Jen Li

> "I'm cold."
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> Jen, every day

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**Jen Li** (Cantonese: 李真), also spelled Zhen Li, is the winner of the Sixth Selection OC.

## Personality and Skills

Jen is a reserved person but a hard-working one. She is quiet and doesn't talk often in groups of people, but to her close friends, she is very loyal and kind. She often has a short temper and can be blunt, which can rub people the wrong way when it's brought out. She made an interesting first impression to many Selected her first night when she got into a screaming match with fellow Selected Ava Jones.

She is also known for being emotional with her close friends.

She is an INFJ-T.

## Appearance and Face Claim

Jen is 2/3 New Asian with the remaining 1/3 being white. She is of Chinese, Russian, and Illéan descent.

Jen is 5'3" and the shortest Selected in Arin's Selection. She has brown hair and hazel eyes that usually lean toward brown.

## History

### Pre-Selection

Jen was born on July 18th, 2066 in Waverly to newlywed parents. By the time she was two, her parents divorced, and she went with her mother to the German Federation. There, her mother remarried Matthew Wagner, who came with his son, Arnold. Later, her mother had her other two siblings. Jen lived in the German Federation until she was 13 years old, and at that point, her mother allowed her to move back in with her father in Waverly in order to pursue her dream school, Yale University.

After a rocky transition into Illéan middle school, she was forced to repeat the 8th grade again to be more prepared for a successful high school experience. In school, she did numerous extra-curriculars including varsity volleyball and art. In Junior Year, she won a national art competition for one of her paintings and was accepted into nearly every college she applied to.

Around this time, her father remarried a woman named Deirdre, who came with her young son Denver. Deirdre and Jen's father later have two more children together.

In early high school, Jen made the acquaintance of her father's best friend, Ian Mondeli, and his wife and daughter. Ian was a Yale alumni and former lawyer to several high-ranking politicians in Waverly until he started teaching at Yale in Jen's Sophomore Year of high school. Hearing the news of Jen's passion for Yale, Ian began to mentor her through high school and about a year after her Freshman Year at Yale.

Jen graduated Yale University in the spring of 2089 with a degree in political science.

After Jen's graduation from Yale, she goes on to pursue criminal law at Yale Law School, and Ian convinces her to join her class in the spring semester starting in January. Jen hesitantly agrees. Only a few weeks into classes, Jen receives an essay back with a grade of 67, and, confused because she usually does excellent work, she goes to office hours with Ian to find out what happened. This is when Ian sexually assaults her for the first time, though she doesn't realize this fact until much later. Ian manipulates her into a sexual relationship behind their families' backs, and this lasts from January until when she leaves for the Selection in May.

Jen and Ian are in a fight when she submits the Selection application of spite after he says she would make a bad queen, not expecting to actually get Selected, but she decides to go anyway after realizing it was a way to stop her and Ian's relationship as well as afford her many opportunities later.

The night before she leaves for the Selection, Ian manipulates her into sex one more time, and he intentionally doesn't use a condom. Jen goes out that night to get emergency contraception and swears to herself that that's the last time that will ever happen.

### The Selection

A lot. Let's bulletpoint.

* Challenge 1
	+ Sleeps on the plane.
	+ Meets Ava Jones in the palace gardens and has a disagreement with her.
	+ Meets Wylan Caldwell.
	+ Emily Rose White comes into her room with an offering of macarons and is rude to Jen's maid, so Jen is rude back.
	+ Gets yelled at by Ava Jones.
	+ Meets Idalia Moretti, who comes to check on her after the commotion.
	+ Meets Arin Schreave for the first time. It goes,,, not super great.
	+ A few hours later, she happens upon Wylan again while picking up one of Ian's books, *Systems of Necessary Authority & Power.* They watch Disney Nature animal documentary *Elephant* and get to know each other.
	+ Three weeks later, Jen stumbles upon Arin in the halls, and they go to the kitchen together. He makes a poor joke, and she gets mad at him. He opens up to her a little through a lot of prodding and a few glasses of scotch. She leaves feeling a little more interested.
	+ A few days after, Jen wakes up in the middle of the night after starting her period, and, relieved the contraception worked, goes to the movie theater, where she happens to meet Wylan again. They open up to each other while watching *The Empire Strikes Back*, and she reveals a bit about Ian. She falls asleep in the movie theater and wakes up alone with Wylan's Angeles University hoodie.
* Challenge 2
	+ The first date. Arin is late. Jen is wearing heels. Jen riles him up on purpose, and they fight over sending her home. They get engaged out of stubbornness. Kevin stops them from going to Fennley.
	+ The day after, Jen and Arin start exchanging notes pretending to be in love. In one of the greetings, Arin calls her "Bombus," which sticks as his nickname for her.
	+ Later, Arin stumbles upon her reading Ian's book in the library, and it happened to be the book he was looking for. He makes a comment that accidentally makes her remember Ian assaulting her, and she distances herself from him despite not wanting to, and Arin leaves her alone.
	+ Later that night, Jen stumbles upon Wylan in the palace gardens looking for his ring, and they get to talking. Hearing about Wylan's ex-girlfriend cheating on him makes her think about how she was the other woman with Ian, and she breaks down. She ends up telling Wylan details about Ian, the first time she'd ever done so in her life. He comforts her and tells her she needs to forgive herself.
* Challenge 3
	+ Challenge 3 is a project proposal. Jen proposes giving Eights the ability to move up castes.
	+ Jen stumbles upon Arin in the kitchen late one night setting off the fire alarm after burning cookies. They have a fairly nice conversation until Arin mentions the fact that he has files on the Selected, which makes Jen angry because he can find out information on them despite him being so cemented. Arin ends up panicking after a question about Felicity, and Jen ends up having to comfort him, which leads to them touching each other for the first time. They end up spending a few hours together on the kitchen floor just holding each other until he walks her back to her room, marking the beginning of some complicated feelings.
	+ Jen's birthday is on July 18th, and that day, Ian spams her with texts, which she ignores, instead doing her tradition of watching Gossip Girl until Arin comes unannounced and tells her they're going out. They end up going to a book signing from an author who wrote a book about women within the castes, and she almost kisses him. After, Arin takes her to a bar they were familiar with, and they have drinks together. When they're finished, she asks Arin to sit in the backseat of his car with her while the bodyguard drives, and Arin agrees after a bit of difficulty, especially when she wants to be held in the car like he did in the kitchen. When they're in the car, though, Arin once again does something that reminds her of Ian, and Jen breaks down. Arin does nothing to help it.
	+ Jen goes back to her room that night still crying, and seeing all the texts from Ian telling her he loves him causes her to almost call him, but before she does, Jen spots Idalia's birthday present to her as well as the note. The note is heartfelt and exactly the thing Jen needed to hear, so despite being distant to Idalia and their friendship, Jen knocks on her door and breaks down again. Jen sleeps in her bed that night and cries herself to sleep after what happened.
* Challenge 4
	+ Jen eventually calms down enough to think about what happened between her and Arin, and she begins reading the book he'd gotten her for her birthday. The book details women from every caste and their experiences of discrimination. One of them gives detail about her sexual assault as a Six, which makes Jen realize what had happened to her with Ian for the first time.
	+ Days later, Jen tells Arin to meet her in the kitchen with the intention of making snickerdoodles again. He shows up late and acts like an asshole but ultimately relents, and though she means to apologize for reacting the way she did because it wasn't his fault, she doesn't get the chance. They end up talking about the Selection, and Arin reveals he doesn't think he's been ready to kiss anyone and that's why he refused to hold her in the car. He later reveals that he kissed Felicity recently. She sees how much pain he seems to be in from that relationship and tells him that he needs to forgive himself for what happened because she understands what it's like to dictate your self-worth based on one relationship. Eventually, they become close again, and Arin tells her she can kiss him, so she does. They make out briefly.
	+ Jen further studies the book and thinks more about how her relationship with Ian hadn't been much of a relationship at all, and at some point she ends up in the library alone until Arin happens to stumble upon her. They talk for a bit, avoiding the subject of them kissing and end up on the topic of the castes. She asks him how he feels about them, and he justifies them by saying they're the foundation of almost all aspects to Illéan society to which Jen disagrees. Their argument eventually escalates into Arin telling Jen that despite her wanting to be friends, there are moments where she just isn't there. She then ends up revealing to him she was assaulted, and their argument finally stops. They talk about some feelings and then end up making out again on the library couch.
* Challenge 5
	+ Arin comes to Jen's door some time later in casual dress and asks if she's busy. She'd recently decided she wasn't going back to Yale and was working on college apps, but she tells him she isn't. They end up going to the attic where they paint and get to know each other even more. They exchange numbers.
	+ The ball. Jen is radiant and feeling herself. She wears an expensive dress and drinking champagne when usually she isn't comfortable doing so. She spends time dancing with Idalia, and then early in the night, Arin asks her to dance. They go out onto the balcony and make out, and afterward, Arin lets the nickname "Jennie" slip, which was Ian's nickname for her. This triggers Jen, and she freaks out, telling Arin to get off her without context. She ends up spraining her ankle and eventually relents and tells him why she reacted that way. They make up, and he carries her to her room. They make out again and almost have sex but are interrupted by a flurry of text messages from a concerned Idalia. They end up deciding it's not the right time, and he goes back to the party.

Challenge 6

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## Relationships

### Family

Jen's family situation is complicated due to her parents divorce and remarriage to different people. On her mom's side, she has two half-siblings and one step-sibling. On her father's side, she has three half-siblings.

* Mother: Alexandra Wagner née Chernov
	+ Spouse: Matthew Wagner
* Father: Bojing (Brian) Li
	+ Spouse: Deirdre Franco
* Half-brother: Jackson Wagner
* Half-sister: Sara Wagner-Berg
	+ Spouse: Randall Berg
		- Niece: Karen Mayhem Berg
* Step-brother: Arnold Wagner
	+ Spouse: Andrew Gortman
* Step-brother: Denver Franco
* Half-brother: Xander Li
* Half-brother: Grayson Li
* Spouse: Arin Schreave
* Children:

### Friends

* Wylan Caldwell
* Idalia Moretti
* Evalin Berg
* Arin Schreave

### Romantic Interests

Not counting Arin, Jen has been in three relationships: One in high school, one in college, and one with her college professor Ian Mondeli.

## Quotes

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## Trivia and Notes

* She really likes chocolate.
* She originally had a full sister named Ada Li, but I forgot she existed.
* She originally was a Scorpio with a birthday of November 12th.
* She broke her nose in a volleyball accident during Senior Year of college.
* She considered going to Angeles University but decided otherwise.
* She is the oldest Selected by several months, and the oldest Elite by over a year.
* In Cantonese, Jen's name character 真 means "real" or "genuine.
* She has no middle name.
* She studied abroad in Athens, Greece for a summer.
* She's fluent in three languages. Cantonese is her first having learned from her parents, then English then German.
* She cried at least once every single challenge.
* Her favorite show is Gossip Girl except for the ending.
* Wylan Caldwell was the original intended romantic interest for Jen.
* Jen is the only girl who has kissed Arin first.