Meet Quinn Fletcher, NRC's Student From Another World
Some Basic Info:
โFavourite subject: Astrology
โHomeland: A mysterious, magical, and mystical land known as South Africa
โSpecies: Human (but an alien according to twst XD)
โHobbies: Writing, reading, photography, collecting seashells
โLikes: The ocean/sea creatures, swimming, archery, cooking, nature, movies
โDislikes: Being put in charge, people who don't pull their weight, most of the twst cast, being shouted at, liars
โFavourite food: Quinn loves all kinds of food, so she can't really pick a favourite
โLeast favourite food: Spinach
Personality:
Quinn is very quiet, introverted and non-confrontational most of the time and generally doesn't talk to people unless it's people she likes about something she likes. She seems calm and a bit distant most of the time, but honestly, she just files away/suppresses most negative emotions whenever she's around other people. She dislikes the majority of the twst class, but looking at her, you couldn't tell.
Since coming to twst, she's seemingly been running on autopilot. Though she tries to be polite and kind, she actually has quite a short temper, but her anger rarely shows around others, though some people do notice and can feel it oozing out of every pore. In general she struggles with very intense emotions and thoughts of violence, but she usually just brushes it off, though rarely when she's alone she'll act out on it (During book 3 she smashed a few mugs and almost threw one at Grim bc she was really really fucking pissed about the situation). She's a pot threatening to boil over atp.
Quinn is a bit naive and not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, but she is a good liar and has found ways to manipulate situations to make her life easier, even if that means shifting the blame for something onto someone else.
She's a kind person, though being stuck in twst makes her feel the opposite, and her low self-esteem and myraid of health issues make her think she's not very useful or worth keeping around, though her creativity and her habit of overthinking things makes her good to have around if you want to prepare in advance for emergencies, and whenever she is put in charge of something she's surprisingly good at it.
Appearance:
Quinn is short and pudgy with dirty blonde hair dyed ginger and styled in a wolf-cut. She has grey-blue eyes (that sometimes look green) and pale-ish skin. Her face is dotted with freckles, and she has pretty prominent eyebags. She is always wearing a small silver heart shaped locket she got as a gift from her friend and she also occasionally wears a pair of cat earings.She can often be seen wearing jeans and coats with tons of pockets during the colder seasons and flowery dresses in the warmer ones. Most clothes are too big for her.
Important Things To Know:
โAt some point in the story Quinn stole one of Rook's bows and several of his arrows and though she can't handle it super well since she's a lefty using a right-handed bow, she did it well enough to threaten Ace with it once
โQuinn got sick on her first night in Ramshackle, and after that, she's been mostly unwell and not doing so hot, especially since she has no access to any of her medicine. Each overblot seems to make it worse.
โShe has started researching the world of twisted wonderland and treats everything around her like a fake, dream-like story. She's just learning the lore. These people are just characters. Everything's fine, and she's going to wake up soon :)
โBecause of how she's currently treating her situation, Quinn comes off as very distant and detached, sometimes even uncaring, even if she tries her best to be polite
โQuinn avoids the other students and tries to stay uninvolved in everything. She goes to class and she goes "home". Done. But she still gets roped into the main plot in various ways
โQuinn cannot stand Grim and would have kicked him out of Ramshackle if her existence as a student didn't depend on him. Her more aggressive and mean side will come out around him, unfortunately
โShe starts working at the cafeteria and at Mostro Lounge to earn some income. In general one of her ways of coping is by putting her head down and working and thinking about things to do rather than dwelling too much on the situation
'Quinn's Family:
Her mother, father, brother, and sister back in her original world
Backstory:
Quinn grew up with a disabled dad, a chronically sick mom, and two younger siblings. Her mom was very emotionally and sometimes physically abusive and outside of her friends things were pretty miserable and Quinn was almost always exhausted from taking care of most of the duties her mom was either too sick or too lazy to do and basically running the household with her sister. Things were made even more difficult by her family being extremely religious (her grandfather was even a pastor) while she was a queer atheist, and had to hide most of her interests and keep her appearance "acceptable" even if she didn't like it. A huge fight with her mother resulted in her being locked out of the house in the rain as a punishment, and she decided to grab the keys and just leave. It was while she was trekking to her friend's house that she came across the black carriage and woke up at NRC, where she was then burned and scratched during her first encounter with Grim. She's just trying her best to survive at NRC even if she does feel scared and lonely.
Some Fun Facts/Extra Info:
โQuinn is bilingual and will sometimes talk to herself in Afrikaans so that she isn't understood
โQuinn doesn't handle crowds super well and gets overstimulated much more easily than usual at NRC
โShe's perpetually exhausted, especially without her iron supplements
โQuinn really enjoys playing games and can get quite competitive (she does not like losing)
โThough Quinn generally keeps most thoughts to herself, she will mutter under her breath, and if you can overhear her, it would probably make a sailor blush (she swears a lot lol)
โQuinn kinda feels like a bad person bc she doesn't miss her family at all. She only misses her friends
โQuinn loves to learn and always wants to try all sorts of new things
โQuinn has ADHD and anxiety and is probablyyyy autistic too
โQuinn would often get in trouble for not being feminine enough and though she isn't trans sje does dress more masculine out of spite sometimes (When she does think about it though she may he gender apathetic who knowz)
โRook eventually got Quinn her own bow and wants to give her lessons bc her archery is, uh, pretty rusty
โDespite her wariness of the other students, Quinn will take up opportunities to get paid, which is how she got involved in Book 2. She insisted Crowley paid her if he expected her to larp as Sherlock/hj
โQuinn is almost always listening to music to decompress and keep calm. Takes her mind off things and she gets to vibe y'know
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A/N: Finally I have a Yuu! She's not super interesting rn but I will be developing her character and adding new stuff to her and her lore as we go along. I hope you guys like her so far!
