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jk my name’s jess and my whole life is one big vine reference sorry in advance. i’m 20 and living at home with my mom and waiting to get a call back from applebees about a job lol. i went to university for 2 years and i almost died from strep and my grades slipped since i was sick for about a month … SO i moved back home since my school was too far away anyways. i’m obsessed with prisons and netflix documentaries about them idk why lmao. i am a psych and criminal justice major. i love sims 4 and all my cc and mods. 

anyways

this is mercedes or breezy as she’s known in the streets and she’s my fuckin baby. she’s just a big goofball when she’s with the right people. mercedes is like an onion - she’s got layers girl. it might (and probably will) take a while for her to warm up to people since she’s not very trusting.

she didn’t exactly grow up in the lap of luxury like she wants everyone to believe. mercedes worked hard to get to where she is.

mercedes grew up in east village in lower manhattan, new york. her dad had to work two jobs just to support the family. it took a toll on mercedes and her four siblings once their mother left. she’s the second oldest out of all of them, so she and her older sister had to take care of their younger siblings while dad was working his day job.

she learned a lot of responsibility from a young age.  when she was 12, she was not only caring for her siblings but still had to do regular 12-year-old-girl things, like school and stuff. One day after school, she decided to join the art club. It had been four years since their mother had left, and mercedes wanted to do something where she could better express herself. her father thought it was a great idea; he wanted all of his kids to get involved in something at school since he couldn’t be there every minute of the day.

after years of spending an extra hour after school learning and creating art, she got pretty good at it! soon enough, her bedroom was full of her artistic creations, and her family couldn’t be more proud of her; especially her father. by the time mercedes was 17, and thinking about college, everyone around her supported and encouraged her to pursue art as a major, as well as a possible career path. however, she really just wanted her art as a hobby and thing she could enjoy in leisure time.

instead, she decided to stay home with her family and enroll in community college rather than university. she majored in gender and women’s studies as a part-time student so she would still have time to help her father around the house. also so she could still work her waitressing job on the weekends.

at her graduation party, she was surrounded by family, friends, and everything in between. this included her aunt and best friend, maria, whom she trusted and talked to every day on the phone. it was the next day, however, that changed everything. since maria was drinking, her brother offered she stay over that night so she wouldn’t drive home. mercedes, her siblings, and their father never could have been prepared for the wake-up call they received early in the morning.

the family woke up to a pounding on the front door. on the opposite side was a uniform officer asking for aunt maria. they flashed their badges and a warrant for her arrest. after tears and groggy screaming from mostly mercedes, the police officers took aunt maria into custody. it was later revealed maria had been involved in serious drug trafficking, possession, and robbery with a group of other people. the moment mercedes found out, she couldn’t believe it and did everything in her own power to convince herself otherwise. after support and consideration from her father, and explanation from the nypd, mercedes finally came crashing down to accept that the woman she had loved and idolized the majority of her life, was in federal prison. it soon surfaced that maria had previously been arrested and served jail time for other drug-related offenses.

from that moment on, mercedes couldn’t believe her own family and idol could live a complete lie and since has not looked at life the same. she had lost almost trust for the world. 

after two years at community college, mercedes graduated and earned her associates with straight a’s. her whole family came to celebrate and surround the young woman yet again. except for, of course, aunt maria. later that night, mercedes was fixed on one card that was given to her from her uncle ponch. it was signed by aunt maria, and she expressed her pride and joy in mercedes, as well as her apologies and love. she fell asleep reading it over and over to herself, asking God what she should do.

ok wow that was a lot

sooo highlights~

grew up in east village, manhattan

loves art, owns so much of her own artwork

has four siblings - one older sister, two younger brothers, and a younger sister

didn’t grow up with a mom

aunt maria was her absolute homie and got arrested and incarcerated for drug trafficking and related offenses the day after mercedes’s high school graduation party

she lost all trust in humanity

graduated from community college with an associate’s in gender an women’s studies

her uncle brought a cards signed from aunt maria

which brings us to where we are now...