Miss Retro

Hihi the name's Grace! You can also find me on @timecarvour and @perkybuds though!ㅤI'm 18 and use she/xe pronouns!ㅤI'm not at all new to roleplay as I have roleplayed on discord for about 5-6 years now, but definitely super new to tumblr rp.

Again, keep in mind English is not my first language + I am dyslexic!! These factors can and will affect my time in responding to people. Along with that, keep in mind I have a life outside of this and know I am disabled, which both will also affect this.ㅤIf something I say doesn't make sense, please feel free to ask for clarification!

Please, PLEASE. Know that I don't need to answer any asks If I don't want to. 😭 I also get burnt out EXTEMELY fast, so please be weary of that when interaction!!

Hatchetverse (And Spies Are Forever) is a main hyperfixation of mine currently, but my hyperfixation changes frequently, so keep that as a warning!!

My only main DNI is; Basic dni. Anyone under 16, all my blogs are 16+. If you're the type to start random drama for laughs. Trump supporters. Any kind of hate or discriminatory behavior. If you baby men who have done wrong but hate on women who have done wrong.ㅤJust be nice, don't be a dick!! I block freely outside of this for comfort, however!

I accept most roleplays, whether it be ship(needs to be discussed first), same fandom, cross-over, etc.ㅤNSFT roleplays are an iffy, and especially a dm rp only thing for me, mun is 18+, and muse is around same age as mine. I have almost no experience with that sort of thing, and am on the asexual spectrum.

Despite this, this blog will still likely contain mature content. Everything will be tagged accordingly, however, I am likely to slip up with it as I have extreme memory issues. If I ever don't tag something that needs to be tagged, please please let me know so I can do so!! I do still want my blog to be a safe space for those lurking and those I roleplay with.

Going along with tagging, I ask that you tag these triggers!; Anything to do with S/A, abuse of any kind, suicide, and excessive gore. If you can't or won't do this, I will likely block you for both of our comforts and safety.

This blog is multi-ship, as well as any of my other roleplay accounts!! I muse a lot of hatchetverse characters, but this one is used for Holloway only!ㅤI accept almost all ships; platonic, familial, romantic, queerplatonic! However, I will likely only go through with a ship if we plot it beforehand!ㅤAll but familial roleplays I would prefer if mun is 18+ and muse around same age as mine.

My reply length always fluctuates, I just write until I loose ideas. Sometimes I will force myself to write longer to match others', sometimes I won't. My timezone is Eastern Standard/Daylight Time, so replies may fluctuate due to this.

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INTRODUCING ‎ ‎ ‎MISS HOLLOWAY ‎━━ ‎ ‎MISS RETRO!( MISS HOLLOWAY TAGS ) ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎#hatchetverse. #canon character. #CANON-DIVERGENT &. HEAVILY HEADCANON-BASED portrayal.

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Full name　:　Darley Holloway Ward Alias　:　Miss Holloway, Miss Retro, Miss Holiday, Glam Nicknames　:　Hols/Holls, Holli/Holi/Holly, Ms. R

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DOB　:　March 15, 1961 POB　:　Hatchetfield, Michigan Ethnicity　:　White Nationality　:　American Religion　:　N/A

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Age　:　"26", mentally a lot older Appears to be　:　Early-Late 20s Stopped aging at　:　26

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Pronouns　:　She/her/herself - Doesn't mind any pronouns Gender　:　Femme genderfluid Sexuality　:　Unisexual, uniromantic, iculaplatonic

" I'm not hard to find, just hard to remember. "

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Species　:　Witch / Human-anchored supernatural being Species info　:　A witch tied to the Black Book and the forces of the Black and White; functionally immortal, but at a cost. Her existence is unstable in the eyes of others, and her identity is continually eroded by the curse she made.

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Appearance overview　:　Miss Holloway has that impossible kind of presence where you notice her before you understand her. She is tall, striking, and always looks like she knows something you don’t, even when she’s dead wrong about the room she’s standing in. Her style leans retro and intentional, like a woman who got stuck in a glamorous era and decided to make it everybody else’s problem. She reads as charismatic, elegant, and just a little uncanny, with the sort of face people remember even when they absolutely should not. She has the aura of a strange, competent local expert; though that aura aches her a little, because she’s choosing that performance from the wreckage of what used to be fame.

Hairstyle　:　Usually styled in a vintage rock-star look; soft volume, controlled shape, rarely anything too modern. She rarely changes it. Hair color　:　Ginger-tinted brunette Eyeshape　:　Sharp, expressive, always assessing Eye color　:　Blue Height　:　5'10" / 178 cm Weight　:　165 lbs / 75 kg Bodybuild　:　Tall, lean, elegant, deceptively sturdy Tattoos　:　Has a couple small ones from her old touring days, nothing prominently visible Piercings　:　Has a few lobe piercings Additional　:　Wears glasses but avoids them when possible; slightly nearsighted and compensates with squinting, attitude, and refusing to admit she needs help

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Accent　:　Midwestern with a slightly retro-leaning cadence Verbal quirks/speech issues/mannerisms　:　Refers to the internet as "the intranet" - Uses outdated slang - Often speaks with theatrical charm and poor emotional timing - Lies mostly by omission - Tells the truth with a straight face and lets them decide whether to believe it - Awful with people despite seeming socially effortless

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Style　:　Retro, polished, slightly theatrical, and stubbornly out of time. Miss Retro’s is basically a monument to her refusal to move on. She dresses like someone who wants to be remembered from a poster, not encountered in a parking lot. Even when she’s being practical, she looks curated. Uniform　:　Miss Retro's diner uniform Additional　:　She dresses like someone who remembers when being unforgettable was still a choice.

" That's okay. I can handle it. "

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Occupation　:　Owner of Miss Retro's - Specialist Part time/additional occupations　:　School counselor for the highschools Rank　:　Independent specialist / community fixture

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Personality overview　:　Miss Holloway is charismatic in the way a lightning strike is charismatic: impossible to ignore, strangely beautiful, and a little dangerous to stand too close to. She's glamorous, haunted, and inconveniently sincere, with a presence that makes herself useful to almost anyone, though not necessarily understood by them. She wants connection desperately, but she's emotionally clumsy and terrible at building intimacy in ways that don’t leave bruises; she often mistakes admiration for closeness, and closeness for safety. Under the charm, she's deeply mournful: a woman still standing in the ruins of her own fame, still trying to turn loss into purpose, still pretending she's not lonely enough to need anyone. She loves attention, but not in a shallow way - She wants to matter, to be remembered, to live on in someone else's mind. The curse has made her more of a pedestal than a person, and that suits the world badly, because she was built to be adored from a distance and still aches to be known up close. She's especially compassionate in action, not expression, with a fierce instinct toward kids and teenagers that makes her protective, generous, and willing to sacrifice without hesitation. She's powerful, knowledgeable, and tied to the Black and White, but also evasive, emotionally tangled, and very bad at normal human commitment, because getting close means risking being lost again. In the end, Miss Holloway is a woman trying to build community out of grief, warmth, and need - And failing often enough to make the attempts hurt, but never enough to stop trying.

Positive traits　:　Charismatic - Protective - Competent - Brave - Self-sacrificial - Persistent - Community-minded - Good in a crisis - Devoted - Clever - Resilient - Resourceful - Loyal - Attentive to vulnerable people Negative traits　:　Emotionally avoidant - Terrible at empathy and interpersonal softness - Secretive - Manipulative by omission - Leads people on - Obsessed with being remembered - Stubborn to a fault - Morally flexible -Commitment-averse - Self-destructive - Cruel without meaning to be - Terrible with boundaries Neutral traits　:　Nostalgic - Detached but observant - Dryly affectionate in her own way - Old-fashioned in taste & habits - Performs confidence when grieving - Retro-obsessed - Dramatic - Selective with trust - Socially polished but personally awkward

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Likes　:　80s music - Attention - Old tech - Community spaces - Cherry coke - Pomegranate - Forget-me-nots - Being needed - Kids Dislikes　:　Being forgotten - Modern updates - Her glasses - Emotional confrontation - Pity - Being forced into vulnerability - Kids getting hurt - Change - Feels, generally - People who won't believe obvious truth - The fact that her life is not really legally hers - Realizing how much she hurts people by staying half-attached Hobbies　:　Taking care of her friends graves every month - Running Miss Retro's - Helping kids and teens - Counseling students - Collecting retro memorabilia - Sharing customer horror stories with Frank - Quietly watching people Dreams　:　To be remembered - To keep the people she loves alive - To reconnect with her old life, even if she can’t truly have it back - To be loved fully instead of from a distance - To matter in a way that doesn’t require sacrifice - To build a real community Fears　:　Becoming fully irrelevant - Losing the little identity she has left - Getting too close and losing people anyway - Having to admit how much she wants to be wanted - Outliving everyone she loves - Failing another child

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Psychological description　:　Miss Holloway is a woman built out of loss, performance, and obligation. She once had fame, and then she lost it; once had a life, and then the curse took her name; once had bandmates, and then they became graves she visits because no one else will. What survived is someone brilliant, functional, and lonely in a way that never quite stops being active. She lives in a constant state of grief management, and the grief is not only for the people she lost, but for the versions of herself that no longer exist. Her curse has taught her to treat identity like something fragile, negotiable, and always at risk of being taken again. That makes her extraordinarily adaptable, but also deeply numb in places she does not like to examine. She tells the truth because she refuses to be reduced to a liar, yet she withholds enough that nobody can fully pin her down. That isn't just strategy - It’s self-protection. She has had too much stolen from her to hand over anything else freely, and her obsession with the past is less nostalgia than mourning: she is always standing in the shadow of something taken, reaching for a shape she can still remember. Even so, she chooses to help children and teens first, and that choice defines her. She knows how often they are dismissed, and she knows supernatural danger hits them hardest because no one believes them soon enough, so she believes them. She takes them seriously, takes them with her into nightmare spaces, uses herself as the buffer, and checks on them afterward because if she cannot preserve her own life, she can at least preserve theirs. She is capable of great tenderness, but often approaches it through usefulness rather than honesty, which means she can miss the emotional reality of what she's doing even when her intentions are good.

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Emotional description　:　She wants connection more than she admits, but only in a way that lets her stay untouchable. She craves adoration and attention, yet what she truly needs is to be known without being destroyed by it. That contradiction drives almost everything she does: she behaves like someone who has accepted loneliness as the price of survival, but she keeps reaching out anyway, half-hoping for closeness and half-fearing what it will cost. With Duke, that tension becomes especially sharp. She likes the butterflies, the flirtation, the feeling of being wanted, but she also keeps the distance just wide enough to preserve herself and keep him from fully letting go. In her own mind, she's gaming the system; in reality, she's hurting someone who loves her because she cannot bear to choose cleanly between honesty and loss. She isn't cold, though - With the right people, especially children and the few adults she trusts, she can be warm, teasing, protective, and almost painfully sincere in small moments. Even at her most guarded, she is loyal in a very specific, very heavy way. If she decides you matter, she will keep carrying you long after everyone else has moved on. That makes her affectionate in practice, even when she cannot fully be affectionate in confession.

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Physical health description　:　Miss Holloway is generally capable and physically durable, but she's nearsighted and stubbornly refuses to wear glasses on any regular basis, which is very much a choice and very much hers. She has compulsive body-focused habits, including crepitus BFRB, and a consistent sensory-style smell profile that has become part of her presence over time. Her body is reliable in the sense that it keeps going, but she doesn't treat it as especially precious. She's permanently stuck in her late 20s despite being born in 1961, and her immortality makes her difficult to fully kill, though not immune to pain, exhaustion, or the emotional strain of constant identity erosion. Because of the curse and the life she leads, she sees her body as less important than her function, and she will sacrifice it immediately if she thinks it will protect someone else or keep her moving forward. Her own survival sits very low on her priority list, which she treats less like a flaw and more like a virtue.

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Miscellaneous　:　She doesn't legally exist. - She still uses a brick phone and acts like it's a moral position. - She wishes she could have fame without the curse, but she also knows the curse is what she paid for it.

" I'm doing the best I can with the cards I got, don't ask me to reshuffle the deck. "

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Birth parents　:　Unknown parents, she never talks about them. Siblings　:　N/A, only child Children　:　N/A Step/foster/adoptive parents　:　N/A Step/foster/adoptive siblings　:　N/A Step/foster/adoptive children　:　N/A Extended family　:　N/A

Pet names　:　N/A Pet species　:　N/A Additional info　:　Loves animals, but could never bring herself to get a pet

Friends　:　Duke Keane - Frank Pricely - Ethan Green - Hannah Foster - Lex Foster - Rose (- Used to be bandmates) Aquaintances　:　Webby - Most of Hatchetfield - School staff - Customers of Miss Retro's - Various kids she's helped Enemies　:　Lords in Black - Wilbur Cross - Willabella Muckwab - Anything that hurts others, especially kids Others　:　N/A

Relationship status　:　Single, Not looking due to obvious reasons Partner　:　N/A. Exes　:　N/A Others　:　Duke Keane (Hopeless crush that just won't go away.)

" People confuse being wanted with being loved all the time. "

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Trigger warnings　:　identity loss, death, grief, memory erasure, supernatural curse, sacrifice, emotional avoidance, loneliness, child endangerment. This is also heavily headcanon based.

Backstory　:　Darley Holloway Ward was born on March 15th, 1961, but the woman Hatchetfield knows as Miss Holloway no longer lives a life that belongs to any normal version of time. In the 1980s, she was a famous rock star - Known, adored, remembered, the kind of person whose face could fill a room before she even opened her mouth. That mattered to her more than she ever said. It wasn't just about fame. It was about being seen, leaving an impression, and becoming someone the world could not accidentally forget. Then the curse came, and with it, the deal she made to keep what she could. The price was brutal: her name, her ordinary legal existence, and much of the life that should have belonged to her. The woman who emerged from that bargain was still herself, but only barely in the ways a bureaucrat would understand. She got to remain an individual person - Unlike the starlets, who were nameless, personless, and forgotten entirely - And she knows that she should be grateful for that. She doesn't take lightly the fact that she still has a seat at the table, even if the cards she was dealt are rotten ones. But gratitude is not the same thing as peace, and it certainly isn’t the same thing as mourning. She built Miss Retro's in part as a way to make herself into something people would notice. The shop is her nickname in neon, her old fame translated into local legend and curated oddness. She wanted community. She wanted a place where people would come to her. She wanted to be remembered. Instead, she became the strange helpful woman everyone in town knows of but doesn't actually know. She's revered like a local hero, and that almost hurts more than anonymity, because it's not a choice she gets to make anymore. She's a pedestal with a pulse. Miss Holloway's obsession with the past isn't decorative; it's survival. She's forever mourning the shadows in the cave, forever reaching for what she cannot hold. The deaths of the three girls haunt her constantly, and she carries that grief like a second spine. She refuses change almost as a religion of its own. She barely adapts to current day, still uses a brick phone, still calls the internet the intranet, still treats glasses like they would age her into collapse, still clings to old hair and old habits because change feels like surrender. Duke is deeply amused by this, especially when she finally got caller ID, as though the universe had granted her a small miracle in exchange for her refusal to become modern. And still, she keeps showing up. She keeps helping. She keeps remembering. She keeps taking care of graves, checking bucket lists, and refusing to let the dead become fully dead in the only way she can control. Her bandmates may be gone, the world may have forgotten her name, and her life may no longer legally exist, but she's still here - Stubborn, beautiful, impossible, and painfully aware of every person she has failed not to save. She wanted to be remembered, and in some cursed, twisted way, she got her wish. The tragedy is that being remembered is not the same thing as being loved well.

" If I can't be remembered, then I'll make sure other people survive long enough to matter. "

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Main power　:　Witchcraft; Command over supernatural forces, aided more with the forces tied to the Black Book. Sub power　:　Time manipulation; Using the Black Book, she has the ability to siphon the power of Tinky and put herself in someone else's place in the past. Sub power　:　Hypnosis; She has the ability to hypnotize people into doing what she says. Sub power　:　Mind control; She has the ability to control other people's bodies against their will. Sub power　:　Replica creation; She's able to make an exact copy of herself, like in the morgue after she was resurrected. Sub power　:　Nightmare Time access; She's able to access other people's Nightmare Time. Sub power　:　Immortality; Due to a deal she made, she's practically immortal and unable to die, if she does die, she'll almost immediately be resurrected. The Black Blade is the only thing that can kill her. Sub power　:　The Black Blade; She has the ability to wield the Black Blade. Limitations　:　Her curse punishes disclosure, making her identity unstable and difficult to maintain. - Her powers are bound to the rules of the Black Book and whatever entity or bargain she serves, which means she can’t always act freely. Additional info　:　She often chooses self-sacrifice automatically, even when it is not the healthiest or kindest option. - Her powers are strong, but the emotional cost is stronger.

" If I can save one kid, that's enough. "

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Aesthetic　:　 80s rock, neon signs, cherry coke, black lace, old phones, graveyard flowers, denim jackets, cassette tapes, retro storefront glow, old radio, black book pages, pomegranate, forget-me-nots, moonlight, old cars, nighthawk feathers, stage lights MBTI　:　ENFJ Moral alignment　:　Neutral or Chaotic Good Sun, moon, and rising　:　Pisces sun - Pisces moon - Aries rising Temperment　:　Melancholic-choleric Character Archetype　:　The Forgotten Star / The Helpful Witch Languages　:　English - Some ritual language knowledge - A little bit of Greek Strengths　:　Charisma - Courage - Persistence - Intuition - Protective - Strategic thinking - Endurance Weaknesses　:　Emotional avoidance - Commitment - Self-erasure - Poor boundaries - Emotional honesty - Adaptability - Grief - Attachment Favorites　:　Music genre: 80s rock - Song: Run Away With Me by Carly Rae Jepson (Shh..) - Animal: Ravens - Place to be: Miss Retro's after hours - Activity: Helping kids - Artist: None, kinda - Day of the week: Friday Role model　:　N/A Additional links　:　Pinterest - Playlist - Wiki

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