About
Name
➵ Patrica Elanora Rooney
Nicknames
➵ Ella (Name she likes to be known by)
➵ Pat/Patty (Names she doesn't really like)
Age
➵ Twenty-Seven
Gender
➵ Female
Sexuality
➵ Bisexual
Ethnicity
➵ Irish-American
Zodiac Sign
➵ Sagittarius
Birthdate
➵ December 20th, 1934
Apperance
Hair
➛ Ginger. What else is there to say about someone with red hair? It's pretty curly, especially after it gets wet, but she takes time to care for it. She doesn't have it cut into a bob or hairsprayed up into a beehive, but it looks nice on most occasions. Often she'll throw a headscarf around it to tame it a bit and get it out of her face, as well as be a tad bit more stylish. Some people like how natural she likes to keep her hair, others find it to be a little too "dirty" or "untidy".
Eyes
➛ Some of the crispest blue eyes you have ever seen can be found on Elanora. The blue has just a hint of green, almost like someone can see the ocean in the sunlight through her eyes. A lot of people compliment her on them, but she usually brushes the compliments aside. She doesn't think they're anything special, she's had them her whole life after all.
Body Type
➛ A thin woman, Ella doesn't really have anything going for her in the "woman" department. She has no defined bust size, has little for a waist, and all the same can be said about her butt. She's also possibly a little underweight, as she hardly eats enough during the day. Not to say that she's unhealthy or skeletal looking, it's just perhaps she's a bit too skinny for a woman her age.
Face Type
➛ Ella has a very welcoming face, round cheeks and a wide smile that invites people in. She has thin eyes and a long round nose, medium-full lips and a slight point to her chin. Her cheekbones aren't raised too high and her jawline isn't too sharp. She's soft, and her face conveys that in a lot of different ways. A small dusting of freckles can be found highlighting her cheeks, but she tries to downplay them as much as possible. Her skin is also almost completely smooth, and a creamy pale color.
Clothing
➛ Like most women of her age, in the day and age she's in, she's conformed to the typical housewife wear. Her hair she does with what she wants, but her outfits she follows fashion trends. Full skirts, swing dresses, sheath dresses, kitten heel pumps, and mary-jane strap shoes; she has it all. For the most part, she wears solid colors with minimal accessories, as she doesn't really like how the flashy patterns look with her hair color.
Height
➛ 5'6
Weight
➛ 122 lbs
Faceclaim is Eleanor Tomlinson
Inside
Attitude
At first glance, people assume that Ella is a typical housewife, perhaps a little on the quiet side and a little less on the gossipy side, but still a pretty normal wife. It's the people who are close to Ella that get to see how goofy she is, how funny she can be, and how caring she is as an individual. But they also don't get to see what she closes behind smiles and pleasantries, the self-doubt she holds and the anxiety that plagues her on an everyday basis. No, they get to see a facade of a new marriage and a bouncy baby boy. It's those who get close that can see behind her walls, the real her that is full of fun but also full of sadness. But Ella doesn't have a lot of people she would consider herself close to, besides maybe her sister. But even then she can't confide everything to her, because she's a soon-to-be mother herself with a dedicated young husband. To sum up, Ella is a caring woman who smiles most of the time, even if she may be a bit troubled inside. She loves fiercely, and can even come across as childish with how playful and friendly she is.
Strengths
✓ Friendly - It doesn't matter who approaches Ella, she will no doubt be nice to them. There isn't a mean bone in her body, and she can't understand people that go out of their way to be mean to others. What is the point of intentionally hurting someone else for the gain of oneself? It's much more beneficial to be kind to others and reap those rewards, than to either be hostile or just simply rude. She also doesn't really gossip, even though she does kind of like to know gossip to an extent. She's a bit of an innocent soul, so when gossip goes too far then she doesn't want to hear it anymore.
✓ Dedicated - Once she starts something there isn't normally anything that will stop her unless her husband tells her to, a point she doesn't really like to think about. If she decides to clean the house that day, then guess what she's doing. If she needs to get Christopher to eat his dinner, they won't stop until he's finished it. Sometimes her dedication could be focused on something a little bit more beneficial, like making a better life for herself, but her dedication only goes so far. She has no idea what she could be cable of if she tried because she just doesn't see the point in trying to do something that won't work out.
✓ Motherly - Some would call her a bad wife, but there is no one that can call her a bad mother. She loves kids, but none more than her own son. Christopher is the love of her life, the only reason she has a want to keep herself alive. If he hadn't been born, she doubts she would have lasted this long in her life. If you need someone to babysit, then call her up because she's happy to help out in that regard.
Weaknesses
✗ Pushover - There is almost no will-power in her as a woman to stand up for herself, especially towards her husband. If someone wants the seat she's sitting in, then she'll give it to them. If someone wants to come in and rearrange her furniture, then she'll stand back and watch. She's a follower, someone who doesn't have her own set of ideals but ideals that have been pressured onto her. Her fashion is a product of other people, her husband a product of others, pretty much her whole life her choices have been made by others because she let others influence her too much.
✗ Emotional - Typically, women are seen as creatures that can't control their emotions and cry a lot. Well, that's kind of true for Patrica. It's not about dropping a pan in the floor or Christopher not listening that really makes her cry, it's when her husband comes home and points out her mistakes. Sometimes having a husband that is never satisfied with what she does, a young son, and taking care of a house wears on her and she just has to go stand in the bathroom and cry to herself. For the most part, she can hide it well because when she doesn't it's even worse for her.
✗ Unsure - To go along with her being a pushover Ella is almost always questioning herself, never certain of what she wants to do and when she wants to do it. When she starts something productive, like cleaning the house, then she does it. But she plans out forty different meals for dinner, picks out ten different dresses each morning, and debates what she's going to get at the store for thirty minutes before she gets on her way. Everything she does is thought about for an extreme amount of time, there is no surprises or randomness in her life, something she probably desperately needs.
Likes
✓ Sweets - Chocolate, candy, cake, pie... All of it, they are just all so pleasing to her. She can't make any of it to save her life, but God does she love to indulge herself just a bit. When neighborhood ladies bring her stuff she feels a bit bad that she doesn't have anything good to give them in return, but mostly she's just excited about the prospect of trying something new. For some reason, she really likes things she can eat in one bite, like chocolate covered strawberries or mini cake bites.
✓ Swimming - Something that doesn't happen often, she's usually confined to a bathtub, but Ella loves the water. She loves to swim, despite it being a rarity for her. The water is so calming, an encasing blanket that lets her drift off into thoughts of different people and different lives. The water brings fond memories and washes her anew, a thing that she will cherish always.
✓ Reading - When she isn't cleaning, cooking, or taking care of her son Ella likes to read. She's a pretty intelligent woman, and reading really expands her mind. She likes mystery novels the most, always trying to figure out who did what before the book gives it away. But she'll read just about anything, even those dumb romance novels where women need a big strapping man to come in to sweep them off their feet. They usually just make her shake her head or blush, depending on how far she gets into the novel before she quits.
Dislikes
✗ A Dirty House - While she doesn't really like the idea of cleaning and cooking in her own home as her job, she does like it after she goes on a cleaning spree and the house looks better. To spend a whole morning making sure everything is clean, to then take a deep breath and sit down is one of the best feelings. The process doesn't really bother her all that much either, as she can focus on something and it clear her mind. She doesn't really understand those women who claim they need a maid or live-in help to take care of the house for them, as it's really not as bad as everyone makes it out to be.
✗ Expectations - A lot of people in the world (her husband, the women she calls friends, society...) they all expect something from her. They want her to be in the kitchen with a baby on her hip and a four-course meal on the stove. They expect her to dress and act a certain way, to have her hair styled and the house spotless. It's hard, a lot harder than anyone ever gives her credit for. She hates it, honestly, but what is there to do? There isn't really a way out of people expecting things of her, and it's simply something she has to live with.
✗ Cooking - Despite really liking cakes and other kinds of pastry sweets, Ella hates to cook. She has no mindset for it, and something almost always goes wrong with what she is making no matter what. Why is it that the cake doesn't rise right? Why is it that her pancakes are runny? And why does she have no idea on how to make meatloaf? That's a pretty common dish, a proper wife should probably know how to make that. Eating the stuff she makes isn't that much of a problem, she isn't wasteful, but it's getting there that is the hard part.
Fears
✗ Her Husband - She loves him... Well, she loved him. No, she loves him. Michael and she have been together for about half a decade now, how could she not love the man who fathered her son? It's just that he's so picky with her. He always wants everything to be so perfect, and most the time she doesn't meet up to those standards he so desperately wants to live his life by. He hates that she can't cook, and he hates that she wears her hair the way she does. Sometimes he yells, well, not really yells but just loudly disappointingly tells her what she does wrong. He always has tips on how she can change herself for the better, but it's become increasingly hard for her to meet up to the standards he provides for her.
✗ Change - Routine is what makes Ella tick, and without it she would most definitely go insane. If something messes up her schedule, then she's messed up for the rest of the day as well. Once she is in a place she wants to stay there, and she rarely likes to come out of her house unless she knows what was going to happen in advance. She isn't one to like sudden change or even randomness, even though she understands that both of those things are good for her. In low doses, randomness can be good. She could probably handle her sister randomly coming over to talk but that's about it.
✗ Being Stuck - Despite not taking well to change, Patrica is completely terrified of the life she is currently been thrust into. She's been married for almost five years now, and every day that passes makes it harder for her to break away. She thought the life she wanted was that of a lovely wife and doting mother, but all she's found she's only cable of doing is the latter. She wouldn't give up her son for the world, but there are other parts of her life she really wished would have turned out a bit differently.
History
Biography
The beginning of Patrica starts all the way in Ireland, as that's where both sets of her grandparents are from. Her parents, however, are first generation Americans, hard-working people who made a life for themselves in a country that wasn't their parents' home country. Joseph and Margaret, her parents, met in a small community when they were teenagers and immediately hit it off. They started a small soybean farm that eventually flourished into a thriving business. They loved each other, and through love came two beautiful children. Patrica came first, a bundle of red hair and child-like wonder. Next came Elizabeth, a loud child with a need to always be outside. The girls were wonderful children, nice to each other and always helping on the farm. A wonderful family that spent many years in harmony, each person having their own role and knowing where they belonged in the family. It wasn't until the girls started to come of age did change start to occur, a change Patrica had been grateful for when it happened but now is one of the biggest regrets of her life.
Michael and she had gone to school together, but he had been handsome and in the upper class while she was a little farm girl. He was older than her by a bit, but that didn't matter. She had had a crush on him in school, but that didn't mean they had spoken any more than a few words to each other the whole time they were teenagers. Once school was over she had gone back to work on the farm, and he had gone off to some fancy business school with his parent's money. Her parents were farmers, the working class. Even though her family owned their own house and land, they were still poor and held little to their name other than what they had always had. But one day about four years since the last time she had seen Michael, they ran into each other in town. She had been running errands for the family and he had been there for... Probably business stuff. He'd greeted her kindly, she'd blushed, he gave her a ride home in his car, and soon after that was a proposal. Her father had been hesitant to agree to the union, but she had begged and pleaded to allow their marriage. She would be taken care of, she wouldn't have to work and he'd buy her a house. He'd be able to afford them a television set and her nice dresses, he would be able to give her anything she would ever dream for...
So, they got married. The first year was probably the happiest she had ever been, as she really didn't need to do anything but clean the house Michael's father had bought him in town. She cooked well-enough, she put her all into it, and Michael smiled and ate it without much complaint. It was about year two that things started to change, that Michael started to get a little bit more aggressive with what he wanted Ella to do. He didn't hurt her or anything, he just was a bit more forceful with reminding her to keep the house clean or have his food on the table by the time he walked in through the door from work. She took it to heart, trying her hardest to please him. They had been so happy, surely she was the reason something was wrong. Over the next year, nothing went back to how it was that first year, so what else was there for her to do? Maybe something was missing in his life, she'd been feeling the same way recently, too. Then the idea to have a child was brought forth, and nine months later their son was born. The whole time she was pregnant and the first few months after Christopher was born Michael was the way he had been in the beginning, charming and grateful for what she did, but it went back to how it was before just as quickly as he had changed to his previous self.
Another year of her husband's anger, and he broke the news to her that they had to leave. He was done being in this podunk town and was getting a job transfer to a bigger city. They'd live in a suburb with plenty of people, and there she could meet some wives that actually knew what they were doing. One of his college friends actually lived in that neighborhood, and he had a great wife and children who didn't misbehave as much as their son. This was the town she had grown up in, the town her family still lived in, but he wanted to just move away because he didn't like being here? How could she tell him no, though? He had the job, he paid her bills, he provided for their son... So, they packed up their stuff and moved away. The last time she saw her family was at her sister's wedding, crying the whole time. Everyone thought she was sad because of her baby sister getting married, but she was more sad about not being able to see her as often. Or ever again, if it was Michael's way. Michael almost didn't go to his sister-in-law's wedding because he was better than a bunch of farmers getting together to dance about more farmers getting married. Patrica liked Elizabeth's husband, James, he was a kind man that would treat Elizabeth right... a man she would have been happy to marry.
Around Christopher's second birthday the family of three packed up and drove away, leaving behind the only home Ella had ever known. They got a bigger house and Michael got a better paying job, while she nursed a broken heart and a two-year-old. Christopher was his same old self, and Michael was actually bit more pleasant. But with a bigger house and better job comes a bigger need to have the perfect life, and Michael is becoming more annoyed with how Patrica runs things. She can't make the food his friend's wives can, she doesn't hang out with anyone to make him look better, and she sure as well doesn't try to make herself look better for him. She's just so tired, and she doesn't know what to do to make it better for herself. Maybe just give in to her life, instead of wishing for one she will never have? Michael's been bringing up the idea of giving Christopher a sibling, but she doesn't know if her heart can take another child having him as a father...
Family
➛ Michael David Rooney (husband; married for almost five years. thirty-two years old) [
image]
➛ Christopher William Rooney (son; two years old) [
image]
➛ Joseph Edward Byrne (father. fifty-three years old) [
image]
➛ Margaret Judith Byrne (mother. fifty-five years old) [
image]
➛ Elizabeth Donna Miller (younger sister; pregnant. twenty-five) [
image]
➛ James Henry Miller (brother-in-law. twenty-eight) [
image]