Civilian
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Name: Gigi
(Gloria-Giovanna) Gennaro
Nickname: GG, Geej (
smile ), Horseface (
sad ) (“Gee-up, Horseface!”)
Don’t even bother with the full name, you’ll get no response.Age: 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 as of December 2019
Birthday: 8 December 1995
Sign: Sagittarius
Gemstone: Topaz
Blood Type: O Caffeinated
Fav. Food: Cannoli. Cream-filled Italian pastries. Aunt Giovanna's homemade ones are the best: they have vanilla cream in one end, and chocolate cream in the other. You have to eat the chocolate end last, it's a rule.
Hated Food: Pumpkin. Is not for pies. It is a vegetable, and a gross one at that.
School: Meadowview High School DCU
Hobbies: Coffee Cultist – It’s not an addiction, it’s totally a hobby. You’ll rarely catch Gigi without a cup of coffee in her hand. In order to maintain her non-stop lifestyle, she depends on caffeine, preferably in delicious latte form. She enjoys trying new cafes and different roasts and blends, and can often be found chatting with the café baristas about the Art of coffee-making. Tea is not an acceptable substitute, cola is right out. Guarana is a crime against nature, how could you?! Gigi drinks strong black coffee with her dad, and frothy syrup-spiked cafe latte with her mum. On the (now rare) occasions they're all together, she has cappuccino. She doesn't like to play favourites. A Gigi without coffee is a tired and miserable Gigi indeed.
CCGs – Gigi loves collectable card games: any and all, so long as the cards are pretty. She's really quite bad at actually playing the games, but loves putting together new decks, and collects booster packs compulsively. She tends to put her losses down to not having some rare card that would have turned the tide for her, which only encourages her to buy more. When she completes her card collection, she’s convinced she’ll have the tournaments all sewn up!
Charity work – When Gigi’s beloved Aunt Giovanna was diagnosed with cancer a few years back, Gigi desperately wanted to do something to help, but she had no money to donate. So she volunteered her time to the Cancer Society instead, manning charity booths, selling daffodils, the works. Now she’s a little older, Gigi is getting involved in the behind-the-scenes organisation of her local society as well - putting together newsletters and leaflets, recruiting, and setting up mini-events at her school.
Parent-trapping - Gigi's parents' relationship has been on the rocks since she was nine. She's determined, utterly and unashamedly, to keep them together. The Parent Trap is her favourite movie ever. She doesn't have a twin, so she has to do everything herself, and spends a lot of her time planning and organising for her parents to meet up, coaching each on the good points of the other, leaving sappy movies lying around the house. Any money that isn't spent on cards or coffee is probably going into sending flowers to her mum under her dad's name. She has already destroyed one set of divorce documents (took it to school and ran it through a shredder 'by accident'). She is going to save this marriage, whatever it takes.Virtues: Can’t stop now! Gigi is anti-procrastination girl. Soonest started is soonest finished, and once she’s started, she doesn’t want to stop. She’s always on the go, always has a project to work on, and seems to have endless energy to push through to her goal. Of course, she knows there are some things that can’t be done in one hit – she’s great at breaking tasks down into separate stages, so she can bask in the glow of accomplishment at regular intervals (and still remember to eat). This allows her to have multiple big projects on the go at any given time, and stops her having to sit around waiting if the next step is dependent on someone else (though she won't be happy if she finds she has to stop mid-step). Her ‘projects’ can include anything from homework to a shopping trip to much grander long-term goals. It’s no sooner talked about than she’s on it, drawing up plans of attack and launching straight into phase one. She is a whirlwind of Getting Stuff Done, and she’s not going to let 3am get in the way of the finish line. There’s too much to do, and no time to waste!
Enthusiastic!!!Everything is exciting! Your obscure hobby! Today’s homework! The colour grey! Whatever you’re into, Gigi is interested! She’s eager to listen, keen to help. She will throw herself wholeheartedly into new tasks, even very dull-seeming ones, holding back none of her considerable energy. If she can’t join in, she’s still more than willing to cheer you on. Hers is a catchy kind of enthusiasm, something she wants to share – she’ll do her very best to get others involved too.
TenaciousSometimes things don’t go according to plan, but that’s not going to stop Gigi completing what she starts. She believes obstacles are for climbing over, and is determined not to get discouraged. She won’t abandon her projects: whatever it takes, however long it takes, she’ll find a way. Or, you know, she won't, but she'll see the failure through to the bitter end. A failure is still a finish, even if it's not the ideal one. When things go unsalvageably down the toilet, she'll be back next time, just as determined as ever. New deck, let's go again. She’s come too far, she’s not giving up now!
DevotedFor all she sometimes seems caught up in her own projects, Gigi is a deeply caring person, and will do just about anything to make those around her happy. She loves her friends and family like it’s on her list of things to do, and that list is Serious Business to her. She likes to do things for people, making her love tangible, whether it’s by buying gifts, making things for them, or just giving her time to help out. She doesn’t want her friends to have to worry about anything, she’ll take care of it. However tight her scheduling, Gigi will
make time to do whatever you need her to do, even when it seems there can’t possibly be enough hours in the day. She may not always (ever?) get the timing right, but the love is there, and the desire to help. If there is anything she can do to make you smile, anything at all, she’s on it, right now, in the middle of the night or on the other side of the world.
Flaws: Little Red HenGigi wants to do things straight away, and while she’s happy to let others help, she doesn’t deal well with procrastination. If she thinks you’re not doing something you’ve agreed to do, she won’t complain, she’ll just take over and Do It Herself. With a lot of martyrdom and sighs about how long it took, but she did it anyway, just to help you, aren’t you grateful? She’ll be taking the credit, though, no offence.
Stasis FieldChange is a bad word. Gigi doesn’t deal well with situations she can’t control, and will try desperately to maintain her sense of stability by denying the changes as long as possible, working hard to make sure everything stays the same. She’s not ready to deal with the grown-up world of constant adaption, wants to remain in the same safe little bubble she’s made around herself. Gigi found out early that her parents try not to fight when they know she's awake, so she wants to always be awake so they never fight. She’s scared that everything will fall apart if she takes her eyes off it for a minute. At the same time, she’s convinced that there should be something she can do about it. If she keeps going, works hard enough, ignores hard enough, she can outrun the disasters that are forming around her. She can stop them happening by not giving them time to happen in.
The more worried she is about losing control, the harder she pushes herself, the less time she gives to others, and the less time she takes out for her physical needs. She runs herself ragged, all her nice points go under, and there’s nothing left but grumpy, exhausted-but-determined-to-keep-going-until-she-keels-over Gigi. She can’t have nightmares if she never sleeps. Her parents can’t hate each other if she loves them both. Her aunt can’t die because she’s working so hard on the fundraising, it has to help, it *has* to. The world doesn’t fall apart if you work hard enough, otherwise it isn’t fair. Gigi’s denial in the face of change can make her quite difficult to deal with, especially when she’s trying so hard to keep in control that she’s forgotten to take her coffee break.
Zero TimesenseGigi forgets times and dates. She’s so caught up in her projects that she loses track of time, and words like ‘later’ tend to wash over her without making an impression. She has two time settings: 'Right Now', and 'When I Finish This'. If your scheduling doesn't fit one of these two categories, you can pretty much assume she's forgotten. She knows the exam is coming, but the exact date slips her mind. You wrote it down? Sorry, the post-it fell off. If it was important, Gigi's really sorry. She’ll make it up to you... just not necessarily at the appointed hour.
Gotta Catch 'Em AllSometimes not knowing when to stop is a bad thing. Gigi gets hooked on things very easily, and has a very hard time un-hooking herself. She’s into every new fad that comes along, especially collect-the-set types and collectable card games. She’s perpetually broke, and will resort to IOUs if you let her. She just needs one more booster pack!
This tendency also puts her straight into the high-risk category for more dangerous addictions. Her mother is a former alcoholic, and her own caffeine addiction is a bad sign she’s on the same path. She is likely to become addicted to things like alcohol or drugs after a much smaller exposure than other people, and once addicted, quitting will be an epic struggle.
Physical Description:
Eyes: Large, round and golden. Like honey and caramel and too many hours without sleep.
Hair: Comb-eating curls. Rich dark brown hair, long and unruly. Usually in two low pigtails at the back of her neck, but tending towards escape.
Face: Narrow oval face. (It isn’t really ‘long’ or horsey, just narrow, but kids tease anyway.) Small ears with gold hoop earrings. Lightly olive-tan skin.
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