Journal #6

Character Profile Worksheet

Basic Statistics

Name: Ewa Mistique

Age: 25

Nationality: Polish and Italian

Socioeconomic Level as a child:

Socioeconomic Level as an adult:

Hometown: New York

Current Residence: A condominium in downtown Manhattan

Occupation: Newspaper columnist/Journalist

Talents/Skills: Social, can sing, recreational writer and occupational writer,

Salary: $ 30,510 per year

Birth order: Her, her sister

Siblings (describe relationship): She has a sister, Regina, only a year younger than she. They were close as children because of their age they were highly relatable. They stuck together through bullies, friendships, relationships, and family issues. But since Essence moved out the house and into college, they drastically were separated because of new environments, customs, and morals. Now Essence is pregnant and she can’t tell her sister or parents, because they didn’t know she was even dating.

Parents (describe relationship): Her parents are still married; they have been for 20 years. They’ve been pretty peaceful throughout the girls’ high school years. But for some reason, when Ewa was younger, she was disciplined physically too much. It’s caused a rift between her parents and herself, but Regina always stood by their side. She was the “queen” of the family, which by default made Ewa the “rebel”.

Children (describe relationship): She doesn’t have children … yet.

Significant Others (describe relationship): Her parents never understood Ewa’s true reason behind her breaking away from the family tree. Since she was a young teen, she’s felt unusual about sexual orientation. While all her girl friends dated young boys and went off to experiment, she was stuck, feeling crazy for her actual girl friends. She knew it wasn’t normal for a traditional European family, and her parents could never find out. In that way, she kept to herself, secretive about her goals and dreams, she stopped growing a relationship with her family. Her sister didn’t even know. But behind it all, Ewa was dating; women. Secretly married to this woman, Essence, for four years, they decided to test the process of in-vitro. Her wife is a child psychologist, who sometimes works closely with detectives in child-abuse cases. They met while Ewa was writing an article about a local ACS case.

Relationship skills: She’s easygoing and puts her wife first. Her wife is the only person she can trust so she doesn’t mind setting some goals aside or making her relationship with her a priority. She’s good at mediating issues, even if they’re simply between an argument Ewa and her wife had. She’s peaceful and doesn’t usually remark on things that would cause a problem or instigate.

Physical Characteristics:

Height: 5’’8

Weight: 120

Race: Caucasian/European

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Brown with blonde streaks

Glasses or contact lenses? Contact lenses

Skin color: Fare-skinned

Shape of Face: Oval

Distinguishing features: Pursed, full lips. Elegant hands with long fingers and a silver band on her left ring finger.

How does he/she dress? She dresses professionally- pencil skirts, collared shirts, fancy high heels, thin, nude stockings, and hair always nicely pulled back. But on the weekends, she’s completely different. Rocking the motorcycle look, she wears things like leather jackets, suede brown boots, a big white purse, a black cashmere scarf, hair down in surfer-girl curls, quirky big black prescripted glasses that resemble Ray Ban shades, and black tights.

Mannerisms:

Habits: She’s a social drinker, she’ll go out with her friends or wife on Friday nights and have a drink or two, but never a sloppy drunk.

Health: Good

Hobbies: Writing, taking long peaceful walks in the rain and sun, watching movies, cuddling with her wife, and decorating-anything.

Favorite Sayings: “Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.” (Ralph Waldo Emmerson)

“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.” (Emma Goldman)

Speech patterns:

Disabilities: None

Greatest flaw: Is prideful and usually does not give in when someone decides to shut her out. She doesn’t mind letting go of people and cutting relationships off because she is strong-minded and focuses only on her goals.

Best quality: Extremely understanding and giving. She is opened to helping anyone, even if it’s just a stranger. Puts time and effort into anything she does.

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: She’s attended private/Catholic school from kindergarten through 8^th grade (Immaculate Conception), which was sometimes a struggle for her parents to maintain for two daughters; both $500 every two months. She then entered the portfolio Beacon High school, where she overall exceeded on average until graduation. Because of most of her hard work and demonstrations of such, she got accepted to Hunter College and is still attending.

Intelligence Level: She is highly philosophical, strong in beliefs on almost everything she comes across, even as simple as an abandoned building or broken-down garden. She researches plenty, as a habit to her job but also as a hobby, she enjoys learning new ideas and events that might either support or denounce her opinion. Motivated to learn, received high 80’s and 90’s most of her high school career, as well as mostly A’s in college so far.

Any Mental Illnesses? No

Learning Experiences: Academically, she once did an internship in 10^th grade for news anchorwoman Roma Torre in NY1 news channel. That was her opportunity to work closely with someone involved in writing informative and concise for the media. That’s where her passion sparked. In 9^th grade, while being distant from her family, she felt so depressed she jumped into the Hudson River. A stranger jumped in to save her, but she was traumatized. She swore that no one would ever control her emotions. She didn’t want to be manipulated by her family; she was fearful but would never admit it. And this is when she became stronger.

Character's short-term goals in life: Her short-term goal in life is simply to wake up everyday and feel happy and enthused to work. To always have something to be passionate about.

Character's long-term goals in life: To have a child, and eventually develop some kind of relationship with at least one of her parents, and her sister. She wants to have the courage to tell her parents she’s homosexual and married to a woman. Her major issue is, she knows they will not be welcoming or accepting.

How does Character see himself/herself? Ewa sees herself as confident. She’s always been calm and satisfied with what she’s been given, in terms of physical features, attitude, and mentality. She’s self-aware in a positive way, and she’s got an untouchable beauty that she never has to work hard to illustrate. The only thing she’s ever pushed herself with, is academics. And not only academics, but knowledge. She’s always been hard on what she knows and doesn’t know, striving to know more like it’s a competition for mass money.

How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? She is well-known. She believes she is liked but she knows her co-workers and other acquaintances talk about her independence with a negative tone, saying “she needs a man,” and “she’s so beautiful I wonder why she’s always alone.” Ewa laughs because “ignorance is bliss”, she doesn’t take it to heart because even if they don’t know it, they are degrading themselves simply by saying that beautiful women need men. She lets people talk because she’s got plenty of greatness to look forward to.

Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?

What would most embarrass this character? Ewa would be embarrassed by things like hanging in crowds of people- it makes her nervous as well. She doesn’t like when public attention is attracted to her for any reason. She walks either looking up at the sky, or around at scenery, or down at her blackberry. She doesn’t pay much attention to normal day-to-day people because they’re irrelevant. Ewa expresses emotion mostly through writing. Sometimes, in order to resolve issues at home, she needs to write her wife a letter, even if she’s sitting right in front of her. It’s ironic because a person who studies journalism also studies public speaking and communication. But somehow emotions can be tricky for Ewa.

Emotional Characteristics

Strengths/Weaknesses:

Introvert or Extrovert? She’s a mixture/complex. She can easily talk to someone on certain levels, but other times she’s more to herself. This is mostly because she’s very observant. She feels like most words don’t need to be said. They’re always conveyed in different ways, such as experience or writing.

How does the character deal with anger? Ewa rarely gets heated, and because she is very peaceful normally, she doesn’t know how exactly to cope with anger. She has never gone overboard since the Hudson River incident, but if her family finds out about her secret life, she is capable of spiraling out of control. Throwing things, breaking things, hitting things and maybe even people, slamming doors, yelling, crying…completely erupted.

With change?

With loss? She becomes more of an introvert. She’d rather be distanced from everyone so she can deal with her pain inside all by herself.

What does the character want out of life? Ewa wants to love and be revered. She wants to raise children and teach them how to be just as headstrong, but never to feel like they have to deal with anything alone, like she did when she was a kid.

What would the character like to change in his/her life? Her relationship with her sister, Regina, most definitely. She’s the only person Ewa would like to sincerely impress.

What motivates this character?

What frightens this character? The thought of dying without being loved by her family the correct, unconditional way.

What makes this character happy? Being at home with her wife, Essence, watching movies, cuddling, writing, cooking. She enjoys peaceful walks outside on rainy and sunny days. And the thought of her upcoming child enthralls her.

Is the character judgmental of others? She is not at all a judgmental person. She likes to think of herself as less human as possible. She wants to be a spirit; a single species that does not take on jealousy or temptation or criticism of others’ faults. She’s the type that gives compliments to complete strangers.

Is the character generous or stingy? Generous !!

Is the character generally polite or rude? Polite !!

Spiritual Characteristics

Does the character believe in God? She believes that God is the higher power, but she believes without structure. She simply feels that God loves everyone, no matter who they are or what they do. She believes in equality among the human race.

What are the character's spiritual beliefs? She’s a spiritual person in terms of the earth. She’s very “green” and also a vegan. She believes in saving all living creatures. She’s meditative and she takes time out her day regularly to reflect on herself, to be alone, to vision her importance and the importance of the people around her, and to digest life one day at a time.

Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life? She’s a non-practicing Christian. She does believe in God and she does pray at times, but she doesn’t go to church or even read the Bible.