Welcome to Aurora Bay, [CHEY JOHNSON]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [JENNIFER LAWRENCE]. You must be the [THIRTY-TWO] year old [FILMMAKER]. Word is you’re [CHARISMATIC] but can also be a bit [FEISTY] and your favorite song is [MISS ATOMIC BOMB BY THE KILLERS]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [SEABROOK QUARTER]. I’m sure you’ll love it!
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ABOUT CHEY
sexuality
pansexual
astrology:
leo ☀, cancer ☾, sagittarius↑
traits:
charismatic, feisty, outgoing, ambitious, stubborn, funny, easily agitated, talented, inappropriate, affectionate, determined, flirtatious, confident, bold, closed-off, loyal, confrontational, loving
aesthetic:
sun kissed skin, waves crashing, firework sizzling, torn jeans, sea salt hair, cheap beer, movie screens, blonde ambition, surfboards & sand, confident insecurities, dive bars, guitar strings, dark mind but a lot of heart.
likes:
the beach, beer, surfing, movies, music / playing guitar & singing in her band, stargazing, fireworks, breweries, concerts, affection, competition, flirting, bonfires, family, weekend getaways, fruit, hosting events, backyard barbecues, soft kisses, long drives on the coast, being right
dislikes:
vulnerability , her depression, entitled people, losing, being wrong, living far from her family, being underestimated, giving second chances, backing down from an argument, faking it, apologizing
BIOGRAPHY
[tw: mentions of depression & suicide]
INVINCIBLE -
It was the word that often came to mind whenever the name Amanda Chey Johnson rolled off your tongue. Age seven, naïve as ever, she climbed the highest tree in her neighborhood’s park out of sheer stubbornness of proving herself to her brothers. The fall, however, could’ve been deadly – should’ve been deadly as she tumbled to the ground head first. Two broken bones and a measly headache. Age sixteen, deciding to ignore the endless warnings of the weather, she took off to surf rocky waves alone. The gulf opened up, swallowed her whole and her lungs filled with water. She flat lined in the ambulance. Dead for a total of ten seconds, her heart kicked in as sea water spewed from her lips. Alive and well. She spent her youth cheating death one miraculous time after another. Was she just lucky? Most likely, but those around her deemed her invincible.
But, she never once felt that way. For someone who constantly cheated death, it happened to be the only thing she truly wanted. At the age of eighteen, she inevitably decided to take her own life - but to her dismay, she awoke in a hospital with a beating heart in her chest.
The girl spent her childhood with salt in her hair and toes in the sand of small town Port Aransas, Texas. Though she had her loving father, mother, and three reckless brothers, Chey was plagued with something no one could ever understand – depression. With all her spunk and confidence on the outside, it was hard for others to see anything other than invincibility. Depression had been in her blood for as long as she could remember – no circumstance ever made her this way, and perhaps that’s why the people around her always wrote off her illness as a cry for help or desperate need of attention.
She lived her life with a smile stitched on her lips around the friends she considered merely strangers. As she grew, she resulted to regularly visiting a therapist, taking medication, and forcing herself to find escapes in everyday life. Film, music, surfing – these were the things that reminded her she was alive. No, it was never the near death experiences that made her appreciate what she had, but just the simple things.
However, after her failed attempt at suicide, something finally began to settle within her. Maybe… just maybe, she was meant to be alive. Taking the easy way out had never been a method she preferred, so why start now? The pain and love of her family had come to light after that day, and she realized what she was originally willing to throw away. Her family was every bit of who she was, and without them, she’d be better off dead than alive. So, for them, she pushed herself after high school came to a bittersweet end and decided to change the vicious state of her mind. Of course, this doesn’t mean her depression would ever fully go away – but it was a start.
She received a scholarship to study film at UCLA and she took this opportunity to invite some change into her life and move to California for a clean slate. All of her life she was convinced she was an atomic bomb, something only negative that would eventually detonate and obliterate all those around her into bits. It wasn’t until she took a leap of faith by leaving the only place she has known as home to realize she was an atomic bomb – but in a completely different sense. She was powerful, bright, and came into this new life like an explosion. It was then she knew that she had to keep fighting.
After college – and being the queen of any and every drinking game – Chey truly found herself. No one sees the reserved girl with a broken smile, but a boisterous woman full of life and free-spirit. Her horizons opened, even job opportunities came easier. She landed a PA position at a production studio that later helped her career in film. Now she works as an assistant director (and aspiring director) for television series and feature films. Chey became something new entirely, became the person she was destined to be. With her father’s sailor’s mouth and her brothers’ alcohol tolerance, she’s rather awkward, clumsy, and a little inappropriate at times – yet, deep down, she was still the girl from Texas with a lot of heart.
Maybe everyone was right when they said Amanda Chey Johnson was made for big things. Maybe her mother was right all those nights she reminded her daughter to never let her fear decide her fate. Despite what life brings her, nothing will stop her from becoming who she’s meant to be.
EXTRA INFO
Her whole family, and those closest to her, tend to call her "Mandy". She is a woman of many names - Amanda, Chey, Mandy, Manda... Most know her simply by Chey. Her whole family have 'C' names, and though her mother originally named her Amanda to break away from that annoying trend, they ultimately ended up calling her by her middle name.
Chey used to date the lead singer of a band that has gotten recent fame. Back when they were dating, he actually used her to gain some access to put his music in some of the films she worked on. What she refuses to believe is that he genuinely fell in love with her after, but she could care less. He made her feel like a fool, and for that, she continues hating him. If anyone mentions his band or he comes on the radio, it takes everything within her to not smash something. (connection taken by: xavier matthews)
She mostly works on independent films and some major motion pictures. The type of films she creates are similar to the following: Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Lady Bird, Drinking Buddies, Blue Valentine, Sleeping With Other People, Little Miss Sunshine, Comet, Whip It, 20th Century Women - to name a few!
A part of Chey contemplates one day leaving the film life behind to open up a brewery, potentially with her brothers. She's family oriented at her core and often misses when life was less busy.
She has extreme confidence when it comes to her abilities in her career and skills. However, when it comes to the world of romance, she is full of doubt. One too many bad experiences has scorn her for good and she fully believes that a happy ending is not in her future.
