running from a boogyman that may be long since dead, a mind for working with her hands, the reflection of early morning sunlight against an empty bottle of whiskey, a heart that still beats but is held together by tape and superglue.
β¦Β RILEY KEOUGH, CISFEMALE, SHE/HERΒ β¦Β JOVI LEVINEΒ theΒ THIRTYΒ year old has been in Hidehill forΒ HER ENTIRE LIFE (FOUR YEARS SINCE HER RETURN)Β and was aΒ ENEMYΒ to Carter Thompson, one of the shadows. Whispers on the streets are that theΒ MAINTENANCE AT QUICK STOP MOTEL, BARTENDER AT THE VANILLA UNICORN + MUSICIANΒ who lives in HADLEY PARK are said to beΒ CHARMINGΒ andΒ SHORT-FUSEDΒ but I guess weβll find out for ourselves.Β
TRIGGER WARNING: infidelity, abuse, death, corpses, drowning, alcoholism, drug use
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Jovi was dealt a bad hand from the very start. Born Josephine Penelope Levine, she was the product of an affair between a wealthy CEO and his secretary - leaving Jovi's mother to fend for herself after the inevitable happened. He wouldn't leave his wife.
Jovi and her mother were originally living in Augusta, Georgia before the end of her mother's affair. While Jovi considers herself from Hidehill, the southern twang that comes with her mother's Georgia hometown is kind of hard to miss.
From what she knows from her mother - Jovi is a dead ringer for her father. It was perhaps the biggest betrayal the young toddler could have mustered. Even if she was too young to understand.
To cope with the lack of support from the man Catherine Levine thought adored her, loved her.. she turned to the bottle. When Jovi was six, she began leaving her on a neighbors doorstep and a simple knock on the door, stumbling back home the next morning.
It was worse when she started drinking regularly at home. She hurled insult after insult at the young girl, tearing down her self worth until it was nothing.
When Jovi was thirteen - she found her mother in the bathtub having drank herself to death. There was no knowledge of how long she had been there, when she had died. What a death to die. Drowning yourself in the bathtub, too drunk to be saved.
Considering that Jovi didn't have any living relatives besides a father who would pay to get her to go away, Jovi was put into the foster care system, moved from several homes without a placement that really felt like home.
At eighteen, she was all alone again. This time, with no one to help her. No one to steady her. She had been used to being alone, but at least the homes she had lived in contained people who sometimes cared.
It was then when she started going by Jovi - a derivative of her name. With a new alias that made her feel powerful, Jovi left Hidehill behind for what she thought was for good.
In order to keep herself afloat, she began stripping. She had spent some time traveling running from her issues until her money ran out, leaving her to settle down for a while. That is, until she became restless again.
Somehow she couldn't stray too far from home and ended up in Nashville, where she would come face to face with Alex Kingsley for the very first time. The two began seeing each other casually, but the longer things went on the more serious things got... until Jovi ran. Like she always did.
While she's used to running away, she never wanted to leave Alex. And for her, perhaps that was the scariest part. She tried to rationalize it, tried to tell herself that they both had too many wounds that had not been addressed. But there was no escaping it. She was in love. And it terrified her.
She ended up back in Hidehill about four years ago, relocating to Hadley Park where she's been in the same run-down trailer ever since.
She got a job at the Motel fixing it's broken down pieces, mainly because she was good at it, but because there were so many of them there was so much she could do. Quiet her mind. She got a second job at The Vanilla Unicorn because she knew playing her music wouldn't be enough to pay her heating bill.
With the murders starting up again, considering Marcus Shaw was left as a warning sign in the park where she lived. However, something has been pulling her to stay. And things started to make more sense when Alex showed up in her hometown, at the bar where she worked.
Then suddenly, Alex shows up during her shift and walks into The Vanilla Unicorn. And begins setting up behind the bar. And suddenly -- Jovi doesn't know what is real and what is fake anymore. The passage of time no longer feels real.
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Identifies as queer, but the preference for women is strong with this one. Likely has only had one serious relationship with a man and that was probably back in high school.
Didn't really have major beef with Carter - just kinda always thought he was a piece of shit. Didn't want to feel vindicated when he was arrested, of course.
Kinda just tries to keep her head down and go about her life. Make her music. She's recently started playing gigs at the Cadillac every now and then and has actually begun getting some traction.
A major commitment-phobe. Maybe because she's so used to everyone she grows to care about in her life being only temporary.
Can absolutely haul ass and sometimes subs with Max when extra hands are needed for security.
MORE TO COME.
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Friends: OPEN
Exes ( any gender - 1/3 ): Alex Kingsley, OPEN
Hookups/FWB ( former or current ): OPEN
Love Interest: Alex Kingsley
Coworkers: Lakeyn McCray, Adriana Martinez, Dallas Parker, Danny Alexander, Jocelyn Hayes, Maximo Aguilar, OPEN
These are just ideas, I'm here and ready for all the plots!
