ELAINE BADER. 53. CIS WOMAN. SHE/HERΒ is here! Theyβve lived in Cascade forΒ 2 MONTHSΒ and currently reside inΒ DOWNTOWN.Β LAINEYΒ is anΒ INSTRUCTOR at ONE DOWN DOG YOGAΒ and frequently hears that they look a lot likeΒ AMANDA PEET. Funny, huh? If ever caught by Letterboxd, theyβd sayΒ SOAPDISHΒ is in their Top 4 and the theme song to their lifeβs soundtrack would beΒ ORINOCO FLOW by ENYA.
name. elaine penelope bader
nicknames. lainey, laine
gender + pronouns. cis woman + she/her
age + birthday. 53 + october 1, 1972
birthplace. cascade, ca
astrology. βΌ libra βΎ gemini β leo
sexuality. bisexual
occupation. instructor at one down dog yoga & student at ucas
neighborhood. downtown
positive traits. high-spirited, inquisitive, generous, independent
negative traits. restless, scatterbrained, attention-seeking, moody
further links. pinterest + playlist + tasks
aesthetics. a nose buried in unfurling petals, always leaving a long voicemail, tarnished bangles clinking incessantly, making a promise you know you can't keep, slow dancing in the kitchen, birkenstocks worn with socks, never denying your heart, dog-eared pages and a heartfelt inscription, the scent of lavender clinging to clean linen, laughing until you cry, a journal entry written in gel pen.
potential trigger warnings: child abandonment.
elaine has lived thousands of lives and cherishes them all, but her start was right here in cascade. she grew up in the outskirts on her family's ranch, aptly known as bader ranch. as you would expect, elaine was quite the horse girl and rather tomboyish as a child, always willing to get her hands dirty. her parents called her 'trouble' but the cutesy childhood nickname grew less affectionate with age as elaine came into her own, evolving a more bohemian and anti-establishment mindset than they approved of.
fresh out of high school she ""taught"" interpretive dance at studio jupiter (imagine lots of flailing & guttural sounds) and had no plans to seriously attend college. she picked up a few random courses at ucas just for the sake of mental stimulation, but after about a year, scandal shook the bader family. elaine was outed for having an affair with an older married man. she was shipped off to emory university without discussion.
heartbroken and furious with her parents, elaine did what she does best: change the narrative. her public shunning became an escape, a chance at a fresh start as she immersed herself in everything that georgia had to offer. she majored in art history and met a man, falling so hard and fast that she dismissed her past affair as mere puppy love -- this would become a repeating cycle in most of her relationships, although elaine still adamantly denies doing anything of the sort.
they lived together and got cozy, him working as a mechanic while elaine found parttime work as a cashier and dance teacher. it wasn't until she had a baby that the dreadful feeling of being stuck began settling in. he thought that starting a family meant putting down roots and settling down, whereas elaine approached it as the start of a new and exciting chapter.
or, at least, she had, until the burden of parenting a toddler settled solely on her shoulders. she fled in the night, impulsive and manic without a plan, abandoning her son with his father and never looking back. elaine drove with no destination in mind, but as the days crawled by and she made her way through the south, she eventually found herself on the 101 and driving up the california coast to her hometown, as if by magnetic pull. her stay was brief, reconnecting with family and not mentioning the new family she'd just parted with.
in less than six months she was on the move again, pinging around the states and going abroad. elaine started life after life, finding joy in every version of herself -- getting engaged here and breaking it off there, becoming scuba certified in australia and learning tagalog in the philippines. every decision she made was purely on her own terms, and that was exactly how she liked it.
so, when she felt a nagging wondering about things lost and doors left unopened, she didn't ignore her intuition. elaine hired a private investigator to locate her estranged son, and when lucas ( @drivenadrift ) was tracked down to cascade...? well, how could she ignore such a massive neon sign from the universe like that!
it's been two months since elaine's grand return to cascade, and just like always, she's been keeping busy. she's a yoga instructor at one down dog and has also enrolled at ucas to study business, hoping to get an official degree and eventually open her own glassblowing studio in town.
while she used to have a fear of winding up in a grey gardens type sitch with her mom, she's been pleasantly surprised to find how capable her mother is even after her father's passing. with the help of her older brother (who has become the sole inheritor of the ranch), their mom started an all-girls riding club at the ranch, open to the public and keeping it afloat in recent years.
elaine's always been a bit of a little edie all on her own anyway
quite literally what the average convo with her sounds like
she's still very 0 to 100 on everything; projects, relationships, work -- and when the burnout hits, it can get ugly
once went to a two week retreat to learn calligraphy from monks in oregon and wound up living with them for nearly eight months π€·ββοΈ
has a little bit of an obsession with puppetry and even worked at a children's theater for a while in boston where they did collaborative puppet shows with kids. that being said, she really admires the labrynth (helloooo david bowie <3) also has a soft spot for legend (1985) and the last unicorn!
looooooves to host a dinner party omg elaine is the ideal hostess if you wanna get day drunk on wine and demolish a gorgeous charcuterie board
"throw on a coral lip - something - and enjoy life, bitch!" - her life motto tbqh
potential connections.
dash chem & spontaneous threads, my love <3
family friends. the baders go back for generations in cascade, so this could fit the bill for any fellow prominent fams in town, or! simply people who grew up in the outskirts or maybe had a horse on the ranch.
neighbors. elaine currently lives downtown, although you can bet ur ass she was tempted to snag an RA position in the dorms but she didn't want to cramp anybody's style. she is a fan of the pop-in, so be warned!!!
fellow yogis. either people who attend her classes at one down dog or anyone who's game to do yoga in the park!
classmates. anyone else who attends ucas <3 let her be the project partner ruining y'all's powerpoint pls
old friends. i love a reunion!! or even someone she's managed to stay close with despite the distance, if they happened to stay in cascade for whatever reason. give my girl someone to gab and dish with
exes. probs more of a stretch since her time in cascade is so spotty, but their relationship could've blossomed & burned elsewhere, too. open to all genders, the sky is the limit!
a blind date. gone wrong! or right! who knows! lets just toss 'em together in a surprise location and see where the thread takes us ~
a feud / grudge sitch. elaine is hella superstitious and follows the advice of her psychic like it's word spoken directly from god. if she's told that someone in a green scarf will betray her then that's the TRUTH! sure to be silly and ridiculous πββοΈ
