#ashfordintro

yujin is... definitely a burn out. he was never good at school. he was always a bit of a clown and he was too gullible for his own good.

he has a lot of self-image issues because of it. he compares himself to others and knows he cannot compete. its hard for him to not to think that he peaked as a middle schooler. he was popular then since he could make jokes and get all the attention. that behavior soon got tired and it only got more tired the older he got.

now hes an adult with the immature personality/humor of a 13-year-old boy, holding onto the inner.

he was never too close with jaeyoung. he often felt that he was overshadowed. while he's close with his twin sister (the most important person to him), he has kinda always been the "other" park. he was never really talented in anything, never really was popular.

when jaeyoung went missing, yujin tunneled online, trying to find something to make sense of what happened to his brother. he ended up on occult/witchy forums. he learned about crystals, tarot, astrology, anything that helped him make sense of the unimaginable. he constructed a world where he can live in denial of the reality of his brother's disappearance.

to him, the internet is a safe space, though it has completely rotted his brain. he barely passed high school, he isnt even close to passing his 1 community college course. he shows up to work enough not to get fired, but even then he's on a fine line but he insists that jaeyoung is alive and that he, yujin, is fine. he is coping well, according to him. but all signs point to him needing some kind of help.

tl;dr: adem is a tattoo artist at the inkspot, he has only been working for nine months before he was taken. he is the middle child of the three, and the quieter one who keeps to himself, though he always felt safe opening up to his sibling, taylan and emine. he was part of the high school basketball team, not the smartest, yet he was a good student. he’s a bit emotionally protective of himself due to his upbringing, until he met kennedy. most of his friends were against it due to her so-called track record, but he didn’t just her for it. for once, he had something normal, thought his life was turning around until he was abducted that one late night.

character stats name: adem demirci nickname(s): adem faceclaim: emre bey pronouns: he/him sexuality: bisexual age: 27 birthday: september 25, 1998 zodiac sign: libra birthplace: ashford, maine

(tw: abduction)

a background character, almost feels like he was invisible, that’s how it felt like for adem his whole life, as he was the middle child of the demirci siblings. their parents were strict, hence the expectations for his brother, taylan was very high, wanting him to fit a certain mold they’ve made the second he was born. with adem, it almost felt like he was invisible, yes, they were still uptight with him, yet never really gave him that much attention. he had turned his attention to other things as he grew up, his hobbies, his siblings, his friends, his art. and with emine…he’s seen the similarities of how she was treated and taylan, which made him conclude that his parents never really cared that much. for some reason though, that didn’t break him, he just…turned to look into better things, though at the same time, he put walls up over the years, especially after when taylan suddenly up and left one day. he didn’t resent him for doing that, instead, he understood.

adem was never really home that much growing up, as after school, he’d either be hanging out with his friends, play basketball, or quietly hone his skills with art. not much people knew about it, being an outlet for him to release his emotions, thoughts that he cannot speak out loud, doubting that nobody would understand him. even after graduating, it was a well-kept secret until he started to delve into being a tattoo artist.

it wasn’t just to have a way of living, but it has been something that he wanted to do, so he trained, had somebody taught him before he started working at the inkspot. over time, there was one person who knew about it and has supported him, kennedy. many people were against it, knowing the woman’s reputation, he so-called tendencies, yet for the first time, she made him feel like he was alive, that he was seen. adem took the leap of faith, opened his heat, and at the same time, gave the safe space kennedy needed. he wanted to be that for her.

his life felt like it was turning around for the first time in his life, yet he was wrong.

adem offered to be the last one at inkspot that night after such a long day of appointments, taking care a couple of clients and assisting his coworkers whenever they needed him to. everyone was exhausted by the end of it, and not wanting to do the closing. he volunteered to do it, sending a text to kennedy that he was going to be a bit late for their little date night at home then started closing up. as he was putting on the locks on the door of the shop, something, or someone, came from behind and knocked him out, not giving the man a chance to fight back.

he wakes up and finds himself not seeing a thing, yet immediately hears a voice, a familiar one, yazmin, she went missing weeks before, and people’s defenses had been up over it. now he was with her, in god knows where, the ground they’re sat on a bit cold, and he could feel some metal wrapped around his ankle. eventually his blindfold was taken off, yet still, he couldn’t see their abductors faces, as they were all in black. over time, it wasn’t just him and yazmin, his younger sister was nabbed too, eventually, followed by julia, and lastly, jae-young. he tried to plead, to speak to the people in black cloaks, yet not one response has been heard from them, as only hushed voices can be heard.

out of desperation, he started looking around, finding ways to escape, and had to be creative with it. the room they were in wasn’t that exactly clean, some scraps on the floor that eventually him and jae were able to use it to pick the locks around their ankles. they were able to set themselves free, yet they didn’t have enough time to save the others, his sister, as the people in black cloaks already took notice and their only choice was to run, going through the small sewer door that they were keeping an eye on over time. “I’m going to come back for you, i promise.” were the last words he said to emine before he ran without looking back.

full name: Asel Kaya   job: Dancer at The Playpen sexual orientation: Bisexual birthday: march 3rd age: 28

born to older parents who didn't have much money

once her father passed they were unable to afford them apartment in white pine heights so she had to move to windy harbor sharing a trailer with her mother until she too passed

got herself a job at the playpen once she left school at 18

Asel was diagnosed with BPD at 11 years old and put on abilify

she has always been the protective kind over friends and family

can be very passionate with things she loves

doesn’t think before she talks a lot of time which often can lead to trouble

she is a fidgeter, cant sit still for too long unless very focused on something.

quick facts

very ride or die which sometimes gets her into trouble

was alwatys a daddy’s girl

was a bit of a slob growing up, always had a messy room.

was a cheerleader in school

;; basic info

nickname: ale

age: 27 years old

gender: cis-male

pronouns: he/him

height: 5'7

sexuality: homosexual

status: single

occupation: dancer at the playpen

;; backstory

after having lost his younger sister yazmin flores, he was first on a personal mission to find her himself. hating that the government was failing them, or worse. he has never lost hope that she is out there, all of them are. still till this day honors her by wearing a bracelet that she had made for him, never taking it off. it was a reminder that the flores keep together - that she won't end up like their aunt.

alejandro likes to be around people, his friends, his family, anyone, meaning strangers that end up calling him at night for paid company. using the playpen that his uncle owns, he fought to get up there, bringing in a different kind of client - like downlow men that love to cheat on their wives, etc. he didn't care, for him this was his own way of not just making good bucks, but to go ahead and fill that void that he hates to remind himself. the void of being alone, scared of being alone in case he is now the next flores to be taken. yet with the idea of being around strangers does make it dangerous, he also uses it to see if this could be a way to catch the person that took his sister, killed his aunt. in hopes they take him and he can be of help. keeping his location with some of his friends, so they know where he is. even if he is reminded of how reckless he's being.

as for his friends, he's always there for them. if they need him, he'll stop everything going on to be there for them. telling himself you never know when it'll be the last time they'll be there, ask for your help and the blame comes upon him. taking care of others first than ever taking care of himself - which he is working on, or so he again tells himself.

he was a good student when in school, started college for one year but then everything with his sister happened, he couldn't go back. he just couldn't. he wishes that one day when his sister comes back that he'll return to school again and finish what he started, but right now he just doesn't see that in his cards. being a male dancer, escort and a cam boy is enough for him, he makes more money this way than trying to go into being a writer. even though he still writes - just having never finished writing any of the books or ideas he's started or thought of.

;; wanted connections

ex boyfriends ( max two )

best friends

rival

ex bestfriend in high school

downlow hook up

male client

fwb

work out buddy

Stats

Full Name: Edward Jeremiah Stone

Nickname: Eddy

Age/Date Of Birth: Twenty Eight/ 14th August 1998

Gender/Pronouns: Cis Man, He/him

Height: 6'3

Sexuality: Bisexual

Occupation: Personal Trainer & Bartender

Parents: William & Susan Stone

Siblings: Abi Stone(Younger Sister)

Personality:

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Positive Traits: Charismatic, Charming & Brave

Negative Traits: Impulsive, Blunt & Reckless

Hobbies: Working Out, Rock-Climbing & Partying.

Likes: Sports, Whiskey, & Horror Movies.

Dislikes: Early Mornings, Rude Clients & Cold Weather.

Biography:

Edward Jeremiah Stone grew up in a nice little house in the middle of the suburbs of The West Village with his father, a well respected lawyer and his mother, an ex realtor turned proud housewife.

Before Edward was even born his father had big plans for his son, having always wanted to follow his own dream of becoming a star football player but never being allowed to, he was determined to live out his dream through his first born.

Edward's earliest memories are of being out in the backyard with his dad kicking a ball around, and if he wasn't outside, he'd be indoors with his dad watching old vhs tapes of classic games.

Fortunately as the years went on it turned out that Edward did have a real talent for the game, and practically any other sport he attempted, not that Edward felt he had any other choice but to be good, even from a young age he was always worried how his dad would react if he played a bad game.

When the time to start high school came around Eddy found himself once again being pushed to join all the teams he was allowed to apply for, football, lacrosse, even the swim team, and his dad was at every game cheering his son on and attending a few of Eddy's practices, just to make sure the coaches were pushing his son enough.

As the years went by Eddy's focus shifted to just football and he was quickly becoming Ashford High's star player. With stardom came popularity, and with popularity, came parties.

Eddy's main love soon shifted from football to alcohol and everything else that came with the party boy lifestyle. He managed to keep a good balance though and most importantly, his dad never clocked on that he wasn't actually going out late at night to practice.

Always wanting to stand out amongst the rest Eddy garnered a reputation for being a bit of a wild card at these parties, he was always making a spectacle of himself, and was known for doing crazy shit at whichever party he ended up at.

There was no dare he wouldn't do, no drink he wouldn't drink, and no bet he wasn't always determined to win, no matter what the consequences.

So naturally when his good friend Adem Demirci bet him a hefty sum that he couldn't jump into the backyard pool from the roof of the Peterson house in the middle of a particularly busy pool party, Eddy couldn't resist the challenge.

Unfortunately for Eddy though, he was far more drunk than he had first anticipated, and couldn't quite calculate the distance from the roof to the pool, a fact he only realised as his body landed in the water, but his ankle didn't quite make it.

Everything was a bit of a blur after that, Eddy only really remembers waking up in the hospital almost a day later, leg in a cast and his dad sat at the end of his bed, unable to look at his son through pure disappointment and anger.

He went back to school a few weeks later, but was never able to play the same again. Even when he tried to fight through the constant pain it was never too long before his coach would sub him out, just out of pity.

So Eddy wallowed in his own self pity for a couple of months, drowning his sorrows with vodka, whiskey, and whatever alcohol he could get his hands on with his shitty fake ID.

A part of him did blame himself for what had happened, it was dumb, and Eddy knew that, but mostly, he blamed Adem for betting him to do the stunt in the first place.

The two went from good friends, to Eddy trying to kick Demirci's ass in the school halls at every opportunity he got, leading to Eddy getting suspended from school constantly, driving an even bigger wedge between him and his father.

The suspension from school only gave Eddy even more of an excuse to go out and get hammered though, he may not be the football star he once was, but he was never dropping the party boy persona.

With the football scholarship he had always been pretty much promised no longer a reality, Eddy didn't have much options when leaving school but to get a job in town. He started working as a PT at the local gym, he practically lived there so thought he may as well get paid to go, and when that didn't quite pay the bills, he got an extra job working behind the bar at the pub.

When Adem went missing all those years back, Eddy did feel a little bit of guilt for how their friendship had ended and how his last memory of the guy was from their fights back in school, but at the same time, Edward still to this day blames the guy for what happened to him, a grudge he just can't drop.

Other Stuff(Head Canons):

Edward doesn't speak to his father much at no fault of his own. He can still feel the disappointment on his fathers face whenever he's home, and knows their relationship will never be the same.

He's secretly a bit of a hopeless romantic, he has all the usual apps and is constantly going on dates, though not many get past the first. He's had a couple of relationships in the past too, but Edward has a bad habit of cheating or getting bored and ending things.

He has a bad habit of trying to recruit new gym clients by sometimes suggesting that people need him to help them. It rarely works and usually the interaction ends with Eddy getting slapped.

He loves all things horror and gore, when he was stuck inside for a bit after his injury he spent a lot of time watching a bunch of old movies he found in the attic, most of them classic horror that Eddy became obsessed with.

He has a little sister who he's very close to. She's a lot smarter and mature than Eddy, but she knows he's only a total mess because of the injury.

He is always sneaking drinks at work. He doesn't think his boss has clocked on to it yet, but he isn't always very subtle about it either.

Not long after turning twenty one his parents practically kicked him out, paying for the first couple of months rent on an apartment but after that Eddy was on his own.

tbc

Wanted Connections

Exes/Hookups/Flings: He's a hopeless romantic with an inability to stay tied down to one person for too long. He's constantly flirting with anybody and everybody and has every dating/hookup app known to mankind.

Mom Friend: He's a big dumbass who maybe needs a little guidance, and for someone to tell him to stop doing stupid shit, not that he always listens.

Best Friend: A ride or die, someone who has maybe stood by him through all his painfully bad decisions, and someone he can always call on.

Enemy: With Adem out of the picture Eddy needs a new main hater, he's not everyone's cup of tea, so he's bound to have a few people out there who aren't too fond of him, and he doesn't like to be disliked, so it's probably a mutual feeling.

Clients: In between staring at his own reflection in the gym mirror, Eddy is actually pretty good at getting people into shape, so he's probably got a few dedicated PT clients under his belt.

TW: Drugs, Homelessness, Trauma

Born in a small town on the border of California and Nevada, Valorie doesn't remember much of her birth parents as she was put into foster care before she could even walk. She spent most of her early childhood moving between foster homes, group homes and youth shelters. Because of this she became accustomed to the constant moving around that she started to struggle with staying in the same place longer then a year.

She stopped trusting people completely and became emotionally self dependent by the age of 10, maturing much faster then the peers around her. This made her condescending towards kids her own age because they were still growing up when she felt like she grown up enough, judging them for just being kids.

During school Valorie didn't fit it at all, always moving around made it hard for her to make honest connections and friends being the new girl all the time so she spent most of her time getting lost into drawing and reading. She enjoyed making comics that gave her an outlet of her hectic life. Her grades where fine but with moving all the time she didn't really try to hard because she felt like it wouldn't matter.

When Valorie was 16 she officially ran away from the system and spent the next 5 years hitchhiking from state to state, experiencing the world around which lead to a huge wakeup call where she was faced with the fact that she was not as mature as shed like to believe she was. While she meet so many amazing people and enjoyed to freedom, she was also involved with people who didn't have her best interests in mind and was taken advantage. This also lead her to get involved with heavy drugs and the nightlife, but even then when she had easy access to drugs, she still decided to move on and continue to hitch hike because it made her feel that may no drugs or partying could do, it made her feel alive.

When she was 20 she landed in Ashford, a small town she was only meant to spend a short time in before moving on, that's when she meet Jae-Young Park at Ashford Park when she was drawing. He was interested in what she was doing and that lead to them having a great conversation about either others life. Valorie felt safe with Jae-Young, he had an aura that made him feel so welcoming and she didn't feel like she needed to hide so told him about her adventures around the US while he told her tales from his life, Jae-Young even offered for her to spend a couple nights at his house.

The longer she stayed in Ashford the more she feel in love with the town but knew it couldn't last, but meet so many nice people and made so many nice friends that she didn't want to leave them, she never felt this connected with people before and it made her feel like that things were going to be okay. so she found a job at the Lucky Strikes cleaning and fixing basic pin issues and started building a real life with the people she meet and the town she fell in love with, even hooking up with Jae-Young on the regular and catching feelings for him, but she couldn't admit that.

That's how she felt until all the disappearances started, people she once new starting to go missing made her really scared. people she learnt to care about started vanishing and it made her want to run away, leave just as she would in the past. But she had something here she couldn't just leave it behind right? then Jae-Young disappeared.

Something snapped in her and she didn't run away, she couldn't, she needed to find out what happened to him. She stayed in hopes he would come back okay, she couldn't accept anything other then that.

InfoFull Name: Valorie Hendrix Nicknames: Val Age: 26 Gender + Pronouns: Cis Female, She/Her Face Claim: Zendaya Eye colour: Brown Hair colour: Brown Height: 5'5 DOB: December 2nd Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius Occupation: General Maintenance

Headcanons

Hendrix is not Valories legal last name, she changed it after she ran away and got the idea from a jimi Hendrix album she listened too when getting high.

Valorie likes to party at the Eden every weekend.

Growing up she really didn't think about her birth parents at all but as she gets older she wonders what happened. She found it easier to believe they didn't want her so she could cope by not wanting them either.

Connections

TW Abuse, Drugs, Alcohol, Fighting

Born and raised in Ashford, Jax grew up with his mother Delta Benson and father Dean Benson in a small trailer on the west side of Windy Harbors. The trailer was falling apart in all the ways you can imagine a dysfunctional family could live in, dirt all over the floors, holds in the wall his father had made just before hitting his mother and cockroaches scattering around when anyone made a noise. Jax remembers the sound of rats running around has he was trying to sleep because they would climb up though the floor to get warm in the winter.

His mother was a kind hearted woman who tried her hardest to protect and give Jax a loving home while working as a waitress at The Griddle to provide for her family, his father was a dangerous alcoholic who would take any money his mother made from The Griddle and frequently beat him and his mother for any reason he did or did not have.

The contrast of a loving mother and an abusive father lead him to grow up concealing his true emotions behind an angry mask, never allowing anyone to see how he truly felt and putting all of his emotions into arguing and fighting. During school he'd regularly be in detention for starting fights at school but wasn't a bad student academically, he wasn't the best at written classes like English or history and would fail them but he did excel in classes that allowed him to use his hands and body like physical education and woodwork/metal working classes.

He spent most of his early childhood hangout at The Griddle with his mother while she worked, at the Big Guns Gym letting out frustrations on a boxing bag or finding trouble with his friends. Jax was never the bully type because he never wanted to make anyone feel the way he did at home, but that didn't stop him getting into fights with other people who were bullies, being disrespectful or just people he had issues with. This lead him to have a reputation of being an asshole to most but only people who really knew him understood the boy behind the mask, a protective friend who would go out of his way to do anything to keep his friends safe. He was good at cracking a joke from time to time and people enjoyed the softie behind the rough exterior.

Hes world changed at the age of 9 when his mother found out she was pregnant with his sister, he was excited to get a sibling but that feeling quickly faded when he realised that his father would put her through what him and his mother endured. He promised himself and his mother that he would protect her from everything that would hurt his sister and for awhile everything was okay, his father seemed to had cleaned himself up for the baby and Jax had hope that things were really changing, until that night.

When Delta was around 8 months though her pregnancy she had a serious fall during work, while she and the baby weren't harmed at all the doctor suggested for safety reasons that she go on maternity leave early for the health of the baby. With her not working there would be no money entering the house which Dean was not happy with, he spent that night getting blackout drunk at the Corner Pub. In the middle of the night he came crashing though the front door, taking it off it hinges and screaming for Delta, waking Jax up in the process. While Jax only remembers a few bits of that night, he remembers standing up to his father to protect his mother and sister, the screaming, the crying, the pain and then flashing of red and blue lights of police cars. That night his father was arrested and sent to prison for abuse.

Jax and Delta stayed with The Griddle owner Millie Baker while his mother recovered from the traumatic experience and prepared for the birth of her baby. Thanks to the help of some support services, Delta and Jax were able to move out of the trailer park and into a small, clean house where Jax no longer had to hear the rats while he slept.

Julia was born and life became simple, while not much had chanced besides a new house and the addition of a little sister. Delta went back to work at the griddle, Jax would look after Julia while she worked but he continued to have issues at school and even though he still hid his feelings behind a mask, he because a caring and kind big brother to Julia, promising to protect her.

As he grew older he found that working with his hands was something he was great at and would spend time at the junkyard just out of town building random things and deconstruct broken cars and putting them back together, understanding how cars worked and was even able to fix up a truck he was able to drive.

He spent high school drinking and smoking pot in his free time, even skipping school to get high with his friends at the junkyard, abandoned movie theatre or really anywhere he can just chill. He was still getting into fights and still working on cars but spent time at Wrench Doc learning from the owner, becoming a skilled mechanic.

At 18 Jax left school and started an apprenticeship at Wrench Doc which lead him to be a fully skilled mechanic by the time he was 21.

The day of Julia's disappearance, Jax and his family all went to the towns easter celebration. The day started out normal, they all enjoyed the games and ate so much food their bellies might burst. It was the perfect day, at least that's what Jax thought. During the easter egg hunt Julia had excused herself to hang out with some friends but promised to meet back up at the cotton candy stall in a couple of hours so Jax hung out with his friends and Delta went to hang out with hers. When the event was coming to a close both Jax and Delta waited for Julia, but she never came. So Jax and Delta looked around and found her group of friends, they asked where she was and they explained they hadn't seen her that day. Panicked, Jax and Delta ran around all over the event to find her as it wasn't like her to just leave and not let them know. They spent hours trying to find her, even recruiting members of the community but no one could find her.

Hours turned to days, turned to weeks then turned to weeks. As the weeks went on delta became more unstable with the thought that her younger daughter being lost, kidnapped or dead. Jax feel harder into drugs and drinking, feeling the days go by as he got more angry and started losing hope. He failed to protect her, he broke his promise and he couldn't forgive himself

These days he continues to work, smoke and drink but he keeps his head up, the mask is still on and wont slip off… or will it?

Info Full Name: Jaxon Benson Nicknames: Jax, J Age: 34 Gender + Pronouns: CIS Male, He/Him Face Claim: Kyle Gallner Eye colour: Blue Hye colour: Brown Height: 6' DOB: March 25th Zodiac Sign: Aries Occupation: Mechanic

Headcanons Jax has a pet 6 year old tabby cat named Muffin who was a stray kitten Julia found and took home, Jax has been looking after her since Julia's disappearance.

Hes is a regular at The Griddle, he likes their waffles and coffee but he goes to check up on his mother mainly, He goes every morning before work.