meet nora foster - aka the outsider of the upper west side.
name : nora foster
age : 25
birthdate : november 3rd, 1996
zodiac : scorpio
current profession : film maker
gender identity & sexuality : UP TO PLAYER.
known online as : n or the outsider
based on vanessa abrams.
&& aesthetics : UP TO PLAYER.
&& habits :
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the unofficial biography -
Nora foster was the ultimate outsider, even within her family; growing up on a hippie commune in vermont, all that was ever preached at her was art and creativity. what she saw around her, however, was nothing but a bunch of fakes - they may have believed in saving the world through their art, but a bunch of cheese graters attached to a wall - some with the cheese still in them - was hardly art.
it took years of begging to get her parents to relent into letting her move into manhattan with her older sister, hazel. the lead singer in a punk rock band who played around the indie scene, hazel was everything nora wasn’t - loud and abrasive and the light of their parents eyes. but she allowed nora the freedom to finally stretch herself - to create herself. and she did so with a camera.
being forced to go to an all girls private school was the one stipulation, and while nora wasn’t overly fond of her classmates, they made for interesting fodder for her films. always eager to spill their secrets, her senior year project was a culmination of her peers - something that went viral on the internet, getting her attention for her camera work and the honesty she could pull from vapid, shallow socialites and their boyfriends and giving her the potential to skip college altogether to start her career.
but nyu had been her dream, and she’d gotten in early - she wasn’t about to turn her back on that. besides, the one thing she’d learned from her parents was that the more serious you took yourself as an ‘artiste’, the further from reality you’d become. so she graduated - a year early - from one of the top film programs in the world, continuing to make indie projects along the way.
now, she’s working on a documentary on the activist’s climb into the political spotlight - a glaring expose on how fucked our world truly has become, while highlighting those their age who wanted to change it. whether or not the subject of her documentary likes the final outcome is neither here nor there - nora’s trying to create a voice for herself, not cater to the whims of former classmates.
keep your friends close, and your enemies closer -
elias quinn - if there’s one true soulmate for everyone, elias is probably nora’s. the only problem is, they never seem to quite get it together. the two have been on and off since they were sixteen - after years of friendship ( and pining from nora’s side ). the two have never strayed too far from one another, even when they were broken up - no matter what, they’re best friends first, lovers ( occasionally ) second.
she’s been his biggest fan since he was writing scribbles in notebooks, and he was hers since she was filming pigeons pecking used condoms in washington square park. the two bonded over being the ones ‘above’ the rest of their peers, not swayed by fancy labels and big parties. and while that’s changed over the years - for both of them - they help ground the other, even if the other doesn’t always appreciate it at the time.
josephine barclay - to say she was surprised to get a call from her former classmate was an understatement, but nora couldn’t deny she was fascinated by the proposition josephine was outlying for her. a behind the scenes peek at politics - everyone’s favorite subject these days - and a chance to make one of her documentaries actually go somewhere.
sure, she’s had a few flashes of fame throughout the years, but this could be the one that sends her skyrocketing, really. and while josephine has a very clear picture of what she wants - to paint herself in the hero light, of course - nora’s always been focused on telling the truth. still, the two work well together, nora an almost silent element in josephine’s day to day life, but the longer they work together, the closer they become - whether they’re willing to admit to it or not.
other quick connections : theodore cunningham ( friends with benefits ), adelaide laurent ( former roommate ), meredith quinn ( acquaintance ), bennett fitzwilliam ( ex-boyfriend ). more listed here.
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( suggested faceclaims : sydney park, quintessa swindell, yvette monreal, and jessie mei li. must be a FCOC. )