Character Sketch - Juliet

Name:                        Juliet Chapel Nolan

Age:                        25

Location:                        Midwest, New Orleans and various others

Race:                        Caucasian

Family history:          Raised by mother who waitressed and read tarot cards.  Mother liked to move around a lot, and drank regularly.  Juliet was not abused, but was left to her own devices for long periods of time.  Unstable home life. Lived in Slab City, and moved around through other states.  Also stayed with aunt in New Orleans.  Mother taught her to pick-pocket and used her as a side-show for tarot reading and scams.

Career Aspirations:    Communications  (possibly DJ)

Features:                          Average pretty, slight build, physically healthy, crooked bottom teeth

Appearance:            Serious/frowns a lot, dark hair and gray eyes, can change her appearance with different hairstyles, and wigs.

Likes:                          Her freedom

Dislikes:                          Drugs, cruelty to animals and people, sushi

Physical Condition:    young and healthy with potential eating disorder

Ailments:                          plagued by anxiety, low-self esteem, bites her nails, occasional asthma

Education:                          Dropped out third year of college

Socio-economic:          lower middle class

Parents:                    Mother:  Delphina

Siblings:                    None that she is aware of

Ambition:                    finish school, go into communications, run a marathon

Hobbies:                    tarot cards, acoustic guitar

Intelligence:          slightly above average, street smart, capable of challenges

Emotional:                          Has taken a lot of knocks but remains strong, but has its limits before anxiety crushes her

Flaws:                          Despairs when extreme life changes push her down, forgets to eat, may sulk or run from her issues.

Other traits:          Careful, but searches for quick solutions.

Pivotal Events:          Has misdemeanor/felony – accused of crime, Escaping past.  Is still married to Keno (Kevin Nolan) who dragged Juliet downhill with him.

Favorite Foods:          Chopped salad, gumbo, fig bars, mama’s macaroni & cheese, Hershey’s chocolate kisses.

Favorite music:          Peter Gabriel, particularly Red Rain, and Solsbury Hill

Reading material:          Jane Eyre, and daily newspaper

Religion:                    non-specific.  Mom was a tarot reader.

Personality:          guarded, but open to new ideas

Habits:                    Tidy – always ready to leave on a moments notice.

Favorite things:          Carnivals, flea markets, incense

Comfort/opposite sex:          bad experience – currently cautious

Takes pride in:          multi-tasking and yoga

Things that bother her:inability to find permanence

Makes her laugh:          corny jokes, ferris wheels, roller coasters

Speech patterns:          Midwest accent, lapses into slang when comfortable with friends, family, and curses with the best of them.


Character Synopsis

Juliet is 5’4” and weighs 105 pounds.  Average pretty without makeup, but can alter her appearance and put on the glam when necessary.  Naturally dark hair and slate gray eyes.  Slim body, but practices yoga for endurance and strength.  Knows what it’s like to be poor, but how to sustain on stealing.  Good at reading people, but gets carried away by her emotions and lands in predicaments that sometimes are illegal or dangerous.  Looking to turn her adult life around and become an honest and productive citizen.