Babbette Nubia Monroe
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Summary |Babbette|Aries|African American|INTP|1923|
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Basics
Name (Pronunciation)[Meaning]: Babette Nubia Monroe-
Nubia probably came from the Egyptian word for gold “Nbw” and was the name of an ancient kingdom south of Africa. Her mother gave her this middle name because of her dark skin. Babette is the French version of Elizabeth, meaning “My God is Oath” and her mother gave her this as a first name because her mother was named Babette. Monroe means “from the mouth of the roe” the roe being a river in Ireland. Her middle name is of Egyptian and Roman origins, her first name is French and her last name is English/Scottish.
Nickname (Pronunciation)[Meaning]: Nubs based on her middle name and Bab/Babs/Babe based on her first name.
Age: Depends on Part of Story
Date of Birth: April 16th 1923
Place of Birth: The Commonwealth of Freedmen, United States
Gender: Cis-Female (She/Her)
Race/Species: African American
Language(s): English (First Language), French, Latin, Greek.
Phrase(s): "What's wrong witcha, love?"
Physical Description
Height: 4'11
Weight: 100 ibs.
Eyes: Brown Eyes (Drawn with a purple tint)
Hair: Black hair (Drawn as dark purple)
Skin: Dark Umber with Silver Undertones
Physical Description: Babs has dark umber skin with silver undertones. Her hair is lengthy unless cut, growing longer than most, and has a dark black color. It's naturally kinky, but she either straighten and curls it or wears a wig to give off the beach waves look that she's known for. She has a "vixen" body with wide hips and big bossoms. She's not too tall either, reaching 4'11 and not growing any taller. Babs has small, dainty features; including small hands and feet. Her face includes wide lips and "sultry" eyes, as many call them, with full eyelashes.
Typical Clothing: In family settings she wears dresses that reach the knee, stockings and black heels/mary jane. In friend settings she wears jeans, overalls, sweaters and other comfy clothes.
Equipment: Her makeup and trusty cape, made by her grandmother.
Personality/Attributes
Personality/Attitude: Babs in the start of her life and throughout her teenage years is known for being a docile, quiet girl with unmatchable intelligence in her peer group. She's dependent on other people and the attention they gave her, but besides her scholastic achievements she's often ignored for her other siblings. This causes her to be a bit of a loner with a low self-esteem, knowing just how to keep herself occupied whilst being alone and feeling unlikeable. Anybody who gave her some type of love and attention, however, would gain her enternal loyalty. The docile and sweet persona hid a quick-witted girl, however, who loved to banter with her small group of damn near equally intelligent friends. This sharp-sighted personality continues onto her young adulthood, where she becomes a tougher shell to crack, yet still as much of an attention-seeker as ever. She uses her sharp tounge to battle against anybody putting her down, from strangers to family members. Her docility turned to hostility towards her bullies and nay-sayers. She becomes the prideful girl she always wanted to be but never knew she could be, slowly becoming less and less dependent on others and what they say. Slowly though.
Talents/Skills: She's a proficient singer and prose writer. Also a good debator, she wants to even become a lawyer at some point.
Hobbies/Interests: Singing, Writing, and Debating.
Fetishes/Strange Behaviors:
Sexual Preferences: Bisexual
Place/Type of Residence: The Gardens Gated Community, The Commonwealth of Freedmen, United States
Occupation: Student/Intern/Secretary/Musician/Poet
Family/Friends/Pets/etc:
Fears: Funny enough, losing her family and other people close to her.
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Background:
Backstory: Babs was born into the elite Monroe family. Her grandfather was known as a "founding father" to the Commonwealth, figthing for accesible education for all black people and promoting them to move to The 'Wealth to obtain that education. He could be single handedly credited for bringing in a 4th of the Wealth's population after the Civil War. Babs father was a teacher who, after obtaining his law degree, became a lawyer for politicians and is beginning his own political career. Her mother is also a former teacher who became a housewife after her 3rd child, though that didn't stop her from working. She becomes a philanthropist, working as treasurer in a program for mid and upper class housewives who want to help poor woman and their children. She had three older sisters, all leaving the house for college and careers in teaching (though one chose the nursing life after a year of annoying children) at sometime before she entered middle school. She has one older brother, but they were Irish Twins, him only being 10 months older. She has one younger brother, adopted, and a younger sister.
Her younger sisters ends up becoming the star of the family. She had a cute, pudgy body, light skin, and long curly hair. She was the black elites vision of the perfect daughter and the perfect young lady. Even though Babs was a bit more on the education side, little sister became a model and a dancer in her younger years, overshadowing her older sister in every measure of the word. Unfair world right? Every scholastic achievement she reached was celebrated for a second before her sister unsuspectingly overshadows her. Even though she didn't understand that it was colorism at first, through bullying at school and snide comments made by family, she notices that her dark skin was the "Problem".
Her first friendship was with the daughter of a woman deemed as a "whore" for her relations with a white man who supports her luxurious lifestyle. Though this angered her father for a moment he accepted that any friendship was good for his lonely daughter. This friend, Alexandrae, and her beautiful mother, Cecilia , taught Babs about self love when no one else would. Through also befriending her maids daughter, Bethlehem, Babs found away to not be as alone as she use to be. Through writing many poems and songs she had outlet for emotions she couldn't even tell her best friends.
As she grows up she becomes persistent in becoming a lawyer instead of a teacher, breaking a Monroe family tradition and gender roles at the time, and she wants to go to college in mainland U.S. and Howard University. During college when she comes home for break she begins to venture the city she was born in with her girlfriends. This brings her to the popular and huge club Afroasia (working name), managed by a Blasian young lady. In this place she meets with the manager and is given the oppurtunity to sing and ghostwrite music without fearing any of her elite brothers will ever know. She also meets with the "scum" of 'Wealth society. People she'd never meet in the Gated Communities she was sheltered in. Through this she learns about the humanity of the people the rich tell you are monsters and animals.
| Parents | Barbara | Nicholas |
| Siblings |
Penelope Nicole Pamela Birdie |
Archie Malcolm |
| Extended Family |
Bernette Ajax Chasity Mays Belle Mays |
Nathaniel Monroe Vermont Monroe |
| Friends |
Bethelem Carneige Cecilia Alexander |
Charles Von Clairmont |
Additional Notes
Tropes:
Not With them for the Money- Her arrangement to marry Clairmont may have been because both of these families are rich and that it could bring their family name upwards, however she is generally marrying him because he's interesting. If it was just for the money she would have called it off, regardless of her parent's begging.
Lonely Rich Kid- Her childhood was mainly like this.
Old Money- Her family has been rich since the early 1800s, the Monroe family having a huge black business in the North.
