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adventuresociety ; bio
GRACIA QUINTANILLA
🎥 Professional Documentarian
📸 Photography Enthusiast
👻 Bodyless Boomer
👐 Currently looking for a pair of corporeal hands to help her do her damn job
Gracia Quintanilla is here to make this Adventure Society look like a Super Badass Society, full of action heroes and dashing saviours (also someone asked her to emphasize just how super safe the job is?), but that won't stop her from nosing around for a more interesting story if there just so happens to be one lyin garound. All good documentaries have a thrilling dark horse subplot, after all!!
📸 Photography Enthusiast
👻 Bodyless Boomer
👐 Currently looking for a pair of corporeal hands to help her do her damn job
Gracia Quintanilla is here to make this Adventure Society look like a Super Badass Society, full of action heroes and dashing saviours (also someone asked her to emphasize just how super safe the job is?), but that won't stop her from nosing around for a more interesting story if there just so happens to be one lyin garound. All good documentaries have a thrilling dark horse subplot, after all!!
personality
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bright . friendly, outgoing . supportive . compassionate . enthusiastic . fun
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ambitious . romantic, idealist . focused, tunnel-visioned . tenacious . curious, nosy . sheltered, privileged . opportunistic
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defensive . egotistical . self-indulgent . extremely stubborn . sensitive
appearance
💎 You might not realize Gracia isn't completely solid at first. Her colouring is vibrant and she's learned how to possess and manipulate things in a way that almost looks like she's holding them. But then you look closer and realize her body doesn't block the light and her hair doesn't react to the wind and her hand just went straight through that cabinet and something about that isn't right.
💎 She's been wearing the same peasant dress for fifty years and she's just happy she looks really cute in it.
💎 She's been wearing the same peasant dress for fifty years and she's just happy she looks really cute in it.
abilities
background
💎 Gracia spent her early life with her nose to the grindstone. With more ambition than passion, she worked hard for a future she couldn't even picture, for a dream she didn't really have. Maybe she would work in TV like her dad, or become a teacher like her mom — it didn't matter all that much, as long as she was the best at whatever she found herself doing.
💎 She came of age alongside Vancouver's nascent hippie artsy scene, and it didn't take a whole lot to sweep Gracia off her feet. Everyone in that circle seemed to have a real zeal for something, whether that was changing the world, the province, or just the words to their newest slam poem. There wasn't a lot of pressure for her to find her own purpose right away, as long as she was willing to support everyone else's.
💎 The role of group documentarian kind of just fell into Gracia's lap that way. Someone needed to take pictures of their protest, someone should film this performance, we need a historical record of the work we're doing here — any time the topic came up, Gracia would volunteer right away. Not because she was great with a camera (at least at first!), but because it felt important. It also meant being included in everything without actually having to voice an opinion or take a strong stance. Please, pay no attention to the girl behind the camera unless it's to compliment her.
💎 Gracia isn't entirely certain how she ended up in the predicament she now finds herself. She and her friends had messed around with Ouija boards and tarot cards, they meditated when the world got too stressful and tried to share the secret of astral projection, and, admittedly, Gracia was never really sure she believed it. There were maybe one or two times where she successfully astral projected, but, when she reflected on those times later, she's pretty sure that was just sleep paralysis.
And yet, one day, without knowing how or why or when it really happened, Gracia Quintanilla woke up without her body. It was almost like a dream. If she really thinks hard about it, she can remember... something happening. She fell or hit her head, she can picture a hospital and hear the beeps of a machine, and then this. Detached from her body, unsure where that body even is, the only explanation Gracia could fathom was that she'd started astral projecting while in a coma. Inconvenient, but there it is.
💎 It remained and still remains pretty fucking inconvenient, but after fifty years it's just become Gracia's normal. While she still sniffs around for her body, or news of unidentified women lying around in BC hospitals, it's more out of curiosity and habit than an actual desire to return. It's easier to spy and document things when you're not entirely solid, anyway.
💎 She came of age alongside Vancouver's nascent hippie artsy scene, and it didn't take a whole lot to sweep Gracia off her feet. Everyone in that circle seemed to have a real zeal for something, whether that was changing the world, the province, or just the words to their newest slam poem. There wasn't a lot of pressure for her to find her own purpose right away, as long as she was willing to support everyone else's.
💎 The role of group documentarian kind of just fell into Gracia's lap that way. Someone needed to take pictures of their protest, someone should film this performance, we need a historical record of the work we're doing here — any time the topic came up, Gracia would volunteer right away. Not because she was great with a camera (at least at first!), but because it felt important. It also meant being included in everything without actually having to voice an opinion or take a strong stance. Please, pay no attention to the girl behind the camera unless it's to compliment her.
💎 Gracia isn't entirely certain how she ended up in the predicament she now finds herself. She and her friends had messed around with Ouija boards and tarot cards, they meditated when the world got too stressful and tried to share the secret of astral projection, and, admittedly, Gracia was never really sure she believed it. There were maybe one or two times where she successfully astral projected, but, when she reflected on those times later, she's pretty sure that was just sleep paralysis.
And yet, one day, without knowing how or why or when it really happened, Gracia Quintanilla woke up without her body. It was almost like a dream. If she really thinks hard about it, she can remember... something happening. She fell or hit her head, she can picture a hospital and hear the beeps of a machine, and then this. Detached from her body, unsure where that body even is, the only explanation Gracia could fathom was that she'd started astral projecting while in a coma. Inconvenient, but there it is.
💎 It remained and still remains pretty fucking inconvenient, but after fifty years it's just become Gracia's normal. While she still sniffs around for her body, or news of unidentified women lying around in BC hospitals, it's more out of curiosity and habit than an actual desire to return. It's easier to spy and document things when you're not entirely solid, anyway.
miscellaneous trivia
💎 Thought the Adventure Society invitation was a joke at first, and figured if she waited a couple weeks then she could show up and take pictures of a burned down building instead of getting scammed out of all of her money or something.
💎 She is, in fact, just a regular ghost, she just doesn't realize it. Don't worry about it, you don't have to tell her.
💎 She is, in fact, just a regular ghost, she just doesn't realize it. Don't worry about it, you don't have to tell her.