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(ππ+) Val Character Sheets (Full!)
🕑 Added 2023-07-14 07:55:21 +0000 UTCMeet mouse barber Val !!! Paragraphs added & height lowered to 4 feet! + Extra writing in ex-husbands, country v. city writing, and religion writing!
Only current appearances: π+ on TikTok pt. 1 and pt. 2, π+ Haircut Dialogue pt. 2
General
Val is a barber in her mid-forties. She is the first mouse we meet in-universe. Per typical mouse features, she has a more pointed snout, rounded ears instead of ovular, and is notably much smaller than her rat counterparts, only coming up to 4 feet, sitting right at the average height for mice (typically 3'6-4'6).
Personality
We'll mostly see Val at work with Annie, where she is friendly, open, knowledgeable about her job, sometimes cracks jokes, and often compliments Annie or talks him up. This is especially true around Dr. Zo, as she knows her hairstylist is interested in him and is keen on playing matchmaker.
Outside of work, she is witty, headstrong, opinionated, and undeniably clever. She lives like the rats in town, and is most similar in values to rats: she has a more individualistic view than many of her mouse counterparts, and hones skills that make her happy instead of doing so to benefit an entire community (per mouse culture). She lives on her own in a one-room studio apartment sized for rats. She uses dividers to section off the space as desired.
Work
Val is a barber, and owns the hairstyling shop 'Bill's Bobs', which she hired Annie to work at as her hairstylist. Bill's Bobs was started with her most recent ex-husband, however on her divorcing him, she kept the business as it is her passion and not his. She greatly dislikes the name now, but changing it has been put on a back burner as she's still adjusting greatly to living alone in a town of rats, in a studio apartment meant to fit someone much taller than her.
When it comes to Annie, Val treats him as an equal and considers him to be a fantastic employee. She is protective of him, especially when clients try and ask him about his injuries or complain they thought they were getting a female hairdresser because of his name. He appreciates this more than she'll ever know. He claims she pays him too much, she insists she doesn't pay him enough.
Val has met his three sisters, and gets along best with Jo, honestly feeling quite impressed with her from the way Annie talks about her and how important she is to him. The two (Val & Jo) have very similar personalities and values, and it can be noted via their sheets they are both Consuls via the Myer Briggs 16-Personalities Test.
Val wears platforms to work, and they add a whopping 6 inches to her height, helping her reach her clients better and get around the shop a bit faster. She used to use shoes that fit around her whole foot, but now she uses ones that are more like slides that she straps into, as she found a brand that is less clunky.
Interests
In her free time she loves to watch True Crime and Law & Order SVU, and thinks Olivia Benson (played by Marouska Hargitay) is hot. She adores sewing and knitting, which is great for modifying rat clothing to fit her or making her own clothes.
Val is more of a thrill-seeker than she lets on, and loves activities like roller coasters, skydiving, road tripping, and hiking. She is unafraid of going out at night, she is unafraid of doing things alone. She is comfortable among rats, and is often quite bold and secure in her own abilities to a fault, sometimes at risk to her safety around creeps or those who may want to do others harm.
Ex-Husbands
Val has been married three times before, once to a mouse and twice to rats. All three men she divorced. Through chatting clues, you can piece together that she first married a city mouse named Zach, second a rat named Dale, and third a rat named Bill.
She doesn't discuss details often of her past relationships, but through dialogue with her it is evident she holds bitterness towards Zach, seeming both hateful of him as well as hurt. With Dale, it can be discovered she had moved to the country after separating from Zach, and Dale was the only rat in the area where she had moved. She describes Dale as a 'simple, loving man who wouldn't hurt a fly', but says that it took her too long to realize he wasn't someone who would ever stand his ground, and he crumbled under her influence. She ended up leaving the country due to shame from the mice in the area, as divorce is greatly frowned upon in country-mouse society.
Bill she met after moving back to the same town Dr. Zo lives in, having found online that it seemed like a good area and was building in both housing and things to do. Bill she'll say was, "perfect until we got married, then he stopped trying". She says when she called him on it, and asked him to show love like he did before, he scoffed and said verbatim, "What are you gonna do if I don't, divorce me?" Which she did within the month. It has been several years and she has not remarried since. At this point, she mentions quite often that she's done with men and that maybe she should start dating women. It's unclear if she's joking or not.
Country or City?
There are generally speaking 'rural mice' and 'urban mice', better known as 'country mice' and 'city mice', which have very different lifestyles. Read more about country & city mice - (coming soon). Much of the time it is easy to tell which one a mouse is from context clues talking to them.
A lot of rats have a bit of an obsession with knowing. This is in part because, in towns like this, they don't meet mice often and they like to seem cultured. It is also in part because there are different things to do to make mice from these different areas feel at home in a town mainly filled with rats, and they feel slightly uncomfortable worrying they'll come off rude or uneducated.
However, with Val it is virtually impossible to tell, and she likes it that way. She will say that she wishes rats would go about talking to her and befriending her the same way they would go about it with anyone else. Having been married to rats twice at this point, she likes that they don't take marriage as seriously as country mice, but also don't take marriage and relationships in general as lightly as city mice. For each answer she gives that might lean one way or the other, she has answers equally swaying to the other side.
Religion
There are three main brands of religion in the Universe: Found in rats, country mice, and city rats. Faith in rats is usually born into or sometimes subscribed to down the line, as well as typically with the worship of one Deity or God. Faith in country mice that are raised with it is often weaved into their very being, and is seen in almost everything they do, and is more with focus on many different everyday miracles and things to appreciate. Faith in city mice is often cult-like, and more often treated like a cool club rather than something intended to explain the mysteries of the universe.
Val doesn't subscribe to any of the major religions, neither rat-created nor mouse-created, and she doesn't keep connections with her family, so she is generally isolated from her roots. She has greatly mixed feelings about this, but with the amount she has bounced around places and different expectations, she wouldn't touch religion with a ten foot pole. She does however have a great understanding of all three categories.
