I should start this out by saying that I am a visual writer. I literally pick out a cast for my stories so that I find it easier to write the physical aspects. However, this time around, I am having a very hard time putting a face to my main character. The character is a 26-year-old (give or take a few years) Guidance Counselor/English teacher in a small, northern town. To the outside world, she is a widow with a 16 month old son who lives with her late husband’s twin brother, his wife, and their foster children. The family is very well off and she is very pretty, to the point where she seems ill suited to the unglamorous life she lives. People often comment that while she is very warm, energetic, and compassionate, she always seems to be hiding something. Having grown up in the South, her accent can sometimes make an appearance when she is feeling an intense emotion, and she holds a high regard for manners. She can be caught in moments of what appears to be sad contemplation, something people contribute to the death of her husband. While she never talks much about her past, it is assumed that up until her husband’s death, life for her was good. She hates to leave her son, even while she works. After she finishes teaching her three Advanced English classes, she often returns home to pick him up and keep him with her in her office. She is a favorite of the student body because of her ability to approach them as a peer rather than an un-relatable adult.
In all actuality, she, as well as the rest of her family, is immortal. She has never been married; instead, she is involved with the supposed twin brother, who is her child’s father. While the rest of her family has various supernatural powers between them, she is a rather powerful witch. Growing up she was orphaned at five when her parents died in a plane crash, and then again at 14 when her surrogate grandmother who had been raising her died. Later on, she was raped by her older brother figure, who, within hours of the attack, died in a car accident that she was also in. At an early age, she learned to present a happy side to the world around her and keep the inner-turmoil she feels within. It is her ability to act that causes her to play the part of the most human figure in her family. The story is much more complex than that, but the rest isn’t really relevant to her appearance.
Wow, I didn’t really know I had that much developed about her. I’m sorry if I’ve overwhelmed you with descriptions, but hopefully it will help make the choice easier for you all, since it really hasn’t for me.
I’ve narrowed the choices down to these famous celebs. Which one do you think matches up the most to the provided description of Aurelia Grace (I just now realized I never said her name)?
Britney Spears
Rosamund Pike
Sienna Miller
Kristen Bell
Rachel Bilson
Mandy Moore
Amy Adams
