[ … ] ❀ you’re not from around here , are you? i figured because you totally just missed { CELINE ANH DONNELLY } walking by. don’t tell me you don’t know who { SHE } is ? they kind of look like { MAGGIE Q } and i could be wrong but i think that they might be { 45 } years old right now. they’ve been living in palmview for the last { 8 YEARS }. and i don’t know if anyone has ever told them this before but they kind of remind me of { TBA } from { TBA }. if you stick around the town long enough you might catch them in action working at { SEAGLASS HOSPITAL } as a { HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR }. you see this town isn’t really that big of a place, some folks like to call them the { THE JADED FLAME } of palmview! they took a liking to the name too after a while, go figure. oh crap, they must have heard me yapping. they’re coming this way. i got to warn you though, rumor has it they can pretty { GUARDED } at times. i wouldn’t take it too seriously though, from the times i’ve spoken to them they seemed pretty { RESILIENT } to me. we see each other all the time since they live in that { 3 BEDROOM } apartment beside me over in { OCEAN’S LANDING }. i better leave you to it. it was nice meeting you! { KRYS. 32. SHE/HER. EST. }
name: celine anh donnelly (formerly waller) nickname(s): cel, cece, lina, b (only by jack) age: forty5 birthday: 12 august 1979 gender/pronouns: cis woman + she/her sexuality: undefined occupation: hospital administrator at seaglass hospital residence: ocean's edge ( 420 ocean dr ) time in palmview: 8 years
celine was born to a vietnamese immigrant mother and an irish american father. she grew up in los angeles and always had a flare for the dramatic. she grew up with three brothers and very quickly learned how to stand up for herself. she moved to new york to pursue a dream of acting on broadway and it was in the city that she met jack wallen. the two had an unusual courting and romance but soon found themselves pregnant and quickly married. celine retired from acting and focused on getting more steady work so as to better provide for their daughter. jack found a job at the local university and moved them to palmview, florida. they built a lovely life together or so celine thought. a little over a year ago, jack came out to her and the two divorced. it was a painful, but necessary process. the two still co-parent their daughter together, sharing custody. now, at forty five, celine is left wondering what comes next.
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[ … ] ❀ you’re not from around here , are you? i figured because you totally just missed { SIGNE HOLSTRÖM } walking by. don’t tell me you don’t know who { SHE } is ? they kind of look like { HAVANA ROSE LIU } and i could be wrong but i think that they might be { 24 } years old right now. they’ve been living in palmview for the last { 10 }. and i don’t know if anyone has ever told them this before but they kind of remind me of { SPENCER HASTINGS } from { PRETTY LITTLE LIARS }. if you stick around the town long enough you might catch them in action working at { PALMVIEW FASHION HOUSE } as a { STYLIST }. you see this town isn’t really that big of a place, some folks like to call them the { THE MIRAGE } of palmview! they took a liking to the name too after a while, go figure. oh crap, they must have heard me yapping. they’re coming this way. i got to warn you though, rumor has it they can pretty { AVOIDANT } at times. i wouldn’t take it too seriously though, from the times i’ve spoken to them they seemed pretty { AMBITIOUS } to me. we see each other all the time since they live in that { 2 BEDROOM } apartment beside me over in { MANGO BAY LOFTS }. i better leave you to it. it was nice meeting you! { KRYS. 32. SHE/HER. EST. }
name: signe holmström [ pronounced sing-neh ] nickname(s): tba. age: twenty4 birthday: 06 october 2000 gender/pronouns: cis woman + she/her sexuality: pansexual occupation: stylist at palmview fashion house residence: mango bay lofts #4B time in palmview: ten years
signe is the only child of søren and sigrid holmström, a warmhearted doctor and reserved art history professor, respectively. she was born in malmö, sweden, but has been living in palmview for the last ten years ( since she was fourteen ). she is a soft-spoken perfectionist with a deep love for fashion and a dream of one day becoming a designer. while she's always surrounded by an abundance of love, she tends to have doubts about whether or not she actually deserves to be where she is. she strives to be the ideal daughter, not because of any expectations her parents have placed on her, but simply because she understands how much they've sacrificed for her and she wants those sacrifices to have been worth it. she's just moved out of her parents home and is figuring out what it means to be on her own.
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🧵 childhood best friend - someone who has known signe since she arrived in palmview and has been by her side ever since 🧵 professional rivals 🧵 neighbors 🧵 roommate 🧵 former crushes/flings/exes 🧵 current crushes 🧵 college friends 🧵 work friends/coworkers 🧵 muse - a close friend (or rival!) who pushes signe to be bolder, weirder, and more herself creatively. 🧵 the mirror - someone who is also dealing with a legacy they're trying to live up to. they see a lot of similarities in each other and bond because of that. 🧵 the mentor - a senior person in fashion who takes signe under their wing
“…Then I’ll stretch, maybe sketch, take a climb… sew a dress!”
Her wide eyes softened with recognition and she gave him a look, that Pappa look, the one that carried equal parts exasperation and affection. It was corny, but Signe might have been the tiniest bit homesick. Or, as homesick as one could get just living across town. Still, she’d gladly jumped at the idea of spending a few hours with her dad and explore her new neighborhood in the meantime. She nudged him back with her elbow. “Pappa,” she sighed, dramatically. “You can’t sneak up on people like that. You’re too tall, it’s unethical.” The painting in front of her still tugged at something within her – something about the use of color that made her wonder if she could dye fabrics to catch the light in that way. Sometimes she envied the way artists could make anything they envisioned into a reality, while she had to work around the restrictions of fabric, stitching and technique. Still, it was those constraints that made Signe’s eyes light up with a challenge. God, she shouldn’t have left her sketchbook at home. She shook the thought off and offered her father an exaggerated huff. “I was thinking… maybe even being inspired! And now, you’ve chased my muse away!” Her father dwarfed her, being almost an entire foot taller than her 5’6 and she leaned into the familiar safety of his presence. “For your crimes, you’re going to have to pay for fika.”
it felt strange that life was meant to just continue after signe had left. it felt as though a hole had been blown in the side of their emerald point home, and søren had tried to brick up the cavern only to watch it fall again, and again, and again. he wondered if sigrid felt the same, that they were missing some sort of vital organ now that he couldn't hear the distant closing of doors down the hallway and no longer noticed snacks being smuggled from the kitchen cupboards. it was one of his days off, and once they had worked through a flurry of dad jokes him and signe had decided to meet up for a few hours. a cup of coffee, some light window - shopping, and maybe a few treats from his own back pocket. søren parked a good distance away and walked to the art district, soaking up the sunshine that was still a novelty after ten years. sweden had been beautiful, but he couldn't honestly say they had much of a summer back home. 6'4" and with hair the colour of wood ash, he wasn't the easiest person to ignore. søren approached his daughter without the intention of sneaking up on her, but once he was a few steps away and still unnoticed he decided to reach into the fatherhood handbook. the doctor hovered beside signe until she saw him, nudged her with the point of his elbow and chuckled, “i don't know, are you ? ”
Signe had come up behind her mother, recognizing the woman was in the middle of a painting session and waited to be acknowledged. When her mother spoke, Signe chuckled. “You say rusty as if that’s not one of the most stunning paintings I’ve ever seen,” she teased, tilting her head to observe the landscape that she had been working on. “It’s really good, Mamma.” And it was good to see her mother allowing herself the small pleasures of being creative. While Sigrid Holmström was extremely analytical, she was also an intensely creative soul and Signe had credited her mother more than once for her own artistic streak.
who: sigrid & open @palmviewstarters where: the painting station
when sigrid had heard that there would be a painting station , she'd been very excited. it wasn't that often that she brought out her paints these days but it was a freeing activity that always helped calm her busy mind. she'd been sitting in front of her canvas for little over an hour and the landscape she'd been creating had slowly been taking shape. "this was such a nice event ," sigrid said. "i feel a little rusty , but it's getting somewhere."
Ophelia's lips lifted into an understanding smile. There was a familiar look in the girl's eyes -- one that she would recognize from a million miles away. That quiet kind of ache that came from longing for something you used to love. She remembered when she'd first arrived in Palmview and how she's been unable to even look at her guitar for months. "Don't worry about it," she said gently, waving off the apology. "Yeah, I sing. Write too. Mostly sad girl stuff," she added with a laugh. "And trust me, I get it. Moving can throw everything off. I was the same when I first moved here." Lia paused for a beat, tilting her head as she studied the girl. "But you're still writing. That's good! Sometimes just showing up to the page is enough." She bit her lip, hesitating before deciding to add, “What kind of music do you write?”
blair hadn't really done much singing in sometime now. she'd kind of forgotten about it. moving here in the first place had been keeping her busy enough as well as her job, trying to get used to things around here and managing some other tasks. it had seemed like she almost barely had the time in her schedule to do any of this. the blonde glanced down at the guitar ... a simple reminder of her past and what it probably would've been like if she got back into it and started it up again. " sorry... didn't mean to stare. " not realizing that she had been daydreaming for a second before looking up at the other. " you're a singer? " she automatically assumed from seeing the guitar. " i was one for a little while.. or should i say starting to be one. kind of stopped for a bit when i moved here not long ago. i have been writing a bit but nothing that i feel good about putting out yet. " she just realized that she had been rambling to someone she hadn't even met until now. " and i'm rambling ─ sorry it's become a bit of a habit of mine. "
Celine's expression shifted, barely concealing her amusement. Her eyes glanced down at the basket in his hand with several well-worn books. "Books," she noted, a hint of approval slipping into her voice. "I'm surprised you managed to find that many in a shop like this." His sudden lava lamp factoid made her blink once and then let out a laugh, slightly incredulous. "Astro lamps, huh?" she echoed, folding her arms. "That kind of sounds like the name of a failed disco band from the seventies. I kinda love that." She leaned against one of the nearby display tables and tilted her head at the boy. "Are you always full of obscure trivia, or is today just my lucky day?" she asked.
Henry looked up as he heard the woman speak, wondering if she was actually conversing with him or just thin air. And then she turned to him, causing his cheeks to color up a little bit as her eyes unexpectedly met his. “Well--” Before he really had time to voice his opinion on the sunglasses, she was asking him another question. A faint smile touched his lips as she spoke, though his nose wrinkled just slightly at the idea of couches with suspicious stains. “Well, none of those,” he admitted, and held up the basket that was dangling from one hand, which was full of books. Mostly paperbacks, a few hardcover, many with yellowing pages. He glanced around the store before his eyes turned back to her. “Did you know lava lamps were originally called Astro Lamps and originated in the UK?”
⇢ 🌸 STATUS ﹕ closed. ⇢ 🌸 TAGGING ﹕signe + @amadoures !! ( mila ) ⇢ 🌸 DETAILS. ﹕ signe is out shopping at retro roots when she takes note of an exquisitely dressed stranger and can't help herself.
Signe wasn't in the habit of approaching strangers -- especially not ones that looked like they belonged on a magazine cover. She'd been cataloguing their outfit passively when the stitching of the stranger's jacket caught her eye. The cut of the garment overall was just insanely cool. Clean stitching, interesting shape and movement. The other girl just looked well put together from head-to-toe. She cleared her throat slightly, voice soft as she stepped closer to the other. "Sorry to bother you, but I have to know...where did you get your jacket from?" Signe offered the stranger a sheepish smile. "I design stuff, and your jacket is just wicked." After a beat, she tugged at the hem of her oversized cardigan. "I promise that wasn't meant to be weird. You just have really great taste."
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