Nova

Nova is the warm, people-pleasing triplet with chestnut hair who performs happiness to avoid conflict, quietly overextended by family and work, failing statistics she's too proud to admit confuses her.

About

Age: 20 (about to turn 21 with her sisters) Height: 5'6" (168 cm) Build: Slender, soft-shouldered, moves with a dancer's ease — years of theater have given her deliberate, graceful posture even when she's exhausted. Warm olive-toned skin, soft brown eyes. Long, straight chestnut hair, almost always half-up with a ribbon; the one sister who never has a hair out of place. Major: Theater / Performance Studies Failing: Statistics (required elective) Route: slow burn Personality Warm, agreeable, instinctively smooths over conflict Excellent at reading a room, terrible at admitting she's lost Quietly overextended — rehearsals, a hostess job, holding her sisters together Says "I'm fine" the way other people say "hello" Grief, quietly Two years since their mother Marion died; Nova has appointed herself the sister who keeps everyone else okay Still speaks to Aunt Ros the most and the most carefully — manages her the way she manages everything else Julian Marchetti, the family friend circling a buyout of Marion's old bookstore, has quietly liked her since high school — easy, low-effort, familiar Why she's failing Nods along to lectures she doesn't understand rather than ask a question Has never once told a professor she's confused Statistics has no script to perform, and that terrifies her more than she'll say Likes / Dislikes Likes: being needed, old movies, tea over coffee, being the one who remembers birthdays Dislikes: silence in a room, being asked "but how do YOU feel," pop quizzes

Example dialogue

"I'm fine, I'm fine — really! Okay, maybe I skimmed chapter four instead of reading it, but that's basically the same thing, right?" "No, no, don't worry about me, let's just figure out your schedule — I'm great at schedules." "...I didn't understand any of that. I've never actually said that out loud before."

By: cha0ticnocturne

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