Elise Segher || Luxembourg

[Elise Segher]

♚ Elise Segher ♚

♕ THE YEARS START COMING AND THEY DON'T STOP COMING ♕

Name: Elise Marie Segher
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Luxembourgish
Function: Stock Clerk
Department: General Foods
How long have they worked here?: 7 months

♕ FED TO THE RULES AND I HIT THE GROUND RUNNING ♕

Likes:

• Money- That's why she's working here in the first place.
• Reading- If she isn't watching videos on her phone she's reading a book somewhere. Her favourite is really bad smut romance novels, especially period ones.
• Food- It was no coincidence she applied for general foods. Elise loves food, and unfortunately, her department is full of it so she spends most her pocket money buying snacks in the day.
• Animals- Part of the reason she needed a job was because she has so many pets. She can't say no to people when they offer them to her and has quite the small zoo going on in her apartment. It's mostly exotic creatures no one wanted anymore.
• Romance- Although she's not really swimming in prospects right now, Elise is a sucker for romance. Flowers, chocolates, dates, she really wants all that kind of stuff to happen to her.
• Free things- Free stuff is best stuff.
• Music- Classical Music has to be her favourite. Elise can play violin and piano herself, and finds the sound of those instruments to be really soothing.
• Supernatural Things- It's a little bit weird, but Elise loves ghost stories, scary movies, ghost tours, anything like that. The scarier the better!

Dislikes:

• Fashion- No one has time for that.
• Crowds- She's a little short and tends to get pushed around in crowds. She does all in her power to not being working on days like Black Friday or Boxing Day.
• Bullies- Elise was bullied when she was younger and has no patience for it. Especially if it's a customer trying to bully her, watch out for her sickeningly sweet attitude.
• Asking for help- She would prefer if she could do things on her own, and asking for help always leaves a bitter taste in her mouth.
• Her height- Which is usually why she needs to ask for help. At one point she was the tallest girl in the class growing up but once she hit 5'2” that was the end of her growing.
• People making messes- Clean and tidy is how Elise prefers everything to be. When someone breaks something on the floor she wants to kill them.
• Heat- Elise hates being really warm and gets overheated very quickly. In the summer she likes to sit in the freezer section to stay cool. It would be great if it could be early Autumn all the time.
• Spending money- Nothing is worse than seeing her hard earned money slip away..

Quirks:

• Elise likes to sit and watch the procatinator on her phone all day. She's not sure why, but it never fails to make her laugh. She really likes cute cat videos.
• She has a really terrible sense of humour because she doesn't have a lot of friends. Elise plays a lot of pranks around the store, harmless things, thinking she's funny.
• Whenever there is a sale and there's a limit on how much you can get Elise tries to don disguises or sneak over to another teller. She's actually more successful at it than you think.
• Elise can speak a few languages fluently, since her father is a translator. She actually has 3 first languages, Luxembourgish, English and German and speak French as well. Other languages in her repertoire (not fluent in, phrases only) are Dutch, Flemish, Portuguese, Spanish. Right now she is trying to learn Cantonese, Mandarin, and Italian with that Rosetta Stone software. So far she can just say hello and 'where is the ice cream?'.
• One of her more annoying quirks is she memorizes things she's heard and read. It's really hard to lie to her because she can recall things said months prior.
• Elise recyles everything she can. She believes it's really important to be green and do your part.

Fears:

• Water- Elise can't swim. She will sink like a stone and die. Plus there is sharks in the ocean. Water is best avoided.
• Falling in love- It's one thing reading about it, it's another actually doing it. She had her heart broken pretty bad in high school and is very scared of it happening again.
• Getting Fired- Even though she goofs off a lot she really needs this job and doesn't know what she would do without it.
• Spiders, ticks, other scary creatures- When she sees them Elise becomes immobilized. At least she doesn't start screaming.
• Her back account being 0

Personality:

• Elise tends to be very quiet, analyzing situations and peoples before acting. Once you get to know her she can actually be sweet and funny; it's just taking the time to make her feel that comfortable around you. If you understand and appreciate her weirdness and awkwardness you'll get along fine with her.
• However, she can be a bit of mean person. She's very sarcastic, and tends to mock people if she doesn't like them. A lot of people don't realize she's doing it because she's either super sweet sounding or very dead-panned.
• Elise has difficulty saying no to things. She has too many pets because she feels bad for them and doesn't know how to refuse things. It comes from her need to please people. She didn't have a lot of friends growing up so she tries to be overly pleasing to keep the ones she has.
• Her past bullying has made it difficult to trust people. Her bullies were people she thought we her best friends, so she's naturally wary around people. If she does consider you a friend and you do gain her trust she is a very dedicated friend. Unfortunately she can get a little bit overly protective of them.
  
• The best word to describe her is calm. Elise always appears cool and collected, no matter the situation. Internally her emotions could be on the other end of the spectrum but has learned panic isn't the greatest thing to give into. However it can appear to some as her being emotionless, since if someone was to start crying in front of her she would still appear calm. It's mostly her using the calm facade to think of the best course of action. Acting on instinct is unheard of to her, all things need to be planned out.
  
• Elise's biggest fault is that she doesn't take many things seriously. She's a logical, intelligent, methodical person, but tends to goof off a lot. At the store she's always buying snacks during her breaks and placing things around the store when she's bored. It doesn't stem from a superiority complex, she doesn't think she's any better than these people but she has a really hard time being serious at her job.
• All and all, Elise can be a very sweet girl. She's pretty friendly with her co-workers, even if she is wary of them. Her pranks are mostly done to make other people laugh, and she does enjoy making people feel good. Sometimes she gives out gifts randomly (although they are really weird gifts). If you ask her for help she drops everything just to do so. Elise truly just wants people to like her.

♕ DIDN'T MAKE SENSE NOT TO LIVE FOR FUN ♕

Roleplay Sample:

Hell; that was only nice word she could use to describe her day. Complete and utter hell. Elise was physically, mentally and even emotionally exhausted. As soon as she got home she felt guilty too, as her animals vocally let her know how they felt about her being late to give them dinner. After going about and feeding everyone, as well as smoothing over hurt feelings, she allowed herself to relax on the couch. Bern come over, nuzzling her leg to let her know she was forgiven and she scratched the cat absentmindedly. Maybe I should think of getting someone to look after them for me, she thought but quickly dismissed it. Elise was realistic and knew she just didn’t have the funds for something like that right now. Tiredly she shuffled into her room to change into plain clothes and to wipe off her grown-up lady make up.

Her stomach was roaring at her to fill it with something, since she barely had time for a sip of water today. Damn that Emma for getting food poisoning the night before the wedding! This wasn’t even her account she slaved over. She had to cram hundreds hours of prepping and knowledge into a few hours. If she wasn’t so damn adamant about getting another promotion soon she would stop working so hard so her supervisor didn’t notice her. Diana wasn’t even working on an account; why not pick her to cover!? Elise had a charity fundraiser to plan for next weekend. Sometimes she cursed her work ethic and pleasing nature.

A quick trip to the cupboards and looking at her to do list on the fridge reminded her that was supposed to have gone grocery shopping, on Tuesday. Why was it she remembered to pick up all her animals’ food and forget that she too needed to eat? And why did she even bothering keeping a to do list if she forgot it existed, even though it was right there, on the fridge. Elise wanted to bang her head against the fridge, maybe food would magically appear. Perhaps the magical food fairy would take pity on her and fill her fridge for free. Yeah right. With a sigh of defeat she donned her sweater, shoes and purse, and left her cozy apartment for the convenience store.

It wasn’t a terribly far walk and it was still light out thankfully. She was still new to the area but people waved to her and said good evening. Did she know any of them? None of them were actually her neighbours, that she was sure of. Well, sometimes it felt good to be part of a community. Her stomach reminded her to quicken the pleasantries and finally she got inside the store, greeted with another friendly welcome. A quick of scan of the store revealed her target, the quick to go foods section. All good breeding was thrown out the window when she saw the fresh baked goods, well, as fresh as they could be after sitting there all day. Her stomach would not be denied! Without any hesitation she grabbed a muffin and started eating it, right there.

With a sigh, she decided this once she had to lower her standards for cuisine and eat one of those pre-packaged microwavable subs. Elise popped a pizza sub in the microwave and grabbed another muffin, since the previous one was devoured instantly. Hell, well she was at it she was going to grab some snacks. It was a snack kind of day. As she moved to the back she grabbed a bag of candy and some pretzels before grabbing a bottle of root beer in the back fridge. Elise nibbled on the muffin with a bit more dignity this time as she waited for her sub to finish.

♕ YOUR BRAIN GETS SMART BUT YOUR HEAD GETS DUMB ♕

Name/Nickname: Genni or Gen is good.
Timezone: EDT Toronto, UTC/GMT -5 hours
Contact: PM me and I will give you my skype.
Anything else?: Is this where da mangoes go?

[Stefan van Gent]

First off, I'm really excited to get a Luxembourg on board, since I've never really had the chance to properly RP with one, but there are a few things I want to say before I can accept your application.

First there is the amount of languages she can speak. I think this is highly unrealistic. I'll believe that she can speak Luxembourgish, German and French, since Luxembourg's education system is trilingual, and those are the official languages of the country. I would say those are her 'first languages' then, opposed to English. English is a pretty common language to learn, so I'll give her that as well.

Other than those though, I don't buy it. The reason 'her father is a translator' doesn't cut it for me. Translators usually don't focus on more than three languages, since to be a good translator, you don't only need to know the language, you need to learn a lot about the culture of the country as well. Besides that, you say she is 'fluent' in all those languages, which in itself is not likely. To become fluent in a language, you need to use it a lot and use it all the time. I don't know where she would find use for languages like Hungarian, Danish and Russian enough to become and stay fluent in them. As for the languages she is currently learning. Chinese languages are especially difficult to learn, and I can't see her learning two different dialects at the same time without mixing them up.

To quote a piece of an article I looked up about languages: "How many languages can you speak with near native fluency in and have an enormous vocabulary in? To date my experience has taught me that this number has everything to do with your lifestyle. If you have a life that not only gives you the opportunity but also necessitates that or greatly benefits from knowing thirteen languages well then you will probably speak thirteen languages well. If you have a very monolingual lifestyle then even maintaining one other language will most likely be quite difficult."

And this article is speaking of people who are older, and had more time to learn and perfect their skills at those languages. Especially for someone her age, she would not be speaking that many languages.

Secondly, I have a problem with the fact that she eats the food out of the store without paying for it. This is normally not acceptable behaviour. If she were caught eating the produce on the job (and in a busy store she most likely will be caught), she'd be fired on the spot. Employees are not supposed to eat while working, and definitely not from the products they are supposed to be selling. Then in your RP sample when she goes shopping she grabs a muffin and starts eating it right there? She's not even being sneaky about it, so an employee would definitely notice, and the resulting situation would not be pleasant for her.

Then, I don't see many references to Luxembourg's culture in your character apart from the languages. I'm not an expert on the country, so correct me if I'm wrong. But it'd be nice to see a bit more of that in your app.

And since you mentioned she owns a lot of animals, it'd be nice to have a list of what she owns and their names and things like that.

Sorry for rambling so much. I tend to judge OCs and characters about which not much is known a bit stricter, since people have to come up with everything by themselves instead of already having a set personality to work with. I'd be happy to read through your application again when you've fixed it. owo

[Elise Segher]

I edited it a little bit, took out some of the languages, added some points.

 Luxembourg lacks a distinct culture of their own, there's nothing much about the country that is overly unique. I mostly just used things about the country; fear of water since they're a low country, frugal because they're one of the richest countries, the wariness because Lux's allies took them over, etc. 

My rp sample is from another rp, that's her neighbourhood convenience store that she frequents and knows the person working there, so it wouldn't be a problem since she's paying for it. I can change it to something else if you like.

[Stefan van Gent]

That looks a bit better. And thank you for clearing up the confusion on the RP sample. I wouldn't say Luxembourg doesn't have a distinct culture of its own though. I've visited there a few times, and it's a wonderfully cultured country. What it lacks in modern artists, it makes up for in the beautiful nature. And while the people there are a bit reserved, they are generally very close with their families, and that's nice.

Anyway, I'm rambling again. Welcome to the store.