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about.
name Élise Wasserman
age 33 (born 14 May 1980)
canon The Tunnel
sexuality Bisexual
occupation Commander, French National Police
pb Clémence Poésy
first impressions
visual 5'7" and skinny, blonde and blue-eyed. Never wears make-up and aways dresses quite practically in the same kinds of clothes every day.
aural Quite monotonous and a little formal. Her accent is light enough when speaking English that she could probably be misinterpreted as "posh British" (x), but French is her mother tongue and she speaks it fluently.
demeanor Rigid, serious, unflappable, French.
about
Élise is a Capitaine, later Commander, in the French police force, based in Calais. She is very good at her job thanks to her thoroughness and attention to detail, but struggles with the social element, especially when it comes to managing her subordinates or interviewing witnesses and suspects. She is often accidentally insensitive, questioning the point of social niceties such as thanking her colleagues and praising them when they do good jobs. She demonstrates traits of autism, including an adherence to routines in her food and other habits as well as a difficulty in understanding metaphorical thinking. She can sometimes be logical to the point of emotional ineptitude and is often completetely tactless in conversation.
She's devoted to her work, and such a stickler for following the written rules that it grates on her colleagues and subordinates – she has trouble being a 'boss' in a way that people expect her to be. She's reluctant to hand out praise for what she considers rote tasks, she finds it difficult to connect with her subordinates on a friendly level, and she considers tasks like remembering birthdays and exchanging pleasantries to be inessential to a smooth working environment. This reluctance to engage with people on a personal level extends, unsurprisingly, to her personal life, where she is blunt and open with people about her sexual interest in them, but is unable to commit to long-term relationships and finds it difficult to engage with people on their level rather than her own. This often results in people making efforts to change their lives and attitudes for her, but Elise failing to do the same for them.
(It is extremely obvious that Elise was written to be autistic, or as was more common at the time of writing, someone with "Asperger syndrome". In my writing I try to be more sensitive to her autism and present it with realism and sensitivity rather than falling into stereotypes.)
She's devoted to her work, and such a stickler for following the written rules that it grates on her colleagues and subordinates – she has trouble being a 'boss' in a way that people expect her to be. She's reluctant to hand out praise for what she considers rote tasks, she finds it difficult to connect with her subordinates on a friendly level, and she considers tasks like remembering birthdays and exchanging pleasantries to be inessential to a smooth working environment. This reluctance to engage with people on a personal level extends, unsurprisingly, to her personal life, where she is blunt and open with people about her sexual interest in them, but is unable to commit to long-term relationships and finds it difficult to engage with people on their level rather than her own. This often results in people making efforts to change their lives and attitudes for her, but Elise failing to do the same for them.
(It is extremely obvious that Elise was written to be autistic, or as was more common at the time of writing, someone with "Asperger syndrome". In my writing I try to be more sensitive to her autism and present it with realism and sensitivity rather than falling into stereotypes.)