i never was ready, so i watched you go

➣ NICKNAMES: Merricat, Cece, Marce (if you want to piss her off)

➣ PRONOUNS: She/They

➣ ORIENTATION: Bisexual

➣ BIRTH DATE: July 25th 1984

➣ OCCUPATION: Tattoo artist at Black Box Tattoo & Piercing

➣ THE PAST:

↳ Marceline was born and raised in Roswell by caring, loving parents, at least until they died in a car crash when she was seven. She doesn’t remember much about them, though she kept a bunch of family photos and some other family stuff when she moved to the orphanage. She spent most of her childhood there, being raised by people who, although caring, had a somewhat distant demeanor, likely from raising so many children at once. 

They were a troublemaker from the start. Academically smart, sure, but way too curious to be obedient. Since that was pretty much known by everyone, it was a surprise when a kind couple adopted them at age twelve. They already had a biological child and another adopted one at that point, so Marceline was once again surrounded by people they didn’t quite know. When it came to their name change, they refused to get rid of their old surname, and their new family name ended up just being added at the end. 

Merricat continued being a troublemaker after that, always being contrasted by her much calmer and more focused siblings. She graduated with a high GPA and got a scholarship to the University of New Mexico, where she started a chemistry degree, later changing it to an art history degree, and finally graduating with a criminal justice degree, all of which she never used. She got her first tattoo in college, and having been obsessed with drawing and painting since she was little, decided to start learning how to do it.

They still went through a lot of career changes, never being able to hold a job for more than two years because they always got bored with it. They finally started tattooing as a job nine years ago, and that was the one career she fell in love with.

➣ THE PRESENT:

↳ Merricat still holds a lot of the hobbies she accumulated through her life, like boxing, painting, and crocheting, and keeping up with all of them makes her feel like she has no free time. Being adopted herself, she has applied to adopt an older child almost a year ago, but she’s still in the process of figuring that out.

➣ ABOUT ROSWELL:

↳ Merricat can sometimes go full conspiracy theorist, but how much they actually believe is up in the air even for themself. They do enjoy making alien themed tattoos, though, which is all that matters.

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