Urbane. Charming. Scatterbrained Daydreamer. Adrienne is a darling of the fashion world, her eccentricities tolerated and celebrated for her pedigree as the daughter of a centuries old garment-making dynasty and her occasional splashes of outright genius. She flouts her responsibility to the Gingras name, choosing to neglect the multinational brand to the care of her younger sister, Alice, for a more introspective journey to spiritual wealth. Unfettered access to money and a private jet certainly don’t hurt though.
Both women grew up understanding that they were part of a tradition that would provide them with the best life had to offer, but that it came with certain costs. They would be expected to perform in roles that had been established generations ago and sacrifice any other ambitions. Adrienne, being the eldest, was indoctrinated in the practice of Vestimancy by their father and took to it with verve. She just didn’t take the message that it was her job to sit in an office and callously dictate the flow of vogue to the world, she craved her own vision of seeking fashion’s highest purpose.
Alice’s jealousy at being excluded boiled. Her attempts to sneak access to the secrets being taught to her sister were repeatedly discovered and punished. It was the sole right of the eldest to the secret knowledge of magick. It wouldn’t have mattered, her obsessional rivalry clouded headway she could have made with the arcane and her aptitudes were ultimately in the prosaic elements of running a business.
Which is what she does now, excellently. While Adrienne is out gallivanting across the globe in search of fashion’s own version of the holy grail her long suffering sister administrates the company, an arrangement set up by their father before he was strangled by a cravat (a grim coincidence honestly). He foresaw conflict between them and Adrienne’s inability to take her duties seriously gravely concerned him. Instead of cutting his losses and allowing Alice as an understudy he divided responsibilities between them. It was his limited way of showing that he loved them both.
Adrienne misses him horribly and wishes she could have made him understand. The old ways were a chain to what clothing could be: civilization isn’t dictated by expression, it is an expression unto itself. She takes delight in the sprawling cornucopia of global culture as proof of this, immersing herself in it while enjoying a privileged existence very few can manage. One week investigating new textiles in Istanbul and visiting archaeological sites in Greenland the next, she stays ahead of the curve while dropping the paltry crumbs of her genius in her sisters lap as an afterthought. The results have been breathtaking.
Alice’s resentment is spurred by jealousy. She cannot and doesn’t dare to cut her sister off, it would destroy their business. She does try to bring Adrienne to heel through whatever legal and financial wrangling she can muster and Adrienne gleefully keeps her distance. This cat-and-mouse game has been going on between the two of them for years, Adrienne taunting Alice and threatening to stray into the hands of a rival if she is cut off and Alice doing anything she can to keep Adrienne in line and limit her excesses. Ironically it’s drawn them closer together than ever.
STATS - Adrienne Gingras
Personality: Maniacal whimsy and scattered spirituality cosseted by piles of cash. It would be easy to dismiss Adrienne as a hack were it not for the fact that she can work literal miracles and has the weight of her inherited legacy behind her. She would do well to remember where it comes from but that would cramp her style. She loves Alice but is wary of her.
Rage: Being controlled by her stuffy younger sister.
Noble: Freedom. Caged birds sing the saddest songs.
Fear: Having to fend for herself and how it would limit her work (Helplessness).
Obsession: Find the highest spiritual truth of civilization mirrored in fashion.
Wound Threshold: 50.
Footloose Fashion Genius 70% (Substitutes for Status, Protects Isolation, Unique - Fashion industry connections.)
Vestimancer 50%* (Adept, Casts Rituals, Use Gutter Magick.)
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STATS - Alice Gingras
Personality: Shrewd, calculating and a neurotic control-freak. Alice takes grim pleasure in taking out her frustrations on her professional rivals and errant underlings. Any perception of sororal affection is either calculated on her part or wishful thinking on the observer’s, she truly loathes her sister.Rage: Her way or the highway.
Noble: Equal chances. Alice’s standards are ruthless but everyone gets an opportunity to prove themselves, regardless of station or origin.
Fear: That she wasn’t taught magick because she isn’t good enough (Self).
Obsession: Dominate the family business.
Wound Threshold: 60.
CEO 60%* (Substitutes for Status, Protects Helplessness, Unique - Control of a multinational fashion icon.)
Ruthless 60% (Substitutes for Fitness, Coerces Helplessness, Provides Wound Threshold.)
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