[cis female and she/her]Β Welcome to Aurora Bay,Β NINA GRAY! I couldnβt help but notice you look an awful lot likeΒ [ALVA BRATT]. You must be theΒ TWENTY SIXΒ year oldΒ PIERCER AT CRESCENT MOON TATTOO. Word is youβreΒ RESILIENTΒ but can also be a bitΒ DISAGREEABLEΒ and your favourite song isΒ TEENAGE DIRTBAG AND WHEATUS. I also heard youβll be staying inΒ OCEAN CREST APARTMENTS. β @aurorabayaesthetic
general details.
BIRTH NAME: NinaΒ NICKNAME: Neens AGE:Β Twenty Seven DATE OF BIRTH: April 1st 1998 PLACE OF BIRTH: Los Angeles, California, USA ETHNICITY:Β Β Swedish (Paternal) Anglo-American (Maternal) GENDER:Β Β Cis Female PRONOUNS:Β She/Her ORIENTATION: Pansexual RELIGION:Β Atheist OCCUPATION:Β Piercer at Crescent Moon
personality.
POSITIVE TRAITS:Β Resilient & Resourceful NEGATIVE TRAITS:Β Selfish & Disagreeable MYERS BRIGGS:Β INTJ
the rundown.
TW: Police, CPS, drug mentions, Child neglect/parentificationΒ
Nina was eleven when the police first turned up at her door step after noise complaints from her neighbours. When asked to identify herself when refusing to open the door, she had a very apt response: A Problem.
Her earliest memory was being dragged around by her mother to different indie sleaze concerts around Los Angeles. She remembers her mums ripped nylon stockings, tank tops, and black boots. How she managed to get her underaged daughter in these licensed buildings without any question would be something that dawned on Nina a little later in life. She remembers the white pounder in clean lines that men in their late twenties/early thirties in all black outfits with base guitars would inhale in the back rooms, while she watched her mother fawn over them. Most of them ignored her presence in the room, but some of them were nice to Nina. As a seven year old, Nina wasnβt cute toddler anymore and the bands her mum followed didnβt really enjoy having a kid that βbrought down the vibesβ around. And suddenly she was saddled with the newest edition of the family, a little half brother. Her mother was very much off her face on coke during the process of that birth, Nina isnβt sure she exactly sure she remembered pushing Sam out. Just woke up the next day to a crying baby Nina was trying to settle.Β
The parentification would only continue until the Grayβs first visit from CPS. Being left at home wasnβt a new thing for Nina, sheβd been instructed by her mother Mynona on how to hide if they eventually came around. But things became a little difficult when their was a loud baby in the house. CPS took Sam, but Nina managed to hide in a cabinet long enough for them to leave. Sam seemed to have slipped through the cracks, and suddenly Nina found herself with a lot of time on her hands with her mum barely around.
Expelled from her first school for fighting with other kids at eleven, Nina learnt over time that there really wasnβt that many consequences for being a problem child as long as she didnβt commit a crime. Opportunities dried up for her minimum wage earning mother, who was no longer cool and young enough to be a groupie, so the pair packed up to live near their family members in Aurora Bay. Nina had a lot of cousins there. However the move didnβt really seem to change the dynamic between the mother and daughter. Wynona might have been clean, but the pair had no relationship history to build upon apart from past animosity.
Armed with a fake ID, a fifteen year old repeated her motherβs past mistakes going to party and drinking. She became the quintessential teenage dirtbag, willing to go face to face with other teens twice her size if it meant she had somewhere to vent out her anger. However, she had some redeeming qualities. Once happily putting out her cigaretteβs in the bathroom sinks after (allegedly) intentionally setting off the fire alarm, once finding out half the kids she tolerated at school were worried about failing the upcoming maths test the period after. Somehow justifying her desire for chaos, by balancing out her karma. Though donβt go mistaking her no a Braveheart, she always had to get something out of her βkind deedsβ. One might call her the antihero of her own life story.
At twenty five, Ninaβs apartment was flooded and condemned. Wynona, clean but still a little wayward, offered for Nina to move back home until she found a new place. Their relationship had started to improve when Nina got a job at Crescent Moon. But there was one problem that remained between them. Nina had planned to take a trip to Mexico with her brother that had reconnected with her, and lived in New York, but she needed a passport. And a necessary item for that process was her birth certificate. Wynona had always insisted that she lost it, seemingly on edge about the subject. Realising Nina was in fact a functioning adult now, decided to seek out a copy for herself. It took a lot of time to place the order, but it eventually arrived. However there was one very important detail on the document that forced Nina to make a double take. Under the section indicating the mother, Wynona was there. Instead, was the name of her maternal aunt that lived only blocks away from where she stood. Thus also indicating the plethora of kids she knew as cousins, were in fact her biological half siblings.
The last time anyone in the family saw Nina in the next 24 hours was on the couch of a friend. Sheβd gutted her room of her stuff, and reached out to real estate agent about an apartment in Ocean Crest, wondering what to do next.
current connections. Β ( wip )
@keolalagaaia: Half brother (Known all her life as a cousin) @jaredx: Half brother (Known all her life as a cousin) @spencer-sarmiento: Best friend @ulyflynn: Good friend & Fellow High School Partner-in-Crime
