Geneviève Stampdale

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𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙴𝚅𝙸È𝚅𝙴 𝙵𝙻𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙼𝙿𝙳𝙰𝙻𝙴


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𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙴𝚁𝙰𝙻 

𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙳𝙴𝚁:Female

𝙳.𝙾.𝙱. 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙱𝙸𝚁𝚃𝙷𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴: Lyon, 15th June 1880

𝙰𝙶𝙴: 23 y/o

𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁 𝚂𝙸𝙶𝙽: Gemini

𝙰𝙻𝙸𝙰𝚂: Genny, Geny

𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙽𝙾𝚄𝙽𝚂: She/Her

𝙾𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: Straight

𝚂𝙿𝙴𝙲𝙸𝙴𝚂:Human 

𝙼𝙱𝚃𝙸 + 𝙴𝙽𝙽𝙴𝙰𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙼 𝚁𝙴𝚂𝚄𝙻𝚃𝚂 : INFP, 479


𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻𝙸𝚃𝚈 𝙰𝙿𝙿𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 

INTROVERT

SENSITIVE

CREATIVE

INDEPENDENT

SUPERSTITIOUS

ABSENT-MINDED

At a first glance, Geneviève seems to be, despite the cordiality she shows to people, a rather detached personality, it’s difficult when someone enters in Mallory’s house, to notice her, because she prefers not talking too much, and let her husband to be the true spirit of the house. In reality she not only can prove emotions, but is a really sensitive, self-aware and empathic person: her inner world is wide and she expands it through art, and a costant reflection around the world around her. She also feels keen with the new form of arts (which she tries to emulate in her drawings), theatre and music with which she was connected since she was a child. She's a huge fan of Chinese/Japanese music Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and the emergent talent of Maurice Ravel, but also likes more traditional artists like Gabriel Fauré, Giuseppe Verdi and Camille Saint-Saens. Although she's not an avid reader or has a culture you can find easily between women of her social class, she has a deep admiration for William Shakespeare's plays and she always shows herself moved by his works. She also likes to daydream about the possibilities for a better future and about exotic places, basing to the novels she reads and almost the only way to don’t think to her sad fate when she’s alone at home, practically most of her time: being the wife of a man that doesn't care about her values and treats her only like a doll to exhibit or a mother for his future children. Although it doesn't seems, Geneviève’s views can be considered strongly offbeat for a woman of her time: despite she isn’t particularly focused on the past, but rather sensitive to her contemporary reality, she truly desires to be independent to her family to love whoever she wants and also supports morally the Suffragist movement and is politically strongly leaned towards the left (she particularly kind of sympathises -or better idealises- the Fabian party). Despite these revolutionary views of the world, she's still genuinely bounded to spiritual world and religion, since she was raised by a Catholic mother, she truly believes in God and saints, and can't even imagine a world without their presences. However, sometimes her faith mingles in superstition, and although she's way more skeptical regards, she still kind of believes on them nor likes when others don't follow them. But also she has some prominent flaws as well: cause her closure she’s a person who is hard to know well, and only with a few people between the large circle of acquaintances can actually understand and fully accept her sometimes extravagant presence. She’s also a person who even if she’s in difficulty, prefers to resolve her problems to herself, preventing others to help her. She’s often seen when she interacts with persons external to her trusted circle of friends as an absent-minded person, who can overthink too much about anything good or bad she’s been told or about her relatives’ problems, even if she doesn’t fully like them.

𝙷𝙴𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃

𝚆𝙴𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃

𝙴𝚈𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙾𝚁

𝙷𝙰𝙸𝚁 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙾𝚁

𝚂𝙺𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙾𝙽𝙴

𝙼𝙰𝚁𝙺𝚂 / 𝚂𝙲𝙰𝚁𝚂

1,62 m/ 5’31’’

61 kg/ 136 pds

Hazel

Auburn

Fair

None to be noticed



𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙺𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳 

Geneviève is the only daughter of Frederick Stampdale, a wealthy owner of a rising industry and Manon Poulenc, the daughter of a French banker. During the infancy of the young lady, her family often changed location cause her father's big passion of , between France, particularly Lyon (her native town) and Paris, where she developed her own independent beliefs and were her only few sincere friends live and the Austro-Hungaric empire (with a particular period passed in the town of Trieste), passing for variable times in her father’s homeland: England. However her family recently decided to turn back there and stabilising permanently due to her father got a serious illness during his travels. Despite he was saved from death, he remained permanently paraplegic.
During the childhood and teenagers years, Geneviève grown up as a young beautiful lady who, despite her sensitivity and her good perceiving abilities, wasn't skilled at all in social relationships, despite her frequent change of location; Manon, since Geneviève's introversion worsened due to her father's health, tried to open up the daughter, with a genuine try to don't let her excessively struggling about him. For this reason, she started sending her to balls, charity in London through the recommendations of her father's acquaintances, despite she didn’t like most of the people she met due to their hypocrisy. During an apparently restrained party, she and her mother encountered Lord Mallory, a decadent aristocrat who attracted by the young lady’s traits and the richness of her family, proposed Manon and lately Frederick to let her know his only son, Rupert and eventually marry him.
Charming, extremely well-mannered and soft-spoken: that was the right combination to be soon loved by her parents, who were also encouraged to combine a marriage by the convincing voice of her father and by the tempting prospective of seeing their precious daughter married with a nobleman; however Geneviève felt him such an ambiguously disturbing presence, perceiving a veiled and continuous mockery, almost a total indifference in each movement, word and gift he did for her. Despite Geneviève tried in vain to interrupt this engagement, she was eventually convinced by her family to reflect about the social and economic advantage both of the family would have if this marriage was celebrated, and for not disappoint the hopes of her parents, she accepted to celebrate the function. 

She soon felt unloved by her new environment, despite she was prepared of the pain she could get: her new husband, since the first days of marriage, despite he was still trying to be cordial towards her, neglected almost completely ignored her presence, leaving Geneviève almost isolated in a gilded cage for most of the time , being visited rarely by her father-in-law and mysteriously receiving few letters from the ones she cared the most. She was considered by Rupert in social occasions, as she was a doll to exhibit to his friends, and then not a single sign of affection by no one in her new ambient; only her artistic hobbies and the passionate reading of plays and novels, mixed with an increasing religiousness and self awarness managed to give to her the will to adapt herself there.
To worsen this already isolated situation, few years posterior to the marriage, the girl got sick by a pneumonia; the husband for convenience more than real affect, called a good doctor he knew, Cornelius P. Spurling, which managed to cure her in time before she could pass away. Meanwhile, he got interested by the various sketches Geneviève left around the home, and as soon she recovered by her sickness, he started to frequent more often Mallorys’ manor and slowly he managed to know the artist who was hiding behind them with the excuse to being closer to Rupert as well. Exceeded a long, embarrassed closure by the noblewoman, she managed to slowly open up the right to perceive the presence of the doctor as warmer than her husband’s, as he was someone who genuinely liked her art.

During the times they saw, during which Rupert actively participated to entertain his friend and his wife, they discovered to share more interests and views about the world than she could expect, and finally she got in love by him, seeing Cornelius as the first man who was capable to fully understand her. She considered him the boost for which she decided to bring back her life actively and eventually accepted to risk her own reputation for being his lover. However Rupert’s presence was still incumbent and they both questioned themselves about his ambiguous behaviour: how Rupert was so emotionally distant to Geneviève until Cornelius attended frequently his home? Was he in some ways yet acknowledged of their relationship, and if so why he didn’t put her on shame like other respectable men? Why from the day of the marriage, despite she sent letters to her beloved ones, she didn’t get a response? What actually does Rupert while he’s outside home?
They both couldn’t get an answer, but were more than motivated to investigate to his own secrets.


𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙿𝚂
 

Rupert Mallory  | Husband  

She has a complicated relationship with him: despite she respects him and lets him to be allowed to live his life as he wants, from one side she proves a sort of terror by his cold presence, from the another one she's not that sure to even know him, as he is too secretive and kind of rude towards her: despite they were married for a while, it seems that both of them weren't that motivated to know better each other, since Rupert is often distant both physically and emotionally by her to the point to not have even consumed their wedding and in the moments in which they are together either Geneviève is too closed and scared to talk to him too much. Both engaged in their own closures and didn’t even try to change this situation, until Cornelius was exasperated by this situation and decided to try, along discovering what actually does Rupert when he’s alone and knowing the strengths and the weaknesses of each other to get closer his friend and his lover in a warmer friendship. 
 
 

Cornelius P. Spurling | Lover  

With Cornelius, Geneviève has a way warmer and passionate relationship: as being the first one to give her some emotional support since she was married, the doctor was at first interested by her personality as an unusual kind of artist, but later he got fascinated by her genuine behaviour and the openness of her mind and managed to attire her attention. Despite even with him she may not be the most open person in the world, they have similar views of the world and their secretive relationship is mostly flued by a positive influence reversed in each other and dreaming of a better future both together and in the world they live in. Cornelius was also the first one to notice a grain of independence in the apparently dependable personality of Geneviève, so he sustained her to be more coherent with her ideals and to care less about the environment she fears. But as Cornelius is often irritated by Geneviève’s closure and sometimes incoherence, and in return the lady rolls her eyes whatever the doctor shows his stubbornness and his overprotective attitude, they shown themselves more than once to have an healthy bond, that despite being secret and even dangerous for Geneviève’s own reputation, improved their relationship with other people, Rupert included.
 

𝙼𝙸𝚂𝙲𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙴𝙾𝚄𝚂 


  • In more than one occasion, Geneviève demonstrated herself to heavily despises wearing hats: the main reason is because she's illogically conveinced that with an hat on her head, she couldn't think at anything, as the headgear is a barrier that blocks her ideas to come to her head.
  • Since she was the only daughter of an upper bourgeoise family, she learnt to play the piano to impress any possible admires, she wasn't so costant in learning it nor she enjoyed it; she regretted not being able to have more interest before, and during the huge absences of Rupert, she passes part of the time recovering what she didn't done before 
  • The place where she's conveinced to pass the best moments of her life is Paris: in fact on the French capital, when she was little, she assisted to the Universal Exposition of 1889, which shaped her own interest and aesthetic; moreover she met there the only friends that before Cornelius felt sincere and genuinely interested about her 
  • Despite she's more of a contemplative and reflective person, that doesn't mean she doesn't like luxury or hasn't care on herself: in fact she works hard to keep herself as a beautiful young woman not for being appealing to men, but rater to have a reason to like herself more and maybe to be confident. Also, as lately found on Rupert as well, she doesn't mind surrounding herself with beautiful ornaments, nor to completely give up her comforts since she's aware about the luck she got to be actually a noblewoman. But doing so it actually underlines the inconsistency with some of her ideals, and she eventually learns to balance both side of her personality.


𝙷𝚃𝙼𝙻 𝚋𝚢 Dadakai