Introducing Elspeth Bakerman, aka Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

[nola_eleanor]

Previously, she was Eleanor Shellstrop from the show The Good Place. Eleanor died, but that was really just the beginning. Even she couldn't really tell you everything that happened (probably because she kept getting rebooted, all her memories of the time after her death erased), but there are some things she does know. There's a Good Place, and a Bad Place. The first time she died, she went to the Bad Place, which was disguised as the Good Place as a new way to torture humans. There's a Judge, who she's met, and who gave her a second chance on Earth. There's a points system to determine who goes to which Place, and it's become severely screwed up. And then there's Team Cockroach, the Soul Squad: three fellow humans (Chidi, Jason, and Tahani), an immortal demon named Michael, and Janet, a not-robot who knows literally everything in the universe. They're trying to fix the system, help humanity become better, and maybe, if they're lucky, end up in the real Good Place.

Now she's Elspeth Bakerman, 28. Elspeth was raised by two clueless but well-meaning dads. She had to figure a lot of things out for herself, but it's made her into a highly self-reliant adult. Not that she's confident about that, or much of anything else. Elspeth tends to swing between arrogance and crippling self-doubt from moment to moment, but underneath it all she's actually both smart and competent. Her philosophy of life is pretty much fake it til you make it, and no one's better at faking it than her (in her opinion, anyway). That's how she ended up managing the front of house of a well-known French Quarter restaurant, or at least that's what she'll tell you if you ask. She's actually really good at figuring out who works well with who and how to calm an unhappy customer—though she definitely doesn't tolerate abuse from customers, especially when it's directed at her staff, and has actually banned several people from the restaurant. Don't get on her Douchenozzle List, or she'll not only kick you out of her restaurant, but warn every other establishment in the French Quarter of exactly the kind of service you deserve.

Elspeth dishes out compliments and insults in the same sarcastic, exasperated tone of voice and is sexually attracted to way too many people. She has a lot of feelings that tend to spill out everywhere at really inconvenient moments and is so bad at lying that people can't believe someone could be that bad at lying and end up believing her. She's…colorful, in other words. As is her language. Also she throws really great parties that her roommate really should learn to appreciate, but whatever. More booze and people to flirt with for her!

Elspeth is currently unaware.

Comments

Ex-girlfriends!

[nola_chuck]

Look, Anna is a bit of a disaster when it comes to follow-through. When she and Elspeth met on an app, it was such a change of pace from disastrous dates and personality mismatches. They hit it off. Like, they REALLY hit it off. Anna had real feelings for Elspeth; she was super into her wit and resourcefulness. The problem was, Anna had no real tools to deal with loving someone, and with hindsight, maybe, she can now see that Elspeth didn't either. They both pulled back from this great, promising thing, and now, for the most part, Anna pretends Elspeth doesn't exist. Yeah, she knows it sucks. She knows it ended poorly. But you see, whenever they see each other now, like at parties, they either sleep together or try to be friends but then the feelings come back and she can't!! do!! these!! feelings!! so it all falls apart all over again. Basically, Elspeth is a tangible representation of Anna's desires, failings, and unfulfilled dreams. Don't ask her about it unless you're both drunk.