trippindicular !

born in bainbridge island, washington, on january 14th, 1999, as lainey novak. she had two older siblings and one younger brother. her parents, craig and justina, were high school sweethearts. they were just two dumb kids when they first got pregnant and shortly afterwards, they were married.

they lived off of craig’s minimum wage salary as they had another child only a year after the first, and then quickly after that, lainey arrived. the children were relatively calm and happy, but things were very strained between craig and justina, as the bills piled up and justina became frustrated with her life.

with their last child born and their older children becoming school-aged, justina got a part time job as a receptionist at a local newspaper office. over time, justina started to fall in love with a reporter there, fantasizing about a life with a strange man and no children. while she loved her kids, she began to resent them for ‘stealing her youth’ away, while craig was none the wiser.

after two years at the newspaper, justina had built up her fantasy so much that it began to bleed into real life and she started an affair with the reporter. however, he wasn’t interested in anything serious, especially not a woman with multiple children, and justina eventually decided she needed to get rid of her children to be with him. justina shot her four children, blaming the incident on a home intruder. the incident ended with all her siblings deceased, lainey the only one to survive.

lainey was sent to a foster home as her mother went to trial and was eventually sent to prison for life for the murder of three of her children. lainey was adopted a short time later by the liddells, renamed lisa for privacy, and moved down to california in petaluma.

lisa, only a small child when all of this occurred, adjusted well to life with the liddells. though she had vague memories of her family before and the incident, lisa became convinced those were just dreams. it wasn’t until her late adolescence that lisa realized it really happened. the liddells didn’t hide what happened from lisa, but they were careful about it, in case word got out and unwanted attention came to them.

lisa got along well with her adopted siblings and did well in school, though was a pathological people-pleaser. she easily got swept up into popular crowds and their bad habits, though she was the ‘nice one’ out of the popular crowd she hung around with.

lisa got into stanford, just a stone’s throw away from petaluma, where her older adopted sister jamila already attended. thinking she’d have a fresh start, as none of her high school friends were going to stanford, she quickly fell into old habits once she started to rush omega beta zeta.

there, she became part of the ‘popular crowd’ once again, though they were much worse than anything she encountered in high school. (think the heathers, lisa being the mcnamara.) while she was, once again, the ‘nice one’ of the group, she began to feel more pressured into doing things that she’d usually resist against, and lisa discovered she had a meaner side to her than she thought before.

in her sophomore year of college, lisa has grown tired of being part of the omega beta zetas and the fierce foursome, but she loves her best friends and truthfully, the attention she gets from being part of them is nice. still, lisa has become a bit more passive aggressive, and fights back in subtler ways. she doesn’t like herself when she’s around the foursome, but she doesn’t who she’d be without them, either.

lisa has come to crescent lake as part of her vacation with her best friends, though it quickly got bigger until even her adopted sister jamila has tagged along. she was expecting a quiet, relaxing vacation with her girls but really, who was she kidding? this was only an excuse to party... or is it? does someone else in the group have nefarious reasons for bringing them all to lake crescent camp grounds?

wanted connections.

a townie that’s caught lisa’s eye. usually lisa keeps to herself, rather shy, but this muse is just so alluring that lisa is finding herself drawn to them.

townie friends. lisa’s never been to crescent lake before but she’d likely meet them at a party and they’ve decided to bring lisa under their wing and show her around crescent lake while she’s here.