camila mendes. she/her. cisfemale. › spotted at the met steps , natalia salazar , most likely listening to you’re on your own kid by taylor swift with their airpods pro . the twenty four years old gained quite a reputation , known to be -intransigent yet +allocentric to anyone who knows them . you’ll easily spot them when you hear about rosy cheeks , rolled up sleeves of an oversized sweater , the smell of mom’s homemade chicken noodle soup , cheesy romantic comedies , followed by flowerbomb by viktor & rolf. latest nepoupdates article talks about she was recently spotted at a store with a child in her arms and what seems to be a nanny after years of being in hiding , but i guess any reputation is good reputation .
* / . 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒔 .
full name ﹕ natalia sofía salazar.
nickname ﹕nat, nini.
gender & pronouns ﹕cis female, she/her.
date of birth ﹕december 29th, 1998.
place of birth ﹕porto alegre, brazil.
current residence ﹕ new york, new york .
education ﹕completed high school. started studying communications but dropped out.
sexual orientation ﹕heterosexual.
inspired by ﹕ haley james scott ( one three hill ), rachel green ( friends ), lydia martin ( teen wolf ), maya hart ( girl meets world ), bronwyn rojas ( one of us is lying ).
* / . 𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚 .
there really isn’t much to tell about natalia. people usually know how these stories go; a relatively wealthy family, parents who, in one way or another, are a little bit negligent or dismissive, kids who end up either raising or wrecking themselves and their siblings in the process, unfulfilled dreams, and so on. well, the salazar family story is basically that.
her parents ( marisol and esteban ) were just your typical couple who had a little too many privileges and they loved bragging about them. their story starts in porto alegre, brazil to be exact. they were just your average high school sweethearts who ended up living the so called “perfect life”, that after three kids ended up falling apart. natalia is the middle child in the family; the second attempt from marisol & esteban to save the marriage that was hanging by a very thin thread. being the middle child and second daughter of the family, you’d think she would’ve had a very light and flexible upbringing. since everyone always assumes the middle child is often forgotten, unfortunately for natalia, all the pressure that her parents put on her older sister was somehow placed all into her as well. all the dreams that her parents never achieved ( but were dying to vicariously live through their children ) they placed onto her, along with the fact that they expected her to single handedly fix their fucked up marriage, as if a marriage depends on the children and not the spouse.
she was pretty much at a disadvantage from the start, they never really gave her a chance. now, being under so many expectations and pressure really fucked up with natalia’s head. apart from the fact that she was very dependant and influenced on other people’s views and perceptions of her so, she never really had the courage or back bone to stand her ground and say enough is enough; not like they ever gave her a chance to do so. it’s no surprise that there was little to no relationship between her parents or even her brothers, she always felt like the outsider and like the most important person in the family, it was such an ambivalent and inconsistent environment, she never really knew what she was gonna be for her family today or the day after.
the ambivalence she was met with at home, lead her to making some unfortunate mistakes; trust the wrong people, doubt herself and so on. and then, she met a guy, an amazing guy; lorenzo rossi. the relationship she had with him is one of the only things she doesn’t regret. but, what she does regret is what she did after and what happened after. you know when things are going too well that you are expecting and waiting like crazy for the other shoe to drop ? well, that’s what happened to natalia. things were going far too well with lorenzo that she felt like it was only a matter of time before shit went down. so, what did she do ? she left. she just vanished, she was looking for a way out from everything, especially her family. and she got it. she walked away, without saying anything and without any sort of warning.
now those four years that she was away, being everywhere and anywhere, something amazing happened. she didn’t know until a bit after she left but she started feeling nauseous and was going through a lot of hormonal changes, and surprise surprise, she was expecting. now, when she found out there was an initial panic because it wasn’t really in her plans to become a mom, and there was the fact that she was all alone ( by choice ) so she was gonna have to figure it out. and yes, of course, she could’ve gone back but there was the fear in her mind that as soon as she went back, hell was gonna rain on her. she obviously knew that it wasn’t gonna be pretty, i mean it had been years at this point, they all probably hated her; especially lorenzo and showing up at his doorstep after a while of being MIA with the news of ‘ hey, sorry i vanished but you are gonna be a dad ’ really did not sound like the best plan, so she just stuck it up on her own. she ended up giving birth to a little girl called rosie and she immediately became her whole world. at first it was a bit bittersweet since she was all alone with a newborn, as much as she wanted to tell her siblings she couldn’t risk disclosing her location or risk being persuated by them to return, so she stuck it through. she was happy for a while, and then, around rosie’s 4th birthday and because like a dark hole her family needed to suck away the little amount of happiness she had in her life; her parents ended up splitting up and it was ugly, and they called her ‘cause she needed to be there for whatever bullshit reason ‘cause people really took the split as a national tragedy and so, more so for the feeling of duty, she came back. so she’s here again, the only difference is she has an added plus with her, trying to avoid at any cost the person that she knows it’s only a matter of time before they bump into each other again.
* / . 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 .
natalia is a very much ‘ what you see is what you get ’ kind of person. she isn’t that difficult to figure out unless she doesn’t want you to. she is a very light-hearted person, who puts everyone else’s needs before her own to an extreme point. she walks around with her heart on her sleeve, very much a lover not a fighter, loves having fun and laughing till she cannot breathe with the people that she loves.
now, the other side of the coin, extremely influenced by her environment and other people’s views on her, she cares a bit too much about what everyone else thinks or doesn’t think of her. now she is obviously not a mind reader but that doesn’t stop her from overthinking just a bit. has a complete fear of confrontation like she will never go pick a fight with absolutely anybody; like you could literally push her and she would just get up and walk away before ever confronting the person who did it. very much pushover, kinda rachel green style. her first reaction in the face of a conflict is avoid, avoid, avoid. like i’m running away from you because you might be fast, but her fear of conflict is faster. she turns into the flash, you ain’t ever catching up to her. very much a people pleaser even if it means withering away and dying. or until she can’t handle it anymore and she runs away so she doesn’t have to deal with the disappointed looks from the people she cares about.
she is very devoted person; she tends to give her heart away to everyone she meets. keeps her feelings under like twenty locks, will never willingly share that part of herself, unless it’s with someone she wholeheartedly trusts. a bit of an adrenaline junkie. watches horror movies just for the rush of it, even tho she spends half of the movie either pretending to be busy or covering her eyes. buuuuut, she can watch true crime documentaries like it's nothing. doesn't faze them at all, she thinks in her past life she was a criminologist.
she’s naturally a very kind person, she cares deeply about other people although she struggles to express it most of the time .loves loves loves watching the stars. a huge astronomy nerd, will literally talk to anyone about astronomy for like hours if you let her. she finds the stars and the moon at night so peaceful, calm and so beautiful so sometimes she just spends the whole night watching them.
* / . 𝒇𝒖𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 .
fluent in spanish and portuguese.
she loves learning new languages, she is currently trying to learn italian, not doing a very good job but the effort is what counts.
loves cooking like could spend hours on hours in the kitchen making up something, especially sweets.
she is obsessed with tik tok, and her hobby is basically learning every dance she stumbles upon in her fyp.
loves loves dancing, like take her salsa dancing and she is there, every day of the week.
is dying to go skydiving and bungee jumping like if she had to pick anything to do before she died it would be one of those two.
has an intense phobia of lizards, like all it takes is seeing one from afar and her fight or flight immediately kicks in, followed by a huge breakdown.
her favorite holiday is christmas, she is very much a listen to christmas all year long type of person and she doesn’t hide it, she just loves it so much
she LOVES the cold, like cold weather is heaven to her, she loves the snow, drinking hot chocolate, wearing jackets & sweaters, boots... she’s just there for the vibes.
reality tv shows are her guilty pleasure, she just loves watching something that it’s so bad it’s good.
* / . 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 .
best friends, like gimme a tight close knit group of people who are like her ride or dies, literally just friends type of vibe
gimme enemies or frenemies like they hate each other for no reason or we can plot a reason why they don’t match, or like they pretend to be friends but behind close doors they actually cannot stand each other
like any fwb, maybe like a casual hook up she had for a night
i .. don’t know, listen i’m up to brainstorming absolutely anything, i put here all the basic plots bc my brain doesn’t function for more jdsvakjd, i also have a wanted tag that doesn’t have much but idk if you wanna check it out it’s here.
