Name: Portia Sullivan
Species: Human
Occupation: Defense Attorney
Age: 32 Years Old
Played by: Karli
Face Claim: Deborah Ann Woll
“I know I said I could handle anything… and I can. But I think I’m in over my head this time.”
At every stage in her life, people always complimented Portia for her idealism and optimism. It was something people always seemed to point out. “You’re so optimistic!” “Your idealism never seems to fade, does it?” Portia quickly learned that these sentences had unspoken second halves. In fact she came to understand that these were not compliments at all, but a form of pity. “You’re so optimistic… even though you were abandoned as a child.” “Your idealism never seems to fade… despite the constant string of rejections.”
However, it remained true that Portia was in fact optimistic and idealistic. Despite having been abandoned at a firehouse in Boston when she was only a few days old, Portia Sullivan always felt like good things were on her horizon. She was smart and personable from a young age, which is why the women at the orphanage were always so perplexed when she never got placed for adoption.
While she longed for a nuclear family, Portia never mourned for what she did not have. Instead she found family in friendships and found purpose in school. After graduating valedictorian, gateways to a better life opened in front of her. All she had to do was pick which one she wanted to walk through. While she had gotten accepted into Georgetown, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia (among other less prestigious institutions) Portia couldn’t bear to leave Massachusetts and she found herself going to Harvard not only for undergrad but also for her legal studies.
After that she spent a year working as a public defender before joining one of the most prestigious criminal defense firms in Boston. Her name regularly landed on the top lawyer lists for the state and even when she lost a case she found herself winning the respect of her colleagues. That was until three years ago when she found herself in the middle of an ethics investigation for mishandling client funds. The investigation found that she didn’t do anything wrong but her firm still decided to fire her, citing client concerns as the reason. The irony of it all was that it was her supervising attorney, not her, who actually committed the misconduct.
Unemployed, devastated, and a pariah in the Massachusetts legal community, Portia received a phone call from an older attorney in a small town called White Crest, Maine who had heard she was looking for a job. He said that he was going to retire and he was looking for someone to take over his criminal defense practice and he wanted it to be her. It seemed odd, but Portia knew she needed to lay low and rebuild her reputation. After taking the necessary steps to get her law license in Maine, she moved to White Crest to take over his practice.
What she thought would be a quick tenure turned into three years. Life was less stressful and she felt more focused than ever. Even though the crimes her clients were accused of often weren’t as thrilling as what she had been working on back in Boston (though she was surprised by the number of murder charges in such a small town), she treated each of them with the same feverish defense. It was that exact dedication, unfortunately, that changed her life.
She was representing a woman about her own age on a public nudity charge. Skinny dipping was a victimless crime in her opinion and the evidence wasn’t too compelling. Wanting to emphasize to her client her level of dedication, Portia made a promise. Little did she know that those words, spoken to what she would later learn was a fae, quite literally bound her to her word - indefinitely. Now she finds herself at a cross section of two worlds, trying as always to remain optimistic about what the future holds.
Character Facts:
Personality: Meticulous, zealous, idealistic, sociable, cunning, compassionate, reactionary, secretive, generous
Portia is fully unaware, but the reason she was abandoned as a child was because she was born human to fae parents. Her father was disgusted by her humanity and wanted to simply kill her. It was her mother who insisted they give her away instead. Unbeknownst to Portia, her birth mother has been gently interfering with her life to keep her close-by (including getting her to move to White Crest).
In her personal life, Portia is very gentle and kind but she is a fierce litigator in the courtroom.
While she preaches honesty and avoids lying when she doesn’t need to, she refuses to discuss the circumstances that led to her getting fired and ultimately moving to White Crest.
She doesn’t know who chose her name, or why they picked it, but she likes to think she was named after Portia from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare.
After learning a tiny bit about the supernatural world due to her promise bind, Portia is considering the possibilities that other supernatural beings might need legal representation and is looking to expand her practice accordingly.
She is now very careful about what she says and never uses the P-word anymore.
Has a pet snake named Elle Woods.
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Hello🫶 Can you help me with suggestions of redheaded females that have a decent amount of resources? No matter the age! Thank you in advance!
𝙝𝙞 𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙚! this is gonna be a looooooooong list, angel, but it's as comprehensive as i could make it! all of these fcs have at least 300 gifs that i could find, so please let me know if you need some help locating resources ♡ **indicates the resources are available as gif icons and not small/medium gifs!
Abigail Cowen ( 1998, actress, white )
Ahsen Eroglu ( 1994, actress, Turkish )
Alicia Von Rittberg ( 1993, actress, white )
Alina Kovalenko ( 1992, actress, white )
Amy Adams ( 1974, actress, white )
Angourie Rice ( 2001, actress, white )
Anya Taylor Joy ( 1996, actress, white )
Asena Keskinci ( 2001, actress, Turkish )
Bebe Wood ( 2001, actress, white )
Bree Kish** ( 1996, model, one quarter Black, plus size )
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Bridget Satterlee** ( 1997, model, white )
Bryce Dallas Howard ( 1981, actress, white )
Camryn Grimes ( 1990, actress, white )
Charlotte Spencer ( 1991, actress, white )
Christina Hendricks ( 1975, actress, white )
Deborah Ann Woll ( 1985, actress, white )
Elcin Sangu ( 1985, actress, Turkish )
Eleanor Tomlinson ( 1992, actress, white )
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Ellie Bamber ( 1997, actress, white )
Emily Carey ( 2003, actress, white )
Evan Rachel Wood ( 1987, actress, white )
Freya Mavor ( 1993, actress, white )
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Huh Yunjin ( 2001, musician, Korean )
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Jane Levy ( 1986, actress, white )
Jessica Barden ( 1992, actress, white )
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Joey King ( 1999, actress, white/Jewish )
Karen Gillan ( 1987, actress, white )
Kate Walsh ( 1967, actress, white )
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Kennedy McMann ( 1996, actress, white )
Kennedy Walsh ( 2000, influencer with acting roles, white )
Lee Seo Jeong ( 2000, musician, Korean )
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Maddison Brown** ( 1997, actress, white )
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Madeline Ford ( 1997, model, white )
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Marina Ruy Barbosa ( 1995, actress, Brazilian (white) )
Melis Sezen ( 1997, actress, Turkish )
Millie Bobby Brown ( 2004, actress, white )
Miriam Leone ( 1985, actress, white )
Natasha Lyonne ( 1979, actress, white/Jewish )
Nicola Coughlan ( 1987, actress, white, plus-size )
Nicole Kidman ( 1967, actress, white )
Olivia Cooke ( 1993, actress, white )
Rebecca Ferguson ( 1983, actress, white )
Riley Keough ( 1989, actress, white/Jewish )
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Rose Leslie ( 1987, actress, white )
Ruth Connell ( 1979, actress, white )
Sabina Karlsson ( 1988, model, half Black, plus size )
Sadie Sink ( 2002, actress, white )
Sadie Soverall ( 2002, actress, white )
Sarah Drew ( 1980, actress, white )
Sarah Snook ( 1987, actress, white )
Shannon Purser ( 1997, actress, white, plus size )
Sophia Lillis ( 2002, actress, white )
Sophie Skelton ( 1994, actress, white )
Sophie Turner ( 1996, actress, white )
Stephanie Martini ( 1990, actress, white )
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