#602intro

emma has one older brother, scott dawson. ( npc or playable, if anyone would like that connection /// if not, i’ll hit up the main for a wc )  they are extremely close and are best friends. 

she was a cheerleader in high school — the actual epitome of someone who peaked in high school. she was the type of girls that veronica sawyer would absolutely loath and want to be friends with, tbh.

her house was the party house in high school. a pool party on friday night, a keg party on saturday, and on sunday, she wrapped a little pink bow around her pale blonde hair and pretended to be the perfect daughter.

she was a pageant girl as a child — which she often blames her self esteem and how she views herself on  the pageant life and her mother.

her mother is a royal bitch, a true queen covered in pink petals and diamonds. she would often talk down to her daughter about her weight, about her height, and about her overall existence,.

by the end of her senior year, she would get high off of her mind in order to escape her mother’s words — often waking up in friend’s bedrooms, her best friend’s bathroom, and in the back of her ex-boyfriend’s car. 

now she’s living on her own, her brother often crashes at her apartment to keep her sane. she has a small tabby cat named ursula bc her favorite movie is the little mermaid and ariel was way too typical. 

she babysits and she loathes it on most days. but the pay is often great, a lot of families leaving children behind for the weekend to visit california, las vegas, and mexico. 

india is from a small town in louisiana as all good stories start ( have you seen true blood like that, minus the vamps )

she lost her parents when she was little and was raised by her aunt and uncle who were against how she was raised even moving her from louisiana to phoenix to stop her from ending up like them

her mum was a fortune teller/psychic ( called the town crazy ) and her dad was a witch doctor by night ( reg by day but that is boring )

india has always lived with the most positive outlook in life ever after she lost her parents

doesn’t know whats going on 99% of the time and is the clumsiest most forgetful person in the world, like would lose her head if it wasn’t screwed on right.

she is a piercer as her main job, she basically started dating a piercer when she was like 18 and he taught her before he passed away

does fortune telling on the side

is confident she is cursed and therefore refuses to date anyone, is basically sure they will die

talks too much and too fast

burned down her last apartment because she left the oven on to keep her house warm

has a sweet heart

but is one of those people you never know if they are being legit or not? 

has two hedgehogs one name quillson the other quillshady

has a lot of piercing but mainly in her ears

thats the one thing she doesn’t mess up on

plots; 

i’d love a roomie who she is living with

coworkers

clients

exes

friends

enemies

teachers

NINA DOBREV. CISFEMALE. SHE/HER. — have you met delaney rose whitmore? the twenty-four year old works as bartender/underground fighter and is known for being audacious and alluring but also rather obstinate and fiery. they’ve lived here in phoenix for twenty-four years and recently listened to believer by imagine dragons. [ fishnet peeking from beneath ripped denim. purple hues spread across tanned skin, a product of both pleasure and pain. a lifeless, makeshift punching bag lingering in the far corner of a run-down apartment. late nights, neon lights. watching your own father turn to a shell of a being. challenging stoic, bulky men to a fist-fight only to prove them wrong for ever mocking you. being no stranger to the cold feeling of cuffs around skinny wrists. she made sure to take all of her belongings, but left you behind. rim of liquor bottles meeting lips after hours. ]

TW: MENTIONS OF VERBAL ABUSE

okay so, delaney grew up in lil old phoenix and tbh has yet to actually ever leave the place?? like ya girl is twenty-four and legit never took a vacay or anything to get out of the place smh.

started off with a lit family life, was the only child to mr. n mrs. whitmore and they adored their lil baby??  life was legit great until it wasn’t.

by that i mean that delaney was a colic baby and it drove her father INSANE, all the constant crying and whatnot legit just drove him up the fken walls. he couldn’t cope with it and tried to refrain from being around her as much as possible which wound up leaving mommy dearest to deal with it herself.

cutting to the chase, daddy discovered alcohol could numb his stress and welp……. helo addiction amiright. he began to drink to cope with the situation. which eventually, resulted in him getting fired from his job when he turned up to work entirely out of it. which unsurprisingly, only furthered his depressive state and need to sooth the pain with alcoholic substances.

it took years before delaney’s mother had had enough, packing her bags one day and walking out the door. it seemed she packed everything, wiped the house clean of anything that was once hers, that was, everything but delaney .

delaney waited legit for DAYS for mommy dearest to return and take her with her but?? she never did?? and it rly fucked her up a lot basically.

the whole situation forced delaney to become head of the house, considering her pops did nothing more than drink away his days and he had no job so basically whenever she was of age she was getting constant part-time jobs in stores, cafes you name it. she was never that fussed on school and tbh was often found ditching it to go and work instead.

because she was #poor asf she very quickly mingled with the wrong crowds, she’s basically the embodiment of the dirtbag aesthetic??

oh also, as i trigger warning-ed at the start, the more her pops progressed into his alcoholic state the more he started to just.. be a dick? like at first he would never have said shit to either his wife or daughter but at this point in life he’s just miserable and sitting around waiting to die so he’s constantly saying rly horrid things to delaney ?? and while she tries to put on a brave face it always leaves her feeling kinda messed up inside.

saying this, despite the fact she had finally saved enough to move out of her home n into a trashy apartment of her own; she hasn’t abandoned her father either, while she doesn’t know if she loves him or not anymore she feels like… a responsibility?? so for that reason she still checks in on him to make sure he has food and isn’t well.. dead.

quick shoutout @ her occupations. okay so, underground fighting? as i said she’s a literal dirtbag, so when ya girl realized that she could make money having people bet on her to fight she was like … fucking sign me up?? she’s been doing it since she was around eighteen/nineteen, and it was her main source of income for a long period of time.

she took it really seriously? and tbh still does, she has a makeshift punching bag in the corner of her shitty little apartment that has honestly seen better days.

however, one day the popo busted in on one of her particular fights and there was just.. a lotta arrests made that day like damn. sOoo, for a lil while she was put on parole in hopes that it’d help straighten her out and with that she was forced to get a solid job? which is how she wound up being a bartender also because really it was one of the only places that would actually hire her given the fact most considered her a lowkey criminal. 

still 100% does the underground fighting because she loves it sm okay. but she has to keep it on the low low because the popo are always watching her like a hawk.

ya’ll honestly what’s more of a mess?? me?? this intro?? or delaney?? who fken knows man. anyway, basically she is smol and fighty, oh, she’s also one of those people who like.. you don’t tell her she can’t do a thing because she will literally die proving she can do that thing. doesn’t bother trying to make anything of herself bc *gestures to her pops* she gonna end up like him anyway. lOVes fighting, will 10/10 try to fight anyone at any given time. also kinda? a flirt?? she’s very vixen-esque and it’s just in her nature to probs hit on everyone. basically... likes fighting and flirting?? sounds about right. headcanon she probs owns a motorbike because?? why not. also lowkey has a thing against relationships because commitment n trust issues bc mommy left her and watching her parents relationship crumble was a bAD timE. 

i didn’t get time to set up a possible plots/connections page today considering i got called into work unexpectedly---- but i’m the biggest plot whore going and am up for literally anything? 

give me a possible half-sibling? i could see her mom having gone on to remarry and have a new family and tbh delaney wouldn’t want to give them the time of day because she’d blame them for her parents splitting and her mom abandoning her even though it wasn’t their fault. 

give me regulars at the bar??

 someone who has caught her or watched her fight before?? maybe even someone who’s a fan?? 

she could do with some party friends bc lets be honest ya girl drinks n smokes n does all kinds of drugs bc why not dirtbag for life?? 

give me the best friends who grew apart because they ended up growing up differently (aka give me laney having ditched this lil sweetiepie because she was becoming all hardcore and basically began to hate their optimism because she’s a negative nancy.)?? 

give me failed almost-relationships because she suddenly realized how close she was getting to someone and decided to do a runner on them like k no bye. 

give me a duo who are sneaking around?? [ the hills --- the weeknd playing in bg ]

ya’ll i’m a sucker for plots based on songs so maybe some of those?

kinda always wanted a plot based of is there somewhere --- halsey??

oR FKEN WAR OF HEARTS --- RUELLE PLs s.

happier ---  ed sheeran? trouble ---  halsey? robbers ---  the 1975?

marshall grew up in a normal middle class family. the middle child of two boys and one girl, his sister being the oldest and the favorite. he often was stuck with middle child syndrome. they moved to phoenix from new york when marshall was five. he was an absolute nerd in school ( if you’ve seen bill’s teen photos T H A T hair lord )

he was often left alone in school, eating by himself at lunch and focusing on his studies rather than being wrapped up in the newest video game or hottest sports team of the moment. he was unusual and only his mother could love it.

he is still a mum’s boy, tbh. while his sister is off married and working on having a child, his young brother is a man’s man, all about his father and playing football. 

the summer before his senior year, marshall got in shape, cut his hair and dropped the four eyes. he was a completely different person. he started hanging out with a bad crowd, drinking smoking, having a proper teenage experience if you ask me .

he fell in love with a girl that had ignored him his entire life. she was the girl of his dreams and despite it seeming like things would be happily ever after — it wasn’t. they fought like cats and dogs, she had nothing in common with marshall. 

the night she died, marshall and the girl had fought over the smallest thing. she had asked him a question and he had answered sharply, hurting her feelings. she ran out of his apartment and drove away. three hours later, marshall received a call from his girlfriend’s father. she had been killed instantly in an car crash.

marshall’s life went into a downward spiral. once he turned twenty one, he grabbed a job as a bouncer. he was lean, but he was tall enough to tower over assholes that begged for a fight.

he’ll be the first to admit that he has a problem with substance abuse and alcohol. but he can’t quit. when he quits, he relives the last words spoken to the love of his life.

my sweet little bernie was born to a single mother, a registered nurse who had fell in love with a traveling physician that never wanted to be tied down. 

her mother worked hard to keep food on the table and to keep bernie happy. they would often take out loans to go on vacation and spend weekends away from phoenix. her grandmother lived with them until her death, a woman that was as tough as nails and lovable as a fox. her mother worked midnight shifts to be home with her daughter during the day and her grandmother watched over her at night.

bernie began playing soccer ( it’s football ight ) when she was five years old. she loved the sport and she was bloody good at it. as time went on, she and her teammates grew older and began to develop womanly bodies — this was the first time that bernie questioned her sexuality.

at the age of fifteen, a rumor spread around her high school declaring that bernie was in fact a lesbian. her mother got word and questioned her, leading her to tell her mother the truth. she was in fact a lesbian. her mother cried and at first, didn’t take it well but came to terms with it, loving her daughter for who she was and is. her grandmother accepted it right away and told her that she could love whoever she pleased.

her first girlfriend was a wild ride. she met her over the internet. good ol’ myspace days. they met online and after three months of talking, bernie’s mother agreed to let her meet sofia. her first kiss was at sixteen and her first heartbreak was at seventeen. sofia was miles away and confessed that she wasn’t as loyal to bernie as bernie had been to her. 

she graduated high school and went on to study law. not wanting to be a lawyer, she settled as a legal assistant in criminal law. she absolutely loves it. the only problem is, she’s mad over the lawyer she works for. 

she’s afraid of telling her boss how she feels, afraid of rejection and losing her job.