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Name: Hope Jacquelyn O’Brannigan

Nickname: Jackie. Her students call her Ms. Hope

Age: 25

Birthday: September 18th

Sign: Virgo

Gemstone: Carnelian

Blood Type: A-

Fav. Food: Meat Lasagna

Hated Food: Oysters

Job: Fourth grade teacher at Knightside Elementary

Hobbies: Exercise ~ Hope loves exercise, mainly jogging and yoga. She wakes up every morning at five am to make sure that she gets at least one jog into her daily routine. She tries to go at least four miles a session, if not more. She’ll occasionally jog with a friend, but she generally prefers to jog alone so that she can set her own pace and clear her head.

Hope does her yoga in the evenings, usually before dinner. She finds it’s the perfect way to relax and unwind after a long day of dealing with nine year olds. The twenty-five year old has been doing yoga since she was in high school and is quite adept at it, able to do difficult poses such as the Firefly and Little Thunderbolt.

Arts and Crafts ~ Hope has a passion for crafts. She loves puzzles, and do it yourself projects, and basically anything that requires a sewing machine, funky shape scissors, and a hot glue gun. She usually takes an inordinate amount of time on any one project because of her need to do it perfectly, but the finished result is something to be proud of. She likes crafts so much she even has a room in her home designated as her ‘Craft Room’. She sells a lot of her crafts on websites like Etsy, and also tries to make things instead of buying them, if she can. She rather spend the money on art supplies than something cheaply made and over priced that she could make herself.

Hope will even go as far as to make homemade props and crafts for her class. Her classroom is always brightly decorated with crafts that she's made and that her students have made. Every Friday a portion of the day is dedicated to 'Art Time' and Hope brings in her own supplies so her students can make things.

Reading ~ Ever since she was a kid Hope loved reading. She loves fantasy books, and trashy romance novels; anything that allows her to escape to a different world, or time. There’s nothing she likes better than to curl up on the couch and lose herself in a book. She generally has a stack of library books that are ever changing sitting on her kitchen table. Hope also enjoys reading aloud and will sometimes read to her students.

Virtues: Patient ~ “You have the patient of a saint” is usually what Hope hears when she tells people she’s a fourth grade teacher. And for the most part it’s true. It’s hard to annoy the twenty-five year old, or make her angry; especially when it comes to her students. She lets their antics roll off her back knowing that at nine years old they don’t have the same capacity for good behavior as adults do. Hope is patient with parents and other adults in her life as well though, not just children. She’s able to answer repetitive questions without getting snippy and short with them.

She’s also patient when it comes to waiting for things. She won’t nag, or try to rush things. She’s a firm believer in the saying ‘Good things come to those who wait’. If someone tells her they have the best surprise of her life, but she can’t have it for eighteen and a half minutes she’ll be able to wait that eighteen and a half minutes without bouncing up and down, or questioning what it is, or trying to find out what the surprise is. Of course, after the eighteen and a half minutes it’s a whole different story, but waiting until a specific time isn’t hard for Hope.

Public Face ~ Hope doesn’t drink, or do drugs, or curse. At least not in public. If she’s at home she'll have a glass of wine with dinner, or if she stubs her toe in her room a curse will slip out, but when she’s out in public she’s on her best behavior. Being a teacher of nine and ten year olds she doesn’t want to be seen as irresponsible by their parents and you never know when you’ll run into someone.

She also goes out of her way to be a good person, when she's in the public eye. She’ll help old ladies across the street, grab errant shopping carts before they hit cars, and stop older kids from beating up on younger ones. She believes that the only way she can encourage her students to be good people is if they see her being one.

Of course, when she’s behind closed doors there’s no one to see her not so good behavior.

Good Communicator ~ Hope’s gift in life is the ability to explain things well. She’s able to take complex subjects and break them down in such a way that anyone can understand. This leads her to being able to make connections with people more easily than others. Not friendships exactly, but close acquaintances.

Her gift with words and love of children is what lead her to become a teacher. She loves that she’s helping the next generation of children grow into educated upstanding adults. Hope’s communication skills also come in handy when speaking to the parents of her students. She’s able to ease first day of school worries, and fly through parent-teacher conferences without becoming nervous herself.

Driven ~ When Hope has a goal nothing will stop her from completing it to the best of her ability. She was near the top of her class at DCU not because she was super intelligent, but because she tried and put 110% effort into each and every class she took. She managed to finish in the top three of most of her 5K marathons because she pushed herself everyday to do better. Hope constantly pushes herself to be better, refusing to settle for second best. This encompasses those around her as well, if she has a failing student she won’t rest until she’s found a way to help them, extra credit, parent-teacher meetings- whatever it takes.

Flaws: Perfectionist ~ Everything Hope does has to be perfect. If it’s not perfect she trashes it and starts again. It’s one reason that it takes her so long to finish just one project. Puzzles she likes because once they’re done they’re perfect no matter what (unless she loses a piece which just about kills her). Her picture frames and especially her jewelry on the other hand are a real challenge. Unfortunately her perfectionism extends to more than just her crafts. When she’s getting ready to go somewhere she’ll be late before she goes out not looking perfect. This leads to her being late quite often.

Hypercritical ~ Hope doesn’t just expect herself to be perfect but she expects everyone around her to be perfect as well. The only exception to this is children, Hope is aware that children aren’t at the same maturity level to live up to her standards. Adults on the other hand...

When an adult does something wrong Hope doesn’t have much grace for them, especially if it was something that she had explained to them previously. Her never ending need for perfection can put a lot of people off, and while she knows this she can’t help it- whenever she looks at something the first thing she does is look for its flaws and no matter how small they are she will find them and shove them in your face.

Secretive ~ Hope is a woman with a lot of secrets. She doesn’t like to share information about her personal life or about her past. It makes her a great secret keeper for her friends, but not so great at being close with others. She’ll even go as far to tell small lies to stop conversations before they get too personal. Hope doesn’t trust many people with her secrets and is one reason she enjoys working with children, they don’t ask nearly as many personal questions.

Her deep need for secrecy hinders her ability to make close connections with others. While she can make that base level connection with someone, and be able to talk and joke with them, she has trouble building on that.

Eats Her Emotions ~ Her dire need for perfection and the stress of keeping her life up in wraps can eat at Hope and when it becomes too much she turns to her best friend: food. Hope eats when she’s happy, sad, depressed, angry, or even bored. Food fills her in a way that nothing else can or so she believes. Her fridge is always stocked full of food, and the drawers of her desk in her class room are also stuffed with snacks.

She knows it’s unhealthy to eat to comfort herself, but she can’t stop herself. Her secretiveness and demands of perfection leaves Hope with few close friends, but food is always there. Food doesn’t judge her, or upset her. And food definitely doesn’t tell any of her secrets when it’s swimming around in her belly. Food is the one that’s always there for her.

If she finds herself in a situation where she finds herself wanting to eat and can't Hope will become stressed, and, depending on where she is, may even have something akin to a panic attack. To try and prevent this she tries to carry some kind of snack in her purse at all times, and will try and duck into the bathroom to eat if she needs to. If she really needs to eat and there's no escape, and she has access to food, she isn't past stopping to eat in the middle of a conversation. It's embarrassing, but she can't help it, food calms her down.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Gold eyes, big and round

Hair: Long and curly to the small of her back like this only longer, and hot pink. Half of it is kept up in a messy bun, with most of her hair hanging down.

Face: Heart shaped, with a button nose and full lips, 'quirky' attractive. She has pale skin, but isn't pasty white, and her face is covered in freckles along with her arms and legs.

Body: Athletic and toned, she’s 5’1 with a B cup with a small backside. She’s got some curves, but not an abundance of them.

Clothes: Practical while looking stylish is Hope’s motto. She doesn’t wear anything too gaudy, but when she’s not at work she almost always wears heels to compensate for her height. At work she wears things like this.

Home Life

Open for crits! heart

Hm, not many questions here ! You've been rather descriptive with everything. <3

Perfectionist and hypercritial sound really similar to me... Like, I was reading perfectionist, then asked myself questions that were answered in hypercritical. I think they could be folded in one trait ? not sure, through.

Eating her emotions is a flaw that overall might goes unnoticed as it is now... does she sometimes slip in public ? Does she get irritable if she feels the need to eat and comfort herself, but can't, for whatever reason ? Are these social repercussions, mostly.

That's pretty much the only questions I had while reading her profile - everything else flows together nicely to me !

Your 'secretive' flaw could use an extra line or two to really reinforce how this is a very negative part in her life (how it makes her lonely, lacking close personal connections, withdrawn beyond her 'public face'), but I get the idea from reading the entire profile. That's more of a suggestion than a critique.

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