Bryony

Personal Info

Character Name: Bryony
Nicknames: Bry
Birth Date: 13.06.1983
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Residence: Newcastle,
With who: Francesca
Height: 5ft 5
Weight: 9st 10lbs
Clothing Sizes / Styles: Casual, jeans and t-shirts. Likes to wear cropped pants and shirts too.
Hair Colour: Red
Hair Length: just past shoulder length, straight.
Eye Colour: Brown/green
Handedness : Right
Jewellery: Doesn't tend to wear jewellery.
Tattoos: Live. Laugh. Love - has this tattooed on her forearm.
General Appearance: Casual but well kempt. Doesn't wear make-up.

Personality

Phobias / Fears: Not scared of anything.
Bad Habits / Vices: Likes to have the odd cigarette
Quirks: Gets really emotional at films.
Best Qualities: Fun and exciting, spontaneous.
Worst Qualities: Likes to lie in bed too often. Can be a bit lazy.
Key Childhood Experiences: Strong realisation that she is different to other children. Realises what it is when her friends start getting boyfriends.
Key Teenage Experiences: Has several long relationships with women as a teenager.
Key Adult Experiences: Relationship with Francesca.
Sexual Background: Likes women.
Favourites:
Colour: Red
Music: Soft rock/pop
Food: Indian food - spicy
Literature: Tolkien
Expressions:
Book: LOTR
Quote: Live. Laugh. Love
Expletive(s) (swears):Does swear when she's had a drink but just small cuss words.
Mode of transportation: Learning to drive
Personal Goals: To have fun and enjoy life.
Professional Goals: To work hard and help someone.
Morality / Ethics: Strong morals, won't back down on issues that mean a lot to her.
Style of Speech: Strong Scottish accent.
Commonly Used Words:
Lies / Misinformation: Doesn't believe in lying; only white lies.
Smoke:Smokes occasionally when drinking
Drink:Likes to have a drink. Beer or spirits. Sometimes Alco pops depending on where and who she's with. Also likes the occasional glass of wine.
Drive: Learning to drive.
Daredevil/cautious: More of a daredevil; spontaneous.
Darkest Secret: Doesn't believe in harbouring secrets.
Soft spot: Soft spot for Francesca when she's tired/upset.
Biggest vulnerability:
Indulge in a sin: Sloth. Likes to laze around, easily distracted. Has good intentions but then gets waylaid.
Optimist or pessimist? Optimist
Introvert or extrovert? Extrovert
Drives and motivations? Motivated to have fun and enjoy life to the maximum.
Extremely skilled at: Good at talking to and working with children and engaging them in activities. Good cook.
Extremely unskilled at: Bad at gardening and DIY; doesn't like either.
Good characteristics: Warm and compassionate. Makes everyone feel welcome and involved. Able to talk to anyone.
Character flaws: Really directive. Can believe her ideas are the only that are right.
Self-perception: Happy with self in terms of personality and body image. Wouldn't be happy if she didn't stick to her morals. Sometimes gets a bit down when thinking about college and how she dropped out.
How character react in a crisis: Calm and level headed. Able to take charge of a situation. Directive.

Relationships

Relationship with Family: Strong relationship with family although doesn't see them very often because they all still live in Edinburgh.
Key Family / Relatives: Mother (Janice), Father (Ted) and Sister (Claire). Also quite close with Aunty (Marie) and cousins of the same age (Billy & Jenny)
Relationship with Friends: Has a lot of friends. Makes friends easily and enjoys spending time in the company of others rather than herself.
Key Friends: Nathan: knew him from school. Lived close and hung around after school. Emilia: best friend from school. Nancy, Lucy and Nick she knows from work and goes out with them a lot.
Relationship: In a happy and stable relationship with Francesca.
Key Enemies: Doesn't really have enemies but not scared to make them.
Children: None but would love them.

Job/Skills

Occupation: Works as a Civil Servant.
Like it: She thinks it's alright, not her ideal job but brining the money in. And likes the people she works with.
Dream job: Working with children; would love to be a nursery nurse. Or a paramedic. Good in an emergency. Keeps a straight head.
Educational History: Did well at school, achieved. Went to college to study to be a nursery nurse but dropped out because she was failing; going out too much. Fell back on civil servant job but would love to go back to college.
Work History: Worked as a Civil Servant six years. Before that worked in a few bars in local town.

Other

Other Important Details: Bryony met Francesca while on a night out with work colleagues. They met and began talking and it moved on from there. Instant attraction. Work really well as a couple, respectful and open.