#eastcliff.task

Bio:

(tw: death, incarceration)

Mollie was the first child and eldest daughter born to  Colson & Scarlett in San Diego, California. It was a picturesque childhood, the sort that she would later look back at fondly but maybe that was just because she didn’t want to remember any of the bad. Sure her mom had beyond high expectations for Mollie, but what mother didn’t? She was still the mom a lot of her friends growing up envied and when Mollie became a big sister at nine, well it was just more love to go around, right? Or maybe just more pressure put on their eldest daughter to be more than she already was. But God she would have taken it all back, all the fighting, the breakdowns and need to please her parents again if it meant that she wouldn’t lose them at 19.

June 3, 2000, just a few days before her birthday and the last day Colson and Scarlett were supposed to spend on their anniversary vacation was also their last day. They never came home. One scuba diving accident later and two girls were left as orphans.

Fate was cruel for Mollie, but her little sister who was only ten at the time was destined to end up in the system because even at nineteen Mollie wasn’t fit to take care of a child, especially with the track record of bad behavior the courts wouldn’t have overlooked so easily. So she did what anyone desperate enough to do would, she found a way out. Her attempt to somehow spite her parents in her teen years meant she had questionable friends and those questionable friends knew some questionable people. The type who could help her execute this convoluted lie to place Mollie’s little sister in the care of their grandmother…their deceased grandmother.

And twenty years ago to date, Mollie and her little sister arrived in Eastcliff. Chosen with a juvenile tactic of closing their eyes and pointing to the first place they saw on the map. The girls didn’t have much if anything at all. Now it could. have been assumed they would have but Mollie’s parents never wrote a will and the courts took everything. Everything but the few items of value Mollie stashed in her backpack to later pawn off for money. (everything but one necklace that belonged to her mother.)

So they were here, Eastcliff, California on a Sunday afternoon seated in front of an ice cream shop with no plan, no place to stay, and strawberry ice cream cones to melt away their troubles. Or lead them directly into trouble. He was young, handsome, and seemed to have all the answers and it all started in an abandoned studio right across the street. An art gallery that was popular in the 60s and 70s but met its demise in the late 80s.

Everything was planned out in his life, he just needed a push. He was gonna make it big, yup a big-time MMA fighter and he was gonna live in a big house in Northshore and never let anyone look down on him again. See, he was a product of the system, but he was also was the only one who gave her answers and that was exactly why Mollie put her trust in him and he put his trust in her. A few friends Benjamin (that’s his name) had back east were selling paintings, expensive ones, but fake ones. He got Mollie involved and the rest was history.

Years passed and that art gallery became something, a means of living for her and her sister. The guy, Benjamin, he did become something and someone who never left Mollie’s side. The two cared for each other and by the time she was twenty-eight, she became pregnant. Everything really did seem like it was looking up. Ben got that place in Northshore he always wanted and once again Mollie was at his side. They were happy, a picture-perfect family who welcomed home a baby girl named Layla eleven years ago.

application :      everybody  knows   charles  “ charlie ”   barton   from   greenwood .   he  has  been  in  eastcliff  for   his  whole  life   and  has  been  working  as  a   bartender .   they’re   adroit ,  loyal ,   and   easy  going ,   but  can  also  be   reckless ,  unintelligent ,   and   brusque .

additional  character  info :      nicknames :   charlie ,  chuckie ,  barton      age :   twenty  four ,      birthday :   may  25th ,      sexuality :   bisexual

aesthetic :      survival  came  thanks  to  quick  hands ,  the  ability  to  stay  upright  despite  the  strikes ,   and  finding  friends  in  high  places .  a  well  worn  deck  of  cards  dictates  the  shape  of  your  back  pocket ,   rubbed  soft  to  the  touch  by  your  left  thumb .  brother  joined  the  army ,   you  were  conscripted  to  a  different  brotherhood ,  orange  prescription  bottles  standing  at  attention .   marked  body ,  both  for  lust  and  anger .  low  exceptions  allow  one  to  slip  through  life  unnoticed .   keep  your  mouth  shut ,  kid .   your  comfort  comes  at  a  certain  price ,  but  it’s  like  nothing  you’ve  ever  felt .

tldr :      general  tw  here  for  mentions  of  neglect ,  verbal  abuse ,  and  drugs .      charlie  grew  up  the  younger  of  two  barton  boys  and  was  basically  raised  by  his  brother ,  james ,  as  his  parents  were  too  busy  worrying  about  bills  they  couldn’t  pay  and  anger  for  each  other .  charlie  was  a  kind ,  good - hearted  kid ,  but  he  was  never  the  smartest ,  getting  by  in  school  by  the  skin  of  his  teeth .  besides  that  and  a  general  avoidance of  home ,  things  were  fine  until  james  enlisted  in  the  military .  suddenly  charlie  was  the  only  other  person  in  the  house  besides  his  bitter  parents ,  and  quickly  he  was  turned  into  a  weapon  for  them  to  use  against  each  other ,      of  course  he’s  failing ,  he’s  your  son ,       but  charlie  was  the  one  who  walked  away  with  injuries .  he  started  avoiding  home ,  only  returning  when  you  couldn’t  crash  at  a  friend’s  house  for  yet  another  night .  when  a  teenage  boy  is  seeking  new  excuses ,  it  is  often  that  he’ll  find  himself  with  new  and  exciting  bad  habits .  he  started  smoking ,  cigarettes  under  the  high  school  football bleachers ,  then  later  weed  in  a  friend’s  basement .  he  started  getting  into  fights  when  there  was  nothing  else  to  do .  eventually ,  after  he  just  barely  managed  to  graduate ,  he  started  dealing  for  extra  cash .  while  being  a  drug  dealer  isn’t  exactly  an  occupation  that  fits  who  charlie  is  a  heart ,  it  was  the  first  thing  that  made  him  feel  independent .  it  was  with  pill  money  that  charlie  could  finally  move  out  of  his  parent’s  place .  he’s  not  used  to  having  cash  on  hand,  and  there’s  something  exciting  about  it  that  keeps  him  in  the  game .  as  a  real  job ,  he  works  as  a  bartender  at  the  local  bar ,  and  is  always  a  friendly  face .

quick  facts :  

somewhere  along  the  line  charlie  picked  up  card  tricks  as  something  to  do   (  probably  because  decks  of  cards  weren’t  expensive  and  he  didn’t  need  someone  else  to  play  with  me  ) .   he  usually  has  a  deck  on  him ,  and  has  been  known  to  scam  patrons  of  salty  dogs  out  of  a  few  dollars  with  such  skills .

once  a  teacher  had  given  charlie  the  advice  to  repeat  what  he  thought  he  heard  back ,  and  it  has  become  a  habit  over  the  years .  he  always  repeats  orders  back  to  customers  at  the  bar .

charlie  has  a  bit  of  a  promiscuous  streak ,  and  to  some  he  might  have  a  bit  of  a  reputation .  he’s  not  intentionally  malicious  to  anyone  he’s  slept  with ,  but  he  has  a habit  of  not  thinking  before  he  speaks  and  can  be  unintentionally  cruel .

he  can  be  goaded  into  almost  anything  with  the  phrase   “  i  dare  you .  ”

is  the  guy  who     always      suggests  playing  black  betty ,  roxanne ,  or  thunderstruck  at  parties ,  and  feels  clever  when  he  explains  it .  additionally ,  he’s  very  good  at  playing  quarters .

despite  the  fact  that  he’s  known  to  get  in  fights ,  he’s  actually  a  nice  guy ,  a  good  listener .  fights  are  more  something  to  do  than  anything  else .

Cameron was quite successful as a music producer for a popular record label in Silver Lake. He had a nice car, a nice house and somewhat of a socialite for a fiance. Most guys would’ve killed to be in his position for the perks alone. If only he had been more passionate about his soon-to-be wife as he was about his music, then maybe he wouldn’t have had to uproot to Eastcliff so abruptly.

Having tapped a drum before he could speak, it was natural for Cameron to fall in love with music. Despite the chaos of living in a full house with 3 younger siblings, he managed to squirrel away some time for learning piano and guitar and keeping a secret songbook wedged beneath his mattress. He’d caught his little sister, Amanda, sneaking a peek at it one day but instead of chiding her, he pulled her into his world and taught her the first chords he’d learned on guitar. The bond they shared over music carried them well into adolescence and it wasn’t any surprise that when Amanda moved to California, Cameron moved out there too to pursue his dreams of producing music professionally.          

Cameron was a star at his label and perhaps that’s what brought him and his fiance, Lauryn together; she’d appeared in a music video or two for an artist he was working with and a courtship started from an encounter between them at an industry party. Their relationship was fiery from the start, but cooled off as their commitment grew more serious.. at least for Cameron. Things didn’t feel quite right after he’d put an engagement ring on Lauryn’s finger, but he felt selfish about backing out of it and honestly he hoped that the feeling of uncertainty would pass. But it didn’t.

Doing his best not to face the lukewarm love at home, Cameron pushed himself harder at work and was relieved to discover an up and coming artist, Seline, that he was genuinely impressed by. He poured every ounce of his expertise and time into producing her tracks and mentoring her off the clock. He didn’t see it coming, how his excitement about her project turned into excitement about her. He knew it wasn’t smart to kiss her, to sleep with her, to cheat on Lauryn but it felt exhilarating. This new thing, whatever it was. Cameron had thought he’d been careful about it, but Lauryn found out about his affair and then she made sure that his record label knew that he’d crossed a professional boundary with his artist by sending an email about his cheating to his contacts.  

Before Cameron knew it, he was being offered a lump sum to buy him out of his contract by the label execs who didn’t care about the seedy details except to avoid a potential sexual harassment scandal. Cameron was mortified and angry (since this revelation clearly had been a ploy to ruin him by his ex-fiance and the relationship between him and Seline had been completely mutual) but he had to concede that he’d brought this turmoil on himself. If only he’d been honest with Lauryn about the fizzling of their relationship, if only he’d stayed professional with Seline.

Amira learned from a young age that life wasn’t going to be easy. Her parents made sure she was educated on that fact. That because of her skin color people would assume the worst things about her, that people might treat her differently or look down on her just because she was a black woman, but that didn’t stop Amira. She knew from a young age that she was meant to be a star and her family encouraged that. She began acting at a young age after annoying her parents about it constantly. She got her start in local plays and commercials and then moved on to small roles.

But it didn’t take her long to realize that even if she was the better performer or singer or dancer the roles were always given to someone else, someone lighter. But she persevered and continued on eventually graduating from high school and then attending a performing arts college in her home state. She then graduated after majoring in theater studies and minoring in film studies and performing in several plays at her college and local community center.

Shortly after arriving in Eastcliff she was offered a supporting role in a new show and was incredibly excited. At least she was until she found out the producer was a racist sexist who liked to take advantage of actresses of color in exchange for their role in a show. She was both extremely upset and angry. Her parents had tried to warn her these things might happen but she hadn’t listened. But she has vowed that a disgusting pig like that won’t stop her dream. She is currently auditioning for a role as well as acting at the local theater hoping to be noticed.

Headcanons and Random Facts

full name: dominic riva

nickname: dom

age: 23

birthdate: april 6th

sexuality: nonfunctionally bisexual lol

occupation: cashier at the greenthumb flower shop!

neighborhood: greenwood

bio: full biography here ! it is very long, so below is a bullet point abridged version. that said i really would love anyone to death who actually reads the novel that is his full bio!

he grew up in miami florida before his father moved his family across the country to avoid drama and restart. (that would be 8 years ago now that he moved to eastcliff)

ya see he has all this drama involving, well firstly, his whole life as a kid, all kinds of school drama for years (such as being suspended, fighting, bullying, cheating, you name it). on top of that, there’s some, we’ll call it minor (instead of catastrophic) drama involving dominic finding out about his father having an affair with a younger woman and that who he thought was his biological mother was really his adoptive mother, and that his real biological mother was kind of given the boot and done pretty dirty as he came to find out.

need-less-to-say, he’s a very angry man. very resentful of the world around him, a little untrustworthy and anyone who shows him genuine love and affection or acceptance gets him a bit skittish.

resting bitch face, angry aries, hot and/or cold personality, 23 years old.

he works at the greenthumb flower shop and idk if i need to explain that contradiction but let me tell you in a lot of ways he looks like he absolutely does not belong there.

how do i put this...he’s kind of just an unpleasant person? difficult to get to know, hard to keep close, he’s got a bit of a bad boy thing going on for him. so if you like bad boys with a hot and cold personality and a layered, unfortunate past, he do be kinda flossie tho.

anyway there’s a lot more to him than meets the eye.

don’t be afraid to try with this man ??

i promise there’s softness, tenderness there you can catch in glimpses the longer you know him. a real passion, someone dependable and someone who cares, just as much as you might see someone who’s grown up with a lot of walls in place he struggles to navigate around by now.

tho if you need an enemy, don’t be afraid to take him on either. he’ll fight the flowers, he’ll fight the bees, he’ll fight you, he’ll fight himself, he’ll fight anyone.

CHARACTER INFO

Full Name:

Jennifer Lee Summers 

Nickname(s):

Jenn, Jenny   / Mostly goes by Jenn

Age:

25

Birthdate:

December 1, 1994  /   Sagittarius ☀, Gemini ☾, Leo ↑

Sexuality:

Bisexual

Occupation:

Tattoo Artist at ‘Element Tattoo’

Neighborhood:

Rockport

Bio:

TW: Brief mentions of death, abandonment 

SUMMARY:

Jenn was raised in Eastcliff by her single father and grew up with a younger sister, Arielle. 

Jenn’s mother had her at a young age when she wasn’t ready to have kids. When Jenn was ten, her mother  got pregnant once again. She gave birth to little Arielle and then left the family shortly after that. It was clear to that her mother simply couldn’t handle the life that motherhood brought. Jenn remembers her mother, but she pretends as if she doesn’t. 

Her father was a successful chef who managed and owned a restaurant that later became a small chain. There’s about four locations alongside the coast of Southern California. 

At 18, Jenn was quick to leave the small town of Eastcliff and go to school at UCLA to pursue a bachelors degree in fine art. Her father wished she would pursue business or continue to perfect her culinary skills (which she had excelled in effortlessly), but her true love was art. He didn’t stand in the way of it. 

Being in the city versus Eastcliff exposed her to a whole new life. Jenn began to find herself and make her hobbies passions - she had always grown up roller skating just about anywhere she went. In college, she decided to join a Roller Derby League. 

Living an alternative lifestyle felt natural to her. She spent the weekends getting bruises in derby and her nights being a tattoo apprentice. Though she was great at fine art, tattoo art began to capture her attention. 

After she graduated college, she landed a full time position at the tattoo shop she was apprenticing at and became a full fledged artist. She also continued derby in the city and was given the nickname ‘jenny-gonna-clock.’ It felt only right to often skate out into the rink to “Jenny From The Block”

Jenn was pretty happy having fun, living her own creative life in Los Angeles (even if it was a bit messy and chaotic from time to time). But reality came crashing down on her quick - the sudden death of her father. 

One moment she was excelling at tattoo art, partially living with her boyfriend at the time, and spending all her free time having fun - and then the very next moment she was suddenly her 14 year old sister’s sole guardian. 

Jenn had to deal with the aftermath of her father’s death, a car accident no one could’ve seen coming. Jenn moved back to Eastcliff to take care of her sister and handle everything her father left behind. She finally had to become an adult. 

Dealing with his father’s businesses, in an almost panic-like state, Jenn decided to sell them. She knew she needed the money to keep up with their beach house in Rockport as well as helping her sister succeed. Her sister didn’t agree with selling the restaurants, but she knew where Jenn’s heart was. 

Bio:

Ana’s mother Calliope died due to complications of Ana’s birth. Ana’s father, James, mourned his wife intensely and refused to look at the baby for the first four days after Calliope’s death. His mother came and stayed and took care of the baby. 

When he finally stepped foot into the nursery, he looked down at the baby and loved her immediately. After that, the two were very close, and continued to be up into Ana’s adult years.

Ana was born in Jersey City, New Jersey where they stayed for the first six years of Ana’s life. They moved to New York City due to a change in James’ job, which Ana was mad about for several days, though she came to like New York as well. But she’s always a Jersey girl at heart. 

They were able to move back to New Jersey a year later, where they stayed until Ana reached the age of 23. Her father was moving to California for a job, and Ana chose to follow, her and her father very close.

Ana is also close to her grandparents: her paternal grandparents Charles and Margaret, and her only living maternal grandparent Linda. 

Ana is quiet but also friendly and likes to talk to people, though she is soft-spoken. She is curious and interested in life and in people and loves to experience new things. 

She also is a freelance writer and has self published a book of short stories.