Theme Song: "Gucci Bag" by Reema Major
Jane Catherine Lynch
{ Age }
17
{ Gender }
Female
{ Sexuality }
Heterosexual, although she has hooked up with girls when drunk
{ Date/Place of Birth }
April 21st, 1998/New York, NY
{ Nationality }
American
{ Label }
The Trust Fund Baby
Jane was born as the third child to Steven Lynch, the owner of an international chain of hotels, and the first child to Kate Billford, his then 20-year-old assistant. Steven had a ten-year-old son, Barron, and an eight-year-old daughter, London, at the time, from his current wife, retired supermodel Laura Train. Jane's mother and father were not married and Jane was actually no longer working for him when she found out that she was pregnant with his child. Although having affairs wasn't an unusual occurrence in the social circle that Steven and Laura belonged in, the idea of impregnating a woman eighteen years younger than him while married was scandalous. In order to avoid the embarrassment of such a thing leaking out to their acquaintances, Laura "went into hiding", so to speak. She spent six months in France with Barron and London and as far as everyone else knew, she was pregnant but wanted to have the child in France, close to where her parents lived. After Kate had Jane, she willingly gave Steven full custody, being just a college student and not wanting her devout Christian family to know that she had had premarital sex.
Although their elaborate plan worked well enough at first to maintain the idea that Jane was really Laura's daughter, Laura immediately divorced Steven after the ordeal. She moved out with Barron and London, leaving Jane with her father, and more primarily, an au pair. Her half-siblings would visit every weekend but when Jane was six, her older sister started to lash out at her. She blamed Jane for ruining her family and claimed that Laura wasn't her real mother. Being a curious child, Jane inquired about it with her father and after a few therapy sessions, it was revealed to her that yes, she did have a different mother than her siblings. Although this seems revolutionary, Jane rarely interacted with Laura anyway and was okay with just using Laura as her "social mom", where she would tell her friends that Laura was her mom although she really knew that she wasn't.
Jane's family life was fairly turbulent. Although she was assured that she was not the reason for why Steven and Laura divorced, it was always obvious that it was the reason. She never developed a close emotional relationship with her father and spent most of her time with an au pair. Her father was rarely home and instead expressed his love through gifts. Jane would wake up in the morning and instead of being greeted by her father, she would find a new Tiffany bracelet or necklace. It sounds great and Jane would never complain about the gifts, but she did want to hang out with her father more.
A few weeks after she turned fifteen, she found out via text that her father had impulsively married a twenty-two year old actress, Nicole, who he had been dating for a few months during their trip to Italy. Jane was shocked, to say the least, that her father would marry someone who was even younger than one of his own daughters. Nicole really was nice at first and wanted to get involved with Jane's life, but she wanted nothing to do with her. She was already comfortable with having no authoritative parents in her life and wasn't about to open up to some girl who was old enough to be her sister. After a few screaming matches with between the two, Nicole mostly gave up on trying to befriend Jane and started to use her father against her. She would encourage Steven to take away her credit card, cell phone, and all of the items that were considered to be "privileges". Wanting to appease his beautiful wife, Steven did so. However, it only caused Jane to become more rebellious and develop an even shakier relationship with her father and Nicole.
Although Jane has never met her biological mother, Kate began to suffer from depression after giving up Jane and became a severe alcoholic. She dropped out of college a year after giving birth and moved back home to Connecticut. A few months later on a particularly cold December night, she became extremely drunk and on her way walking home from a bar, she passed out and ended up freezing to death over night. Alcoholism and depression runs in her mother's side of the family. Jane shows no signs of depression and although she is no where close to being an alcoholic, she does tend to binge drink on the weekends when she's with her friends. While she is not clinically depressed, she has been battling EDNOS for four years. If she did not still regularly get her period, she would be considered anorexic.
She was diagnosed four years ago but refused to go to therapy after receiving the diagnosis. Her father dubbed it as being just a phase and virtually ignored her ever present eating disorder. When he married Nicole, she encouraged him to force her to return to therapy, which she eventually did. She was actually doing very well and was considered to be 'in recovery' until last May when she relapsed. It got to a point where she was barely eating more than two hundred calories some days and against her will, Jane was forced into an eating disorder treatment center this past July. She has never been open about her ED with her friends and claimed to them that she was spending the summer with her ex-nanny in California.
{ High School Career }
Jane played on the tennis team during her freshman and sophomore years but disliked having to follow the team's schedule and didn't join the team again. She has become more wild since starting high school, but this is most closely related to her father getting remarried rather than anything going on at school. Jane has always struggled to maintain a decent GPA in school and tends to focus more on her social life than her educational career,
Adventurous, flirtatious, creative, energetic, bold, loyal, fun, fashionable
{ Bad personality traits }
Dramatic, emotional, impulsive, materialistic, reckless, shallow, sensitive, catty
{ Personality }
Jane comes from wealth and isn't afraid to flaunt it. She has the image of people your typical trust fund baby- the girl who has never had to work a day in her life and will never have to. She has daddy funding her credit card with a seemingly unlimited pile of money at the other end, and never hesitates to splurge on a new pair of Chanel boots that she just has to have. A lot of her friends also come from money, but few of their parents are worth the 3.8 billion dollars that her father is valued at. Although she is obsessed with having the newest and nicest everything, shopping has become more than just getting new things for Jane. It's therapeutic for her, a way to distract herself from any problems or stress going on in her life.
She can be shallow, often judging people based on their appearance and the little information that she's heard about them through gossip. While she probably would talk about them behind their back, she wouldn't normally bully or taunt anyone to their face based off of their appearance. She claims that it's okay to be a bitch, but not to be mean. Although she doesn't mind adding to the rumors circulating about other people, she does become very emotional when ones start spreading about her. She's sensitive to criticism and is usually the girl who ends up hysterically crying about a problems from months ago after a night of drinking. Her biggest insecurity is her weight. She has been diagnosed with an eating disorder and although she recognizes that she's statistically underweight, it doesn't change the way that she feels about her body.
As a child, Jane developed an obsession with Veruca Salt, a fictional character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Although she knew that the way the girl acted wasn't pleasant or admirable, she envied that she was able to get whatever she wanted, like Jane did, but also had her father and her beck and call, which Jane didn't. In some ways, Jane mirrored Veruca's demanding and insolent ways and even now that she's no longer bratty in that way, she still expects to get her way in most situations and will never hesitate to complain if something isn't up to par.
Despite the flaws, Jane is loyal to her friends. She's affectionate, reliable and warm, but her impulsive and absentmindedness can sometimes get the best of her. When she's in a moment of gossiping and isn't thinking thoroughly, she's known to accidentally air her friend's secrets to other people, but now that there's a new Gossip Girl, she's working on keeping her mouth shut more.
In almost every area of her life, it's clear that Jane is impulsive. Whether it's buying thousands of dollars worth of clothes in one day or drinking herself into a blackout state, it's hard for her to control herself when she's in the mood to indulge in something. She can be reckless and make stupid choices, but her friends can all agree that she's always a fun person to have around. She's spontaneous, bold and energetic, always being up for a night out or an adventure.
{ Greatest joys in life }
Shopping, yoga, getting drunk, traveling
{ Greatest fears }
Gaining weight, Being raped, needles, becoming paralyzed, heights, getting trapped in a fire, date rape drugs, big dogs, birds
{ Life philosophy }
Jane supports living in the moment and doing things that make her happy in the present, regardless of the long term consequences. In terms of religion, she's Catholic and although she doesn't really care about religion and knows little about Christianity, she has recently started to go to church every weekend. She used to only go on Christmas and Easter since her father saw it as more of a social obligation than anything actually spiritual, but Nicole insists that they go every weekend and Jane is usually too hungover on Sunday mornings to argue.
"Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever."
❤Diet soda: "Regular soda is filled with empty calories."
❤Alcohol: "Beer before liquor, never been sicker. Liquor before beer, you're in the clear. I don't really have to worry about that since the only time I'd ever drink beer is if I'm already too wasted to notice how it tastes. Besides beer, I'm not too picky about what I'm drinking as long as it'll get me drunk. "
❤Autumn: "It makes the most perfect weather! Not too humid where my hair looks gross but not cold enough to make my hands numb."
❤Rap Music: "Yeah, I know I'm white."
❤Traveling: "I want to go somewhere fun this spring break!"
❤Yoga: "So peaceful."
❤Social Media: "It's not tacky to post more than one picture on Instagram every day if you look pretty in all of them."
✘Getting sick: "I know this is like an obvious dislike but I can't stand having to get shots or take medicine. Like I'd rather die a slow and painful death from a cough than to take cough syrup and fix it. I don't even take Advil for headaches."
✘Bugs and rodents: "Like, no. I can't even."
✘Birds: "One time I was at the beach in Florida and I was just eating chips and minding my own business and I'm telling you, a seagull literally attacked me. I hate going into midtown because there are gross pigeons everywhere."
✘Tea: "I wish I liked the way it tastes because green tea is supposed to help you lose weight. I can't even drink iced tea."
✘Her stepmom: "Total bitch. Like, literally."
✘Horror Movies: "I watched The Ring when I was younger and it was so scary."
✘Public transportation: "You could probably catch AIDS on the subways in New York. Some of them are really grimy."
✘Peanuts: "I'm not allergic to them or anything but I still don't like them, even if they are hidden in chocolate."
- Steven Lynch: Steven is Jane's biological father and sole guardian. Jane and her father have never been extremely close but for most of her life, they had a civil and respectful relationship. He would buy her whatever she wanted to keep her happy and in return, she would act like the perfect daughter at any parties or events that he brought her to. However, when Steven unexpectedly married Nicole, their relationship became rocky. Jane felt like her father was replacing her with his new wife and when Jane started to show defiance and animosity towards Nicole, her father took Nicole's side.
Nicole Peer: Nicole has been Jane's stepmother for two years. Although Nicole wants to have a close relationship with Jane, Jane refuses to acknowledge her as anything more than an enemy and their relationship has been extremely rocky since the beginning. - Kate Billford: Although Jane knows that Laura Train isn't her biological mother, she never asked many questions about her real mother and doesn't know more than that she was her father's old assistant. She has no idea that she died years ago and right now, has no interest in learning more about the woman.
- Laura Train: Laura is thought to be Jane's biological mother by everyone outside of their family. People simply think that she accepted full custody of Barron and London while giving full custody of Jane to Steven during their divorce agreement. Because Jane played a major role in ruining their marriage, Laura never acknowledged her as anything close to a daughter and she really has no relationship with the woman.
- Jessica "Nina" Rosario: Nina was Jane's nanny and served as her primary caregiver from the time that she was born to when she was fifteen. She was the closest thing to a mother, and even a parent, that Jane ever had. As a child, when Jane would call her mom, Jessica would correct her by enforcing that she was her "niñera", or babysitter in Spanish. Jane would incorrectly imitate this as "Nina" and that's what she ended up calling her. After her father married Nicole, Nicole encouraged Steven to fire Nina because she was no longer necessary since Nicole would be there to help out. Steven did so, and although Jane really was old enough to care for herself, she was still heartbroken. With the hefty 'thank you' final paycheck that Steven gave her, Nina moved to Los Angeles where much of her family lived and Jane has visited her there a few times since.
{ Siblings }
- Barron Lynch: Barron is ten years older than Jane so as kids, they never had much in common. However, he's become a cool older brother and is Jane's best resource for getting alcohol.
- London Lynch: Growing up, London despised Jane for "ruining her family", but once she grew out of that stage, they became closer. Since Jane has never lived with her or Barron, they're more like friends than sisters and usually hang out by going out to lunch or on a shopping spree. Most recently, they've found common ground over their hatred of their dad's wife, Nicole.
At 5'10 and 120 lbs, Jane is considerably thin and underweight. She has long, slender legs and although her body is something that girls envy her for, she is insecure about her body and often feels like her stomach is too big and her 34B sized breasts are too small.
{ Hair Colour }
Brown
{ Eye Colour }
Brown
{ Distinguishable Markings }
- Three ear piercings
- No permanent tattoos but she likes getting henna tattoos in the summer
{ Personal Style }
Jane has a versatile wardrobe but the one thing that all of her clothes have in common is that they're expensive. She rarely wears sweatpants or sweatshirts and prefers skinny jeans or leggings that highlight her long legs. Most she'll wear simple outfits like jeans and a simple tank top or leggings and a cardigan. Jane is a huge shoe addict and even though she spends thousands of dollars on clothes every month, she also spends a lot on shoes and currently owns over two hundred pairs of them. Her hair is naturally straight and she normally wears it down or in a high ponytail. She does need glasses and will sometimes wear them to school, but usually prefers to wear contacts.