Vera Del Bosque, 45, has called Coronado home all their life. As the museum director at Coronado Historical Center, their world is steeped in touches as cool as polished marble, expensive perfume combined with cheap cigarette smoke, and the fading ink of an old tattoo. Often found attending the theatre, alone in their box, they move through life with The Chain by Fleetwood Mac in their ear.
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basics —
NAME: Vera Elisabeth Del Bosque NICKNAME(S): V (give her more!) AGE: 45 DATE OF BIRTH: May 19th , 1980 GENDER: Cis woman (she/her) ORIENTATION: Bisexual AFFILIATION: The Del Bosques
background —
BIRTHPLACE: Casa Del Bosque, Coronado EDUCATION: BA in Fine Art, MA in History of Art, PhD in Cultural Heritage OCCUPATION: Museum Director at Coronado Historical Center
FATHER: Hector Del Bosque MOTHER: Amara Del Bosque (née Villar) SIBLING(S): Rafael Del Bosque SPOUSE: Luis Fernando Morales Del Bosque CHILDREN: One (details tbc)
appearance —
FACECLAIM: Rosamund Pike HEIGHT: 5'8 BUILD: Lithe, vaguely athletic HAIR: Blonde, armpit length — most commonly worn loose or in a chignon EYES: Clear blue MARKS/SCARS: A mole on the back of her neck, a small scar on her right knee TATTOOS: A number of intricate back tattoos, collected during the more rebellious period in her late teens and early twenties; her family hates them, which makes her more inclined to show them off (insp.) STYLE: Simple, chic pieces usually in neutral tones — wool suits, cashmere sweaters, fine cotton shirts, silk blouses and dresses; she rarely wears anything tight fitting, preferring elegant drapery and tailoring, and favours gold jewellery over silver SIGNATURE SCENT: Iris, musk, ambrette, sandalwood
personality —
+ shrewd, protective, idealistic, passionate, efficient - resentful, jealous, uncooperative, vain, temperamental
ZODIAC: ☉ Taurus; ☾ Leo; ↑ Aquarius MBTI: ISTP-A (The Virtuoso) ENNEAGRAM: Type 4 (The Individualist) TEMPERAMENT: Melancholic ALIGNMENT: True neutral
PARALLELS: Madeline Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher); Siobhan Roy (Succession); Princess Margaret (The Crown); Lily van der Woodsen (Gossip Girl); Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)
summary —
As the youngest child of Hector and Amara Del Bosques, a daughter, and her father's favourite, little expectation was placed on Vera by her parents beyond the usual insistence of upholding family values and not making an idiot of yourself. Because of this, she was given a certain degree of freedom that would not have otherwise have been afforded to her — and this was something that she seized.
During her teenage years she became outspoken, bordering on impertient at times, but vivacious too. She developed an interest in politics, befriended people at university who her family advised she avoided. There was never any real intent to harm the reputation of the Del Bosques, she was merely a free spirit who wanted to live well, and experience more than she would have in the crystalline bubble she had been born into. That was until she met Luis.
It was her who approached him, naturally. (In some ways, she supposes that means that everything that has happened since is all her fault). Despite the raised eyebrows and pursed lips of her family, she ignored it all in favour of the young man she had fallen for so rapidly she hardly remembered when it happened. Their relationship was intense, progressing far too quickly for either of them to comprehend, and then, even quicker.
Vera tried to keep the pregnancy secret until she and Luis had a chance to decide what they wanted to do, but unbeknownst to her, the Del Bosque family doctor was paid to inform her parents of all of her medical information, without her knowledge or consent. Thus ended the period of her life where freedom was available to her. She loved Luis, even loved their impromptu marriage and their unplanned child, but over the years the distraction that they provided from her golden cage stopped working. She continued studying, got (or was given) a job, continued to try and perform as wife and mother, but the fire that had once been in her slowly began to sputter out.
Somewhere in the mundanity that had become her life, she began to pay more attention to her brother, Rafael. The two had never been especially close, but his intentions towards relinquishing the control that the Del Bosques have over Coronado only serve to sour her opinion of him even further. Though she has spent most of her life opposing tradition, the idea of losing more power in an existence where she already feels powerless is abhorrent to her, and she is beginning to wonder whether someone needs to take a more hardline stance is needed to manage her brother's new plans.
headcanons —
For most of her life, Vera had wanted to become an artist — something that the Del Bosques had initially been very supportive of, given that it suited their brand of making cultural contributions to Coronado. After meeting Luis and getting pregnant by him, however, her family decided that she needed to do something "more productive". Of the options offered to her, she decided that museums was the best way to go.
She frequently attends the theatre or the opera on her own — partially because she enjoys it, and partially just to get out of the house.
To her credit, Vera has tried extremely hard to be a good mother. How successful she has been is up for debate. While she's tried to impose fewer restrictions on her child than she was subjected to so they can live relatively normally, and has done her best to protect them from the opinions of the elder members of the Del Bosques, she has also often been emotionally distant, and perhaps a little too relaxed in her parenting methods.
More TBC!!