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ELISE WASSERMANN
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age
birthday
location
occupation
canon
Élise Wassermann
33
TBA
Calais, France
Commander, French National Police
The Tunnel, post-Season 2, ignoring Season 3
33
TBA
Calais, France
Commander, French National Police
The Tunnel, post-Season 2, ignoring Season 3
APPEARANCE
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build
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5'7"
Slim
Blonde
Blue
Several moles on her cheek
A light French accent, but clearly fluent in English (x)
Clemence Poesy
Slim
Blonde
Blue
Several moles on her cheek
A light French accent, but clearly fluent in English (x)
Clemence Poesy
PERSONALITY
Elise is efficient, smart, and capable of making connections that others don't see, but she's also intensely private, logical to the point of emotional ineptitude, and capable of being accidentally cruel to people through her inability to understand social cues. She's often blindsided by accepted social or interpersonal rules if they aren't explicitly 'taught'.
She's devoted to her work, and such a stickler for following the written rules that it grates on her colleagues and subordinates – at this point in her canon, she's recently been promoted to Commander, but she still 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.
Elise is an intensely logical thinker, although she's sometimes blinkered by extreme moments of stress in her past that block her from seeing the unbiased truth. When she was a child, she and her twin sister Manon were swept out to sea by a wave and started to drown. Their father dove in to rescue them, and managed to grab Elise, but was unable to go back for Manon because of the time he spent bringing Elise to shore. She often thinks about who her father would have saved if he had been able to choose, in spite of the fact that she knows this line of thought is extremely illogical.
She's devoted to her work, and such a stickler for following the written rules that it grates on her colleagues and subordinates – at this point in her canon, she's recently been promoted to Commander, but she still 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.
Elise is an intensely logical thinker, although she's sometimes blinkered by extreme moments of stress in her past that block her from seeing the unbiased truth. When she was a child, she and her twin sister Manon were swept out to sea by a wave and started to drown. Their father dove in to rescue them, and managed to grab Elise, but was unable to go back for Manon because of the time he spent bringing Elise to shore. She often thinks about who her father would have saved if he had been able to choose, in spite of the fact that she knows this line of thought is extremely illogical.