ARGENT, Noelle Aurelie

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name Bonjour! I am Noelle Argent.
nickname A lot of people call me Elle.
age I am eighteen years old.
gender A lady...well, I wouldn't say lady, but. I have girl parts!
grade Baum senior!
hometown Paris, France. Though, I was only there for the first four years of my life and remember none of it. I consider New York my home.
sexuality I like penis, yeah?
personification Babette/Fifi the Featherduster
status Awakened. I have this weird feather duster following me around. How weird, right? It wants me to clean. Ha!
face claim Freya Mavor

hair color Blonde, with a hint of strawberryin certain lights.
eye color Blue
build Most of Elle is pretty average; height, weight, that kind of thing. She does, however, have pretty nice assests but doesn't really know what to do with them. does this help?
height 5' 5"
clothing style Elle doesn't know all that much about fashion; her mom practically ate Vogue for breakfast and always tried to dress Elle up, but none of the trendiness rubbed off on her daughter. Elle usually sticks to skinny jeans and flowy tops. Without realizing it, Elle also tends to wear more suggestive clothing.
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personality
TWO-SIDED;;
No, calm yourself. Noelle is not two-sided in the sense that she'll act like your only confidant and then tell everyone your secrets. Beacuse of Babette there are two sides to Elle. When meeting pretty much anyone and even around her close friends, she's the Elle that Babette cultivated. Witty, funny, peppy Elle. People might call it shallow, but when like that, Elle doesn't typically let people in. No one knows that her father is an alcoholic, verging on aggressive behaivor. Hell, no one knows her father is even in the armed forces. After growing up with no one liking her and Babette insisting that she changes, Elle doesn't want people to see the other side of her; the thoughtful, curious, sweet girl. Noelle thinks no one will like that side of her, so she doesn't show it. That part is locked up big time and it'll take a special person to bring it back out.

A BIT DRAMATIC;;
One of the traits she shares with Babette and her mother. Elle has tended to exagerate things when with her friends. Coldstone is out of waffle cones? The world is over. Cute boy on campus? Our children will be named Louis, Zoey and Cosette. When you actually get her to speak up, it's found that Elle is actually a big hoot. She loves telling stories and her dramatic side is played up, making it that much more animated. Once you know her, Elle is always making everything into a Big Deal and puts ten times more emotion into things than she probably should.

It's all those feels she stores up while reading.

FLIRTATIOUS;;
Babette had to get Elle to do social. She couldn't just live with a girl who liked to read and watch Austin Powers and Anchorman. So, Babette brought herself out in Elle. Now, when meeting guys, Elle becomes Flirty!Noelle. Giggly, flirtatious, outgoing Elle. Babette usually has a big play in this, because Elle has no clue what to say after a few lines of banter. As Babette has been trying to make Elle socially independent, she hasn't helped much lately so Elle will just ramble off some excuse in French and run away. It's gotten better and Elle can carry on a very flirty, even sexual, conversation.

past
Dawson Argent, an outstanding army man, had been stationed in France for several months. He knew the language pretty well, and was getting the urge to start a family. He ran into Cecilie Fleur, and it was one of those whirlwind romances. They got married on base and soon had Noelle Aurelie, who was an American citizen by birth. The Argents lived in France for four years, before moving to New York.

Noelle was always a quiet child. Instead of barbies and dress-up, Elle wanted to read and play with Daddy's old action figures. Cecilie found this behavior quite odd, and was always pushing Elle to be "more of a girl", to "be like the other kids". Dawson, when home, loved spending time with his daughter. Secretly, he was glad she was turning out more like him instead of Cecilie. He could only handle one prima doña. Elle was a daddy's girl for sure, and this started the rift between mother and daughter. When she went to elementary school, Elle didn't make many friends. All the other kids thought "the girl with the Captain America lunchbox" was weird since she was quiet and always reading. During recess, she would often try to be alone and sit in the corner, pretending she was a superhero. Some days, the other girls would come over and laugh at her. Elle told momma that they didn't like her, but momma always made Elle play with the mean girls while she sipped martinis with the other moms. The girls would ignore Elle and play with their dolls while Elle tried, and failed, to interact.

She thought daddy was a superhero.

Whenever Dawson was stationed elsewhere, he made all these promises to little Noelle. He told her that when he got back, they'd go to the park, get ice cream together, play superhero...it never happened. Elle would beg and plead with daddy to please get off the couch, I wanna play with you. Daddy would yell at Elle to be quiet. Elle hated when he was home, because he drank. She didn't know what it was, but it smelled awful and made daddy act mean. Noelle didn't like when daddy watched tv for hours on end. Unfortunately, Cecilie wasn't much better. When her husband wasn't home, she craved someone to love her. Hell, she didn't even care too much about her own daughter. She thought Noelle was weird and a social outcast. Cecilie brought plenty of men home, some in plain sight of Elle, and found company in them. Daddy didn't love Noelle and momma didn't love daddy. It was around fifth grade that Elle began to despise her parents.

In seventh grade, Noelle realized that she lacked social skills. She was too shy to talk to people and people didn't seem to like her book obsessions. Every night, Elle would cry herself to sleep because she couldn't make a friend.

That's when Babette appeared.

Elle was totally creeped out. There, in front of her, was a talking feather duster. It kept shifting between duster and a tall, beautiful maid. Babette told her what she was and that Elle was her incarnate. "That's stupid," she'd scoffed. Elle had seen Beauty and the Beast; she wasn't flirty or girly like that. Babette then told her she was going to bring out Noelle's inner character. The rest of the year, Noelle learned how to be flirty and cute. It was all she knew about socializing-wise, so Elle became a big flirt while failing at everything else. She could carry on impressive flirty banter for a while and then-BAM! Awkward Elle was back.

That year, Elle enrolled at Baum Academy to get away from her parents and start over.
present
Now at Baum, Elle has been changed a lot by Babette. Instead of quiet!Elle, there's Outgoing!Noelle, who makes people laugh and has been known to string along a boy every once and a while. It's a front to protect Elle after years of psychological bullying by her peers and mother. Speaking of, Elle hasn't spoken to her parents in months. Dawson is overseas and Cecilie is still trying to act like they have way more money than they do. Elle noticed money was being taken out of her saving's account, so she closed it off from her mother. The Argent's money is obviously going fast, so Elle got a standard teenage job and...well, some not-so-standard side things.

Elle's synesthesia has become well-known throughout her class. She's always being asked to describe the weirdest things, like: malapropism, superciliousness, and tizzy. So, it seemed only logical to Elle to start a blog. Soon, everyone was logging on to see both her posts and videos, whether it be funny stories or just the day's mundane events. The blog got such a big following that advertisers began to pay her for having their ads on the sidebar or for her mentioning their products. She got clothes and products to test, as long as she blogged about it. To Elle, the blog is the real her. She doesn't feel ashamed when she rambles on about Clintasha OTP. Babette hates it, but can't do anything. She's only a feather duster, after all.

family
Dawson Argent -- 52 -- father -- Active duty military (Army; General)
Cecilie Argent -- 38 -- mother -- no job
likes
- Bonfires
- Reading (Marvel comics, adventure novels)
- Photography
- Will Farrel movies. Talledega Nights, anyone?
- Candles. She has a ton. Yankee Candles is her weakness.
- Her workout DVDs. It's one of those pole dancing things; Elle has crazy awesome upper-body strength now.
- Pajamas. They're so comfy! That's all she wears on the weekends.
- Bean bag chairs
- Mike Myers
dislikes
- The parentals
- Being involved in contact sports. Elle's the girl who got a concussion playing dodgeball in gym last year.
- Eternally quiet people. They just make her feel more awkward.
- People who are all "Oh Elle you're so pretty, BUT..." Bitch, you can end it at the but.
- Sports bras. Uniboob is never good on anyone.
- Dark nail polish. It always leaves behind colors.
other notes Elle has synesthesia, a condition where the stimulation of one sense leads to the involuntary, automatic stimulation of another sense. It's one of the reasons why she loves to read, because of all the colors. Elle has grapheme synesthesia (where letters and words are represented by certain colors) and sound to color synesthesia, where sounds are like a distinct color to her.

book title Beauty and the Beast
backstory Babette was one of the Beast's maids and got turned into a feather duster by the enchantress. It's said that her and Lumiere have always had a romance goin on.

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