Post by X2 on Feb 21, 2017 17:49:27 GMT -5
Name: Jennyanydots (Aka Jenn)
Gender: Female
Age: Adolescent (15)
Tribe: Jellicle
Tribe Position: Healer
Family: Skimbleshanks-[Father] (Pending); Myrina-[Mother]
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Appearance: Jennyanydots, is quite the opposite of the detailed imagery of the song sung at the ball. She is a short queen, and quite petite. So petite that her limbs look fragile, and she gives off this impression that a strong touch could break her. She has a rounded face with high cheek bones, and almond shaped eyes. She looks like a small domesticated tiger, though she does have some white fur splattered throughout her body. But she is mostly an orange tiger tabby. Her mane is long, curly and mostly orange. Though there are some black and white markings mixed into her mane; a mane that she usually lets hang down, but she'll occasionally pull it back into a thick ponytail, and keep it off her face. Her eyes are a solid gold. She does have a longer tail then most domestic cats, as well, though this is due to unknown heritage.
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Human Appearance: Tiffany Hwang
Personality: Jenn has an outstanding bedside manner. She'll still boast about her own abilities, but when she has a patient it becomes all about them. She is as sweet as can be, and is extremely sensitive and compassionate to the needs, concerns, and fears her patients might display. And Jenn does have a big heart. She doesn't save or help jellicles with their ailments because she wants to feel powerful or because she has a god complex and needs to feel like she has the power over life and death. No Jenn does care about the jellicles in her tribe. Instead of remaining bitter over the abandonment of her parents and the death of her two closest friends, Jenn has opened her heart to all of the jellicles. In a way, she tries harder to keep everyone healthy and not broken, because she doesn't like the thought of losing anyone else within the tribe, within her family. It's foolish and childish, and she knows she can't keep them with her forever, but it's safe to say it's her own way of coping with the losses she's already had to endure. And while Jennyanydots was her main caretaker, it was more accurate to say that she was raised by the whole tribe. So no matter how close or distant she is with the other jellicles, she still considers them her family, and is very loyal all of them. If one cat messes with a jellicle, Jenn feels they're messing with the whole tribe and doesn't appreciate anyone behaving negatively towards any one in her family.
Jenn can be snooty and bossy [see faults], but her intentions have always been good, even if her actions belie that. But unfortunately, her would-be intentions do get muddled in the way she goes about them. Still, she does feel things quite deeply and only wants the best for herself and her family. She's not stuffy and totally responsible like her grandmother was. She still loves to have fun, though usually goes out on the town clubbing or finding her own fun by herself. There are some instances where she'll go out with some of the older queens, the ones she has an easier time connecting with, but she'll often feel like they aren't completely comfortable with her hanging around on account of her age. But don't expect her to be the responsible type once she's out of the infirmary. She likes to have fun as any teenage girl does, and while she's horribly out of place with her age group, it doesn't stop her from trying to have her own fun. Which is another positive trait that Jenn possesses. She is a determined queen and when she runs into a problem or if she fails the first time around, she doesn't just quit, she will continue to try other solutions and her determination won't let her stop until she's reached a solution.
Faults: Due to Jenn subconsciously having an inferiority complex, outwardly she overcompensates and she comes across as arrogant, condescending and superior. Jenn is horribly insecure, due to being the youngest healer expected to do better then her superiors in order to gain respect, and because she feels abandoned by everyone she had ever loved. As stated before, Jenn is arrogant. Though this is partly due to outside influence. Being in charge of the infirmary at such a young age, and told countless times how good she is, she has developed a complex of her own self importance and since taking over for Jennyanydots song as well and being one of the "stars" of the Jellicle Ball, her arrogance about her place in the tribe has only gotten worse. She is conceited and tends to think she's better then others her age, though this is another mask to conceal more of her insecurities. She knows how out of place she is with those her own age, and because she can't seem to create any friendships with her age group, she conceals her outcasted feelings through a false sense of superiority.
Jenn has no problems telling others what to do, feeling she's earned that right. If she see's someone younger, her age or older, doing something inappropriate she won't hesitate to call them on it and to tell them to stop. She believes that she has that authority. And while she does have it in the infirmary, she doesn't differentiate between her job and her personal life. Jenn is an impatient young queen. She expects answers, and results, and things to be done in a timely fashion. And she will expect things immediately, and doesn't do well with long waits. She'll get antsy and has gotten into the habit of twiddling with her hair and playing with it nervously. Jenn is also a bit OCD, but it really only comes through when she's in the infirmary. Everything has to be in a set place and has to be placed on the shelves perfectly, and everything in the infirmary has to be clean. Jenn has spent countless time scrubbing the sheets and clothes after sick or injured patients have been through. She has also spent time scrubbing the wooden walls and floor clean.
Describing word: Bossy
History: Jennyanydots was a tabby queen, with tiger stripes and leopard spots. She sat all day, anywhere and everywhere. That's how she got the name of the Gumbie cat. She would also teach the mice better matters in the dead of night when everyone else was asleep. Or that's how the song goes. The song was dedicated to Jennyanydots grandmother, who was quite a large cat who only worked at night and spent the whole day lazing around. The song is her grandmothers song, and is also Jennyanydots name sake. But to clear up confusion and to set them apart, when Jennyanydots was born, her name was eventually shortened to Jenn, and that is what she goes by, and what she prefers to be called. Jenn was the product of a one night stand. Her father Skimbleshanks, was the pet of a Train Master, and spent most of his time traveling the country in the company of the different humans on said Train. Being that he traveled many places and never stopped for long, he had gotten in the habit of finding comfort where he could, no matter how short of time he'd have with them. This is how he had met Jenn's future mother.
Myrina, Jenn's mother, was a tiny little thing, living on the streets in Northern Scotland. She claimed to be an actor, whether it was true or not, Jenn didn't know; but Skimble had been quite taken with her. While they were held up getting supplies and making errands, Skimble found he had a week to explore the Scottish streets, and did so with Myrina. Eventually, the two became intimate on several occasions during their time together. But alas, like always, Skimble got onto the train once his human was ready to depart, said his goodbyes to Myrina and left her behind. He didn't realize that she had conceived during one of their nights. Myrina struggled for many weeks after learning she was pregnant, about what to do. Skimble had just been a bit of fun, and both went into their fling knowing it was only short term. She had certainly not wanted to have his kittens, and heavily debated on getting rid of it. She often returned to the train station and watched and waited for his train. As chance would have it, only about a week after she gave birth to Jenn, a familiar train had rolled back into the station.
Myrina had known that she was not Skimble's first and that there had been several other queens before her. And while she did have a fondness for Skimbleshanks, a part of her regretted that she was another notch on his belt, that their fun together had changed her life forever and not his. Myrina had no intention of caring for a kitten, not when she had dreams and plans of her own that she wanted to pursue. So when she saw the familiar train stop in the station, it wasn't long before a golden tabby walked off of it. Myrina ended up showing Skimble his daughter, and what should have been a joyous occasion turned into a fight when he learned she planned to abandon her. Skimble himself didn't know how a kitten would affect his own plans, but after seeing her, he just couldn't leave her like Myrina did. So he brought her on his train with him. His human was kind enough to help Skimble care for the kitten, while they were travelling. They were on the train travelling for a couple weeks before they got back to London. Skimble had decided to name his daughter after his mother, Jennyanydots.
As soon as they got back to London, Skimble brought Jenn to the junkyard. And while he grew attached to his daughter over those weeks on the train, he in a sense abandoned her as well. Not permanently of course, as he always returned to the junkyard when he could and would see his daughter, he spent most of his time away from her and the junkyard, and did so without hesitation. At least, it always seemed that way to Jenn. She was often left in the care of the elder cats of the junkyard, and started bonding with them. It is most likely why she gets along better with older jellicles, and has a hard time fitting in with cats her own age. Jennyanydots soon became Jenn's pillar. Jennyanydots took care of her more then most of the other elders, and Jenn became incredibly close with her grandmother. Though she was out of practice and more inclined to sleep or sit all day, she became Jenn's primary source of care, of love, etc. While she does resent Skimble for abandoning her, like her mother did, a large part of her believes its her own fault and she resents herself for pushing Skimble away.
Jennyanydots did her best to try and appease Jenn and to get her to understand that Skimble didn't love her any less, but Jenn was too young to really understand why Skimble chose the Train over Fatherhood. But Jenn did the only thing she could to cope with these feelings; she began to overcompensate. She looked for anything she could do, to find anything she was good at in order to be useful to the tribe. A part of her was scared that everyone else in her life would abandon her as well. Jenn had an innate ability to specify different plants, herbs and their medicinal qualities. It was one of the elders that had noticed her accurate knowledge of the plant life around the yard the surrounding territory. She took Jenn to the healers of the Jellicle tribe during that time, and Jenn took to it immediately. She was deemed a child prodigy and by the age of 11, she had known more about medicine, healing techniques and bedside manner then the Healer that was training her (and the only healer the Jellicles had).
She became a healer in her own right, despite her young age, and though there was some discontent and mistrust over a small kitten being in charge of healing when the older well respected healer was preoccupied elsewhere, Jenn was able to earn the respect of her peers. It gave her a sense of belonging, and she finally felt like she had a place among the tribe and that they weren't going to get rid of her or abandon her. However, after a tragic heart attack, Jenn couldn't help her mentor, and ultimately the older queen passed away, leaving Jenn to take charge of the Infirmary and become their main healer. Jenn was up to the challenge, though she had lost a dear friend. Jenn, was too young to know how to cope with the loss, so once again overcompensated and put herself completely into her work, into healing others. Even Jennyanydots couldn't seem to get through to Jenn. She knew Jenn was hurting but as long as Jenn stayed cooped up in the infirmary and denied her pain, there wasn't anything Jennyanydots could do. And unfortunately, Jennyanydots died a few weeks afterwards. Jenn had redoubled her efforts to clean the infirmary, to show her superiors that she was competent to run it, that they didn't make a mistake in promoting her as the Main Healer.
While Jenn was busy doing that, cutting off all ties of social endeavors and staying inside the infirmary for as long as possible, her grandmother had died. Jenn was absolutely devastated. She had cut herself off of Jennyanydots love and comfort and kept her distance from everyone else. She wasn't there when Jennyanydots died, and she blamed herself, since she felt like she could or should have been able to save her. For the next several months Jenn ran herself ragged, because she had that sinking deep seeded fear that she'd be replaced, putting inconsequential things ahead of what really mattered. After those few months, and only ever getting support and impressed jellicles over her competency, Jenn finally calmed down, though she never really came to terms with the death of either queen. However, her position and the respect and responsibilities that came with it, did give her this sense of entitlement. This sense that she knew what she was doing and will go around telling others what to do as well. Being the main healer, and having the respect of others as well as authority has gone to Jenn's head. Being as young as she is, Jenn doesn't know how else to really deal with the responsibilities, so she will and does come across as superior and arrogant. That's how her mentor and grandmother was, but Jenn fails to realize that that behavior coming from a kitten is not the same. After the death of Jennyanydots, she was also approached to take over the song, and she did so. She honored her grandmother the only way she knew how, by continuing to sing her song, and honored her mentor the only way she knew how, by taking over the infirmary.
RP Sample: Jenn tucked a thick curl of her orange mane back behind her ear, and off of her face. Her gold eyes scanned the back room of the infirmary, and over all the supplies held within it. Once she was satisfied that everything was in their proper place, she nodded her head and made a pleased noise. It wasn't as organized as it use to be, but being as short as she was, she had to get help getting everything off of the top shelf. She had rearranged the supplies as best she could, but in a way it was another reminder that she was gone, and that she might not be the right cat for the job. She shrugged off those depressing thoughts when she heard someone come into the infirmary and call for her. She flicked her mane over her shoulder, and took a deep breath in. Confidence, show them your not in over your head, was Jenn's inner mantra before she emerged from the back room strutted over to the cat that had entered like she owned everything in the room. "There's no cause for alarm. You've got the best Healer in the whole city here for you." She spoke as confidently as she could.
Comments: Since Skimble cannot be her father without member approval, all his mentions are pending. And if we never get a Skimbleshanks or if whoever ends up playing Skimbleshanks does not like the mentions in Jenn's history, it can easily be replaced with a made up jellicle character. Also, Jenn doesn't have to be the only healer, by now there could be others, but I didn't want to name any one specifically, since I don't know who else is or wants their character to be a healer.
