Vivian Janell
Vivian's a political assistant in her early thirties. She's competent, smart and occasionally sassy. She's a cute woman with long blonde hair, blue eyes and an open face. She's good at her job, but a bit insecure; that tends to make her a little too questioning with her boss and a little too direct with others. It frazzles Brian to talk to her, but all the same, he knows he can trust her to do things right.
The daughter of an Ohio micro-brewer from the suburbs around Columbus, Vivian grew up helping her parents in the yard, doing well in school and being teased by her older brothers. She also grew up dreaming of life in the big city. A year late, at the age of 19, Vivian finally left home for school at Wesleyan where she tried majoring in Economics, History, Social Studies, Sociology, Psychology and Government before her flightiness brought her crashing into a major in Film in her Senior year. Given the circles she now works in she's a little defensive about her choice; she says Government if asked, and when called on it claims, in a huff, "I was only 6 classes short!"
After graduation, Vivian had nothing in the way of job prospects. She was too embarassed and her head too full of dreams to go home, but she was too afraid to head south to New York. She went north, instead, intending to meet some friends school in Vermont to ski and clear her head while she figured out what to do next. Unfortunately, she ran out of money in the Boston/Logan airport. That's where she first met her boss, Brian, who was on one of his infrequent trips home. He was trying to get some work done in a crowded McDonald's while waiting for his father to collect him from the airport. In the hustle and bustle of travellers and children, though, Brian was quickly losing his cool. As he crawled on the floor after some paperwork stuck to a child's foot, Vivian swooped up his mess before it drowned in a coffee spill. Not only that, but in a matter of seconds she'd managed to give some sense of organization to the pile. Brian was skeptical; Vivian was too nice and attached to him too quickly for him to be comfortable with, but she was resourceful, determined and had a degree in government from Wesleyan. Or so Brian thought. He hired her on the spot, but didn't find out about her real major until three weeks later.
