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Basics
HOME: Chicago, IL, USA
TIME: Recent past
ROOM #: FU2
AGE: 23
OCCUPATION: Waitress, bartender
EDUCATION: GED
SIBLINGS: Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl, Liam
PARTNER: N/A
FRIENDS: Veronica Fisher, Loki Odinson
PB: Emmy Rossum
HAIR: Long, dark brown, wavy and often messy
EYES: Brown
HEIGHT: 5'6½"
BUILD: Skinny
COMPLEXION: Caucasian, pale, sometimes sallow
FIONA
gallagher
from SHAMELESS
Fiona Gallagher does not want your pity. From a certain, reasonable perspective, she's as tragic a figure as they come, the eldest of six siblings and responsible for her no-collar, Southside family's stability as far back as she can remember. Her father is a professional alcoholic, and her mother a bipolar addict who only ever stuck around long enough to get pregnant again. She's been working two and three and four jobs at a time since she was a kid just to make sure there was food on the table. She's lived so long driven by her poverty-level circumstances that her identity is inextricably linked with it.
But Fiona Gallagher says fuck you to your pity, because she always did manage to put food on the table, and to hold the pieces together amidst her mother's depressive episodes or her father's binges, and to raise five pretty damned great kids. And if it took surrendering up an essential part of herself to manage it, so what? She gets the job done because if there's one thing Fiona's learned, it's that you can't count on anybody else to get it done for you. What she'd never admit, not even to herself, is that her family is as much the worst thing as the best thing to ever happen to her.
On the one hand, those kids are responsible for Fiona's unshakable moral compass, her fierce loyalty, and her tenacity. She was—IS—the sole role model, constantly battling against her father's bad influence because she believes her brothers and sister deserve better. On the other hand, Fiona seldom truly believes that she deserves better, few of her hopes and aspirations actually for herself. She is a girl so long resigned to her role as caregiver that she clings as fiercely to it as she does her siblings. They're going to leave her one day, just like everybody else always does, and that scares the shit out of her.
Playlist
♪ Little Boots - New In Town
♪ Lorde - Royals
♪ Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (RAC Remix)
♪ Foster the People - Call It What You Want
♪ Lorde - Royals
♪ Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (RAC Remix)
♪ Foster the People - Call It What You Want
But Fiona Gallagher says fuck you to your pity, because she always did manage to put food on the table, and to hold the pieces together amidst her mother's depressive episodes or her father's binges, and to raise five pretty damned great kids. And if it took surrendering up an essential part of herself to manage it, so what? She gets the job done because if there's one thing Fiona's learned, it's that you can't count on anybody else to get it done for you. What she'd never admit, not even to herself, is that her family is as much the worst thing as the best thing to ever happen to her.
On the one hand, those kids are responsible for Fiona's unshakable moral compass, her fierce loyalty, and her tenacity. She was—IS—the sole role model, constantly battling against her father's bad influence because she believes her brothers and sister deserve better. On the other hand, Fiona seldom truly believes that she deserves better, few of her hopes and aspirations actually for herself. She is a girl so long resigned to her role as caregiver that she clings as fiercely to it as she does her siblings. They're going to leave her one day, just like everybody else always does, and that scares the shit out of her.
