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Rhian (Rhiannon) is the daughter of a single mother who,unfortunately, is an addict. Rhian spent a lot of her life seeing how much hermother was affected by withdrawal, relapse, and addiction as a whole. She wasalways taking care of her mother—cooking, cleaning, getting herself to school,checking in on her mother to make sure she was even alive. It became routine bythe time Rhian was in high school, and she’s always treated everyone around herwith just as much maternal energy.

Her life was very stressful and she continues to take onstressful situations for the sake of others. Rhian can’t say no—she has to beeveryone’s ‘rock’. She’s friends with people nobody else will give the time ofday, her house is full of moochers, she even worked to pay her boyfriend’sbills when he lived with her rent-free doing NO housework!

Thank god she has music as an outlet, or she’d go completelyinsane. Rhian is the bassist in a so-far unnamed punk band (the other membersbeing Viconia, Phaerie and Dhaun) and she helps Phaerie write a lot of theirsongs. Phae has the ability to express her emotions with a raw power unlikeANYTHING Rhian’s ever seen, but Rhian is the one who can take those emotionsand shape them into something other people will understand and relate to.

I think everyone knows someone like Rhian, so I don’t think sheneeds a lot of explaining. She’s calm, rational, hardworking, responsible, andmaternal. She’s a mom friend. She’s always there when you need her, noquestions asked, and when you do something wrong she’s DISAPPOINTED instead ofbeing angry. When she feels pain or sadness, she likes to deal with it alone sopeople never see her as anything but their dependable rock. She a bitoptimistic—she’d have to be to get through such long, tiring days—and helping peopleis all she ever knew how to do so it’s how she’ll probably live her lifeforever.

Rhian was engaged for several years to a guy she met at a vinylstore, but their relationship went south when he realized she wanted to settledown and start a family and he wasn’t ready for that level of commitment orresponsibility. They parted on good terms, but the hurt is still too fresh forRhian to actually want to SEE or TALK TO him. She’s been dating for a while nowand is steadily going out with Preeti Singh (another oc). They are bothrecovering from long-term relationships that didn’t work out, so they aren’tready to be ‘official’ yet, but still act like they’ve been together for years.It’s hard not to slip back into old habits when you were in a relationship foryears and years, even if you’re with a new person.

 Rhian likes:

♥ Heavy metal (or anything loud tbh)

♥ Beat poetry

♥ Collecting obscure vinyl

♥ Pitbulls

♥ Staying in with friends

 She dislikes:

X Most homecooked meals (grew up eating prepackaged food, so she’spicky when it comes to anything else)

X Rude/dirty houseguests (take your GODDAMN SHOES OFF PLEASE)

X Buying anything NOT on sale or thrifted

X Having to rely on others

X Being taken advantage of (but she won’t stop them from doing it)

 Fun facts:

♥ She works, somewhat ironically, as a pharmaceuticalrep. She heard that they made good money, and plans on transitioning into othermedical fields once she’s got a decent amount of savings to back herself up.

♥ Rhian is the bassist for the band, but can alsoplay guitar and piano.

♥ Rhian’s uncle lives somewhere in Asia for work(most likely China) and was unable to visit when she was younger, but would sendmoney and gifts when possible. He’s the reason Rhian started to love music, andhe paid for some of her early instruments. He’s also the reason she and hermother were able to live alone. They were poor, but he tried to send them asort of ‘allowance’ on a regular basis to keep food on the table.