Aurélie Rémi
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Out of Character
Rue toyed with her forever. And ever. And ever. And now here she is.
In Character
Specifics
Full Name: Aurélie Rémi
Nickname(s): Auri (ow-ree, but you can pronounce it ore-ee and she'll still respond to it) is preferred over her real name
Species: Angel (who time travels)
Birthdate: May 11, 1982
Birthplace: Paris, France
Hometown: Paris, France
Currently Resides: Stony Brook, New York, USA
Family: Father, Dominique Rémi. Mother, Mélanie Géroux. Older brother, Alain Rémi.
Sexuality: Uncertain
Relationship Status: Single, and in love with a man from the past.
Schooling: Some Parisian primary school. Homeschooling. Passed International Baccalaureate. Graduated Stony Brook University. Still attending for grad school.
Occupation: Sociologist (graduate student)
Detailed Information
Physical Description
Like most of her family, Aurélie is blonde and has light eyes. The eyes, in her particular case, are blue. Her hair is wavy, and has a tendency to curl a lot at the edges. She changes its style fairly frequently – right now, it's about shoulder length, but that might not last more than a couple of days.
She's also short, which isn't a family standard, at only 5"1'.
(Her wings have their own unique sort of tinge, too – while mostly a thorough cream color, there are some spots that are a paler white. She's dappled.)
Personal Information
Intense, in a word. Basically everything she feels is intense, in a way past just that of being a creature made of emotion. Aurélie – or Auri, as she prefers to be called by anyone who isn't family (though the nickname may have stemmed from Sidney in the first place) – overdoes it by nature, because that's just how she feels. Strongly. About everything. If you can find something she doesn't get up-in-arms about, it's fairly impressive.
She loves people and social issues and figuring out what makes people tick, which is why she studies sociology as much as she does. Caring about everything, though, is making it hard for her to pick one thing to write her dissertation on.
It is also notable that Aurélie does not like Paris. Not for political reasons, just because she is far happier somewhere else. She doesn't have problems spending time in more rural areas of France or in other cities – she just doesn't like Paris any. This is unfortunate because her parents live there. It is probably also notable that she tries her best to not let the fact that she time travels – something that her entire family, even, all familiar with magic, regards as incredibly odd – get to her at all. She's trying to get herself to be able to control that via willpower the same way she can control most of the environment around her, something she learned to do from her grandfather as a child. It doesn't seem to be working, even if subconsciously she is having more of an influence on where she travels to (and what time that is, really, more than its location) than she's aware of. It's just not helping her much with when.
(She's incredibly close to her brother, who is two years older. Unfortunately, it's only psychological closeness – they usually aren't, in person.)
Backstory
Aurélie Rémi was born on May 11, 1982 in Paris, France, the second child of pharmacy guru Dominique Rémi and his wife, whose name Beth forgot and I can't check the wiki to find out what it was right now. She had a perfectly normal upbringing until she was eleven and her brother, Alain, was thirteen – and as far as the family was aware, Aurélie had a seizure and then disappeared, literally, from view.
As far as she was aware, she was re-experiencing the death of her maternal grandfather, which she had been present for at age six and barely remembered. She remembered enough to know it was possibly actually real – and back in 1993, the rest of the Rémis were in a state of panic. No, she hadn't gotten her wings yet, but what kind of medical condition caused people to vanish?
Shaken, terrified and yet confident in what she saw, when she returned to her family in a location not too far off from the one she'd left (she was at least still in the house) she told them where she'd been. No one had heard of it happening before. The shock of it also caused her brother's first actual manifestation, as his sister had vanished before him and he was truly terrified, and about an hour later his sister reappeared in front of him, too. Which got his wings to pop out again.) They weren't sure how to respond to this event, and not even Pierrick could find someone else who it had happened to. It just didn't occur.
For the next two years, Aurélie lived in fear of disappearing from her current timeline again. And then it happened, on her thirteenth birthday. And again, about two months later. By the time she was fourteen (and had gotten wings of her own sometime along the way, I'll figure that out) she'd gotten used to it being a part of her life. The family, still shaken but trying to adapt, had records stating she was an epileptic set up (she did, in fact, have pre-travel health events that seemed to mimic seizures enough that her medically-inclined father and expert forger grandfather were comfortable doing this) and took her out of school. She started keeping journals, and started seeing places and having experiences that were more and more strange.
When she finished her homeschooling, Aurélie decided what she wanted to do more than anything else in the world was go to university. And more than that – she wanted to go to university overseas. She'd gotten better at controlling the traveling, she insisted, and eventually her parents conceded to let her attend Stony Brook University in New York to study sociology.
(Despite what might have been thought a natural inclination, Auri had no interest at all in studying history. It wasn't as nice up close and personal as others might have thought, and having seen parts of both World Wars at a very young age, she didn't want to study them at all.)
Five years, and she had a degree. She was happy, and the trips back in time had slowed down to being very rare, only once every few months, and usually not too far back or for very long. She spent six months in Cannes, with her brother, and then went back to Stony Brook to start graduate school. (The first day of classes was spent in the antebellum South. She claimed to be at University Hospital.)
The Black Hole had her trips speeding up again, and while she's trying her best to best the environmental effects with mindpower, these days it's getting hard to attend courses or teach her one class without starting to feel sick and having to leave. Most recently, she spent four days in Boston in 1956, where after being helped by a very confused pair of hobos who weren't expecting to have to steal a coat and pajama pants for a third person she met a man called Nathan Astley and had an incredibly upsetting experience some people might phrase as "love at first sight." While Aurélie doubts it's love, they did become very close very fast – and intimate very fast, something not really on par with the time period as far as she'd been aware of it.
For the past six weeks, she hasn't really been able to stop thinking about it. Or him. Or the way she basically spent four days attached at the hip to someone, and yet never told him anything about her past her name, and as it would seem to him, left his apartment one night and just never came back.
Half of her desperately wants to go straight back to that moment and walk right back inside, hoping and thinking and pushing for it as hard as she can. The other half is absolutely terrified of seeing him again. Cue inner battle – and she's still got a dissertation to worry about.
