Supporting Female Character Outline Part 2

Julia Danielle Gates-Allen (“Raven”):

            Julia, or Julie, is a young woman, seventeen years old, and is a senior at Washington Yorktown-Lee High School in Arlington, The District of Columbia. Julia is surprisingly attractive for her age.  She is just over five-foot-ten, with long, flowing, dark ebony-brown hair and what are described as “mother-of pearl” eyes. She is something of a self-respecting clotheshorse, preferring to dress in clothes that range from the uniform to the risqué. 

She is, basically, a relatively typical high school Senior; except, of course, for being the charge of the leader of the free civilized western world. She is, and has been for the past ten years, the niece and surrogate daughter of her aunt, Katherine Janney, the President of the United States. She is, like her aunt, quite emotionally intense. Also like her aunt, she is sharp and not afraid to be abrasive. She has a tendency to be what is described as “the dramatic, theatrical type”; she has been in at least three of her high school’s theatre productions in the past three years.

In the past year and a half, she has become increasingly withdrawn; ever since, and most likely because of, the trauma of a kidnapping and attempt on her life made by Arab terrorists during a trip with her aunt to the Middle East. Born in San Francisco, she has moved around quite a lot; living in: San Francisco, Los Angeles; Eugene and Portland, Oregon; New York City, and Washington D.C.; and so has never been all that too secure to begin with. In her withdrawal, she has become quite cynical, clever with a sharp wit that she frequently puts to use.

She is, or used to be, also somewhat of what can only be described, at her age, as a socialite, enjoying going out dancing and to movies, often with a group of friends in tow, and secretly somewhat enjoying the attentions of the gaggle of paparazzi following her that results. Despite her recent year of withdrawal, she remains very popular at school. She does, however, all the more impressively, have a boyfriend whom she first met he sophomore year through the school’s production of Robin Hood, and whom she has been dating for over a year now, now a college sophomore at George Washington University named Ryan Seabourne, the son of a former U.S Senator, Rob Seabourne, whom her aunt met and worked with while a Senator, and whom was on the trip to the middle east with them.

Julie is very selective about whom she spends with, and who her friends are. Her best friend, aside from her boyfriend, is nineteen-year old Renee Vermillion, who is also Ryan’s ex-girlfriend.

Julie took Driver Education when she was fifteen, and, in accordance with the law, she received her drivers’ license on her sixteenth birthday. Since, in the District of Columbia, the age limit to purchase alcohol is twenty-one, and because the age to be in possession of alcohol is sixteen, Ryan can, and often does, buy the girls drinks when they go out celebrating.

Julie and her friends, on weekend evenings, frequently go to bars and clubs. When she is with Ryan, they will go to the Georgetown club on Wisconsin Avenue, a mile North of George Washington. Occasionally, especially in the last few months, she has gone alone to the Déjà vu Club, on M Street, three and a half miles from Yorktown-Lee.

On one of these occasions, celebrating Julie’s recent success in auditioning for the part of Maureen, the flirtatious bisexual/lesbian female lead in Yorktown-Lee’s upcoming production of the Broadway musical RENT, she and her friends had a bit too much to drink. Julie grabbed her friend, Kassey Marzo, and kissed her, an event that was, unfortunately, captured by the paparazzi cameras. The front-cover-page articles and editorials in most of the tabloids and celebrity magazines the following Monday bore headlines claiming that the President’s “daughter” was, in fact, a lesbian, much to the displeasure of Julie’s aunt Kate.

One of Julie’s closest friends is Jessica Marty, niece of the CEO of MSN-NBC, which, in turn, is owned by Apple-Microsoft, the world’s largest computer media corporation. Allison Chase, one of Julie’s older friends at 24, is an intern secretary and council at the White House, and the daughter of Amy Chase, the Director of the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next door to the West Wing, and a member of the House of Representatives. One of Julie’s most lasting friends is Niki Slezak, the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress.