the personality

likes • Fashion, Gossip, Mochas - especially white chocolate & peppermint, Gossip, Being on Shiloh Jensen's good side, Sweet Wine, Strong Business Practices, Dealing in Secrets - Hickstead University Currency Style, Take Out - Because Cafeteria Food sucks, Her studies - although don't call her a nerd!
dislikes • Being Double Crossed, Back Stabbers, Lattes - too much milk, Being on Shiloh Jensen's bad side, Alisha Dovonan - simply because she gets all the hot guys, Embarrassing Situations, Getting Any Grade below B-, Annoying Distractions
strengths • Smarts - Street, Business, & Schooling, Has a Nesspresso Machine in her dorm - that alone should be a super power, Knows How to Work People
weaknesses • Always Yearning for Approval - Shiloh can say Jump and Bambi will ask How High, Chatty - almost too talkative for her own good, Ambitious - because that's never to have a good trait in an underlying.
dreams • Short Term - Make it into the Inner Circle, Long Term - Own a successful fashion or jewelry business
fears • Getting Kicked out of the Outer Circle and Relegated to a -shutter- Minion
overall personality • Bambi Pelner didn't make it into the Outer Circle of Shiloh Jensen's clique by being a wall flower. Extroverted and -perhaps dangerously- ambitious, the second she heard about the ruling queen bee, Bambi made it her mission as a freshmen to get into that group or die trying. The daughter of a strong New York business man, she learned from an early age on how to manipulate people and how to get a good read on them. She has a strong sense of power dynamics and not so secretly wants to be the alpha in the group, which has her constantly vying for becoming top dog of the Outside Circle, hoping it will get her to break the down the walls of the Inner Circle so that she may join. Bambi has been accused of being ‘controlling’ which she finds utterly baffling, meaning that despite her playful attitude and smarts, she is prone for overlooking people's opinions and feelings for her own gains. Despite her best efforts, Bambi is quite chatty. She waffles between keeping her cool and letting other people have it, based on whether she wants or feels she needs to control the power dynamics of a situation. Bambi is bold, confident, and does not hold back whenever she gets mad, often kicking below the belt literally and figuratively. Unlike a lot of the Hickstead University students, she is truly not afraid of anyone or anything and assumes she can hold her own which may be her eventual downfall. Bambi does have a bad habit of not liking to dwell on pain and avoids unpleasant thoughts, situations, or conversations with distractions of hedonism and pleasure (shopping, sex, food, fun).

the history

father • Leonardo Mattia Pelner, 56, High End Real Estate Broker - Possible Mobster
mother • Isabella Yessenia Gomez-Pelner, 50, House Wife
siblings • ----- Pelner, 23
important people • K , 19, Former Best Friend
hometown • Greenwich, Connecticut
overall history • Bambi was born in Greenwich, Connecticut to Leonardo and Isabella Pelner. She was their second child, but they loved her so much, she might as well have been considered their first born. Bambi lived the silver spoon life - even as a toddler, she got the best of everything to include clothes, furniture, toys, and of course, day care. Until real schooling started, her time was split between Connecticut and New York thanks to her father's business to run and her mother's need for high end shopping and the city life that New York could provide over the quiet and sleepy Connecticut. She grew up with a love for fashion and the high end life style, following her mother in how to best keep up with trends.

When school started, the Pelners enrolled their daughter into a highly exclusive K through 12 school in Connecticut - giving Bambi her first shot at life on truly being away from her family for eight to ten hours a day, unsupervised under their eyes and needs. Bambi thrived in school, she had a nack for solving anything that her teachers decided to throw at her and became a bit of a teacher's pet. It lead her to be given harder work than some of the other students - and while there were recommendations for her to skip a grade or two, Isabella was ultimately against it - she didn't want her daughter to be a target of older classmates simply because of her age.

School also gave Bambi her first real friend - K, who would end up being her best friend throughout most of life. The daughter of a journalist and newspaper owner, K ironically enough lived a few streets down from Bambi in Greenwich, but they never met each other until the fourth grade, when K was transferred into the school by her parents. They were absolutely inseparable and did everything together despite their difference iin personalities, backgrounds, and fashion sense. Nothing could come between them - not even boys. They were so close that as they entered high school, other people would spread rumors that they secretly had a thing for each other, but they would just roll their eyes. They did however - make a pact that they would go to college together so that their friendship wouldn't be tested long distance.

At fifteen and after her Quinceañera, her parents began to let Bambi tag along more on their business trips to the city and also school her in people. It was perhaps this point where Bambi truly started to hone in her people skills and business like attitude thanks to her father. He knew how to hold his own in any sort of setting, and clearly knew how to deal a killing blow in order to get what he wanted. Everybody wants something or is hiding something that they don't want discovered, Bambi, he would say to her, you just have to figure what it is. It was a lesson that his young daughter would take to heart, and high school had been the perfect breeding ground to perfect such a thing.

The final years of high school came and went, with Bambi and K settling upon Hickstead University as their school of choice. The idea of moving across the pond sounded like a fun idea and it would give them both adventure and breathing room from their parents and expectations. They could start anew together along with the school's highly coveted and selective programs. They were both so excited when they got in, they even booked their flights together. Little did they know was that Hickstead University would put a wedge in their friendship, and ultimately kill it. The first few weeks of freshman year were pure bliss and awkwardness, nothing had changed between the girls until one day, Bambi spotted Shiloh Jensen.

Everybody knew who she was, she ruled the school after all with poise, power, and a very keen fashion sense. It became clear to Bambi that this was who she needed to befriend if she wanted to make the best of connections for her four years here. K didn't see it that way though - she saw the Inner Circle as mean, vindictive, and rude - finding the fun in belittling people while still gaining worship. She told Bambi that she wouldn't follow her into trying to get into that group. Bambi thought it disappointing and began her quest, while K began to become her own person individually - for the first time unattached to Bambi and starting to discover her own self without her best friend there to guide her or tell her what to do.

They became distant with each other, finding themselves on opposite ends of the social spectrum at school and it ultimately became the nail in the coffin. Bambi made it into the outer circle with the likes of Flora Stone, Tanner, and Jefferson. Their own little group - deemed worthy enough to not be minions but not good enough to be the Inner Circle. But Bambi has plans, and she just has to bide her time.

the role player

alias • forever
age • n/a
other characters • the herd