Polly

Andra Polly Verdane, more commonly known as Polly, is a [REDACTED] living aboard the ship known as CONSTELIS VOSS and the "bottle blonde banshee" of the CONSTELIS VOSS series.

Like all the members of the cast, Polly’s personality is based on a human who had once lived on AU earth during the 80s-90s.

''“Whatever! I didn’t know you, like, did what you did and how you did it, but now I know and I know I can’t know when to stop knowing because I’ll just keep talking when I talk!”''

What if the mean girl learned to truly let people in?

Appearance:

Polly is of average height at 5 feet 8 inches with a curvaceous build, has naturally brown bob that she bleaches to a light blonde, pale skin, and espresso brown eyes. Her most notable feature is her lipstick: a bright magenta pout that is her signature.

Her normal attire is an obnoxious off-white lab-coat under which she hides her figure, and gold heels until she loses them in the Greens. She has no tattoos and a scar on her inner thigh.

Personality:

Polly is bitingly sharp in her demeanor, emotionally unavailable, and distant. She deflects with sarcasm and poorly thought-out insults, much to the amusement of Alex, but deep down she cares deeply for her partners in crime. She is easily frazzled and anxious, often going into a shrill tizzy.

Polly’s protocol is JEALOUSY. Because of this, it's a constant push and pull between her programming's efforts to render her bitter and vindictive, and her true inclination to assert herself to get what she wants in the best interest of herself and her loved ones.

Star sign: Gemini

Abilities:

- Scream Queen: Polly's supersonic, shrill sound-waves can blast apart skulls like a melon, crack floors and blow objects out of the sky.

- Perceptive Polly: As with her past-self, Polly often figures things out much faster than other people give her credit for. She sees what people present themselves as—as a person who presents herself a certain way—and is good at reading people. If only she'd listened to her gut instincts, maybe the murderous mess of an ending could've been solved differently.

- Gravity Dancer: To make her death-screams more easy to wield, Polly can vaguely defy gravity. It's not so much that she can hover and float like a mechanical-telepath, it's that the ship itself lets her perform death-defying feats of wall vaulting when she needs to. It responds to her needs, her thoughts, her wants—as if to make up for mistakes she can only half-remember.

Andra Polly Verdane [CONSTELIS VOSS]:

Andra scrapes out an existence one level on the ship above being dumped into poverty, a very selfish but unfairly maligned valley girl who's just as stuck as everyone else. She's heavily medicated for depression (and just, like, not to feel), though the meds don't exactly work.

She's first introduced as a cosmetician, restricted from all the joys of life based on her station, who has has trouble putting in real effort because she's used to playing a role. Andra is tasked with ferrying the new A-120Ps into existence, monitoring their status and their progress in adapting to 'life' on the ship. What results from this most recent meeting is Alex's realization that he's not alone in this new world, no matter what this now-Percy says. Their meeting kicks off the whole saga.

Percival (Percy):

The Blake Anne Percival of the past is a complicated one. As much as she was obviously maligned, it runs deeper than that. A secretary at a local Police station, Alex mined her gossipy tendencies, plied her with expensive gifts, constantly put her at a disadvantage and even inserted himself in her life to take what she had. And all she had back then—she thought—was Olive.

Like every other character, her story is much darker than meets the eye. Bottle-blonde, depressed and dieting for days, an anxious borderline-genius with math and language skills that would make anyone weep—Percy was always the unrealized potential of a girl forcing herself to fit a social standard. A social standard that made her miserable.

Comphet, jealousy, frustration at never being the one in the starring role and constantly trying to fit the image of the air-headed valley girl, Percy was depressed, stressed and repressed. Eventually ruining her relationship with Olive—at nearly no fault of her own, considering who meddled in her life—Percy found love with Henry's past ghost (Eric). For what happened after, a much more gentle story came to pass, despite all the heartache and the death of a friend who hurt her so deeply. Her past's future was eventually good to her, but her future-AI-writer never knew.

Trivia:

- Polly has a self-harm scar on her thigh, indicating that the drugs that are shoved into her system to keep her worker-bee-bloodless don't work—depression is a bitch. They also don't work because [REDACTED].

- According to the author, Polly's general demeanor is based on someone they care about deeply, upped to the nines.

- Polly has an extremely strong lean towards women and femme presenting people, but like with everyone else, she'd eyeroll severe enough to cause a tornado if she was told she was anything less than a bisexual blonde babe.

- The geometric-potted plant in Polly's lab is a nod to Vox's past—a friendship cut from the future of futures to make Polly easier to manipulate to fit into a stereotypical white feminist portrayal.

- Canonically, Polly is neat-freak, which butts up against her love of nature.

- A canonical creative, Polly is a poet and writes with anything she can find in her box-like living quarters.

- According to the author, Polly's lodging on the worker-bee-tier represents not only feminist struggle for autonomy in a patriarchal society, but is a specific nod to both her and Alex's living conditions in the past. She never really had nice things, until she did, to buy her friendship.

- Polly represents intuition, growing beyond toxic femininity, learning from past mistakes.

- She subverts the tropes Dumb Blonde, "Crazy" Ex-Girlfriend, and Mean Girl.

- She’s inspired by films like Clueless and Dalia Royce from Suburgatory.

Unofficial Mood Music


 * Metric - Twilight Galaxy
 * No Doubt - Just A Girl
 * Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion