irisrowes

[irisrowes]

* ㅤ wanted connections ㅤ … ㅤ * open call!

* ㅤ friends ㅤ … ㅤ *

01. inner circle - iris' closest friends belong to her most inner-circle friendship. these are the friends she sees the most frequently - the ones she meets every thursday night at a wine bar downtown to bitch and gossip; who practically live at her apartment; who come along to all her dinner parties and seances; sit front-row at her parents latest theatre offering. some of the friendships within the group are stronger than other - spanning years! - and others are new and fragile, only finding their footing. [open to all / unlimited].

02. theatre friends - friends iris is connected through the theatre & film. her industry contacts, the friends she only sees occasionally because 'work' calls for it. [open to all / unlimited].

specifically within this group i would love to plot the following connections:

002. the theatre friendship that iris ruined through her lazy, selfish, lack-lustre commitment to the theatre. ideally they were working alongside iris on a shriek! a cry! and were burned by her unprofessional behaviour. ideas can range from this friend breaking the friendship because they were unimpressed with the lack of commitment from iris; their job suffering directly from iris' lack of involvement; a termination of work due to iris' firing & their friendship - options are endless! the two are no longer friends but will continually see each other through their theatre connections. [open to one muse].

002. the theatre friendship that began organically outside of the theatre. iris helped this friend climb the ranks of theatre due to her connections & now feels a sense of ownership over their career that has tainted their friendship. i'm envisioning a friendship that iris clutches onto dearly and sees as unchanged but the friend feels stifled by and wants out of - again options are endless for what this means and how the friendship works. [open to one muse].

03. high school friends / nyu friends - these are the friends iris will occasionally see around or may met up with for a coffee but who aren't close friends. friendships that feel like acquaintances but are special in their own sense of nostalgia. [open to all / unlimited].

04. family friends - friends (or not friends) because their families grew up close to one another. [open to all / unlimited].

* ㅤ foes ㅤ … ㅤ *

01. ex-best friend - a friend iris had been close to in childhood. very early childhood, a lifelong best friend. the keeper of all of iris' secrets - maybe even some that have been left unseen to this day. the falling out could have been dramatic or a whimper. what matters is that the two of them don't talk anymore and both hold major animosity towards one another for the end of their friendship. note: this is different to the (former) best friend maya mentioned in iris' stats / background. [open to one muse]

02. rivals - iris has never really worked. she has tried her hand at many different things and has given up all too rather quickly on all of them. she lacks drive and passion but she has connections and she milks every single one of them for what they're worth. i'm imaging a rival to iris in the sense of someone who is nothing but hardworking and resents how easily iris doesn't try. does not need to be theatre related or career related but would have needed to competed against one another at one stage ( a competition in high-school, for a friendship or a fling etc ). both can't stand the sight of each other. [open to two muses]

03. a burned client - someone who saw iris for a psychic reading and was left burnt when the details of their reading wound their way into iris' substack. [open to one muse]

* ㅤ flings ㅤ … ㅤ *

01. past flings - any romantic / sexual entanglements of the past. iris falls in and out of love quickly. none of these entanglements would have been long-lasting or meaningful but i imagine tension still following them around. iris has a bad habit of not letting people know it's over when she's decided it's over. [open to all / unlimited]

02. the one who got away - they dated in iris' early twenties. the only relationship that has lasted over six months for her. the only relationship where she was not the one to walk away but was left burnt. iris still holds resentment over what happened and a desire to return to what it once was. [open to one muse]

* ㅤ familial ㅤ … ㅤ *

open to plotting ideas for familial connections - i'm imaging cousins etc.

* ㅤ other ㅤ … ㅤ *

would love to plot all other ideas and connections <3 these are just a nice jumping off point - i'll be getting in touch with everyone once i've read through all character biographies but please don't hesitate to take up something listed here or present an idea that's not here!

#* ㅤ connections ㅤ … ㅤ * #* ㅤ iris musings ㅤ … ㅤ *

[irisrowes]

molly   gordon.     she/her.     cis   woman.      ›      spotted   at   the   met   steps   ,   iris   rowe   ,   most   likely   listening   to   hunger   by   florence   and   the   machine  with   their   airpods   pro   .   the   twenty-six   year   old   gained   quite   a   reputation   ,   known   to   be   -theatrical   yet   +charming  to   anyone   who   knows   them   .   you'll   easily   spot   them   when   you   hear   about   scattered   coffee   mugs   stained   with   red   lipstick,   midnight   tarot   card   readings   in   the   smoky   back   booth,   dried   floral   arrangements   swaying   from   the   ceiling,   candle-lit   dinner   parties   that   dissolve   into   seances   and   an   eclectic   theatre   backstage   full   of   various   haunted   knick-knacks    ,   followed   by   the   noir   29   by   le   labo   .   latest   nepoupdates   article   talks   about   theatre   heiress   iris   rowe   spotted   on   a   series   of   romantic   european   dates   with   best   friend’s   ex-fiancee   ,   but   i   guess   any   reputation   is   good   reputation   .

* ㅤ stats ㅤ … ㅤ *

full name:  iris rosalind rowe

nicknames:  rowe

gender:  cis female

pronouns:  she/her

sexuality:  bisexual

aesthetics:  scattered coffee mugs stained with red lipstick, midnight tarot card readings in the smoky back booth, dried floral arrangements swaying from the ceiling, candle-lit dinner parties that dissolve into seances, eclectic theatre backstage full of various knick-knacks, cigarette smoke curling around red velvet dusters, midnight games of poker in her paid-for-by-her-parents new york city apartment, late night train rides, waking up at midday, stumbling over fashion magazines littered over the bedroom floor

age:  twenty-six

date of birth:  12th october 1997 at 9.17pm

zodiac sign:  libra sun, pisces moon & gemini rising

residence:  brooklyn, new york city in a one-bedroom loft apartment that her parents pay for. iris lives alone but has a revolving-door of friends that come and stay with her for extended periods of time. the living room is always a make-shift bedroom. she used to have a kitten, whisky, but she ran away

occupation:  iris is forever changing occupations - she's been a florist, a medium, a psychic to the stars (the one brief summer she spent in hollywood with her father at sixteen), a thespian, an actress, an artist, an interior designer, a summer camp counsellor and a writer. she was the costume manager for her fathers' latest broadway play a shriek! a cry! but was quietly fired after she disappeared halfway during production to jet-set across europe. she's now putting all of her energy into writing her paid substack column: new york haunting.

* ㅤ appearance … ㅤ *

faceclaim:  molly gordon

piercings:  two piercings in both lower lobes and a cartilage piercing on her right ear

tattoos: a matching love heart on her ankle with her best-friend, 1997 on her right forearm, two cherries underneath the 1997, a tiny cross on her ribcage

style:  lots of black, lace, velvet, silky slip dresses, accents of red, mary-janes, velvet headbands, multiple heavy gold cross necklaces, an eclectic assortment of rings, ribbons, plaid, very bohemian when she's at the theatre, long skirts,

* ㅤ personality … ㅤ *

traits:  theatrical, charming, imaginative, bold, confident, loving, flighty, deceitful, selfish, irresponsible, dramatic, obsessive, vain, assertive, curious, captivating, cultured, dynamic, idealistic

labels / tropes:  the thespian

likes:  sitting in wine bars with her friends, tarot readings, creating mysterious scenes, parties, always being on the go, card games

dislikes  feeling restless, not being the centre of attention, corporate spaces, prolonged weeks of work

fears:  she's not afraid of anything

hobbies:  hosting dinner parties, tarot readings, seeing her psychic, attending plays, tennis, poker, pottery, whittling

* ㅤ family … ㅤ *

mother:  carolina tucker rowe, the leading actress of all william rowe's early broadway plays before she began co-producing productions with him

father:  william david rowe, renowned broadway producer, writer and director

siblings:  only child

pets:  previously: a kitten, whisky, and her childhood cat, sutton.

notable close relatives:  her aunt mabel rowe-myer, an acclaimed independent film director; her uncle christian rowe, an award-winning broadway composer; her aunt elizabeth rowe, a fashion designer who started the label rower; her aunt may tucker, an actress who starred in mabel's early indie productions; her grandfather benjamin rowe, an acclaimed broadway director

best friend:  iris' best-friend was actress maya valentine, who she had been close with since their years of secondary-schooling. the friendship ended the night of a tarot-card reading at iris' apartment - both their lips have been sealed over what has happened but there has been a notable lack of content featuring the two of them on their social media feeds

* ㅤ backstory ㅤ … ㅤ *

01. iris was born into theatre legacy - her grandfather was an acclaimed theatre director who brought his three children up in the theatre. her father, william, was the rising-star amongst the three of them. her parents met on the set of william's first play

02. her birth was a scandal - her father was married to lucinda wright, a family-friend, while engaging in an affair with his lead actress, carolina. iris' birth brought the affair to the limelight. it took years for his divorce to be finalised and her parents weren't married until she was six

03. iris' childhood was marked by instability. william and carolina often got into explosive fights that could span months. their house was often full of tension. there were periods of time where both would pack their bags and fly to opposite sides of the earth, leaving iris in the care of one of their siblings, her grandparents or a nanny. most of her childhood was spent in the theatre: backstage, front-stage, side-stage

04. her first role in film was when she was ten. mabel cast her as the leading child actress in a horror film - it was iris' first taste of what a bad review was; the tormenting from friends and reviewers followed her for years, yet, she liked the taste of being talked about

05. she attended a series of new york city prep schools through elementary and secondary. the year she turned fourteen she was caught drinking on school premises, leading to an expulsion and a six-month banishment to a swiss boarding school. iris loves new york and new york loves her; she concocted a plan for a second expulsion so she could return to her city

06. her teenage years were marked by rebellious behaviour that went unnoticed by both parents - underage drinking, inappropriate relationships, flying to france on a whim, overindulgent spending, returning home in the early hours of the morning

07. iris attended nyu where she miraculously and lazily got a degree in dramatic writing

08. iris spent her early twenties engaging in all sorts of side gigs and tumultuous relationships but now she fears she's truly in love & all it's all with the wrong person - her (former) best friend's ex-fiancee; she's stuck between throwing herself all in and searching for her latest obsession somewhere else

* ㅤ secrets & scandals ㅤ … ㅤ *

01. she's been spending all her time chasing her (former) best friend's ex-fiancee around europe - she's in love! she's writing sonnets for him! she knows its wrong but its what makes it all the more exciting - iris can't resist the chase of what isn't right

02. her (former) best friend didn't stop talking to her because of her current entanglement but because iris presented the cards of death at a tarot reading, reciting a foreboding future that left maya in tears - iris wouldn't stop, even when she was asked, even when she was laying into territory that made a mockery of maya's familial deaths

03. iris still lazily engages in her psychic readings but has taken it from the stars to the streets. she has a pop-up shop hidden away in madame piper's shop. iris knows its all a lie but she'll take money from anyone who is offering and tell them all the most gruesome, troubling tales she can think of - she sees it as writing practice. what makes it worse is that she takes the stories of her patrons and exploits it for her substack column

* ㅤ wanted connections ㅤ … ㅤ *

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#* ㅤ about ㅤ … ㅤ * #* ㅤ iris musings ㅤ … ㅤ *

[irisrowes]

molly gordon via instagram

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