erica kennedy!

basic information

full name: erica keller kennedy

date of birth: january 16th 1982

occupation: (former) journalist at the new york times

gender: ciswoman

pronouns: she/her

languages spoken: english, 1032 day streak on duolingo french

personality

positive traits: intelligent, driven, independent

negative traits: secretive, finicky, stubborn

fears: peaches (don’t ask), failure, pigeons

hobbies: will claim to be too much of a workaholic but she loves the discovery channel & cooking

habits: nervous hand talker

favourites

weather: loves a thunderstorm

colour: green

music: loves country music but lies and says she likes classical (she cannot stand classical-)

movies: the hobbit/lord of the rings

beverage: red wine

food: shake shack

animal: specifically her childhood dog, droid

family

father: jack kennedy

mother:  anika kennedy (née adler)  (✝)

siblings: -

romantic: -

bio

Former ‘IT GIRL’, Erica Kennedy was always at the top of her game. She was kind, pretty, intelligent, and it seemed that she had everything going for her. She loved to meet people and would inevitably be at any social event, often with a committee badge on her chest - but past that, she didn’t tell people very much about her home life. When Erica was 11, her mother went missing. No one knows where she went, but it was quickly assumed that she had passed away and everyone moved on with their lives. Well, almost everyone.

Erica’s father took it pretty heavily. A former military officer honourably discharged, he stopped everything that kept him going. He shut himself off from the world and for years took it upon himself to try and solve his wife’s disappearance. At some point, when he realised he couldn’t, he stopped. This was around the time Erica started high school. The man stopped taking care of himself, leaving his teenage daughter to do that for him. He stayed on the couch most days, stuck in front of the television, communicating mostly in grunts and vague gestures. 

Erica tried to get him out of the house, enticing him with things that they used to enjoy (arcades and bowling were all the rage for the two of them). It never worked, but Erica tried not to let it dampen her spirits. She was intent on getting out of there and going to a good college... and it worked. Until it didn’t.

In her junior year, her father fell ill and she returned to be help him for the summer. Only the summer turned into fall and fall turned into winter and college was at the very back of her mind. However, after her father recovered from his illness, he started to become somewhat his old self. He started leaving the house, meeting friends Erica didn’t even know existed and she became... somewhat redundant.

Starting small in a local newspaper, she eventually moved to New York and found a position at the New York Times after telling a sweet little lie about being a Harvard alumni. It worked. Until she was recently caught out when sent back to her alleged alma mater to a piece of investigative journalism on a case of fraud. The man she was investigating knew she wasn’t telling the truth and, as silly as it seemed considering she had gotten to where she was on her own merit, she caved and dropped the piece, leading to a firing of epic proportions.

Now she’s unemployed and feeling sorry for herself - Erica needs a goddamn break. 

WANTED CONNECTIONS

 the former flame(s)

the long lost bff

former girl gang

former mentor/mentee

someone who knew her well enough to tell she is lying(?)