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Little Miss Midgar

♥ ARABELLA LUCIANA LOVEGROVE
♥ TRUST FUND DARLING
♥ DITZY SOCIALITE
♥ TWENTY SEVEN
♥ FIVE FOOT SEVEN

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE; MAYBE

Little Miss Midgar

For the most part Arabella’s childhood was honestly rather idyllic. She wanted for nothing, her mother and father gave her anything and everything she could ever have wished for, and in truth she had little to no comprehension that other people experienced life differently. They were not a very close family and she spent precious little time with her parents at all.

Her mother was a dedicated socialite, far preferring the company of the rich and famous than her infant daughter, though she did take pleasure in dressing her little ‘Cici’ up like a living doll, and having her perched prettily beside her when she met with friends and at various social engagements where bringing your daughter was appropriate. Her father was likewise often busy, and while he would always extend compliments to his little girl he was mostly just highly dedicated to the running of his business. His focus was almost always on finding new business opportunities and networking opportunities here and there.

As a consequence of this she was raised by a series of Nannies and home-school tutors, and what time she did spend with her parents was usually full of social gossip or on the rare times when she stayed by her fathers side, talk of accounts and monthly budgets in relation to the years projected outgoings and the like. Not thrilling, but she’d listened anyway.

Due to all of this however, when her parents lives were both cut tragically short, her own grief was nowhere near as profound as it might have been otherwise. Of course she was sad and cried a good deal at the time, it was a big loss to a young woman who hadn’t by any means reached adulthood, but it wasn’t as long lasting as it might have been. After all, they weren't as big a part of her life as they might have been, and while the fact she would never see them again did often cause her sorrow, it wasn’t as though she was used to them being there every single day. So it was that at fifteen she ended up as the head of a large parts and manufacturing company that had made her father a very rich man, and now, by default, her a very rich young woman. She also inherited her mothers little clothing line, but in comparison to her fathers work that really was nothing but a little side hobby. It was cute, however, and she liked to keep it ticking along.

In the immediate time after her parents' deaths, numerous people suggested that Bella should sell, or in some other way hand over ownership of, but thankfully at this time she still had Beatrice Villiers as her Nanny/companion and that wonderful strong woman advised her against it. As much as she already trusted the men her father had employed to know what was best for the company, she listened instead to Snow’s mother.

It was at this point she did turn her attention at least somewhat to the world of business. There wasn’t really anyone around to teach her, so she spent the majority of the time emulating the thing’s she’d seen her father and people around him do. She read what she could, though a lot of it was dry and not overly informative, but she gave it her best shot. The directors and members of the board weren’t entirely encouraging and none of them showed any interest in taking her under their wing. Once again Beatrice Villiers was an invaluable ally to her, helping keep her steady even when she genuinely had no idea what she was doing. Still! She kept a hold of the company, far more than simply a majority share, and while her own input is limited at best, she hasn’t allowed it to be wrested from her completely.

While she runs LGM in a very loose sense only, and leaves the company directors to do the majority of the leg work, she does make a point of checking in with them and also drops into board meetings without giving anyone any sort of heads up, only when she actually checks the calendar and realises one has been scheduled. Once again, this is not something they go out of their way to inform her of, and she’s never really pushed the point. Instead she simply does what she can and shows as much of an interest as she is able while still feeling a bit like a little girl in a grown mans world. Not that she plans to let anyone know that’s how she feels.

The one thing she does always turn her attention to is taking care of all of the networking malarkey that her father was so good at. She may not be known as the world greatest business woman, but she is not a fool either. She is charming and can be exceedingly winsome when she wants to be, and honestly has learned over the years that if people underestimate her they will likely give her a better deal with the hopes of greater gains on their part down the line. There she uses her slightly ditzy and flippant persona to her benefit, though there is a little less dignity in it than she may have liked.
Generally speaking though she's a sweetheart with a good heart and absolutely no notion of what the real world is like, but she’s trying to find her way in it. Ten years being the in name only figure head of her dead father’s company hasn’t really helped that much, but it’s not always easy to make her mark when a full board of men don’t really want her involvement at all, for whatever reason.

A few times over the years she has found herself swept up in one romantic liaison or another, but nothing, bar one ever became fully serious. Most likely because of that one, in truth. Finding out that your love is actually based solely around money rather than actual feeling is a bit of a kicker to anyone, and in truth she doesn’t really care to put too much trust into men at this point. After all! She doesn’t need one, does she? She’s a woman fully of her own means and has no need of anyone else to prop her up.

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Little Miss Midgar

Snow Villiers
♥ He is absolutely her bestest friend in the whole wide world oh my gosh! She just adores him! He's also her body guard or something like that, but wouldn't you know! The silly goose of a man has such a terrible habit of wandering off and getting lost!

They've known each other since Snow was an actual baby. She held him and informed his mother he was too heavy. In her defence, she was only 4 at the time. They were separated for a while when Snow's mother, Beatrice took maternity leave, and then found other employment for a while. They were however reunited when Bella was 13, much to the teenagers delight. They have been firm friends ever since.

Beatrice Villiers
♥ Snow's mother and Arabella's Nanny twice over. Briefly when she was 3-4 and then again when she was 13. Though she often minded the little heiress when her Nanny or tutor at the time had any sort of time off.

She was the woman Bella ended up seeing most firmly as a mother figure in the end, and also the person who convinced her not to hand over the company in it's entirety when her parents passed away.

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Little Miss Midgar

Full name: Arabella Luciana Lovegrove
Nickname: Belle, Bella, Bells. Formerly by her mother and Nanny, ‘Cici’.
Birth date: August 31st
Age: 27
How old does he/she appear: About her age, perhaps a little younger.
Gender: Female.
Sexuality: Heterosexual.
Height: 5’7” without her shoes on. Anywhere up to 6’ depending on how stupid her footwear is.
Build: Slender hour-glass. Just above average cup size, probably about a D, then in to a narrow waist and out again with some fuller hips. She has slender looking legs and isn’t overly toned.
Shape of face: Slightly heart-shaped, but with pronounced angular cheekbones.
Eye color: Warm brown.
Glasses: No, not at all. Unless you count sunglasses, then yes! Often!
Skin tone: Caucasion, but she does like to lay in the sun! She doesn’t do fake tanning of any sort, however.
Distinguishing features: A very wide smile and an exceedingly expressive face. Often exaggeratedly so.
Hair color: Chestnut brown.
Hairstyle: Naturally very wavy, she sometimes straightens it, but often just leaves it loose.
Physical disabilities: None
General style of dress: All over the place. She loves clothes and she loves to dress up, dress well and make a statement.
Usual outfit: It would be hard to pick, but it’s generally something that she knows flatters her, often a dress of some sort with a jacket and always a pair of high heels.
Jewelry or accessories: Anything and everything. But always earrings, a necklace and some manner of bracelet.

Hometown: Midgar, but her family moved out to Junon for the longest time. However, now she is thinking about moving back.
Type of childhood: Her childhood was honestly very happy, if not quite conventional. It didn’t give her any difficulties though, she sees nothing wrong with it at all, albeit that it was at times a little on the lonely side, but not very.
Finances: Trustfund darling, and used to living off of that. She also has the income from her deceased parents business that she sort of runs.
Pets: None, unless you count her bodyguard, Snow Villiers.
Tone/Type of voice: Usually airy and a little la-di-da, unless she’s actually being serious and focussed at which point it tones down. When she’s let her guard down fully she actually speaks quite quietly.
Usual expression: The face she shows the world is usually a wide, easily pleased smile.
Positive personality traits: She’s always willing to try things, new activities, new foods and that sort of thing. She’s not closed minded in the slightest.
Negative personality traits: She’s not always very engaged. She’s easily distracted and doesn’t focus fully on things.
General frame of mind: She’s happy for the most part, and generally pretty enthusiastic about things.
Happiest occupation: Spending time chatting with friends, honestly. She’s very, vey social.
Greatest fear: Losing everything. She wouldn’t have even the smallest clue how to survive without everything.
Personal priorities: Honestly, just whatever she feels like at the time She doesn’t really have an overarching goal at this point.
Outlook on life: Generally very positive, she makes the best of everything, after all, she’s rich, you know!
What drives them: Honestly she is mostly driven by the fact she’s more or less on her own. If she doesn’t push herself, who will?
Any future plans: Not really, perhaps moving back to Midgar once again, since that is where a good deal of her business is actually carried out!
Job/Occupation: CEO of what used to be her father’s business. LGM. Lovegood Manufacturing.
Greatest strength: The fact she can stand alone, without having anyone support her.
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: The fact that despite being able to stand alone, she doesn’t always feel she knows what she’s doing or where to turn next. The uncertainty can be crippling, but she hides it determinedly.
Worst regret: Not learning more from her father before he died.
Greatest accomplishment: Actually managing to keep the business running, even if she hasn’t actually done a great deal about it herself.
Deepest secret: She is often quite afraid.
Does anyone else know/would they ever share?: Only Snow. And she HOPES he would never tell anyone.
Optimist or pessimist: Optimist on the outside, not always quite so much on the inside.
Introvert or extrovert: Extrovert, 100%
Rash or cautious: A mixture, honestly. She definitely plays up to being more rash than she actually is though.
Logical or emotional: Emotional, definitely.
Tidy or messy: Organised chaos. Probably. Not messy, but not meticulous. She has a bad habit of putting things down and forgetting where she left them.
Hard working or Lazy: A mixture, it really depends on the day, though she plays up the lazy idle trustfund girl very well.
Romantically inclined or not: Once? Very much so. Now? She isn't so sure. She certainly doesn’t focus on it.
Confident or unsure: Outwardly confident. Internally? Quite unsure.
Frugal or flippant with money: Flippant as you like for the most part.
Animal lover : Yes, but she doesn’t have any pets of her own currently. She did have during her younger years. Cats, a dog. That sort of thing, but currently no.

♥ Favourites

Color: Dark, dark red.
Music: Anything, honestly. If she can dance to it so much the better.
Food: Nothing can beat a perfectly cooked steak!
Possession: She doesn’t really have one. There aren’t many things she’s overly sentimental about.
Type of story: She’s absolutely a horror movie and story fan, but they scare the living daylights out of her.
Passtime: Being absolutely fabulous, darling!
Weather: Hot hot hot and sunny! Swimsuit weather is the only weather for her! But she can make anything work.

♥ Habits

Hobbies: Mostly just irritating her bodyguard and shopping! She does love shopping! Other than that, gossipping maybe? She doesn’t honestly do a whole lot, but she’s always up for trying things!
Plays a musical instrument: She was learning to play the harp when she was younger, and still does so every now and then.
Plays a sport: Tennis, she adores it! Also golf and she once fancied herself as something of a martial artists. That didn’t stick, however. Not at all.
How would a rainy day be spent: Probably complaining about the weather and fussing over which coat she didn’t mind getting wet. Then luxuriating in the bubbliest bath you can imagine with music and a very large glass of wine.
Smokes: No, darling please! The way that stains your teeth!
Drinks: Yes, socially and when she feels like it. But for the flavour not the alcohol itself.
Other drugs: Absolutely not!
Extremely skilled or gifted at: Talking. A lot. While often saying actually very little.
Extremely bad at: Actually letting people see the real her.
Tics or mannerisms: ‘Darling’ and other endearments as a way of seeming personable without actually calling people by their name. Alluding to always being distant and disengaged.
Usual body posture: Upright, she stands tall and proud, but slightly on the relaxed side. She doesn’t make a habit of seeming tense.

♥ Self Perception

How do they feel about themselves: Very positively! She’s quite happy with who she is and where she is in life. There are times where she wishes that all of the confidence she displays was genuine, but she really is an absolute pro at the fake it till you make it game.
One word description of self: Fabulous~!
Best physical feature: She would say her body. In totality. She’s confident and very aware that she’s hot stuff.
Worst physical feature: Probably the stupid shoes she wears honestly, they must be giving her feet hell.
Best trait: Friendly attitude. She is honestly quite a warm person and while she can be inadvertently rude to people, she does genuinely actually like to help people when she can. Though sometimes her good intentions miss the mark.
Worst trait: Probably the fact she’s flippant about a lot of things.
If they could change one thing: Probably having her parents still be alive? She does miss them on occasion, and it would mean she hadn’t ended up with her hands full of the business.

♥ Others

General view of people: Generally positive. She doesn’t exactly judge people very much, mostly because they have to actually catch her interest first and that isn’t always easy to do.
Open or prone to fronting: Always prone to fronting, the whole time. It’s been so long since she wore a mask of some sort or another that even she probably isn’t sure who she actually is, or was any longer.
Opinionated or withdrawn around others: Opinionated, but not always sensibly so. She’s certainly not shy however and speaks her mind, even if sometimes this is a ruse of foolishness to lure people into a false sense of security.
Someone they go to for advice: Beatrice Villiers or, slightly unfortunately, Snow.
Someone they feel responsible for: Beatrice and Snow.
Someone they admire: Probably Beatrice once again.
Most important person to them: Beatrice & Snow. She doesn’t really have many genuine people around her, so the one’s she does have she holds very, very dear to her.

♥ Family

Mother: Claudia Lovegrove
Relationship with her: Deceased, but relatively distant during life.
Father:Lucius Edwin Lovegrove
Relationship with him: Deceased, but as with her mother, relatively distant.
Siblings: None.
Relationship with them: Not applicable.
Spouse: None.
Relationship with him/her: Not applicable.
Children: None.
Relationship with them: Not applicable.
Other important family members: Favourite childhood Nanny, Beatrice Villiers & her son Snow, now Arabella’s bodyguard and friend.