Renn Skye
Two Thousand Club
Life isn't always easy. In fact, most of the time it's not easy at all. It's hard. It grinds you down until you crack and shatter, then expects you to find a way to put yourself back together again. But sometimes we can't make it on our own. As we stumble and fall there are those who rest beside us, who help us up, who stumble forward with us into the unknown. These are the stories of people who are cracked but not broken, still trying to struggle through the mess called life. These are the lives of people who have broken, but are mending. These are the histories of the people who help them back up, and sometimes find the strength to stand themselves by supporting others.
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Basically I want this to be a giant hurt comfort roleplay. I want to see characters who are bent, but not entirely broken. Who have been through hell and are slowly making their way back. I'm looking for about ten characters, including my own, who are in a support group as they recover from traumatic events in their lives. You could be recovering from an overdose, or loosing a family member, it's really up to you. I just want to see how these broken people can help each other move on with their lives.
In terms of rules,
Main roleplay found HERE
Character Skelly/Application:
If you have a picture for your character, please place it here. I do not care what sort of picture you use, as long as it is appropriate
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Orientation:
Appearance: (anything to add other than the picture? If you don't have a picture, please write your description here)
Family:
Friends: (both other roleplay characters - ask first! - or otherwise)
Other notable relations: (could be anything, really, pets or drug dealers or what have you, whatever you feel the need to put in here, if anything)
Personality: (Please give me a good few paragraphs here)
History: (either a detailed paragraph or two or a timeline, either works. You are welcome to keep some things secret if you feel it's necessary)
What are you recovering from?: (Note, this is probably also mentioned in your history)
How long have you been a part of the support group: (have you been here for months? Or are you just joining?)
Other: (Any other important things to note?)
Name: Nikholas Castairs
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Orientation: Homosexual biromantic
Appearance: Nick is fairly tall and slender. His right leg is completely mangled with scar tissue, and at the moment is still recovering from a recent car accident, so he's in a wheelchair until he can fully use his leg again.
Family: Clio Castairs (father), Adara Castairs (mother), Kaia Castairs (sister)
Friends: Isaac (best friend, room mate)
Other notable relations: Richard Fergus (would have been father-in-law), Emily Fergus (would have been mother-in-law), Kian Fergus (would have been brother-in-law), Daniel Fergus (fiancée, deceased)
Personality: Nick is incredibly sensitive to others, and is often more aware of their needs then he is his own. He's a very good listener and highly attentive. He's also highly sympathetic, and is very good at seeing other's sides/points of view when it comes to disagreements - often to the point where he will start second guessing his own reasoning. He gets attached easily and quickly, and often acts as if he's known someone for years when in fact he's only known them for days. He also has a tendency to be overly emotional when talking to people - he wears his heart on his sleeve, and has no shame in hiding it. That being said, lately he can feel quite distant - as if he's living another life or another place.
In terms of relationships - both romantic and otherwise - Nick moves very, very quickly. He jumps into things head first and expects them to last forever. He's only just now realising that, for all that he moved through life like he was racing, he still might not have moved quick enough.
Apart from that he really likes bad sci-fi movies and is a generally easy-going guy. He's a sucker for romance and likes taking people out on super cliché dates. He takes life as it comes to him, and is a very 'play it by ear' kinda planner
History: Nick was born to parents who loved him as most parents do their children. He was raised as most little boys were - playing and laughing and generally going far too fast into adult hood with no idea what was in store. He grew up, as most children do, slowly shifting into adolescence and eventually into full manhood. Along the way he had brief relationships, most which ended before they had the chance to start. He has, however, had one notable relationship to date, with a boy named Daniel who would have become a great man had he been given the chance. Daniel was the only person Nick could see 'all the way through' with when he pictured their relationship - straight to death at an old and comfortable age, still together, still happy, still alive. What Nick had not allotted for in this vision of their future together was how stupid young twenty-three year olds could be. Especially drunk ones high off the euphoria of love and youth and life. He had also not calculated in how slick the road could be, and how hard it was to hear a truck in pouring rain. As such he never expected Daniel's untimely death in a truly tragic accident.
It was a miracle that Nick survived the crash at all, but he blames himself for the fact that he lived and Daniel didn't every day.
What are you recovering from?: Nick is suffering from survivors guilt, and is having trouble coping with the loss of a loved one.
How long have you been a part of the support group: Nick has not yet been to a meeting - his doctor signed him up and he'll be attending his first one the day he is released.
Name: Darien Ellyas
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Orientation: Gay as the fourth of July
Appearance: Because of his infatuation with sports, Darien has always been somewhat muscular. Unfortunately, given that he almost exclusively plays football (soccer, to the American's in the audience) his upper body isn't all that put together. While there's not much extra fat there, most all the muscle on his form has taken up permanent residence on his calves and thighs.
He has olive-toned skin, hinting at Mediterranean origin, though due to a heavy amount of his time being spent in the sun and a more African family line on his mothers side he tends to edge towards a darker hue. His brown hair is often scruffy and uneven, given that he cuts it himself, and it defiantly doesn't help his over all appearance, given that most of his clothes are full of holes and poorly patched up. He tries to look generally clean. Up until recently, Darien has looked rather like a ragamuffin, but lately he's been being kept fairly neat, if only because Hyun-ki and Warren won't let him leave his room without at least looking SOMEWHAT presentable. Between the two of them Darien is regularly forced into new, non-ripped up shirts and shorts, and has his hair almost routinely combed. The only bit they haven't managed to get rid of is the shoes - affectionately named "duct tape sneakers" by Darien and so called because they're about eighty percent tape, fifteen percent staples and glue, and five percent shoe. He maintains that they're still usable, so why would he throw them out?
In terms of clothes, he generally wears shorts and t-shirts, simple and easy, and all bought from good will, or picked up out of the trash if he sees it and thinks it's still usable. He can come off as a little bit grungy, but that's only because he's still not used to living a life where he can shower every day and afford new, clean clothes.
Family: N/A
Friends: Warren (caretaker, provider of bed and clothing), Hyun-Ki (pet), Curtis (crush, best friend)
Other notable relations: Frank (shared the same bridge overpass for years), Simon (ex), Shelby (very very scary cheerleader, may be brought up in idle conversation), Team mates (a full compliment of them, Darien will often mention them when talking about his life), Roberto (Boss), Paris (Boss' husband), Fernando (Boss' fish, also often spoken of), Porthos (dog, often spoken of), Prince (yet another dog, one he occasionally pet sits)
Personality: Darien is the sort of person who would find happiness in a house made of dung. He's almost constantly content where he is, if only because where he came from was always worse. When he lived on the streets he learned to be thankful for every little bit of cover and scrap of food, so now a couch is like a goose-down mattress with silk sheets to him. He can make himself happy in just about any situation he's put in, and because of this he often never tries to better himself. He'll be utterly content in slum-like living conditions, and never think to want something better, because it's already a lot better then what he was in before. Because he's happy where he is, he doesn't think that he can be happier anywhere else, and so he doesn't try to be. As such, he doesn't usually realise he wants something until after he has it - he didn't know he wanted a couch until he was sleeping on one, he didn't know he wanted a bed until he'd been moved tothat. He didn't realise how much better it was to have new, clean clothes until he had the money and means to pick up a few new shirts. Likewise, he rarely realises that he likes someone or wants to be in a relationship until he already is, and can rarely think to make the first move. He doesn't understand the consumerist need to want more more more, and likely never will.
That being said, there are some things he will never stop striving for, the foremost of which is normalcy. He strives to be normal in every way - it's his dearest wish, the thing he wants most to fix about himself. He feels as if something must be inherently wrong with him to have made his parents give him up, and despite the fact that Warren has taken him and made him part of his family he constantly feels that there must be some part of him that's wrong and that will make people abandon him again. This is also why he isn't very open about his orientation - while he's not ashamed of who he is and who he likes, he knows that it's cause for being ostracised, and as such doesn't like to talk about any 'abnormal' part of him, as he sees it. Sometimes he wonders if he acted too foppish when he was young and that's why his parents gave him up - he doesn’t really know why they did it so he often likes to think up reasons that they might have, with the empty hope that if he could change that part of himself they'd come back and want him again.
He likes animals more than people for a number of reasons, one being that he was just never a very social creature. He gets dogs and cats and birds, etc., more than he does humans, if only because they share his essentially simplistic view on life and ability to accept and often even be happy in whatever situation they're dropped into. He also adores them, at least on a subconscious level, because of how loyal some animals can be. Animals don't care that he's socially awkward and used to be homeless or that he's gay, and they certainly wouldn't disown him for it. The simple acceptance that he finds in animals is more then he's ever expected from a person, and as such he loves them all dearly. He cannot understand why any human would willingly leave behind or hurt an animal, and can at times be scarily protective of them, even ones he's never met before.
He has a similar protectiveness over Warren, who he sees as the closest thing to a family he's ever going to have again. If anyone ever speaks poorly of the young man who's taken him in he's likely to fly into a rage and go after them - he certainly has every time someone's threatened Warren, which happens more often than not given the people whose company the older man tends to keep. Like the dogs he loves so much, he tends to be an incredibly loyal person and once he's determined someone is his friend he won't leave their side - no matter how horribly they treat him.
When it comes to sports, Darien is highly competitive, and borderline obsessive. He's incredibly active, and spends more of his time in cleats then he does regular shoes. He'll practice for hours a day, and when he has a game coming up he often calls extra emergency practises, and will run his team ragged up until the day before the game, then let them have a full day off to rest. He trains relentlessly and takes extreme joy from all forms of sport, though sometimes others find his willingness to give up a social life for training to be disturbing. The thing is, sports are his social life - he doesn't have many friends, so his team mates are the closest thing he's got. It's one of the only ways he can hang out with people his age, given that he's too old for sleepovers and the like, and when he was young enough he didn't exactly have any parents around to take him to one.
History: Going with a timeline for simplicities sake...
Born
One year later - sister is born
age of six - given up for adoption (reason: unknown)
Age of eight - put into foster care system
Age of eight - ran away from first foster home
Age of nine - ran away from sixth foster home
Age of ten - ran away for good, and took to living on the streets
Age of seventeen - got into major accident on soccer field and was taken in to the hospital, where he met Warren, who helped to smuggle him out when they were trying to figure out who his parents were
Age of seventeen - moves in with Warren
Age of seventeen - drops out of high school
Age of eighteen - currently living with Warren and working in El Cielo Spa
What are you recovering from?: While Darien suffers from abandonment issues he actually started going to the meetings for the free food, so he usually just tries to stay quiet and look too miserable to talk so that he can eat for free before heading home
How long have you been a part of the support group: Darien has been coming to the group for a little over a year now, though he has yet to introduce himself properly in the go around.
Other: He has a bad habit of taking home strays, especially when living in an area that doesn't allow pets.
Name: Lorena Carina Sophia Perez
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Appearance:
Family: Roberto Guitarez Santiago Perez (Father), Esperanza Lorenza Sophia Perez (Mother), and, for the interest of saving time... six (count 'em six) sisters
Friends: Katerina Urbanovskaia (friend and roommate)
Other notable relations: Several really nasty exes, Antonio (current boyfriend)
Personality: Lorena is a latina firecracker if ever there was one. She's very sharp tongued and has no problem speaking her mind - she wants what she wants when she wants it and how she wants it, and she won't take it any other way. She can be rather pushy and bossy - flat out rude sometimes - and doesn't like taking shit from anyone. She's what most people would describe as a "Class A B*tch" and she has no problem assuming that title for herself if no one else will put it up for her.
As an adult entertainer, she gets a lot of flack from a lot of people, and her general response is a loud and pointed "go screw yourself, because God knows I'm not gonna and I don't think anyone else wants to either." She won't stand for people treating her like an object once she's off the dancefloor - when she's on it, yeah, that's her job and it's what she's there for. But once she gets off it's her time, and she is a person so if you're not going to treat her like one you can get the hell out right now.
She's a lot about bluster and noise - no matter who she's talking to she tends to put up a big front. It's easier to be bitchy and rude and get people to leave you alone then it is to try and be nice to them, even if there's a chance that they'll genuinely be nice back. She likes being argumentative, it's something she's always been, and a good comeback is one of her favourite things to pull out. She's put a lot of time into making her reputation as a sassy Spanish girl, and she doesn't see the point in giving that up for you or anyone else. She's a very "take me as I am or get out because I'm too good for you, if you want someone you can make the way you want them to be go look for someone else. I'm not clay, and I'm not your toy, I'm me, so either get into it or get over it."
She is a very relationship driven person. Growing up in a house with more sisters and cousins then the youngest has years, she needs to have people around her to talk to and be with. Like a shark needs to swim to breathe, she needs to socialize to stay alive. She very much hates being out of a relationship, and can be very demanding when she's in one (which, honestly, is probably why most of them don't work out). She has pretty terrible taste in men, and for all of her talk about how "you don't own me" she tends to get into relationships with very possessive, sometimes abusive partners - perhaps suggesting that all her talk is really just an act to cover up the fact that she's incredibly insecure and hands herself over far too easily.
History: Born in Ponterrada, Spain, Lorena was the second oldest of seven sisters, all born to a man and woman so madly in love that they didn't bother to think about the consequences of sharing their love unprotected. At first, being the second oldest had its privileges - she could boss her younger siblings around, and only had one person above her on the food chain. Unfortunately, as time went by and she got older all the while having younger and younger siblings pop out, she ended up having to help care for many of her youngest siblings far before she wanted to even consider raising a child.
As such, she found escape in a young man. As many teenagers do, she fell in love instantly, and was convinced he was the one she'd spend her life with. Her father, finally aware of the dangers of having seven rapidly growing daughters who were finally starting to show some womanhood through their girlish figures chose that moment to become protective. He forbade her seeing her young lover, as overprotective fathers tend to do when faced with having their children grow up right before their eyes. Enraged and disobedient in the way of many stupid seventeen year olds who have ben told no, Lorena ran away with him, all the way to America. Under the stress of neither of them having a job and living in a country where she didn't fully speak the language, they fell into fighting, and then fell apart - it turned out that he wasn't so much the love of her life as he was an early childhood fling. The first of many very poorly chosen relationships, and certainly not the one that would scar her the most. With no money, no place to stay, and a very rudimentary understanding of the English language, she turned to one of the oldest careers out there for women - stripping. It was below her pride to go into prostitution, though she might have done somewhat better financially if she had.
As her career as a dancer began, Lorena found that she was actually quite good at it. Though she didn't make much, she made enough to get a small one-room apartment with a co-worker named Katerina, and rapidly learned English while surrounded by it. She has since made contact with her family again, and spends hours keeping up Katerina by talking loudly in Spanish to them over the phone.
What are you recovering from?: She's been in and out of the support group for years, each time a new relationship starts going dangerously sour. Right now she's there because her man has started beating her black and blue and she doesn't know what to do
How long have you been a part of the support group: Lorena has been in and out of the group for the last several years - she pretty much knows everyone whose been there for more than a month and they know her for her constantly being sure she's better and then coming back broken
Other: Nothing right now, I suppose. She's kinda in need of a white night in very tarnished armour right now.
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Basically I want this to be a giant hurt comfort roleplay. I want to see characters who are bent, but not entirely broken. Who have been through hell and are slowly making their way back. I'm looking for about ten characters, including my own, who are in a support group as they recover from traumatic events in their lives. You could be recovering from an overdose, or loosing a family member, it's really up to you. I just want to see how these broken people can help each other move on with their lives.
In terms of rules,
- No godmodding/powerplaying please
- Don't be a jerk (your character can be a jerk, that doesn't mean that you have to be)
- Use common sense
- Use spell check, and try to re-read your posts or at least give a good solid effort
- I'm not asking for novels, but I'm going to have a one paragraph minimum - this is a semi-literate to literate roleplay
- Feel free to curse, just block out bits of it (for example, please write sh*t/sh!t/sh1t/s**t or something along those lines instead of the actual word)
- Romance is a-okay, and even encouraged, but if it goes higher than a pg-13 rating please take it to PM or e-mail, or fade to black
- Try not to be a drama llama
- If I feel as if you are being detrimental to the roleplay or to your fellow roleplayers I
- will give you a warning. If such behaviour persists I will ask you to leave.
Main roleplay found HERE
Character Skelly/Application:
If you have a picture for your character, please place it here. I do not care what sort of picture you use, as long as it is appropriate
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Orientation:
Appearance: (anything to add other than the picture? If you don't have a picture, please write your description here)
Family:
Friends: (both other roleplay characters - ask first! - or otherwise)
Other notable relations: (could be anything, really, pets or drug dealers or what have you, whatever you feel the need to put in here, if anything)
Personality: (Please give me a good few paragraphs here)
History: (either a detailed paragraph or two or a timeline, either works. You are welcome to keep some things secret if you feel it's necessary)
What are you recovering from?: (Note, this is probably also mentioned in your history)
How long have you been a part of the support group: (have you been here for months? Or are you just joining?)
Other: (Any other important things to note?)
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Name: Nikholas Castairs
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Orientation: Homosexual biromantic
Appearance: Nick is fairly tall and slender. His right leg is completely mangled with scar tissue, and at the moment is still recovering from a recent car accident, so he's in a wheelchair until he can fully use his leg again.
Family: Clio Castairs (father), Adara Castairs (mother), Kaia Castairs (sister)
Friends: Isaac (best friend, room mate)
Other notable relations: Richard Fergus (would have been father-in-law), Emily Fergus (would have been mother-in-law), Kian Fergus (would have been brother-in-law), Daniel Fergus (fiancée, deceased)
Personality: Nick is incredibly sensitive to others, and is often more aware of their needs then he is his own. He's a very good listener and highly attentive. He's also highly sympathetic, and is very good at seeing other's sides/points of view when it comes to disagreements - often to the point where he will start second guessing his own reasoning. He gets attached easily and quickly, and often acts as if he's known someone for years when in fact he's only known them for days. He also has a tendency to be overly emotional when talking to people - he wears his heart on his sleeve, and has no shame in hiding it. That being said, lately he can feel quite distant - as if he's living another life or another place.
In terms of relationships - both romantic and otherwise - Nick moves very, very quickly. He jumps into things head first and expects them to last forever. He's only just now realising that, for all that he moved through life like he was racing, he still might not have moved quick enough.
Apart from that he really likes bad sci-fi movies and is a generally easy-going guy. He's a sucker for romance and likes taking people out on super cliché dates. He takes life as it comes to him, and is a very 'play it by ear' kinda planner
History: Nick was born to parents who loved him as most parents do their children. He was raised as most little boys were - playing and laughing and generally going far too fast into adult hood with no idea what was in store. He grew up, as most children do, slowly shifting into adolescence and eventually into full manhood. Along the way he had brief relationships, most which ended before they had the chance to start. He has, however, had one notable relationship to date, with a boy named Daniel who would have become a great man had he been given the chance. Daniel was the only person Nick could see 'all the way through' with when he pictured their relationship - straight to death at an old and comfortable age, still together, still happy, still alive. What Nick had not allotted for in this vision of their future together was how stupid young twenty-three year olds could be. Especially drunk ones high off the euphoria of love and youth and life. He had also not calculated in how slick the road could be, and how hard it was to hear a truck in pouring rain. As such he never expected Daniel's untimely death in a truly tragic accident.
It was a miracle that Nick survived the crash at all, but he blames himself for the fact that he lived and Daniel didn't every day.
What are you recovering from?: Nick is suffering from survivors guilt, and is having trouble coping with the loss of a loved one.
How long have you been a part of the support group: Nick has not yet been to a meeting - his doctor signed him up and he'll be attending his first one the day he is released.
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Name: Darien Ellyas
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Orientation: Gay as the fourth of July
Appearance: Because of his infatuation with sports, Darien has always been somewhat muscular. Unfortunately, given that he almost exclusively plays football (soccer, to the American's in the audience) his upper body isn't all that put together. While there's not much extra fat there, most all the muscle on his form has taken up permanent residence on his calves and thighs.
He has olive-toned skin, hinting at Mediterranean origin, though due to a heavy amount of his time being spent in the sun and a more African family line on his mothers side he tends to edge towards a darker hue. His brown hair is often scruffy and uneven, given that he cuts it himself, and it defiantly doesn't help his over all appearance, given that most of his clothes are full of holes and poorly patched up. He tries to look generally clean. Up until recently, Darien has looked rather like a ragamuffin, but lately he's been being kept fairly neat, if only because Hyun-ki and Warren won't let him leave his room without at least looking SOMEWHAT presentable. Between the two of them Darien is regularly forced into new, non-ripped up shirts and shorts, and has his hair almost routinely combed. The only bit they haven't managed to get rid of is the shoes - affectionately named "duct tape sneakers" by Darien and so called because they're about eighty percent tape, fifteen percent staples and glue, and five percent shoe. He maintains that they're still usable, so why would he throw them out?
In terms of clothes, he generally wears shorts and t-shirts, simple and easy, and all bought from good will, or picked up out of the trash if he sees it and thinks it's still usable. He can come off as a little bit grungy, but that's only because he's still not used to living a life where he can shower every day and afford new, clean clothes.
Family: N/A
Friends: Warren (caretaker, provider of bed and clothing), Hyun-Ki (pet), Curtis (crush, best friend)
Other notable relations: Frank (shared the same bridge overpass for years), Simon (ex), Shelby (very very scary cheerleader, may be brought up in idle conversation), Team mates (a full compliment of them, Darien will often mention them when talking about his life), Roberto (Boss), Paris (Boss' husband), Fernando (Boss' fish, also often spoken of), Porthos (dog, often spoken of), Prince (yet another dog, one he occasionally pet sits)
Personality: Darien is the sort of person who would find happiness in a house made of dung. He's almost constantly content where he is, if only because where he came from was always worse. When he lived on the streets he learned to be thankful for every little bit of cover and scrap of food, so now a couch is like a goose-down mattress with silk sheets to him. He can make himself happy in just about any situation he's put in, and because of this he often never tries to better himself. He'll be utterly content in slum-like living conditions, and never think to want something better, because it's already a lot better then what he was in before. Because he's happy where he is, he doesn't think that he can be happier anywhere else, and so he doesn't try to be. As such, he doesn't usually realise he wants something until after he has it - he didn't know he wanted a couch until he was sleeping on one, he didn't know he wanted a bed until he'd been moved tothat. He didn't realise how much better it was to have new, clean clothes until he had the money and means to pick up a few new shirts. Likewise, he rarely realises that he likes someone or wants to be in a relationship until he already is, and can rarely think to make the first move. He doesn't understand the consumerist need to want more more more, and likely never will.
That being said, there are some things he will never stop striving for, the foremost of which is normalcy. He strives to be normal in every way - it's his dearest wish, the thing he wants most to fix about himself. He feels as if something must be inherently wrong with him to have made his parents give him up, and despite the fact that Warren has taken him and made him part of his family he constantly feels that there must be some part of him that's wrong and that will make people abandon him again. This is also why he isn't very open about his orientation - while he's not ashamed of who he is and who he likes, he knows that it's cause for being ostracised, and as such doesn't like to talk about any 'abnormal' part of him, as he sees it. Sometimes he wonders if he acted too foppish when he was young and that's why his parents gave him up - he doesn’t really know why they did it so he often likes to think up reasons that they might have, with the empty hope that if he could change that part of himself they'd come back and want him again.
He likes animals more than people for a number of reasons, one being that he was just never a very social creature. He gets dogs and cats and birds, etc., more than he does humans, if only because they share his essentially simplistic view on life and ability to accept and often even be happy in whatever situation they're dropped into. He also adores them, at least on a subconscious level, because of how loyal some animals can be. Animals don't care that he's socially awkward and used to be homeless or that he's gay, and they certainly wouldn't disown him for it. The simple acceptance that he finds in animals is more then he's ever expected from a person, and as such he loves them all dearly. He cannot understand why any human would willingly leave behind or hurt an animal, and can at times be scarily protective of them, even ones he's never met before.
He has a similar protectiveness over Warren, who he sees as the closest thing to a family he's ever going to have again. If anyone ever speaks poorly of the young man who's taken him in he's likely to fly into a rage and go after them - he certainly has every time someone's threatened Warren, which happens more often than not given the people whose company the older man tends to keep. Like the dogs he loves so much, he tends to be an incredibly loyal person and once he's determined someone is his friend he won't leave their side - no matter how horribly they treat him.
When it comes to sports, Darien is highly competitive, and borderline obsessive. He's incredibly active, and spends more of his time in cleats then he does regular shoes. He'll practice for hours a day, and when he has a game coming up he often calls extra emergency practises, and will run his team ragged up until the day before the game, then let them have a full day off to rest. He trains relentlessly and takes extreme joy from all forms of sport, though sometimes others find his willingness to give up a social life for training to be disturbing. The thing is, sports are his social life - he doesn't have many friends, so his team mates are the closest thing he's got. It's one of the only ways he can hang out with people his age, given that he's too old for sleepovers and the like, and when he was young enough he didn't exactly have any parents around to take him to one.
History: Going with a timeline for simplicities sake...
Born
One year later - sister is born
age of six - given up for adoption (reason: unknown)
Age of eight - put into foster care system
Age of eight - ran away from first foster home
Age of nine - ran away from sixth foster home
Age of ten - ran away for good, and took to living on the streets
Age of seventeen - got into major accident on soccer field and was taken in to the hospital, where he met Warren, who helped to smuggle him out when they were trying to figure out who his parents were
Age of seventeen - moves in with Warren
Age of seventeen - drops out of high school
Age of eighteen - currently living with Warren and working in El Cielo Spa
What are you recovering from?: While Darien suffers from abandonment issues he actually started going to the meetings for the free food, so he usually just tries to stay quiet and look too miserable to talk so that he can eat for free before heading home
How long have you been a part of the support group: Darien has been coming to the group for a little over a year now, though he has yet to introduce himself properly in the go around.
Other: He has a bad habit of taking home strays, especially when living in an area that doesn't allow pets.
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Name: Lorena Carina Sophia Perez
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Appearance:
Family: Roberto Guitarez Santiago Perez (Father), Esperanza Lorenza Sophia Perez (Mother), and, for the interest of saving time... six (count 'em six) sisters
Friends: Katerina Urbanovskaia (friend and roommate)
Other notable relations: Several really nasty exes, Antonio (current boyfriend)
Personality: Lorena is a latina firecracker if ever there was one. She's very sharp tongued and has no problem speaking her mind - she wants what she wants when she wants it and how she wants it, and she won't take it any other way. She can be rather pushy and bossy - flat out rude sometimes - and doesn't like taking shit from anyone. She's what most people would describe as a "Class A B*tch" and she has no problem assuming that title for herself if no one else will put it up for her.
As an adult entertainer, she gets a lot of flack from a lot of people, and her general response is a loud and pointed "go screw yourself, because God knows I'm not gonna and I don't think anyone else wants to either." She won't stand for people treating her like an object once she's off the dancefloor - when she's on it, yeah, that's her job and it's what she's there for. But once she gets off it's her time, and she is a person so if you're not going to treat her like one you can get the hell out right now.
She's a lot about bluster and noise - no matter who she's talking to she tends to put up a big front. It's easier to be bitchy and rude and get people to leave you alone then it is to try and be nice to them, even if there's a chance that they'll genuinely be nice back. She likes being argumentative, it's something she's always been, and a good comeback is one of her favourite things to pull out. She's put a lot of time into making her reputation as a sassy Spanish girl, and she doesn't see the point in giving that up for you or anyone else. She's a very "take me as I am or get out because I'm too good for you, if you want someone you can make the way you want them to be go look for someone else. I'm not clay, and I'm not your toy, I'm me, so either get into it or get over it."
She is a very relationship driven person. Growing up in a house with more sisters and cousins then the youngest has years, she needs to have people around her to talk to and be with. Like a shark needs to swim to breathe, she needs to socialize to stay alive. She very much hates being out of a relationship, and can be very demanding when she's in one (which, honestly, is probably why most of them don't work out). She has pretty terrible taste in men, and for all of her talk about how "you don't own me" she tends to get into relationships with very possessive, sometimes abusive partners - perhaps suggesting that all her talk is really just an act to cover up the fact that she's incredibly insecure and hands herself over far too easily.
History: Born in Ponterrada, Spain, Lorena was the second oldest of seven sisters, all born to a man and woman so madly in love that they didn't bother to think about the consequences of sharing their love unprotected. At first, being the second oldest had its privileges - she could boss her younger siblings around, and only had one person above her on the food chain. Unfortunately, as time went by and she got older all the while having younger and younger siblings pop out, she ended up having to help care for many of her youngest siblings far before she wanted to even consider raising a child.
As such, she found escape in a young man. As many teenagers do, she fell in love instantly, and was convinced he was the one she'd spend her life with. Her father, finally aware of the dangers of having seven rapidly growing daughters who were finally starting to show some womanhood through their girlish figures chose that moment to become protective. He forbade her seeing her young lover, as overprotective fathers tend to do when faced with having their children grow up right before their eyes. Enraged and disobedient in the way of many stupid seventeen year olds who have ben told no, Lorena ran away with him, all the way to America. Under the stress of neither of them having a job and living in a country where she didn't fully speak the language, they fell into fighting, and then fell apart - it turned out that he wasn't so much the love of her life as he was an early childhood fling. The first of many very poorly chosen relationships, and certainly not the one that would scar her the most. With no money, no place to stay, and a very rudimentary understanding of the English language, she turned to one of the oldest careers out there for women - stripping. It was below her pride to go into prostitution, though she might have done somewhat better financially if she had.
As her career as a dancer began, Lorena found that she was actually quite good at it. Though she didn't make much, she made enough to get a small one-room apartment with a co-worker named Katerina, and rapidly learned English while surrounded by it. She has since made contact with her family again, and spends hours keeping up Katerina by talking loudly in Spanish to them over the phone.
What are you recovering from?: She's been in and out of the support group for years, each time a new relationship starts going dangerously sour. Right now she's there because her man has started beating her black and blue and she doesn't know what to do
How long have you been a part of the support group: Lorena has been in and out of the group for the last several years - she pretty much knows everyone whose been there for more than a month and they know her for her constantly being sure she's better and then coming back broken
Other: Nothing right now, I suppose. She's kinda in need of a white night in very tarnished armour right now.
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