#* about !

biography :

the van sant family was always called trash. they were a family of seven, living in a cramped, falling to pieces house on the outskirts of ashville. nic is the middle child of the family. they were one of the poorer families in their part of town. 

nic’s father worked two jobs to keep the family afloat and their mother did what she could to contribute with her own job and any odd jobs she could find, which mostly left nic alone with their siblings or adultless most of the time. however they were a normal family, even if some people spread rumors about them. 

divorce mention / for the most part, life was alright for nic until they turned six and their parents got a divorce. it didn’t surprise anyone. with the problems their parents were having, and little money saved up, tensions were high. nic was old enough to know what was happening. their father left and nic never saw him again. 

nic’s mom started dating someone shortly after the divorce and when nic was eight, she remarried. their new mom was more like nic than anyone else in the family, as she was an architect and her job was more math than anything else. 

life was beginning to look up, since now they only had to share a room with one sibling, not three. having two moms wasn’t an adjustment, in a town like asheville, it was almost normal, but they felt comfortable living in a house that got them. 

but when high school came around for them, nic started noticing that kids had a thing about material possessions. they could never afford the things their peers had and it annoyed them. their family still didn’t have the money for fancy things, but nic knew they deserved those things.

drugs tw / nic got mixed in with the wrong crowd and ended up selling drugs. they weren’t able to keep themself from being involved in that whole scene. partying and drinking and drug use. their senior year they overdosed. they went to rehab and finished their senior year over the summer.

nic followed their brother to berkley where they studied areospace engineering. college was a breeze for them and they managed to graduate in three and a half years. nic got a job in roswell. they plan on getting a master’s degree in phyics. 

their two pet fish are named after homer hickman and dorothy vaughan, two people that they really believe helped in space exploration. 

origin.

althea’s mother died when she was one , after being hit by a bus after stepping into the road without looking . her father did her best to care for her as a single dad , but he became very paranoid . he sheltered althea and hovered over her as close as he could , & as a result , she didn’t get to experience a lot .

her mother was not a gorgon , but her grandmother was , & her mom had known . she misses out on family information & any help with what she is when her mother passes .

it also didn’t help that people couldn’t hold her gaze without breaking out in a sweat , or hold a conversation without that tremor in their voice . by the time she was 8 , she figured out that it was her eyes - her beautiful , almost inhumanly bright amber browns - that was causing the problem. she started faking having vision problems by running into things , & going to grab things far off from where they actually were . it took some time , due to the scans & tests coming back negative ; but by age 11 she was declared legally blind , & diagnosed with severe photophobia . she has very thick (designer) sunglasses that she is literally always wearing .

she met THE WITCH shortly after receiving her first pair , & now that she was finally able to talk to someone , they became fast friends . they made a pact to get away from everything their life & their family had placed on them , & only grew closer as they got older . he was one of her only friends growing up .

the rest of her childhood was relatively normal , after she got her shades . though , by the time she was 11 , she’d grown anxious & nervous at opening up to people , & while she knows she’s strong & capable , she is very reserved & quiet around most people .

she left her hometown with the WITCH to come to bryne university when she was 18.

has been in cinderbrush for a little over three years.

she is a certified medical assistant & works at the morgue . she’s a junior at bryne , & on her way to becoming a fully licensed mortician . dead people are simply easier to be around . 

she still doesn’t have many friends . things are tense with the WITCH . she misses him , but she’s guilted herself into keeping her distance . the GHOST & the GHOUL are her only other friends , & she’s much closer with the GHOST . again. . . dead people are easier for althea .

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