🔱 Is that ZOEY DEUTCH walking about? Nah, that’s just ALTHEA RENDALL. The TWENTY SIX year old is currently working as a/an HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR. Rumor has it they’re a WEREWOLF and can be RETICENT and CHANGEABLE, but also EMPATHETIC and ADVENTUROUS. Some town’s folk would say they’re the FACADE.
Hey everyone! My name is Ren and I’ll be playing the absolute mess that is Althea Rendall. I’m always down for plotting and below I’ll actually be listing a few plot ideas so hit me up if you want to plot, I’m super awkward but super friendly and I’m open to almost anything tbh! Now that the intro to me is out of the way I’d like to introduce you to my small bean Althea:
Some fun facts about Althea:
- Is the little sister of @braxtonthebeta and @codexalpha (hey, hi, hello. I’d love to talk to you guys. Hopefully Ally is up to your standards)
- Her name ‘Althea’ means ‘To Heal’. She tends to go by Ally as a nickname.
- Is labeled ‘the facade’ due to her rather extraordinary ability to show the ‘good’ side of her to the outside world and keep the bad stuff hidden for the most part. She’s that woman that you look at and you’re like ‘wow what a success story. She was a mess but she got it together and now look at her’ when really none of her issues have gone away she’s still a mess she’s just gotten better at hiding them. With age and maturity she’s gained some semblance of impulse control so she’s less likely to do some crazy shit but she is still as restless as ever and the urge to act out is still there.
- Due to losing her parents at such a young age she’s always been confused and conflicted about how to grieve them. She never really got to know them but they were still her parents, it still left a hole in her soul when they died but how do you grieve someone you never knew? Both of her brothers inability to talk about it has only made it harder for her.
(warning: next fact includes mention of drug and alcohol use)
- She was a super crazy wild party girl from the age of 13 until she was 18. No one, including her brothers, really knew that she was troubled until she was 16 when she got so out of control that she could no longer hide it and keep up the image of the ‘perfect girl next door’. She experimented with drugs and alcohol and was just generally a ‘wild child’, it seemed to everyone to be an overnight transformation as they were unaware she’d actually been doing it for years.
(okay you’re safe, I will warn you throughout if I mention anything particularly triggering)
- Her wild years were not easy for Althea or her brothers and it caused some understandable strain on the relationships between them, particularly with her elder brother Colston. It had always been weird having her brother also acting as her father but that never really came out until the height of her wild years. ‘You’re not my dad’ was probably the most common thing she said to him back then. Now that Ally is settled (or so it appears) the relationship has more or less healed, she feels an immense amount of guilt about how she treated Colston during those years.
(warning: mentions of drug use, overdose, and death)
- What made her finally turn her life around was when she witnessed the death of a friend due to an overdose. They had been partying together when all of a sudden the friend was very much not okay, Ally rushed them to the hospital but it was too late and Ally had to watch her friend die right in front of her. It was tragic but it was the wake-up call that the then 18-year-old needed in order to get her act together, with the help of the school counselor Ally cleaned up her act, applied herself (aka busted her ass), and managed to get accepted to the local college.
- She chose the area of her profession that she’s in because of her own experience with her high school counselor as well as knowing that that was the age that she’d needed someone to talk to the most and she wanted to help other kids the way she herself had been helped.
- Is a walking irony. A therapist that needs a therapist. She hasn’t dealt with any of her emotional issues, though the primary goal of her being a counselor is to help others she also thinks that through counseling others she can also learn about herself.
- On occasion, Ally will slip up. She’ll be stable for a bit but something always causes her to do something reckless, since she appears to be ‘all better’ most people simply chalk this up to her being a daredevil or a bit adventurous. It’s never as excessive as it was when she was a teenager but she always feels that pull to do more, to just push that little bit farther.
- Is incredibly ashamed of her past. If you try to throw it in her face she’ll either punch you or pretend she’s fine and then go home and cry it’s 50/50 tbh
- Tends to avoid any kind of serious relationships because in her own words ‘she’s such a mess’, that’s not to say she avoids romantic attachments. She’s had a few boyfriends, and even a girlfriend or two, in her life, one or two were even borderline serious but when the topic of marriage or family comes up she gets out of there as soon as possible.
- Is small but mighty, at 5’3 she’s a small bean but she’s not one to mess with. Growing up with two older brothers *cough* particularly Braxton *cough* she knows how to handle herself. Also being a Werewolf doesn’t hurt.
- As a wolf she has next to no impulse control making her unpredictable and at times dangerous though she has yet to kill anybody, she has seriously injured people though. All the confusion, hurt, anger, everything she feels but rarely shows is heightened and exaggerated.
Okay so this was originally way longer and I had north of 10 more fun facts but this is already hella long so I cut it.
Now onto plots: (because apparently this isn’t already long enough, for those of you still reading you’re the true heros)
‘Let’s cause a little trouble - oh you make me feel so weak’ - A guy from her teenage years aka her ‘wild past’. You were the bad boy that Ally would run around with getting into all sorts of trouble and doing god knows what with. You’d encourage each other to do all sorts of wild things. You and Ally weren’t exclusively dating but you’d ‘fool around’ and spend a lot of time together. This stopped after Ally got her act together and she basically cut you cold turkey from her life cause she knew you’d be a bad influence, something her brothers wholeheartedly supported as they hate your guts. (Any species, doesn’t have to be someone her own age could be an older guy.)
- A student (or students) that she’s taken a particular interest in, probably because she sees some of herself in them. Whether you initially wanted to or not you now see the COunselor at least twice a week if not more and the two of you have begun to form a special bond that goes beyond the halls of the high school. (any species)
‘I’m sorry to my unknown lover, sorry I could be so blind’ - Basically a guy or girl that has been around Ally for a significant portion of her life (grown up together or at the very least was around from the ages of 16+), due to her issues and the general craziness of her life Ally never realized that they were in love with her. It was something that she was blind to but was obvious to others. Once the other person realized that Ally was either oblivious to or ignoring their feelings for her their relationship suffered a great deal. Ally still doesn’t understand why the friendship has faltered. (Any species)
- Wolves that take issue with what they are or wolves that don’t understand what they are or wolves who...you know what just any wolves any issues whatsoever tbh. Allys altruism isn’t confined to her work life and she’d take an interest in any ‘lost’ wolves being that the pack is like a second family. Your character wouldn’t have to be a member of her pack or any pack she’d want to help them regardless. Basically, she’s the mom friend running around and gathering up any strays and trying to nurture them.
That’s all I can come up with at the moment but of course I’m open to suggestions, the plots listed here aren’t limits only options.
I’m finally going to end it here, congrats if you made it to the end honestly I admire you and your patience. As you can probably tell I am super excited to be here and super in love with Ally and I can’t wait to rp with you guys! :)