#thereal:intro

[xdelanceyshepard]

“won a national music talent search competition called NEXT LEVEL & signed with THE REAL as alternative rock singer. jaded and cynical from the overwhelming new attention as a newcomer into the world of celebrities. but willing to play the game to keep afloat.”   — penned by raven (EST & she/her)

tw: child neglect and homelessness

SUMMARY

[[ AMBER STEVENS WEST, SHE/HER, CIS FEMALE]] — don’t look now but i could swear i just saw the paparazzi chasing DELANCEY SHEPARD down the street! the THIRTY-TWO year old has been signed with ‘the real’ for the last 2 YEARS, so i guess you could say they’re a big deal. oh, you don’t believe me? the SOLO SINGER was over the tabloids a week ago where they were being praised for their DEDICATED, RESOURCEFUL, & INDEPENDENT nature, but don’t let that fool you, according to the people closest to them they’re also WITHDRAWN, INSECURE, & SKEPTICAL, but their fans like to just blame that on the fact they’re a/an LEO if you believe in all that. according to their wikipedia page this current l.a native was born in CINCINNATI, OH and a few secrets from their past tend to follow them to this day, like how RETRACTED. i’m sure they’d hate for that one to get out, so let’s keep it between us for now.

STATS

BASIC INFORMATION

name: Delancey Shepard

nicknames: Lancey, Dee-dee, and Daisy

pronouns: She/Her

gender: Cis Female

age: 32 years old 

d.o.b: August 22, 1989

p.o.b: Cincinnati, Ohio

astrological sign: Leo

orientation: Homosexual/Homoromantic (closeted)

occupation: Alternative Rock Singer & Songwriter

APPEARANCE 

faceclaim: Amber Stevens West

voiceclaim: Edith Johnson

height: 5'8 

weight: 151 lb

build: Slender

hair colour: Brown

eye colour: Brown

wardrobe style: Post-Grunge (spaghetti straps, flare jeans, baggy pants, sheer textures, chunky shoes, slip dresses, midriff-baring crop tops, lots of lace, oversized flannel shirts, leather jackets, & casual sneakers)

tattoos: None

piercings: Five on Each Ear 

defining features: She is a woman of Comanche, African-American, and Caucasian descent with light brown skin. She has straightened long brown hair, dark brown eyes, black-painted fingernails, a round nose, and a scar on the back of her neck from a knife. She usually wears glitter eye makeup during her live performances. 

HEALTH

physical ailments: None

mental ailments: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (undiagnosed) & Anxiety (undiagnosed)

do they drink: No

do they smoke: No

recreational drugs: None

addictions: None

PERSONALITY

character inspiration: Diane Nguyen, Fiona Gallagher, & Jane Lane

positive traits: Dedicated, Responsible, Open-Minded, Resourceful, & Independent

negative traits: Withdrawn, Apathetic, Sardonic, Insecure, & Skeptical

likes: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Solitude, Spending Time on Rooftops, Late Night Drives through a Fast Food Drive-Thru, Long Road Trips, Sleeping, & Reality TV Shows

dislikes: Parties, Beaches, People with Big Egos, Her Manager, Her Agent, Smokers, Paparazzi, Country Music, & Horror Movies

ACTIVITIES & SKILLS

skills: Writing, Singing, Cooking, Babysitting, Multi-tasking, & Driving  

weaknesses: Choreography, Small Talk, & Applying Makeup

hidden talents: Drawing Skills

languages spoken: English 

BIOGRAPHY 

Delancey Shepard didn’t know what to expect her future to look like other than somewhere far away from her hometown. At a very young age, she was stuck in the difficult position as the oldest Shepard child. Because of her mom's frequent disappearing acts, Delancey was forced to be the family's caretaker, especially for her younger sister. She handled taking charge when necessary in her household to the best of her abilities as a child. As a result, Delancey quickly grew into a hardworking and quick-witted individual.

By the time Delancey reached her senior year of high school, she saved enough money on her own from part-time jobs and financial aid to be able to go attend a community college. However, the tensions with her mom became too challenging to bear. She had originally planned to major in Education but instead, she dropped out of school and moved out from her mom's house. 

After traveling throughout three West Coast states and quitting five jobs later, she found herself as a STARBUCKS barista in Chino, California at the age of 30 years old. She was practically living in her car and she hadn't heard from her family in years. But she kept pretending that everything was okay.

Then Delancey found out about a national music talent search competition called NEXT LEVEL from her friends. They all agreed to participate in the competition as a joke. She went along with it because she thought it wouldn't hurt to go. Maybe her pride would get wounded on national television, but she'd recover from that. Delancey never considered the possibility of pursuing a career in music or art. It was foolish dreaming. Not something stable and realistic enough for her to obtain. So, when she made it through the first two rounds of auditions, she felt the world she knew to begin to unravel right in front of her.  

 The winner of the competition is expected to be offered a contract with THE REAL. The only issue with this matter was that Delancey never expected to actually win the competition. She entered as a joke, but she started enjoying singing and letting her competitive side get to her with her rival contestants. For once, she didn't consider the outcome of it all. But should she really afford to second guess her prize? It wasn't her fault that she won the many hearts of America with her “Broken Bird” looks.

Delancey signed with THE REAL as an ALTERNATIVE ROCK artist after the competition and released her first album, CURIOSITY, in 2020. She just came back from her first tour and is expected to be working on her next album soon. She is feeling jaded about the lifestyle of the rich and famous already but she is willing to play along to keep the money coming in.

[ofparadise]

ALASKA “LACEY” PARADIS — INTRODUCTION

hi everyone! my name is laurie (she/her) and i’m so excited to meet all of you and your amazing characters! i’m introducing you the disaster (affectionate) that is alaska. my discord is lauriie#9283 if you want to reach me there, but i’m very comfortable to tumblr ims if you prefer!

[[ DAKOTA JOHNSON, SHE/THEY, CIS WOMAN ]] — Don’t look now but I could swear I just saw the paparazzi chasing ALASKA PARADIS down the street! The THIRTY year-old has been signed with ‘The Real’ for the last TEN YEARS, so i guess you could say they’re a big deal. Oh, you don’t believe me? The SOLO SINGER was over the tabloids a week ago where they were being praised for their SELF-AWARENESS, COMPASSION, & TRUSTWORTHINESS, but don’t let that fool you, according to the people closest to them they’re also IMPATIENT, RESENTFUL & DESTRUCTIVE, but their fans like to just blame that on the fact they’re a PISCES if you believe in all that. According to their Wikipedia page this current L.A native was born in MONTRÉAL and a few secrets from their past tend to follow them to this day, like how she [redacted]. I’m sure they’d hate for that one to get out, so let’s keep it between us for now.

BASIC INFORMATION

Name: Alaska Paradis

Pronounciation: A-las-kah Pa-ra-dee

Nicknames: Lacey

Pro-Nouns: She/They

Gender: Cis Woman

Age: 30

D.O.B: March 5th

P.O.B: Montréal, Canada

Astrological Sign: Pisces sun, Virgo moon & Gemini rising

Orientation: Bisexual (strong preference for women)

Occupation: Singer & song-writer

APPEARANCE

Height: 5″7

Hair Colour: Dark blonde (has dyed her hair brown when she became famous)

Eye Colour: Blue (her left iris is a quarter yellow)

Wardrobe Style: Casual

Tattoos: 5 minimalist ones (the outline of a sun behind a cloud on her left ankle with a moon and a cloud on her right ankle, the outline of a a pine tree on her left side boob and daisy on her right sideboob, with a small monarch butterfly on the back of her neck)

Piercings: Earlobes, nose ring and nipple piercings

Defining Features: Her eyes

Faceclaim: Dakota Johnson (singing voiceclaim: Charlotte Cardin)

HEALTH

Physical Ailments: PCOS (recently diagnosed)

Mental Ailments: Anxiety (diagnosed, currently untreated)

Do they drink: Social drinker

Do they smoke: Occasionally

Recreational drugs: Smoked marijuana twice

Addictions: -

PERSONALITY

Positive Traits: self-aware, compassionate, trustworthy, independent, caring, helpful

Negative Traits: impatient, resentful, (self) destructive, demanding, ungrateful, delusional

Likes: shit posting on her finsta, flannel shirts, visiting animal shelters just to play with the pets and consider adopting that one funky looking parrot who learned how to say curse words, desserts or basically anything with sugar, listening to unreleased demos and songs by her favourite artists (and being in denial of her lana del rey phase)

Dislikes: caffeine (drinks decaf), paparazzi except when she’s having a good hair day, makeup, seafood

ACTIVITIES & SKILLS

Skills: Baking, singing, looking like she’s dead inside 24/7

Weaknesses: keeping her calm, dairy even though she eats ice cream for breakfast, attention

Hidden Talents: acting (she’s pretty good at pretending), running a MARINA fan account in secret

Languages Spoken: French & English

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2009: Discovered by a talent agent from The Real

2012: The Playlist ; first album released (consisted of covers)

2014: Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in a motion picture for “Big Eyes” from the 2014 movie of the same name [i’m stealing lana del rey’s song pretend to not see it]

2016: Paradise Motion ; first EP relased (consisted of original songs)

2020 - ?: Aurores Boréales: second EP in the works (consisted of original songs)

WANTED PLOTS & DYNAMICS

childhood friends!!

ride or die who’s noticing she’s going downhill and tries to hold an intervention against her but it’s not working and they’re kind of sick of it

estranged half-sibling who has been wronged by their mutual mother... or not? maybe they actually have a good relationship?

music industry friends (someone who’s her mentor? someone who had a similar rise to fame? someone who was raised in fame and can help her out?)

pr friendships who actually can’t stand alaska and it’s mutual ~

1 genuine relationship but it got ruined by the media

pr relationship with someone who actually cared for her and her feelings but she managed to mess it up and their breakup was all over social media and magazines for weeks and months and fans still want them to be together but it’s for the best if they never cross each other’s paths, not even at whole foods on a tuesday afternoon

song writing buddies because of... reasons <3

MORE FRIENDS please i love friendships, chaotic or supportive, anything!

BIOGRAPHY

tw for: mention of death, justin bieber, strong allusions to depression & burn out

Alaska is the daughter of Simon Paradis, a marine biologist and Stephanie Evans, a singer who has now fallen out of fame. She is closer to her dad’s longtime girlfriend, Joséphine, whom she considers more as a maternal figure than her own mother she has not seen in over twenty-five years. She does not know she has a half-sibling from her mother’s previous marriage.

The pregnancy was totally unplanned, Steffy and Simon had met randomly during one of his research trips to California. He relocated to take care of Steffy during the pregnancy, and of Alaska when she was a baby, but the mother quickly left the portrait.

She split most of her life between Los Angeles and Montréal, following her father everywhere he went. She used to call airplanes her home, since she rarely stayed in the same place long enough to develop some sort of attachment.

She does not know much about her mother, in fact everything she knows is a lie. Her mom was a famous singer who’s trying to restore her reputation by erasing mistakes from her past, and that includes an unwanted daughter. Her father told her that Steffy had to take care of her parents who live in a farm somewhere in Montana and she could not come back since they needed her help. Alaska just assumes her mom is pretty much a ghost and she has moved on from it... Not really though but maybe she’ll believe it if she keeps telling herself that.

She pulled out a Justin Bieber in 2009 and became Internet famous very fast and for very unknown reasons. Her cover of Take On Me by A-Ha (see their MTV unplugged 2017 performance) blew up and caught more attention than she could ever imagine. What started as a secret trip to her father’s office to look through his old vinyls turned into a VIP ticket for fame. The more she posted, the more famous she got. She earned hundreds of thousands of views on her covers of Britney Spears, U2, Lady Gaga, you name it, she’s probably sang it.

Her father, who’s finances have been struggling, encouraged her to pursue this as a career and sign a deal to sing her own music. It was like the American Idol experience, minus the annoying and straight-up rude comments from Simon Cowell.

She was in luck, Lacey had no clue what to do with her life. Instead of being jobless and hopeless at 18 (though, at the beginning of her fame, she did get a professional training to become a beautician, of all things!), she was promised a great future as a pop star.

“Alaska Paradis, with a name like that, you are destined to fame” was the first headline ever written about her on a tabloid. It’s been a roller coaster ever since, except she has been waiting for the final, terrifying drop.

It happened when she hit a creative block and could not provide her international fanbase, producers, and entourage, the content they desperately needed from her. The financial stability of her father relies on Alaska’s shoulders and the more research projects he throws himself in requesting support from his daughter, the deeper the abyss of her debts grows. She has resulted to desperate measures, like accumulating brand deal after brand deal, becoming pretty much the sell-out her mother grew out to be as well.

It’s almost as though she is having a midlife crisis, at the not-so respectable age of thirty. She is redefining her future, one bad decision at a time. Her poor agent has to clean up after every messes she leaves behind, whether it’s a PR relationship or friendship gone wrong, a sponsorship that does not work out or her producer that is growing impatient over the lack of new music.

Alaska uses she/they pronouns, but it is not that publicly known just yet. She might fool around and reactivate her Instagram just to change her pronouns, delete it again and disappear in the great glut of anonymity somewhere by the beach. She’s hoping reality will not come back at her with a vengeance for every time she tested the limits of what her celebrity status can provide her.

[brinroberts]

                 meet brinley roberts / intro to the real

the basics //

name: brinley annalisse roberts nicknames: brin pro-nouns: she/her gender: woman age: twenty nine d.o.b: june 1, 1992 p.o.b: ashville, illinois astrological sign: gemini orientation: heteroflexible ( primarily straight, but open to possibilities ) occupation: sports agent, specializing in football and hockey players.

                   &     wanted connections.

appearance //

height: 5′5″ weight: 115lbs build: slim, strong leg muscles from years of swimming  hair colour: dark brown wardrobe style: brinley likes to be feminine but tough - she often wears high heels and skinny jeans, pairing them with teeshirts with random phrases on them and covering them with a blazer or jacket. she also likes to wear boots, specifically leather knee highs. in her off time, she may go more comfortable and casual - shorts, baggier shirts, sneakers.  tattoos: 'if you don’t swim, you’ll drown’ on left ribcage under her breast, ‘child of the universe’ on right upper thigh, two bumblebees on her left shoulder for her and her brother, a crown on her right hip, and the gemini symbol on the inside of her left wrist  piercings: navel piercing, nose piercing, two holes in each ear where she wears one pair of studs and changes out the other pair with bright colored dangling earrings or hoops  defining features: sleek, shiny hair, clear skin, bright red lips 

health //

physical ailments: scar on her left shoulder from a swimming injury in college, still hurts on occasion  mental ailments: bipolar ii  do they drink: fairly often, primarily in social situations - beer and liquor preferred  do they smoke: constantly, despite claims to quit every other week  recreational drugs: occasionally, when her friends want to  addictions: nicotine, former cocaine habit that she kicked in her early 20s

personality //

positive traits: loyal, resilient, adventurous, charismatic, playful  negative traits: impulsive, obsessive, paranoid, aggressive, hedonistic likes: swimming pools, summer days, sunglasses, skate shoes, mirrors, fun makeup, chinese food, flirting, costume jewelry, fast cars and motorcycles, nature, lemon bars, music festivals and tequila  dislikes: being alone, secrets, comic book movies

activities & skills //

skills: swimming, persuasion, leadership weaknesses: loneliness,  hidden talents: piano, tattoo artistry, archery  languages spoken: english, has learned some russian ( enough to communicate with some of her hockey players ) 

small bio //

brinley has never spent a moment alone in her life. the second of two twins, she arrived minutes after her brother - but even from the very beginning, though they were inseparable, they were miles apart. a unique situation - two embryos from two different fathers - something her birth father never let her brother forget.  while they  had a small collection of friends in their small hometown, brin and brax knew they had to leave the second they could. brinley learned how to sling drinks and tattoo for cash, while brax went to school. brinley eventually caved, heading to a community college before finishing her degree in sports management - if she couldn’t be front and center as a swimmer anymore, she could at least channel all her anger and aggression onto people who could still make it.  though her brother’s across the country in new york now, the two living their own lives for the first time in - well, ever - brinley’s a big up and comer in the sports agency game. after signing a first draft pick for the los angeles rams, she’s managed to get a few of her hockey players into the limelight as well. now, she’s aiming to lose the ‘junior’ part of her agent title, and setting her sights on bigger and better talents. this is los angeles, after all, and if anyone can make it there, it’s sure as hell brinley. 

[stellagarxia]

                  meet stella garcia / intro to the real

the basics // 

name: stella aline garcia nicknames: primarily referred simply by ‘stella’, occasionally as ‘stell’ depending on how close they are pro-nouns: she/her gender: woman age: thirty three d.o.b: june 24, 1988 p.o.b: boston, massachusetts astrological sign: cancer orientation: heteroflexible ( primarily straight, but open to possibilities )  occupation: actress - current star of crash on hbo, a friends like tv show with more ‘adult themes’

                  &     wanted connections.

appearance // 

height: 5′6″ weight: 125lbs build: slim, slight muscles from yoga hair colour: varies from dark brown to platinum blonde. currently a chocolate brown.  eye colour: green. wardrobe style: varies; she tends to go for sophisticated casual - jeans with blazers and button up tops, a lot of jewel tones. if she’s working out or running for errands, she’ll throw on a teeshirt and yoga pants, but prefers to dress nicer when she’s in the public eye at any kind. she’s partial to peter pan collars, short skirts and high heels.  tattoos: small black bird on left shoulder piercings: former navel piercing, since closed over. two in her right ear, three in her left.  defining features: bright, white smile & piercing green eyes

health // 

physical ailments: none mental ailments: anxiety do they drink: frequently, socially with friends and a glass of wine or two at night to ‘unwind’. do they smoke: claims to be a former smoker, usually has at least one pack stashed away somewhere for when the need hits.  recreational drugs: former recreational drug user. very rarely indulges these days. addictions: none.

personality // 

positive traits: compassionate, generous, honest, clever, hard working negative traits: manipulative, bossy, stubborn, envious, callous likes: baseball, the beach, seafood, gossip, fast food, cozy blankets, bubble baths, candles in floral scents, new perfumes, wine and game nights with friends, debating, helping others dislikes: being wrong, commitment, motorcycles

activities & skills //

skills: public speaking, creativity, intuition  weaknesses: logic, time management, perseverance  hidden talents: gardening, cooking, dance languages spoken: english, spanish, portuguese

small bio // 

born to a luxury hotel owner and personal chef, stella was in a life of privilage from the very beginning. when she expressed an interest in pursuing entertainment as a child, her parents set her up for pageants, modeling and eventually, acting classes. they gave her all the opportunities a child could have, and while the boston scene wasn’t quite as intense as those in new york or los angeles, her name was soon being mentioned from producers who could actually do something with her.  it wasn’t long until she was able to snag a role in a small indie film that suddenly exploded - her entire career is thanks to fly over, a drama that took over cannes, sundance and more. offers started rolling in afterwards, and when she managed to land the leading role of a new hbo show crash - a ‘friends’ meets ‘sex and the city’ for the current day 20 something - she knew she’d truly made it.  now, she works on movies in between seasons of the show she’s been on for almost six years, and travels in her free time as often as possible. she has a dog named bear she takes with her everywhere, and visits her mother and brother in boston whenever she gets a chance. while she seems to have everything and then some, there’s always something missing - stella is, ultimately, a romantic, and hopes she can somehow find her one true love, even in the chaos and misery that often accompanies fame.