Bianca Wernher
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Out of Character
Catalyst character of Huge Fucking Plot. Initially brought over from Rue's neverending writing project, along with Cary Vaughn-Blair, Ryan Bertrand, Aingeal Duncan, Derek Wernher and a bunch of other people.
In Character
Specifics
Full Name: Bianca Èlisabeth Beauregard Baxter Rheys Wernher
Nickname(s): B, and a lot of pet names
Birthdate: September 13, 1971
Birthplace: Sakkarah, Egypt
Hometown: London, London, England
Currently Resides: Half in London, half in Cairo
Family: Father, Arthur Beauregard Rheys. Mother, Alanna Baxter. Sister, Hannah Allen. Husband, Derek Wernher. Son, Alaric Wernher.
Sexuality: Bisexual, technically. Now more Dereksexual.
Relationship Status: Married to Derek Wernher (as of November 20th, 2006, in the strangest wedding ever.
Schooling: Attended law school in Oxford.
Occupation: Solicitor.
Detailed Information
Physical Description
Too beautiful for her own good, as the saying goes. Bianca is slender and well-formed, with long blonde hair. She's five feet and six inches tall, and because I know this from her PB's website measures 33-23-34.
The fact that she's lovely gets her in a lot of trouble.
Personal Information
Risk is part of her game. She lives for law, uses constant outbursts of 'objection!' in actual conversation, and is a victim for the concept, if not the act, of true love.
Many many MANY people she meets are attracted to her. This, to Bianca, is not a positive thing, and she does her best to tone down her appearance. If a jury finds her attractive, that's not a bias she's willing to play.
But Bianca Rheys, Attorney-at-Law, never loses.
Or at least almost never.
She doesn't talk about when she does.
She co-runs the Law Offices of Darley & Rheys with other senior partner Macomb Darley.
Backstory
Once upon a time, quite some time ago, a model and an archaeologist fell in love, and they had a daughter.
They named her Hannah, and she was the pride and joy of the family and of the Beauregard Archaeological Association, which they ran, until three and a half years later, when their second child, Bianca, was born.
Hannah hated Bianca upon sight. The rest of the Baxter-Rheys family, both sides, adored her just as much as they had Hannah, if not more, simply due to that adorable face. As children in Egypt, growing up as light-skinned light-haired daughters of the desert, Hannah taught Bianca not to smile because it made people like her more than Hannah, and Bianca, who adored her older sister, learned to loathe her appearance because it made Hannah angry at her.
Arthur Rheys and Alanna Baxter, though, believed that there should be more to their daughters’ lives than archaeology, and so they chose to send Hannah, first, and later Bianca to Kent, England, Alanna’s hometown, to go to school.
Rheys, an American, had never actually been to Kent (he met Alanna while in Egypt), but was not about to object. Hannah attended school there, living with their aunt Alexis (Alanna’s twin sister). Bianca was ten, and missed her sister horribly, unable to cope with being the only one around, and terribly impatient for her thirteenth birthday.
It was then, at age ten, that she met Selim, the foreman’s son. The two of them became the Very Best of Friends, and suddenly, when she turned thirteen and it was time to go live with Hannah and Aunt Alexis in England and go to Real School, Bianca didn’t want to. She and Selim promised they’d stay in touch always, because they were best friends, and that’s what best friends did.
At sixteen, Hannah had become much prettier, and she had her own automobile, and had many friends and at least two boyfriends, and she was sure that pretty little Bianca’s prettiness wouldn’t get in the way anymore – nobody would cheat on her with her thirteen-year-old sister, after all. While this is normally the part of the narrative where it turns out that Bianca was still somehow better, it’s not – Hannah had her place and Bianca had hers, and they actually managed to live together without causing too much strife, and without angering Aunt Alexis.
Hannah’s university years were a haze to Bianca, as were her years in secondary school. She spent them really learning, and she had a few friends, but none of them were very important to her – she had Hannah, and Hannah’s husband-to-be Mark, and she had Selim and her parents (and still Hannah and Mark) during winters in Egypt.
Tragedy struck the family just when Bianca found out she had been accepted into law school at seventeen – Arthur Rheys had been shot, out of greed, by the family’s own foreman, and Hannah’s husband Mark reacted instinctively, drowning himself in racism and hatred of Islam. Hannah couldn’t take this, and, heavily pregnant, ran out on her husband and the rest of her family, telling only Selim where they might be able to find her.
Two days before the funeral, Selim and Bianca went to look for her.
They found her in one of the pyramids, as expected – but they didn’t expect to find her with advanced contractions. As it turned out, Bianca, Selim and Hannah’s relationships with one another as friends-and-family were firmly solidified when the two teenagers delivered the woman’s infant son, Arthur Selim Rheys-Allen, born only a week after his grandfather’s death.
He was the youngest one at the funeral.
Life remained uneventful until Bianca’s graduation, when she met Detective Inspector Vaughn-Blair, and he, like many many men the woman so pretty she hated her looks met, wanted to bed her right away. He did not express this interest, yet Bianca may have shared it, and the two of them simply became friends.
Friends who, apparently, could not properly stay that way, as Bianca and Vaughn had only really known each other three and a half days when they ended up making out on the couch of his office.
This intense whirlwind romance lead to confessions of love a week after that, sex that night, and proposal a month later. The marriage was held in Egypt, and Selim, who had recently become a sheikh, performed the ceremony regardless of his opinion that Vaughn was bad for Bianca. Having become a bit more of a self-centered sex addict than Selim ever thought she could be (a lot more of the latter, though, really) she laughed and said he was probably just jealous.
They weren’t going to speak again until Bianca’s 24th birthday, the day she confessed to her family that she intended to move to Rhode Island to be a district attorney for a few years – alone. She and Vaughn were over, and Bianca wanted to be with the Rheys family of old, serving as legal overseer to the Foundation.
They told her, “tell Selim,” and begrudgingly, she did, and the two of them made up, over tears and water pipes, and Selim accompanied her to her flight.
Rhode Island was lovely. The cases were intense, dangerous, interesting – even fun, and Bianca became one of the finest legal brains in the country, serving as one of the attorneys for the Special Victims Unit. She learned to profile, and at twenty-eight, that’s when she chose to move back to England.
Around then, somehow, Bianca became the attorney on retainer for the Fitzwilliam family, becoming famous for slamming C&Ds at anyone who attempted to write something even potentially libelous in the newspaper about Avery Driscoll’s relationships with Jack Dickon and Jake Griffith as well as taking the odd human rights pro bono case. Her association with Claire Fitzwilliam Driscoll changed simply from professional to an actual friendship, which, considering they are both highly attractive, sweet and youthful women, should surprise no one.
So Bianca commutes from London to Cape Town and back and forth, staying around Claire and Family unless work calls her elsewhere. Occasionally, she sees Vaughn, and the two of them are working on a ‘friends’ sort of basis. He has yet to turn her back into a sex addict. She also took on the most interesting pro-bono case yet – The United Kingdom v. Derek Wernher. As an avid supporter of Gabriel Thorne, why would she defend his killer?
Obviously, because Bianca didn't believe they had the right man. Not entirely. She went with a mens rea defense, and is proceeding to impress many people while keeping that man in her London flat. She's also fallen madly in love with him, against the court's advice, and they were engaged on October 24th, 2006.
They married on November 20th. The ceremony was performed by Malachy O'Rourke and Selim in tandem, and on December third, Claire informed Bianca (with the assistance of her sister, Eleanor that she just happened to be pregnant.
In the second week of January, Derek was released from Whitemoor Prison, and she carefully arranged the ability to take her parolee husband out of the country. (On the way to Cairo, they ran into Ezra in the airport - if they hadn't, they would have missed him completely.) Bianca was then holed up at her family's considerably large home on Gezira with her family along with Carlton Lindale, Ryan Bertrand, Gwen Stanwyck and Mel Davenport. Mel and Ryan left soon after to see to Ezra, who they insisted was going insane back in London. (They were right.)
Bianca, on the other hand, was forced by her husband into taking a break from work, and it was only after that break, which she begrudingly got used to, that Connor Griffen arrived to help out. He was especially useful considering Carlton had taken off on an incredibly long lunch break to New York to see his parents and Elaine Brandt (and then ended up kidnapped by a group of police, but Bianca knew little about it). She and Connor got shot at while out on a walk, and Connor's gift with slingshots saved the day.
They're still working on getting him a medal.
Her son was due in August, and so about two days before the duedate, Ryan, Téa and Ezra showed up again in Cairo to stay with her. Almost unsurprisingly, because of their speedy arrival, Bianca and Derek's first child was late.
On August 21, though, Alaric was born a little bit before noon, with only Selim in attendance. Derek, Harper, Gwen, Ryan, Ezra and Téa spent the entire time in the waiting room, but were the collective next party to see the child born.
The press, upon finding out about the birth of the child of a killer and his solicitor, latched on and have yet to let go.
Backstory: Simplified
Once upon a time, a model and an archaeologist fell in love, and they had a daughter.
They named her Hannah. She is the older sister of our heroine, Bianca, who was born two years later, and also grew up on dig sites, a light-haired, light-skinned, light-eyed desert child of the pyramids of Egypt.
Until she was sent to college back in Kent, where her family was from.
And became a lawyer. The lawyer. Sometime after her marriage, which ended recently. That's probably an important detail. But that was when Bianca was around twenty. After that, she went to university, and became a successful lawyer.
She toured, and spent time as an ADA in Rhode Island and then Manhattan in America before moving back to England again as a legal aid attorney, where she defended some pretty scary people. And then she became a private attorney, and then some even weirder shit happened.
Bianca loved it.
