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SECOND CHANCES
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IN CHARACTER
NAME. Eleanor Shellstrop
AGE. 40
SPECIES. Homo Sapien Snarkasaurus Rex
ABILITIES. Does a spectacular lack of shame count?
CANON POINT. End of Season Three
CANON PUNCTURE. Not with her at this time, please.

HISTORY
WIKI LINK: Eleanor Shellstrop

HISTORY: The only child of Donna and Doug Shellstrop, Eleanor grew up in a home that was chaotic, neglectful and dominated by her parents’ addictions, narcissism and dysfunctional relationship with one another. Eleanor learned the following things by the time she entered kindergarten: Depending on others results in pain. Sharing your feelings is a loser move. Women are defined by “hot or not.” Feelings are stupid. Caring about other people is lame. See number one. By the time she entered junior high, Eleanor was adept at both snark and sarcasm, bullying when necessary or convenient, and in lying her way out of most forms of trouble. Eleanor managed to graduate ASU by the skin of her teeth through a combination of cheating, blowing her professors and the ability to judge exactly how much of an assignment or test can be done to achieve a solid C-. She prefers temp work and once turned down a lucrative promotion because she was expected to actually socialize with a bunch of losers, her co workers. Eleanor died after being hit by a pharmaceutical truck carrying erectile dysfunction drugs after dropping a giant sized jug of margarita mix in a supermarket parking lot. The last face she saw belonged to one of her ex boyfriends, an EMT, who she’d dumped via a text which read, “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Your Boner is boring, and so are you.” From the moment she arrives in “The Good Place,” Eleanor knows she doesn’t belong there. In the beginning, her goal is to con her way into being able to stay. She manages to convince her ‘soulmate” Chidi to teach her ethics and morality. Over the course of her time in The Good Place, she is dragged kicking and screaming at times, towards being a better person.

PERSONALITY
Eleanor Shellstrop is not a criminal. Whether this is because she was concerned about possible consequences, a lack of motivation/opportunity, or laziness, who knows? The only person she admits to ever having said “I love you” to is Stone Cold Steve Austin. (There was one other guy on a dance floor.....but she was really drunk and she thought he was Stone Cold Steve Austin, so does it even count? I think not.) Due to the emotional neglect she suffered at the hands of her parents, her view of relationships is entirely transactional when we are first introduced to her. A few of her favorite things are: television shows which involve backstabbing, spiteful housewives, in any location, but especially Atlanta. Shrimp scampi. Water parks. Her favorite book is Kendall Jenner’s instagram feed. Eleanor identifies herself as bisexual. She once set a mailbox on fire in hopes of seeing this and replaced one of the ugly clown paintings in her home with this. She has found herself having vivid sexual dreams involving Sam the Eagle. Don’t judge. Eleanor loathes in no particular order; people who she thinks think they are better than her, men wearing sandals, camping, jazz music, vegans, and having people say nice things to her face, creepy clowns, and baby showers. When she arrives in “The Good Place,” Eleanor is a selfish, petty, mean spirited jerk who realizes instantly that there had been a mistake. Desperate to avoid “The Bad Place” Eleanor decides her only hope is learning how to fake being good. She manages to convince Chidi, her roommate and a former professor of Moral Philosophy, to tutor her in ethics and morality. Eleanor approaches these lessons the same way she approached education in life- she tries to do the least amount of work necessary in order to game the system. Eleanor’s moral progress doesn’t come from any particular part of the curriculum Chidi inflicts on her (and later her friends), rather it comes from her learning how to ask herself uncomfortable questions about who she is vs. who she wants to be. She’s forced to depend on other people, be vulnerable and see the impact that her choices have on the people closest to her. By the end of the third season, Eleanor has formed close friendships, fallen in love, and learned to forgive her mother. Most importantly, when given the opportunity to escape the Bad Place, she willingly goes back because she doesn’t want to abandon her friends.

SAMPLES
3rd person past tense. Eleanor thinks these old farts are a snorefest
Web. Why we can’t have nice things...
(samples can be from any character/game)

NAME. Rhyannon TZ. PST PB. Kristen Dunst CONTACT. Contact Post, Email, PM whatever….
AVAILABILITY. Far more than healthy for a grown adult.

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