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[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Full Name:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Jolene Paige Fraser[/indent]

[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Nickname(s):[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Jo or JoJo: Only by Willow, Aunt Bobi, and close friends[/indent]
[indent]Red: Highschool nickname[/indent]
[indent]Mama: Faye only[/indent]
[indent]DearDolly: Online persona[/indent]

[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Age:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]22 ❤︎ March 11th ❤︎ Picese[/indent]

[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Gender:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Female[/indent]

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[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Sexuality:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Heteroromantic Bisexual[/indent]

[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Occupation:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Waitress at Lou’s Diner // Secret Digital Content Creator (OnlyFans)[/indent]

[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Place of Residence:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]#11 Shady Pines Drive
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[color=#AFD47F][b]Family[/b][/color]
[indent]❤︎ [color=#AFD47F]Diana Fraser[/color] - Jolene's mother - Previous billing coordinator at the Medical Clinic/Regional Hospital - [b]Currently in Prison[/b][/indent]
[indent]❤︎ [color=#AFD47F]Peter Fraser[/color] - Jolene's father - Previous construction foreman - [b]Currently in Prison[/b][/indent]
[indent]❤︎ [color=#f19ac4]Willow Fraser[/color] - Jolene’s beloved older sister & savior[/indent]
[indent]❤︎ [color=#AFD47F]Faye Fraser[/color] - Jolene’s 4 year old daughter || FC: [url=https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0-2XcQT9Q_4A9lCOxoRmz5PSZ2WWT7mYhnw&s]Toddler Madelaine Petsch[/url][/indent]
[indent]❤︎ [color=#AFD47F]Aunt Bobi[/color] - Jolene’s aunt[/indent]

[color=#AFD47F][b]Friends and Connections[/b][/color]
[indent][color=#B8533E]Tyler Boone[/color] - Pending[/indent]
[indent][color=#808000]Caleb Dalton[/color] - Close friend, ride to and from work, & one of her subscribers[/indent]
[indent][color=#AFD47F]Cade Miller[/color] - Ex-boyfriend, biker, & baby daddy (Role open if anybody is interested)[/indent]


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[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Appearance:[/b][/color][/sub]
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[*][color=#AFD47F]Height:[/color] 5’3”
[*][color=#AFD47F]Hair:[/color] Auburn Red ❤︎ Long and mostly straight ❤︎ Up in messy bun or down with wavy curls
[*][color=#AFD47F]Eyes:[/color] Green
[*][color=#AFD47F]Body Type:[/color] Petite hourglass figure, but toned and deceptively strong.
[*][color=#AFD47F]Clothing Style:[/color] Thrifty Whimsigoth Witch ❤︎ Velvet & Lace ❤︎ Dark jewel tones ❤︎ Distressed black denim ❤︎ Chunky/oversized cardigans ❤︎ Celestial embroidery & mushrooms ❤︎ Layered chokers ❤︎ Lunar jewelry ❤︎ Platform combat boots ❤︎ Bolero hats
❤︎ [url=https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6b/d2/23/6bd22393ff0c630d57c96a8e65553acd.jpg]Example 1[/url]
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❤︎ [url=https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/57/54/53/57545331749582fd59b40f8276296f75.jpg]Example 3[/url]
❤︎ [url=https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/57/54/53/57545331749582fd59b40f8276296f75.jpg]Example 4[/url]
❤︎ [url=https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4a/c2/43/4ac24366c06e27d77402502b8d8e57a6.jpg]Example 5[/url]

[*][color=#AFD47F]Body Markings:[/color]
❤︎ Septum ring, ear piercings, & belly button piercing  
❤︎ A tattoo of a [url=https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/38/cc/4b/38cc4b8b7b35362d8b163afcdd7479e6.jpg]willow branch[/url] on her shoulder in honor of her sister   
❤︎ [url=https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/a3/b8/a6/a3b8a67c035b27b669277b92ceb93edd.jpg]Small heart tattoos[/url] on her hand where her daughter’s fingers sit when holding her hand  
❤︎ Faded scars on her forearms and palms from falling on a glass table
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[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Personality:[/b][/color][/sub]
[indent]Jolene is like a live wire after a storm, all sharp edges and restless energy. She doesn't just walk into a room, she dares it to push back. If Willow is the one who soaks up the blows, Jolene is the one who steps in front, making sure nobody ever gets a clear shot at her sister or her daughter again.

She flirts and jokes like it's a shield, all bright smiles and quick comebacks. She knows how to use her looks and her mouth to keep people guessing, to keep them from seeing the bruises underneath. She walks around with the swagger of someone twice her size, chin up, never backing down, making people forget she's barely five feet tall.

She steps into the role of the "Dragon Slayer," loudly drawing the fire so the shadows don't touch her family, and that's the simplest way to sum up Jolene.

Jolene grins like she’s daring someone to call her bluff, and she hasn’t said sorry for breathing since the day Aunt Bobi called the cops. She doesn’t mind silence and likes to let it hang until other people squirm. She’s quick with a joke that cuts, never letting on if she’s serious or just messing with you. She’s always moving—tapping her fingers, spinning her rings, never quite still. When things get bad, she gets louder, picks a fight, does something reckless just to remind herself she’s still got the upper hand. She’s never lied about who she hates, but she guards the soft parts of herself like a secret.

That boldness of hers, however, is a survival strategy, not a lack of vulnerability. Jolene is hyper-vigilant and extremely observant, reading power dynamics with the precision of someone who spent years navigating a house full of landmines. Her default response is defiance, the fight response. She gets louder, hits harder, and never gives an inch of ground. She moves with a grounded, predatory grace, even when her mind is a storm of anxiety. It’s like her body is the only thing she has left that she finally owns.

Beneath all that grit, though, lives a deep-seated grief for the girl who used to sing and believe in "godly" men before life taught her that protection is something you have to take for yourself. Jolene has zero tolerance for bullies or hypocrites, and seeing a vulnerable person being cornered flips a switch in her. She goes after threats with the same fury she learned from her father, but she uses it to protect, not destroy. When she decides to end a threat, she doesn't just swing; she seeks to dismantle it so it can never rise again.

When the camera’s on for DearDolly, Jolene turns herself into something sharp and untouchable, all confidence and control. Online, she owns every part of herself, and nobody gets anything she doesn’t give. But when she’s alone, singing lullabies in the dark to Faye, that’s when the real Jolene slips out: raw, aching, and holding tight to the little bit of peace she’s managed to carve out.

Jolene keeps her doubts to herself, half-convinced the world is set up to crush girls like her. She deals with it by working herself raw with twelve-hour shifts at the diner and side hustles, anything to keep her mind too tired to remember Peter’s eyes or the sound of Cade’s bike.

But the thing that keeps Jolene from burning it all down is Faye. Loving her daughter is the only faith she’s got left, and she clings to it with everything she has. Faye is her little fairy girl, the one person Jolene wants to give a soft world to, even if she has to build it from scratch. She’ll work herself to the bone to make sure Faye has what she needs—good clothes, bright toys, and a mother who actually listens. Jolene might be hard on everyone else, but for Faye, she’s all warmth. She never misses a bedtime story, turns their trailer into something close to magic, and would do anything to keep her daughter safe. Faye and Willow are the only ones who get to see the real Jolene.

Despite everything, Jolene hasn’t lost her capacity for love, but she has lost her belief in "holy" masks. She believes in the power of a sharp tongue, the safety of Aunt Bobi’s porch, and the fact that if you want a monster dead, you have to be the one to hold the sword.

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[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]History:[/b][/color][/sub]
[hider=TW - Child Abuse/Neglect, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Assault/Molestation, Teen Pregnancy/Custody Issues][indent]Jolene grew up in the hush that followed after Willow took the hits. While Willow was always the one running interference, Jolene learned to keep her head down, to shrink herself, to take whatever scraps of love were handed out—always with strings attached. She watched her parents parade their "godly" values for the neighbors, but inside the house, it was all sharp words and double standards. Jolene figured out early that in the Fraser house, telling the truth was just asking for trouble.

Everything changed after the car accident. Diana became obsessed with Willow’s recovery, hovering over her, counting pills, running the show. With her mother’s eyes fixed on Willow, the rest of the house slipped out of focus. That’s when Peter stepped in. Jolene, who had always been the afterthought, suddenly became the only one left for her father to notice.

At first, it was just more of his temper. Jolene became the one he yelled at, the one he shoved when things went wrong. But as she got older, his attention changed. The anger turned quiet, secret. While Diana fussed over Willow in the next room, Peter started crossing lines that should have never been touched. He took things from Jolene that she could never get back, things that should have remained sacred. He was stealing Jolene's autonomy and innocence in a way that left her feeling like a ghost in her own skin.

Jolene lived in a split world. Willow was being told she was broken, that she needed help, while Jolene was being torn apart in silence by the man everyone else called a good Christian and a hard worker. Through all of it, the only thing that kept Jolene from slipping away completely was Willow. Even when Willow was barely holding herself together, she still made sure Jolene ate, got dressed, made it to school.

Seeking any light in that suffocating darkness, Jolene found Cade Miller in high school. To a girl raised by a man who used religion to mask his rot, Cade’s pedigree as the son of a high-ranking Black Dog felt like salvation. The gang were the local heavyweights, known for a rugged code of protection and looking out for the people of Pines Holler when the system failed them. Cade promised her a world where "protection" was a real, physical thing, and she worshipped him as her ticket out, believing the leather-clad legacy he was set to inherit would be the armor that kept her father at bay.

However, the "protection" Cade offered revealed itself to be a different kind of possession as he aged into his role. While the Black Dogs as a whole held values of helping the town, Cade’s personal interpretation of that strength was a masterclass in domestic control. When Jolene fell pregnant at sixteen, the shift was immediate. Cade didn't become the partner she needed; he became her warden. He used the gang’s reputation for "safety" to isolate her, turning his protective nature into a cycle of volatility and domestic terror. She ran back to him time and again because she believed she had nowhere else to go and that a known devil with a badge of "protection" was better than the one waiting in her childhood bedroom.

It all broke open when Willow saw what was really happening. The secrets spilled out, and whatever peace they had left was gone. But they didn’t have to face it alone. Aunt Bobi, who had always known something was wrong behind the Fraser family’s church smiles, took them in when they had nowhere else to go. She was the one who finally said enough, who called the police, who stood up in court and told the truth. Because of her, Diana and Peter ended up where they belonged.

Life at #11 Shady Hills is no fairy tale, but it belongs to them. Jolene still carries those years in the way she keeps Faye close and always checks the locks. She works her shifts at the diner, pours herself into DearDolly, trying to build something better than what her parents left her with. Only Jolene knows what Willow gave up to get them out, just like only Willow knows what Jolene truly lost back on Miners Street. Through it all, Aunt Bobi is still there, the one steady thing in Pines Holler, proof that family can mean safety, not pain.

Now, things with Cade simmer in the background, never really gone. Because of Faye, he’s the one monster Jolene can’t shake. Their lives are tied together by court papers, every handoff a reminder of the cage she once thought was a way out. Jolene still respects the Black Dogs as she knows they look out for Pines Holler, but Cade is different. He hides behind their name, using it to cover up what he really is. Shady Hills is her safe place, but as she pours coffee at Lou’s and works on DearDolly, she knows Cade is always just across the town, holding half of her heart in her hands.

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[sub][color=#AFD47F][b]Extra Facts // Headcannons:[/b][/color][/sub]

How does your character feel about the expansion/growth of Pines Holler?
 ❤︎ [color=#AFD47F] Jolene sees it as a new breed of predator in a better suit. She views the "suits" and developers as parasites looking to buy out the vulnerable, and while she’ll happily drain their wallets at the diner or online, she’d burn the town to the ground before she let their "progress" evict her family from their sanctuary.[/color]

[color=#AFD47F]Fun Facts[/color]
❤︎ Jolene has a haunting, raw singing voice; though she secretly dreams of a career in music, she treats it like a dead dream to keep herself grounded in reality.
❤︎ [color=#AFD47F] She went with the name DearDolly as a nod to being named after the Dolly Parton song Jolene.[/color]
❤︎ She is a self-taught seamstress
❤︎ [color=#AFD47F] Jolene is the "handyman" of the trailer; she’d rather spend three hours fixing a leak herself than let a strange man inside their home to do it. But when she can’t fix something, she goes and gets Caleb to see if he can help.[/color]
❤︎ She likes to hang out at Huskers if her sister or Caleb is working and Cade has Faye, drinking and trying to quiet her worry over her daughter not being home with her.
❤︎ [color=#AFD47F] She has a deep love for any and all music.[/color]
❤︎ She is a master of the "Irish Goodbye"; she’ll be at a party or a gathering one minute, and the second she feels a shift in the vibe, she’s gone without a word to anyone but Willow.
❤︎ [color=#AFD47F]She has a high caffeine tolerance; Jolene can drink a pot of coffee at midnight and still fall asleep the moment her head hits the pillow from pure exhaustion.[/color]
❤︎ When working as [i]DearDolly[/i], she wears an intricate lace masquerade mask; it’s a beautiful bit of theater that helps ensure her identity is obscured.
❤︎ [color=#AFD47F]Jolene has been known to smoke weed on occasion.[/color]
❤︎ She caught Caleb on his phone once and saw his OnlyFans username and realized he’s one of her subscribers. She hasn’t said anything to him yet.

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[@Sugar and Spite] Here's miss Willow's sister! Hope she's okay haha.