( ☠ ) juliet starling ; amatomnes application

[sparklehunts]

PLAYER
» Journal: brightens (mun journal is levelgrind)
» Birthdate/Age: January 26, 1987, 25.
» Characters Played: Oerba Dia Vanille

CHARACTER FACTS
» Name: Juliet Starling
» Canon: Lollipop Chainsaw
» Reference: ❝ Ready? Okay! Undead we slay! ❞
» Canon Point: After defeating Mariska.
» Gender: Female.
» Age: 18.

CHARACTER INTERPRETATION
» Appearance: Juliet is the picture of a high-school cheerleader-- blond hair, blue eyes, toned physique, absolutely gorgeous. With hair usually in pigtails, pink lipgloss and her San Romero Knights uniform, her perky appearance matches her personality to perfection. She seems pretty pleased with her look as well... with the possible exception of her supposed "ginormous" ass.
» Suitability: N/A.

» Orientation: Heterosexual. Juliet is totaaally in love with her boyfriend Nick Carlyle, so much so that she refuses to let him turn after having being bitten by a zombie, opting to chainsaw his head off and use voodoo magic to keep it alive and carry him around attached to her belt, instead.

» Personality:

At first glance, Juliet Starling is your typical high school cheerleader-- ditzy, airheaded, and far too perky for her own good. She's got the normal 18-year-old worries: finding love, how large her ass may or may not be, whether or not her squad will win the national cheerleading competition... However, Juliet is hiding a somewhat strange secret, and while it's not something she's at all ashamed of, it's something she's afraid to admit to others, even to her boyfriend, Nick, for fear of what they'll think of her: she comes from a long, proud line of zombie hunters. From her father right down to her youngest sister, each and every one of the Starlings have been trained since they were toddlers to slay the undead. Juliet, the middle sister, has a proficiency in using chainsaws and has long been under the tutelage of her sensei, Sensei Morikawa.

Don't let that fool you, though— Juliet really is still a normal eighteen year old girl. It's just that she's an eighteen year old girl for whom zombie outbreaks are more of a nuisance than the end of the world. The blight happening to show up the morning of her birthday is met with more annoyance than anything resembling terror. Juliet doesn't even have to run home to pick up her (bedazzled) chainsaw— it seems she carries the thing with her in her gym bag every day, regardless of undead situation. She's able to keep a calm head throughout her situation, facing each and every one of the Dark Purveyors with a batch of one-liners, sass, school spirit and a near endless supply of lollipops. She takes her job as a zombie hunter seriously, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's serious while doing it. She's still an incredibly dependable girl, even if still a ditzy cheerleader.

And she really is rather ditzy. Even though most of what she says and does is backed up by years of zombie-hunting knowledge, a lot of what she says comes out... not quite right. The sheer glee with which she manages to mow down the undead versions of her schoolmates, even fellow cheerleading squad members, can be downright eerie and in some ways, actually almost scary, like there's a disconnect between the reality of the situation and how much fun she's having fighting zombies and jumping on fire trucks. It's a stark contrast to the dry commentary of her boyfriend, Nick, now a decapitated head hanging by her belt, who is very clearly affected by the horror of the situation (and later, the hopelessness of his own). Don't get me wrong, Juliet does clearly know what's going on, and does show a good deal of sadness when someone close to her is bitten or killed (like Nick or her sensei), but outside parties are met with an almost blasé attitude, and other times agitated, like saying undead douchebags are a disgrace to the San Romero uniform (particularly if they're trying to look up her skirt), or uncaring, like commenting about how it's sad killing her friends, but kind of fun, too.

Almost nothing can get this girl down: even when all hell literally breaks loose and her classmates are eaten or turned undead, she just keeps on keeping on, excited (or at the very least, annoyed) by the things waiting around ever corner, and is overwhelmingly positive no matter what seems to happen, even to the point of ridiculousness. Anyone who can find the bright side of life as a decapitated head is an expert at silver linings. There is absolutely nothing this girl cannot bounce back from.

The things that seem to affect Juliet have more to do with those still living, such as her family, or, if you count life without a thorax as 'living,' Nick. This kind of attitude runs in the family— all of the Starlings are virtually emotionally unaffected by the apocalypse, even while trying to save the world from it. Her mother is still worried about eggs for Juliet's birthday cake and the hijinks of her three (slightly unruly) daughters, her father is still concerned with his daughter's virtue, Rosalind with using Nick's head as a mannequin and Cordelia with her sister's zombie-fighting technique. Fighting zombies is really just another day in the life for the Starling family, Juliet included. When her younger sister Rosalind is in danger, Juliet is all serious business and willing to throw caution to the wind in order to save her, and she goes out of her way to help her un-undead classmates, as well. Friend or skeevy dude he says he's going to masturbate to her tonight, she helps out (and also doesn't even seem to notice or care).

Despite the fact that she has a high GPA and is quite well-learned, even enough to speak Japanese fluently, Juliet suffers greatly from Dumb Blonde Syndrome. A lot of things go right over her head, making her witty comebacks slightly less witty than I'm sure she would like. Some of it is naivete, like actually believing her teenage boyfriend doesn't watch porn or buying that he hasn't done drugs despite the fact that he'd pretty just much spelled out that he had experienced psychedelic high in the past, some of it is obliviousness, like not realizing that her 'bowing' to her sensei is bending over to show him a peek up her skirt (despite the fact that she hates when anyone does that and even goes so far as to block the camera with her hand when the player moves it down far enough to see), or that the type of underwear she's wearing does not affect her abilities to kill zombies. She also makes some strange leaps in deduction, like deciding that the person who has unleashed the zombies on the school must be her friend on Facebook, as if that's the only way they'd know her birthday. This isn't to say everything in her head is weightless fluff— she's great at strategizing and thinking outside of the box, and is often the one to come up with the plans of attack, such as when her family decides to band together to save Rosalind or attack the Chapel. You have to give her points for being clever, too— not everyone would think up something as outlandish as installing an MP3 player in your decapitated head of a boyfriend in order to save purse space. She also has the quick thinking to cut off Nick's head before the bite to his arm reaches his brain and turns him into a zombie, although one must wonder why she didn't simply remove the infected arm instead...

That is something that lends into her impulsive nature— even if she's a quick thinker, that doesn't mean she always thinks the consequences through the entire way. Nick's decapitation is a perfect example; if she had given herself more time to think about it, or perhaps even wasn't quite so rash, she could have saved him in a way that didn't involve severing his head from the rest of his body (but hey, if you know enough voodoo magic to keep a head alive, why not use it, right?). Within the logic of the game, a lot of what she does is slightly understandable, but thinking about it in a different perspective shows just how impulsive she actually can be, like jumping between buildings without giving it a second thought or shooting down a helicopter piloted by undead.

It also goes to show just how selfish Juliet can actually be, even going so far as to use her boyfriend's head as a weapon, even if he does get a kiss for her troubles. It's almost as if she's so deliriously upbeat that she can't see the fact that he's suffering or dislikes the idea of living life as her accessory— which is exactly what she treats him like. She tries encourage him by telling him he's immune to carpal tunnel, or that she could sneak him into movies without paying, but in the end it's very obvious Juliet is thinking mostly of herself, and how unique it would be to have a decapitated head for a boyfriend. It's easy to write it off as being blinded by how much she loves him, but she unfortunately spends most of the game robbing him of his own decision-making, even denying him the option to be killed rather than living his life without a body. She's materialistic, almost to a fault, prioritizing chasing a present from her sister down over purifying her school of zombies. A lot of Juliet's thoughts put Juliet first, even if not maliciously.

Even still, she's actually a relatively normal girl with normal girl wants and worries. Despite the fact that she's addicted to lollipops and can't seem to kick the habit, she's still worried about the amount of calories contained in each and whether or not they'll pack on the pounds, particularly in her lower body. She wants to know whether or not being a pink silhouette is slimming or not. She's obsessed with her boyfriend and wants to know everything about him, even if she asks him these things at the most random, inappropriate times. She's self-conscious about her image, even going so far as keeping from Nick and everyone at her school that she's a Zombie Hunter, for fear of being seen as weird, despite the fact that she's very proud of her lineage and abilities and has no qualm boasting about them once they're revealed. Just like any teenage girl, she's quite shallow, criticizing zombies for being ugly or overweight without mercy. Even for as nice and positive as she is, she definitely has a mean streak when it comes to the undead.

One of the most important things to Juliet is her family. She loves each and every one of them (even if her younger sister can get on her nerves sometimes). She has a relatively well-adjusted home life, even with their strange family profession. She's quite proud of where she comes from. The family is also very much in touch with one another, constantly leaving messages on Juliet's phone throughout the game (even if they are sometimes seemingly flippant considering the Rotten World breach she's trying to contain).

Overall, Juliet isn't exactly the sharpest crayon in the box— but she's certainly the brightest, most cheerful color available.

SAMPLES
» First Person Sample Choice: ( sample type one )

[ Lollipop clicking against her teeth as she moves it around her mouth, Juliet scopes out the device that had been left on the bedside table for her use. Pulling the (strawberry flavored, duh) treat from her mouth, she pokes a few buttons with her fingers, very aware she's being recorded, even if she isn't sure where the camera is at, exactly. It's totally fine, though— it's not like she's naked or anything. And she totally checked her hair and makeup before she started messing around with this thing— after all, it totally looks like an iPhone, and a hotel this fancy has to have WiFi, right? She'd always wanted to try that "Facetime" thing. ]

This thing is like, so super hi-tech! I bet it even does Facebook. My friends better have left me some happy birthday messages— I mean, before they died. It's totally ugly, though, ugh— I wonder if I can bedazzle it when I get home? And then put it on my chainsaw! Oooooh, wouldn't it look good with—

[ Wait. Focus, Juliet! She had a point when she started this! ]

Yeah, hi, hello? This is a really cool island and all— like really, I bet they film commercials with that little gnome guy here all the time— but I was in the middle of something really important in San Romero! You know, as in California?

This jerk totally opened up a portal to the Rotten World and there's zombies all over my school, and then this really stinky unwashed undead hippie totally kidnapped my sister except not really so now I have to go find the guy who actually has her, and he sounds really serious. [ A pause. ] And autotuned.

So, if you could tell me how to get back really quickly that would be greeeaaaat!Oh, and, whichever one of you stole my boyfriend's head had better return it before I decide to get out of here. I know you're jealous, but he's mine and we're totally in love and nothing's going to change that! —except maybe if my ass gets bigger.

Anyway, yeah! Hello?

» Third Person Sample Choice: (you MUST note which prompt you are answering)