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Age: 25
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Taylor Townsend
Journal: predilections
Age: 19
Fandom: The O.C.
Canon Point: Season 4, Episode 16. The End's Not Near, It's Here as Taylor and Ryan enjoy their private train car despite their relationship status being left up in the air.
Debt:

Class A: 10 Years
Class B: 15 Years
Class C: 25 Years, 8 Months

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GRAND TOTAL: 50 Years, 8 Months

Canon Character Section:

History: HERE

Personality:

Taylor herself says she is who she is because of her mother. She describes Veronica Townsend as a she-wolf who practices emotional terrorism. Her mother never has a kind word to say to her. She cuts her down emotionally and constantly brings up things like Taylor’s weight. Taylor’s father is absent. He was a sex therapist at one time and then opened a car dealership. He lives in San Francisco with his other family and Taylor never sees him. Her parents have had quite the effect on her.

After throwing away the notion that she likes Ryan because he did something nice for her and showed her attention, (and failing at therapy) he has become one of the most important people in her life. She loves Ryan body and soul and she likes using his body like a jungle gym. Ryan balances out her extreme quirkiness. He grounds her and he accepts who she is. Which is all she ever wanted. But, she is a realist and while she wishes that they will work out in the end she knows life happens.

Taylor Townsend wants to be loved. Everything she does is motivated by that. Any of her manipulations, ideas, words she says, actions – everything boils down to that. She’ll forever be search of that true love and unconditional love and support from her peers.

When a man is nice to Taylor, when he pays her any mind at all something clicks in her mind and she becomes infatuated with him. While at the Sorbonne in France, a man, Henri-Michele, bought her a subway ticket and she ended up marrying him. Seth is nice to her in season 3 and she needs to get him, then. She even tries to drive a wedge between Seth and Summer. Finally, Ryan saves her from said French husband and she develops a crush on him. She says so herself: she calls it a psychological predilection. In essence, it will always be a part of her but she’s getting over that or, she’s trying to. Because she truly believes she’s worth being chased. She just has to settle down.

She’s spent every birthday before the one on screen alone and watching Sixteen Candles. Inside, she’s very lonely. And she wants not to be. Ryan, Summer, and Seth are her family. Sandy and Kirsten are her family. Even Julie Cooper is her family. Heck, even Kaitlin is. Though, because of the earthquake, her relationship with her mother begins to heal.

While Seth is manipulative for his own machinations, Taylor always means well. Her plans and manipulations are fueled by wanting to help others. She fixes people if she can and by doing that she can take focus away from herself. It’s one way she avoids her problems. But, despite the avoiding, she knows herself well. She is very self-aware. She takes good care of herself. She’s shown post-exercise in the morning. She drinks smoothies. She’s very practical.

Taylor pays attention to details. She even remembers and kept track of when Summer’s last period had been. She is very observant, sometimes overly so. She has the tendency to say what someone is thinking before they say it. She’s insightful and wise for her age.

She overreacts easily. As enthusiastic as she can be when happy, she’s equally enthusiastic when angry. She perceives that people see her a certain way: that she’s pathetic or obsessive or tries too hard and this usually results in verbal vomit. Okay, anything she says is usually a verbal vomit martini but it comes with a tiny umbrella?

She talks to herself to psych herself up when she’s nervous. She faints at the sight of blood. As intellectual as she is, she also has quite the affinity for anime.

Taylor has a stalking problem. Seriously. She stalks her boyfriends. It’s harmless, really. She keeps track of where they are and when. She saves souvenirs. She’s even seen hanging out, watching Ryan at work. It’s just another one of her quirks.

Taylor is a perfectionist. A procrastinator she isn’t. She’ll work on things in her spare time, late at night/early in the morning. She has a thing where she doesn’t sleep more than four hours a night. It’s unproductive.

Powers/Abilities:

Taylor is a Polyglot. She’s shown speaking fluent French, Spanish, Latin and Japanese. She’s extremely intelligent. She was valedictorian in her high school class. She’s well-researched and because of her extreme sleep schedule she reads often. She only gets four hours of sleep. She is very organized in both her work and her life. She organizes convoluted plans that hardly ever work out but she does. She’s a fantastic stalker. This will be covered below as well. She has an innate ability to read people. She can tell what someone is thinking before they say it and usually she’ll voice it.

Appearance: Taylor is a 5'4 brunette lady with hazel eyes. She's not built or well muscled, but she is not fat. She's slender but toned because she takes care of her body. She wears light, understated make-up and her default mode is smiling. She can both straighten and curl her hair.

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