Post by cj on Oct 26, 2007 20:34:08 GMT -5
Alyssa DeValmont
Full Name: Alyssa De Valmont
AKAs: Aly
DOB: 22 December 1979
Age: 27
Sex: Female
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Blue
Height: 5'7”
Weight: 110 lbs.
Nationality: French
Residence: Paris, France
Close Friends: Darius
Languages: English, French and Japanese
Personality: Outgoing, outspoken, protective of those she cares about, a survivor, strong, independent.
Any Special Skills: Alyssa was once a promising artist but gave up her ambition to work at the sanctuary.
History:
Born in 1979 to 20 year old Françesca De Valmont on a snowy winters night at the family seat in Vaucottes, Normandy.
Françesca was never a mother to Alyssa, resenting her for, as she saw it, taking away her youth. Françesca would not allow a child to take away her aspirations and so Alyssa was brought up by her nanny Elõise allowing her mother to go about her life unhindered.
Treated more like an accessory than a child or a daughter, Alyssa grew up to know her mother as a distant person who would occasionally send for her, always insisting that Aly call her Françesca.. never mother. The few times each week / month / year she would see her mother were spent in cordial brief encounters, over tea or on special occasions dinner at which Alyssa was to behave like the perfect daughter.
The only hand Françesca had in Alyssa’s upbringing was to send her to this school or that, ensure that she never wanted for anything financially and that she always upheld the family name. She didn’t show very much interest in her daughter’s life at all until her daughter was old enough to introduce to society, at which point she was very interested, but by that time Alyssa wasn’t interested in what her mother had to say and left home for University and her own life away from the Valmonts.
While studying at the Sorbonne, Alyssa enrolled on a volunteer programme where she met Darius. His church was collecting clothes and bedding for a shelter he was opening up in the centre of Paris. After meeting with the Priest a few times Alyssa had decided that she wanted to help him, but unlike her mother she didn’t just get out her check book, unlike her mother she offered her time and her ideas.
Darius inspired Alyssa to change her Art History major to Psychology, he inspired her to want to make a difference.
Five years later Alyssa is helping run the safe house and acting as a counsellor for the many kids who pass through their doors each night.
Played by Carole