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Digging Deeper.

kneeling in the second to past pew in church, two girls dressed identically in their sunday best pass notes and muffle their laughter behind used prayer books, turning the steady drone of the priest’s sermon into a background melody for a world entirely of their own. minnie&clem, two names said so often together it had become like a single word. next door neighbors turned best friends. soulmates, if they believed in that type of thing. by age twelve that had shared everything there was to have to their names with each other. by sixteen, they had become two disparate beings. the kind and beautiful and enchanting minnie, so easy to love. she floated across the dance floor on pointe shoes and then in heels, drawing people to her like moths to a flame. everyone wanted to be friends with minnie, to be close to minnie, to be with minnie. but no one came as close as clem, who clung like a shadow. the one half a step behind, half a beat off. it was fine with her. who needed all the eyes in the world on her when she had minnie's to herself?

life changed forever in a single month. a handsome face new to town, breezing by and caught up in minnie's orbit like everyone else. a few nights away. a weekend out into the city. clem sitting alone on her bedroom floor waiting up as the clock ticks later and later. then, a pregnancy test. then two. three, just to be sure. an undeniable positive fourth. the boyfriend, if he could even be called that, is gone as quickly as he arrived. suddenly, minnie wasn't a star anymore. just a small town tragedy, a pretty girl who should have known better. someone to whisper about on the street, someone to avoid and ignore. it was okay, because clem was there. clem had always been there, ready to catch her as she fell. ready to figure out the baby's crib and the medical appointments and how to turn their shared apartment into a place for three.

kai was born with ten fingers and ten toes and a crinkly smile just like his mom's. although minnie doesn't take to motherhood the way she took to everything else in life, clem had never wondered for a moment if she loved the little baby sleeping soundly in her arms. from the first babble to the first steps, there wasn't anything clem didn't adore. it didn't matter what other people said, the snide remarks over her head, the mocking taunts whenever she went into town. a shadow taking care of someone else's baby. the girl chained by her own heart.

on a tuesday, minnie doesn't come home. late nights aren't a stranger to either of them, two girls without a college degree or a steady career. but then wednesday and thursday passed without a peep. no one in town had seen her in forever. minnie's existence had gone by without a blip since her pregnancy. it was like the whole town had forgotten what was once the center of their galaxy. the sun had been erased from their memory once they had stopped wanting her. but clem had never forgotten, could never forget. after a month of silence, a month of being waved away, a month into being forgotten, clem packed her bags and kai away into the back of the car and drove off. as she drove past desert landscapes and other towns and city skylines, clem threw away the past into the wind and reinvented herself. a new name, a new life, a new her.

it was meant to be a temporary stop, but sitting in the crappy motel room paid for in cash, surrounded by empty rooms and infrequent tourists and locals too busy trying to survive to give anything strange a second glance, she thought this was the chance to turn a new leaf. as far as anyone in this town is aware, nothing was amiss. the car? hers. the baby? hers. the name on the ledger, the one on her uniform name tag, the one people call for? hers. welcome to your new life, minnie daniels.

Extras.

Looking For Connections.

➥ OLDER SIBLING: there is some resentment here, because daria feels like she gave up her life to take care of their parents, while this character was already away at school and building a career for themselves. my idea was that this character is a lawyer, government official, or maybe works as a respected doctor at the local hospital. either way — comparison is the devil, and daria constantly finds herself constantly feeling like a failure in comparison to this sibling. ➥ ROOMMATE: daria and this person together moved in together about two years ago. they’re very comfortable around each other, and even would go as far as to call each other close friends. their personalities may seem different sometimes, but when they’re similar, it works.

Digging Deeper.

THIS BIO CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING TRIGGERS : cancer; parental death

daria was born and raised in rural intercept into a family of produce farmers — who were successful enough to put food on the table for themselves and their two children, but not successful enough for little luxuries. a quiet, sweet girl soon blossoms into quite the confident little thing when she becomes of school age, her flamboyant personality finding her in her first acting class at the age of ten — which lit a spark that would soon take her through the rest of high school.

in town, she became a local celebrity. valedictorian, the lead in every school musical, cheerleader and prom queen. and yet, everything changed when her mother got sick when she was sixteen. everything at the farm fell apart, and she found herself asking herself one question: does she take the time to work at a “survival job” and defer her time at nyu’s tisch program — or does she go, and nearly drown in student loans?

deciding on the first option, daria sits her father down and tells him that she plans on staying home to help him. and yet, even after her mother passes from lung cancer when daria’s in her early twenties — she finds herself feeling stuck. she’s made roots here now, and has blossomed not into the person she expected to be: but it’s something.

daria has made herself a bit of a staple in the astroland community ( despite it being less than ideal ), and she’s found herself making some amount of peace with her life — even if she’s come to realize that “making peace” is sometimes something someone says to make themselves feel better. if you can’t find her at astroworld, you can find her behind the bar a couple of times a week at club enigma — a position she she took on a couple years ago when she realized that her bills were getting higher, but her paycheck wasn’t.

her father has found some stability now thanks to some assistance from daria herself, but some people closest to her worry that she’s stretched thin between working two jobs to make ends meet and taking care of her dad. and yet, she just flashes her prom queen smile and shrugs it off — she’s doing fine. or so she says.

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aquarius sun, leo moon, taurus rising. daria is incredibly confident, intelligent and possesses a natural charisma that draws people to her. and yet, she also requires a certain amount of stability in her daily life and surroundings.

one would consider daria a regular in the local thrift shops and vintage stores. she has an electric sense of dressing that one would almost describe as effortless — and now has slowly begun to fall under what one might call the “90’s grunge” subgenre.

Looking For Connections.

➥ FATHER OF HER CHILD: her daughter, nora, was the product of a fling with a family friend back home in chile that continued to repeat over the course of the better part of a decade, when he joined the muñoz siblings in intercept by choice. when nora was born, connie thought he’d want to be a father and be excited about their daughter having a peace of them — given their history. and yet, she couldn’t have been more wrong. this person could have had a reason, or was simply scared to be a father — i’m willing to plot. and yet, connie has struggled to let this person back in her life.

Digging Deeper.

THIS BIO CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING TRIGGERS : prison time; pregnancy; child abandonment

constanza muñoz was born as the eldest daughter in a large and loving family. and yet, middle child syndrome didn’t quite seem to escape her growing up. many had their roles, but despite the amount of love their family had to give — connie always found herself somewhere stuck in the middle. santiago was the eldest, lucy was the baby, and the rest was history. she struggled to know who she was for a lot of her early years — but she knew she respected her eldest brother.

it all started when she started “making the wrong friends.” it’s almost like they knew she didn’t know where she was going, what she was good at, or who she wanted to be. and yet, it’s a quick descent into delinquency that lasts several years. juvie stints, court appearances, the works. and yet — she felt wanted. needed by these people, as if she actually mattered to them, having convinced herself that she would have somehow faded into the background.

a shell of her former self and wanting to get back on the right path once she hit her early twenties, following her atonement to her mother and rebuilding her relationship with her siblings — she relocates to intercept to be with santiago, and wastes no time making the fresh start count. she gets a job at orion’s garage where she answers the phones at first, but soon finds her working with the owner at the time after months of badgering. but her life would come to a screeching halt two years later — when she’s staring at a positive pregnancy test. in a startling turn of events, the father, someone whom she deeply trusted, had no intentions of being in her life.

nora eleanora muñoz was born on a sweltering august afternoon nine months later, and although connie was fucking terrified to be a mother — it was clear when she was surrounded by her family, she was going to be the opposite of alone. she slowly but surely gets her feet underneath her, still itching to go back to work at the shop — because she’s working for two now.

before long, nora is approaching double-digits, and her mentor and friend is talking about retirement. something about how his knees weren’t what they used to be, and that he wants connie to take over operations at the shop. he reminded her that she had studied his work forwards and backwards, that she had an extensive list of clientele who trusted her — and a team that respected her. she would be fine. in the years since, connie has both kept the same traditions of the man who came before

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scorpio sun, virgo moon and virgo rising. connie is a highly analytical person, and often leads with her brain — but has learned to lead more with her heart since bringing nora into the world. intensely loyal and compassionate, she goes above and beyond for the people she loves most.

considering her background back in chile, connie is incredibly dedicated to the concept of second chances. she not only spends her time volunteering with a non-profit working with recently released prisoners integrating back into society, but she is a regular volunteer at the local shelter. it’s her way of feeling like she’s doing something good with the wake up call she was given outside of her work.

Digging Deeper.

THIS BIO CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING TRIGGERS : parental death

chapter 1 ( wake up child ) : lucy was born in a family in the middle of mourning. the youngest of a slew of siblings, lucy never got to meet her father, as he’d died a few weeks before she and her twin sister had been born—although no one in her family ever made her feel bad for this in any way, she's always felt this hanging over her head in a weird way, as though she had to prove that she could cancel out the grief of the death of a man she'd only ever seen in pictures. ultimately, lucy was never made to please; that all went to her sister, ximena, the soft one, the gentle one, the complete opposite of herself.

chapter 2 ( don’t talk but i bite ) : the hardest thing lucy had to accept about herself was the guilt that came with not caring. she was barely cognizant, finding out that, despite the lack of father, despite the fact that her family missed a man she'd never met, lucy didn't. growing up with so many siblings, there would always be someone she could turn to, and although ximena seemed to have spread good will among all of their siblings, lucy, from an early age, bonded quite quickly and intensely, with her oldest brother.

chapter 3 ( the innocence of youth ) : santi, in many ways, was her hero. the one she looked up to, filling in for the father she never knew, as instrumental in raising her as much as her mother had been. since she was a child, whenever she had something to laugh or cry about, it’d always be with him. she refused to do homework unless it was santi who helped her, and no one could change her stubborn mind, not even her mother, and yet her oldest brother could melt through any tantrum with a simple sigh and utterance of her name.

chapter 4 ( break the machine ) : of course, with over a decade between them in age, ultimately santi would leave to find his own way in life. one by one, the house emptied of people, and the pressure of performance—specifically household expectations—started to land more and more heavily upon the twins’ shoulders. ximena took to it like she was born for it, but lucy experienced it like a large rock slowly crushing the spirit out of her. as soon as she had the capability, she left just as her siblings had done. for a few years, she remained in chile, a small time reporter, but one story launched her career, which took her all over south america, and eventually north america. but lucy has never been able to keep her mouth shut, and with an unfortunately developed sense of justice, she found herself going most after stories of negligence, or oversight, of corruption and greed. it's this exact path that got her caught in the worst situations.

chapter 5 ( with lives at stake ) : to say she's had near-death and traumatic experiences is an understatement. her work alone has turned her into a hard person, unafraid of even the things she ought be afraid of, with an immense self-confidence that she could handle anything anyone could throw at her. the one thing she hadn't been ready for had been the alarming voicemail her twin sister had left on her voice one evening. it had been unintelligible for the most part, and so lucy dropped everything to come find her, to check if she's okay, only to come to a house in new mexico empty of both her sister, her american husband, and their young child. with nowhere to really turn to and unable to just let this go, lucy would soon find herself in intercept, new mexico, where she knew her oldest brother was, to stay there while she uncovered what the hell might have happened to her sister.

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( CONNECTIONS. )

santiago muñoz ( oldest brother )

lindsay o’halloran ( brother-in-law )

maisie o’halloran ( nibling )

( MEDIA. )

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( QUICK STATS. )

mbti : intj

enneagram : 8w7

moral alignment : chaotic good

temperament : choleric-sanguine

greek god : pallas athena

zodiac : aquarius sun ; scorpio moon ; aries rising

( CHARACTER INSPIRATION. )

kristin ortega ( altered carbon )

chloe frazer ( uncharted )

ekko ( arcane )

lettie garcia ( warframe )