𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘

— basics

full name : jade rose stephens nicknames : jade age : 18 (physical) // 29 (actual) gender identity : cis female, she/her pronouns sexual orientation : pansexual, but also ladies tho species : vampire occupation : research assistant in vampiric studies & first aid assistant family : amy stephens (mother), jason stephens (father), adam stephens (older brother), violet stephens (older sister) positive traits : hard-working, observant, charismatic, compassionate negative traits : regretful, stubborn, rebellious, lonely

— background (trigger warning: mentions of death & a car accident)

jade had a fairly typical upbringing, almost picturesque. she had two loving parents, an older brother and sister, and even a golden retriever to complete the picture of a perfect family. and for the most part, they were pretty damn perfect. they were sunday morning pancakes with her father reading the comics from the newspaper to the kids while her mother hummed whatever song came on the radio. they were family trips every month and game nights every friday night. her parents made it to every baseball game and recital and school spelling bee. there were the typical sibling arguments over dumb things, but jade remembers those times fondly, especially since she knows she won’t get those back again.

she was always the honor roll kid, the one who had top grades and obeyed every rule her parents gave her. her brother & sister were both in college by the time jade got to high school, and while it was somewhat difficult living up to their glowing reputations, she managed to have a pretty good time in high school.

her high school had a emt training program and she joined that as soon as she was able at 16. she’d always known she wanted to do something in the medical field, and her plan was to become an emt after graduating high school and continue her college education to eventually become a doctor. things didn’t happen the way they were meant to obviously.

when she was barely 18, she went to a party. it was one of the few she went to, but this one turned out much different than ones she’d been to before. she remembers getting in the car with her friends to head home. she remembers her friend screaming. she remembers a stranger offering her his blood. and she woke up in the morgue the next morning with sunlight burning her skin and nearly scaring the morgue attendant to death (though he didn’t survive very long either with her hunger growing). all she had on her was a phone number in her pocket that directed her towards the salvatore boarding school. 

she spent a year there before the incident happened. jade had been doing fairly well, though she was more than a bit bitter about how her life had turned out. all her parents knew was that there’d been some sort of accident, but that jade had been given a scholarship that would take her far away from them. she hated what turn her life had taken and wanted to live a little more than she had before. in her mind, she’d always been just the good girl who would  make her parents proud, and look where that had gotten her? dead. 

it’s almost ironic that the two worst nights of her life was when she was branching out and going to parties. the first got her killed and the second ended with her killing the girl she was interested in and shutting off her humanity for ten years. the prison world was hell for her, and leaving it behind was nothing short of a miracle. she’s determined to be better than she was in the past, to try to move past her guilt over what she’s done.

in the missing year, jade was working on studying vampiric lore, but specifically focused on rippers and what makes them different. she wants to find something that explains the why and how behind it when it seems so random. she also helped in first aid when needed because sometimes using magic isn’t the answer, ya know. not that she remembers working on any of that now.

she’s more than a little pissed to have lost more of her life. in her mind, she lost ten years in the prison world, stagnant at age 18, but now she’s lost yet another year of her life that could have been spend on growth and bettering herself. she isn’t sure she knows how to move past that bitterness that clouds her compassion.

— personality

jade isn’t honestly entirely sure who she is now. she spent a decade of her life with her humanity shut off, being cruel and sadistic towards her friends and an enemy. with her humanity back on, she’s bitter of what she lost and the now eleven years that were stolen from her, but she’s grateful for another chance to be better than she was before. she’s hard-working and will always put in 200% effort in what she does; she enjoys working towards her own goals and the satisfaction that comes from finally achieving them. she’s kind and loyal towards her friends, but isn’t above using charm to get what she wants. she was rebellious after becoming a vampire, and that much hasn’t changed. she was fairly stifled in her human life (though she was never mad about it), but she released some of her more negative traits after becoming a vampire. her guilt over her actions has definitely stamped down some of her impulsiveness, but she’s still sort of wavering between wanting to just have fun and make up for lost time and wanting to make up for her actions over that time.

— connections

listen i’m horrible at thinking of wanted connections, but i’m down for almost anything. would love maybe some friends she’s made, vampires she’s bonded with over how much it sucks, maybe another ripper to commiserate with, some connections she made over the lost year and is now like wtf.

☾ visage. | darling your looks could kill.

☾ history. | not all those who wander are lost.

☾ musings. | you used to be alive; now you’re almost mythic.

☾ playlist. | i’m a rebel just for kicks now.

☾ development. | we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

☾ interaction. | tag. you’re it.

☾ ask memes. | be careful what you wish for.

☼ ooc. | created by me.