Character Name: Mrs. Bradley ("Eleanor") Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Brief Personality: Eleanor is a kind woman, devoted wife and mother who has had her world turned on her while having to face the hard facts about her (entire) family, a struggle she faces every day with a determined acceptance and a smile that can't meet her eyes.
Appearance: She has long, thick golden-brown hair, usually tied back in a ponytail, and green eyes. She usually wears a scarf around her neck or high collars to cover up a mark from an injury there. Her height is around 5'4, usually with a low heel. She tends to dress in semi-stately outfits that contain some variant of pink or purple.
World Type: Fantasy Germanyish setting in the early 20th century. So tech and things go up to like, 1915, so there are phones, cars, automobiles, but then you have alchemy ("magic") that screws with things in a big way.
Arehtei Alignment: Daimonia
Established CR: Riza Hawkeye (last remaining Amestris standing), Jade Curtiss, Peony, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Kylo Ren, Kevin Regnard, Hibiki, Michelle, Natsume, Fuuka Yamagishi, Kor Meteor and Milla Maxwell to name a few, though there are other connections!
Interests: Crocheting, decorating or anything else involving yarn and other varied crafts (She has a lot of time on her hands). Gardening, especially now that her garden has finally been established with help. Baking/Cooking. Music and ballroom dancing (though that's less obvious unless one has seen her at festivals) And people! She loves looking after people. And parenting.
Slice of Life or ADVENTURE: She's a noncombatant in every sense of the word, which is unfortunately limiting, but I don't think that should be a deterrant to exploring other options depending on the right circumstances...
Current Developments: Getting back to normalcy after the dream dust fiasco. She's finally catching her breath after all of that, let alone now having had a few months to adjust to being alone again in her house and processing some of that grief.
She's still dealing with a lot of internal baggage; at the end of the day she gives far too much of herself to others, even if it means bearing unnecessary burdens and not dealing with her actual pain. Most of her closer friends have noticed and are frustrated with her bad habits in this regard, so it's a process there. She's still sorting out her own identity beyond what years of marriage had shaped it to be, since she used to define herself by those roles -- happy wife and mother -- and she's lost her bearings on that for a while now, especially with none of her family left in Empatheias. She's become very practiced at avoiding and changing the subject when necessary. Literally her own worst enemy.
Future Developments: ... TL;DR just kind of saying, we'll see what happens here! It's a holding pattern thus far. :|a
Of course, she's extremely externally focused -- if someone needs support or cheering up, she'll go out of her way to make herself emotionally available, and her level of care for others certainly isn't false.
What about Emotions?: She still needs to focus on accepting/dealing with her darker and often bottled emotions, but she's also something of a stranger to her positive ones as well... it's an interesting sort of conundrum that's occurred. She gets surprised whenever she does have a moment of genuine happiness because she tends to not realize what it feels like unless it's pointed out.
Otherwise though, she hasn't wanted to learn dunamis out of stubbornness, because she just wants to prove that she's "ordinary" even if it means she's... breaking things at home a lot from her unhappiness. Still, her garden seems to have benefited just from appreciation alone. Her entire house tends to reflect how she's feeling whether she wants it to or not--particularly anything bottled up.
Shipping/Romance: She's married to a husband that isn't there, even though emotionally she's a bit of a mess in that regard. Humorously, she's been seen on several Not!Dates with Jade Curtiss in the past, but honestly is pretty lonely otherwise. Of course anyone can show an interest in her, she just has a lot of issues in regard to her husband.
Something Handwaved: She's still occasionally being bullied by certain natives while she's out and about (in regard to the gate incident where her "son" was responsible for kidnapping and murder, it became easy for them to blame her by association even if she had nothing to do with it, and she easily assumed responsibility just by acknowledging Pride), which is something that anyone could take note of. She tends to go on long walks and spends time outdoors (usually in her own garden), but she'll also visit craft/bookstores for inspiration. Sometimes she'll stop in the park and do some crocheting if she doesn't think her presence is disturbing anyone. So if you want to avoid intros or even some smalltalk scenes, she's usually available in some way unless otherwise stated.
Looking For:A family Goodness, I don't know. Surprise me!
Not Interested In / Avoiding: Pretty open to anything! Mostly just want to avoid falling into too much into smalltalk territory too often, as easy as it is to do with her, though it's understandably necessary in certain doses especially when starting off (as she tends to deploy it as a distraction method, save me). So it gets a little hardmode to get past the surface, in which case thank you for your patience! Basically I just need to know that there's more substance waiting ahead beyond the fluff and we're good.
Eleanor Bradley
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Brief Personality: Eleanor is a kind woman, devoted wife and mother who has had her world turned on her while having to face the hard facts about her (entire) family, a struggle she faces every day with a determined acceptance and a smile that can't meet her eyes.
Appearance: She has long, thick golden-brown hair, usually tied back in a ponytail, and green eyes. She usually wears a scarf around her neck or high collars to cover up a mark from an injury there. Her height is around 5'4, usually with a low heel. She tends to dress in semi-stately outfits that contain some variant of pink or purple.
World Type: Fantasy Germanyish setting in the early 20th century. So tech and things go up to like, 1915, so there are phones, cars, automobiles, but then you have alchemy ("magic") that screws with things in a big way.
Arehtei Alignment: Daimonia
Established CR: Riza Hawkeye (last remaining Amestris standing), Jade Curtiss, Peony, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Kylo Ren, Kevin Regnard, Hibiki, Michelle, Natsume, Fuuka Yamagishi, Kor Meteor and Milla Maxwell to name a few, though there are other connections!
Interests: Crocheting, decorating or anything else involving yarn and other varied crafts (She has a lot of time on her hands). Gardening, especially now that her garden has finally been established with help. Baking/Cooking. Music and ballroom dancing (though that's less obvious unless one has seen her at festivals) And people! She loves looking after people. And parenting.
Slice of Life or ADVENTURE: She's a noncombatant in every sense of the word, which is unfortunately limiting, but I don't think that should be a deterrant to exploring other options depending on the right circumstances...
Current Developments: Getting back to normalcy after the dream dust fiasco. She's finally catching her breath after all of that, let alone now having had a few months to adjust to being alone again in her house and processing some of that grief.
She's still dealing with a lot of internal baggage; at the end of the day she gives far too much of herself to others, even if it means bearing unnecessary burdens and not dealing with her actual pain. Most of her closer friends have noticed and are frustrated with her bad habits in this regard, so it's a process there. She's still sorting out her own identity beyond what years of marriage had shaped it to be, since she used to define herself by those roles -- happy wife and mother -- and she's lost her bearings on that for a while now, especially with none of her family left in Empatheias. She's become very practiced at avoiding and changing the subject when necessary. Literally her own worst enemy.
Future Developments: ... TL;DR just kind of saying, we'll see what happens here! It's a holding pattern thus far. :|a
Of course, she's extremely externally focused -- if someone needs support or cheering up, she'll go out of her way to make herself emotionally available, and her level of care for others certainly isn't false.
What about Emotions?: She still needs to focus on accepting/dealing with her darker and often bottled emotions, but she's also something of a stranger to her positive ones as well... it's an interesting sort of conundrum that's occurred. She gets surprised whenever she does have a moment of genuine happiness because she tends to not realize what it feels like unless it's pointed out.
Otherwise though, she hasn't wanted to learn dunamis out of stubbornness, because she just wants to prove that she's "ordinary" even if it means she's... breaking things at home a lot from her unhappiness. Still, her garden seems to have benefited just from appreciation alone. Her entire house tends to reflect how she's feeling whether she wants it to or not--particularly anything bottled up.
Shipping/Romance: She's married to a husband that isn't there, even though emotionally she's a bit of a mess in that regard. Humorously, she's been seen on several Not!Dates with Jade Curtiss in the past, but honestly is pretty lonely otherwise. Of course anyone can show an interest in her, she just has a lot of issues in regard to her husband.
Something Handwaved: She's still occasionally being bullied by certain natives while she's out and about (in regard to the gate incident where her "son" was responsible for kidnapping and murder, it became easy for them to blame her by association even if she had nothing to do with it, and she easily assumed responsibility just by acknowledging Pride), which is something that anyone could take note of. She tends to go on long walks and spends time outdoors (usually in her own garden), but she'll also visit craft/bookstores for inspiration. Sometimes she'll stop in the park and do some crocheting if she doesn't think her presence is disturbing anyone. So if you want to avoid intros or even some smalltalk scenes, she's usually available in some way unless otherwise stated.
Looking For:
A familyGoodness, I don't know. Surprise me!Not Interested In / Avoiding: Pretty open to anything! Mostly just want to avoid falling into too much into smalltalk territory too often, as easy as it is to do with her, though it's understandably necessary in certain doses especially when starting off (as she tends to deploy it as a distraction method, save me). So it gets a little hardmode to get past the surface, in which case thank you for your patience! Basically I just need to know that there's more substance waiting ahead beyond the fluff and we're good.
Anything Else: