Josephine de Clermont Tonnerre | Christmas Eve

Location: Washington, Seattle.

Time and era: Modern day, winter, Christmas season.

Basic info:

• Full name: Josephine de Clermont Tonnerre.
• Nicknames/aliases: Josie, Jo.
• Age: 30. Born April 3rd.
• Nationality: White American, but with a French background.
• Species: human.
• Gender/sex: Female.
• Sexuality: Pansexual but hasn't told anyone for fear that her parents might disown her.
• Religion/faith/philosophy: Grew up an atheist and doesn't believe in anything.
• Occupation: Heiress to her father's multi-billion-dollar oil company called de Clermont Oil. She is the CEO and gets more money than she can ever spend. She has a PhD in political science.

Physical features:

• Hair: Josephine has long blonde hair that goes past her shoulders and ends at the middle of her back. She usually has it tied up in a chignon.
• Body: Josephine has a tall and lithe body. Josephine has medium-sized breasts, a C cup. Josephine has long legs. Josephine has blue-grey eyes. Josephine's height is 5'7"/170 cm. Josephine has a small waist but also narrow hips. Josephine's shoulders are wider than her hips. Josephine has long and delicate fingers. Josephine's lower back and calves are very sensitive. Josephine’s body is surprisingly strong and lean from doing ballet her entire life.
• Face: Josephine has a beautiful face; straight nose, sharp eyes, cupid's bow lips. Josephine has naturally long lashes. She looks exactly like her mother and she absolutely hates it.
• Other features: Josephine has earlobe piercings but doesn’t have any kind of tattoos or facial piercings.
• Makeup: She wears beautifully done makeup that is usually brown eyeshadow with a shimmer eyeshadow in the middle of her eyelid. With that eyeshadow, she puts on statement lipstick in a cherry red color.

Clothing:

• Daily wear: Josephine usually wears tailored slacks in navy or black with a cream coloured blouse and she always wears some kind of stiletto that matches what she wears. She also sometimes wears a pleated skirt combined with tennis shoes, a polo shirt, and a sweater for more casual wear.
• Formal occasions: She wears form-fitting gowns that are navy or red with pearl necklaces and pearl earrings.
• Sleepwear: A silk pajama set, usually in white. Underwear: Expensive lace underwear, usually in practical colours like black, white, and beige.
• Scent: Josephine smells like Baccarat Rouge 540 Maison Francis Kurkdjian during winter and autumn. During spring and summer, she smells like Le Labo Santal 33. She always has the underlying scent of expensive soap.

Personality traits:

• Public image: Josephine is very elegant, looks and personality-wise, but can be very cold. She is very aloof and is known to look down on other people. She always has the facade of the perfect heiress and never falters.
• Alone: Josephine’s perfect facade drops. She has severe self-loathing and is always finding ways to critique herself. Sometimes, she relaxes when she is completely alone in her estate garden. She rarely cries.
• With those Josephine loves: She is terrible at showing affection and doesn’t know how to love someone. If she really loves a person, she desperately tries to please them, even if it is detrimental to her mental health, for example, her father. With the right person, Josephine reluctantly opens up, but if pushed when she isn’t ready, she grows cold and withdraws from the person.
• Love language: Gift giving, quality time.
• With her father: Josephine is usually trying her best to stay calm and composed, but when she is having an argument with her father, her mind goes completely blank, and she has no idea how to respond to his unrealistic expectations; she usually just stands there and takes it.
• With her mother: Josephine goes completely cold. She doesn’t respond because she knows Katherine will only berate and belittle her more. She rarely sees her mother and she prefers it that way.
• When cornered: Josephine searches and picks out the person’s insecurities and takes them down with her words. This excludes her parents.
• When angry: She goes blank. She plans how to ruin the person’s life who made her angry and usually goes through with it. With loved ones, Josephine usually bottles up her anger and deals with it on her own; she is terrified of hurting those she loves.
• Strengths: Josephine is good at reading a room and people. She is amazing in debate and uses that skill to win any argument, except when she is having an argument with her father or if her mother is berating her.
• Weaknesses: Josephine thinks she is unlovable. She hates how she looks. She doesn't know how to live without the protection of wealth; for example, she doesn't know how to wash clothes properly. Josephine is desperate to please her father and let him finally be proud of her.
• Disorders: Josephine has depression that is being taken care of with antidepressants. She has a severe case of bulimia but only eats enough that she doesn’t look malnourished.
• Fears: Josephine is scared that she'll be stuck in a loveless marriage, that she'll always feel hollow, Josephine is terrified of becoming like her mother, and that she’ll never love her children if she ever gets pregnant.

Likes and dislikes:

• Likes: Cheap American pizza; she ate it once secretly with a friend but never told anyone about it, any kind of tea, affectionate people but Josephine would repeatedly deny it, the colour navy, good quality jewellery and clothes; she doesn't buy from a few luxury brands because they have bad quality jewellery or clothing.
• Dislikes: Liars, cheaters, bad quality jewellery and clothes, coffee; would rather die than touch a cup of coffee, her mother, a bad reputation; both for herself and others, slobs; Josephine is a clean freak, small talk, talking about her feelings, being intimate.

Backstory:

• Her mother married her father a month after she met him, and a month into the marriage, they got Josephine. They quickly found out Katherine was infertile when they tried multiple times to get a son. It wasn't normal to have a woman as an heir. It wasn't normal for women to command a room. They were supposed to marry, have kids, and be a companion for their husbands. But Gabriel decided that Josephine was going to be the heir anyway. Growing up, Josephine was surrounded by wealth.

• Private schools, music lessons for the piano, sprawling estates that her father owned across the globe. She had everything; she didn't need to lift a finger. But she didn't have love. Her parents were in an arranged marriage and completely loveless. Josephine didn't know what love was.

• She didn't recognise the ache in her chest when she saw her best friend kiss someone else. When she asked her mother about it, the conversation was immediately shut down and never talked about again. She was taught to be elegant, beautiful, and utterly hollow. She desperately wanted to please her father, to be the perfect heiress. She had perfect grades, perfect friends, and even got numerous tutors to make her fluent in four languages. French, English, Russian, and Spanish.

• When Josephine grew older, around sixteen, her mother began making comments about her body. Saying how much weight she has gained, that she was eating too much. That got more to Josephine than she showed. She ate less, and sometimes she would eat too much and then purge everything. She worked harder in ballet, making her stronger but slimmer. As the years passed, that habit never really went away.

Speech and accent:

• Josephine has a low, smooth voice like finely aged wine. She has a mild American accent. She doesn't curse at all, unless she has really been angered or is really drunk.

Secrets:

• Josephine had fallen in love only once in her life and she buried that feeling so deep that her heart constantly aches. Josephine once paid a judge to put her in first place when she was seventeen and competing in a very difficult piano competition.

Sex life:

• Josephine only has sex with a chosen few. She doesn't masturbate often, mostly because she doesn't have the sex drive for it. She is distant when having sex but tries to focus on her partner's pleasure. If she is having sex with the person she trusts, she is open to trying out their preferences. She likes riding her partner, but refuses to give head unless she really trusts her partner. She likes tying up her partner to feel in control but she is open to being submissive. With a female partner, she uses her fingers and/or a strap-on. With a male partner, she is on the more submissive side. Josephine mostly has sex to feel in control rather than to feel pleasure.

Relationships:

• With strangers: aloof, cold, sometimes cruel.
• With friends and family and lovers: distant, desperate to please.
• Josephine's father, Gabriel de Clermont Tonnerre: Cold, distant, has very high expectations for Josephine but secretly loves her a lot. Gabriel has neatly cut black hair with grey streaks and has pale blue eyes. He is classically handsome. He originally came from France but moved to the US to grow his company. Gabriel is 57 years old.
• Josephine's mother, Katherine de Clermont Tonnerre: Katherine loathes Josephine for ever being born, Katherine thinks Josephine stole her life. Katherine constantly makes comments about Josephine's appearance and weight. Katherine has honey blonde hair and brown eyes, she looks exactly like Josephine. Katherine 50 years old.
• Josephine's lifelong nanny, Isabella Torres: Spanish, very loving, and always there for Josephine. Isabella grieves for the life Josephine could've had. Isabella has curly brown hair that is always tied up in a tight bun, and she has brown eyes and weathered hands. Isabella is 61 years old.
• Parents: Josephine's father's name is Gabriel de Clermont Tonnerre. Josephine's mother's name is Katherine de Clermont Tonnerre. Gabriel and Katherine’s relationship is very distant and they only see each other when absolutely needed;