elodie was born in nightrest.  her family was on the poorer end of the spectrum, but had enough to get by.  she had two siblings, rosemary and christopher;  twins, five years younger than her.  she and the twins were staying with their aunt and uncle (father’s side, not jonathan craggy) for a weekend when she was ten and the twins five.  on the way home, the twins and her aunt were killed in a car accident.  she and her uncle were the only survivors, with serious injuries.   this blow obviously devastated the family and was the beginning of its swift unraveling.

her parents were attentive while she was in the hospital and through most of her physical therapy.  when that was done and the funeral was done, and they had nothing to distract them from the loss, they fell into dysfunction.  they did not cope with their grief together;  rather, they would cry in separate rooms, her mother would go to the bar, or her father would take on overnight shifts to be out of the house.  they stopped talking, both to each other and to their surviving daughter.  the family would never be a functional unit again;  in the ways that mattered, she lost her parents as well. 

elodie spent a lot of time bouncing between friends’ houses, because it was clear her parents did not notice whether or not she was home.  friends’ parents more or less took her under their wings, so she would have dinner there, stay there on school nights, etc. she got into some bad habits as a teenager, drinking, smoking, but didn’t exactly go off the rails. 

at eighteen, she went to college about thirty minutes out of town and cut contact with her parents.  there was no grand explosion or fight;  she just stopped talking to them, and they didn’t make much effort to reconcile, either.  despite it being so close to home, she stayed in a dorm.  she was something of a partier in school, but not to the degree that it affected her studies. she would not chance failing out;  while she knew she would return to nightrest, because her grandparents were there, she wasn’t about to move back in with her parents. she worked part-time during school to save money, full-time over breaks.  she would stay with her uncle  -- jonathan craggy -- over breaks. 

she did return to nightrest when she completed her undergrad, and got a job as a vet tech at two dogs veterinary.  her intention was to go back for her doctoral program, but life got in the way.  she met a man, sean, who had moved to nightrest from louisiana.  at first things were good;  down the line, he began to cheat on her.  it went on for several months before she began to suspect, and when she did, he gaslit her into thinking she was making things up, losing her mind.  it was only confirmed on their third anniversary, when she found the messages on his phone and called him on it.  she finally left him and cut contact with him too;  later, she heard that he left town.

a few months ago, her uncle told her that her mother had died of lung cancer, after a lifetime spent chain-smoking.  she did not attend to the funeral, which she feels guilty about.  she has since moved into an apartment in low point by herself and started her doctoral program. 

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she has two dogs;  a great pyrenees called bear and a bernese mountain dog called sully.  she takes them hiking on the weekend and takes both of them on a walk through town after work each day.  she also has a cat, a tortoiseshell named margaret.  

huge coffee drinker.  stops at the daily dose every day.  

not a huge drinker, but when she does go out, drinks to get drunk.  she is a chronic user of pot.  

she is relatively close with her uncle jonathan craggy;  he is the only family member she has any real relationship with these days. 

wanted connections

close friends

childhood friends

flirtationship

fwb

significant other

exes  ( i would also be down with someone making sean i’m ngl / his name can also be changed)

first love!!  when they were teens / young adults

neighbors