Folkmore Application
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forkingethical★ Character Information ★
Character Name: Eleanor Shellstrop
Character Age: early to mid-30s
Character Species: human
Current Health: generally healthy human
Outfit: Plaid button down over white shirt and jeans
Character Canon: The Good Place
Link to History: history
Canon Point: End of Season 3. Eleanor is supposed to be running the neighborhood to save humanity, and Chidi just agreed to give up his memories so she's flying solo and her soulmate doesn't remember her, and now she’s here instead.
Character Age: early to mid-30s
Character Species: human
Current Health: generally healthy human
Outfit: Plaid button down over white shirt and jeans
Character Canon: The Good Place
Link to History: history
Canon Point: End of Season 3. Eleanor is supposed to be running the neighborhood to save humanity, and Chidi just agreed to give up his memories so she's flying solo and her soulmate doesn't remember her, and now she’s here instead.
★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★
Skills:
-can hold her liquor
-very good at getting out of things like tickets and responsibility
-great at deflection
-funny af
-can handle the heat (she’s from Arizona)
-was great at selling shit to old people on the phone (scamming she scams)
-A+ liar
-H O T T I E
-good in bed ok
Canon Abilities:
-she’s been rebooted 800+ times and has a lot of memories of weird experiences
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: Eleanor has small horns that she covers with her hair or a hair accessory of some sort. Her teeth are a little pointed and she'll lie that that's normal. I may play with her Myth features getting more pronounced with time, but right now she can pass as a Legend or a Familiar. She absolutely develops quick night vision, reflexes, increased speed, and poison resistance. These are SWEET and she has a hard time keeping them under wraps because she really does want to pass as a Legend.
Role Reasoning: Eleanor has been working for literal LIFETIMES on being a better person, and it will devastate her and rock her sense of self to get sorted as a "bad guy" by some grand power-that-be. It's also going to be a temptation to slide back into her worst self especially with the loss of her loved ones. That said, she's not giving up entirely, and will lie that she's a Legend and a good person, hoping that she can find a way to make that true here, too, because giving it up feels like giving up her soulmate and her friends and who she wants to be.
★ Personality ★
Eleanor’s mother was cruel and absent when she was a kid. This directly led to Eleanor being self-sufficient and having a constant desire for love and attention but aversion to risking being close to people. She shares her mother’s performance of high self-confidence and justifying risky or cruel behavior. She also never let herself try anything for real, whether it was friendship or a job or anything else. Eleanor decided this was who she was and just leaned into it. Even after her growth, she still really struggles with abandonment and intimacy issues, and is extremely angry and dejected when she finds out her mother got better and has a new family where she’s being a real mom to someone else. Eleanor is terrified she’s not worthy of love and became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Eleanor died. Like for real. She woke up in the (supposed) Good Place, but quickly realized she was the wrong Eleanor. At the time, she was willing to lie and cheat to try to stay in Heaven. But in trying to pass herself off as good, she started to become good, and along the way, she fell in love with her soulmate Chidi. Except then it turned out this was actually The Bad Place, and she and her new friends were reset.
Eleanor has lived these reboots over 800 times. And every time she and her friends have figured it out and broken the system. She’s become a better person. Not only that, she survived being rebooted as a person and discovered that the entire Good Place/Bad Place system is flawed. Once entirely selfish and afraid of intimacy, she becomes the leader of the new plan to show that people are good and that they can change. Except she had to do it without her soulmate and biggest supporter at her side.
Eleanor has come along way. She’s learned to believe in kindness. She’s learned to forgive and be vulnerable. She’s learned to be a leader. And she’s learned to be part of a community. But deep down, she’s afraid she’s only good because of that community, and being on her own terrifies her.
Chidi, besides being the love of Eleanor’s many lives (death reboots?), taught Eleanor to be patient, kind, and consider the ethics of a situation. He both accepted her for who she is and pushed her to be better. He was also entirely outside her sense of who she could care for or love. In all this, he taught her that she could be wrong about herself and that that was freeing.
Tahani was another of the Good Place crew. She helped Eleanor see the value in her own confidence, humor, and strange poise. She also saw Eleanor’s strengths when she couldn’t, and accepted Eleanor’s support. She’s a true friend, and that’s something Eleanor hasn’t had a lot of.
Jason is…a ding dong, but his earnestness helped Eleanor see feelings aren’t bad and it’s important to affirm what others care about.
Michael is both Eleanor’s friend and also the closest thing she’s had to a real parent. He doesn’t always understand how to be a human, but he tries. And he didn’t start out so great either (a literal demon), which gave Eleanor permission to move forward from her own terrible past.
Eleanor is Cinderella if Cinderella said fuck this shit and left instead of staying to be everyone’s caretaker. Except that means she…still had to be her own caretaker. And didn’t get invited to fancy balls, so crashed them instead and told anyone who would listen that happily ever after was just a con.
Eleanor desperately wanted to be a fairy tale character in her youth, but no one came and saved her. And the more she leaned into being bad and selfish to protect her own heart, she felt like those things weren’t available to her anymore. She relates more to being the (smokin hot) villain than any sort of hero.
Ironically, she’s probably a perfect fairy tale heroine, coming from a horrible family, falling under an endless curse, and saving herself by learning to love and be loved in return. She’s truly just a normal gal dealing with obscenely abnormal circumstances, and her plucky humor and brash humanity can charm literally human and demon alike.
Eleanor was a terrible person. She died with no friends, working a job scamming the elderly, an alcoholic, and miserably lonely. Her afterlife file of bad deeds is literally a tome.
But Eleanor never gives up. Not when she died, not when she thought she was going to get kicked out of heaven, not when she found out it was hell, not when she found out she’d been rebooted, not when she found out the entire system was broken, not when she had to give up her soulmate – over and over – and trust that things would be worth it. As cowardly and selfish as she is, Eleanor shows up and the ship is either getting saved or going down with her. She has no idea how strong she is, but she is a god damned survivor.
She is afraid, though, that she is just a bad, lonely, miserable person who will end up right back where she started. She’s terrified everyone will leave her and that she’s been a fool trying to play the leader when in reality she is just an Arizona trash bag. The worst part about trying is that it makes the fall to failure that much farther.
★ Player Information ★
