#irisxanthe

[mrktimes]

Happy birthday to @irisxanthe!

[merrock]

Iris Xanthe (Beanie Feldstein) is looking for their childhood friend!

WANTED CONNECTION: childhood friend

FOR CHARACTER(s): Iris Xanthe (Beanie Feldstein)

REQUIREMENTS: any gender, similar in age to Iris

SUGGESTED FCS: up to player!

SPOTS OPEN: one!

WANTED DETAILS: Iris’s childhood friend who moves to town. Iris grew up in western Massachusetts, so she didn’t fly too far from the nest. They worry with the old friend around they’ll fall into old shy and anxious habits, but learn that the friend has grown and changed too and their friendship will change as well. (Hopefully for the better!)

CONTACT: @elisequinn ; Yes please!

[mrktimes]

The librarians at Memorial Library are always so friendly!

@irisxanthe & @xjaylahopkins

SAY SOMETHING NICE DAY.

[mrktimes]

Happy birthday to @irisxanthe!

[merrock]

Iris Xanthe (Beanie Feldstein) is looking for their crush!

WANTED CONNECTION: crush

FOR CHARACTER(s): Iris Xanthe

REQUIREMENTS: queer woman or femme non-binary person 28-36

SUGGESTED FCS: n/a

SPOTS OPEN: one

WANTED DETAILS: Iris hasn’t had a lot of luck in her love life, mostly because she’s shy around women. This character would be someone that she’s into and maybe shoots her shot a few times- whether the character reciprocates is fully up to player

CONTACT: @elisequinn ; Yes please!

ANYTHING ELSE?:

[mrktimes]

happy birthday, @irisxanthe!

[merrock]

CHARACTER INFORMATION

face claim: Beanie Feldstein

full name: Iris Judith Xanthe

nickname(s) / goes by: Iris

pronouns & gender: cis woman she/her

sexuality: queer/lesbian

birth date: March 20th, 1994

birth place: Amherst, Massachusetts

arrival to merrock: 2021

housing: suburbs

occupation: librarian and grad student

work place: Memorial Library

family: n/a

relationship status: single

PERSONALITY

Raised as a sheltered kid, Iris likes to think she's more optimistic than naïve and wants to believe in the best in people. She's a warm person who likes to joke and laugh more than anything else and always does what she can to help others. In fact, her desire to help and let others shine can be her biggest fault, and what keeps her in her own head and waiting in the wings. Iris is one to seek out the experiences she feels she lacks but finds that she's often restricted by a strong desire to play by the rules.

WRITTEN BY: Lindsey (they/she), est.

BACKGROUND / BIO

Iris was the sort of little girl who was always raised to find her power and her voice. Her father is a classics professor who served as her primary caregiver growing up and her mother is a religious studies professor focusing on Judaism and part-time doula. She was always raised to be open minded while holding a deep respect for the beliefs of her family. Despite the expansive perspective of her mind, she was always just a little bit sheltered. Her parents were older and she was their only child, their special girl, and while they never intended to smother their girl, Iris was often too comfortable with, well, not going outside of her comfort zone.

As a teenager, Iris very quickly realized she liked girls and was very quickly accepted by her parents for who she is. It’s not easy for any teen to realize they’re against the norm, but her liberal Massachusetts community gave her a more opening environment than most places could. Besides, it took her another good four years until she was in undergrad to even work up the nerve to ask a girl out at all. While she was very confident about that part of her life, the diverse interests her parents instilled in her made it hard for her to find a focus in college. She graduated with high honors- just in six years instead of the usual four. During that time, she was in several clubs, studied abroad three times, and still couldn’t find a way to not be awkward around cute girls.

Afterwards, she settled back in at home for a few years. Her parents weren’t overly eager for her to fly the nest and she needed some time to explore options. Working at local library and then a local university library gave her a great passion for library sciences, the ability to classify and collect data and to have access to all the knowledge in the world. At long last, after several years, she had a pathway. Emboldened by this, and despite enrolling in an online program, Iris packed up, said goodbye to her parents, and drove off to Maine to a small town she’d read about once. It was a less than five hour drive, so she’s never been too far from home.

Since settling into Merrock and going through the broke grad student life, she’d taken up doing a variety of gig jobs around town; driving for Uber, walking dogs, helping with grocery orders, even assembling furniture or watering plants. Now, on the cusp of graduating and starting a new career at the local library, Iris feels the pieces are starting to come together.

[mrktimes]

Merrock wishes IRIS XANTHE a happy birthday! -- @irisxanthe