Alyssa Wells
“Oh! That gentleness! How far more potent is it than force!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
|| ALYSSA WELLS||Ally
|| GENDER ||Female
|| AGE ||15
|| GRADE ||Tenth
|| SEXUALITY ||Heterosexual
|| RELATIONSHIP STATUS ||Single
|| MORE IN-DEPTH APPEARANCE ||There's always a wallflower, someone who doesn't shine quite as brightly as the rest. Alyssa is one of them. She has light blue eyes and slightly wavy brown hair to her waist, and is a little nondescript otherwise. She doesn't wear fantastical makeup, or dress particularly fashionably or come to school in her jogging shorts. Her preferred accessory is a book, and a backpack that seems to weigh more than she does sometimes. Her figure is slender, and she stands at around 5,2".
|| PERSONALITY TRAITS ||- Quiet
- Shy
- Nervous
- Wry
- Intelligent
|| PERSONALITY ||Alyssa hasn't had the best experience in school, and tends to be pretty quiet. Usually, the smart kid is the one participating in class, but she'd rather sit to the side and quietly absorb information. She dislikes large groups of people - she's not unfriendly, just becomes intimidated and tends to stop talking. Ally has some trust issues - because why would they ever like her, a boring nerd? - and tends to have a hard time making friends. With people she knows, and trusts, she actually has quite a little wry sense to her humour. And if you ask her about a book she's read, one-on-one, expect an (unusually) enthusiastic conversation.
|| QUIRKS ||- Makes fists when nervous
- Avoids the main bathroom at school
- Tends to walk with head down
|| HOBBIES ||- Reading
- One-on-ones
- Walking by the river
|| LIKES & DISLIKES ||+ Animals (they're somewhat more forgiving)
+ Empty spaces, familiar faces...
+ Fantasy novels
- Large crowds
- Small spaces
- Public bathrooms
- Eating amongst peers
|| FAMILY MEMBERS ||- Mother - Jane Wells - Accountant
- Father - David Wells - Lawyer
|| HOUSE DESCRIPTION ||A small townhouse, with a small backyard and a small pool. Alyssa has a good view of the outside from her desk, which looks out over a window - it's perfect for studying and reading, in her opinion.
|| CAR DESCRIPTION ||N/A
|| BIOGRAPHY ||Alyssa, despite her gentle ways, would like to slap the person who came up with the idea of high school. Middle school, too. Teenage girls can be terribly cruel, for no logical reason. A late developer, she was teased relentlessly in middle school by her peers. It didn't help that she was smart - this was just another reason for them to attack her. It started out verbal, progressed to social media and became slightly physical by the end of grade 9. By that time, it was not only the girls, but the boys had been drawn in as well. Cruel 'Valentines' and mockingly being asked out plagued her life for 2 years.
When she was held down inside a toilet bowl, her parents finally withdrew her from that school and placed her into Delbrook Academy. Her bumps and bruises healed, but the psychological scars were far deeper. The bullying devastated her self-esteem and destroyed her good relationship with food. Alyssa is at a point where she's relieved to be away from that cruel space, but she doesn't have high hopes for her future at Delbrook Academy.
|| THEME SONG |||| OTHER ||Her aversion to public bathrooms is due to a lot of the bullying occurring in them. It started small, but escalated to almost drowning in a toilet. She tends to prefer avoiding conflict to facing it head-on.
Her issues with food began as a coping mechanism, perhaps as a way of controlling something in her life. Besides, perhaps they'd like her if she was thinner - all very dangerous 'logic.'