#dynastic.intro

001. 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉

NAME: nafisa baker AGE: 30 GENDER: cis woman PRONOUNS: she/her ORIENTATION: bisexual MARITAL STATUS: single OCCUPATION: board member @ visual x EDUCATION:

002. 𝘽𝙄𝙊𝙂𝙍𝘼𝙋𝙃𝙔

her way or the high way. that is all there is to nafisa. she doesn't work too much but when she does, it happens because of a bout of inspiration. during these phases, nothing is stopping her: she gets impatient, she wants results immediately, she doesn't have the patience to wait for email responses, she finds the work ethic of everyone else lacking. it's the sort of behaviour that causes a horrid environment. it's the main reason she has decided to just stick to being on the board of visual x. she has opinions and she wants the best for the company but she is not a team player.

nafisa was a sharp kid, and her first ten years of schooling were a piece of cake. her study method relied heavily upon stress factors — last minute cramming and lots of all-nighters. the problem with having a good memory is that it allows you to grow into a backboneless adult. university was hell. last minute studying was not the answer. quick and easy fixes did not exist for every challenge. nafisa barely survived her five years at the university of edinburgh. she graduated with a fairly useless degree in digital arts. a degree that her upper-middle class parents paid for. a degree that led her to her future business partner.

a year before her graduation nafisa put all of her efforts into networking. networking for her meant going to the coolest events she could just get into, drinking champagne she could not afford, and talking to anyone who would listen to her youthful and naive thoughts. one warm august evening, she sat at the right table at the right time.

her future business partner was going over the work opportunity that had presented itself just some weeks ago. the issue ? there was no team to handle the work load. the word 'work' sounded awfully good to a poor, parent-dependent ( technically art ) student. nafisa jumped at the opportunity. convinced the other that she was what was missing and she was willing to put in hours.

the ad campaign they worked on was their first project together. it was what convinced them that they could keep going as a duo. as nafisa was finishing her studies, her business partner kept looking for new projects. after their fourth project together, a large project they couldn't handle together forced them to expand. they created visual x and hired a handful of people to work for them.

money breeds greed. the company kept growing in surges: the company would accept a project that was too big for their capacity at the time, they'd hire new people to complete the project, they'd realize the temps needed to become a permanent part of their employee list, and not much later the same pattern would be repeated. but growth cannot happen infinitely.

in 2023, after six fruitful years of growth and wealth, visual x had a dry season. no projects came up, their expertise was not needed, and the money stopped pouring in. they had their first massive lay-offs. nafisa had never experienced such great a failure and she felt absolutely gutted. she felt bad for the employees but mainly she felt like her luck had ran out and she was going to lose everything they had worked for. it took her two months to become properly functional again. during those two months app-h had begun to circle visual x like a vulture.

some would consider app-h the saviour. nafisa will begrudgingly admit that without app-h inc. there would not be the visual x that exists at the moment, but nafisa dislikes being dependent on app-h. under app-h, visual x never runs out of projects. dulaan is their main source of revenue.

nafisa feels like she and her co-founder are no longer in control despite the co-founder acting as the ceo and nafisa on the board of the company. they still have to answer to the big bosses of app-h inc.

003. 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝘿𝘾𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙉𝙎

— TBA !

004. 𝙀𝙎𝙏𝘼𝘽𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙃𝙀𝘿 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙉𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎

— TBA !

005. 𝙒𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙀𝘿 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙉𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎

— TBA !

006. 𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙆𝙎

Early life:

Amelia's world was always defined by rules. Strict hours to wake up, ways she was expected to behave, and things she was meant to achieve. Her family's name and connections meant she had a way in, but it also meant she had a lot to live up to.

Fortunately, the weight of the expectations was always something she enjoyed carrying. It's not some much that she is happy to be worked to the bone - but that she cannot pass up the opportunity of winning over someone else.

As a child her knowledge of rules and how to use them to her advanced was used to win sports games or get ahead in clubs and performance awards. She not the smartest person in class but she understands what people want from her with a scarily good accuracy. It's formulaic, really. A good essay is not built on a good theme so much as in writing exactly what her teachers want to read. A abysmal number of volunteering hours, sports and leadership positions shines more in her resume.

Her asinine adherence to both the general and her own set of rules often borders on manic. Certainly something that would have been diagnosed had she had more attentive parents or had it shown negatively on her achievements. But with the type of success she was getting in academics, extracurricular activities and interpersonal relationships? You certainly can't have your perfect daughter walking around with a label like mentally ill.

This competitive personality and undiagnosed issues, coupled with the possibly inherited addictive personality, all came crashing down on her in the summer of 2002. A broken leg acquired during the horse jumping competition season and the end of her GCSEs left her with a mind numblingly boring summer. The opioids prescribed to her leg, however, helped pass time much faster.

It's her then boyfriend, and especially his father's prescription pad, that continues her supply once the legal dose is up. She was never much of a drinker or smoker, using both simply as an in into conversations and groups she wanted easier access to. But those little round pills become the one thing that shuts her brain down. Thankfully, neither her parents nor her older brother Arnold ever found out about it. They wouldn't understand.

Career:

Picking law for her postsecondary education is almost too easy of a choice. She does both her LLB and LLM in King's College, choosing to stay in London over the prospect of Oxbridge education. She wanted her degree good and quick, and she already had her eye on the International firms, which all had branches in London.

She gets a Trainee position at Alstern Solicitors after her LLB due to a favor from one of her father's business partners. But the offer for an associate position at Clifford Chance a month before getting her LLM is all her own. From there, she rises in the ranks. She makes partner at 34 and has since become quite settled into her role. She now mostly deals with antitrust and M&A corporate law.

Stock in TELEGRAPP-H:

She buys into Telegrapp-H when it's still Chitchatter. She'd been an associate for a few years at that point, but having a varied stock portfolio was just something you did when you had Whisham money. Most of her stock until that point had been quite passive, she enjoyed investing in tech companies but had yet to buy into something new and fresh.

She hears about Chitchatter at work. It's new, but it's gaining users fast. She's just one of the associates placed on Park Haneul's case. It's while drafting all the trademarks and contracts that she really understands the scope of the situation. It truly has everything to be the next big thing in tech. She's interested. She invests in it more than most British citizens will see in a year. The next year, she buys even more stocks.

When they're acquired by app-H she's delighted. Her stocks value goes up 10 fold overnight. It's the whispers of app-H's Frankenstein monster of intellectual property in their vault that first make her wary. She has plenty of other investments, she wouldn't be destroyed were Telegrapp-H to fail. But, oh, would her ego take a hit.

Verity Vergès:

Meeting Verity Vergès at a bar in Canary Wharf after work was a surprise but Amelia is immediately interested. Verity has a fire in her eyes she can't quite explain. And sure, she's a little rough around the edges. A lot is clearly wrong, but when has Amelia ever given up because something was challenging?

How fast everything happens after that night surprises even Amelia. They're dating by the end of the week. Living together before the end of the year. And married two years later. It's not Amelia's style to move this fast but she is incredibly obsessed with Verity and the life they built together.

When Verity talks about children a few months into the marriage, Amelia agrees without much thought. She never wanted children but she's not against them. Amelia was a perfectly agreeable child, there's no reason to think any kid with a good upbringing will be very difficult.

Verity carries both pregnancies, mostly because the prospect of a long maternity leave make Amelia break out into hives. Plus the thought of giving birth makes her squeamish. Verity wants to be a mother, surly pregnancy is involved in that.

Possible Connections:

Family friends

Uni friends

Exes / past flings

current or past clients

if from a smaller company, maybe she has some shares in your company/invested in it in some way?

Basics:

[ ! ] — it seems that [ bradford thornbury ] has entered the scene ! he looks exactly like [ hugh grant ]. this [ 65-year-old ] is the [ emotional support dilf ] of [ comoedia corp]. it’s a small wonder since he is known for being [ jaunty + reliable ] and [ grumpy + taciturn ]. he has not been involved with the company.

Biography:

Many say Bradford Thornbury is the disappointing half of one of London's power couples. They wouldn't necessarily be wrong.

If one were to judge his life through the lens of business achievements one would come to the conclusion he is as close to failure as someone who has never really tried can be. Jobless all his life, maintaining hobbies over achievements on his shelves. Bradford has about as much business sense as an overly exited child left alone in a toy store. The only son of Cecil Thornbury, 6th Baron Feversham he was necessarily the heir of both his father's title and his lands in Helmsley, North Yorkshire. He always cared very little for it much to all his 6 older sisters dismay.

In school he cared for little else than rowing. Eton College Boat Club was legendary in and of itself and Bradford dedicated all he had to it. Winning the men's 18+ on his last year at Eton was just what he needed to continue. At 21 he wins silver at the 1980's Moscow Olympics.

Has a boy he was always quite the flirt. His naturally wide eyed look hidden behind thick frames accentuated his aloft nature making him quite popular with both women and men. He'd enjoy the games of it, never quite seriously considering anyone. Whispered words in dark rooms. Wide smiles and sweaty bodies. Coming of age in the late 70's was a experience Bradford took full advantage off. Things like relationships brought trouble he couldn't quite be bothered with. But Beatrice Alderidge was not the type of women you played games with, however. Even as a girl.

Beatrice Alderidge was always a force of nature and Bradford was taken into her storm in 1981 and has yet to escape it. Or try it. Any ideas his father had for a marriage to a proper family, an aristocratic family, went in one ear and out the other. A nouveau riche girl was enough make poor Cecil shake in his boots. And even if they were rich, did it count if you had to maintain a job? But Bradford was determined, he simply had to convince Beatrice now.

The years since their marriage have mellowed him out. He always disliked the fast paced world of modern work so when children and the taking care of them came into question he was quick to accept his role. He was perfectly happy prancing around the house ordering the nannies around. His hobbies expand and so do the shelves.

Compared to other man of both his social standing and age he was a much more involved father than most. He always insisted on making the children's birthday cakes and taking pictures on their first day. Still he had never quite mastered the art of speaking to his children. Specially about pesky things as emotions. Any moment of weakness from the kids was met with awkward nods and pats on their back. "Chin up lad", "Good going old boy". He's very proud of all of them but he might have never actually told them he loves them.

Notable achievements:

Winner of Men's J16 8+ English title (1974 & 1975)

Winner of Men's J18 8+ English title (1976 & 1977)

Silver medal in Men's 8+ @ Moscow Olympics (1980)

Marrying Beatrice Alderidge (1983)

First fully poison plant garden in the British Isles (1988)

Best Victoria Sponge Cake 3 years in a row in Helmsley Village (1990-93)

Craft Beer Production of about 100 bottles per year (1995-present)

Raised and made Show Champion his dog Brutus (1998-2014)

best dad finger painted award by Brooke Alderidge (2004)

National English Honor Society Giant Vegetable Competition - largest Onion (7.5kg) (2017)

Other fun facts:

He was gifted a Border Collie named Biscuit by Brooke a few years ago, since Border Collie's get even higher titles than other dog breeds. He feels like he is betraying Brutus however and has yet to enroll Biscuit in a competition. (He will never be Brutus in Bradford's eyes)

He took up flower arranging sometime between b2 and b3 birth and has since made multiple arrangements weekly to give Beatrice.

His garden is extremely well organized. He has: A fruits and veg bio garden. A flower garden. The Poison garden. A french garden (with a maze) and an english cottage garden (with multiple bird baths).

he took up oil painting after b4 started school - his favorite subject to paint are landscapes with hunting dogs and birds.

He also has a collection of various mushrooms he grows around most of the grounds - the boys have been without his knowledge having him grow hallucinogenic mushrooms for years

While the family is very much a business and finance family he is a languages and humanities man. He collects first editions and other rare books specially in English, Latin, French and German.

ABOUT

the story goes that over the course of history, fathers have looked upon their sons as the continuation of their legacy, the bearers of their name and the guardians of their life's work. daughters, adorned with grace, rather cherished as the delicate gems in a father's crown, symbols of beauty and the keepers of his heart. born into a family where influence and ambition were as inherent as breathing, little miss caroline was no exception, fated to a lifelong dance of soaring aspirations and crushing expectations, a ballet choreographed under the weight of tradition.

in the opulent confines of her childhood home, where tradition’s weight hung heavy as a velvet curtain, caroline shone with an inner brilliance. her parents introduced her with a blend of pride and superficiality: 'and last, but not least, our darling daughter!' her mother had undoubtedly imagined a daughter who would seamlessly step into high society with the same grace and success she. yet, it soon became clear that caroline’s fascination lay not in societal grace but in the business world her father ruled. at the brink of each new era, it is after all the bold spirit who dares to break old constraints and forge a new destiny.

while her brothers often revealed themselves uninterested in their father’s business growing up, caroline eagerly seized every opportunity to accompany him to meetings and high-profile events. young caroline was enchanted by the bustle of negotiations, the weight of authority in her father's voice, and the firm handshake that sealed important deals. his world of papers and partnerships, debates and decisions, became a mesmerizing spectacle for her. she was drawn to the energy of the boardroom and the power of business as if it were a storybook unfolding before her eyes.

in the dim corridors of tradition, some parents shape their children not with the freedom to grow, but with the weight of ancestral expectations. they drape their offspring in the garments of past generations, binding them to a maze of pressures and predefined paths. roaming these corridors, it was during her teenage years that caroline’s rebellious streak became apparent. her mother's attempts to placate her often seemed overly indulgent, in fact elizabeth was so soft with her it prompted caroline to believe she’d let her get away with murder. despite outperforming and outshining her brothers academically and otherwise, she remained the ‘darling daughter’, a label she would later begin to fear would indefinitely overshadow her true accomplishments.

draped in awards and accolades, caroline hung on her father's every word, soaking up his leadership and strategy like a sponge. she was captivated not by the glittering distractions of her mother's socialite life, but by the raw, unfiltered reality of business. each visit to her father’s side was a lesson in ambition and tenacity, and with every experience, her resolve to follow in his footsteps grew stronger.

for caroline, no amount of pearls or velvet lipstick could ever match the thrill of witnessing her father’s commanding presence in the boardroom. from those early days, she was determined to carve out her own path, driven by the same ambition that had shaped his career. naturally, this growing resolve set the stage for a clash between her father’s conservative ideals and caroline’s emerging individuality, leading to a strained relationship as she increasingly defied his expectations.

it was joining the family business that finally exposed her to the sobering reality, her relationship with her father strained after a pivotal argument in which he dismissed her ambitions as mere whims. caroline’s drive to lead and innovate clashed with her father’s rigid adherence to legacy and tradition, and as she looked around the room she realized she had been the last to understand that he wouldn’t budge on the matter.

her chance to redefine her own narrative came when the bulletin sports approached her with a project to expand its influence in american sports. it offered caroline an opportunity to showcase her talents on a broader stage and it seemed to her like a fresh start, more so than an exciting opportunity, a chance to break free from the familiar confines of her role and make a meaningful impact of her own.

yet, as she threw herself into this high-profile project, the excitement of the new venture giving way to a creeping dissatisfaction. friends complained she missed dinners to tend to work, romantic partners felt increasingly sidelined, and family members grumbled about her absence from visits. caroline threw herself into her work with a fervor, as if it might soon fulfill her as it once did, like a drug. therapy sessions offered little solace, merely suggesting that her loved ones might have a point and advising her to pick up more hobbies. instead, her solution (as she saw it) arrived in the form of an unexpected opportunity: the role of ceo at bulletin sports.

BITS AND BOBS

[ ! ] — it seems that [ xavier hobbart ] has entered the scene ! he looks exactly like [ taylor zakhar perez ]. this [ 28-year-old ] is the [ cto ] of [ jomeron ]. it’s a small wonder since he is known for being [ spontaneous + perceptive ] and [ reckless + irascible ]. he has been involved with the company for [ FIVE ] months. [ ISA | SHE + HER | 27 | GMT ]

— STATS

NAME: Xavier Hobbart D.O.B: 13th of July, 1996 HOMETOWN: London, UK HEIGHT: 183 cm / 6'1 GENDER: Cis man SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual MARITAL STATUS: Single CHILDREN: None OCCUPATION: CTO & founder @ Jomeron EDUCATION: BA English literature, MSt English (1900-present) ALMA MATER: Oxford

— BIOGRAPHY

Xavier was always unable to stick with a hobby: he gave polo, archery, fencing, football, rugby and swimming a try in elementary school. Piano, painting, French, book binding, Egyptology, Japanese, and basketball a try in middle school. Climbing, photographing, baking, tennis, golf, and hiking in try high school. Punting, classical singing, D&D, hurdling, and badminton a try during his university years. Nothing stuck. He's definitely jack of all trades, master of none. It wasn't that he wasn't intrigued or humoured by the hobbies, it was that there was always something cooler and more exciting to try. The only thing that he kept his interest in was programming.

One late evening on his laptop, he made the mistake of reading a Wikipedia page on artificial intelligence and another and another and another and another... and realized the morning sun had risen and he still hadn't had enough of the concept of artificial intelligence. He refused to stop until he understood everything there was to understand —  it took him about four years to actually know almost everything. Another three to make something truly original and functional by himself.

Xavier has never needed to work to live. His father has made sure of it. But asking for a small loan of a million dollars (a joke) did not come easy when Xavier decided he wanted to found Jomeron. It took several conversations before he had his father convinced. Xavier is quite certain that he wore his father down rather  than convinced but that didn't affect the outcome: he got his company and he got to make his own money off of his own creations. There was no greater feeling.

Jomeron is brand new and on a shaky foundation. Xavier doesn't care for the red tape that comes with having a company, and his English literature degree most certainly has not prepared him for the world of business. He gladly leaves 'the boring stuff' for his father. He knows how risky a move it is, but he's more concerned about developing Jomeron's products than keeping the fort up. 

Xavier lacks ambition and he's hedonistic to a fault. He needs to be entertained 24/7 and never truly learned how to stay committed to one thing (as stated earlier). His father considers it a miracle that Xavier ever earned his Master's degree. It didn't happen without a few detours or in a timely manner but Xavier eventually graduated from Oxford. His main motivation was to get the hell away from Oxford. He was sick and tired of having to attend classes and living partly in Oxford and partly in London. Fortunately for Xavier, he's quite good with people. He's definitely a listener and not a showman, but most of the time the right question at the right time is all one needs. Xavier enjoys people wholeheartedly. He has a bad temper though, he goes from 0 to 100 very easily and he has burned a few bridges with his tantrums. Some people refuse to deal with his unpredictable nature and while he understands that it's his fault, he cannot control himself and he keeps repeating the same patterns. During those heated moments, everything feels justified.

Xavier has grown used to teasing from his family members and while he's good at laughing it off, it gnaws at him a bit. Jomeron is his one chance to prove to everyone, but mainly his father, that he's not a freeloader or a quitter.

— RESUME

09/2014-06/2023: Oxford university, Student

03/2024-present: Jomeron, CTO

— HEADCANONS

Full list of hobbies he has tried: archery, badminton, baking, basketball, book binding, classical singing, climbing, D&D, Egyptology, fencing, fishing, football, French, golf, hiking, hurdles, Japanese, scuba diving, surfing, swimming, tennis, painting, photographing, piano, pole vaulting, polo, punting, rugby...

Majors he has tried: History, Asian studies & Classics... Managed to stick with English lit.

Has an older sister, an older brother and a younger sister.

During his Master's studies, he split his time between Oxford and London, only going to the uni town when he absolutely had to.

His favourite holiday destination is Indonesia (he surfs and does scuba diving (he's not good)).

Has a dog named Harriet.

— CONNECTIONS

UNI FRIENDS: self-explanatory

Hi! I'm Gray and this is my first rp in a hot minute. I've been looking to get back into the swing of things and this looked like the perfect one (primarily because some of y'all are familiar faces and I missed you!).

Anyways, let me introduce you to my bb girl Elinor. She lives and breathes marketing, think of her as a young Miranda Priestly but instead of a magazine, it's Comoedia Broadcasting that owns her soul. Granted, she's not near as mean or heartless as Miranda but she's certainly on her way to it... hopefully networking can help soften her a bit and give her the social life she'd desperately been needing.

Below you'll find some basic info and I'll flesh her out as I start writing more threads so I can see how she ticks.

B A S I C   I N F O R M A T I O N

Name: Elinor Luz Acosta Age: 33 Job: CMO Company: Comoedia Broadcasting Sexuality: Heterosexual FC: Adria Arjona

B I O G R A P H Y

Becoming CMO had always been Elinor’s endgame, at least when it came to working at Comoedia. When she’d first started as an intern, she’d stare awestruck and the pristine corner offices and dream of how she could make her mark on the company that had given her a chance to put her degree to use.  Between late night coffee runs, picking up people’s dry cleaning, and copy editing internal emails, a 25 year old Elinor had wondered if she’d ever make it to the next step. When a content writer position opened up, she submitted her name and did all she could to prove they’d made the right choice when she was hired. Oddly enough, it didn’t take long for her to climb the ladder. Whenever anyone asked her to do something, she did it with a smile (even if she had to alienate some of her friends and family in the process). All the anxiety and hard work paid off when 8 years into her time at the company, the current CMO came to her and said they were leaving and the job was hers if she wanted. Now that she has the role, she’s realized it’s awfully lonely at the top but as it stands… work is the only thing keeping her going. But how long will that be enough? And will she be able to find another role or hobby that makes her satisfied? Who knows. 

P E R S O N A L I T Y

001. 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉

NAME: arnold whisham AGE: 42 GENDER: cis man PRONOUNS: he/him ORIENTATION: heterosexual MARITAL STATUS: married OCCUPATION: the ceo of sportscast EDUCATION: mba from lbs

002. 𝘽𝙄𝙊𝙂𝙍𝘼𝙋𝙃𝙔

arnold was born a petulant child and he never changed. maturity only made him sneakier with his bad temper, snobbishness and selfishness. he learnt to play people so that he never needed to throw a temper tantrum: he got what he wanted from others with fair speech and colorful imagery. he still gets upset on a daily basis when things don't go precisely the way he wants them to. he, fortunately, knows how to keep his lips sealed. the whishams have had a beautiful townhouse in central london for good three hundred years and a country house on a fifty-acre plot in somerset. in other words: the whishams are the crème de la crème of london. their family has seen its fair share of politicians, business men, lawyers, doctors, and freeloaders. arnold has always had ambition. he has always wanted to be a bit better than everyone around him. he always knew he was either going to become a politician or a business man. he chose business the second it became clear to him that he couldn't give a shit about the problems of regular citizens nor the intricacies of law and legislation. at least in business, you didn't work in the public eye. studying economics and business administration at the london business school was less about studying and more about establishing connections. arnold had a way of ranking people based on their usefulness to him. sometimes the right surname earned you a good number of points and sometimes just being funny and entertaining earned you the same amount. after graduation, arnold worked for his uncle's firm: a medium-sized publishing company. the work didn't entertain arnold in the slightest. the publishing sector was uneventful and arnold wasn't an avid reader. he couldn't distinguish good poetry from bad poetry — both seemed pretentious to him. he had a hard time believing the editors and the publishers whose opinion he had to trust when they were making big decisions. he left the company the second something better came along. the better that came along was an entertainment company. he actually stayed with the company for half a decade, climbing the corporate ladder. it took him two more companies before he started working at the bulletin corporation. first at the broadcasting company and a few years later at the bulletin sports. he liked the bulletin sports as a company. it was well structured and he could see great opportunities. within four years he was made the cfo of the bulletin sports. the title was one he wore proudly. it gave him power and influence. he could make big decisions, his word would be heard, he was a person people came to ask for permissions. he enjoyed his work greatly. this was back in 2020. the bulletin sports also introduced him to his future wife, an added bonus ! he genuinely thought he was going to stay with the company and aim for the ceo spot. he knew if he just gave it a bit of time and rubbed the right elbows, the position would fall into his lap. but... he got impatient and greedy. when the top dogs of comoedia and sportscast began courting him and the ceo position at sportscast was dangled in front of him, absolutely nothing stopped him from accepting the offer. it wasn't a cheap decision to him though. not only did it paint him as a villain at the bulletin corporation, it cause marital problems, and he received a boss from hell ( bernard ). but hey ! at least arnold made a lot of money and gets to call himself the boss ! he's been the ceo for two years now !

003. 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝘿𝘾𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙉𝙎

004. 𝙀𝙎𝙏𝘼𝘽𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙃𝙀𝘿 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙉𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎

— CRETE WHISHAM: wife. — BERNARD ALDERIDGE: bane of arnold's existence.

005. 𝙒𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙀𝘿 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙉𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎

— his most trusted companion ! — uni friends ! — uni gf ! — exes, serious or otherwise ! — enemies from tbc ! — pls mssg me 🥺

[ ! ] — it seems that [ crete whisham ] has entered the scene ! she looks exactly like [ elsa hosk ]. this [ 35-year-old ] is the [ board member #1 ] of [ the bulletin sports ]. it’s a small wonder since she is known for being [ conciliatory + dignified ] and [ unstable + insecure ]. she has been involved with the company for [ 5 ] years. [ ISA | SHE+HER | 27 | GMT ]

— STATS

NAME: Crete Whisham née Potts D.O.B: 13th of March, 1989 HOMETOWN: Bath, UK HEIGHT: 176 cm / 5'9 GENDER: Cis woman SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual MARITAL STATUS: Married CHILDREN: August Whisham ( b. 2022 ) & Lawrence Whisham ( b. 2024 ) OCCUPATION: Board member @ The Bulletin Sports EDUCATION: BSc. Economics, MSc Environment and development ALMA MATER: LSE

— BIOGRAPHY

The Potts family doesn't bear a name worth mentioning. It is only thanks to Ian Potts that Crete and her siblings do not know what it means to have little. Ian Potts has a regular rags-to-riches story that involves a bright mind and a good sixth form dormitory buddy who became a best friend in uni. This uni friend happened to come from a good family. A friend who comes from a good family is much like a key. Doors began opening for Ian after graduation and with time, Ian Potts purchased a spot for himself among the better folk. It's still easy to spot an outsider: his speech is all wrong, he talks a little too freely, and he doesn't know how to hide insults into compliments. That means little now that he has more money than he ever could have imagined having and a beautiful family.

Crete Potts wasn't a difficult child by any means. She loved compliments. She loved being called a sweet girl or a well-behaved child. The compliments were music to her ears! She loved the contrast between herself and her two siblings who were a bit rough around the edges. It was almost too easy to appear angelic in the middle of the chaos. Well-behaved children usually grow up to be well-behaved adults. Crete was no exception. She studied well. Applied to uni in a timely manner and graduated in a timely manner. The only problem was that once she was done with her studies and suddenly had no one telling her what she was supposed to do next, she felt a little bit lost. She had a good degree, a useful degree, but absolutely no desire to put it into use. She found the world of business tiring. She had honestly hoped to start a family rather than a career after graduation. This wasn't something she was bold enough to say to people though. Her favourite professor helped her out in the beginning and she started working for the government. The few years she spent pushing papers helped her integrate into the work force. She actually felt a little bit inspired too. Successful projects gave her energy and motivation, failed projects made her lose her hair but at least they taught her some very good lessons. By accident she ended up working for Halston Cinemas as a consult. Green initiative had become so important in the film industry and whatnot. It was a fun little detour, she won't deny that. It allowed her to make connections she had wanted to make for some time. Her father had always been involved with the media industry but he had never been the social type and invitations to industry events came rarely and even more rarely did Thomas Potts attend. Crete was on her own, so to speak. This is another reason why she has a slightly warped view on herself and considers herself almost self-made. She moved onto different things for a while but she didn't leave Halston Cinemas without a small souvenir, which, in her case, was a relationship with the Bernard Alderidge. Compared to the Alderidges, the Potts family was a group of try-hard slobs. Just having money obviously wasn't enough. As Crete kept her eyes trained on Beatrice Alderidge, she realized how great the divide between the nouveau riche and the old money families was. Being the adaptable well-behaved woman she was, she did her best to tune her behaviour onto the correct frequency. Crete probably would have sold her left kidney in exchange of calling Beatrice Alderidge her mother-in-law. But things don't always work out as one would like them to. The pair called it quits after Crete realized any future she had envisioned in her head, had and would never cross Bernard's thoughts. She made sure to distance herself from the Comoedia Corp. and set out to find new projects. She worked here and there for a while but eventually became her father's unofficial secretary. The Bulletin Sports did not pay much of a salary officially but her father compensated her adequately. Her job description did not fit any regular one since she sometimes filled in for her father, sometimes delivered him food, sometimes took his calls. A little bit of everything. The important thing is that she got to know the people at the company. The Potts family had been involved with the company for good two decades or so, Crete felt fortunate to finally see what the company was like. The free tickets to sporting events and complimentary lunches and dinners did not hurt either. When her father's health began deteriorating in mid-2023, Crete became his official representative on the board of the company. She got married in early 2022. Was in a hurry to be a mom and managed to push out two kids in two years.

— RESUME

09/2007 - 06/2013: London School of Economics 07/2013 - 11/2015: Department for Energy Security & Net Zero 01/2016 - 10/2018: Halston Cinemas 01/2019 - 10/2019: Random gigs 10/2019 - : The Bulletin Sports

— RANDOM FACTS

has a horrible inferiority complex among the upper class. she feels like she doesn't fit no matter how hard she tries and no matter how well she follows the unspoken rules.

her west country accent was on the stronger side growing up but she did her best to get rid of it. now she has this weird unnatural sounding accent that borrows sounds from received pronunciation but still has some harsher 'r's. her speech slips into her childhood accent whenever she gets upset.

— CONNECTIONS

tbc.

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