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Player name: Rere
Character name: Ines Hirsch Age: 30 Profession: Human Resources agent; manager of external communications or something like that
Power, if applicable: N/A
Where do they live?: AM Apartments (Floor five? Somewhere around there.)
Personality: Ines-at-work is unflinchingly professional, tailored, and well-put-together. She is mature, pleasant, and collected, works well with others, and manages to be accommodating while still maintaining a good “everyone sit down and shut the goddamn hell up” presence. She puts on an amazingly patient front, able to withstand even the most frustrating barrage of annoyances in one sitting (how she responds in private once the exchange is over, however, is another story entirely). Business-wise, she is practically bombproof, unflinching in her convictions and difficult to rattle.
Responsible and industrious to a fault, she has a hard time switching off. She is used to supporting herself and has a very strong work ethic, to the point of not being able to understand the lack of self-sufficiency in others. She is professionally aggressive, efficient, driven. Unfortunately, she is also bullheaded and stubborn, and has a lot of trouble taking no for an answer. While this makes her an excellent resource for Ad Meliora (she is very good at getting them what they want), it occasionally makes her a horror to deal with outside of work. Ines has a good sense of wit and a way with words, which, in addition to making her job easier, gives her a solid grasp of sarcasm, confusing rhetoric, and subversive one-liners. She is very verbally minded and professionally confident, likes speaking her opinion (or some obfuscated, veiled version thereof), and feels a pressing need to be in control.
Socially, Ines is equally professional but infinitely more of a failure. She has acquaintances but very few loyal friends, and most of her relationships have fizzled on launch. Her controlling nature translates poorly outside of the office, manifesting in compulsive behaviors and equally compulsive neatness. The things that make her a particularly effective worker offer her no benefits outside of her job, and the aforementioned inability to switch off doesn't work in her favor, either. It has little to do with being genuinely unpleasant and more with being entrenched in situations she doesn't have the arsenal to handle. She's spent a lot of time putting up barriers in order to put her best professional foot forward at all costs, and she's only just beginning to realize just how much she sacrificed for it. She remains constantly on the defensive, trying to keep her life stable and under wraps.
She is more like her father in temperament than she's likely to admit (tell her that she resembles her father and she will likely ignore you for the rest of your natural lifespan). Slower to rile up, Ines nonetheless has a harsh, fiery temper and can be very loud when angry. She tends to bottle up her frustration until it froths over, though she's certainly not above the occasional passive-aggressive – or merely aggressive – jab. She is unraveling slowly, stress and frustrations finally wheedling cracks into the bombproof shell and making her more aware of more of her hidden emotional depths.
Ines is a hard woman to loosen up, but get her to tone down for a while and she is at her core a shielded, strong, lonely woman with a good sense of humor and a lot of strong emotions and desires that, quite frankly, she's embarrassed to acknowledge. When she lets herself be happy, she is very, very happy. She is ultimately a loyal, genuine person, but genuine and loyal often go hand-in-hand with vulnerable and open.