I had more time than I thought I would today; I’d like to re-submit for consideration.


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[color=green][h3]Name:[/h3][/color] Ellen Nancy

[color=green][h3]Age:[/h3][/color] 33



[color=green][h3]Appearance:[/h3][/color] Ellen's a right-out understated bohemian type, often wearing throwback-influenced clothes as a form of self-expression. Her chestnut-brown hair is long and more on the auburn side. Occasionally she wears horn-rimmed glasses over brown eyes, but lately wears contact lenses more frequently. She’s small of stature, barely over 5’2”, and rather slender.

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[color=green][h3]Family:[/h3][/color] Currently watches over Saoirse, the family dog belonging to the home she’s looking after and staying in while studying/teaching



[color=green][h3]Occupation:[/h3][/color] Graduate Art Teaching Assistant, Drumvar University / Musician (psychedelic rock guitarist/drummer)



[color=green][h3]Personality:[/h3][/color] Ellen is a vibrant human being. While being extremely intelligent, she’s rather ruled by her emotional nature. While the quality is a terrific asset in her approach to art, it can color her social interactions somewhat unpredictably. She might react hastily to a situation that she wasn’t prepared for, or lose her temper easily if too frustrated too quickly under just the right conditions. She’s old enough by now that she’s developed enough self-control to mitigate most potential disasters of such nature, but it doesn’t prevent her from having an incessantly busy and taciturn inner monologue during such instances. Ultimately, though, she’s got good intentions. When not in conflict—which is a vast majority of the time—Ellen can be charming despite also being rather absent-minded, eccentric, and occasionally clumsy by way of both body and speech.



[color=green][h3]History:[/h3][/color] Ellen grew up as the oldest daughter of an American infantryman. As a child she was rather socially awkward, but by the middle of high school and college had adjust well thanks to finding like-minded creative friends, and in music. She moved around the world frequently, living in Italy, Germany, Spain, Alaska, Turkey, and Belgium, until she graduated from high school and double-majored in both Journalism and Art History at the University of North Carolina.

After graduating, Ellen worked on and off as a producer in various newsrooms for about five years before tiring of the conflict-heavy environments. Modern “journalism” was not for her. She then began work as a graphic designer at a small firm in Austin, Texas. A year after she began there, the firm was then purchased and she was transferred to the main hub in New York City. 

While doing fairly grueling creative work by day, by night Ellen hammered out any frustration with work by developing her abilities as a songwriter and musician, taking influence from mostly U.K. acts such as The Beatles, T Rex, and David Bowie. She began performing music with friends four years into her time in NYC, finding herself involved with the occasional music project and in a couple of bands for fun here and there. Six years after moving to New York, and not long after her promotion to Creative Director, the firm was acquired by an even larger firm, and massive layoffs ensued. Preferring to walk into her fate head-on and walk out with something rather than nothing, she took a sizable severance package and left her job. 

After a great deal of encouragement from friends, Ellen applied at the age of 32 to pursue further studies in art at New York University and was shocked to be accepted. As part of her studies, she was offered an opportunity to do a graduate student exchange at the University of Drumvar, with a chance to earn experience as a teaching assistant. Not at all one to spare an opportunity to live again in Europe—not to mention the homeland of another musical hero of hers, Donovan Leitch—Ellen enthusiastically packed her life in NYC into a small storage unit and went. 

Ellen has been in Drumvar for approximately five months, and while she still has yet to truly carve out her social network in town, she dreads the idea of leaving within the coming months. Creative work, especially music, has reached new heights for her after leaving what had been normal life for so long; life in Drumvar has been rather peaceful but also pleasant and exciting; teaching has been going smoothly, gigs that pay well aren't hard to get, and people are generally very friendly. Currently Ellen is watching over the home of a University professor taking an academic sabbatical abroad with her family, and also looks after the family dog, a Bearded Collie named Saoirse.



[color=green][h3]Other:[/h3][/color] n/a



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