Is that (Jennie Kim)?! Oh, no, it’s just (Jia Valentine, 26, she/her), the (Sales Associate) from Dunder Mifflin. I heard they’re (charismatic, engaging, adaptable) but can also be (overconfident, careless, lazy). They’re (single) and have been working there for (five years) and post a lot @(msvalentine).
Any of the resident office gossips will tell you she doesn’t have a fancy pedigree, or even a college credit to speak of; she was never given any formal training in communications or the art of the deal. Indeed, she coasts by on pure natural talent for charm and slight deceit - honed into a razor-sharp edge by years of being a problem child and juvenile delinquent. She beguiled her way not only into this job, but also into the hearts and minds of her loyal client base, who never fail to ask for her by name. And a memorable name it is: Jia Valentine. So darling and lyrical, many refuse to accept that it’s the name listed on her birth certificate.
It came as no surprise when she was offered the Head of Sales position, but she summarily turned it down, perfectly content at her current balance of pay and responsibility. Besides, she makes enough in commissions to rival the potential salary, anyway.
hello!! i think most of us are acquainted but i'm angel and this is my darling jia! she's a long-time oc who's been repurposed for this office and i'm very excited to play her here!!
full name: jia [redacted] valentine.
birthdate: february 2nd.
birthplace: scranton, PA.
zodiac: aquarius sun, gemini moon, scorpio rising.
mbti: entp.
gender: cis female.
orientation: bisexual.
tw: drugs and self harm, sorta.
with a name like jia valentine, the young girl's parents surely thought they'd set her up for greatness as a beloved musician or soap opera star. and for the first six or seven years of her life, she believed them, and took it to heart that she owed it to them to carry on their legacy. with her father a CFO and her mother a pediatric surgeon, she had no choice but to see the very large shadows they cast, and being the middle child only made it all the more difficult to find a bit of sun.
where her older sister excelled in academics and her younger brother looked to be right on track for a baseball scholarship, jia took to the arts quite beautifully as her name had predicted. she was particularly passionate about and proficient at playing the violin, practicing until her fingertips bled by choice and never failing to dazzle at her recitals.
however, since it was the thing she loved the most, it was the first thing her parents would take from her as punishment when she stepped even slightly out of line, which was often. she was a girl who would come home with grass stains on the white stockings she was forced to wear, who would arm wrestle the boys in her class at recess and get detention for throwing paper wads and giggling with her friends during the lessons. her grades also suffered due to a case of undiagnosed adhd that she wouldn't find out about until she was much older and out from under her parents' roof.
at school, she was able to talk her way out of trouble more often than not. even though she was a definitive underachiever, she was still smart and funny enough that she built up a solid rapport with all of her teachers. her parents were relentless, though, on the occasions that they were called about her behavior, and they thoroughly emptied the art of violin of its joy for jia.
on one fateful day when she was thirteen, she came home after the school had called her parents about an incident involving a visiting superintendent and the cafeteria spaghetti to find them waiting for her. she knew the exact trajectory the ensuing fight would take, and rather than wait for them to forbid her from practicing for however many weeks, she walked directly upstairs despite their continued yelling and decisively bashed her violin against any nearby surface until it snapped in two.
that was the first time she was sent to juvie.
more visits would follow, mostly due to truancy but sometimes vandalism or breaking & entering. by the time she graduated high school, she was on a first name basis with most of the corrective staff and even they couldn't help but like her at least a little and tell her specifically not to come back at the end of her every sentence.
that wouldn't happen until she turned eighteen, though, and left her parents' house the minute after midnight on her birthday. her natural talents for charm and deceit lent themselves nicely to a career in drug running, and she lived quite happily and luxuriously for a few years that way. since she was exceptionally good at it, she never, ever got caught, until she did.
one of her clients, unbeknownst to her, had gotten himself arrested, and was offered a deal for a lighter sentence if he'd wear a wire and help them catch his dealer. four years of this life and it was over in a matter of seconds and a few flashes of blue and red lights.
jia didn't know how, or why, but after waiting in jail for over a month, she was sent for personally by the warden. when she made her way to his office, beige jumpsuit and handcuffs at all, she sat down and found herself face to face with the man who'd overseen her old juvenile detention center for almost twenty years apparently, he'd been promoted.
"alright, ms. valentine." he'd always been a very straightforward person. "you're still young, and maybe despite my better judgement, i still believe there's hope for you yet. get out of here and straighten yourself up. don't let me see you again."
the next thing she knew, she was in street clothes, and she was free.
it would have been easy and comfortable to dive headfirst back into her life of crime, but something about what the warden said stuck with her. she couldn't remember the last time someone had believed in her, no matter how unkindly he may have put it. when she headed straight to poor richard's, she saw a help wanted ad for a sales associate at a paper supply firm.
hey, technically she had several years' experience in sales.
there were other, more qualified applicants, ones with college degrees and references who weren't in prison, but jia's quiet intelligence and witty charms won out in the end, as they had a way of doing.
it's been five years since then, and she's won sales(wo)man of the year twice in that interim. one might never suspect that she's making it all up as she goes along.
childhood friends, maybe even juvie buddies? or just people who joined her in her delinquency
drinking buddies, ride or dies, friends in general!
crushes with extra Tension™
anything tbh bring your characters unto me and lo i will love them
