TITLE ──  freaks & geeks ✧
TIMELINE ──  season one - ??
LOVE INTEREST ──  mike wheeler
OC NAMES ──  julia o'connor ✧
FACE CLAIM ──  erin kellyman ✧
STATUS ── available

SHORT DESCRIPTION ── in which she laughs at their games, only to hide the fact that she's living proof.

﹙𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚! ﹚
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                    JULIA O'CONNOR IS A GEEK BECAUSE SHE'S A FREAK. You might argue you can't be both, but when you meet Julia, you might have a change of opinion.

                    It's best not to talk about it though, since her time in Hawkins National Laboratory isn't a fairytale to gossip about. Formerly known as Number Four, Julia escaped that shithole of a prison when she was all but seven. And no, it was not her street smarts or natural-born intelligence that got her out of there, because no one at seven years old, (even seven-year-olds with the abilities to move things with their mind, and set alight to anything they stare at long enough) can escape a highly guarded Laboratory, with a next-level security system without any kind of help. It's near impossible. But Julia did have help. Not direct help, because she got out by accident. No one should blame Terry Ives for her mental state when she walked into the Hawkins Lab armed with a rifle, letting four experiments out in the process. If anything, Julia is very grateful for Terry Ives and her rifle, even if she didn't quite know or understand at the time.

                    But what seven year old, Julia O'Connor did that should be deemed astute, is run. She ran and she ran until the Lab was but a mere dot in her view frame, and her until her feet could carry her no more. And maybe it was just luck that led her to the O'Connor household ─ a petit bungalow on the edge of town, where a quaint couple inhabited its walls, unable to bear a child of their own. But now Julia is a little more grown-up, she likes to think the Universe was just giving back what the little girl was starved of ─ a happy, healthy home, that could provide her with the childhood she deserved.

                    And so, when the adoption papers went through (after quite the hassle since Julia had zero legal documents, and no birth certificate to confirm she's human) Julia kept her abilities to herself, not wanting to upset her new family because nothing could be worse than scaring them away, now her future is bright for the very first time.

                    Till now, Julia has lived the life of every other twelve-year-old in Hawkins ─ playful, normal, and stressful at times. But that's why Julia loves school so much, because, for seven years of her life, she believed a normal childhood was a myth. Getting homework, and cycling home after Science Club is a dream come true, because once upon a time, an unachievable dream was all it was.

                    The time phrase "till now" is used here, because Julia is uncertain if the disappearance of a young boy and another escapee from the Hawkins Lab should be deemed totally ordinary. Besides, she's such a smart-ass, that she bet freak, Mike Wheeler and his band of friends that monsters aren't real, and that they should grow up. It just sucks that Mike has to be right in every situation he's in, so when he finds even the slightest bit of evidence that Demogorgons and alternate realities are actually not make-believe, he's willing to suck her into the hunt for his missing best friend. It sucks because Julia is both a freak and a geek, and she can't have anyone knowing she's not as normal as she seems . . .

﹙𝒐𝒄 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏! ﹚
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LIKES  ──  reading, making her parents proud, being on her own
DISLIKES  ──  people who shut others down and deny people their voice
AGE  ──  12
HOGWARTS HOUSE ──  hufflepuff
POWERS  ──  pyrokinesis & telekinesis
PERSONALITY  ──  introverted, wise-ass, very smart, a bit of a know-it-all, but, most of the time, it's the good kind
PERSONAL ANTHEM  ──  june, florence + the machine

﹙𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒅𝒅! ﹚✧ ₊˚ˑ༄ؘ
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─ this is one of my shorter summaries, yes, but i don't even think it explained the plot very well???

─  this is nothing special, so we need to work with the extra notes:

─ she's a MASSIVE NERD. like astronomy, science, general knowledge geek, EVEN MORE SO than mike and friends are

─ she pities mike for being so immature because he believes in mythical shit and plays games like dungeons and dragons (that makes him the freak)

─ obviously, jules is actually very aware of the limitations of science. she literally has fire and telekinesis powers, so she knows that some form of "magic" if you will, is actually real. but she makes it out that she doesn't believe in any of it by taking the piss out of mike, because she needs to cover up any details that might confirm she has powers. especially after eleven escapes and therefore proves that supernatural beings exist

─ julia doesn't even get to be even a little bit excited when eleven escapes because she's far too stressed that eleven will reveal who julia really is (no.4)

─ julia learned english very fast when she was fostered by her new parents, so that's why eleven can't speak, whereas julia can perfectly

─ this is an academic rivals to lovers!!! mike is obviously very smart, but so is julia. she thinks she's better than him because he so public about his silly belief in alternate realities etc. even if she's living proof of supernatural abilities

─ because julia always takes the piss out of mike for playing his silly games (hence why she calls him a freak and he calls her a geek for having no friends and studying all the time (she wants to please her parents and make a life for her own as a thank you)) when will goes missing and eleven turns up at mikes door, he is determined to prove to julia that he's right by dragging her into the hunt for will and for the upside-down that he is certain to exist

─ julia was born in the lab. her mum and dad both work there, and we don't need to care about them because they are evil and were willing to sacrifice their own child to some psycho who likes kids to call him papa <3

─ please ask as many questions as necessary because i feel i didn't explain this very well <3

QUOTES ──

❛ wheeler, you're delusional. it's clear you have some growing up to do. ❜
❛ just you wait, julia. i'm bringing a dragon in to the next show and tell. ❜

﹙𝒑𝒎 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔! ﹚
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