✦ ZION MORENO, TRANS FEMALE, SHE/HER ✦ NATALIA LUNA RIVERA the THIRTY-TWO year old has been in Hidehill for HER ENTIRE LIFE and was a CHILDHOOD FRIEND to Jade Parker, the first murder victim. Whispers on the streets are that the RECEPTIONIST AT THE PET DOCTOR who lives in HADLEY PARK. She is said to be EARNEST and CRITICAL but I guess we’ll find out for ourselves.
faceclaim: zion moreno.
full name: natalia luna rivera.
date of birth: 12 january, 1990.
gender: trans woman.
pronouns: she/her.
occupation: receptionist @ the pet doctor.
birthplace: hidehill, nashville.
sexuality: bisexual.
relationship status: single.
tw; dysphoria, absent parent, loss of innocence, animal abandonment [mild].
as an adult, natalia is the type of person that likes to leave high school in the rearview mirror. what happened in high school stays in high school, and might as well throw the first couple years after in with that as well. no one wants to be reminded of the kind of fool they were when they were young, right? but she's not always been like that. once upon a time, back in the great wide somewhere, nat was just a little girl who thought she had found the love of her life. why heartbreak had to stem from the corpse of her first great romance, natalia will never know - hence the rearview.
and speaking of driving away, abandonment issues, and loss of innocence; natalia's mom hit the road not too long after giving her kid a name - it is a blessing honestly that thanks to some gender dysphoria and a single supportive parent, nat doesn't even have to deal with the emotional baggage of keeping that part of her mother any longer. neither natalia or her dad have heard from her mom since, and they are probably better for it - now if only she could convince her dad of it. holding a flame for the woman who left him over thirty years ago means that her dad is still single and not at all ready to mingle, and natalia has just about given up on changing his mind.
natalia is what one might call a bit of a crunchy mom... without the kids. she's been a vegetarian since high school, dedicated to reducing her carbon footprint and eating right. between window boxes, her spare bedroom, and the tiny porch that she is able to use, she manages to have a relatively thriving garden - it's full of vegetables and herbs, with her trying her best to pick up fruit from local sources.
hadley park... the trailer park has been her home since she was just a kid - her father giving up the ghost of a more costly neighborhood, the first step in his journey of acceptance - and there was no way that she was going to give that up as an adult. she lives just a few rows down from her dad, can walk up to his house to bring dinner or pilfer his fridge, and she wouldn't change that for the world.
though natalia would probably work at the pet doctor no matter her own situation, she thinks that the fact that she has seven animals within her home definitely encourages that part of her life. it was never meant to get to this point; the first two were a choice - a kitten adopted from a house just down the street, then a shelter cat to keep the kitten company. it snowballed from there - two guinea pigs who didn't have anywhere else to go, a senior cat that would have become an outside cat otherwise, a dog whose adoption had fallen through, and finally a kitten that had been left on the side of the road. at least she has her coworkers at the pet doctor to keep her calm when one of the animals starts acting up.
fun facts; [wip]
4 cats [adopted: waffle; shelter: pancake; senior: cookie; kitten: brownie]
2 guinea pigs [honey & butter]
1 dog [yorkie mix; juniper]
wanted connections;
farmers or small homestead types of people. someone who she can trade fresh veggies and herbs for eggs, milk, or honey.
coworkers/semi-regulars at the pet doctor! (visits to the vet don't always have to be scary!)
old friends - they could have either been friends for a long time, or people she had a falling out with after high school/previous jobs.
current friends - the type that will show up without warning and lounge around the house with her. the ones who know all her animals' names.
anything and everything we can come up with. i'm open for most things!
taken connections;
amelia alvarez; ex.


















