed her since.

While her dad never went oversees during the war due to preexisting health issues, he did end up working in a munitions factory. This meant the whole family had to move. Though she never said a thing about it, she always has hated that they left Minnesota and still wants to move back someday.

As she got older and went through schooling, Nakoma developed an interest in geology. What started as a childhood rock collection turned into a genuine interest in the subject. She has read every book on the subject she can get her hands on, but despite having applied to various colleges around the country, she was never accepted to any of them.

By the age of twenty five, she had found herself in Point Place. It was the most at home she's felt since leaving her home as a child and she decided to stay a while. Nakoma never imagined that she'd end up spending 15 years here. Currently she works as a manager at the jewelry store inside the mall while still independently studying geology.

[mccndance]

( ewan mitchell, 25, gender questioning, he/him ) HELLER SMITH has been living in Point Place for A MONTH. Their favorite song is SUPERSTITION BY STEVIE WONDER. They’re currently up to SOUND BOARD OPERATOR AT WFPP, but they’d rather be A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. First impressions usually stick around here, and others describe them as EXUBERANT, CURIOUS, RECKLESS. Stick around to get to know the real them.

tws: distant parent/child abandonment, mentions of bullying, parental death.

Heller was born out of wedlock to Anna Smith, the daughter of a shop-keep, and Gregory Winslow, the son of a nobleman in 1952 England. His father all but ignored his existence for the first six years of his life, leaving Anna do deal with the repercussions of being an unwed mother. He himself had to put up with much mockery from his peers, who would taunt him for his parentage. But young Heller never let it get to him and remained an upbeat happy lad.

When he did turn six, the father he'd seldom even heard mentioned appeared to claim Heller as his wife had yet to give him the heir he desperately wanted, so he resorted to his bastard son. He was whisked away from his mother and into the large home of his paternal lineage where he was given tutors and instructors to turn him from an 'uncultured nobody' into an heir any noble line would be proud of.

He stayed with his fathers family, only seeing his mum from time to time, up until the age of thirteen when his step-mother gave birth to twins, both sons. While Heller was initially excited to be an older brother, it did not take long to realize his father no longer had need of him. He feared being turned out on the street and left by the man he'd grown to know as his father. He'd even become close to his step-mother, who was always kind to him as she never blamed him for his father's indiscretion.

Per his stepmothers insistence, Gregory kept Heller in the house to finish his tutelage and give him a step up in life, though he had been stripped of his status as heir. This worked for him as he'd always dreamed of being and Investigator and had lived upon the fictional tales of Sherlock Holmes, Tommy and Tuppence, and Hercule Poirot as well as the true adventures of America's Pinkerton detectives.

At eighteen he was finally loosed on his own and he moved back to his mother's hometown. It was now 1970 and a lot had changed. He started working to help his mum pay for things as his father had cut of financial help by this point. Bouncing from job to job, over-educated by most's standards in the area, he picked up a skill for sound boards and started working for many different companies utilizing this skill.

In 1975, at 23, his mother passed away from an un-diagnosed illness and he decided to move across the pond, first living in Boston, then making his way across many states over the years until finally ending up in Point Place a month ago. He's not sure he'll stay here forever, but he likes it enough here where he'll likely stay awhile. Besides, He'd still love to open the PI agency and maybe here he'll find someone to open it with. Until then, he works at WFPP.