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I was never raised to think that I was pretty. It’s not that I was raised to think I was unattractive, but it was just never something that was pointed out to me by my family. They would point out personality traits — ‘our daughter is really quirky’ — versus what I look like, because inevitably, looks go, so it makes no difference.

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𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆...

                                        —𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄 ❝𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐄❞ 𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄

[ MILA KUNIS. CIS-FEM. SHE/HER ] Look, it’s FRANCINE “FRANKIE” MELROSE, did you know they now work as a VP OF TECHNOLOGY? You know, they can be a bit THOROUGH & IDEALISTIC, but they’re honestly NAIVE & TRANSPARENT. When I hear their name i think of clicking mechanical keys, empty bottles of rose, and hallmark rom-coms. They also seem to be a bit FOMO; like in all her success, she’s missing out on real life about everyone getting together.

hi y’all i’m mimi, i’m twenty-1, and i’m very excited to have the opportunity to write with all of you, and to write frankie once more! she’s like lowkey my dream life personified and my dream woman mila kunis nation we rise!

                                       — 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒 !

name: Francine “Frankie” Chelsea Melrose birthday/birthplace: (7/19/1984) / Houston, TX occupation: vice president of technology at fliip™ character role: the success story graduation year: the success story current residence: Palo Alto, CA, temporarily in Maine for the wedding likes: macchiatos, long commutes, sci-fi novels dislikes: marshland, California, motorcycles

                                                   𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎

Born in Houston, Texas with her grandmother by her single mother’s bedside. Jennifer Melrose never intended to be a single mother but, as progressive as the 80s were, not many men were willing to say their wife was an engineer. Frankie’s father had seen her once when she was a baby before leaving her life completely. That didn’t stop Jennifer from trying to give Frankie that perfect family life. For the first few years of her life, Frankie was raised by her grandmother. Just like Frankie, her mother was ambitious and determined and wouldn’t let a child stop her grind. Frankie learned to be independent from a very young age which leaked into her academics and social life.

They moved up the east coast when Frankie was in middle school. In high school, Frankie was no cheerleader, nor mathlete. She seemed destined to be the girl in the yearbook you forgot about a year later. She had an inconsequential face til about senior year where she grew into her beauty and turned the occasional head. Though by this time, she had already settled into her spot with the Dogs. The kind of kids who’d be in the background of your coming of age film. She was one of those sleeper students— the kind who you assumed were just as ‘meh’ as you were but were actually in the 10th percentile of students.

With a relatively solid academic career under her belt, she moved away from the cold coasts of Maine to sunny Tallahassee, Florida. In her programming fundamentals class she met a guy name Mason. With the face of a Hollywood actor and the most stereotypical rich Florida parents, Mason was only concerned with making a name for himself. After trying to get a piece of the dot com bubble and seeing its unfortunate demise, his determination to crush the tech industry roped Frankie in and they became partners in crime. Frankie and Mason both walked across the stage together in 2011 both with masters degrees in hand.

Mason and Frankie sort of lost contact and it wasn’t till 2013 when Mason had invited her out to Silicon Valley where the tech industry was booming. Having never left the east coast, Frankie was weary but knew she was meant for bigger and better things. Her and Mason had worked at fitbit as developers for three years until Mason had left to start his own company called Fliip. Frankie was practically the co-ceo, not only did she do the majority of the developing she also controlled marketing and their books.

As Fliip became a bigger enterprise and they hired more and more developers, PR people, and accountants she expected to go to more events with Mason but he gave her the title of head managing engineer and let her sit in obscurity as he traveled to events, got magazine interviews and met with investors. If she didn’t have underlying feelings for him she would have gone to the first tech magazine that would listen and write a tell all but she accepts her fate as a glorified babysitter to 20-somethings.

                                  𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒!

these are just jumping off points pls come hmu to plot!!

the one that got away:

bad influence:

friendly competition:

flirtationship:

it’s like you never left:

friendly giant