WANTED CONNECTIONS.  what if we moved in together and had our own little garden. what then

BEST FRIENDS. i’d like two or three of these of any gender. just a really good core friend group that blue had throughout uni. i’d like if one of these was maybe her best friend during uni, maybe her roommate who she shared an apartment with during uni, etc along those lines!! lemme know if you’re interested in something like that 

EX-ROOMMATE. i’ll make this it’s own connection just in case but someone who used to be blue’s college roommate! they lived together for like four years and it’s honestly kind of weird for them that they don’t anymore? these two constantly go to each other’s hotel rooms just to hang out with each other! even if that’s just laying in bed together while they just silently go through their phones like,,, like they’re just to each other’s company and beign together lowkey feels like home. i mean that in the least sappy way possible dkdsdkjs 

EX SOMETHING. a situationship that blue had in the past where they were dating or maybe they weren’t but there was definitely something there. this could have ended on good terms! it could have ended on bad terms! this could have ended ambigiously and there’s still weird mixed feelings there! idk i’m up for anything okay i am always down for ✨drama✨

BAD INFLUENCE. but also good influence. like someone who convinces blue to stop working so hard and just let go! which is healthy for her!! but she does not want to do!! blue plans to work even during this trip so if someone could drag this girl out to a bar or pub or something to just have a good time,,, that would be gr8. 

A SIBLING LIKE RELATIONSHIP. i just think this could be fun and cute because blue is more of a mom to gray than a older sister sometimes and all of her older siblings are so much older than her that they don’t really have that typical sibling relationship yk? so just someone who gets under her skin who she bickers with. they are very protective of each other!! but they get on each others last nerve!! but deep down she loves them v much. 

MUSE. pls. someone who blue likes to draw or who she writes poetry about or used to write poetry about. this could be an ex muse who used to inspire her but maybe their relationship/friendship soured that could be spicy, and despite them still inspiring muse their relationship itself is,,, messy to say the least. or maybe it’s wholesome! every time blue sees them blue feels inspired to draw or write or do something along those lines and she has no idea why! she probably asks to draw them all the time!

basics ( pinterest .   spotify. )

full name: caspian edgar montgomery nicknames:  cas birth date: april 14th  star sign: aries  hometown: napa, california

background

a torrid romance between his parents over the height of a summer spent in new york and caspian came kicking and screaming into the world. a fighter from the word go. and perhaps for the best; as although the matter of his birth seems relatively normal on the surface — caspian was born in the midst of a media storm. his father, robert, a california senator, resigned from office after cheating on his wife of ten years with caspian’s mother, willa, a broadway actress. caspian was the product of their affair. 

although the matter of his being is rather... scandalous... caspian had a childhood filled with love. and his parents’ eventual marriage was an abundance of it. retreating to owning a small vineyard in napa valley, some of caspian’s earliest memories involve his parents learning to make wine and a house filled with laughter long into the night. 

in his earliest years, the only real concern was how much trouble he could get away with ( in the most mischievous way ! ) we’re talking pranks... jumping out from behind vines... the time he started a classwide game of rearranging furniture when the teacher left the room... caspian was noted to be a loveable boy. with his heart in the right place no matter the amount of mischief being caused. 

up until he grew a bit more social awareness. and at a party organised by his parents, noticed the way that some of his dad’s former high society ‘friends’ whispered about the couple. the judging looks exchanged as his playfulness was received as being a result of your parents’ lack of control. and it turns out, with such outside pressure, even love has its limits. and his parents marriage crumbled when caspian turned fourteen - ‘inevitable’ was what the press had called it. but they’d never been privy to the loving looks exchanged in the kitchen. and the numerous cross country flights between california and his mother’s new home in new york gave way to something darker in caspian. bitter and angry at the world. 

tearing himself apart so others don’t have the chance to do the same ? more likely than u think ! gotta control the narrative hunny x

high school passed by in a flash of rebellion. smoking in the bathrooms, graffiting napa to smithereens, talking back to teachers, and organising outlandish parties in the wine cellar of his house ... not to mention being an actual nightmare in every ap government debate setting. 

college didn’t even seem to be on the cards until his high school principal stepped in during his junior year after ( something chaotic ! my brain needs to wake up lmao ) and suggested he seriously think about channelling the anger into something productive. and gave him in an ultimatum: get expelled from the private school his dad was paying an extortionate amount for or join the debate team. the decision was easy and eventually led him to studying political science at tulane as he actually enjoyed it !

so that brings us to today ! cas is still as rebellious as ever, but tries his best to channel it into something good. now that he’s graduated he’s applying for a few full time jobs at think tanks, choosing to fight the good fight for environmental ( he badly wants that earth institute position ) or education policy rather than just... fighting sdfsfsdf. 

personality 

a mind just filled with bad ideas. he’s incredibly impulsive and will probably text some of your characters in the middle of the night while on the trip just to be like ‘what do u think about dirtbiking? not in the morning i mean like..... now’. equally !! is just as likely to send those messages when he’s lying awake at night trying not to think about the past. 

likes to downplay his own achievements and give the impression that he just does things for the hell of it 

doesn’t respect the law :( but the defence will be that the law doesn’t respect him 

not very forthcoming with his emotions bc he prefers to give the impression that he’s just here for a good time, not a long time 

can be incredibly petty :/ to those who he’s on bad terms with. he lacks a filter and i apologise in ADVANCE 

would do anything on a dare just to prove someone wrong and i, personally, hate that for him lmao

big chris miles from skins energy. my original insp. for cas came from a mixture of him, michael kelso, lip gallagher and sirius black ! do with that what you will ~

good with commitments until it comes to relationships and then he’s probably that fuckboy you’ve read about on a university confession page one too many times 

yet.... underneath it all, he’s a v. loyal boy to his friends and will defend them to the ends of the earth if need be ! 

connections 

ride or dies ( 1 / 1 ) cas is a fiercely loyal boy and i’d love for this dynamic to go both ways ! we’re talking forever getting into mischief together at tulane and travel antics galore RILEY !

drinking buddies ( 0 / 1 ) around the world in themed shots could be fun ... ? 

family friends ( 0 / 1 ) if your character comes from a high society background this could be the one for you ! maybe an unlikely friendship sparked up at some event in the past ? COVE ! 

former tutor ( 0 / 1 ) i wrote a little about this here but essentially someone who he met in his first year of uni who helped him out big time ! maybe something where he started off by goofing off but eventually ( masking vulnerability who ) it turned into a sorta confidant relationship? PENELOPE !

former hookups ( 0 / - ) i repeat: that fuckboy you’ve read about on a university confession page one too many times. i’d love somethin spicy where may b they hooked up, he ghosted, and then they discovered they actually shared mutual friends and were forced to hang out ? so now... may b it’s awkward ? idk i’m open ! 

ok hi!! this is not my first go around with riley so he’s not totally new buuuut yay for new settings, so im .... re-getting to know him w/ all of you :)) here’s the lowdown on your resident dumb, loving, photographer boy !!

also stats page is here !!

background

riley was born in seattle, WA, the oldest child of luke and erin bennett. he has a younger brother, quinn (currently age 12). luke is a veterinarian and erin is a lawyer, so both parents were always pretty busy while riley was growing up. but they always made sure to have family time, even if that time was just going to church every sunday, all eating around the dinner table most nights a week, or just barely making it to one of riley’s little league games. they were good parents, making sure riley knew what he had and respected his own privileges and the world around him. really, he couldn’t complain about the way he was raised.

the age gap between riley and his brother did not go unnoticed, though. it was kind of a difficult adjustment for him, going from being an only child to a pretty lonely ten-year-old whose already-busy parents had to give 90% of their free attention to the baby. riley was always an understanding, good-natured kid, so he got it. it wasn’t their fault, or baby quinn’s. but as the years went on and his brother only became more needy and annoying right as riley was entering his middle school years, it was no surprise that he longed for attention — any attention, even if it was negative.

it was why riley started to act out in those early years. minor things like talking back advanced to skipping classes, which turned into experimenting with weed on school grounds with his new “friends”. then, suddenly, riley was not a very nice kid. someone he knew he wasn’t, and didn’t want to be. but it got him the attention he craved — all leading up to his expulsion from his middle school. several past warnings had piled up to an incident involving his friends setting school property on fire, with 14-year-old riley caught up in the middle of it unwillingly. his reluctance to participate hadn’t helped his case, though, especially when one of the kids was found with a whole lot more than weed on him.

needless to say, that moment was kind of the kick in the ass riley had needed to pull his shit together, even if it never should have gotten that far. his family relocated to the south and riley could start fresh in high school. he hung out with people who actually knew, understood, and liked him for the loving person he was. with time, he earned back his parents’ trust, mostly because they knew who he really was (and had always told him that when he was getting into so much trouble). and maybe they blamed themselves a little bit too, because riley found that they were both making the extra effort to be home for dinner more often than they weren’t, and the four of them felt whole again.

riley was floored by how easy it was to discover his passions when he wasn’t trying to fake who he was. he took an elective photography class in high school and realized that not only was he genuinely enjoying himself, but he had a natural eye for it. photography became his number one passion and ultimate goal in life. so he left for college in new orleans, focusing on what he loved and finding his people, and he never looked back.

more info / facts !!

riley majored in studio art because he just loves all art in general. he was exposed to a lot of different styles. although photography was obviously his main focus, he’s taken his skills forward and enjoys doing a lot of random types of art. like, paper mache stuff. don’t ask him, he doesn’t know either.

he does freelance photography work and also worked as a barista throughout college.

once he hit high school he developed a much deeper appreciation for his little brother, and now quinn is one of the most important things in riley’s life. he’d do anything to protect him and make him feel safe & welcome, even if he likes to mess with him with the occasional “ur the reason i got expelled” comment. no one else can mess with him though. brotherly luv.

he is a genuinely kind person and loves very deeply. if you’re one of His People, you’re in for it. he’s touchy and he will take pictures of you to hang on his walls as a dedicated shrine to the people he luvs.

riley is the guy you can call at 3am when you need a hug or someone to yell at or sit next to in silence and he’ll come, no questions asked.

he’s always been an active person. he used to play soccer and baseball as a child, and football in high school. nowadays he loves to go rock climbing or hiking, and he lovingly pesters his friends to go with him.

he can be the life of the party. he never gets too sloppy drunk, but enough to have fun and bring everyone else along for the ride. he’ll start up karaoke and drag people with him. party on, dudes.

he’s usually so set on making sure the people around him are taken care of that he can tend to forget to think about himself. of course that doesn’t always work out for him, but it’s important to him to be a good person. maybe especially to make up to himself for the way he wrongly acted when he was younger. regardless, not many people will usually see riley in his feels. he tries to tuck that shit away for the sake of everyone else.

ABOUT THE MUN.  the 2000 claymation film chicken run radicalized me

what up, i’m pepper, i’m twenty four, and not to flex but i’ve had writer’s block for two str8 months !! but i’m hoping to change that right here right now with one ms. blue daviau so thank you for coming on this journey with me friends it’s gonna be wild. a bit about me is i’ve gone to the mall literally every day this week and honestly, i am Exhausted from it so i apologize for the mess this intro is about to be. i’m a taurus with a libra moon and libra rising so do with that information what you will. my favourite pokemon is mewtwo. growing up i had a massive crush on danny phanton and ben 10, like i loved those lanky boys that could transform to fight crime for some reason?? i can’t tell you why. also when i was a child i thought god looked like king triton from the little mermaid. alright that is enough about me, moving on to blue. 

BIO.  if you use my coloured pencils you better put them back in rainbow order

this is going to be the short version of her bio but if you want to see the long rambly messy version you can find my google doc/app here ! which i recommend you looking at for no other reason than to see how cute the little cherry doodle i inserted in there is. it took me so long to get that in there and looking cute. it’s baby’s first fancy google doc 😌 anyways sdjhdsjh 

blue was born and raised in hawaii! her mother, stormi, was miss hawaii state at one point and her father, reggie, was a pro surfer! however before blue was born her father had a surfing accident that left him in a wheelchair. he turned to art to try to cope with the trauma of this accident and the reality of never being able to surf again, and he even opened up his own gallery! his gallery became a tourist attraction in hawaii and pretty well known in the art community and after passing down her crown blue’s mother became a news anchor. so the fact was blue was the daughter of two local legends in hawaii and the expectations were high!

not to mention the fact that all of blue’s elder siblings were amazing too. blue has five older siblings and all of them are successful in their own right and in their own niche. they’re also all named after colours funnily enough. the daviau parents had big hippy energy in case you were wondering. 

so growing up blue was always just kind of the ‘other’ sibling. all her older siblings had showed their talents at a young age and grew into them pretty quickly, while blue was just kind of... there. she was an artist, but she wasn’t a groundbreaking artist. she could sing, but her voice was simply pretty, not lifechanging. she could surf, but she was average at best. to put it simply, blue was the daviau sibling who wasn’t at all special. which ironically, made her stand out like a sore thumb. 

blue didn’t mind too much though, at least not when she was younger. she kept to herself anyways. all blue wanted do when she was younger was read, draw, and explore hawaii’s wild life, so she had everything she could possibly need to be happy right at her fingertips. life was good for her despite her inadequacy, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t aware of it (and wouldn’t develop a complex about it later).

when blue was six though her parents decided that they needed to have sweet, sweet, baby number seven to save their marriage. they named that sweet boy gray. he did not save a damn thing, but he sure was cute. blue was eleven when her parents finally divorced and that pretty much marked the end of blue having any kind of parental guidance. 

long story short, both of blue’s parents went kinda buckwild the moment they were single and most of the responsibility to take care of five year old gray fell on blue. blue was the one to make gray’s meals. blue was the one to give gray a bath. blue was the one to tuck gray in at night and get him into his school clothes in the morning. blue was the one to help him with his homework and hold his hand as he crossed the street and honestly pretty much do everything for him until she was about seventeen. both her parents simply checked out on that front, and it the end blue was more of a mother to gray than either of their parents were. 

the pressure of having to not only take care of herself but also gray when she wasn’t even legally an adult yet, was honestly way too much for blue. her anxiety skyrocketed, and the pressure she put on herself only grew. the only way blue could really cope with it and calm herself down was by 1. losing herself in nature, 2. drawing, or 3. reading, or rather most likely, doing all of the above at once. using art of an escape pretty much guaranteed that blue’s love and passion for it grew, and with that her talent for it. by that time blue was seventeen she had a full portfolio ready to send off to any university outside of hawaii that would take her. because you bet your bottom dollar your girl was getting the hell outta there!

as we all know blue got accepted to tulane. it was hard to leave gray and her family behind, but blue set her mother and father straight before she left, ensuring that gray would be well taken care of in her stead and hoping that some distance between herself and her family that was so dependent on her (her mother never new how to cook so blue made all the meals, her father never knew how to handle gray so he was always coming to blue to advice, gray was absolutely lost without her, etc) would lift that pressure off her shoulders. 

it didn’t at first. the first few months were tough with all the calls blue got from home. that plus the schoolwork she had on her plate almost left her more stressed than before. however, slowly the calls began to fade and slowly blue was able to put her full focus in her art program, and later, her animation programs. 

sorry folks my brain is fried, we’re gonna stop here!

HEADCANNONS. on all levels except physical i am sitting on top of the moon with my legs swinging back and forth

Blue’s father is in a wheelchair from the surfing accident that made him take up art. His past as a professional surfer is actually part of the reason why his gallery is so popular though honestly, because the accident was televised and after that tragedy many of his fans and the public wanted to support him. He just also so happened to be really talented. But yeah, Blue’s father was really talented at surfing, he was even invited to the summer olympics in the nineties! But he was also the type to refuse to go because ‘surfing should be freeing, the olympics have so many restrictions, it takes away from what surfing is!!’ dkjsd he was that type yk? I also imagine Blue’s parents were the type to be on the front lines at protests. As it is, Blue is the same, very passionate, definitely has made some bomb ass posters and t-shirts for every women's march she’s attended.

Blue can play the ukulele really well and she honestly has a really pretty singing voice. However she can’t dance even a little bit. Honestly, she could literally break a bone. Really wants to throw it back though 😔

Loves to bake and cook because they’re relaxing activities with built in rewards. Learned to bake and cook because of having to take care of herself and her brother's meals when she was younger, that is if she didn’t want them both to literally get diabetes. As it is though, now that she doesn’t have to worry about her baby brother’s diet as well as her own, she will make a whole chocolate cake just cause she’s a little stressed and proceed to actually eat it. But she will share though. Catch Blue coming to your hotel room with sweets.

All of Blue’s elder siblings are adults now, but Gray is still about sixteen. They exchanged letters from Hawaii to Tulane and Blue always spends hours decorating hers and including little snacks and cute little knick knacks in them, despite the fact that Gray is now an angsty teenager and does not find these things as entertaining as he used to. Despite that, they are definitely the closest out of their siblings for the most part.

Blue’s siblings' names are Sage, Jett, Jade, Ruby, Rose and of course Gray. Jade and Jett, and Ruby and Rose are both twins.

The type to cry easily honestly. Also the type to carry other people’s problems with her. Like if you tell Blue that someone hurt your feelings last week she will remember and she will check on you the next time she sees you. Very empathetic, almost to a fault though because she’s constantly being careful of everyone else’s feelings rather than her own. The type who’s a good listener though. Also the type to give either really good advice or really odd advice.  

Art still tends to be her happy place, something she got from her father. Trying to find her own place outside of her father's shadow. She wants to get into the world of animation and cartoons but the whole task is a bit daunting. Is planning to work her ass off for it though! Spends a lot of time in coffee shops storyboarding and making animations. I think she may have a contract going on with a cartoon network of some sort, like they may have picked up a show of hers? Because I imagine her putting out some of her first shorts on Youtube and that might have gotten a bit of attention and led to her getting a deal for a show, so. She’s probably working her ass off towards that, and is honestly probably 1.doubting if they really picked up her show because of her talent or her father’s name, and 2.wondering if she can really do this.

Loves water in all shapes and forms. Since she can’t go to the beach everyday, the small bath in her tiny ass apartment??? Suddenly heaven. That said, Blue is either terrified of the ocean or loves it and I can’t decide which. Standby on that.

Makes a great coffee cake. Like it’s to die for.

Is VERY passionate about the environment. Is a pescatarian. Goes to the farmers market to pick out fresh produce. Loves to hike.

Always has the urge to sketch or paint after she reads poetry or novels. Highlights her favourite bits and has the tendency to read them over when she’s sad. The parts she loves are usually the parts that leave her wanting something.

Draws when she’s sad too. Claire Saffitz energy when she’s cooking but also just through life. Very friendly, but an introvert when it comes to gathering her energy.

Lives for libraries and bookstores, and has stacks on stacks of books in her old apartment. Loves old children's books honestly, like The Secret Garden, and poetry. Like whimsical and fantastical fiction with flowery words that just brings you to another place? Blue’s freaking jam. Falls in love with someone in fiction every five days, and desperately wants to be in love in real life, hence all the tinder dates and blind dates. I don’t think Blue ever has fallen in love though, like not really.

An absolute baby when it comes to the cold. Literally there could be a slight breeze and Blue will be acting like she’s suddenly in the arctic.  Any cold destinations will be greeted by a bundled up Blue’s Clues.

Made her first painting out of her own feces at six months old. Her parents proudly framed it. It’s probably still up in the attic in their Hawaii home.

Won her first art show at six but was unsure whether it was because her art really was something worth awarding or because of her father’s name. The award got her on the front page of the Honolulu Tribune but with her father proudly at her back and the title ‘Following in her father’s footsteps’ above her head. Blue just wants to find her own footing in the art world, and be her own person.

Keeps a journal and has since she was a teenager.

WANTED CONNECTIONS. i’m the friend that needs help opening water bottles.