★ ━ ( brittany o’grady, cis-female, she/her ) ━ ★ just to be clear, ya didn’t get this information from me. The person you’re lookin’ for is NIKOHL ANGELIQUE GALLAGHER. also known as NIK. Last I heard she was born on AUGUST 6TH, 1992 in LONDON, ENGLAND, but she’s been livin’ in RICHMOND, for about SEVEN YEARS. Word around the districts is, this doll, NIKOHL can be VAIN, OBSTINATE, & HEDONISTIC, but i gotta tell, ya, alls I seen is good things, like the fact that she’s ETHEREAL, INDEPENDENT, & VIBRANT. I guess that depends on how well ya know ‘em, though. the last thing ya need to know is that she works as a COMPANY DANCER FOR THE OREGON BALLET. I don’t know much about what that’s all about but I do know that’s all I can tell ya the rest you gotta find out on ya, own. ━ ( ooc: sam, cst, 28, she/her )
growing up she was exposed to;
Growing up with her mom in London half the time, and half the time in Portland with her father, life was always an adventure for Nikohl Gallagher. Most of her time spent with her mom was full of light and laughter, color and art and dancing and singing along to Stevie Nicks and Nina Simone, her mom was her best friend. Weeks in Portland with her dad were filled with laughter, but also structure, where her mom would teach her how to paint a sunset, her dad would teach her to change a tire. Her relationship with her parents were different, but special nonetheless, though the nature of her parents’ relationship together was a whole other story. For most of her childhood they seemed so deeply in love, Nikohl remembers wanting to find love like that, until one day her dad was packing his bags, and telling her he was going back to the US, and that he’d see her as often as possible. From then on out it was overheard arguments over the phone, disagreements on just about everything, her mom crying at night, her dad dating endless strings of women to fill the void of his first love. But that never took away from the love her parents showed her in each of their homes.
They both also nurtured Nik’s love for dancing, starting at a young age, she showed a gracefulness and fluidity well beyond her years, it was almost as if she was made specifically to be a ballerina. At first her parents just thought it was a childlike wonder for pink tutus and glitter, they soon began to realize that it was the one thing that truly made their daughter happy, never had they seen her smile like she did when she was dancing. It cost a lot of money, but the Royal Ballet School was the obvious answer for the betterment of Nikohls future, and so with extensive training, a lot of overtime hours and they sent her there. She spent ages eleven through nineteen at their boarding school, training with some of the best, and between school, and traveling between home and Portland, the girl had to grow up rather quickly, but her parents also never let her loose her childlike wonder.
the road to portland starts with;
Her dad is originally from Portland, and so she grew up between London and Portland since her parents were separated when she was young. She lived at the Royal Ballet School during the school years, and then spent half her summer with her dad, and the rest in London with her mom, with her dad flying back and forth to visit her as well. She officially moved back to Portland when her dad was getting sick, being his only living family, she felt it was her obligation to take care of him. After he died, she stayed to take care of his estate, and after that, she decided to stay because it felt like running away from her obligations, and at the time, she needed a place to run. Now, she’s here because she found a family in the Oregon Ballet Theater, giving her a space to express herself a little more, unlike her old company.
where her passions reside;
The obvious answer to this would be dancing, ballet is Niks heart and soul, her lifes breath. But she also loves her friends, as an only child, finding a home in people was always her way to survive, so she cultivates a good group of friends to become her family. She’s also passionate about activism in all walks, but especially, as someone who didn’t find their sexuality until their mid twenties, she’s very passionate about LGBTQ+ activism. She loves art, and hosting dinner parties on her thrift-ed mismatched plates for all of her friends.
