Full Name:
Victoria Taylor Walsh
Nickname:
Tori
Birthday:
September 27th
Age:
17
Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual
Grade Level:
12
Hometown:
New York, NY
Character Role:
The Gossiper
Victoria Taylor Walsh
Nickname:
Tori
Birthday:
September 27th
Age:
17
Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual
Grade Level:
12
Hometown:
New York, NY
Character Role:
The Gossiper
Personal Life
Family:
Tori's parents are Peter and Veronica Walsh, but Veronica has been deceased for nearly thirteen years. Peter is the CEO of an investment firm and while he is a nice guy, has devoted to his life to work, following his wife's sudden and tragic death. He is barely involved in Tori's life and feels immensely guilty for doing so, but has too much unresolved guilt and pain from his wife's death to allow them to be a functioning family again without her. Along with her father, her other immediate family member is her older sister, Lillian. She's five years Victoria's senior and is currently enrolled in University of Michigan's medical school.
Home Life:
Peter and Veronica Walsh met while attending Yale University and married a year out of school. They were some of the few people lucky enough to say that they were truly in love. Peter became the CEO of his late father's investment firm and Veronica held a high ranking position at Scholastic Publishing. After three years of the "honeymoon period", they conceived a baby girl: Lillian Joy Walsh. Five years later came their second and last daughter, though they didn't think she would be the last at the time. She was named Victoria Taylor Walsh with her first name honoring her maternal grandmother and her middle honoring her paternal grandfather.
When Victoria was just a toddler, her mother was killed in the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. She didn't work in the building and was only there, stopping by to meet a friend who she planned on going out to breakfast with that morning. Being so young, Victoria has very few memories of her mother and since she doesn't remember what it was like having a mom, it's hard for her to miss this person who she cannot remember. That's not to say that Tori didn't grow up longing to have her mother by her side, because she certainly did. Her father never remarried and in an attempt to avoid grieving, engulfed himself in his business. Tori and her sister were left mainly in the care of nannies, and while they were as sweet as possible, they didn't come close to having loving parents. The five year age gap between Lilly and Tori separated them once Tori was in middle school, and like her father, Victoria became accustomed to seeing very little of her social butterfly of a sister.
As a kid, Tori was the "ugly duckling". She had glasses and braces early on, and with no strong maternal figure in her life, was left to her own devices when it came to her appearance and style. So, in a world of flawlessly dressed and perfectly trimmed ten year olds, Victoria was tossed to the side and never even given a chance when it came to the popular girls. She grew up alongside Sydney Vale and Jane Lynch, but Sydney continuously rejected her attempts at friendship throughout elementary and middle school, and that only continued into high school. However, it was even worse then, because when Sienna Alvarez and Piper Vine entered the scene and found their way into the popular group without a second glance, it proved that she just wasn't good enough all along. It was infuriating. She had been waiting her whole life to be a part of that crowd and then these girls could just show up and join with no if's, and's or but's?! At that point, the start of freshman year, she revamped her life. She bought every teen fashion magazine that Barnes & Noble sold, studied fashion blogs and with more work put into her appearance, she became conventionally attractive. During her junior year of high school, she started dating Edward Till, a boy from Fordham Preparatory School.
Academic Career:
Victoria attends Constance Billard on her father's check. She's smart enough that she would probably qualify for a scholarship, if her family needed the assistance, but that isn't the case. She excels in math and computer programming classes and is a tech wiz. She runs the school newspaper (which recently went digital) and is the vice president of the senior class (unhappily so, she she believes she should have been elected President over Charlotte). She also participates in the French club and on the lacrosse team, in an attempt to get closer to Sydney.
Future Plans:
Victoria is dead set on attending MIT. She is considering going into a field related to federal cyber security but the mainstream side of her is leaning more towards public relations or advertising.
Tori's parents are Peter and Veronica Walsh, but Veronica has been deceased for nearly thirteen years. Peter is the CEO of an investment firm and while he is a nice guy, has devoted to his life to work, following his wife's sudden and tragic death. He is barely involved in Tori's life and feels immensely guilty for doing so, but has too much unresolved guilt and pain from his wife's death to allow them to be a functioning family again without her. Along with her father, her other immediate family member is her older sister, Lillian. She's five years Victoria's senior and is currently enrolled in University of Michigan's medical school.
Home Life:
Peter and Veronica Walsh met while attending Yale University and married a year out of school. They were some of the few people lucky enough to say that they were truly in love. Peter became the CEO of his late father's investment firm and Veronica held a high ranking position at Scholastic Publishing. After three years of the "honeymoon period", they conceived a baby girl: Lillian Joy Walsh. Five years later came their second and last daughter, though they didn't think she would be the last at the time. She was named Victoria Taylor Walsh with her first name honoring her maternal grandmother and her middle honoring her paternal grandfather.
When Victoria was just a toddler, her mother was killed in the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. She didn't work in the building and was only there, stopping by to meet a friend who she planned on going out to breakfast with that morning. Being so young, Victoria has very few memories of her mother and since she doesn't remember what it was like having a mom, it's hard for her to miss this person who she cannot remember. That's not to say that Tori didn't grow up longing to have her mother by her side, because she certainly did. Her father never remarried and in an attempt to avoid grieving, engulfed himself in his business. Tori and her sister were left mainly in the care of nannies, and while they were as sweet as possible, they didn't come close to having loving parents. The five year age gap between Lilly and Tori separated them once Tori was in middle school, and like her father, Victoria became accustomed to seeing very little of her social butterfly of a sister.
As a kid, Tori was the "ugly duckling". She had glasses and braces early on, and with no strong maternal figure in her life, was left to her own devices when it came to her appearance and style. So, in a world of flawlessly dressed and perfectly trimmed ten year olds, Victoria was tossed to the side and never even given a chance when it came to the popular girls. She grew up alongside Sydney Vale and Jane Lynch, but Sydney continuously rejected her attempts at friendship throughout elementary and middle school, and that only continued into high school. However, it was even worse then, because when Sienna Alvarez and Piper Vine entered the scene and found their way into the popular group without a second glance, it proved that she just wasn't good enough all along. It was infuriating. She had been waiting her whole life to be a part of that crowd and then these girls could just show up and join with no if's, and's or but's?! At that point, the start of freshman year, she revamped her life. She bought every teen fashion magazine that Barnes & Noble sold, studied fashion blogs and with more work put into her appearance, she became conventionally attractive. During her junior year of high school, she started dating Edward Till, a boy from Fordham Preparatory School.
Academic Career:
Victoria attends Constance Billard on her father's check. She's smart enough that she would probably qualify for a scholarship, if her family needed the assistance, but that isn't the case. She excels in math and computer programming classes and is a tech wiz. She runs the school newspaper (which recently went digital) and is the vice president of the senior class (unhappily so, she she believes she should have been elected President over Charlotte). She also participates in the French club and on the lacrosse team, in an attempt to get closer to Sydney.
Future Plans:
Victoria is dead set on attending MIT. She is considering going into a field related to federal cyber security but the mainstream side of her is leaning more towards public relations or advertising.
Disposition
Personality:
Victoria is absolutely a rumor mill. You can bet that 99% of all of the rumors floating around Constance Billard either gave from her mouth or anonymous blog, and if it was one of the two, it most likely stemmed from her personal vendetta against someone. She's the type of girl with a lot of anger bottled up in her and these anonymous outlets give her a voice. She doesn't have to worry about upsetting the popular girls by cutting them down if they don't know it's her behind the screen. Sure, it definitely speaks to her own insecurities, but as long as know one knows it's her, she doesn't care. She wishes that she felt sure of herself enough to tell these things to people's faces and not cower behind her computer, but she can't. Growing up, she always felt insufficient compared to the girls around her, and especially after being rejected so many times from the popular group, she's harbored feelings of self-loathing that had transformed into hating others.
If someone is better than her at anything, she takes it as a personal jab. It doesn't matter if they're the nicest person in the world or them winning the science fair wasn't an attempt to beat her - she takes it as an assault against her worth and will foster feelings of disdain towards that person until they prove themselves otherwise. Most of the time, these feelings of hatred will not be expressed publicly, aside from on her anonymous blogs. She'll smile and wave at them in the hallways, like their Instagram posts and agree that they definitely need to grab Starbucks one of these days. She likes to say that she's taking notes from Sydney and learning how to suppress her emotions to prevent herself from feeling vulnerable, but really, she doesn't have the guts to speak up. She knows that she doesn't have Sydney Vale's power and doesn't have a position of power where she can cut people down with no consequences. Because of this, she tends to come off as a friendly girl with a competitive edge. She isn't extremely popular or extremely disliked, is intelligent and and motivated, and is always interested in chatting people up in an attempt to get the latest gossip out of them. As long as you aren't aware of her vengeful actions via her blogs, that's all you would really see her as.
Hobbies:
Victoria plays lacrosse, is the vice president of the Student Government Association, is a member of the French club, and most importantly, runs anonymous gossip blogs on Twitter and Facebook to circulate rumors about the residents of the Upper East Side.
Bad Habits:
Jealousy is one of her worst traits, and it rears its ugly head in her bad habit of resenting people for having more than her. She's just as wealthy as many of her peers, so this uses comes to surface in being jealous of people socially. If someone's more popular than her, she hates them for it. If they've snagged a boyfriend while she's single, she hates them for it. It doesn't matter if they were good friends before the fact or not, she just struggles to see other people being happy when she's not. A lot of the time, she's good at keeping this resentment suppressed but it's hard to keep it from at least coming to light in passive aggressive ways.
Likes:
Social Media ✿ Popularity ✿ Attention ✿ Vanilla Lattes ✿ Martha's Vineyard ✿ Green Tea ✿ Music Festivals ✿ Upscale Restaurants ✿ Dogs ✿ Swimming ✿ Technology
Dislikes:
Jane Lynch ✖ Piper Vine ✖ Charlotte Buchanan ✖ Dumb Girls ✖ Being Looked Over ✖ Not Getting Invited to Big Events ✖ Her Appearance ✖ Her Sister ✖ Shrimp ✖ Ham ✖ Losing Control ✖ Country Music ✖ Being Proven Wrong ✖ Junk Food
Victoria is absolutely a rumor mill. You can bet that 99% of all of the rumors floating around Constance Billard either gave from her mouth or anonymous blog, and if it was one of the two, it most likely stemmed from her personal vendetta against someone. She's the type of girl with a lot of anger bottled up in her and these anonymous outlets give her a voice. She doesn't have to worry about upsetting the popular girls by cutting them down if they don't know it's her behind the screen. Sure, it definitely speaks to her own insecurities, but as long as know one knows it's her, she doesn't care. She wishes that she felt sure of herself enough to tell these things to people's faces and not cower behind her computer, but she can't. Growing up, she always felt insufficient compared to the girls around her, and especially after being rejected so many times from the popular group, she's harbored feelings of self-loathing that had transformed into hating others.
If someone is better than her at anything, she takes it as a personal jab. It doesn't matter if they're the nicest person in the world or them winning the science fair wasn't an attempt to beat her - she takes it as an assault against her worth and will foster feelings of disdain towards that person until they prove themselves otherwise. Most of the time, these feelings of hatred will not be expressed publicly, aside from on her anonymous blogs. She'll smile and wave at them in the hallways, like their Instagram posts and agree that they definitely need to grab Starbucks one of these days. She likes to say that she's taking notes from Sydney and learning how to suppress her emotions to prevent herself from feeling vulnerable, but really, she doesn't have the guts to speak up. She knows that she doesn't have Sydney Vale's power and doesn't have a position of power where she can cut people down with no consequences. Because of this, she tends to come off as a friendly girl with a competitive edge. She isn't extremely popular or extremely disliked, is intelligent and and motivated, and is always interested in chatting people up in an attempt to get the latest gossip out of them. As long as you aren't aware of her vengeful actions via her blogs, that's all you would really see her as.
Hobbies:
Victoria plays lacrosse, is the vice president of the Student Government Association, is a member of the French club, and most importantly, runs anonymous gossip blogs on Twitter and Facebook to circulate rumors about the residents of the Upper East Side.
Bad Habits:
Jealousy is one of her worst traits, and it rears its ugly head in her bad habit of resenting people for having more than her. She's just as wealthy as many of her peers, so this uses comes to surface in being jealous of people socially. If someone's more popular than her, she hates them for it. If they've snagged a boyfriend while she's single, she hates them for it. It doesn't matter if they were good friends before the fact or not, she just struggles to see other people being happy when she's not. A lot of the time, she's good at keeping this resentment suppressed but it's hard to keep it from at least coming to light in passive aggressive ways.
Likes:
Social Media ✿ Popularity ✿ Attention ✿ Vanilla Lattes ✿ Martha's Vineyard ✿ Green Tea ✿ Music Festivals ✿ Upscale Restaurants ✿ Dogs ✿ Swimming ✿ Technology
Dislikes:
Jane Lynch ✖ Piper Vine ✖ Charlotte Buchanan ✖ Dumb Girls ✖ Being Looked Over ✖ Not Getting Invited to Big Events ✖ Her Appearance ✖ Her Sister ✖ Shrimp ✖ Ham ✖ Losing Control ✖ Country Music ✖ Being Proven Wrong ✖ Junk Food
Physical Description
Face Claim:
Adelaide Kane
Height:
5'4
Weight/Build:
110 lbs
Hair Color:
Dark brown
Eye Color:
Light brown
Adelaide Kane
Height:
5'4
Weight/Build:
110 lbs
Hair Color:
Dark brown
Eye Color:
Light brown
