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raised in a shitty trailer park with two disasters for parents, chrysanthemum didn’t stand a chance at being normal. but that was fine with her, she embraced everyone’s differences, celebrated her flaws and her parents flaws. even when they abandoned her, she never quite blamed them for it.

her father had anger issues, but he never exploded on them, always walked away from a fight. chrysanthemum admired him for it, her mother demanded more. she had an innate need to know everything, how everyone was feeling, and she couldn’t be satisfied with the fact that her husband wasn’t telling her what was on his mind. that, chrysanthemum assumed, is what caused her to follow after him when he left them. not love, not a need to make it work, but chasing answers.

that was three years ago, and chrys is still by herself in her trailer. it isn’t so bad, she enjoys living on her own. she’s able to set up an actual altar for aphrodite now, able to buy all the frozen foods she wants and not get a single vegetable. it’s the small things that please her. she doesn’t ask for much.

chrysanthemum believes in love. she believes in love of people, of animals, of our environment. she wants really is for everyone to understand that it’s okay to be different, oh and also to fucking ACCEPT THAT ALIENS EXIST

she loves working at claire’s because it’s just such a feral place. the accessories are strange, maybe a bit cheesy, and the most embarrassing demographic (10-14 year old girls) shop there the most. there’s a power to that, a shamelessness that you don’t often find in other places.

also important for you to know she’s the world’s biggest saved by the bell fan like she has a serious saved by the bell problem. she likes toxic men hence a crush on zack morris. thank you.

final bullet point i want you to know that she’s certain she was marilyn monroe in a past life.

gimme plots !!

TINFOIL HAT BUD: a fellow weirdo, someone to smoke with and share all her strange theories on life and the universe.

SOULMATE: okay, not really, but she thinks so. it could be small things, like the lines on their hands matching up or having the same favorite color, but chrysanthemum is sure the universe has a plan for the two of them. not that she would say that

aesthetics:  coffee  dregs  gone  cold  in  a  to-go  cup,  the  smell  of  the  sea,  worn-in  hiking  boots,  textbook  pages  thick  with  scrawled  notes  in  the  margins,  crooked  reading  glasses,  the  first  thawing  of  spring  ice,  eyes  sore  from  staying  up  much  too  late  with  a  paperback  mystery,  lungs  burning  after  a  morning  run,  fingers  blackened  from  newspaper  ink

fair  warning  this  intro  is  gonna  be  a  rambly  mess  bc  i  procrastinated  writing  it  to  the  last  possible  minute

jodie  yeung,  also  known  as  jo  to  her  friends  am  i  in  love  with  jo  march  ?  maybe,

jo  grew  up  a  tomboy,  the  second  youngest  in  a  big  family,  with  two  brothers  and  a  sister.  her  dad  was  big  on  camping  so  she  knows  how  to  start  a  fire,  bait  a  hook,  pitch  a  tent,  all  that  outdoorsy  stuff

her  dad  was  in  the  us  navy  so  they  moved  around  a  lot  !  

raised  catholic  but  she’s  not  rly  sure  what  she  believes  rn  :/

her  parents  separated  four  years  ago,  so  a  while  ago  but  still  relatively  recent

they’re  still  on  good  terms  but  her  mom  moved  to  strawberry,  nebraska,  aka  coincidentally  as  far  away  from  the  coast  &  navy  as  possible  asjdfjfdj

jo’s  older  brother  was  already  living  by  himself  in  chicago  at  the  time  and  her  sister  was  in  university,  but  jo  &  her  younger  brother  went  to  live  with  their  mother  in  nebraska  for  the  sake  of  stability 

jo  loves  her  mother  so  she  doesn’t  complain  but  she  does  not  like  nebraska  lmfao

studies  cell  biology  &  microbiology  at  university  of  maryland  cause  a)  it’s  far  away  from  nebraska  and  b)  her  dad  was  stationed  in  maryland  when  she  started  university

wants  to  go  to  med  school  after  and  maybe  become  a  surgeon,  though  she’s  still  not  sure  what  career  path  she  wants  to  take

being  one  of  four  kids  she  naturally  sought  to  differentiate  herself

fiercely  independent,  determined  to  be  more  than  capable  (  and  she  is  )

hates  people  telling  her  what  to  do

definitely  a  realist,  believes  in  science  and  evidence  and  hard  facts  and  uses  that  to  support  her  worldview

very  honest,  not  a  fan  of  bullshit

but  also  she  hates  not  understanding  something  !  if  there’s  something  that  seems  strange  she’s  gonna  investigate  it  until  she  has  a  rational  explanation

she  loves  kids  !  that’s  part  of  the  reason  she  works  at  zany  brainy,  the  educational  toy  shop

also  part  of  her  job  is  to  put  on  demonstrations  of  the  cool  scientific  toys  and  it  warms  her  heart  to  see  kids  get  so  excited  about  science

loves  all  things  mystery  &  horror  related

big feminist

first of all, it’s not chris, its not topher, its kit. the only person allowed to call him kit 

if you went to high school with kit, you know about him. the quiet music kid, benji’s brother. everyone knew benji; honor roll student, star athlete, all-around golden boy. 

after high school started, though, kit started to change. he didn’t connect with the other kids, everyone thought he was weird. a freak, because he liked scary things, and secrets.

he identifies as a freak, and he embraces it. he wears it like armour. he’s a punk, he’s gay, he’s a conspiracy theorist, he has plenty of piercings and stick and poke tattoos, he has panic attacks and night terrors, he  he was always different, he reasons; now he just embraces it. 

he didn’t want to go to college, nor could he afford to. so, he moved out of his mom’s place into a shitty studio apartment in the bad side of town. he has a phone and a mattress, a mini fridge and a microwave, a guitar and an amp and a record player and his collection in a milk crate. thats all he really needs, he insists. 

he’s worked at hot topic since high school; its the only job he’s cared about, he loves it there. not to mention the employee discount. if its not from hot topic, his clothes are secondhand. 

he’s a freak, but it’s lonely. hot topic makes him feel less alone, strangely. like he belongs somewhere.

he loves horror, he loves the supernatural, he loves every creepy and spooky and crazy thing under the moon. he will talk your ear off about it like its a personality trait. he loves grunge music and wants to start his own band. he smokes weed like it’s going out of fashion. and he’ll tell you he doesn’t cry, but he does. no matter how he tries to protect his heart, he feels too much. 

come tik toks for his personality 

the universal truth

he’d say this shit only half sarcastically

this happens every thursday night 

like how tho 

wanted connections.

best friend/squad: someone tell this boy to stop being messy

crush: kit will be hopelessly in love with this boy, though he’ll never admit it. he definitely makes them mixtapes.

band members: or at least people he pesters to join his band 

someone he can Fight: preps? apply 

unlikely friends: thats my fuckin shit gimme. 

movie friend: someone to see all the latest horror movies with him. 

now for my hot mess nate creed he’s a mess but he’s baby okay here’s his pinterest too

AGAIN THIS IS RAMBLES

so nate’s kinda...sad. not emotionally but you look at him and you’re like aw nate’s cool but he’s kinda sad and pathetic.

he’s the youngest in his family and has always been the black sheep in a family of very successful overachievers (with substance abuse issues) whereas he was always the “dumb” one of the family with bad grades and never cared about anything really. 

he always tries to act like the way his family treat him never affected him, always trying to play the cool “i don’t care about anyone's opinion” type of guy but that shit really hurt him and just made him want to try less. like he’s someone who has potential and if he was in a positive environment to try harder he could’ve been a good student but all they would do is berate him so he gave up.

everyone kinda knows this about him that he’s really good for nothing and that the biggest thing for him is he can become the manager of blockbuster cuz that’s the only way his life could go?? like he thinks so low of himself that he can’t even try for anything else

he didn’t even really graduate high school cuz he failed literally all his classes like hes fully given up on himself

he really has a lot of self image issues and thinks he’s the absolute worst and he tries to cover it up by being the fun and funny guy who buys all the under 21 kids alcohol and brings the weed and is a huge stoner and just tries to make up for all his other flaws with that and cheap jokes

he deep down just really wants someone to actually see him and what he’s worth and like him enough for that because he can’t do that for himself and feels like no one else ever has really liked him outside of what he can do for them

he’s that cool but kinda annoying guy who works at blockbuster and is always wearing some hawaiian shirt or canadian suit and his hairs a mess and hes clearly a little stoned and giving you his weird movie suggestions and sometimes its really fun and you love it and other times you’re just like please stfu and let me get my movie

his favorite movie is basic instinct only cuz she briefly flashes her coochie like he’s a pig and thinks he’s soo funny

ALSO HE REALLY ONLY GOES BY NATE, NATHAN AND NATHANIEL ARE USUALLY RESERVED FOR WHEN HIS FAMILY ARE BEING DICKS TO HIM

deep down he’s just baby okay like he tries to come off as this i just want sex no strings but he’s the type to literally get attached after a one night stand?? like hes on the low a huge romantic cuz he’s so desperate for love?? he’s v emotional like i said he has so much potential in really everything but he just reduces himself to this caricature because it’s easier than actually trying and opening up

okay everyone here is a messy run through of my baby erin parker who serves me audrey horne meets brooke davis supremacy !! here’s her pinterest if yall wanna get a certain vibe about her

THIS IS GONNA BE A MESS AND RAMBLES IM SORRY BUT LOVE ME AND HER ANYWAY THANKS

erin comes from a pretty rich but neglectful family in town. her dad owns the nordstrom and she doesn’t need to work at all but she does just because she hoped working there would make her dad pay some attention to her and like her more but alas it did not but now she doesn’t mind so much because it’s better than just lurking around her home and feeling like shit - also she works at the perfume counter in nordstrom 

she’s that person who on the surface puts up a really good front that everything’s okay. she seems like a typical party girl who flirts a little too much and has a reputation of being promiscuous (but she’s not nearly as much as she lets on). she’s all about having fun, trying to distract herself from everything that’s wrong in her life and looking way too much for male validation

she can kinda come off aloof and distant and even a bit intimidating because tbh she has a major resting bitch face and she really tries to put up this act that she’s so mature and mysterious but really deep down she’s still that little girl looking for herself and what she wants to do and looking for the love and validation she never got

because of that she’s a hopeless romantic on the low but wouldn’t seem like it like she tries to come off like oh yeah love is whatever fuck that but deep down she dreams about falling in love and running away and living some whirlwind romance and having all the big love confessions and shit

she’s someone who when she puts her mind to something she gets it and she’ll do anything to make sure that happens and she does the same for her friends and those she’s loyal to because while she is aloof and distant and hard to get close to she really does want bonds and once she has them shes a ride or die hoe like even if you’re not super close she’s the type of person where if something happened and you need help you want to go to her

her fav movie is silence of the lambs because its lowkey always been a dream of hers to be a fbi agent like she thinks that’s so cool but at the same time knows she won’t do anything to achieve that dream so she just lives it out in her fav movie

she’s a bad bitch but also a sad bitch

she’s also someone who will act out for attention like pls she’s a really good and nice person usually but sometimes she’s so attention starved that she’ll just do something kinda fucked up or bitchy just for the attention or drama of it all so like i feel that could be fun little plots in the future

ABOUT THE MUN.  i used to lie to y’all, my mom didn’t say no, i did

i hate this site man. and that’s it, that’s all you gotta know about me. 

BIO. good news!!!! i’ve successfully replaced all my emotions with jokes !!!! tw bullying

reed newton was born in london england to sylvia anne bixby and cornelius otis newton and honestly, he’s regretted it ever since.

newt was an accident. he was the product of one of his mother and father’s first ever lustful encounters, and their subsequent shotgun wedding so honestly they both spent most of newt’s formative years in the honeymoon period. some of newt’s earlier memories are of him walking in on his parents doing the devil’s tango in the broom closet and his nanny rushing to cover his eyes. good times. 

honestly newt walked in on his parents doing the do more times than any kid should have before the age of nine. and then he walked in on a parent doing the do with a non parent. in other words newt got an eyeful of his father and the pool boy and it wasn’t long after that that his parents went through a long and messy divorce. once again, good times. 

his mother decided to pack up their things and move herself and her nine year old very impressionable son to nebraska, because fuck that kid amiright. newt was quickly designated as the skinny weird nerdy kid with glasses and a funny little accent, and so as you can guess he was pretty mercilessly bullied from age nine to eighteen. he really never stood a chance.

i feel like this is a good time to mention that newt’s mother was a sex therapist, which is not the same as a regular therapist but still, therapist is in the name. he should have been able to talk to his parent in this time of strife and get some level of support right? nope. sylvia bixby is well known for writing a men are from mars, women are from venus like book on communication and dating and all that, so his mom was generally on book tour after book tour. but maybe she would have been supportive if she was ever actually around, right? again, nope. 

unbeknownst to newt whenever his mother was around she was not only just casually psycho analyzing her only child for shits and giggles, no, she as also writing about it. newt’s mother wrote an entire book about raising a highly repressed teenage son with newt as the star, and you can only guess what that did for newt’s stellar high social status in high school. nothing great. 

did newt ask her not to publish it once he realized she had wrote it? yes. did she still publish it? also yes. so newt and his mother no longer have the greatest relationship. holidays are awkward.

things were not better on his fathers end, but it wasn’t because his father particularly did anything nearly as tone deaf as his mother. yes, his father was a famous erotica novelist and yes that made newt’s life a living hell, but newt luckily wasn’t the subject of those books. neil transitioned from writing fabio like novels to writing some lgbt fiction which, great for representation, horrible for your teenage son who is now known around school for having a dad who writes porn. to top it off, neil ended up starting a long term relationship with the pool boy and gaining a pseudo step son from it. benjamin caley was not only more athletic than newt, not only more attractive than newt, but also better than newt in every single way imaginable which was a real self esteem booster. his father actively prefers benji and every time newt visits him in england over the summers he comes home hating himself a bit more.

which works out because after the book being published, most people kind of hated newt too so at the very least he was on trend. there was a lot of classic nineties bullying you know, wedgies, swirlies, shoving newt into lockers. all very cliche. newt would tell his bullies as much, but it never really went over that well. 

but then finally newt graduated. he was free from the hell that was the public education system and his childhood household. he graduated with honours, moved out of his mother’s house, and got himself his own apartment with a roommate near the mall where he got his first real job. 

goes to university for software engineering. has an internship at apple that he’s absolutely terrified to mess up. has an old beat up car that was like the first big purchase he ever made with his own money, so he loves it to death even though it’s a piece of shit. 

PERSONALITY.  do you fear me? don’t feel so special now. i have social anxiety. i fear everybody.

this is my first time playing newt so all of this is subject to change BUT

INSECURE. newt is a weird mix of cripplingly insecure and weirdly confident and there is no in between ever.

WITTY.  humour is and always will be the only defense newt has against anything, so he makes a lot of jokes especially when he feels uncomfortable.

EMPATHETIC. newt is a big push over when it comes to emotions like he would never do anything to hurt someone unless it was by accident or he was provoked or you’re his step brother benji or either of his parents in which case he will run you over with his car on sight. but no really, if newt is in a position where he has to hurt somebody he will do absolutely everything in his power to either not or avoid the situation completely. 

AWKWARD. sometimes honestly, although it depends on the day. v clumsy though. usually he can try to make his awkwardness funny but does he always succeed? the answer is no. 

HEADCANNONS.  actually all of my systems are nervous.

has to drink like six cups of coffee or tea a day. very serious about his tea because english. also has vegemite on his toast. 

can actually cook pretty well even though he prefers to eat takeout. cooks because it’s cheaper and he’s a broke ass student yk. won’t take money from his parents ever, and will straight up give it away if it’s forced upon him. 

writes star trek fanfic for fun and has a kind of weird relationship with writing because of his parents honestly?? but he enjoys it so, maybe the apple in fact does not fall from the tree. 

has commitment issues because of his parents divorce but don’t we all. 

developed a stutter after all the divorce drama because he thought it was his fault. he later had to see a speech therapist. his mother later had a fwb relationship with this same speech therapist. newt wanted to die. 

traded his glasses for contacts and you will literally only see newt in glasses if he rips or loses his contacts or if he’s at home. 

in love with all things sci fi, will rent and see every sci movie ever made if he can 

accidentally knocks down at least one display in babbages per day so there’s that.

speaking of newt runs a small side gig out of babbages where he fixes up tech because paying for university, rent, and car insurance out of pocket gets up there. so if you need someone to fix your desktop newt is your guy. 

is actually a pretty good flirt when he’s drunk or feels comfortable. is constantly teetering between painfully insecure and confident. 

is very bi and very hesitant about it because of his father and all his feelings towards that, but he will eventually stop fighting it so much soon hopefully. has probably had a few drunken hookups with guys but tries to convince himself that is just a drunk thing yk. 

is allergic to bees so death has a kiss just for him i guess. 

loves video games but that goes without saying

has anxiety and takes medication for it, one of the few healthy things his mother has ever done for him. 

speaking of his mother if newt ever sees her book about him in a book display he will spend as much time as needed taking each book and hiding them in obscure places so that no one will ever be able to find them and buy them. he read the whole thing because he had to know and yep he absolutely hates it. 

goes by newt and only newt so that no one can make the connection between him and his mother or his father upon first meeting him or hopefully ever. a lot of the kids he went to high school with still know though and with the accent and everything, he’s not fooling anyone who has at least heard a rumour 

idk what else y’all imma fite tumblr for making me write this twice

WANTED CONNECTIONS.  actually wait, i take that self deprecation back, i’m great.

ROOMMATE. because newt can’t afford his place on his own between all his expenses. please. think of the shenanigans. 

ON AGAIN OFF AGAIN THING. kind of inspired by chandler and janice tbh. these two are pretty incompatible and whenever they’re together all they talk about is breaking up with each other but whenever they’re broken up and they see each other they somehow always find themselves waking up in bed together the next morning. it’s a mess.

NERD SQUAD. give me newt’s friends from high school please and thanks. just a crew of absolutely dweebs and misfits. 

FWB/EWB. self explanatory considering newt’s big commitment issues but i just imagine like making out in the back room and like hooking up in the break room and someone leaving like a damning article of clothing in there and the two of them scrambling to get it before anyone notices. just fun. 

EX. self explanatory but yes, an ex gf or bf, an ex fwb or ewb, give me all the exes please. 

REPEAT CUSTOMER. this person is always paying newt to come fix their computer and other tech and newt just doesn’t understand how they mess it up so badly. like he doesn’t get how or why technology hates them as much as it does, but he’ll take the money.

HATESHIP. just good old fashion animosity. could be hate from school or the fresh hate upon working in the mall together or they can just be newt’s least favourite customer and he can hate them for that. 

CRUSH. maybe newt had a crush on them in school. maybe they had a crush on newt in school. maybe newt has a crush on them now. maybe they have a crush on newt now. 

your muse probably knows kathleen; she’s the manager of the chuck e. cheese. she’s been working there since 1978, when she got a job after she was fired from her last one. she worked as a secretary at a law firm, one of the best there, but she was sleeping with her boss. no, she wasn’t fired for that; she was fired because once she learned her boss was back with his ex-wife, she tried to break up with him, but he wasn’t having it.

she’s not really sure where her life went; one minute it was 1966 in seattle, she was seventeen and spending every day partying with who she thought was the love of her life, harry chapman. before him, she’d… well, she’d never been a model child, the forgotten middle sister sandwiched between two prodigies. she always knew she’d have to carve her own path, but then she had to fall in love with a man who claimed to love her fire.

harry got a job in construction in this tiny town called strawberry, nebraska, and kath didn’t think twice before deciding to elope and move with him. they got a little trailer, and kath got a job at a bar, and life was good. or, it was, until harry’s dark side showed up. he didn’t love her fire so much anymore, but her fire was the only thing that kept her alive. they got a divorce after four tumultuous years of marriage, in 1971.

nowadays, kath is more known for taking vodka in her morning coffee and gin in her evening diet coke, and as long as you byob, leave a little extra for her, and don’t break anything, she’ll let you party in the chuck e. cheese after hours. doesn’t matter if you’re underage or not.

if you do break something, don’t fuck with her; she’s known to be quite scary, and has definitely made plenty of people cry. she also def has a list of people she has banned from chuck e cheese after hours. 

honestly, the only reason she’s still the manager of chuck e. cheese is because she’s the longest-lasting employee there, and people love her. they stay, buy more tickets, eat more pizza, spend more money. she’s still the only employee willing to clean up all kinds of bodily expulsions that children ages three and up can create. and she is, surprisingly, good with kids. (she wanted to be a school teacher, once upon a time.)

rumor is she’s the reason the chuck e cheese burned down. is that true? honestly, she probably can’t remember, but she does try to keep her bad habits on the dl as of late. 

howdy friends, let’s get to know this flower child!

joni mae was born to mary and philip o’connell, she was the second of three children and the exact definition of a middle child.

her parents were a young hippie couple, her mother a nurse and her father works as a school teacher. they met at woodstock when they were both seventeen. they fell in love over the weekend and went on to get married less than a year later.

they welcomed their first child into the world, a son followed by two daughters. joni was named after her mother’s favorite artist, joni mitchell. she hates it, not wanting to have to live up to someone else’s name.

she has a really good relationship with her siblings, her brother is a bit of a pain, always has been and probably always will. the bond her and her sister have is unmatched, they’ve always been close.

growing up in nebraska there really isn’t much to do, joni grew up fishing in the pond down the road, riding her bike into town to get milkshakes at the diner, hanging out at the public swimming pool as a kid in the summer and stealing pieces of hubba bubba from the corner store.

joni has always took an interest in baking. she used to bake cookies and cakes with her grandmother, she got the job at mrs. field’s a few years ago. she loves smelling like freshly baked cookies. jo is always handing out extra cookies to people, she’s always got a little bag of them with her, never know when someone may need one.

she’s a sweetheart and a giant ball of energy, she was born from lots of love and is the conductor of the hot mess express. her father nicknamed her “sass” at a young age because she never was good at biting her tongue.

since graduating high school joni has started to blossom, she’s becoming more comfortable in her own skin, she’s no longer the shy, reserved, tomboy. a vivacious woman is starting to appear, something she’s not used to. baby girl is still a virgin, she’d always been friends with guys but was too embarrassed to even try and flirt. now she just feels like she’s screwed and can’t let anyone know the truth. she puts a front up pretty much, she’s not a horrible actor tho!

babe is definitely bisexual, although she’s never had sex she def knows what she likes!