Florence DeVos

Florence DeVos is an Original Character created by Lucky107.

Appearance
Florence is fifteen years old and what one might consider tall for a girl her age. She's lithe and considerably less well-built than some of her male companions, but she doesn't indulge in the gentleman's sport of boxing. The bulk of Florence's strength is within her legs and abdomen. Her most distinguishing feature is a café au lait spot just below her left eye.

Given her European makeup, Florence often sports a sun-kissed tan with blonde hair and hazel eyes. While she once wore her hair grown to her shoulders with a special adoration for cute headbands, she has quite recently adopted a short, boyish style. Rumors circulating the student body suggest that she cut it herself in the heat of a manic episode after her first all-American break-up with the Bullworth Bullhorns fullback, but nobody knows for sure.

Florence wears the standard girl's uniform, as defined by her clique, with an open collar blouse and rolled-up sleeves. She almost always wears her Aquaberry necklace and matching bracelet outside of the gym. In the winter she switches up her vest for a full sweater, but little else changes.

She wears a simple, but modest pink nightgown when she sleeps and she dresses as the Statue of Liberty for Halloween.

Characteristics
In spite of her slim form, Florence comes from a sporty background and enjoys running track to keep in shape when she's not attending cheerleading practice. She's largely passive by nature and rarely resorts to violence, even under intense pressure. Her stoic character in the face of bullying shouldn't be mistaken for apathy, though, as just beneath the surface is an incredibly distraught young girl battling alcoholism and depression.

No one can deny that Florence is smart. Her book smarts far outweigh her street smarts, but what she lacks in her inability the throw a punch is made up for in her quick-witted intelligence. While she favours the liberal arts to more technical fields, she pulls a decent grade in all of her classes—without paying.

She doesn't go out of her way to be friendly with her peers, but she's not considered to be unfriendly, either. There are obvious social barriers that come with her foreign status that make forming meaningful relationships considerably more difficult, but it doesn't prevent her from trying. For a preppy-aligned student, she is one of the friendlier characters within her clique unless in the presence of greasers.

Florence is studious in her academic pursuits and goes to great lengths to avoid stepping on the toes of other students. She will never go out of her way to make trouble, but may stray into mischief unwittingly - especially when she's being misled by her more devious peers at Harrington House.

When not at the gym, Florence busies herself with amateur floral arrangement at the Harrington House greenhouse or sharpens her wit with a game of chess at the Library.

History
Florence DeVos was born in Brussels, Belgium on October 15, 1991.

Life at home was strict: her parents placed exceptionally high, but often conflicting expectations upon her at an incredibly young age. While they could never seem to agree on what it was they wanted for her future, what was for certain was that she was going to be the best at whatever it was.

The majority of her young life was spent in the care of her nanny, Charlotte Desmet, until she was sent to live at a private boarding school for girls when she was ten. Those three years away from home provided her first real chance to explore the subjects that appealed to her interests and not those forced upon her by her overbearing parents. It was during that time when her passion for sports and the arts was allowed to flourish.

Florence was nearly fourteen and preparing to begin high school when her father informed the family of his decision to relocate them to America in the interest of expanding the family's chocolatier retail market. The frequent absences of her father to the company's headquarters in Belgium and her mother's growing suspicion of his affair with the family's nanny brought great strain upon the family as they attempted to adjust to their new environment, but they found some consolation in the friendship of their neighbors, the Vanderveldes.

In an effort to fully assimilate herself into an Americana lifestyle absent of the pressures at home, Florence requested that she be permitted to live on campus at Bullworth Academy after being enrolled for her freshman year in the fall of her fourteenth year.

What Florence failed to realise was that the highly publicized 'American Dream' was little more than an advertising gimmick and she fell hook, line, and sinker.

Relationships
Coming Soon

Trivia

 * Florence's frequent association with or desire to live the American Dream and largely enigmatic projection to her peers is similar to that of Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby.
 * Florence's isolation from her peers by means of mental illness, familial wealth and world experience is used as a frequent parallel to The Lady of Shalott.