Sylvie Rattray-Aubert

[LYourLocalAutist]

Name: Sylvie Rattray-Aubert
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Grade: Senior
School: Southwest Red Rock High School
Hobbies and Interests: Sylvie is very attached to cheerleading, and she’s good at it. By extension, she enjoys gymnastics and acrobatics in general. She’s quite the socialite, and actively seeks to make and spend time with her friends. She also has a particular collection hobby in the form of stuffed animals and plushies, mostly to her embarrassment, and she also holds fashion in high regard, deeply enjoying choosing and creating outfits for herself. She also owns a Switch, which she nearly exclusively uses for casual, calm games that can be enjoyed with others, such as Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley.

Appearance: Sylvie is short. Very short, standing at a puny 4 feet and 7 inches tall and weighing a meager 71 lbs. The rest of her body is proportionate- at least her upper body, which is petite and slender. Her lower body, including her hips and thighs, are on the slightly thicker, curvier side, somewhat due to her GHD causing abnormal fat distribution, but mostly because of her gymnastics exercises. She has a very powerful core as a result. Her legs themselves are decently long compared to the rest of her, giving her a slightly elongated appearance.

She has a head of neat, straight light blonde hair, slightly wavy at the ends that, when let loose, goes down to around the middle of her shoulder blades. She usually has it done in a bun or either a half up or fully done ponytail, almost always with her signature red hair tie, the long, sharp tips of the bow pointed and stuck out nearly like a rabbit’s ears.

She has a round face with soft, youthful features. Her eyes are large, almond-shaped and a light hazel, with thick, curved eyebrows slightly darker than her hair. Her nose is small and slightly upturned, and her lips are proportionate, with a subtle curve. She’s almost always seen with at least a little makeup on, a subtle mascara at least.

In terms of fashion, Sylvie loves experimenting with different aesthetics and outfits, though there are some that stand out as particularly her favorite styles. Her all–time favorite is a combination of cutesy, sporty and comfy- varsity jackets and hoodies slightly too big for her, tank tops and skirts, all usually various combinations of red and either black, making the school colors, or white, her personal favorite combination.

Biography: Sylvie Rattray-Aubert was born in the lap of luxury, an only child to parents William Rattray and Anne-Marie Aubert, two highly educated attorneys who co-founded their own law firm in Las Vegas, Rattray-Aubert, seeing an opportunity in the relatively small population of large legal firms and cashing in on it, to great success as it grew rapidly after its conception. An Englishman and a Frenchwoman, they met during their respective law educations at Cambridge, where they fell in love and resolved to continue their lives together.

Sylvie grew up in a very high-end, large modern home with her parents, proving to be a remarkably cheery child from her infancy to kindergarten. Besides the occasional broken toy or torn outfit, she really wasn’t a crier, always meeting her parent’s affection in perfect kind, smiling and giggling. Her parents spoiled her- especially with stuffed animals, to which she took a shine that lasts to this day. On her fourth birthday, she received a red hair tie with two ribbons jutting from it in a bow from her mother, one she had made herself. Sylvie cherished this gift and constantly fumbled around with it in her hair until she learned to put it on and style the bow perfectly. Eventually, she started seeking outfits to go with it, and thus Sylvie’s next biggest hobby came forth. The hair tie remains a staple of her style to this day.

Entering elementary school, she grew and matured in tandem with the other children. She made friends especially fast, her peppiness and cheerfulness blossoming, creating some bonds that lasted all the way to high school, and developed emotionally, heavily learning from and enjoying her interactions with the other children. This was still one of the happiest periods of her life.

Around when middle school started, however, things began to take a turn when her parents noticed that, in comparison with the other kids, Sylvie just wasn’t growing. Most other girls her age were beginning to mature further, get taller, start puberty- Sylvie seemed way behind. At 10 she was still only as tall as a toddler. She and especially her parents began to worry. This wasn’t a normal development pattern for a child of her age. So, Anne-Marie and William brought their child to a pediatrician, where Sylvie received a diagnosis and the family received some bad news.

Sylvie suffered from severely mutated protein receptors. Specifically, the ones that bound growth hormones together to be able to function. She had an idiopathic case of Growth Hormone Deficiency, explaining her stunted height as it was and her even more stunted rate of growth. Her parents paid for her treatment to start immediately. She received growth hormones through daily pen injections, her treatment overseen by a pediatric endocrinologist. The treatment began to work, and Sylvie did begin to grow, but at a snail’s pace over the course of middle school. The doctors discovered that her growth hormone receptors were so mutated they were essentially insensitive to the hormones’ effects, which meant treatment, even with the resources her parents could afford, was slow.

Her treatment took place over the course of her middle school years, where her stunted growth became very noticeable. And notice it her fellow students did. Easily the shortest kid by a wide margin at the time, Sylvie became a very popular target for teasing and outright bullying for her stature. Outside of the few dedicated friends she’d garnered from elementary, Sylvie became a social outcast and overall laughingstock during her middle school years, despite her parents’ complaints to the staff and their attempts to support her, and Sylvie was miserable, acting the recluse she was treated as, her cheeriness barely there anymore. She developed a deep self-loathing for her body and height, as even outside of school she was infantilized and treated as much younger and less mature than she was left and right, even on occasion by her parents and friends, accidentally, additionally leading to her developing a markedly low self-esteem. This was the only period in her life she didn’t wear her hair tie.

Entering Red Rock High School, Sylvie’s puberty had ended, and with her bone maturation essentially concluded, her endocrinologist concluded that further treatment was impossible, to her and her parents’ chagrin. Still only 4’7 and a measly 60 lbs, Sylvie assumed the same treatment would be awaiting her in high school. However, fate turned the tables on her once again when very early in her freshman year she caught notice of a poster advertising tryouts for the cheerleading team. The requirements called for, ideally… someone just like her. After a few days of mulling on it against her self-consciousness, and some key encouragement from friends and insistence from parents, Sylvie swallowed her fear and went for it.

She was blown away by how well it went. She had a natural flexibility and a penchant for gymnastics, but what really sold the coach and the rest of the team was the very aspect of her body she’s come to loathe- her size. It combined with how light it made her gave her the perfect qualities to act as the team flier, the coach told her; she could be flung in the air and move about in flight with remarkable ease. With actual practice, she could be amazing. Even the other tryouts were impressed. Before Sylvie knew it, she was on the team as their flier.

Nearly instantly, her social life was flipped back on its head. The cheerleading team provided her with a brand new friend group, and the general student body no longer saw her as that weird, laughably tiny girl; she was the cheerleading team’s star flier. Her demeanor began to repair itself in turn. Her bubbly, extroverted personality began to resurface in concordance with how the rest of her new clique acted, she began to indulge in old tendencies again and put effort towards the way she looked and the way she acted towards others. Her parents were relieved and glad, and she couldn’t be happier.

Over the course of high school, Sylvie happily settled into her new normal. She developed her reputation and social life further, expanding her circle of friends, finding old ones again, and forming deeper connections with the rest of the cheerleader group. The jocks were always close as well, and among them she found a crush in a certain Claude O’neil Porter. She rigorously developed her acrobatic skills for her cheerleading due to her newfound attachment to it as the thing that essentially saved her life, gaining a little weight along the way, bringing her up to a healthier physical state. Her parents, however glad as they were that their daughter’s life had turned around, began to push back against her sole focus on her cheerleading and her social life. As Cambridge graduates, they took education very seriously and began to push Sylvie to do the same now that she was in high school, with a focus on law and its practice so she may eventually follow in their footsteps after graduation, even pushing her to join the debate team on top of cheerleading. Though the constant study meant she garnered good knowledge on many topics from politics to law to history, and also gained a slightly stubborn and sarcastic disposition from her experiences in the debate club, it does mean she’s under that much more stress. She tries her best not to resent them over the stress for this to this day, but it does help that her parents attempted to counteract this; late freshman year, they took her pet shopping, and she came back with two new friends: Liz, a pomeranian, and Dizzy, a white budgie. However much she loved them, though, new pets didn’t magically fix everything, and Sylvie all in all now had a very delicate and stressing balance of facets in her life to take care of.

And so, good as things were, they weren’t perfect. Years of self-deprecation and hatred as well as sensitivity towards her height didn’t disappear overnight in the advent of her newfound social acceptance- she still struggles with her perception of herself and general infantilization, going as far as to hide her large collection of plushies and love for the things in general from most in fear of being seen as some immature kid once more, by association with her size and appearance. With this latent low-self esteem, Sylvie also feels she had something to prove. If it meant preserving her current position, she’d make some less than ideal decisions and follow a few of her ‘friends’ down some less than ideal roads. Combined with her parents’ rigorous studying routine for her despite her otherwise pleasant and positive relationship with them, Sylvie holds a lot of inner stress, like her whole life is constantly on thin ice. Sylvie does manage to maintain a general genuine positive outlook; she’s managed to preserve this balance of work and extracurricular, all while holding together her circle of genuine friends, avoiding bullying, and maintaining a mostly unfeigned cheery personality all the way to senior year, with a solid plan to follow her Parent’s steps with a law diploma from Cambridge, which she has to admit she’s looking forward to. What could possibly go wrong now, she wonders. She has this in the bag, right?

Advantages:

She’s so tiny:
Some things come naturally with being small. A natural advantage in stealth, the ability to squeeze yourself into small, tight spaces, literally hiding right under their noses. Who’s gonna shoot at you if their line of sight doesn’t even meet your scalp?

Acrobatics:
Sylvie wasn’t just being flung into the air during cheerleading. Incredibly nimble and dextrous, her acrobatics can help her traverse to an extent, and her flexibility furthers her stealth ability.

Disadvantages:

She’s so tiny:
Some things come naturally with being small. Like being comically weak. Even the most spindly armed nerds in school could hold some advantage in a contest of strength against her.

Weak-willed:
Years of latent self-doubt and confidence issues make for a very poor personality for an event like this despite her occasional stubbornness. It’s going to take large amounts of pushing to get her to “participate” in the game in any way, and seeing anyone close to her die has a major chance to shut her down for a while.

[Deamon]

Hey there L! I'm Deamon and will be doing the critique of Sylvie for you today. She's off to a good start but is Denied as we have parts of this profile that need cleaning up before we can go further.

Hobbies and interests should just be a list so for what you have down for Sylvie it should look like so:
Hobbies and Interests: Cheerleading, gymnastics, collecting stuffed animals etc.

The information about the hobbies themselves should be contained within the biography section of the profile itself, being detailed when they appear in the timeline.

This is an issue that will come up a few times in the profile but things like the italics on the below are too informal for a profile, within the fiction of the game these are supposed to be as if a disaffected member of the AT has written it up. So they should be clean and clinical:

Sylvie is short. Very short,

So when you go through the profile on this edit I'd like you to look out for those instances and edit them.


What do Sylvie's ears and nose look like?

Sylvie loves experimenting with different aesthetics and outfits, though there are some that stand out as particularly her favorite styles.

What are her favourite styles? What do her outfits look like generally?


Just because both of Sylvie's parents are down as not being American and went to Cambridge, which is in England, I have to ask this but why did they both choose to go to America and why did they choose Las Vegas to live? They were both in England and could have gone and got positions at firms in London, which is closer to both their families. This seems like a big jump and choice to make considering they would also both have needed to sort out some sort of immigration into America in the first place.

Her parents spoiled her- especially with stuffed animals,

So these hyphens are used like this throughout the profile which is the only reason I'm pulling you up on it but hyphens aren't used for this purpose in writing, you want to make these either commas or a proper em-dash —, the code for an em-dash is alt+0151 on a standard keyboard.

Outside of the few dedicated friends she’d garnered from elementary, Sylvie became a social outcast and overall laughingstock during her middle school years, despite her parents’ complaints to the staff and their attempts to support her, and Sylvie was miserable, acting the recluse she was treated as, her cheeriness barely there anymore.

This sentence is massive and can likely be split in two for readability. This happens a few times throughout the profile so I'd like you to read it through again and look for these instances where you have large run-on sentences and tidy those up.

Additionally, what did the staff actually do regarding the bullying Sylvie was suffering from? Clearly, her parents were aware of it and had raised it to the school so I'd like to know what was done about this and what the result was for Sylvie, although we can assume it didn't go great. Also, and I admit this is a minor thing, but if she's being bullied for being small she's not being treated as a social recluse, withdrawing from social interactions is just what her response to the bullying ended up being. So this will need to be fixed up to make it clearer what happened.

On another note, we have next to nothing on Sylvie's relationship with her parents so I'd like some detail for this to be added for both parents.

Entering Red Rock High School,

Southwest Red Rock High School please.

The requirements called for, ideally… someone just like her.

This is another example of the tone issue I mentioned earlier.

Before Sylvie knew it, she was on the team as their flier.

Just a minor thing, but cheer teams have multiple fliers, so she would be on the team as a flier, not the only flier.

and the general student body no longer saw her as that weird, laughably tiny girl; she was the cheerleading team’s star flier.

This is an example of some soft GMing as you're saying that every other character saw Sylvie as a weird laughably small girl but you can't blanketly state how other characters perceive yours, so this will need to be edited, and also the flier thing again.


With Claude's name, you need to capitalise the N in O'Neil.

Over the course of high school, Sylvie happily settled into her new normal. She developed her reputation and social life further, expanding her circle of friends, finding old ones again, and forming deeper connections with the rest of the cheerleader group.

How did she find and feel about doing this? How did she feel about her new social status? What is her general reputation at school? We have a lot of times in this profile where we're told things that happened to Sylvie but we're not given much interiority about how she found these events and her opinion on them, so I'd like some of that added to the profile.


For profile structure with this second to last paragraph, the part that covers her high school and cheerleading still should be moved and put on the end of the cheerleading paragraph. Then the part about her parents making her study should be a new paragraph on its own.

With Sylvie's studies and time at school, what subjects does she enjoy and which ones doesn't she? On top of that, why does she feel that way?

Does Sylvie like being in the debate club? If so why and if not why and does she want to leave? How does she feel about her parents forcing her to join?

How does Sylvie act generally and what is her personality like? Does she behave differently around people she is friends with and comfortable around compared to others? These are all questions it would be good to have answers to as it tells us more about Sylvie as a person. Because at present the bulk of the profile is about her Growth Hormone Deficiency and her cheerleading, we don't really have much detail about any other aspects of her life.

How does Sylvie feel about her pets and caring for them?

With this latent low-self esteem, Sylvie also feels she had something to prove. If it meant preserving her current position, she’d make some less than ideal decisions and follow a few of her ‘friends’ down some less than ideal roads. Combined with her parents’ rigorous studying routine for her despite her otherwise pleasant and positive relationship with them, Sylvie holds a lot of inner stress, like her whole life is constantly on thin ice. Sylvie does manage to maintain a general genuine positive outlook; she’s managed to preserve this balance of work and extracurricular, all while holding together her circle of genuine friends, avoiding bullying, and maintaining a mostly unfeigned cheery personality all the way to senior year, with a solid plan to follow her Parent’s steps with a law diploma from Cambridge, which she has to admit she’s looking forward to. What could possibly go wrong now, she wonders. She has this in the bag, right?

This whole section will need to be rewritten to be the correct tone. The thing you want to aim for here is that each section of her life should be given its own paragraph if needed. So for this section, her personality should be on its own, with her relationship with her parents being expanded and given it's own section, then her future goals in its own paragraph with things like what she wants to go and study and where outlined, along with any career plans. The rhetorical question however should be removed, as this is supposed to be a formal document.

The advantages and disadvantages will need to be rewritten to match the desired tone and the correct formatting for a profile. It should look like the below example:

Advantages: Fitz has a sizeable amount of knowledge about SotF which will benefit him in avoiding obvious pitfalls, such as being aware that killing too early brings negative attention from other students, and his knowledge of the rules and mechanics combined with his paranoia about it occurring has led to him considering ahead of time what he'd do in the game, enabling him to think of a course of action quicker than most once in it properly. Fitz is good at keeping a straight face while lying, and unlikely to trust others on a whim.
Disadvantages: Fitz is underweight and has few physical hobbies, and will be at a disadvantage in any situation that requires physical activity or outdoor travel. Fitz comes off as either delusional, a liar or both, which decreases the chance of people trusting him. He’s unlikely to find many allies due to mutual distrust. Fitz is not prepared for the reality of SotF, and ill-placed confidence that he knows how to respond to the situation is likely to backfire on him.

In addition her second disadvantage isn't really a disadvantage worth noting. Pretty much every person will not react well to seeing someone they like die and pretty much everyone will also be hesitant about participating in the game and killing others. As such I'm going to ask you to come up with a different disadvantage for this.

So that's everything I picked up on with this pass, post back here once you've made the edits and then I'll take another look at Sylvie for you! Thanks!