Realistic or Modern [Characters] Maxwell's Clinic for the Criminally Insane

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Full Name: Jade Iris Monroe

Nicknames: Dr. Monroe

Role in Clinic: Criminal Psychologist

Age 24

Gender: female

Sexuality: pansexual

Occupation: Dr. Monroe consults with all of the patients in the clinic to track their progress on the road to recovery.

Physical Description: Dr Monroe is 5'4, but almost always wears heals which make her appear to be taller. Her body type is a thick hourglass with a toned, flat stomach. This is a product of time spent at the gym and dieting, not genetic luck. She has pale skin and red-orange hair that falls in gentle waves to her shoulders. A few freckles can be spotted, scattered from her nose to her blushed cheeks. She has mossy green eyes with gold encasing the pupils, and almost always has winged eyeliner to highlight their feline-like shape. Dr. Monroe appears professional, arriving to the clinic in well-fitted slacks or pencil skirts with loose fitting button up shirts topped with a women's blazer. She never wears much color unless it's red. Her clothes are usually black, which gives her a solemn and gothic demeanor. She has multiple large tattoos and a few facial piercings, but she tries to cover them in the workplace.

Personality: Dr. Monroe has an ever-changing personality. It goes unnoticed by most, as it changing according to the company she keeps. Around co-workers she tends to be professional and cold, speaking to them only to the extent that is necessary to be polite. With her patients, her demeanor differs according to her relationship with them. With some, she is warm and friendly. With others, she can be strict and harsh. It entirely depends on how involved they are in therapy, and how they treat her initially.

Special skills: To be discovered

Likes: art, rock and alternative music, aquatic life, composing and playing piano, painting, animals, whiskey, night time, rain, exercise, thrillers and mystery shows, fruit, coffee, children

Dislikes: being late, socializing with peers, patients who don't take recovery seriously, tomatoes, country music

Fears: None

Illnesses: Hearing loss, food allergies, psychosis (treated)

Habits: clicking and tapping pen, chewing lip, playing with hair, tapping heel, pacing

Backstory: After heavily struggling with bad mental health and trauma from her past, Ms. Monroe became a psychologist to make amends for past mistakes and help those who need to be forgiven.


(Original art by Siobhan Chiffon)

 

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Full Name: Elizabeth Harper Burkland
Nicknames: Lizzy
Role in Clinic: Patient
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Queer, Undefined
Occupation: Live in patient
Physical Description: Elizabeth has long dark hair that has a slight wave and reaches down to her waist. She is roughly 5'5 with a slightly curvy body type and prefers to wear classic retro style dresses, sparkly eye shadow, and whatever long dangly ear rings she can get her hands on. Her skin is quite pale, likely a result of her preference to be indoors, and contrasts nicely to the darker greens and purples she is fond of. Her dark brown eyes flutter around excitedly or stay nervously glued to the ground, entirely dependent on her comfort level in her surroundings.
Personality: Elizabeth can be seen as quite bubbly and cheerful in crowds of friends, always finding something to talk about and eager to keep the mood light. She doesn't typically like talking about things to serious, primarily in her own life, and will attempt to divert the conversation to the other person or something lighter to avoid getting to serious and vulnerable. In new crowds she can be quite shy and have trouble opening up unless she is in a particularly bubbly mood, and by those who don't get the chance to know her well she can be thought of as either an antisocial loner or a ditzy type, but few get the chance to see beyond either side. The very few have been able to see hints of narcissism and an attitude like she believes she's the main character of a television show, a sort of "everyone will play along in the end, everything works out for me, it has to". Strangely it's also often contrasted with the other direction of self loathing, a belief she is only here because she failed some step, she will amount to nothing and it is to late for her. These extremes of self hatred and self worship are rarely glimpsed and when demonstrated in front of others quickly toned down and covered up by an attempt at forcing a bubbly moment.
Special skills: Most people tend to take a quick liking to her, if the bubbly side doesn't annoy them
Likes: dresses, make up, rock/punk especially but nearly any music she can lose herself in, psychology
Dislikes: when people try to pry to much into her past, people who insist on things being serious, vulnerability
Fears: bath tubs/pools of water
Illnesses: depression, ptsd, occasional delusions/psychosis
Habits: pacing, chewing lips
Backstory: The child of a woman with mental illness, Elizabeth grew up in a less than stable household. It is believed that originally her mother Lily knew who the father was but could not publicly admit it, or was uncertain herself, but for whatever reason the father began as unidentified until Lily began trying to make stories that explained who he was and justified why he couldn't be there. Most are certain in the beginning Lily was just telling the stories to the public to save face, but somewhere along the line her mental illness made it difficult for her to distinguish reality from the reality she was building. The story evolved until the father of her child was magical, he was hidden behind some barrier that Lily could no longer pass now that she had a child to tie her to this realm. People knew Lily wasn't entirely there, but it wasn't until her daughter Elizabeth was about nine years old they realized how bad it had gotten. Having convinced herself that she needed to abandon ties to this world in order to return to the man she now referred to as her husband, Lily walked in when Elizabeth was taking a bath, and attempted to drown her daughter. In her panic Elizabeth had frozen and appeared to lose consciousness sooner than she did, which the doctors later described as likely the only reason she survived. Shortly after Lily was convinced her daughter drowned she went down stairs and greeted the baby sitter she had hired, insisting she was going to spend the evening with her husband and that the child would likely be quiet, however the baby sitter discovered Elizabeth in the bath and was able to call an ambulance in time.
Elizabeth spent the remainder of her child hood living with her grandparents and visiting her mother in a place not unlike where she found herself now. Before and after she was taken from her mother, Elizabeth was often raised to believe her father would find her and show her how to use her magic. She was the key, her mother often told her, and she had to figure out how to make everything work out so she her father and her mother could be a family again. When she got older Elizabeth stopped believing the stories of her magic and who her father was, and was finally able to realize the many contradictions and the mental illness her mother possessed, but the sort of chosen one talks her mother had with her still resulted in the struggles with her self image and the idea she is both infallible and somehow a failure for not doing anything grand. Very occasionally she still found her mind wandering to if she had any magic and if there was any truth to what her mother said, but that was only in the highest swings of her narcisstic moments, and certainly not anything she would admit to after that whole messy "cult" business from those nice people who believed her mother was right and listened to Elizabeth tell stories of her father wound her here in the first place. But to a certain extent maybe as silly as their "blood sacrifice" sounds in retrospect, it was a fun group and a nice way for her to get some solid proof through her head that she didn't have any magic, no matter how over the top those lawyers made it all sound.