OUT of CHARACTERName: Al
Other characters: Sandy Marko, Harley Quinn, Ruffnut Thorston
IN CHARACTERName: Faceless Old Woman.
Alias: Her original name was Mara, however she built her brand off the name "Faceless Woman" and legally changed it to that. Then as she grew older changed it to "Faceless Old Woman"
Fandom: Welcome to Nightvale
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organloaner PB: Adorea from Franken Fran
Age: 50
History: Faceless Old Woman was not always old, nor was she faceless. And like many but not all women she started her life in the Capitol as a girl. Born into a wealthy family her father was a talented doctor and her mother had a flair for selling fashionable clothes. She had no siblings and as such spent most of her time being raised by various hired help while her parents lived in pursuit of the things they truly loved...their jobs.
As she matured and the time came to take an interest in the way the world worked she began following people around her mother's shop, watching and waiting. Studying how they behaved and what made them behave that way. Attempting to organize types of people into categories in her head and even at times following them home and skulking around their residence. As this was considered creepy and unbefitting a girl of her age her father attempted to direct her down a different path by bringing her to work with him and showing her just how well a doctor could get to know his patients.
She knew at once this was her future. Seeing a body prone on a table, helpless, unaware of anything as her father worked to improve their life. What better way could she learn about someone then by literally shaping their lives from the inside out? With a new fire and fascination burning inside her she launched herself into the study of medicine with gusto. During her classes she began to daydream about the ways she could change a persons life through the use of a blade and other less sultry medical tools. And it was this desire that led her to discover plastic surgery and body modifications.
Throughout her thirties she became a fast rising star of the medical community particularly for her willingness and skill at providing custom order body modifications. The more success she had the more big name clients came to see her till she began to develop a name for herself and decided that she too needed to represent her art. And so she began drugging herself and performing procedures on her body with little to any assistance. Once she began however she found she could not stop and modified her face and body weekly, sometimes daily! The strain it put on her body became so painful that she developed a tolerance for standard pain killers and began abusing harder prescriptions that she could easily procure.
Deciding the easiest way to continue her brand without constantly changing her face would be to have no face at all, she began wearing bandages around her body only exposing her latest face when she had something truly beautiful to show. The mystique of it earned her the Title of "The Faceless Woman." which she happily milked for years until she was a faceless old woman to the general public.
With the trend of body modifications and extreme surgery coming to a lull, The Faceless Old Woman has taken a job working at Tribute Towers as on site plastic surgeon and one of a handful of doctors working at the facility.
Presentation: The first word that she likes to come to mind when people think of her is "Mysterious." She makes an effort to come off as strange and unique, utterly and completely an enigma to the Capitol Citizens. It's not terribly difficult given her wandering mind, her creepy mannerisms and sometimes strange habits and hobbies. She particularly enjoys sneaking up on people and speaking to them from behind or from a dark corner of the room. She is not shy though she may sometimes behave in that way.
She is most often mellow and relaxed either through her excessive use of pain killers or her detachment from humanity. Indeed after so many radical transformations to her body she sometimes refers to herself as something else entirely. Some etherial other that cannot be quantified by simple terms like "Human" or "Alive". Much of it is to enhance her persona while the rest of it keeps her relaxed in times of pressure.
Finally she is very particular. She is not afraid to send something back five times till it's exactly how she wants it, nor is she afraid to change her mind about what it is she wants. At the drop of a hat she's been known to take liberties with her patients requests and sometimes they love it! Sometimes they pretend to love it because of how much money they spent to have it done. She likes to organize and clean and reorganize not only her own work area and home, but the work areas and homes of others. Sometimes she has even been known to reorganize peoples organs so that they are still functional but more aesthetically pleasing.
Motivations: Inside, the Faceless Old Woman believes herself to be above even the Capitol Citizens. In her mind she answers only to the laws laid down by the government because to disobey would deprive them of her art. Such is her ego that she thirsts to be more then humanity. Greater then any natural being born. She just hasn't found the right inspiration yet.
Despite her detachment she can be kind so long as she takes a liking to you. The more open and giving you are of yourself the more she will take and the more likely she is to offer something in return. However to shun her "gifts" is insulting so it's a treacherous path. While she has a soft spot for off worlders it is largely based around a curiosity about how they are put together and how she can improve them. Unfortunately not many of them have show an interest in her abilities...yet. But now that she has a job where she can interact with them more frequently she intends on finding out more about them one way or another.
She strives for beauty and organization in her life and when she can't have those things she lashes out in destruction finding that it too can be beautiful. She considers things like a crackling fire fueled by cherished possessions almost poetic, as well as the way individual bits of skin can cling stronger then others when being removed for whatever reason. This sort of morbid fascination with things that she finds aesthetically pleasing makes her a challenging co-worker at times which is why only the most dedicated remain as her assistants.
Like all capitolites she relishes the life she rarely if ever considers the plight of those from outside the Capitol or those from off world. After all life is a wonderful, beautiful, chaotic thing. Why should anyone waste time doing anything that isn't creative or beautiful?
Plans: I believe that depending on her interactions with the other characters the Faceless Old Woman could go one of two particular ways. She could either gain more of a sense of empathy for others and attempt to aid people in ways that are not entirely about her sense of power and pleasure, or she could become even more obsessive, removed and careless until she ends up turning her trade to dangerous, possibly sadistic tortures in service for her beloved Capitol. Either way her loyalty stands firmly with the government that has allowed her to chase her dreams as idle or sporadic as they may be.
