Post by SIOBHAN "NYX" SHAW on Jun 24, 2012 18:26:54 GMT -5
SIOBHAN “NYX” SHAW
She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night
[/size]She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night
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Alias: Tens
Other Characters: Peter Aramis, Zander Devereux
Rewritten City Found Via: Man, if only I could remember
Contact: IM, PM, MSN, e-mail (pick an acronym, haha)
Comments: A female character! I feel like a rebel!
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00I. full name Siobhan Marie Shaw
0II. canon or original Greek Mythology – Nyx
III. years of age 27
0IV. orientation Heterosexual
00V. social status High Class
0VI. occupation Model, Night time DJ, Controlling share holder of JS Communications Inc.
00I. play by Elisha Cuthbert
0II. body type Fit, curvy in the right places.
III. height 5’7
0IV. eye color Blue
00V. description
Nyx is beautiful and she knows it. She has long legs and just the right amount of curves to be appealing. Her beauty is soft, but striking. Her hair and skin are pale like moon light, as she does not tan or freckle, and she appears to be delicate. She doesn’t flaunt her looks and she holds herself with a dignity that many people wouldn’t expect. In a room full of people, her looks may get her noticed first, but she is also a captivating conversationalist, as she is a strong and opinionated woman when she sees the opportunity to be. However, she also knows when to appear meek and wispy, like a shadow in the dark.
00I. overall personality
Nyx is a night person. She finds that is when she has all of her energy. During the day, she feels dull, soft, and would much rather be sleeping than interacting with anyone else. When she is tired, she is light sensitive as well, which means she tries to schedule in as much sleep as possible. She is never found in the sunshine without her dark sunglasses on. She prefers to work at night, as that is always when she is most productive, but if she needs to, she will do things during the day, along with the rest of the world, even if she drags her feet about it.
Knowing what it is like to be very poor, she is a kind hearted person who donates to charities and doesn’t flaunt her wealth, living within her means. She doesn’t believe life is a fashion show, and often shops off the rack because it’s more adventurous. She even walks down to local markets for groceries, soaking up the vibes of the city. She enjoys cooking, and often manages her own laundry and simple chores, but she does indulge in a cleaning lady who comes once a week to give her high-rise a good clean.
She is also a motherly figure, and will stand up for those who she feels need her. She’s very much a mother bear about those things. She considers her charity and her late-husband’s empire to be “her cubs”, as well, and she’s been known to intimidate very powerful men who dared to threaten them.
0II. strengths
She knows how to read people, so she knows when to be assertive or meek to keep the peace. She finds that it serves her well in high society and business.
She is very motherly, which makes her a warm and welcoming person.
She is always kind to those she meets, often showering people with affection and trying to help them get what they need. She’s a fixer in this respect.
III. weaknesses
She has money, thus she always wonders if the men she dates are interested in her or her wealth. It makes her worry and withdraw from socializing.
The people she does business with don’t take her seriously because of her looks. Often, she has to have someone speak for her, which can be frustrating.
When she feels threatened, she will turn into a mother bear and her temper is not to be trifled with. She can be sharp and cold to get her point across.
0IV. goals
She wants to help people and have children – as many as she can bring into the world. She needs to settle down with a good man, though, one who will help her with both.
00I. notable family & friends
Father – Chase O’Bannon (deceased)
Mother – Patty O’Bannon (deceased)
Siblings – Thomas, Tara, Aaron, and Eric
Ex-Husband – Nicholas Zimmer
Husband – Jameson Shaw (deceased)
Zander Devereux – Friend
0II. overall history
Siobhan was born to Chase and Patty O’Bannon – their third child and second daughter. They were Irish immigrants to Canada and Siobhan was their first child to be born on Canadian soil. They lived in a small city where her father worked at the cannery and her mother was a seamstress.
When she was seven, her mother fell ill, dying quite suddenly. Her father fell into the habit of working two jobs, and sleeping when he wasn’t working. Her older brother and sister got after school jobs to help, which left Siobhan to care for her younger brothers. She became the heart of the home as she also managed the housework and caring for her older siblings and father the best she could, as well.
When she was sixteen, she would lose her father to an accident at the cannery. Thomas, who was older, took legal guardianship for Siobhan and her brothers, as Tara was too old to be a dependant, but too young for the responsibility. Seeing the strain her brother was under to keep the family fed, Siobhan dropped out of school to work full time. She waited tables down at the diner from 6 pm to 6 am, often serving the friends she’d gone to school with. She didn’t mind, knowing that feeding her family was much more important than her pride. This left her days open to take care of the house and her younger brothers, managing to find time to sleep.
Two years later, Thomas would marry a beautiful young woman from a better family, finally finding some financial stability. Even though she was eighteen, Siobhan was reluctant to leave and start her own life, as she felt like her younger brothers were her children, not her siblings. However, her boyfriend, Nick, was whispering tales of New York in her ear. He was an artist and believed he would sell his paintings if he were there. He also thought that Siobhan was beautiful enough to be a model and put dreams in her head that she would have lived contentedly without. Finally, she and Nick left for New York City, marrying just before she turned nineteen. They lived in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, barely managing to feed themselves, even though they had taken regular jobs and put their dreams on the backburner in order to survive.
Siobhan was discovered by a talent agent while she was taking drink orders at a society function late one night. She signed with a modelling company and within six months, she and Nick were living the good life, spending every dime that came in on the things they had always wanted. However, as Nick’s paintings weren’t selling, he took a more hands-on role with her modelling career that would ultimately ruin their relationship. He pushed Siobhan to take on shoots that required less and less clothing until she was posing nude. Because there was less clothing, she ate less to be thinner, and fell into the habit of popping diet pills. They were constantly attending parties, drinking, and doing drugs, only to stumble home and sleep the entire day away.
At only twenty-two, Siobhan felt burned out. She started refusing jobs, which led to fights with both the modelling agency she worked for and Nick. The fights with Nick got bad enough that she finally went to the police for a restraining order. She took more control of her career and got clean, but all the pressure to manage live the lifestyle on her own was too much stress for her body to handle. Only a month after the restraining order was in place, Siobhan ended up in the hospital for exhaustion, having miscarried the baby she didn’t know she was pregnant with at the time. Losing the baby was Siobhan’s final straw. She quit modelling, divorcing Nick not long after. However, her financials were a mess, her debt was massive, and her credit was non-existent. Unwilling to fix them by taking on more modelling jobs, she filed for bankruptcy and went back to waitressing to keep herself fed – one of the few jobs she could do without a high school diploma or GED. For a year she lived the simple life, barely making enough to get by, but she was much happier doing without.
By chance, she would land a job at JS Communications Inc.’s east coast head office in Manhattan, filing paper records as the company was slow to make the transition to electronic records. The company owned several TV and radio stations, considered to be a national media empire. Here she would meet Jameson Shaw, owner and CEO. Jameson was hands on with the company, often in and out of the office, but he always spared a few minutes to greet and speak with the employees milling about. Siobhan found him charming and down to earth, surprised when he asked her out one afternoon. She was used to being approached when she was modelling, but hadn’t thought anyone would notice her without her fame and money. After a year of dating, they married. Jamie was much older than she was, but she wasn’t inclined to care and ignored the gossip about the twenty year gap between them. She felt like her first marriage had been in the heat of the moment, and this time she felt like she actually was ready and had made a wise choice.
Even though Jamie spoiled her, she never forgot what it was like to be hungry, and together they started up The Shaw Foundation to help feed the homeless. Jamie also encouraged her to get her GED so she could expand her horizons. She decided to take some college night courses in radio broadcasting, wanting to be a part of Jamie’s company. Jamie celebrated by giving her a radio show at the station. This was perfect, as Siobhan wanted to try a career where she wouldn’t be judged by her looks. Now, they could only hear her voice. Nyx became her radio name, as she only hosted her show at night, four times a week. Because of this, some call her Nyx in other social situations, finding it is easier to pronounce than Siobhan.
She and Jamie were only married for two short years before he was in a fatal car accident while on a business trip. Devastated, Siobhan grieved and then clung onto Jamie’s company, as he left her his controlling interests and it was the most tangible thing she had left of him. She chose not to run the company personally, but often talked with the CEOs, getting a feel for how they’re handling Jamie’s vision. She was offered buy-outs often, but felt that someone with the name of Shaw should still be in control of the company.
Finding that running her charity, hosting her radio show, and checking on the company only took up so much of her time, she finally returned to modelling on her own terms, working through an agency she was familiar with, and not letting anyone push her into things. She likes to think of herself as a semi-retired model, as she’s been in the business before and hasn’t fully committed to it this time around. All her profits go to her charity and she enjoys sharing stories and advice with the younger models, hoping they won’t make the same mistakes she did, and mothering them the best she can.
Now, at age twenty-seven, she’s been through two husbands, inherited a fortune, and still insists on hosting her night show and shopping off the rack. She can be found out and about in the city, but is only truly alive after sundown.
III. sample post
The station was always better at night.
With no one rushing around, chatting on phones, getting text messages...the sound was just better. She didn’t know if her listeners appreciated it, but she supposed it didn’t much matter at the late hour. She glanced through the glass at her producer, watching the man yawn and gulp down more coffee. Well, at least he was there. Good help after midnight was hard to find.
“Welcome back, New York,” she spoke into the microphone once the last song faded out. “Today I was asked if money could buy happiness. I was astounded by the question.”
She honestly had been because she’d had to ask herself that very question. Yet another partner had asked to buy her share of the company, dangling the dollar signs in front of her face, as if money was all she cared about. Clearly, they didn’t know her very well. Selling wouldn’t be any way to honor Jamie.
“C’mon, Nyx. What James left you for a monthly allowance is insulting. If you sell now, we could be talking in the high millions here...”
What was insulting was how he had assumed that she should have felt entitled to more money. Even if he was dead, the money she had access to every month showed that Jamie still spoiled her and she rarely spent even half of it before charity. She would have traded every penny she had if it would have brought him back, but that wasn’t going to happen, nor was she going to give up his dream.
“If money bought happiness, all those fat cats on Wall Street wouldn’t look so severe all the time. See, you can buy things to help you feel happy, but true happiness is having someone in your life who makes you feel rich. Without that, you’re just another guy with too many tools, or another girl with too many pairs of shoes,” she said with a soft smile. “This next song sums up what money can buy, but also what happiness would really be worth.”
She pressed the right button and The Bare Naked Ladies’ song “If I had a Million Dollars” started playing over the airwaves. She leaned back in her chair, thinking of how a million dollars had been a fortune to her once. That was back when she believed a wish on a star fixed everything, and that dreams really did come true.
Sometimes having less really was having more.
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SYR INTEGRA of CAUTION 2.0 created this, modified by Yols with Shakespeare lines.
