Devising 3

Aislinn

Aislinn is my chosen person who I will be developing. I've known Aislinn ever since we were young which is probably why I have stuck with her so long. Aislinn's sense of humour is quite dark, she will always be the first to have a witty, sarcastic quip in a conversation, which can be funny unless you're on the receiving end of it. I think this is a defense mechanism, she doesn't like people getting too close to her. She likes to have a tiny, select group of people who she trusts implicitly, and often if she lets you get to know her then you will be surprised by how caring and devoted she is. She likes to surprise people, she definitely does have a mysterious, exotic quality about her. 

Maybe it's her intellect - she's read more books than anyone you'll meet and her vocabulary rivals that of Shakespeare, coming in very handy for her quick jokes - or the fact that she doesn't let much on, you always wonder what she's hiding behind the emotional walls. She's serious and sarcastic. Her replies to any attempt at small talk will vary from a somehow emotive yet completely uninterested shrug to a remark which will send anyone looking for an argument running with their tails between their legs. However, once you get in behind those walls you'll find someone completely different.She will sit for hours laughing hysterically with her best friend about the silliest things if she thinks no one else is watching. She will lie for hours comforting her younger sister if she's upset.

Aislinn sleeps around. There's no real way to sugar coat it. I think it's because she craves love and intimacy, she wants to be taken care of and adored. However the disintegration of her parent's marriage and some unknown event in her life have taught her the ways of the world. According to Aislinn, she can only trust herself not to let her down. With everyone else she doesn't know, they may start out with the best intentions but eventually they will screw her over. Boy adore her, her lack of attainability makes her exotic in their eyes, I imagine, however she brushes off any hint of romance as them being merely infatuated. She maintains that they will soon lose interest and leave her, however I think that this is actually her own fears of being hurt.

Aislinn is empowered though. She is a feminist and fiercely so, she will jump at the chance to get into a debate on the matter and gets irritated by girls who allow boys to walk all over them or spend their lives trying to impress boys. She is sexy in her own way, in her assured knowledge of her own sexiness I imagine, but she'd never let herself be sexy in the sense of showing a boy her sexiness. 

In large groups she often feels uncomfortable and unwanted, assuming that the majority of the people there have a problem with her - often that is correct -  however if this makes her feel down then she doesn't show it. She'll often go and sit in the corner, either reading a book or taking charge of the music playing. She will not put herself out there, people will go to her, however she doesn't think herself above anyone in the room. She considers herself, and in a sense she is, an outsider to teenage social groups. Not above or below anyone, simply detached.