"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
Name: Jilliane Mendoza
Nickname: Jill, Jilly, Jillybean
Birthdate: May 4
Age: 21 (Is really 86 in "Genie years")
Sexuality: Straight
Occupation: Part-time at a bakery
Thoughts on Being a (Master, Genie, Freed genie ) : I've seen both sides. Seen the genie's, the trapped ones, tell me they either love it or hate it. Never has it been between. I've walked down these sidewalks, and either they acknowledge me with a plea for help, a smile, or just plain ignorance from the stories their master has said about ones like me. I'm only here to help. I don't want to stand in the way of a happy pair.
Likes:
Sweet Tea
Dying her hair
Pasta
Baking
Drawing
Helping out others
Music
Animals
Blue (hence her hair)
Dislikes"
Controlling people (mainly masters over their genies)
Sushi
Rain
Making mistakes
Hypocrites
Arguing
Elevators
Strengths:
Lying - Though she hates it, if it's to help someone else or to protect herself, she knows how to do it well.
Talented in the arts - explains her drawing books scattered about her room, the skills she has at work, and the fact shes good at makeup/hair.
Social - for the most part, she's okay with meeting others and doing random acts of kindness; genie or not.
Empathetic - Jill understands why some genies wouldn't want to leave their master for the kind of life she lives.
Open minded - helps in most situations
Weaknesses:
Can be hard on herself - making mistakes is hard for her to handle, guess you could call her a perfectionist.
Shys away in personal situations
Slight pushover - loves helping people, but will forgive easily and help them again right after.
A worry-some person - Jill over thinks and worries about others if she wasn't able to help them before, will find a way to do it later. Makes her to be easily distracted, also.
Fears:
Liking someone/Love (Weird, huh?)
Being surrounded by large bodies of water (being in a boat on the ocean, for example)
Storms
Personality:
Jill is of the creative type of personality. With a kind side - too kind. She loves helping people, that's what makes her day. Whether it's helping a genie start over after being freed, or just decorating the dream cake for a soon-to-be-bride, happiness for others is her priority. Her closer friends know she draws on her own time, whatever just happens to be on her mind. So being creative comes into her daily routine, on top of being a freed genie.
Jilliane is VERY energetic - loves to be outside, seeing New York. To her, everyday is a new experience. Always different customers to talk to at work, some being tourists or business people picking up orders. And New York never runs out of things to do. Gives her time to hang out with the friends closest to her, and meet others to drag along for the ride. Unless they somehow put her in an awkward personal situation she hasn't handled, say.. a date? It's hard to miss the blue hair going in the opposite direction of the person whom asked for that.
Upon meeting the secret genie with blue hair and makeup done top-notch; most would think she's very confident. And she would say she is. But not the way you think. Jill is confident she can do what she can to help you, or find someone who can. She is not confident in the relationship-type of way. They have always been short-lived due to her lack of knowledge on how to handle them, but being a genie was her main break-off. Telling humans that have interest in her that she can grants their wishes freely to a certain extent is like telling a gold digger you have a rich parents that spoil their child's significant other. It never works.
History:
Jilliane is from San Jose, California and is an only child. Her parents are still located there, so she takes the occasional visit back home for the major holidays or they come to her. She had the option of being homeschooled, or even sent to a private one. Insisting she wanted the most normal life as possible, Jill went to a public school her entire life, promising her parents when she moved out that college would be in her future - she just wasn't sure what her future was the be yet. Saying goodbye to her childhood to high school friends, at 18 she boarded a flight to New York and into a journey.
Learning what she could from her parents and the few other genie's she met back home, Jill knew she was lucky to have been welcomed as a freed genie right off the bat. The female had witnessed genie friends happy with their masters, passed down every generation to the youngest sibling; but some loathed that lifestyle and the people they served. Jill knew the way out for them was for her to help them, but her parents had made her promise she would not do any such thing of freeing a genie until she lived out on her own. This helped her become a good liar, telling her friends that she had a master but she was very free-willed to do as she wanted.
She made a mistake one day. Met a boy named Jared, a genie with a master named Sabrina. Jared was far older in the 'genie' years than she was, passed down to each child. He was her first boyfriend, and they had grown close to the point she'd even grant wishes for the sweet Sabrina. Jilliane had no clue of the resentment Sabrina's brother had for the family genie though, and convinced her that Jared was always complaining about wanting the freedom Jill had to him all the time. So one day when Jill had shown up to their home, she secretly went and grabbed Jared lamp, shattering it into the fireplace and lighting it, watching the shards slowly heat and melt away. Happily going to tell Jared what she had done, she found the exact opposite. Not only was Sabrina a wreck, her brother smug, but Jared was furious and so upset with Jill he demanded for her to never return to their home or speak to them again. Last she had heard, he stayed with the family willingly, but they weren't as they used to be before.
When she was building up connections in New York, she came across a small group of genies that bonded together into a friendship; the main comparison between them all being that they help genie's be freed from their master. Jill had heard of such groups, never met any until now, and asked to join them almost immediately. Now at 21, she's working at a bakery in uptown New York, still involved in helping genie's, and keeping her wish-granting part a secret from most people around her.
Other:
Jilliane has a cat named Captain Pancake who's 9 years old currently.