──────── Renée Estelle Rodriguez ────────
── age ( twenty ) × gender ( female ) × role ( female human one ) ──
B A S I C S
Nicknames ─ R, Ree, just Estelle
Sexuality ─ Heterosexual
Birthdate ─ April 11, 1997
Faceclaim ─ Zhenya Katava
Appearance ─ Renée is averaged sized at five foot six inches. While Renée's skin is naturally white and despite the internal conflict she does have about excessive ultraviolet exposure, she is very rigorous with her tanning and makes sure that her skin is a tawny, light bronze color all year long. For this, she often relies on tanning places since she finds the beaches too cold to be at most of the year. Her hair is naturally a dark brown color with some golden strands, but Renée likes to dye it ebony black since it contrasts more strongly her tanned skin. She sports the thick eyebrows that have so recently gone into fashion and a heart-shaped face. One of the most striking features about Renée are her eyes. A combination of greens and ambers, sometimes appearing blue if the light hits just right, they are the greatest source of compliment when speaking about physical appearances. Renée's body is definitely not perfect. While she is slim and does love her thick thighs, she does not really exercise enough to have extremely defined muscles. She also has a scar her abdomen from an accident with glass when she was a child.
Attire ─ Already being in the professional field, Renée knows that attire is key to the appearance that is made. Therefore, her clothing usually borders on the semi-casual or business casual with neutral-colored clothes. Very often, this involves pencil skirts, blouses, and blazers. Her favorite outfit, however, is composed of jeans, a t-shirt, a blazer, and some heels-- for her, the perfect combination between business and casual. If she does wear color, she usually opts out for pastels. 1 2
Accessories ─ Renée always wears earrings, even if they are just diamond studs, because she would feel naked otherwise. She also wears a small gold ring, sometimes in her fingers sometimes in a thin gold chain, that was given to her by her grandmother-- one of the few material things she would actually defend with her life and be devastated if she lost.
Personality ─ Renée attempts to always carry herself in a very professional manner. She the type of person that has learned how to execute the perfect firm-but-not-too-firm handshake, never breaks eye contact, and stands as straight as a pencil. At times, this kind of behavior may come out as intimidating for people that are not used to seeing it, but it helps Renée extensively in getting treated with respect since all of these things make her appear more confident.
By no means does this more mechanical body posture take away from the charisma and friendliness that Renée works so hard to maintain during interactions. Renée knows the value of charisma and it helps that she is naturally a fairly nice person. Therefore, she is always friendly towards everyone, not knowing when she will need their help in the future or who they will be. In this way, it could be considered that Renée always tries to act in ways that will benefit her in the future. And while Renée will not say it out loud for the sake of her image, it is true. The world is competitive and ready to step on anyone who tries to make their way to the top and if one isn't always looking out for their well-being and the future, they will find themselves in the last rung of the latter. And that is not what Renée intends her future to be.
With that said, Renée is a very persistent and constant person. If she wasn't, she wouldn't have been able to complete so many novels and gotten her first book published at an early age with great success. She never stopped writing, never stopped editing, and never stopped sending her stories in. Even now, with her being stuck on her next commissioned book, Renée writes every single day for at least an hour. This does, to an extent, make her a very competitive person when paired with her constant need to succeed and do well. It can often be a weakness because she becomes so focused on getting what she wants that she forgets about people that she cares about and other things in her life.
Adores ─ Writing, winning, education, blazers, literature (especially magical realism), tattoos (not on herself, but on other people-- when they're classy, of course)
Abhors ─ Lazy people, disorganization, loud people, the winter
Occupation─ English and Psychology double major student / Published author (novels)
Renée started writing at a very young age her passion fueled by the many books she read and the world around her. When she got to high school, her writing gained large popularity through the stories she published online. In order to keep nourishing In her senior year of high school, Renée decided to try to get one of her stories published. She was unsuccessful, but continued writing and came back with another novel two years later that one publicist liked and got published. Her book was received very well and she is now being pushed to write a second novel.
Housing ─ Renée lived in the university dorms for the first year. Although she is not a fan of very large spaces, she found it very difficult to coexist with a person and to have such little privacy so she rented a small apartment studio for herself with the help of her scholarships and parents.
Pets ─ None, but she does take her father's cat home some weeks.
Renée is the daughter of a Venezuelan father and a French woman. Her parents met when her mother was visiting South America and decided to stay in Venezuela. Renée was born in Caracas, Venezuela and lived there until she was four when her family moved to a suburb of New York, where her uncle from her mother's side lived. Renée grew up with a mix of three different cultures in her home: Venezuelan, French, and American, although the French culture had the smallest influence. Her love for reading, from which writing later stemmed from, was thanks to her mother who had always read and bought books for her. Renée lived a pretty normal life as a middle-class suburban child. She went to a public school and excelled in her grades, played the violin in the school orchestra from sixth to twelveth grade, and participating in track.
Renée was able to grow up in a home that always supported her writing, but that eventually fell apart. When she was thirteen, an important time in the emotional development of a teenager, her parents' relationships fell by the seams at last and they went through a rather unpleasant divorce. While her love for her parents remained strong, she also gained a new perspective of love. It wasn't perfect, and it always wasn't meant to be. This time in her life also pulled her closer to books and her writing since they were the only way she could escape her problems. This time in her life was what pulled her into writing since it was a medium through which she could express her emotions.
B A E F I L E S
Love Life ─ Renée suffers from infatuation, but any long-term feelings really haven't developed with anyone yet since she always loses true interest after a few days and doesn't feel like it is worth her time working for a relationship. Her publicist hopes that her new novel explores the theme of love in a more positive light, to an extent at least, so he convinced Renée that eBAE could be a pretty good start.
Perfect Date ─ The beach at night with some good food, nice background music, and long conversations.
Three Adjectives for the Perfect Partner─ Intellectual, thoughtful, attractive (yes, Renée knows that looks are superficial, but a girl still wants something nice to look at)
What her friends and family would think ─ Her family would be pretty surprised considering that they have never seen Renée take a strong interest in seeking out and actual partner. Plus, the people at eBAE are not real, right? They would probably disapprove if she explained the reason why she is going, actually, since not even books are meant to have perfect people. Her friends, in all honesty, would probably laugh since it's something they would do. They would be pretty disappointed if she told them it was for her book because it wasn't for "love".