[kristen stewart โ 32 โ she/her] Introducing DANNY ELLIOT. Word on the street is they are a FUNERAL DIRECTOR, having been around for FIFTEEN YEARS. Though they are NIHILISTIC and MORBID, they can also be RELIABLE and AFFABLE. In the chaos of New York City, theyโre sure to fit right in.
&. BASICS
full name: danny llyr elliot
nicknames: dan, elliot, mouse (jack malkovich only)
age / D.O.B.: 32 / 04.12.1990
hometown: los angeles, california
gender, pronouns, sexuality: cisfemale, she/her, pansexual
&. MORE BASIC INFO
job position: funeral director
education: BS in chemistry from columbia, MSc in stem cell engineering for regenerative medicine from the university of glasgow
relationship status: single
children: n/a
languages: english, some french
transportation: a black mini cooper with red racing stripes
tattoos: a splattering of 6 tattoos across both arms, including the words โone more time with feelingโ
scars: a cut on her right hip from slipping on a rock during a shoot
&. PERSONALITY
zodiac sign: aries
mbti: intp
likes: photography, science, alt-rock bands, thrift shops
dislikes: hot sauce (not to be confused with buffalo sauce), crickets
bad habits: chewing pen caps
secret talent: her grandmother used to be a harp instructor and taught her how to play growing up. sheโs only had the chance to show it off once, but itโs a neat party trick
fears: corpses**, grasshoppers
five + traits: reliable, affable, humorous, incisive, breezy
five - traits: nihilistic, morbid, irreverent, deceptive, perfectionistic
&. BACKGROUND
danny elliot spent the first seventeen years of her life split between worlds. primarily living with her mother in la brea, weekends consisted of auditions and photo shoots. her mother, a talent agent, knew the ins and outs of the business and just the right doors to knock on; how she ever ended up nearly marrying an embalmer is beyond danny. but they made it work, failed engagement and all, and spent the winter holidays together as a family. danny would fly out after thanksgiving and stay through new yearโs with vivian arriving two days before christmas and leaving the next day. if life in the golden state was packed with schedules and obligations, the big apple was the opposite: lazy weekends and afternoons spent wandering central park. in his free time, her father would mentor her in biology and show dan around the city's various museums. so, when she got accepted at columbia, it was an easy decision to make the move across the country.
new yorkโs market opened a new chapter of possibilities for danny's modeling career, and she did pursue it with her motherโs help, though it was all just a means to an end. years of helping around the mortuary had fostered a love of science that only grew stronger with each class she took. in her junior year, danny took a forensics course, sparked by a case her father briefly mentioned over dinner. she was fascinated by the way tissue decomposition aided in determining the time of death, how cells wither when deprived of oxygen. how the only way to stop the process was for the heart to resume beating.
the following year, she signed on to a forensics lab, introducing her to its connection with stem cells and resulting in an overseas move to pursue a master's degree. modeling took a backseat, not that she gave it much thought by that point, and every waking moment became spent beneath fluorescent lights in the basement of a scottish research center. albeit grateful for the opportunity, the program revealed to danny the limitations of the field. ethics, application to live models being largely restricted to rats, and the fact that doing any real hands-on work would require a medical degree meant that the end of the program marked the end of her career as a burgeoning forensic scientist.
however, at homeโฆ she had a playground at her fingertips.
ray cassidy was hardly a young man when his daughter was born, and by the time she returned to the city he was showing signs of slowing down. ever the dutiful daughter โand eager to see what she could accomplish in her makeshift labโ danny stepped into the family business in an official capacity, becoming co-director. she scheduled appointments, arranged ceremonies and, most importantly, communicated with the local morgues. Good relations with the staff enabled her to redirect unclaimed bodies, no questions asked.
a year ago, when her fatherโs heath declined to the point of selling the business, the mortuary underwent an important change: the transfer of power to a mysterious buyer. danny, for her part, was relieved; the prospect of business ownership had never held much appeal and it meant more time to focus on her projects. even better, her new boss's proclivity towards secrecy works nicely with the direction her work has taken.
&. PERSONALITY
**growing up, danny was squeamish around death. she would refuse to step foot in the mortuary and loathed being alone there, preferring to explore the city while her father was out to avoid the โzombiesโ. as such, his clients grew accustomed to seeing dan at the front of house, handling communications for the business. however, she overcame her fear before the end of her first semester, trepidation warping into a strange fascination. but reputations stick, and maybe thatโs for the bestโฆ
danโs fascination with death, although birthed from a mixture of genuine curiosity and forced exposure, has warped into something darker. regenerative medicine, specifically the reanimation of dead tissue, holds her interest. late nights are spent mutilating limbs and experimenting with various specimensโฆ just call her victoria frankenstein
she has asthma, though she rarely uses her inhaler and spends her friday nights smoking. she keeps an inhaler at her desk to placate those who know about the condition
dan has a morbid sense of humor. to her motherโs horror, her favorite thing when visiting home is to stand around the tar pits scaring tourists โ โ wonder how many bodies are in thereโฆ i thought i heard screaming last night. โ
she thinks more than she speaks, and when she does thereโs much more left unsaid. thatโs not to say sheโs not genuine in her conversations, in fact she finds value in every interaction โ just donโt expect to know her simply because youโre on her list of regulars
sheโs incredibly laidback, largely in part of her belief that no one cares about anything but themselves and individual lifeโs as inconsequential in the greater scope of the universe. that said, she also doesnโt talk about her modeling days much, not finding it worthy of more than a passing remark. and apart from stumbling across an old campaign here and there, she now lives a life that is very separate from it
&. BOLD WHICH HABITS YOUR MUSE HAS
nail biting | throat clearing | lying | interrupting | chewing the ends of pens | smoking | swearing | knuckle cracking | thumb sucking | muttering under their breath | talking to themselves | nose picking | binge drinking | oversleeping | snacking between meals | skipping meals | picking at skin | impulse buying | talking with their mouth full | humming/singing to themselves | chewing gum | leg jiggling | foot tapping | hair twirling | whistling | eye rolling | licking lips | sniffing | squinting | rubbing hands together | jaw clenching | gesturing while talking | putting feet up on tables | tucking hair behind ears | chewing lips | crossing arms over chest | putting hands on hips | rubbing the back of their neck | being late | procrastinating | doodling | shredding paper | peeling off bottle labels | forgetfulness | running hands through hair | overreacting | teeth grinding | nostril flaring | slouching | pacing | drumming fingers | fist clenching | pinching bridge of nose | rubbing temples | rolling shoulders
&. CONNECTIONS
UNTIL WE GET OLD x splitting time between la and nyc for the entirety of her childhood, and then permanently moving to the city, dan has been around for a while. this is a friend who sheโs stayed close with through it all, even if their paths are different
PINK PARTY x this is someone she runs into late at night on her way home from the mortuary, typically after sheโs smoked her weekly blunt asthma be damned. sometimes sheโll share and others, when the smoke hangs a little too long, theyโll have to settle for splitting a massive pizza
YOUโRE PRESSED x anyone can be bought for a price, and dan is no different. if it furthers her illicit research, sheโs game. need to stash a body? thereโs a fridge for thatโฆ for the meager price of the victimโs bone marrow
ONLY SKELETONS TO HIDE x be it the way she watches crime docs a little too closely or the glint in her eye she waxes philosophical about tissue regeneration, this is someone who got close enough to catch a glimpse of what danny hides beneath the surface
