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full name: emilia bennett nicknames: em, emmy ( reserved for close friends and family ), lia, phoenix ( stage name ) age  / dob: 28  / june 10th hometown: nashville, tn zodiac: gemini occupation: performer ( lulu’s ), online content creator sexual orientation: pansexual eye color: brown hair color: brunette/blonde balayage

PERSONALITY:

emilia is kind-hearted, bubbly and so cheerful it’s annoying. she will always seek to help her friends, family and the people surrounding her whenever she can. however, her follow through leaves something to be desired. it isn’t that she doesn’t want to help or that she’s pretending to be interested when she agrees, she genuinely forgets mere moments after making the promise when something new comes up, and that leads to dogs that haven’t been walked, payments that haven’t been made, lunches that have been missed and the list goes on and on. with her privileged upbringing comes a naivety and the belief that everything has a simple fix. this leads to her being insulting and dismissing problems quickly without ever intending to. when she realises that she has hurt someone, she will not stop until she has made amends. despite her actions, she always means well. 

INFO:

— the baby of the family, emilia was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, never asked for anything but received absolutely everything. not only did her parents dote on her, but her siblings did as well.

— despite her privileged upbringing, her parents insisted on kindness and constantly asked her to think about what she could do to help others; they had family dinners together at least once a week and remain close despite being on different sides of the country.

— she has a strained relationship with her grandparents ( mother’s side ) due to her mother, in their opinion marrying down ( very old money vs new money ) and her relationship with them is pretty much contingent on her not making the same mistake her mother did but is the apple of her father’s parents eyes as she is the youngest.

— she has always wanted to be in the entertainment industry, had a love of singing and dancing, even from a young age.

— when she was a teenager (16), she competed in a singing competition and won a recording contract with a local record label in nashville.

— she released her debut album and was quite popular in nashville but her fame didn’t cross state lines and unfortunately for her, her popularity dwindled as well, becoming a few songs on a throwback playlist.

— then, she moved to los angeles once she turned 18 with the hopes to be a successful actress but was constantly knocked back for being too X, and not enough Y and in some cases, too Y and not enough X.

— she ended up visiting one of her best friends in new york city when she was down in the dumps about the choices she’d made, moving away from her family and all of her comforts etc, and ended up falling in love with the city before quickly deciding that she needed to be amongst it all, she needed to be on broadway and so moved within weeks.

— when she arrived, her friend graciously allowed her to sleep on her their couch while she was getting her life together in new york and went on more auditions and again, more rejection which was becoming a little too difficult to stomach like NOT EVEN ENSEMBLE MATERIAL?

— one night, she stumbled upon lulu’s and decided to enter, after being curious ever since she first walked past, just because she needed a pick me up and it was EVERYTHING. after leaving that night, she dedicated herself to learning everything she could about cabaret and burlesque, watched all the movies and videos, read all the books, and also hired someone to coach to help her to hone her skill.

— HER LUCKY DAY, lulu’s is hiring and finally FINALLY she gets a yes after all of those nos, and she has all the things she has EVER WANTED.

— however, her parents have absolutely no idea; she has a close relationship and she fears telling them will put a strain on their relationship; one it may not recover from, and she has absolutely no doubt in her mind that her mother’s parents would whole heartedly disapprove and fear that their reputations were being dragged through the mud.

— to try and mitigate this situation when receiving questions about how she could possibly afford her lifestyle in new york, she creates video content for online social platforms, videos of her singing and/or whatever tiktok thing is happening, in her spare time to make it seem as though she is a #influencer and since they know nothing about how the internet works, they believe her but also in doing this, she has also inadvertently become an influencer oops?

WANTED CONNECTIONS:

full name: oliver hayworth ford

nicknames: olly, ford

age: 23

birthday: june 23

zodiac: cancer

gender: cismale

sexuality: bisexual

height: 5′10

body type: muscular 

distinguishing features: freckles across his cheeks & tops of his shoulders

tattoos/piercings: left ear pierced 

about - *TW DEATH/CHILD-EMOTIONAL ABUSE/VIOLENCE/CPTSD*

norma earl never wanted children and she stood by that until she met terrance ford. it was the kind of love that hit hard and fast. the duo fell so quickly that the people in their lives had a hard time catching up. they moved in with each other within two months of dating and by the fourth month, norma was pregnant. terrance wanted to do the noble thing and proposed, wanting to step for the kid. norma was hesitant, having always planned on never having children but she loved terrance so much that she figured it wouldn’t be so bad with him around to help. everything was going fine for the couple until 8 months into the pregnancy, terrance got into a car accident which involved a drunk driver which unfortunately took his life. norma was stuck, too far along in the pregnancy to get rid of it and now completely alone with a soon to be born child she didn’t even really want to begin with. when terrance died, norma broke in a way that could never be fixed and she held onto so much anger about his death that she pointed onto her child. 

as soon as oliver was born, norma barely touched him or even looked at him. her and terrance’s parents would take turns looking after the baby because to them norma was still mourning her husband which wasn’t untrue. soon there wasn’t much of an excuse for norma to never be alone with her child and her anger started to become an issue. she blamed oliver for terrance’s death, using the logic that if she hadn’t gotten pregnant that none of that would of ever happened and she would be happy without him. every second she got, she’d remind him of that. before he could even speak, she’d drill it into him that he was to blame for his fathers death. 

as oliver grew older, his mother’s insults and anger turned to violence. she knew he’d never hit her back or fight because he was taught not to hit women. it all escalated the day he accidentally broke a vase which was the last straw for her and she pushed him to the ground before kicking him in the stomach. occurrences like this became more and more normal along with the constant reminders of how much of burden he was, how he is the reason his fathers dead and how much his mother wished he didn’t exist. 

while this was all happening, no one knew. his grandparents, his teachers, his friends. no one knew that his mother was treating him this way because he’d gotten so used to her abuse that he wanted to please her and make her happy because he thought he deserved it all. it wasn’t until he started high school that he started to realize that this wasn’t normal and he had to get out. olly secretly got a job and told his mother he was studying late so he could save money to move away after high school. he worked and saved until he finally had enough combined with the money his grandparents gave him as a graduation present. olly left the day after graduation, got on a plane and stepped off in nyc. he called his grandparents and told them he left the uk because he needed to ‘find himself’ because it was easier to say that i can’t be in the same country as my mother. 

olly stumbled into the avenue one night, not knowing the history or significance of the place. he was deep in the closet, still in the denial about being bisexual but with his new found bravery, he walked into himbo’s and walked out with a job. he came out three months after starting there and has worked there ever since. his life has gotten so much better, so much happier and for once he wasn’t faking his smile most of the time but the memories and pain he suffered in his childhood was too much for him to just move on from. he has trouble sleeping, riddled with nightmares that plague his sleep and remind him of the horrible things his mother did. everything is starting to catch up with him but he’s too stubborn to ask for help or let anyone know that he needs help to begin with.

personality

olly has always been a friendly guy who can make people smile. very literally the type of guy to give you the shirt off his back if you need it even if you don’t ask but would rather pull out his own tongue than express his own feelings. his childhood is at fault here, the abuse making it hard for him to trust himself and his judgement of other people so he’s constantly worried if people would judge him or think he’s too damaged or unlovable so he just pretends nothing bad is ever going on with him. that being said, he doesn’t do relationships or love and gravitates towards unattached arrangements like hook ups. 

wanted connections:

riley was born to two extremely wealthy parents; her puerto rican businesswoman mother, and her european-american businessman father. the two of them were hard workers and they raised their daughter to be just the same - teaching her that everything in life had to be earned. she’s been working at the ozdust for a good ten years, since she showed interest in the business, and she’s owned the club for three, receiving full ownership on her thirtieth birthday, only after proving to her father that she was capable of running it. 

she has massive top energy but is a switch at heart

composes herself as best she can, but can still come across as a bit awkward

enjoys being classy - but isn’t a snob

Shiloh used to work in a family owned daycare out of their family home in Boston

Shiloh’s family was all girls, as her father left after their younger sister was born

Shi lost their little sister during daycare when Shiloh was 24 and their sister was 15; she was helping out and fell into the pool, being tangled up in the pool cover and eventually drowning. Shiloh was the one to find her.

After their little sisters death, Shi began to develop a drug habit. It started out with just weed, then it moved to cocaine, then mushrooms, and LSD, ecstacy, and anything else she could get her hands on.

A year after the death of their little sister, Shiloh came out as genderqueer and pansexual to their mother, who ended up kicking them out because she ‘didn’t believe in that stuff’ and thought they were only doing it for attention.

Shiloh moved around for a while, hopping all around New England, until they found themselves in New York.