This cruel-hearted bitch, as many have labeled her, holds no illusions to the real world. It's savvy, cutthroat, and in order to survive, you have to be as well. It's harsh and hypocritical, and Desiree has developed a thick skin to put up with that - she takes whatever's thrown at her and twists it to her advantage. That is, after all, what you have to do to endure life at its finest. Born in Boston but raised in France by her Parisian parents, she watched life walk all over them, individually and as a family, and vowed that such things would not happen to her; she was no victim of society.

Her outer exterior is all most people will ever see. Stubborn, methodical, and deceiving; she'll play nice when she has to, but she won't hesitate to twist you around her finger until you're no longer of any use to her.

Desi is used to change, having lived on the streets periodically when money was not a readily available resource for her or her mother, once divorce wrapped its wicked hands around her parents' marriage. Because of this, she is not adverse to bending her morals or the morals of society in order to outlast others suffering in similar positions.

Underneath all of that bitter cynicism is a woman still hosting a girl inside of her; a broken child who longs to feel love and security, but isn't willing to trust anyone without believing there will be a knife in her back.

 

fc: kaya scodelario

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