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ALÈNE MCINTOSH ➝ FIFTH SIBLING

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❖ FULL NAME: Alène Christine McIntosh. ❖ PRONOUNS: She/Her. ❖ AGE: 18. (July 1st). ❖ BIRTH ORDER: Fifth. Adopted. ❖ GRADE: Freshman. ❖ MAJOR: Art, with a Painting concentration. ❖ SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Homosexual. ❖ ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Polyromantic. ❖ FACECLAIM: Kiersey Clemons.

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[TW: child abuse]

Corinne Deshaies was born and raised in France and had full intention of living there for the rest of her life. This changed, however, when she studied abroad in America and quickly fell in love. She spent the entire semester with the man and it wasn’t until she was back in France that she realized that she was pregnant. They both decided to marry and the man convinced Corinne to move to America, which she did with reluctance. She gathered all of her belongings and money to move with the man. Their marriage, however, didn’t last more than two years before the man took all their money and left Corinne with nothing but their child, Ségolène.

Lène’s childhood started out normal enough, despite the fact that she was homeschooled by her mother who refused to teach her English. Her mother was often strict and Lène was never allowed to play with other children her age. When Lène was six, she began noticing flutters of colors all around her that fluctuated with her emotions and began to transfer these images into paintings with supplies she found in the attic of their home. She later found out that this was a form of synesthesia. One day, however, Corinne found her daughter painting in the attic and became enraged with her. After she tore up the paintings she grabbed the little girl and shoved her down the attic steps. From then on the cycle continued and got worse over time. Lène continued to paint, and Corinne would beat her for it. After receiving a call from worried neighbors, Child Protective Services came to the Deshaies household and found a bruised 9 year old girl with multiple broken bones and quickly pulled her from the home.

The next few years of Lène’s life were spent moving from family to family. She was almost always sent to a foster home where she was abused or neglected; she would eventually run away from them before she was caught and placed back into foster care. During one of these times, Lène found herself at a park watching a girl paint. The girl wasn’t much older than she was but she was obviously from a rich home. Lène tried to ask if she could paint with her, but she ended up using more hand gestures than anything as she still hadn’t grasped English, yet. She and the girl spent the day painting together until Christine and Gordon McIntosh came to take the girl home, wherein she begged her parents to let Lène come home with them. Christine at first adamantly refused to let her into her home, but her husband ultimately refused to let Christine throw her back in the streets. During the time that Lène stayed at the McIntosh household, Christine got the reputation of being a saint for saving a child from the streets and quickly decided to fully adopt her.

After the adoption was finalized, Lène was given her new name: Alène Christine MacIntosh. (She was slightly peeved that, whether Christine realized it or not, she’d been given the name that is the French equivalent to Allen and continues to go by Lène.) She was eleven when she was adopted and immediately thrown into the spotlight. Christine quickly hired Lène a tutor so she could learn English and introduced her to the rest of the family. Lène tried to get to know her new siblings but she couldn’t help but feel like an outsider. She mainly stuck to Alex, the girl whom she’d met at the park, and began painting again. Just as she was finally getting used to her new life, The Apple Never Falls Far From The Tree began airing. Lène tried to find quiet places to paint and be by herself but no matter where she went, the cameras followed her. This constant surveillance left Lène feeling claustrophobic and she began having panic attacks, most of which were embarrassingly aired on the show. She’d tried to plead with Christine to not air it, but she refused and claimed that it brought “drama” to the show. This cause a tear in their already strained relationship and Lène began doing little acts of rebellion to try to make Christine look bad and refused to conform to her idea of a perfect child.

As soon as Lène turned 18, she jumped at the opportunity to follow her siblings and go to Pacific State University. She didn’t intend to go to college seeing as she didn’t need a degree to paint, but it’s the only way, she feels, that she can paint in peace without her adopted parents, or the press, breathing down her neck.

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During her rebellion against Christine, Lène shaved off all her hair and is currently letting it grow out, but it is still pretty short. She had also gotten her belly button pierced and a paint splatter tattoo on her wrist during this time. Lène stands at a modestly short stature but she refuses to let anyone underestimate her due to her height. As for clothes, Lène generally wears whatever is the most comfortable (sweats and leggings usually) and doesn’t usually put much thought in her outfits. Her style, when she decides to dress up, is pretty androgynous and with her short hair she is often mistaken for a guy. Almost all of her clothing are stained with paint and her fingernails are always caked with paint or oil.

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The McIntosh family have been in the spotlight from as far back as anyone can remember. Beginning most notably with their great-great-great grandfather, Peter ‘Pug’ McIntosh, who played basketball for the Peach Baskets in the late 1800’s. After retiring from the sport, he was inspired to purchase and grow his own orchard, Pug’s Peaches, which was passed down through the generations. All of his male descendants have been big sporting names, right down to Gordon ‘Gordie’ McIntosh, known by his fans and teammates as The Mac. Gordie started out playing baseball for the Boston Red Sox, before transferring to Los Angeles at his wife, Christine’s, request. He now plays for the Dodgers.

ALEXANDRIA MCINTOSH ➝ FOURTH SIBLING

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❖ FULL NAME: Alexandria Christine McIntosh. ❖ PRONOUNS: She/Her. ❖ AGE: 20. (August 10th). ❖ BIRTH ORDER: Fourth. Adopted. ❖ GRADE: Junior. ❖ MAJOR: Psychology, with a minor in Art. ❖ SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Pansexual. ❖ ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Panromantic. ❖ FACECLAIM: Hayley Kiyoko.

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[TW: Domestic abuse, miscarriage]

Though it comes as a shock to many, Christine had always been in the spotlight. She was a socialite who’d never had to work a day in her life, and that didn’t change after Alex was adopted. Despite the media making them out to be martyrs who were now taking care of a newborn who would have otherwise been abandoned, Christine had little to do with her children before they could talk and walk. Alex was instead raised by nannies and, when time permitted, their father. However, as soon as she was able to talk and walk and sing, Christine was thrusting her into the pageant spotlight. Christine loved putting her in frilly dresses and makeup, forcing her to parade around on stage and perform degrading-ly cutesy acts–and she were good at it. She had a cute little smile and dimples and enough personality to charm the judges with a simple look. Christine basked in the glory that her child was bringing her.

It was around the time that she was 10 that Alex started to pull away from the fanfare she’d known her whole life. She didn’t particularly enjoy singing, even if she was good at it, as it had always just been a way to win another trophy or crown. Instead, she’d found love in art. Whether she was painting or sketching, she was escaping from the hectic life that she’d been brought into. Alex began refusing to participate in pageants, though she was only permitted to stop doing them after she deliberating lost one particular competition. Christine then agreed to allow Alex to focus on her art.. So long as she agreed to begin modelling. She refused at first, but eventually gave in when Christine offered to enroll her in art classes alongside her modelling classes. This is also around the time that Gordie put Alex in therapy, wanting to give her an outlet that didn’t involve her mother, and hopefully begin working on the severe anxiety that she had developed. Said anxiety was only to be expected, her therapist said, when dealing with a mother obsessed with fame and good looks.

Things were smooth sailing from there, up until they landed their own reality show while Alex was 15 years old. The Apple Never Falls Far From The Tree put the family more into the spotlight than ever, and suddenly Alex didn’t have much opportunity for solace. What she did have, however, came in the form of Martin. He was everything her teenage heart wanted, and then some. The “some” being that he wasn’t famous, something that made him seem so much more real to Alex, when it really should have been a red flag. They’d been acquainted through school for quite some time, but he finally started paying attention to her as soon as TANFFFT began airing. She thought nothing of it, however, believing instead that he’d just finally worked up the courage to speak to her. Their romance was a whirlwind one, starting suddenly and skyrocketing. The first three years of said romance were blissful. They were TV’s favorite young couple, attractive and sweet and having minimal problems on display. That didn’t stop what went on behind closed doors, however. Martin was controlling and obsessive, needing to know where Alex was and who she was with at all times, becoming angry and violent when she disobeyed him. She was able to put it behind her though, for the most part.

And then she got pregnant.

Somehow, she had been able to convince herself that Martin would want to have a child with her. They were only 18, but she thought they were so in love. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. Instead, Martin became incredibly angry at her when he was told, literally attacking her with both words and his fists. He left her broken and bleeding at the bottom of a staircase, where Lène eventually found her and rushed her to the hospital. There, they learned that the attack had caused Alex to miscarry. The media had a field day, which Christine cared more about than the fact that her daughter had been pregnant with the child of her abusive boyfriend. As this all happened around the time that college acceptances were being handed out, Alex completely withdrew from it all and settled for PSU, where she’s studying psychology and art.

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Alex’s style is extremely casual, the years of being forced into frilly dresses and put on display being enough to turn her off to anything flashy or girly. She’s typically wearing some sort of hat or beanie and sneakers like vans or converse. Although her hair is naturally a dark brown, she prefers to bleach it and occasionally streak colors through her blonde locks. Currently her hair is quite long, but she has a habit of randomly chopping it off when bored.

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The McIntosh family have been in the spotlight from as far back as anyone can remember. Beginning most notably with their great-great-great grandfather, Peter ‘Pug’ McIntosh, who played basketball for the Peach Baskets in the late 1800’s. After retiring from the sport, he was inspired to purchase and grow his own orchard, Pug’s Peaches, which was passed down through the generations. All of his male descendants have been big sporting names, right down to Gordon ‘Gordie’ McIntosh, known by his fans and teammates as The Mac. Gordie started out playing baseball for the Boston Red Sox, before transferring to Los Angeles at his wife, Christine’s, request. He now plays for the Dodgers.

McIntosh, obviously.