this is a "the office" oc!
full name: Alessia “Al” Conti
nicknames: Al, Lessi, Cardsharp
dob / age: 8 August (Leo), 24
ethnicity / pob: 🇮🇹🇺🇸 | Italian-American - born in Newark, New Jersey
languages: English (native), conversational Italian, but can decipher Latin if it’s tattooed
skin tone: warm olive; looks permanently sun-kissed or sleep-deprived, no in-between
hair: thick dark brown, almost black; usually in lazy waves or shoved up with a pen she’ll later lose
↳ faint kitchen-fire scar across inner forearm
↳ tiny heart tattoo tucked behind her right ear
↳ barcode tattoo on her ankle with “priceless” in small cursive
↳ bold Bayonetta glasses, basically her armour
posture / gait: moves like she’s on a mission but stands like she’s already tired of it
↳ runs almost exclusively on caffeine
↳ mild anxiety, but she hides it pretty well
↳ emotionally hard to read, but notices everything
↳ “doesn’t need therapy” (she does)
↳ observant, quick-thinking, quietly loyal
↳ private, sarcastic, patient with numbers, not with people
↳ sharp-tongued, distrustful, emotionally evasive
↳ fidgets when calculating
↳ hoards black/brown pens
↳ types aggressively fast
↳ keeps a snack-wrapper graveyard in one drawer
↳ says “not my problem” at least once daily
status: single and intentional about it, though a certain tall idiot has been catching her eye lately
love interest: classified
past: a few failed dates here and there, nothing too serious
↳ Raised in a loud, nosy Italian household where arguing = affection. Learned maths before she learned how to ride a bike. Her parents still think accounting is “almost law.”
↳ Two older brothers in finance, mother runs a bakery, father is a retired mechanic. Uncle Tony insists “paper isn’t a real product.”
↳ Graduated summa cum laude in accounting powered by espresso and spite