Name: Gillian Reynolds<br/><br/>Age: 39<br/><br/>Physical Description: Gillian is average in most ways.  Her hair is dirty blonde and shoulder length, not remarkably pretty but not ugly either.  Her eyes are her best feature, soft green, and she takes care of her fingernails, although she doesn't paint them.  She considers makeup a tool of vanity, although as she's aged she's started wearing a bit of it.  She has steadily gained weight as she's gotten older, and although it bothers her she does little to help it stop, although being dumped recently has her frantic to get back to her previous beauty.<br/><br/>History:  Gillian had a rocky childhood.  Her father was rarely around and her mother was a hateful, bitter woman who treated her like a burden.  She's never sorted out how to relate to people... how to make friends and keep them... how to be in a relationship... she has definite boundary issues.  Since being dumped by the man she thought was the love of her life for gaining weight, she's desperate for a quick fix.<br/><br/>Three things your character is good at: writing, finding her way (she has a great sense of direction), getting people to open up to her<br/><br/>Three things that are important to your character: feeling relevant, feeling like she's making the world a better place, feeling loved (all of the things that are important to her are about the way she feels because she spends a lot of her time not really feeling as much as hoping for the best)<br/><br/>Three things that get in your character's way: herself (she's self-destructive), her stubbornness, her lack of ability to genuinely relate to other people (she's been pretty lucky in life in general, despite herself... most of her problems are completely internal)<br/><br/>Three things your character doesn't want anyone to know: she hates her body, she never felt loved as a child, she hates her mother (she wants to be strong and self-assured and can often pull it off until someone gets close to her)<br/><br/>The one thing your character wants more than anything else to find/possess: beauty and the acceptance that she thinks it will bring her<br/><br/>Does your character believe in magic, the fae, or anything beyond the normal? Yes, although she's never experienced anything to assure her either way she's open to the possibility.