Name: Paris Donatien LeFay Gallo
Nickname: Since her name is difficult to shorten, her only nicknames tend to lean toward sugary sweet, ranging from “Baby” to “Precious” to “Babydoll” to “Dearest.”
Gender/Pronoun: Transwoman • She/Her/Hers
Age: 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Birthday: 18 February 1994
Sign: Aquarius-Pisces Cusp
Gemstone: Garnet
Blood Type: B-
Fav. Food: Apples, berries, melons. Soups, salads, and deli sandwiches. Bread and pasta. Smoothies, shakes, yogurt, and protein bars. Paris eats meat sparingly, typically poultry.
Hated Food: Hot dogs. Every time her kids eat one, she wants to barf. She also doesn’t eat a lot of red meat or fast food, and she refuses to drink coffee without dumping a crap ton of sugar into it.
School/Occupation: She tells everyone she’s a stay-at-home mom, but she also works with the community center offering dance classes to kids and adults, and she helps her old instructor with classes at her studio.
Hobbies:
Dance - Paris has been dancing for a majority of her life, and showed an aptitude for it at an early age. She began lessons as a toddler, taking youth classes before steadily working her way up to more advanced classes, earning a spot at the Volkova Ballet Academy when she was nine years old. She switched from pre-pointe to pointe classes two years later. Classical ballet has been and remains her passion, but she’s studied other forms of dance over the years, including contemporary, hip-hop, and jazz. Dance has served as something of a coping mechanism for Paris, offering her a way to gain some structure in what was once an unstructured life. She made a career of it for a few years with professional stage work, and occasionally considers opening her own studio.
Music - Dance and music tend to go hand in hand. This has certainly been the case for Paris, who cannot remember a time in her life without either. As a child, there was always music playing on the radio at home, and overhead in her father’s shop. She used to go to concerts with her parents, who loved live music. As an adult, she learned how to play the guitar, courtesy of her husband. Nowadays, if Paris is on the road or getting some work done around the house, she probably has some music blasting. Her favorite genres are pop, soft rock, and classical, but she’ll listen to anything and probably like it well enough.
Outdoor Activities - After being a homebody for several years, Paris has discovered a love for being outside. It helps that her kids are old enough now for outdoor adventures, so she has ample opportunities to go out and enjoy life in nature. She loves hiking in the mountains as much as she loves laying out on the beach. Being around her husband’s family so often has instilled in her an appreciation for boating and sailing. She loves barbecues and pool parties. She loves hunting for bugs with her kids, and teaching them about all the animals they see at the zoo, the farm, and the park. When Paris isn’t getting her exercise from dance, she’s getting it outside, swimming, jogging, or joining an outdoor yoga class.
Virtues:
Resilient - Paris likes to think of her resilience as her best quality. She’s had a lot go wrong in life; she’s tripped, and she’s stumbled, and she’s fallen on her way through adulthood, but she’s also picked herself up and pushed herself forward. Even when she’s felt useless and worthless, depressed, or stupid and out of control, she’s made an effort to prove herself — to herself, if no one else. Paris won’t admit defeat until she’s exhausted all her resources. She’s a problem solver, and always strives to make things right, for herself and for others. Life and all of its troubles can pose challenge after challenge, and though she might falter, Paris has never given up.
Reflective - Though she has a history of making assumptions and being a little judgemental, Paris has made an effort to change her ways, to be a kinder, more supportive, better version of herself. She recognizes her flaws, and has no trouble admitting to them. She knows exactly where she’s gone wrong in life, and strives daily to make up for her mistakes. She knows exactly where she’s gone right, too, and appreciates those moments without letting her successes go to her head. Being proficient at self-reflection has allowed her to become a more thoughtful person, accepting of others in a way she wasn’t as a teenager.
Dedicated - Years ago, Paris had a habit of running away from her problems (figuratively as well as literally). Over time, she’s had the opportunity to decide what she considers to be important in life, and she has learned to commit herself fully. She isn’t the type to stop half-way, and puts all of herself into everything she does — taking care of her family, her friends, her allies; devoting herself to being a Senshi not with enthusiasm, but with a sense of duty and determination. Paris learned early on that if she wants something, she has to do whatever she can to accomplish it, no matter the odds. When she believes in something, Paris will see it through to the end, bitter as it may be.
Flaws:
Hypocritical - Sometimes, often without meaning to, Paris can come across as a hypocrite. “Do as I say, not as I do,” are not words that have come out of her mouth (yet), but based on her opinions and her behavior, the thought might cross her mind at some point. She tries to keep her expectations fair, but has been known to hold people to some pretty high standards — standards she may not have met herself. Her one redeeming quality in this area is that she is aware that she can be this way and has made strides to change it. Unfortunately, she hasn’t always been successful. Despite her best efforts, she isn’t likely to eliminate this trait anytime soon.
Preoccupied - Dedicated though she might be, loving as she is when her trust has been earned, Paris will often become distracted by events in her own life, with the result that she can seem forgetful and inattentive, which, to some people, translates to her not caring. She tries to show her friends that she cares and that she always thinks of them even when there’s been little contact between them, but she does have a tendency to forget to text back, and she can be a little scatterbrained about making plans. Between the war, her kids, her husband, work, and the rest of her family, she’s got a lot on her mind, and ample opportunities to seem absent-minded.
Opinionated - Paris has a lot of opinions, and very rarely does she have anything against sharing them. Sometimes, other people don’t want to hear her opinions; sometimes, Paris gives them anyway. Stubborn as she is, Paris happens to think other people should share her opinions, and she’ll argue if she feels strongly enough that her opinion is right. This trait has caused friction between friends and allies for years, and it’s one Paris has put little effort into changing. If she knows she’s right, why should she back down? She has a voice, and she intends to use it as often as she can. (If only other people cared to hear it.)
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