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Jean / PSYCHE → she's always been the tower (psyches) wrote,
@ 2012-01-01 13:37:00

-- character info.

for

operators!

when you were born, they looked at you and said
what a good girl, what a smart girl, what a pretty girl

vital stats
Source: Marvel AU.
Name: Jean Elizabeth Grey.
Age: 36 (August 28th, 1973).
Gender: Female.
Race/Nationality: Caucasian mutant from the United States.
Occupation: Pediatric geneticist and teacher at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.

appearance
Stats: 5'7", ~140lbs, with auburn hair and hazel eyes.
Description: The first thing most people noticed about Jean when she was younger was her hair, which was long, thick, and a very dark red, but it's gotten progressively browner as she's gotten older. And though her oval face hasn't lost any of its strength -- high cheekbones, sharp jaw -- it has soft crinkly age lines now around the mouth and the corners of the eye. She's always had the sort of tall, slim frame that doesn't lend itself well to a lot of really dramatic curves, but it can't be denied that she is nevertheless an extremely attractive woman and that, like a fine wine, getting older will probably only make her moreso. She lucked out in the proportion department -- lean torso, long legs, graceful arms -- and years of daily athletic workouts have given her solid muscle tone in all the right places. She's not as young as she used to be, but if there's a scrap of excessive fat on her, even now, good luck finding it.
Wardrobe: Raised with the notion that a first impression is the most important and one must always look respectable, Jean has long since figured out how to dress herself in ways that flatter. Though she let herself go in college for obvious reasons -- the girl had strong priorities, you know, and makeup was not even on the list when there were midterms to focus on -- she's on the road to forty now and has figured out how to maximize convenience with aesthetics. She likes her wardrobe subtle and her makeup even moreso, preferring to steer as far away from flashy as she can get. When it comes to clothing, she has three rules -- clean, classic, and well-cut -- that have kept her in good stead and allowed her choices to age with her body. It's not unusual to find her in simple combinations of slacks and sweaters, blouses and heeled boots, dark jeans and turtlenecks, etc. She keeps her jewellery to a bare minimum -- she rarely wears earrings or bracelets, as they just get in the way, but she likes simple pendants and her metal of choice is silver.

superheroing
Codename: Psyche.
Identity: Secret. Jean Grey does not advertise that she's actually a member of the superhero vigilante group known as the X-Men, and Psyche does not advertise that she's actually a medical doctor at a very private boarding school for mutant children.
Allegiance: Heroes. She was one of the original First Class of Xavier's X-Men, and she's been doing this since she was twelve. She was raised to follow the cause.
Reputation: As a civilian, Dr Jean Grey is a known entity in the international mutant research community. They know her as a competent geneticist who has published a number of intriguing papers on the mutant genome, spoken at dozens of conferences, and is openly a mutant sympathizer. As a superhero, Psyche has been part of the the X-Men for over twenty years, and as a group they have received international attention both good and bad.
Costume: A black jumpsuit made from a leather/kevlar weave, reinforced with rubber piping and extra kevlar panels. It's durable, bullet-resistant, fire-retardant, and looks pretty slick. (Her old costume as a teenager was just awful. They all were. By the time the First Class had reached adulthood, they'd vetoed the old designs and started coming up with the current one.)

powers & abilities
Telepathy: As one of the most powerful telepaths in existence (at least in the world she came from), second only to Charles Xavier himself, there isn't a whole lot Jean can't do if given time, opportunity, and significant motivation. At bare minimum, she can scan the surface thoughts of people around her up to a several block radius and project her own, though both are much easier to do the smaller the number of targets, and the actual distance limit on her telepathic range could span cities. With time and effort, she can dig through memories or even enter dreams, though both skills work best on willing participants and can only be used on one person at a time. These days her mental shields -- the kind that keep out both other telepaths and the sheer overwhelming mass of thoughts from those around her -- are downright formidable. And she has other nifty tricks up her sleeve, too. She can do what she calls "brainstorming", where she can temporarily borrow specific knowledge and skillsets from people nearby. And then there's what she likes the call a Somebody Else's Problem field, where she tells the minds around her to not pay attention to something in particular -- individual minds will fill in the blanks as comes most naturally to them. She can even create illusions for a small group of people (say, up to five comfortably, more with effort) by altering their sensory perceptions, and can create or subdue pain in the same way. And last but not least, she can create a psilink -- a solid mental connection embedded between two or more minds, allowing them to communicate almost seamlessly across great distances at the cost of having few barriers between their thoughts.
Telekinesis: Jean's telekinesis allows her to manipulate objects or generate force through the power of her mind alone. In its most everyday applications, this power is handiest as an extra pair of hands -- she can fetch a file folder from the cabinet across the room without ever having to leave her desk, or she can switch off the bedroom light after she's already crawled into bed. But once you put it through its paces, it starts to get really impressive. At one end of the scale, Jean can handle up to two dozen small objects without breaking a sweat (provided she doesn't have to do something different with each one) and has enough fine motor dexterity to untie knots or turn all the tumblers in a complex lock. At the other end of the scale, she can use all her power in one single focus to deliver over 60 tonnes of sheer force (a little more than a fully-loaded Big Rig trailer), not unlike striking out with the world's biggest invisible fist. She can also spread it out into a barrier, able to withstand as much force as it can dish out (60+ tonnes). This barrier can be manipulated in a number of creative ways, such as upright walls to prevent passage or overhead domes to protect from falling debris, though the maximum area she can cover in this way is only about the spread of a large house. And of course, she can always use it to lift her own body (seeing as how she weighs significantly less than 40 tonnes), allowing her to levitate and fly for short distances at reasonable speeds.
Skills:
→ Jean is a fully licensed doctor with thirteen years of experience. She can diagnose illnesses, run diagnostic machinery, administer tests and medications, perform some surgeries, and keep meticulous medical notes. She has some clinical research experience and can even perform emergency wilderness First Aid.
→ Between her father and her ex-husband, both of whom really enjoy spending extended periods in The Great Outdoors, Jean learned how to get by in the wilderness at a young age and has supplemented that knowledge base over time. She can set up a tent, tie knots, build fires, find or build shelter if she lacks it, and can even find natural food sources if the location isn't particularly exotic. She knows how to steer a kayak and has done some limited rock-climbing (with appropriate gear). She knows how to leave a trail that others can follow and how to cover difficult terrain.
→ All of the X-Men have gone to great pains to learn how to defend themselves even when unarmed and without powers, as there is no telling what might happen in the field. Jean has been trained mostly in Jeet Kun Do (for the maximum spread of effective martial arts techniques, including against armed opponents) and Krav Maga (for truly desperate situations), but also a small amount of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (specifically for use in facing larger opponents).
→ When it comes to handling vehicles, Jean is competent but nowhere near as capable as, say, her ex-husband. While she's an excellent driver (even at high speeds), she can't pull off any stunts or evasive driving. She's also perfectly capable of piloting the X-Jet through normal flight and basic landings, but fancy evasive maneuvers and difficult emergency landings are frequently beyond her.
→ Jean is fairly tech-savvy in the grand scheme of things -- she can use and maintain her own PC, laptop, and PDA, including installing and managing applications, and can even perform some basic hardware changes once told how. Complicated jargon usually goes over her head, but not always, and she's pretty good at applying new information to what she already knows. She's still just a user, though, not a software programmer or hardware engineer.
→ As the Assistant Headmistress and primary Guidance Counselor of Xavier's School, Jean has to juggle a broad range of duties -- teaching students is very different from placating and reassuring their (often distraught) parents, and figuring out what's best for the kids is not always in line with what's best for the practical mechanics of the school, all of which are things she's responsible for at one time or another. As a result, Jean is both an able and flexible mediator, while her natural tendency to plan and organize gets a solid workout arranging class schedules and negotiating finances.
Weaknesses: Without her psychic powers, Jean has to resort to martial arts, and while her skills there are impressive, anyone with an offensive metahuman ability would likely take her down. And even with her psychic powers, the amount of pummeling she can take has a finite limit, so extreme superstrength could punch through her TK shields and then make mincemeat of the rest of her. Also more creative applications of powers would do -- deprive her of oxygen, become intangible and get her while she's distracted, etc, etc. And that's still only if you're actively in a fight. If you don't play by the rules, all it would take is one well-aimed bullet while she's walking down the street.

personality
In-Depth:
→ On the surface: warm, thoughtful, self-aware, articulate, competent and casually elegant.
→ Likes to be organized, likes everything to be in its place. Thrives on order, not chaos, and has a low tolerance for the latter if she can't figure out some way to impose the former. Lack of organization can make her pretty tetchy sometimes.
→ Is extremely good at everything she does. Has had a tremendous leg up to get there -- an outstanding education, extensive training, as much financial backing as has ever been required, mentored by some of the greatest minds and most influential heroes of this era, etc, etc. If there was an advantage, she got it, and it shows.
→ Fortunately she's also very very aware of her privilege and does not take it for granted. Would like to share it with others as much as possible, and would happily give up her own to accomplish it.
→ Self-sacrificing, and sometimes more than is healthy. Was brought up with a very New England sensibility, especially about women, and has been a Good Girl all her life. Always tries to consider others' needs before her own. As an adult, she had to learn the hard way to take time out for herself or she wouldn't have anything left to give.
→ Believes strongly in moral virtue, but is aware of the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Works off the latter. Knows that just because it's a rule doesn't mean it's a good one, and that some rules really were made to be broken. (One way in which her reactions frequently differ from Scott's in running the school.)
→ Compassionate. Is more empathetic than Scott is, and had to remind him of people's motivations or fears, or that someone meant well, etc. (She still does this, but to a lesser degree.) Cares deeply about others and their well-being, and will go out of her way to help people when she can.
→ But has also been trained to follow strict tactical/hierarchical priorities since she was a kid. If it comes down to one person or a crowd, she will try to do both, but if she can't then she'll pick the crowd. Every time. Even if the single person was a friend. She'll be really upset about it, but she'll still do it. The X-Men have an almost military discipline when it comes to teamwork and the importance of the mission.
→ Is completely dedicated to the mutant cause, and especially to Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence, though for her it's all wrapped up in the man himself to a degree that she is probably not consciously aware of. She loves and respects the man who helped raise her and make her who she is today, and so she loves and respects his ideals as an extension. It's all the same package. Though it's not surprising, it is pretty irrational.
→ Is a worrier. Jean tries to carry the weight of the world too much, in part because she's seen so much of the bad in it. It's impossible for someone who was raised to right wrongs, if she saw them and could do something about them, to not want to fix every problem she sees. Had to curb this tendency on a daily basis for the sake of priorities and her own sanity.
→ Definitely cares about what other people think of her -- it's part of the Good Girl thing. Wants to be liked and respected, and this sometimes warrs with her position as an authority figure. Gets worn out fast having to play the bad guy disciplinarian, especially with some of the problem kids who don't know the difference between a lot of things and won't understand what she's doing for a long time yet. But she's been doing her job long enough by now that she doesn't let on how crappy it makes her feel unless you know her well enough to tell by yourself.
→ Is formidably disciplined, largely thanks to being such a powerful telepath. Her upbringing from her parents already biased her towards genteel self control, and then growing up under Xavier would have reinforced it anyway, because that's what her role models were like as people. But having to specifically cultivate and exercise extreme levels of willpower in order to control her psychic talents has increased this tendency exponentially.
→ Consequently, Jean is also very emotionally reserved. Does not wear her feelings on her sleeve and does not air her dirty laundry in public. Believes in discretion, privacy, and that there is definitely such a thing as Too Much Information. Feels genuine shame and embarassment if her private life or other personal details get revealed to those outside of a select few trusted people.
→ Definitely a big believer in social niceties, though is aware that not everyone was raised to follow them or even to understand them, and so she can change modes if it's required to become more direct and forthright.
→ Is extremely adaptable in general. Comes from being raised in the X-Men -- knows that every situation has a best approach, and it's almost never the same thing twice, so trying to tackle every problem the same way or with the same set of tools is silly and asking to fail.
Likes: Real tea (black, with a little lemon). Coffee (with a little skim milk and a touch of sugar). Thai food. Movie nights with Ororo. Post-its notes. Organized file systems. Dark wood decor. Early mornings, especially when she can have breakfast by herself in the quiet before the rest of the mansion wakes up. That burn you get when you push yourself exercising, and the clean emptiness that follows once you're done. Going for walks around the Institute grounds to think, especially down to the dock on the lake. The quiet dedication of a medical theatre or research lab. The clarity of ordered focus.
Dislikes: Excessive loud noise. Messes. Herbal tea. Mistrust of medicine and doctors. Anything higher than a kitten heel, though she'll wear them when appropriate anyway. Can't stand it when people go through her things or mess up her workspace. Invasion of privacy in any form. People who are smart enough to know better but behave badly anyway just to get a rise out of others.
Habits: Fiddles with pens when she's marking. Puts her hair up when she's feeling tense. Tidies up after other people. Ironically always leaves her bed covers messy, even though she cleans the rest of the room. Likes to sleep with the window open just a little when the weather's nice.
Hobbies: Jean's schedule is always so full that she doesn't really have time for hobbies. At best, she's always halfway through some novel or other that she can't find the time to finish. Fortunately, she really really really enjoys her job(s). Though she does find time to play chess with Xavier when they have their tête-a-têtes.
Phobias: None. She's way too rational. That said, she is extremely wary of crowds because of all the telepathic noise. As a result, she tends to avoid shopping malls, concerts, etc, unless there's a compelling social obligation to go (like whenever Warren invites her to the symphony), and will also make an exception for rallies/protests if they're bringing the students to one as a field trip. People would probably start to think she was agoraphobic if she wasn't so good at hiding her discomfort.

history
August, 1973 → Jean Elizabeth Grey is born to her parents, John and Elaine Grey, on a humid summer morning. She starts reading early and so her parents enroll her in private preschool to foster her development.
December, 1977 → 4 years old. Jean's little sister, Sara, is born. Jean starts kindergarten, where she is bright and well-received.
October, 1984 → 11 years old. Jean and her best friend Annie are playing in their neighbourhood park one cool Saturday morning when they find and startle a rabbit. Annie chases after it right out into the street, where she is hit by a car that doesn't quite manage to swerve in time. Jean is physically paralyzed with shock, and in this moment her mutant powers are jolted into manifesting early -- she reaches out with her mind and links with her friend, only to be overwhelmed by Annie's pain and confusion. Without the skills to extricate herself, Jean experiences Annie's death. Afterwards, she spends days alternating between confusion, catatonia, and abject weeping.
November, 1984 → Even with psychotherapy, Jean is not making progress. She is constantly upset, hears voices that aren't there, and will not sleep. When she does, she complains of graphic nightmares. Her parents are beside themselves. Very quickly, Jean is diagnosed with early-onset schizophrenia. Her doctor explains to her parents that the condition would have to have been present already, and that the trauma of Annie's death only triggered it early. At least this way she will receive treatment now and grow up learning to manage the condition. It can be turned into an advantage if they're all willing to work for it.
January, 1985 → Jean's "schizophrenia" does not respond to medications and her behaviour problems -- hysteria, lashing out in violence -- are becoming unmanageable. After agonizing over it, her parents decide to institutionalize their daughter in the hopes that intensive care can provide her with what she needs to get stable, and that afterwards she will be able to come home and have a normal life. Unfortunately, over the months to come, Jean responds only to extreme doses of psychotropic drugs and still frequently descends into catatonia.
October, 1985 → 12 years old. Jean's parents are approached by a man named Charles Xavier who claims that he can help their daughter. He explains that he believes she is a mutant, and that her conditioned has nothing to do with mental illness. If they will let him meet with her, just once, he will show them. Reluctantly, John and Elaine agree. Xavier meets with Jean and uses his own telepathy to shut out the overwhelming barrage of thoughts that plague her; she is so happy at the silence that she cries, and half an hour later is beginning to respond coherently. By the end of the day, all the paperwork has been signed and Jean is released. With her parents' permission, Xavier takes her to his school with the promise that she will learn to control her powers.
April, 1989 → 15 years old. Jean is really getting the hang of her powers, though she's more confident with her telekinesis than her telepathy; her experiences with being overwhelmed by the latter before make her nervous about using it, but she's trying to get past her fears. Xavier is training Jean and four other children -- Scott, Warren, Hank, and Bobby -- to work as a team, to be superheroes, to put a dramatic, positive, and proactive face on "the mutant problem", and already they're taking on small missions. The team is like a family, and though they've all experienced hardship thanks to being a mutant, they're learning to see it as a tool instead of a curse. They are just normal teenagers who happen to have special talents. Jean's mother is also diagnosed with breast cancer later in the year, and though Elaine pulls through just fine in the end, it makes Jean reconsider her trauma-induced trepidation about medicine.
August, 1990 → 17 years old. Jean has "graduated" a year earlier than most kids, thanks to Xavier's learn-at-your-own-pace style of teaching. After mulling it over, she decides to stay close to home but live on campus. It will be a good experience, and visiting the mansion will still be easy. She applies to Columbia for a BA in Biology, pre-med.
January, 1994 → 20 years old. Jean has done just enough to get all the prerequisites to apply for med school at NYU. With a 3.8 GPA and a 36 on her MCAT, she's accepted. She also decides to move off-campus and get an apartment with a few friends. That same summer, she and Scott acknowledge their feelings for each other for the first time, and begin a relationship. It's long-distance at first, because Scott is in Buffalo during the school year, but they move in together when he comes back to New York City for his Masters'.
May, 1997 → 23 years old. Scott proposes. He does it on a whim and hopes it will be a surprise, so he comes back early from a recruitment trip with Xavier and sneaks into the apartment with his mind shielded, hoping not to wake her. She puts him through a wall with her TK before she realizes he isn't a burglar. After it's all said and done and they've laughed so hard they cry, she says yes. There is no one Jean would rather accidentally beat up for the rest of her life than Scott Summers.
January, 1999 → 25 years old. Having done three years of in-class prep followed by two years of clerkship, Jean is now graduating from NYU with her MD. Though she plans to apply to the residency program for pediatric genetics at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, she holds off so that she and Scott can get married.
April, 1999 → Jean and Scott are married. They would have preferred a small, quiet ceremony, but between Jean's parents going overboard and the number of other heroes who attended, it winds up being pretty huge. Warren is best man, and afterwards they honeymoon in Europe. When they come back, Jean has decided to join Scott in returning to the school as a teacher rather than work out of a hospital.
September, 2001 → 27 years old. Their marriage is starting to go through rough patches, but they both consider it par for the course since they're trying to juggle running a school with being X-Men. They have communication problems, mostly because neither one wants to be hurtful or unfair to the other. Since that's awfully hard to do when you're stressed and have a psilink, they wind up just not communicating, hiding thoughts and feelings, and then are understandably frustrated with each other. Nevertheless, they don't think of it as a major issue, and Jean goes off COCPs (aka "the pill") so that she and Scott can have children.
October, 2001 → The Mutant Registration Act is proposed and an early draft is written.
March, 2002 → Despite going off COCPs, Jean has yet to have a period, which would have signaled a return to regular fertility and the chance to start trying for pregnancy. She becomes concerned. After several tests, it's determined that she had Premature Ovarian Failure and is infertile. It probably happened years before, sometime back in med school, without her ever knowing, because the signs were hidden by her birth control. After talking it over briefly, she and Scott decide to take children out of the equation for awhile. Ironically, this only worstens their communication issues -- in their efforts to avoid blaming each other, they just wind up becoming plain old avoidant. The psilink starts to become a real problem over the next year -- they don't want to hurt each other by letting frustration bleed into the connection, and tell themselves they're just trying not to be unfair. They repress legitimate worries, concerns, and anger, and begin to resent the strain of being constantly connected. Still, neither one is willing to suggest they break the psilink, which has been the cornerstone of both their day-to-day relationship and the way they run the school together. Such a step seems entirely too drastic, each believing it would be a terribly hurtful and fundamental rejection of the other, and so neither of them takes the time and space they need.
June, 2003 → The Mutant Registration Act is voted and signed into effect. Fortunately, thanks to several human rights and pro-mutant lobbying groups, it is kept from turning into a monster. Registration is voluntary (and, in the case of mutants whose abilities might affect their medical treatment by EMTs and hospital staff in the event of an emergency, encouraged) for all regular citizens. Only violent mutant offenders are forcibly registered as part of their sentencing.
August, 2004 → After a mission gone wrong (thanks to the Brotherhood's best efforts), Scott goes missing in the Savagelands for three weeks and has to be rescued by S.H.I.E.L.D., at which point he and Jean rekindle their relationship. Jean jokes that his coming home was her birthday gift.
May, 2006 → The first appearance of the Legacy Virus. It quickly becomes an epidemic that targets only mutants, causing many deaths and whipping human-mutant tensions into an uproar.
October, 2006 → The Legacy Virus mutates, and now begins affecting baseline humans as well. The original virus becomes known as "Legacy-1", and the mutation as "Legacy-2". Jean is recruited (along with Hank McCoy and many other notable geneticists, both human and mutant) to a taskforce whose goal is to shut the virus down. Though their official instructions are to create a cure for Legacy-2, in a gesture of solidarity between both the humans and the mutants working on it, the taskforce uses that cure to engineer one for the Legacy-1 virus as well, and roll both into a single vaccine. Certain parties in both the federal government and civilian population are enraged, but as the press is already involved, not much can be done, and future campaign PR dictates that any unhappy Senate members not get too loud with the yelling. Only extremist groups such as the Friends of Humanity continue to cause an uproar as both cure and vaccine are put into mass production and distributed to clinics across the country.
February, 2007 → In the aftermath of the Legacy Virus crisis, Magneto and his Brotherhood withdraw to a small island off the East coast of Africa. They change their tune from terrorism to building their own nation. With this new mission statement, they're able to begin recruiting in far greater numbers than ever before, drawing mostly on disenfranchised mutant youth and those affected by the Legacy-1 strain. Together, the new Brotherhood of Mutants begins terraforming the island to expand and develop it, so that it has quadrupled in size within the first six months.
August, 2007 → The Brotherhood declares their island to be a sovereign nation and demand legitimacy. Out of fear, Madagascar accedes. The island becomes its own republic, now known as "Genosha".
April, 2008 → Despite being buoyed by recent events, Scott and Jean finally admit that their relationship isn't working anymore and they don't know how to fix it. They agree to divorce. Within a week, Scott has left on a sabbatical. Thankfully there is only one more month of classes at the Institute before summer break, so Jean toughs it out until then before leaving too.
January, 2009 → Jean returns to the school in time for the winter semester and shares duties with Ororo, who stepped in as Assistant Headmistress during her absense.
NOW → As Jean is getting ready to board a flight to Sweden for a conference on global human-mutant relations, she's "whisked away" from her airport terminal and wakes up in the Introduction Room.

relationships
Family:
→ Johnathan Andrew Grey (father, age 75), a university professor.
→ Elaine Beatrice Grey, née Cooper (mother, age 69).
→ Sara Margaret Bailey, née Grey (sister, age 32).
→ Paul Archer Bailey (brother-in-law, age 37).
→ Joseph Patrick Bailey (nephew, age 8).
→ Gailyn Rose Bailey (niece, age 6).
Friends:
→ Scott Summers (CYCLOPS). He's still her best friend; he always was, but now that they're divorced, their friendship can actually re-establish itself again.
→ Just about all of the X-Men, past or present, and most of the former students.
→ Especially the First Class, who are like family -- Henry McCoy (BEAST), Warren Worthington (ANGEL), Robert Drake (ICEMAN) -- and Ororo Munroe (STORM), who has been her other best friend for over a decade.
→ THE FANTASTIC FOUR -- Reed Richards (MISTER FANTASTIC), Sue Storm (INVISIBLE WOMAN), Johnny Storm (HUMAN TORCH), Ben Grimm (THE THING).
Enemies:
→ The Brotherhood of Mutants, lead by Erik Lensherr (MAGNETO).
→ A lot of others. More than is really worth counting out. Even besides the villains, dozens of political figures and hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens all hate the X-Men for what they represent.
Past Romances: Um, well. She was with Scott for 14 years, and she still loves him very much. They're just not in love anymore. She also dated in college but none of her relationships there were serious. Logan/Wolverine has been trying to get into her pants since they met, and she admits that she's attracted to him, but she's not the type to have affairs or smash an amicable divorce by doing something reckless and hurtful, so she always firmly rebuked him in the past. Maybe, now that she's divorced, something might have happened there eventually, in its own time. Not that she'll ever know now.
Sexuality: Firmly and comfortably heterosexual. (1 on the Kinsey Scale.)
Marital Status: Divorced.

ooc
PB: Famke Janssen (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07.)
Player: Chelle!
Timezone: EST
Contact: terpsichory (CDJ) & the chellenator (AIM) & michelle.parker[at]gmail.com (EMAIL).