One sentence description:
If you're curious as to whomst I'm picturing as each character, please refer to the 'cover pic' of their story. I'm shit at giving vivid physical descriptions -but I swear I'm trying to get better, I really am- so the cover photo being the OC in question (and maybe their pairing partner if I can figure out the finer points of graphic design just enough to slap a cover together) is what made most sense for me to do.
Ages & Backstory may have been toyed with here to make things fit and flow as cohesively as humanly possible. Sorry up front if this bothers anyone.
General
Full Name: Francesca Domenica Rossi-Zacchara
Reason for name: Claudia chose Francesca because she liked the name. Domenica, of course, comes from Francesca's grandmother, who was also named Domenica
Nickname: Chessy, Frankie, Domi, - of the 3, Frankie is the one she's most widely known by and accepting of.
Reason for nickname: They're all shortened versions of her first name or her middle name in the case of Domi.
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Place of Birth: Milan, Italy
Birthday: November 4th
Currently living in: Port Charles, NY
Species/Race: Human
Ethnicity: Italian - American
Blood Type: N/A
Occupation: Model / Actress.
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Social Status: N/A
Relationship Status: Single
Status: N/A
Appearance
Body Build: Athletic
Height: 5'3
Weight: N/A
Skin colour: warm, olive undertones.
Hair style: Francesca typically keeps her hair in a long bob that stops slightly above her shoulders. She likes to put waves or soft curls in her hair for the extra oomph and volume.
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Light brown
Distinguishing Features: Girl has a very sculpted jawline. Most people typically notice her eyes, lips or legs before anything else, however.
Preferred Clothing: Basic. Lots of form fitting dark wash / black skinny jeans, black or white shirts and either high heels with the red bottom or a pair of black leather pull on biker boots that she's had forever by now.
Accessories: Leather jackets, true red lipstick (she only wears the Mac matte in Russian red), a rose gold necklace that Claudia gave her on her sixteenth birthday, her small rose gold nose piercing (right nostril) and a pair of simple diamond studs.
Health
General health: She gets migraines and that's about it.
Posture: She's got very good posture. Kind of has to, because she spent years in ballet as a child/teen.
Any physical illnesses?: None currently. In the past she's suffered a concussion, a broken ankle and a broken wrist. These were all the result of a car accident she was involved in at the age of 19.
Any mental illnesses?: Nope. Which is kinda shocking when you consider that the patriarch of this goddamn family was a glorified nutjob.
Take drugs?: Nope.
Smoke?: Nope.
Drink?: A glass or two of red wine here and there, that's really about it.
Mental/Emotional State
Archetype: N/A
Mental age: I'd put her at the late thirties / early forties mentally. She's a bit of an old soul. But not too old, if you feel me.
Act before thinking/Think before acting?: Depends on the situation and her mood, let's be real.
Emotion-wise, generally: N/A
Conversation
Way of speaking: a lingering Italian accent, kind of soft spoken (she's got a dulcet tone to her voice, it's really kind of dreamy? Idk, that's how I'd describe it.). She mastered the old Hollywood 'transatlantic' accent and when she chooses to use it, she sounds very eloquent/well spoken.
Common conversation starter: It depends on who she's talking to. Typically, it's whatever mundane question she can think of at the moment.
Swears?: She raises it to an art form.
Made-up words?: Nope.
Made-up language?: Nope. But she does speak Italian fluently and she has been known to lapse right back into it when she's angry, stressing out, having herself a bit of a panic or frustrated.
Likes/Dislikes
Likes:
Candles, especially vanilla scented ones.
Cherries
The way silk feels against her skin.
Driving fast
Roses
The first snowfall of the year.
The first hot day of summer because that means it's time to bring out the ol' red polka dotted bikini.
Doing her own housework. She's got the money to hire a cleaner but she feels more satisfied when she spends a weekend deep cleaning.
White chocolate
Spicy food
Dislikes:
Cruelty of any kind.
Abuse of any kind.
Mansplainers.
People who talk down to or over her.
Being told not to do something or that she shouldn't.
Extreme cold.
Soggy pasta
When she has to break in a new pair of heels.
Paparazzi.
Out of tune instruments
Long lines
Traffic jams and being stuck in them.
Karen types.
Bullies.
Hobbies
Dancing
Yoga
Gardening
Cooking, particularly Italian cuisine
Photography
Shopping
Cleaning because it relaxes her and it's a good way to take out her frustration / anger
Aerobics
Sleeping late.
Going out on the town.
Watching horror movies.
Going for long drives.
Going to the beach or the lake.
Road trips for no reason
Playing Piano.
Riding horses.
Habits
Strengths/Weaknesses
Strengths:
- Level headed
- Persuasive
- Nurturing / Maternal
- Neat
- Frugal
- Intelligent
- Eloquent
- Loyal
- Romantic
- Quick Learner
- Natural leader
- Determined
Weakness:
- Temperamental
- Petty
- Outspoken
- Confrontational
- Stubborn
- Impulsive
- Flirtatious
- Sarcastic
- little on the jealous side
- Perfectionist
- Easily annoyed
- Impatient
Skills/Abilities
Fluent in Italian.
Excellent dancer.
Very good at thinking on the fly.
Very good at drawing people to her.
Good at meeting new people and handling large crowds, she's very confident on the surface.
She's got a degree or two.
Education/Intelligence
Education: College graduate. She's got degrees in Marketing, Journalism (so she could work at Crimson) and Fashion Design and a minor in Dance.
IQ: N/A
EQ: N/A
Secrets
Fears
She falls too hard and too deep and after learning what her mother went through -and her death because of it, to keep Sonny Corinthos, she definitely has no interest in sharing the same fate. So she's afraid to really let herself fall. It's not just the above, it's also got a lot to do with her picking the worst guys to fall too hard and too deep for.
Dreams/Goals
To fade into obscurity and just quietly have her own private life again. To meet someone whos' actually good for her and to her and finally feel like she can let herself fall completely in love. To have kids of her own because she really wants a family.
Views/Opinions on...
Government: Neutral.
Religion: She doesn't really have a firm opinion on this. She wants to believe in a higher power, but then you turn on the news and you see all the bad in the world and it really makes a person wonder.
Economy: It's totally unbalanced and the odds are stacked against certain social classes and people and that's not fair or right.
Technology: She could honestly live without it.
Favourites
Food: Spaghetti Carbonera, Antipasto Italiano, Shrimp scampi, medium rare steaks, salads and any kind of fruit
Colour: Black and true red.
Animal: Horses or cats
Number: N/A
Holiday: Christmas
Season: Winter
Time of day: Early morning before the rest of the world is awake. When the sun is just coming up.
Thing to watch: Horror movies or soap operas.
Movie: An Officer And A Gentleman, Princess Bride, The Notebook.
Show: Sons of Anarchy, anything paranormal themed.
Type of art: Visual. She likes to see things, so she likes paintings and drawings, etc.
Genre of music: Oldies or Hard rock. There is no in between.
Genre of literature: Erotica
Genre of shows: Horror / Paranormal
Genre of movies: Horror
History
When Anthony sent Claudia away at the age of 16, he may or may not have given her just a little bit of room to breathe. Claudia hated that she had to leave her brother Johnny behind, but once she got to Italy, she really got a chance to thrive away from the invasive insanity that was her father, Anthony. Italy is where she meets Dominic Rossi, one of the right hand men in her uncle Rudy's employ. The two begin a deep and intense relationship that turns sexual when Claudia is 18. Unfortunately, Dominic was taken from her after her uncle Rudy discovered what she was getting up to behind his back. Rudy has a hit put out on Dominic and this is what makes Claudia decide that it's time to part ways with her uncle. She moves from Milan to Sicily and for a while, she loses touch with the family. Shortly after her move, she discovers she's pregnant with Francesca. She's far smarter than breathing a word to anyone in her family because she knows her father will only do something horrible to one or both of them. The risk of this happening is too much for Claudia to take, so she leaves Francesca at the doorstep of a local orphanage and leaves a long and detailed note with a necklace that belonged to her, stating that the necklace and letter are to be given to Francesca when she turns 16.
Francesca is taken in by the orphanage and this is where she'll remain, she's never adopted. She learns early on that the orphanage is a cold and harsh place and the two sisters who run it are cold and uncaring women, often bullying or treating the children in the house like live in cleaning staff. The slightest transgression gets a disproportionate and often borderline abusive punishment. Francesca observes all of this and quickly learns to adapt. To keep herself out of harms way for the most part until she's a bit older and she can fight back.
This time comes when she's fourteen. She witnesses the sisters bring a sweet little 4 year old to tears and something in her snaps. Francesca stands up to the sisters and it results in the women banishing her out to a shed like structure on the property. Her cleaning duties are tripled on top of it and Francesca takes it all on the chin. While sneaking back into the main house on one particular night to steal herself some leftovers, she happens to go rummaging through a drawer and she finds the letter meant for her when she turns 16. She takes the letter and the necklace inside and she files everything written in the letter away for a later time.
Francesca finds herself dreaming of an escape from the orphanage, but whenever potential parents come to meet her, she purposely puts them off of adopting her just to stay close to all the younger kids in the home. All the while, she's teaching a 12 year old everything she learned to get by relatively unscathed and preparing for her eventual escape.
Her escape comes at 15. She's out in town after school ends for the day and she's approached by a woman claiming to be a casting agent. Francesca takes the woman's business card and a week later, when she gets the chance to slip away and meet up with the woman, she signs a temporary contract with the woman's talent agency. Leaving the younger kids at the orphanage is hard for her, but she tells herself that most of them will be adopted fairly quick because she's shown them how to attract the attention of potential parents. She runs away in the middle of the night and now on her own, she's got one destination on her mind.
Claudia is awakened in the middle of the night and reunited with her beautiful teenage daughter. And Claudia decides that she can handle being a mother a lot better now, after all, she's got herself in a better financial position and she's gotten herself back inside the family organization. She figures that she can afford top of the line protection for her daughter. Mother and daughter begin to bond, Claudia is beyond horrified when she learns what Francesca lived through. With a call or two, the orphanage is closed down and the women running it are arrested on negligence charges. Reunited with her mother, Francesca can finally thrive and be a teenager and start discovering who she truly is at last. Mother and daughter have more of a sisterhood or friendship bond than a parental unit / child one and Claudia prefers it this way. Francesca is just so happy to be reunited with her mother again that she's a breeze to raise as a teenager. Claudia encourages her to pursue any and all dreams she has, and this leads Francesca into taking up ballet, which she's got the ideal build for and happens to be pretty good at because she used to dance alone in the attic at the orphanage when she could get away and practice. Francesca also takes a few small modeling jobs now and then and under her mother's watchful eye, the money made from the jobs is put away into a trust fund that Claudia's set up for her that she can't access until she's 21.
Claudia is summoned back to Port Charles and despite Francesca begging to come alone, Claudia insists that she'd be better off taking a spot in the exclusive boarding school she earned an invite to instead. She promises to keep in touch with Francesca and for a while, she does.
Francesca graduates from the boarding school with a full ride scholarship to a university and after taking a year off to really dip her toes into modeling and small acting bits that her manager finds for her as well as hone her dancing skills, Francesca takes herself to college and promptly starts to work towards earning herself a double major in marketing and fashion design, because she's always been fascinated with clothing and designing it, she made all of her own dance costumes and a lot of her own clothing as well as a stunning gown for a formal event her mother attended. She minors in dance because Dance is something she could see herself doing someday, after she's accomplished other things and settled down, she thinks maybe she could open a dance studio and teach little girls ballet / ballroom dancing.
The loss of her mother is tragic and it shocks her to her core. She arrives in Port Charles and is reunited with an uncle she only knew a little about and a grandfather that she's terrified of, but she sees the inner turmoil in her uncle and she's bonded with him quite well, so she just doesn't have the heart to abandon him to the insanity of his father. She settles into life in Port Charles and tries to work through the grief at losing her mother. She and Michael have a confrontation at one point and she tells him that she understands why things happened the way they did and she holds no ill will towards him. She admits that her mother had gone down a dark path before the end, telling him she could feel the shift in her mother's personality every time she'd call to talk. They become tentative friends and remain friends to this day.
As far as her life in Port Charles, Francesca continues to take modeling and acting jobs and on a whim, she submits her portfolio of designs to Kate Howard. Kate is impressed and hires her to work at Crimson with the condition that Francesca will get a degree in Journalism so everything is kept legal. Francesca enrolls in a journalism program that she can do online and eventually, she completes the program with her degree. She starts to work under Kate at Crimson while taking her own modeling gigs and acting gigs on the side. She gets a huge break when Kate mentions that her 'protege' happens to be an amateur model after food poisoning hits one of the models at a show during Fashion Week in New York. This is Francesca's big debut into real modeling.
It's also a huge payday. As she's always done, she puts the money into the fund her late mother started for her and basically forgets it exists.
The appearance at Fashion week gets her invited to quite a few more all over the globe and while she's not on the cover of a magazine, she is becoming quite well known.
Around 2013, Francesca returns to Italy for a while. She gets to live a life normally for a while and the time away from the limelight makes her realize that she actually doesn't enjoy having cameras shoved into her face every ten seconds like she was getting in Port Charles for a while.
She eventually returns to Port Charles sometime in the winter of 2019, and she takes up her old job at Crimson, with Nina offering her co-editor. Francesca gladly accepts the position because it gets her closer to her ultimate dream, starting her own clothing line.
If it's not obvious, family and her job are the most important things in Francesca's life. She gave up on having a romantic life because she learned quickly that she maybe didn't have the best judgment when it came to the men she chose to fall for.
Personality
See strengths and weaknesses. It's really the best way to sum her up.
Relationships
Family: Claudia Zacchara & Dominic Rossi (oc, deceased), parents. Johnny Zacchara, uncle (maternal).
Love interest: Nathan West
Friends/Allies: Kate Howard, (mentor, deceased), Maxie Jones (co-worker briefly, presently close friends)
Enemies: Several of her ex lovers. She's not entirely fond of Sonny Corinthos either, thanks to the loaded ties to her mother and the way her mother died.
Quotes
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Trivia
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