Gosh she is one of my favorites in this AU.
She is all about that Frutiger Metro vibes, and just having a good time. She always has music playing and she loves hanging out with her friends.
She was built to be an actor, and so is very comfortable with dressing up as other genders, and is in the LBGTQIA+ community.
Later on in the story when Nexus finally is starting to get used to having the others as friends, Puppet helps Nexus with finding out more about themselves, by taking Nexus out to try on clothes, and becomes one of their comfort people when needing help expressing themselves.
She is very energetic and will jump you to force you to listen to her new favorite songs. (Every song is her favorite). So she does annoy others like Nexus and Springs with her energy. Luckily Eclipse is so fine with it, and joins in with her chaos.
One other thing about her is that she has a bad habit of being so fine with changing herself to fit with others. Like when she found out Nexus gets trauma when her hair is white or black, she decided to change her hair color to anything but those colors. That and like, she will act bubbly and happy when she is actually really pissed off, because she doesn't want to "Put down the mood."
Nexus and Puppet work together a lot to help with their bad coping stuff. The girls need to stick together.
( laura harrier, cisfemale, she/her ) i took a trip into town and ran into ELAINE CARTER at the general store. isn’t that the PLAINTIVE you told me about last week? the one who is THIRTY-THREE, as well as MELANCHOLIC and CARING? well, we didn’t chat for long because they had to get back to their job as a CARPENTER, so i can’t say for sure, but i think you might be onto something…they even mentioned they want to MOVE ON FROM THE PAST like you said.
okay, i still need to write her bio and i have a bit of her timeline but i’m impatient, so here’s a summary for now.
INFO
miscarriage tw, death tw
february 12, 1987, elaine carter was born to a loving mother and father, amelia and kamden, and a slightly annoying but nevertheless kind older brother, elias. she grew up in zuzu city with her family, sans her father towards her later teens, given that he was serving in the army in the war against the gotoro empire.
in march of 2007, while elaine is in her second year of university as an architecture major, she learned that her father had been killed in action. while the whole family grieves, many attempt to contact kamden’s father (elaine’s grandfather), isaac, who was a rather isolated individual living in stardew valley, where he ran his own carpentry shop. with no one to check on him, plus being grief-stricken and unable to concentrate on her studies, elaine decides to take a a gap year and visit her grandfather in the valley. her brother stays with their mother to make sure she’s okay.
in may, she’s in stardew valley and staying in the shed in isaac’s backyard. he is stand-off-ish and rude and reserved, but as the days pass, elaine manages to bond with him in a way she never had before. by july, he offers to take her under his wing as an apprentice carpenter. she accepts, deciding to drop out of uni entirely.
so there she was! she lived in the valley for eight years, regularly visiting her family in the city and working alongside isaac after finishing her apprenticeship. but then...
in june of 2015, isaac became very sick, and elaine had to leave the valley, taking him with her to the city where he could be properly cared for. she doesn’t return, staying in zuzu to make sure everything’s alright. the shop is closed indefinitely.
in 2018, isaac passes away. he’s buried in stardew valley and elaine attends the funeral, but continues to stay in zuzu, now fearing for her mother’s health as she grows older.
she spirals a bit.
around late 2019, amelia decides to treat her children to a vacation, and they all go to... some place in europe idk i’ll figure it out. long story short, elaine ends up sleeping with a tourist. cut to--!
a few days after returning to zuzu, elaine finds out she’s pregnant. while scared and having no way of contacting the father, she has always wanted to start her own family, and she thought the baby would help mend the wounds that the death of her loved ones had left on her.
she moves back to stardew valley in january of 2020! she moves into her grandpa’s place, which she struggles to clean out but does so anyway, and spends a few months remodeling the carpentry shop, which she continues in his honor.
on may 30th, elaine has a miscarriage. she returns to the valley, determined to continue running the shop despite everything, but she becomes more isolated, more reserved and bleak as she struggles to deal with the loss of a child she had put so much of her dreams and hopes on. now, she keeps mostly to herself, struggling but slowly trying to get back to a happier place.
PERSONALITY AND OTHER STUFF
even though recent events have made her become a LOT more isolated, elaine has always been an introverted person, has always been a bit awkward, keeps to herself a lot.
that being said, she is an incredibly caring person! mom friend to the max, WILL bring you soup.
hobbies!! she has them!! she boxes (my gorl is strong, she has a pretty atheltic build, best muscles in the town!!) and she also does pottery (the shed in her backyard? it’s her pottery station now!!! let her make you some mugs!!!)
while isolated, she doesn’t just completely avoid ppl (well.... maybe some depends). if you talk to her, she’ll talk back, but she’s shit at starting conversations, so she won’t do that.
she’s pan!!
i’m not sure how much she travels around the town. i imagine she lives around where robin’s house is in the game, which is like up towards the mountains, so i feel like she spends a lot of time around that area or in her house, though she’ll go on walks every now and then, and even go to the saloon if she’s feeling spicy (by that i mean sitting quietly in a corner and watching everyone else talk).
alex better look out!!! that house is coming babey!!!
WANTED CONNECTIONS
she lived in the valley for eight years, from 2007-2015, so she might know your muse?? mayhaps they were close friends but now she’s a lot more reserved and it’s just Not The Same, maybe they were ENEMIES, maybe a crush?? a lil tiny crush?? or whatever you wanna come up with
POTTERY BUDDIES!! OR ART BUDDIES IN GENERAL!!
let. her. be. your. awkward mom friend!!
someone she actually talks to and isn’t weird with and considers a close friend??? sounds fake but ok
maybe just someone who visits the carpentry shop a lot bc.... they need a lot of furniture made or smth?? idk ur life
someone she pushes away!!
idk i think that is it just give me everything i love her
