Therese Robertson [Desire]

OOC Information:

Name/Alias: Rian.
Age: 21~
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E-Mail: moc.liamg|4091yawarac#moc.liamg|4091yawarac
Past experience: I have played every character ever.
Character journal: left wanting

IC Information:

Name: Therese Robertson, nee Chevalier. Formerly Treshaun Green.
Age/Birthdate: 34/May 12.
Sexuality: Heterosexual, though power-sexual might be more accurate. Or possession-sexual. She likes having things.
Occupation: Rich bitch. Homemaker, technically, though she does no actual homemaking. Financially savvy, however, so she handles most of the Roberston finances.

Comic Character: Desire, of The Endless.
Universe: DC (Vertigo).
Powers: She is, essentially, a social chameleon. Though Therese's outward physique never changes, she inadvertently shifts to appear as whatever people want her to be. It's a completely involuntary power, and as such, there are few people who ever see her for who and how she truly is. She is what people want at all times — what they desire, conveniently enough. Only the other Endless seem to cancel out her ability, and to varying degrees. Dream and Death are obnoxiously able to see right through her, while the others seem to only be able to lessen and/or deaden the general charm so they see her normal form. It irritates her. It should be noted that Therese is also completely convinced that, like the Endless, she has some sort of invincibility or immortality. She hasn't tested it yet, but there is a nearly omnipotent being rolling around her skull. You can't fault her for thinking she'll live to the end of things, too.
Status: Largely unknown, if only because no one knows who the fuck the Endless are, much to her chagrin. She doesn't much care either way.

Appearance: Therese is sexy in the way women in their thirties are sexy: that is, it's less about the stilettos and the clinging dresses and the sleek body (though those help). Desire aside, Therese has cultivated a certain sexiness in the way she carries herself, the way she walks, the way she speaks. Sure, she weighs about as much as a school child and her face is somewhat severe, but that doesn't dispute that the woman is fine. While Treshaun dressed in whatever was available, Therese makes a point to consistently look her best, and wears a lot of creams and pale hues to offset her dark coloring. She owns, perhaps, two or three things that aren't designer.
PB: Thandie Newton.
Personality:

• Conniving, manipulative, scheming. Completely harmful, but largely without intent. That is, she's far from harmless in her machinations, but she rarely sets out with a long-term plan to fuck people over. Her malice is more capricious than anything — and, scarily enough, often seems to be a misguided joke. Why yes, she finds the Joker delightful, why do you ask?
• Incredibly self-centered, but equally self-sufficient. Could live just as happily on an island with all her amenities by herself, as she could amidst the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. She doesn't require people to prey on, or even to fawn over her (though Desire generally did and does); she knows that wherever she goes, people will want her, no matter when she gets there. That's comforting enough. More over, people can be so irritating, especially non-Endless. There are times she wishes she could exhort Destruction to go back to his old ways and wipe them all out.
• Secretly delights in kitsch. Her home is very modern, clean, etc.; but periodically a little china cat or hand-braided ~African~ bracelet from a street vendor or an I-heart-NY tee shirt will make it into her home. Cameras occasionally catch her at a little street vendor in Central Park, but she never makes a fuss of it. Everyone is allowed their quirks. 8|
• Has an almost insatiable desire to meddle. Not fuss or motherly meddle, but just fuck things up for people. She insinuates herself between a happily married couple, sleeps with a man at his bachelor party, convinces one of the gossiping mothers her husband is cheating on her with their society friends, or that her daughter is sleeping her way through Clinton. There is no point to it: but she loves it. In the comics community, it's almost worse — as really, what are any of them going to do to her, an Endless? Especially enjoys fucking with the other Endless, though Delirium and Despair usually get a pass card. Usually.
• Definitely a sociopath, though it's never been diagnosed, and she wasn't a fan of abusing animals as a child.
• Is completely and utterly convinced she has some degree of invulnerability, or even infinite life. I mean, she was something that existed outside the laws of space and time, after all; you can't expect her to squish perfectly into a drab, small, unchanging human body. Is likely a little crazy because of it, but certainly no Delirium.
• So. Superior. I mean, come on. She's wildly rich, drop dead gorgeous, the reincarnation of something more than a god — what doesn't she have to be superior about?

History:

• Born Treshaun Green, son and heir to a sizable Manhattan fortune by way of Jolette Lafayette-Green and John Green, New York socialites. Treshawn was gay as a maypole right from the start, which caused quite a stir among their society friends. Drove his mother to drink, and his father to spend the majority of his time out of the house.
• At 8, Jolette ended up running off with the gardener, taking her fortune (about 2/3 of the estate) with her. John spent the next seven years attempting to recoup his money in stocks and business ventures, possible new wives, and family loans, all without success. By the time Treshawn was 14, they were forced to leave their grandiose townhouse for a little apartment in the village, and then to one in the East Village, then the Lower East, then Brooklyn, then Queens, as John steadily lost all their money. He had never had a head for it, living largely off of Jolette's fierce fiscal sense and his own inheritance. When both of those were gone, he spent most of his time drinking and slipping from job to shitty job.
• At 15, Treshawn was fucking sick of it, not to mention the fact that despite his own INNUMERABLE failings, his father refused to accept him as a woman-inside-a-man's-body, which Treshawn, at this point, was aware he was. Desire, as it happened, was starting to wake up in him — and as he/she was never quite one sex, it gave the very male Treshawn some problems. But at 15, he had had enough. He crushed a roofie and folded it into the meal he always left for his father's dinner, while Treshawn (as usual) went off to work his evening shift at a local grocer. Their habit was this: Treshawn made dinner and left it for John, who came out, ate it, and fell asleep in front of the television. Around 10 PM, to make sure he hadn't been shot and left to die somewhere, Treshawn would call the front desk of their walk up (as they could not afford a phone at this point), and John would come down to answer it. With the roofie in his system and his fat, varicose legs, Treshawn had every reason to believe that John would fall down the wooden steps and snap his neck.
• It went exactly as planned. Treshawn called, John tripped down the stairs, snapped his neck on the way down, and that was that. Treshawn was an ~orphan~, but filed for legal emancipation so he wouldn't have to go into the system. Desire, though he couldn't recognize him/her as such, kicked into full gear at the trial, and the judge was compelled to let the clearly capable, well-spoken teenager to lead his own life.
• Began saving for a sex change operation. Worked and scraped every penny he could, working a series of unmentionable jobs. Did some brief prostitution, which proved extremely lucrative, as — well, he was everything they wanted. It wasn't a terrible time for him, considering. With Desire there to back him, he could get people to give him what he wanted if he worked them well enough, and Treshawn finely honed his manipulative abilities.
• By 21, had saved enough for the operation and hormone therapy, and underwent treatment. Went back into the world as Therese Chevalier.
• And she was pretty fucking smoking, let's be honest.
• She worked in some Upper East clothing shops, still struggling. It wasn't as if her father left her an inheritance when he kicked the bucket, and with her insatiable love of all things expensive and unattainable, her paychecks (after the necessary rent and bills) went to whatever designer items she could be. By 24, she was wildly in credit card debt, and though Therese nightly fretted about collectors coming for her, Desire couldn't be bothered. Desire being the dominant possibily, it won out.
• Fortunately enough, that September, a somewhat fuddy-duddy gentleman came into her store, looking for a dress for his girlfriend. Charles Robertson was fumbling, goodhearted, cripplingly shy with women — and completely smitten by Therese as soon as he laid eyes on her. She was, naturally, everything he desired in a woman: thin, beautiful, charming, with an easy smile and a glint in her eye. Therese caught onto that quickly enough, and while guiding him around the store, put on the charm: gentle touches on his arm, tinkling laughs, leaning in just a bit too close to point something out. It worked. Charles came back the next day, and the day after that, always under the pretense that his girlfriend wasn't satisfied with the dress he bought for her (though he never returned them). Therese sunk her hooks in quickly, and within two weeks (and 12 dresses), Charles had confessed that he and his girlfriend had broken up, and he would like to take Therese to dinner.
• She dangled him for a while — kept up the interest while insisting she didn't want to just be some "rebound." But Charles persisted, as she knew he would, and within a month, she allowed him to take her on a ~date~. Five months later, they were married. Therese entered society on his arm in the pre-planning stages, and though people were scornful of her reputation — hadn't she replaced that nice Williams woman Charles had been seeing? She was just some rebound city trash — but once they met her, how lovely she was! How witty! How absolutely charming! How they had never met her before in their circles, they had no idea. Thanks to Desire, Therese was welcomed easily into the upper crust fold.
• Of course, she also bred some unwitting (but altogether entertaining) discord in her wake. Being utterly desirable to mundanes (and comics, but they sometimes knew what was up), it wasn't entirely unusual for Therese to find herself pursued by unscrupulous married men. It wasn't unusual for her to egg them on, either. While she played the perfect wife in public, it took under two years for it to become somewhat obvious that Therese had a certain sway over the people in her social circle — men and women alike. They both hated her and wanted her, to be her or to have her. She thrived on it. More than one marriage has dissolved thanks to one or the other party just being a little too obsessed with Therese — but when confronted, gracious, she is just so shocked! She is, after all, completely devoted to her husband (and his bank account).
• Spending habits aside, Therese inherited her mother's keen awareness of the economy, and built up Charles' already sizeable fortune within a mere year of marrying him. He remained in charge of things, but it was Therese who planted ideas for this or that development in his head. Currently, while she attends no board meetings and only rubs elbows with the higher-ups at social functions, she has a firm grip on all the work that Charles brings home. He's barely aware of it; Therese is very skilled at making her suggestions as innocuous as possible.
• AT THE TOP OF THE SOCIAL FOOD CHAIN NOW, BASICALLY. Occasionally featured in tabloids, and people are sort of stunned she never takes a bad picture. She's sort of like Christian Bale pre-Dorchester. People like hearing about her and her ~elusive~ life outside the public eye. She donates significant amounts to charities, and takes people under her wing as frequently and capriciously as she pleases. There's generally little rhyme or reason: she's had homeless children she's taken to as easily as middle class dentist daughter's. It's something of a mark of prestige to be chosen as a ~ward~ of the Robertsons, and for a few months, you get pretty lavished and thrust into society. Therese usually unceremoniously drops them later when they stop interesting her, and Charles has accordingly learned how to carefully extricate the child out of their lives without making a media stink — usually by way of setting up some sort of college fund. It's both a blessing and a kiss of death, as yay! College money! But as soon as it's set up, you can pretty much guarantee you'll be kicked the hell out of the Robertson penthouse within the month.
• As far as Crossover goes, Therese was contacted in her late teens. Martin seemed keen on getting Treshaun off the streets, but Crossover didn't really have the funds, and Treshaun wasn't going to be some charity case. He took the information they gave him and filed it away, observed from the sidelines, but only came out into Crossover once Therese was happily settled in marriage and high society. No one but Martin and Bryan knew her as Treshaun, and now that they're dead, WELL. As far as Crossover is concerned, Therese was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and never spit it out. It isn't so much that she's ashamed of being a man, as Desire would never let her be ashamed of herself, but it's just not something she talks about.

First Person Sample: I'm sorry; Bryan who?

Third Person Sample: NO.

Plot ideas: RHIA AND I HAVE A PLOT COOKING THAT INVOLVES THERESE MURDERING HER HUSBAND AND REMARRYING OZYMANDIAS? Also she will just generally be causing havok. I imagine she and Madison travel in the same circles, and she is probably rather fond of her, so she will likely meddle in shit on that end.

When you are done with that, send it out to moc.liamg|sdomgprrevossorc#moc.liamg|sdomgprrevossorc and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

PBs

Thandie Newton

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NOTES

• Highly intuned with Desire. Probably more so than is healthy, really, and will likely grow to think she's actually immortal, and will survive until the end of this world. CLEARLY SHE SHOULD BE KILLED.
• Vindictive, spiteful, capricious. Fickle, self-centered, and as flippant as the emotion itself. Malicious, but often right. No real method to her fucking with people, except that she can't stop. Especially with the other Endless, and more generally, with anyone with power.
• Power: social chameleon? Can't really change how she looks or anything, but can change how she appears to people — i.e., appears to be exactly what they want at that moment in their social circle (not necessarily what they lustfully desire, though they sometimes coincide, but really just what sort of person they want around them just then). It's completely involuntary, and changes the appearance of her physically, vocally. She can go from talking about Manet among a group of nouveau-riche art nuts to petting some poor, misguided, pained dear who's just lost her boyfriend. It should be noted, of course, that none of it is sincere, and most people aren't even aware of how she really looks, which is generally only seen among a few of the Endless, whose powers cancel her own.
• Power: inciting lust? THAT'S SO BORING THOUGH, and desire was so much more than just lust.
• does not care about consequences for other people.
• Born upper class. Mother ran off with the gardener when they were young, which completely tainted the family. People still talked about it well into her twenties; huge scandal. Tore her father apart, and in her teens, he had pretty much lost everything they had on bad stocks, poor business schemes, loans he couldn't pay, and overdecadent living. Had to claw her way the fuck back up into high society by any means necessary.
• Abilities manifested in her early twenties, when she began looking for some rich old bastard to marry back up into society. Discovered she could basically be whatever anyone wanted in any given social circle, and used it to her advantage. People were charmed by her, wanted her around, found her desperately interesting. Who was this lovely, charming young lady? Surely not the daughter of that woman who'd run off with the gardener.
• Eventually got her wish to re-enter society. Completely shed her mother's damnable reputation and never even spoke to her father. Married a wealthy lawyer aiming for partner in his firm, 14 years her senior. He was infatuated with her, completely besotted; he was also rich, and naive. Perfect. Desire had no delusions about being in love with him, though she made every show of being The Happy Couple when everyone was watching, even pandering to her husband's little lovesickness for the first few years.
• Keeps him around solely for societal purposes. After a few years, they slip into patterns of lovers and affairs; he tries to ~rekindle~ the romance once or twice, but she makes it very clear she wants none of it, and as he is spineless, that settles that.
• Eventually kills him off when he gets too touchy-feely-grabby. Probably some romantic endeavor gone awry. SHE SHOULD TOTALLY KILL HIM IN GAME. Doesn't really care about it afterwards.
• Transgendered! This helps cast off her mother's reputation. After father loses everything when she's in her early teens, NAME saves up to change from male to female. Does so at 21. Re-enters society that next year, with none of them the wiser.