TW: DEMENTIA, DRUNK DRIVING/CAR ACCIDENT, DEATH
Full Name: Elise Christine Halloway
Nickname(s): Lise. Julie (her grandma calls her that)
Occupation: Part time florist at Life Rose On
Traits: Pious, Empathetic, Judgmental, Fervid.
Elise was born at 6:30 in the morning, after three hours of pushing and 30 hours of labor. When she was born she didn’t cry, scaring everyone in the room. But she was perfectly healthy and happy. She actually a fairly calm baby. When she wasn’t sleeping, she was smiling. And the light of her mother, Julie’s, life.
Elise’s father was around for about three months after she was born, then stopped coming around. Julie never saw a check nor did she want one. They were better off without him. But being a single mother took it’s tole on Julie who already struggled with alcohol and drugs, so Christine, Julie’s mother, allowed her daughter to move back into the house in order to help with her granddaughter. After all her husband passed away from cancer in 1973, and having the house all to herself was lonesome.
For the most part, Elise’s childhood was good. Julie had her problems but Christine did her best to keep them from Elise. Unfortunately not everything could be wept under the rug.
When Elise was nine, Julie had spent another payday at the bar. It was a common occurrence, only this time, instead of going home with a random guy at the bar, Julie needed to head home. It was Elise’s birthday on Saturday, so she wanted her daughter to be able to wake up with her mother there. But it was not to be. Getting behind the wheel, Julie was far too drunk to drive and ended up getting into a fatal crash just blocks from home. The only good thing about it, Julie was the only casualty.
After the death of her mother, Christine was the only thing that Elise had. No father, no siblings, not even any aunts and uncles. It was just Elise and her grandma. Then about five years ago, when Christine was diagnosed with degenerative dementia. The changes came slow at first, but after four years it was clear Christine’s health was on it’s way down hill. Unable to bring herself to put the only person who’d been there for her, always, in a home the young girl boxed away her dreams of going to college and getting out away.
Now, Elise is struggling like hell to keep everything afloat. Christine’s social security checks aren’t cutting it anymore and they’ve exhausted all the savings Christine and her husband had built up. Including the small nest egg for Elise’s college fund.
Elise was raised LDS and is very dedicated to the church.
She was slightly popular in high school, mainly dude to her kind nature and the fact she a cheerleader. But she rarely dated, mostly because Elise was very vocal about her belief in waiting until you were married to get between the sheets.
Shes a mix of Quinn Fabray’s judgmental piety + Brittany Pierce’s bubbly positivity minus all the sex and inappropriate situations Glee put them in.
Though I compare her to Brittany from Glee and Karen from mean girls she is in no means stupid. She actually tested high enough to skip kindergarten. But because of that she’d very naïve. She always is trying to give people the benefit of the doubt and think positively even when she shouldn’t.
people from church (but must be LDS aka Mormon)
someone who was hurt in her mother’s drunk driving accident (or a family member of someone who was hurt or killed too)
ex-boyfriend who put in quite the time with Elise (at least a year) but ultimately dumped her because she was too prude for him (extra points for making it a high school romance and or making it a decent break up)
her bad boy crush ... she’ll never admit it because of stories about her dad but she’s got a soft spot
someone who’s had or still has a crush on her
