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Chloe App TLV
Character Name: Chloe Sweeney
Series: Chloe
Age: 23 (going by the actress' age)
From When?: After her death at the end of the film
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - Chloe has some serious emotional issues, and uses lies, manipulation and blackmail to try to get her way.
Item: n/a
Abilities/Powers: Normal human, no powers. She's... a high-class callgirl, so there's some skills there, but lol, nothing SUPERNATURAL.
Personality: Chloe is a sophisticated, fairly well-educated young woman who happens to be a call-girl. She works in hotels and other high-class establishments. She dresses well, enjoys fashion and music, learned some Japanese in school and likes walking in Allen Gardens. She likes a particular band a lot and goes to live shows. She seems like a fairly normal girl.
Underneath this normal exterior, Chloe has a lot of trouble connecting with people in a real, meaningful way. She knows how to act, how to be what people want her to be (most obviously in a sexual way) but she doesn't have a good concept of how real emotional connections work. She craves true affection, sympathy and caring -- her fixation on Catherine stems from Catherine seemingly not wanting anything from her, for herself -- but she doesn't understand how to get that without resorting to destructive actions. She is attention-seeking and uses a number of manipulative techniques to get this attention and caring from other people. Affection is tied up with sex in her view; to be wanted emotionally means you must be wanted sexually. She tends to fixate deeply on a single person at a time; someone who shows that they care without wanting something else at first, someone who can be manipulated into loving her, someone who is damaged in some way. In the film, we see Chloe become obsessed with Catherine, a gyno she met by chance one night who was kind to her without wanting anything in return. Through a series of circumstances, Catherine hired Chloe to approach her husband to try to gauge whether he was cheating on her or not.
Chloe's an accomplished liar. She tells lies like they're the truth, adding little details, never telling the same story twice. Both for her job, and in her personal life, she uses careful lies that aren't over the top, and is an expert at reeling her target in and out by developing the details of her story. She doesn't see anything wrong with this; in getting what she wants or needs, lying is a perfectly acceptable way to get it. When lying to someone, she will embellish their stories, figure out what they want to hear or what will cause them to act in the way she wants them to. Everything about the encounters Chloe had with Catherine's husband is a fabrication. She lies about the whole thing, telling Catherine that he flirted with her one day, she jerked him off in the park the next time they met, the next time they had sex in a hotel room. She progresses the story effortlessly, never thinking why it might be wrong, only thinking about keeping Catherine close to her. When Catherine looks like she is about to back out of their agreement, Chloe instantly scrambles for a detail about the meeting with Catherine's husband that will draw her in and keep her there. She pushes her, deliberately trying to upset her, pinpointing Catherine's fears and insecurities so she can manipulate her way into her emotions and make Catherine reliant on her.
Getting taken care of in a non-sexual way is intoxicating for her, indicating that she probably was neglected as a kid, and was never looked after as much as she needed, and because of this, she isn't afraid to hurt herself or others in her pursuit of a single person. She also has a petty obsessive streak. When Catherine ignores her, tries to break off their arrangement after they have sex, Chloe calls her office seven or eight times, and, resorting to more obvious blackmail, emails through a photo she took of Catherine and herself naked in bed. When Catherine tries to end the business with Chloe, Chloe is deeply upset, deeply hurt. She is hurt and completely delusional about how Catherine truly feels about her. She even resorts to violence, stabbing herself with a hairpin and accidentally drawing blood, then holding it against Catherine's neck and asking for a kiss. Safe to say, she doesn't deal with rejection well, and though not usually violent, won't avoid it if she's in high-stress emotional situations.
Chloe knows how to be sexual, how to be alluring; her clothing, hair and makeup is always perfect, and she is well aware of how she looks to others. As a call-girl, Chloe views sex as a means to an end; in her job, her body is an object. She becomes whatever the client wants her to be, and her own pleasure is irrelevant. That doesn't mean that she doesn't enjoy sex, but when in a job context she almost dissociates from it. It doesn't mean anything. She does say that she "tries to find something to love in everybody", and it seems like it's true. She makes her job bearable by focusing on little things about her clients that she likes. When she has sex with someone she cares about (someone who has more than just a little thing to love, in her view)? It's a different story; it has more meaning than it should. When Chloe sleeps with Catherine, she's focused on giving the other woman pleasure, but it means so much more than it does with any of her usual clients, because it feels like an emotional connection. She also understands that sex can be a weapon, something that can hurt. After Catherine rejects her, she sleeps with Michael (Catherine's teenage son) in Catherine's bed, both as a form of revenge and as a twisted way of getting back at Catherine.
Chloe's final act is a little ambiguous; she falls out of a window, after Catherine has pushed her away, but she grips onto the window-frame. It's a little unclear whether she lets go on purpose or if she slips, but it seems more likely that she let go on purpose, having realised that Catherine will never love her like she wants her to. It seems calculated to maximise the trauma; if Catherine won't love her, at least she'll never be able to forget her.
As a part of her job, Chloe "puts on" different personas. She's never completely herself, and is always aware of what people might want her to be. On the Barge, she's likely going to act calm and reserved, keeping her own emotions hidden until she finds someone that catches her eye, for whatever reason. She will probably try to have sex in exchange for privileges or things she can't get any other way, after a while, because that's how she operates. :c If/when she becomes obsessed with someone? Things will go rapidly south.
Path to Redemption: Okay, Chloe has some serious issues. She has trouble connecting on a normal level with anyone; it's either all-out love or business. She needs to realise that people can be nice without wanting something, or nice without being madly in love with her. She needs to be taught that she cannot manipulate everyone around her, or lie to get her own way, and why acting that way is wrong. She has to realise what she did to Catherine was terrible, and why it's not okay to act in that way.
A warden will need to be aware of her tendencies to fixate on people, and keep a careful eye on her. This may lead to her fixating on her own warden instead of someone else, so they'll need to be prepared to deal with her crazy relating to that. She will try to manipulate them, and if they get touchy-feely, she will not hesitate to sleep with them.
History: Wikilink for the film. I'm going to say that she was raised by a single mother who was distant and uncaring. She would have finished high school and probably went to college for a semester or something then dropped out. As far as prostitution goes, she probably started around the end of high school. (I will flesh out her backstory more as I work out exactly what works for her, if that's cool.)
Sample Journal Entry:
Why do some people always feel the need to control everything? Life's not like that. You can't arrange everything into neat little categories or keep it all in order. It's not that simple.
[Chloe has been reading the journal entries knows where she is and what's going on.] Everyone here is different, but there's things that tie us all together, reasons we're here. Something we did. I don't know what I did. But I think I understand this place though; I'm just not sure it works like that. I mean, I do get it. It's a prison, it's a rehab centre, it's a lot of things. You- the wardens, I mean- you don't need to explain it to me.
My name's Chloe. What's yours?
Sample RP: Chloe dressed carefully. Despite being trapped on the Barge, she never stopped putting in the time for silk and lace and perfect hair. She made sure her outside was as beautiful, as alluring as it possibly could be. It was always easier; it made her more confident. She knew who she was dressed like this, and she knew what people thought of her. Men, who wanted to fuck her. Women, who sometimes did as well. ...Catherine. Chloe shook the thought from her head with a flutter of eyelashes. Catherine would remember her. Forever. Chloe would live on as the girl who she pushed out of a window, as the girl who slept with her son, as the girl who died. She put the thought from her mind, decisively, as she stood.
She walked to the door, rolling her hips, settling into her skin, ready for the day. She knew how to act. An act for every person, whatever they wanted her to be. A pause to decide which coat to wear to complement the grey silk of her skirt, then she opened the door to the hallway. She still was not entirely used to her apartment opening onto the Barge. It was alien, unnatural, strange; but she could adapt. That was part of her job, after all.
Walking up the stairs towards the open deck, she took the time to settle into the place. Looking at the people in the corridors, watching them to see who they were, waiting to see if anyone would catch her eye, call her over. No one did, but it was only a matter of time. People needed what Chloe provided, and the ones that did would know about her soon enough. Until then, she walked out onto the deck, gasping as the unnatural stars blazed above her. They were so beautiful, so close but still so untouchable.
Special Notes: THIS APP IS SHIT, BUT I HAD TO GET IT IN. I feel like I just repeated myself over and over in the personality, so if you other lovely mods want me to revise anything or elaborate, do tell. <3
Series: Chloe
Age: 23 (going by the actress' age)
From When?: After her death at the end of the film
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - Chloe has some serious emotional issues, and uses lies, manipulation and blackmail to try to get her way.
Item: n/a
Abilities/Powers: Normal human, no powers. She's... a high-class callgirl, so there's some skills there, but lol, nothing SUPERNATURAL.
Personality: Chloe is a sophisticated, fairly well-educated young woman who happens to be a call-girl. She works in hotels and other high-class establishments. She dresses well, enjoys fashion and music, learned some Japanese in school and likes walking in Allen Gardens. She likes a particular band a lot and goes to live shows. She seems like a fairly normal girl.
Underneath this normal exterior, Chloe has a lot of trouble connecting with people in a real, meaningful way. She knows how to act, how to be what people want her to be (most obviously in a sexual way) but she doesn't have a good concept of how real emotional connections work. She craves true affection, sympathy and caring -- her fixation on Catherine stems from Catherine seemingly not wanting anything from her, for herself -- but she doesn't understand how to get that without resorting to destructive actions. She is attention-seeking and uses a number of manipulative techniques to get this attention and caring from other people. Affection is tied up with sex in her view; to be wanted emotionally means you must be wanted sexually. She tends to fixate deeply on a single person at a time; someone who shows that they care without wanting something else at first, someone who can be manipulated into loving her, someone who is damaged in some way. In the film, we see Chloe become obsessed with Catherine, a gyno she met by chance one night who was kind to her without wanting anything in return. Through a series of circumstances, Catherine hired Chloe to approach her husband to try to gauge whether he was cheating on her or not.
Chloe's an accomplished liar. She tells lies like they're the truth, adding little details, never telling the same story twice. Both for her job, and in her personal life, she uses careful lies that aren't over the top, and is an expert at reeling her target in and out by developing the details of her story. She doesn't see anything wrong with this; in getting what she wants or needs, lying is a perfectly acceptable way to get it. When lying to someone, she will embellish their stories, figure out what they want to hear or what will cause them to act in the way she wants them to. Everything about the encounters Chloe had with Catherine's husband is a fabrication. She lies about the whole thing, telling Catherine that he flirted with her one day, she jerked him off in the park the next time they met, the next time they had sex in a hotel room. She progresses the story effortlessly, never thinking why it might be wrong, only thinking about keeping Catherine close to her. When Catherine looks like she is about to back out of their agreement, Chloe instantly scrambles for a detail about the meeting with Catherine's husband that will draw her in and keep her there. She pushes her, deliberately trying to upset her, pinpointing Catherine's fears and insecurities so she can manipulate her way into her emotions and make Catherine reliant on her.
Getting taken care of in a non-sexual way is intoxicating for her, indicating that she probably was neglected as a kid, and was never looked after as much as she needed, and because of this, she isn't afraid to hurt herself or others in her pursuit of a single person. She also has a petty obsessive streak. When Catherine ignores her, tries to break off their arrangement after they have sex, Chloe calls her office seven or eight times, and, resorting to more obvious blackmail, emails through a photo she took of Catherine and herself naked in bed. When Catherine tries to end the business with Chloe, Chloe is deeply upset, deeply hurt. She is hurt and completely delusional about how Catherine truly feels about her. She even resorts to violence, stabbing herself with a hairpin and accidentally drawing blood, then holding it against Catherine's neck and asking for a kiss. Safe to say, she doesn't deal with rejection well, and though not usually violent, won't avoid it if she's in high-stress emotional situations.
Chloe knows how to be sexual, how to be alluring; her clothing, hair and makeup is always perfect, and she is well aware of how she looks to others. As a call-girl, Chloe views sex as a means to an end; in her job, her body is an object. She becomes whatever the client wants her to be, and her own pleasure is irrelevant. That doesn't mean that she doesn't enjoy sex, but when in a job context she almost dissociates from it. It doesn't mean anything. She does say that she "tries to find something to love in everybody", and it seems like it's true. She makes her job bearable by focusing on little things about her clients that she likes. When she has sex with someone she cares about (someone who has more than just a little thing to love, in her view)? It's a different story; it has more meaning than it should. When Chloe sleeps with Catherine, she's focused on giving the other woman pleasure, but it means so much more than it does with any of her usual clients, because it feels like an emotional connection. She also understands that sex can be a weapon, something that can hurt. After Catherine rejects her, she sleeps with Michael (Catherine's teenage son) in Catherine's bed, both as a form of revenge and as a twisted way of getting back at Catherine.
Chloe's final act is a little ambiguous; she falls out of a window, after Catherine has pushed her away, but she grips onto the window-frame. It's a little unclear whether she lets go on purpose or if she slips, but it seems more likely that she let go on purpose, having realised that Catherine will never love her like she wants her to. It seems calculated to maximise the trauma; if Catherine won't love her, at least she'll never be able to forget her.
As a part of her job, Chloe "puts on" different personas. She's never completely herself, and is always aware of what people might want her to be. On the Barge, she's likely going to act calm and reserved, keeping her own emotions hidden until she finds someone that catches her eye, for whatever reason. She will probably try to have sex in exchange for privileges or things she can't get any other way, after a while, because that's how she operates. :c If/when she becomes obsessed with someone? Things will go rapidly south.
Path to Redemption: Okay, Chloe has some serious issues. She has trouble connecting on a normal level with anyone; it's either all-out love or business. She needs to realise that people can be nice without wanting something, or nice without being madly in love with her. She needs to be taught that she cannot manipulate everyone around her, or lie to get her own way, and why acting that way is wrong. She has to realise what she did to Catherine was terrible, and why it's not okay to act in that way.
A warden will need to be aware of her tendencies to fixate on people, and keep a careful eye on her. This may lead to her fixating on her own warden instead of someone else, so they'll need to be prepared to deal with her crazy relating to that. She will try to manipulate them, and if they get touchy-feely, she will not hesitate to sleep with them.
History: Wikilink for the film. I'm going to say that she was raised by a single mother who was distant and uncaring. She would have finished high school and probably went to college for a semester or something then dropped out. As far as prostitution goes, she probably started around the end of high school. (I will flesh out her backstory more as I work out exactly what works for her, if that's cool.)
Sample Journal Entry:
Why do some people always feel the need to control everything? Life's not like that. You can't arrange everything into neat little categories or keep it all in order. It's not that simple.
[Chloe has been reading the journal entries knows where she is and what's going on.] Everyone here is different, but there's things that tie us all together, reasons we're here. Something we did. I don't know what I did. But I think I understand this place though; I'm just not sure it works like that. I mean, I do get it. It's a prison, it's a rehab centre, it's a lot of things. You- the wardens, I mean- you don't need to explain it to me.
My name's Chloe. What's yours?
Sample RP: Chloe dressed carefully. Despite being trapped on the Barge, she never stopped putting in the time for silk and lace and perfect hair. She made sure her outside was as beautiful, as alluring as it possibly could be. It was always easier; it made her more confident. She knew who she was dressed like this, and she knew what people thought of her. Men, who wanted to fuck her. Women, who sometimes did as well. ...Catherine. Chloe shook the thought from her head with a flutter of eyelashes. Catherine would remember her. Forever. Chloe would live on as the girl who she pushed out of a window, as the girl who slept with her son, as the girl who died. She put the thought from her mind, decisively, as she stood.
She walked to the door, rolling her hips, settling into her skin, ready for the day. She knew how to act. An act for every person, whatever they wanted her to be. A pause to decide which coat to wear to complement the grey silk of her skirt, then she opened the door to the hallway. She still was not entirely used to her apartment opening onto the Barge. It was alien, unnatural, strange; but she could adapt. That was part of her job, after all.
Walking up the stairs towards the open deck, she took the time to settle into the place. Looking at the people in the corridors, watching them to see who they were, waiting to see if anyone would catch her eye, call her over. No one did, but it was only a matter of time. People needed what Chloe provided, and the ones that did would know about her soon enough. Until then, she walked out onto the deck, gasping as the unnatural stars blazed above her. They were so beautiful, so close but still so untouchable.
Special Notes: THIS APP IS SHIT, BUT I HAD TO GET IT IN. I feel like I just repeated myself over and over in the personality, so if you other lovely mods want me to revise anything or elaborate, do tell. <3