Sylvia Leroux
She has no public nicknames, and her subordinates and co-workers fear or respect her too much too much to try and give her one. She does however like to be called by her last name or by Red, even though she’s not actually redheaded.
Physical Description
Quite a tall lady, she towers over most people, even some of the tallest men. She does find herself quite at home around the professional basketball players. She has medium length elf like ears, and a pair of ridged and twisting horns that start at her temples and curve upwards and back. Her hair is pitch black and she tends to keep it in a very neat bun held in place by a string of pearls. She isn’t as thin as one would expect of someone who looks like a model, but her additional weight is in just the right places.
She has a pale skin tone, but she does like to tan when she can. She is fairly subtle with her make-up, going for a strong pink lipstick, a light blush and purple eye shadow dusting with a little bit of liner on her eye lid. Her nails are also a pink color in a french style, and she keeps them fashionably long.
Physical Quirks
She moves like someone with a purpose, a long and commanding stride, but with a bit of a sway in her hips like she is going down a fashion runway. She doesn’t smile or show much expression when she is dealing with work things, leading to most people feeling that is very serious and strict. When she is listening to people, she tends to fidget with the key on her necklace.
Clothing Style
As a professional woman, she will tend to keep her looks as business as possible, going with a striped blouse, knee length pinstripe pencil skirt and knee length platform high heeled boots. While the boots and skirt are black, her blouse is a combination of black stripes, with magenta, blue and green fading colors. She will usually keep the top few buttons open, as she does want to use her looks to get better deals. She has a pair of gothic style gem earrings with large red gems, and a silver twisted ring on her right hand. She also has a necklace with a key at the end of it. In her casual look, she doesn’t change much except opens a few more buttons on the blouse.
Mental Characteristics
Personal History
Growing up in France, she was always fascinated with fashion, and first tried her hand at being a model. Unfortunately for her, due to her horns, most designers wanted nothing to do with her, as she would constantly ruin their delicate designs. But she still loved clothing, so she tried her hand at making her own line of hats for those with horns. It caught the attention of a major sports clothing designer, who hired her on to help them design clothing for those with horns. While she did a great job with this, they soon realized she was much better at making deals, and put her in charge on their sports line of caps, which began to take off quite well under her.
She started making deals with all the major sports teams and soon they were the go to company when it came to sports team caps. She has been with the company now for over 20 years, and has made it very profitable, and has in turn been rewarded for her hard work, both in stocks and salary. She has long since moved from France to New York, wanting to be closer to the headquarters of the company.
Employment
With a major in fashion design and minor in business, she found herself a job designing clothing herself, until she was scouted by a Red Cap Inc, where she has been working and rising in the ranks ever since. She is one of the most respected and highest paid employees at the company, having helped it grow immensely in the past 20 years since she joined.
Morality & Philosophy
A very disciplined and thorough woman, she always makes sure she has every angle planned for and a contingency for any situation. She also expects her subordinates to have a good work ethic and give every task their full attention. While this makes it seem like she cares only about work, she actually doesn’t mind if her employees goof around at work, as long as when they are working they focus on it. She doesn’t let them know that, however, as she knows this will lead them to take advantage of that. She does let them get away with a lot, and pretends like she doesn’t know what they are doing, and will let people listen to music on headphones while at work, as she knows it helps keep morale high. She also encourages casual friday.
Personality
Motivation
Her main drive is to make people happy with what they wear, and to feel like they are getting a good value. She has made sure that the clothing they manufacture is all manufactured in countries where worker protections are in place, and she uses that as a selling point to the customers, knowing that it resonates with people.
Likes & Dislikes
While she does work for a sporting clothing company, and makes deals with sporting teams, she isn’t much of a sports fan herself, and actually has to do a lot of research on the teams before she goes into negotiation with them. She is actually a fan of more classical music and entertainment like opera and theatre. She also loves ballet and proper orchestra concerts. While she doesn’t show it, she really doesn’t like modern music at all, and doesn’t like listening to anything newer than from the 1990’s.
Virtues
She is someone who believes that everyone deserves to be able to pursue their dreams, and as such wants to make sure all her employees are well cared for, and are able to pay their bills and keep above water. If she hears of someone under her employ is having problems, she will make sure to start a collection to help them out, and will usually be the first donor. She also wants to make sure that anyone making clothing for the company is paid well, and so there are no sweat shops for this company.
Vices
A shrewd and cunning business woman, she does what needs to be done to get the job done. And sometimes, this means she will do unsavory things. While she never crosses over into illegal or immoral, she definitely skirts the line into grey areas and can be a little unethical at times. This is a bad habit she picked up from her modelling times, when models would regularly back-stab each other for better jobs. She also isn’t above using her own body to secure a deal.
Quirks
She has a tendency to not show her emotions at all, being very stoic and almost plastic, a holdover from her modelling time. But when she is annoyed, she will tap her pen rhythmically on something nearby, be it a chair, desk, or anything else handy that makes a noise. When she is happy or interested, she will tend to be very still and look intently at the person she is talking to.
Values
She put great value in those who are open and honest with their feelings, something she has always admired that others can do, but she cannot. She also finds that those who appreciate art are the most interesting people, and prefers those who have what she considers a taste. In other words, she likes when people have specific things they like, rather than just following the current “flavor of the month”.
Sexual Style
While she doesn’t have regular partners, nor does she take them often. She has no preference in regards to male or female, and will take anyone to bed with her if she likes them or she thinks it may get her what she wants for a deal. She does have a fairly high sex drive, but with her job and what she likes hasn’t been able to act on it as of late. This has led her to going to local art museums and talking to folks to find people to pick up, and taking them home to enjoy. While she is well versed in faking it for work, when she finds someone she really likes, she is not afraid to let it show, and tends to be very vocal, and loves dirty talk. She also is more than a little aggressive and forceful when she gets into it.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Her personal life is pretty bleak, as she doesn’t get much time outside of work to socialize, but she does try to at least make some friends outside of her job. She has made friends with Scarlet Raynard, after she did a story on Red Caps and found out they are both from France. They will occasionally meet up for drinks, and occasionally look for partners, but with their tastes so wildly different, they never have to worry about getting the same person. She doesn’t really keep in touch with her family, as they never really approved of her work, so that leaves her pretty lonely in her life.
Social Aptitude
A very social and open woman, she seems to draw people to her and get them to talk about themselves. She shows great interest in them as they do, and uses that to find as much information on people she wants to make deals with as she can, to work to her advantage. She’s also not above asking others about potential business partners tastes and likes so she can cater a conversation, or herself, to them. In this regard, she very much a social chameleon.
Religious Views
She is a little bit of a casual Christian, and loves to go to older and more gothic style churches rather than modern ones. If they have a pipe organ that they play for service, that interests her even more. She tries to take a trip back to France at least once a year to have a service in Notre-Dame, but has been rather depressed since the fire burned it. She doesn’t feel any need to talk about her faith or convert others, but will happily engage with those who bring it up positively.
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