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lovelylight) wrote2015-07-13 09:52 am
lovelylight) wrote2015-07-13 09:52 am
History
CHARACTER NAME: Alexia Cassandra Gibbs, goes by Lexi. Anyone who isn’t Rian or Wren that calls her by her full name gets the stink eye.
CHARACTER AGE: 34
SPECIES:Human.
BACKGROUND & HISTORY:As Lexi would put it, her life reads like some medieval ballad. All but born in the wilderness of northern California, Lexi Gibbs is the only daughter of Henry and Jessica Gibbs. With her father serving in the military and her mother fluent in five languages, Lexi spent most of her childhood moving around with her family for both of their jobs. She lived in California until she was five; from there, she spent time in England, Washington, Texas, and New York, where she finished up high school and began frequenting the music scene, playing both solo shows and helping out with friends’ bands.
In spite of her family’s nomadic ways, Lexi grew up in a loving and stable family environment; her mother a hippie and her father a lover of all the arts. They encouraged her to pursue every passion and hobby; as a result, Lexi wound up learning how to play guitar, piano, violin, and the mandolin, as well as develop a hobby of painting to help herself unwind. She began speaking both Spanish and French at the age of five, and is quite proficient in both languages.
As the only child, Lexi grew up rather spoiled, but lonely. She desperately wanted siblings to play with, unaware until her teenage years that her parents were incapable of having more after her. Thus, she started acquiring things to help keep the loneliness at bay. Her habit of collecting people began with dolls; from porcelain and wooden dolls to Beanie Babies, Lexi accumulated a fair amount of ‘friends’ in her youth, each with their own name, backstory, and personality. (And she grew so attached, she could never bring herself to get rid of them, even to this day.)
Following high school, Lexi started taking classes at NYU, intending on focusing on some combination of music and theater, with a minor in graphic design. She formed a two-person band with her best friend at the time, Amelia Waters. They played everywhere they could land a gig, from seedy dive bars to annoying people in the subway. Pursuing music thrilled Lexi, even while she attended college. Amelia introduced her to the more exciting aspects of a musical life – alcohol, drugs, sex, etc.
However, her relationship with Amelia came to a head one night, and they wound up parting ways. Lexi moved out of the flat they shared into a gritty, grimy studio apartment helped funded by her parents. It was soon after this fight that she found Rian O’Toole, fresh off the bus. Instantly sympathetic to his situation and remarking how much he reminded her of a kicked puppy, she eagerly took him in.
Not long after this, Lexi and Rian collected Wren Bellamy, another runaway. Immediately, they all became entangled in each other’s lives, a mess of glitter, drugs, music, and decadence. Within a year, Wren moved in with them, furthering the entanglement with shared lovers, friends, inspiration, music, and drugs. Wren proved to be the driving force behind shaping their creativity into a band. They dubbed themselves Enfants Sauvage, a tongue-in-cheek nod to Wren’s history.
While they did share everything, Lexi was still attending college during the band’s early years. Her academic pursuits kept her a little distant from the growing, intense relationship between Wren and Rian, allowing her to be something of a median whenever their fights threatened to get too out of hand. Once she graduated from NYU, with honors, Lexi used her connections to help Enfaunts land gigs beyond their usual club scene haunt. She also used her skills to help design merch, fliers, album covers, etc. Feeling as though she found a second family, she poured herself into Enfants Sauvage as much as Wren and Rian.
Despite their successes, growing as they were able to tour internationally, after a decade, the decadence flickered into despair as the relationship between Wren and Rian crumbled. Fed up with their lack of maturity in the aftermath, Lexi was the first to walk away, though it broke her heart to do so. She still kept in contact with the both of them, though she favored Rian to Wren. Especially throughout Rian’s relationship with Robin, and the subsequent marriage and divorce.
She wound up settling in Seattle, much to her own surprise. She found love in a fellow artist, a man with a name as whimsical as any other in her life: Enna. Enna played piano and guitar, but his main talents lay in the kitchen, in foods, spices, and wines. Together, they pooled their resources and opened a quaint, organic bakery in downtown Seattle, taking the apartment above the bakery for their own.
For a year, Lexi lived a relatively tranquil, stable life. She’d quit most drugs and cut down on drinking to excess; still indulging now and then in recreational pot use. Though Enna was an artist and musician himself, he was so much quieter compared to the past lovers in Lexi’s life; a babbling brook to her typical raging streams. Life with Enna allowed Lexi to indulge her own whims, from sewing, to acting, to teaching. She even started work on a solo album, though she hasn’t made much progress beyond a couple songs yet. Her bakery with Enna proved quite the success, and Lexi thought herself happy.
And then Enna proposed, and Lexi found herself facing one of her biggest fears: fading away into obscurity into a life dulled by contentment and lack of adventure. Shamefully, instead of providing Enna with any sort of answer, Lexi flew, packing up all of her stuff and booking the next bus out of town.
She thought of her boys then, of reading how they both settled into Wren’s old hometown in Maine. And then the pair of them had sent her a selfie with them and Rian’s kid, and her heart ached. She knew, in that moment, where she had to go.
PERSONALITY: Lexi Gibbs jokingly likes to refer to herself as a ‘maniac pixie nightmare girl,’ though that hardly describes her at all. She’s a force of nature in her own right, especially when in pursuit of one of her many passions. She’s loud, openly affectionate, and her laughter can spiral off into shrieks that make birds wince. She is a people person, through and through, especially to those she considers ‘her people.’ If she likes you enough, she’ll smack you upside the head to let you know when you’re acting like a moron. She’s fiercely loyal and won’t tolerate anyone hurting her friends or family.
She’s stubborn as a mule, too. Though she harbors an incredible amount of patience, thanks to her time with Wren and Rian, once it wears out, she can be as cruel and callous as the best of them. Especially now, after the disaster that was Wren and Rian’s imploding relationship.
She has troubling settling, too used to the nomadic life of her childhood and in her time with Enfants Suavage. And when faced with things that frighten her, like a contented future married to a kind man like Enna, she tends to run rather than confront them.
Above all else, though, Lexi really enjoys meeting new people and making new friends. She’s happy to interact with any fans of Enfants Sauvage, new or old. She likes making people laugh and seeing them smile. She’s considering pursuing acting at the moment, while also working on her solo album.
OPINION OF THE RIVALRY: Lexi thinks the whole rivalry think is idiotic on both ends. She has little patience for people treating each other poorly because of some notion of ‘curses’ or ‘feuds.’ Lexi loves her some Shakespeare, but she would rather the dramatic family fighting remain in the past and/or in poetry and song lyrics. If pressed, because of the supernatural nature of her boys, she would side with the witch side of things out of loyalty.
LIFESTYLE: The easiest way to sum up Lexi’s lifestyle is with one simple word: whirlwind. She lives as though floating on a breeze, drifting between one town and the next, with one hobby and the next. She has money from her days in Enfants, and enough saved up from her time in Seattle. But she’s grown used to living from moment to moment, and she’s trying to avoid the feeling of being trapped or settled.
Currently, she’s living one of Siren Cove’s cheap motels, unsure as to whether she should stay permanently. She has all of her instruments, with the exception of her piano, which she sadly sacrificed to Seattle. She has her art supplies, and her boxes of dolls and stuffed animal friends from her youth. Currently, Lexi lives like a runaway teenager, in spite of her very much adult age.
Lexi tends to drift towards relationships, like pieces of driftwood passing by in the ocean. In her college days and time with Enfants Sauvage, she cared little for anything more than sex. She enjoyed the fleeting nature of sharing lovers with her bandmates; it felt less constricting than being tied to any one person. She’s attracted to any and all genders, though she tends towards men for the most part. She dislikes putting any sort of label on herself for it. Though she’s had serious relationships before Enna, his proposal makes Lexi realize that she doesn’t know if she can do the whole ‘white picket fence’ fantasy. Currently, Lexi finds herself mostly confused and unsure as to what she actually wants for herself with any kind of romance. Considering she just ran off from a proposal, she thinks she’ll be grappling with this for awhile.
POWERS & ABILITIES: Lexi is very much human, but is often teased by her friends as ‘Pixie Girl,’ given her magpie-inspired outfits and tendencies in hoarding everything glittering and shiny. She is well-aware of the supernatural element; aside from Wren and Rian, she has a fair amount of friends and lovers both of the siren and witch variety. While she has no powers of her own, Lexi has in fact encountered magic before, when she was cursed by an overzealous fan after a solo concert.
PLAYED BY:Emilie Autumn
CHARACTER AGE: 34
SPECIES:Human.
BACKGROUND & HISTORY:As Lexi would put it, her life reads like some medieval ballad. All but born in the wilderness of northern California, Lexi Gibbs is the only daughter of Henry and Jessica Gibbs. With her father serving in the military and her mother fluent in five languages, Lexi spent most of her childhood moving around with her family for both of their jobs. She lived in California until she was five; from there, she spent time in England, Washington, Texas, and New York, where she finished up high school and began frequenting the music scene, playing both solo shows and helping out with friends’ bands.
In spite of her family’s nomadic ways, Lexi grew up in a loving and stable family environment; her mother a hippie and her father a lover of all the arts. They encouraged her to pursue every passion and hobby; as a result, Lexi wound up learning how to play guitar, piano, violin, and the mandolin, as well as develop a hobby of painting to help herself unwind. She began speaking both Spanish and French at the age of five, and is quite proficient in both languages.
As the only child, Lexi grew up rather spoiled, but lonely. She desperately wanted siblings to play with, unaware until her teenage years that her parents were incapable of having more after her. Thus, she started acquiring things to help keep the loneliness at bay. Her habit of collecting people began with dolls; from porcelain and wooden dolls to Beanie Babies, Lexi accumulated a fair amount of ‘friends’ in her youth, each with their own name, backstory, and personality. (And she grew so attached, she could never bring herself to get rid of them, even to this day.)
Following high school, Lexi started taking classes at NYU, intending on focusing on some combination of music and theater, with a minor in graphic design. She formed a two-person band with her best friend at the time, Amelia Waters. They played everywhere they could land a gig, from seedy dive bars to annoying people in the subway. Pursuing music thrilled Lexi, even while she attended college. Amelia introduced her to the more exciting aspects of a musical life – alcohol, drugs, sex, etc.
However, her relationship with Amelia came to a head one night, and they wound up parting ways. Lexi moved out of the flat they shared into a gritty, grimy studio apartment helped funded by her parents. It was soon after this fight that she found Rian O’Toole, fresh off the bus. Instantly sympathetic to his situation and remarking how much he reminded her of a kicked puppy, she eagerly took him in.
Not long after this, Lexi and Rian collected Wren Bellamy, another runaway. Immediately, they all became entangled in each other’s lives, a mess of glitter, drugs, music, and decadence. Within a year, Wren moved in with them, furthering the entanglement with shared lovers, friends, inspiration, music, and drugs. Wren proved to be the driving force behind shaping their creativity into a band. They dubbed themselves Enfants Sauvage, a tongue-in-cheek nod to Wren’s history.
While they did share everything, Lexi was still attending college during the band’s early years. Her academic pursuits kept her a little distant from the growing, intense relationship between Wren and Rian, allowing her to be something of a median whenever their fights threatened to get too out of hand. Once she graduated from NYU, with honors, Lexi used her connections to help Enfaunts land gigs beyond their usual club scene haunt. She also used her skills to help design merch, fliers, album covers, etc. Feeling as though she found a second family, she poured herself into Enfants Sauvage as much as Wren and Rian.
Despite their successes, growing as they were able to tour internationally, after a decade, the decadence flickered into despair as the relationship between Wren and Rian crumbled. Fed up with their lack of maturity in the aftermath, Lexi was the first to walk away, though it broke her heart to do so. She still kept in contact with the both of them, though she favored Rian to Wren. Especially throughout Rian’s relationship with Robin, and the subsequent marriage and divorce.
She wound up settling in Seattle, much to her own surprise. She found love in a fellow artist, a man with a name as whimsical as any other in her life: Enna. Enna played piano and guitar, but his main talents lay in the kitchen, in foods, spices, and wines. Together, they pooled their resources and opened a quaint, organic bakery in downtown Seattle, taking the apartment above the bakery for their own.
For a year, Lexi lived a relatively tranquil, stable life. She’d quit most drugs and cut down on drinking to excess; still indulging now and then in recreational pot use. Though Enna was an artist and musician himself, he was so much quieter compared to the past lovers in Lexi’s life; a babbling brook to her typical raging streams. Life with Enna allowed Lexi to indulge her own whims, from sewing, to acting, to teaching. She even started work on a solo album, though she hasn’t made much progress beyond a couple songs yet. Her bakery with Enna proved quite the success, and Lexi thought herself happy.
And then Enna proposed, and Lexi found herself facing one of her biggest fears: fading away into obscurity into a life dulled by contentment and lack of adventure. Shamefully, instead of providing Enna with any sort of answer, Lexi flew, packing up all of her stuff and booking the next bus out of town.
She thought of her boys then, of reading how they both settled into Wren’s old hometown in Maine. And then the pair of them had sent her a selfie with them and Rian’s kid, and her heart ached. She knew, in that moment, where she had to go.
PERSONALITY: Lexi Gibbs jokingly likes to refer to herself as a ‘maniac pixie nightmare girl,’ though that hardly describes her at all. She’s a force of nature in her own right, especially when in pursuit of one of her many passions. She’s loud, openly affectionate, and her laughter can spiral off into shrieks that make birds wince. She is a people person, through and through, especially to those she considers ‘her people.’ If she likes you enough, she’ll smack you upside the head to let you know when you’re acting like a moron. She’s fiercely loyal and won’t tolerate anyone hurting her friends or family.
She’s stubborn as a mule, too. Though she harbors an incredible amount of patience, thanks to her time with Wren and Rian, once it wears out, she can be as cruel and callous as the best of them. Especially now, after the disaster that was Wren and Rian’s imploding relationship.
She has troubling settling, too used to the nomadic life of her childhood and in her time with Enfants Suavage. And when faced with things that frighten her, like a contented future married to a kind man like Enna, she tends to run rather than confront them.
Above all else, though, Lexi really enjoys meeting new people and making new friends. She’s happy to interact with any fans of Enfants Sauvage, new or old. She likes making people laugh and seeing them smile. She’s considering pursuing acting at the moment, while also working on her solo album.
OPINION OF THE RIVALRY: Lexi thinks the whole rivalry think is idiotic on both ends. She has little patience for people treating each other poorly because of some notion of ‘curses’ or ‘feuds.’ Lexi loves her some Shakespeare, but she would rather the dramatic family fighting remain in the past and/or in poetry and song lyrics. If pressed, because of the supernatural nature of her boys, she would side with the witch side of things out of loyalty.
LIFESTYLE: The easiest way to sum up Lexi’s lifestyle is with one simple word: whirlwind. She lives as though floating on a breeze, drifting between one town and the next, with one hobby and the next. She has money from her days in Enfants, and enough saved up from her time in Seattle. But she’s grown used to living from moment to moment, and she’s trying to avoid the feeling of being trapped or settled.
Currently, she’s living one of Siren Cove’s cheap motels, unsure as to whether she should stay permanently. She has all of her instruments, with the exception of her piano, which she sadly sacrificed to Seattle. She has her art supplies, and her boxes of dolls and stuffed animal friends from her youth. Currently, Lexi lives like a runaway teenager, in spite of her very much adult age.
Lexi tends to drift towards relationships, like pieces of driftwood passing by in the ocean. In her college days and time with Enfants Sauvage, she cared little for anything more than sex. She enjoyed the fleeting nature of sharing lovers with her bandmates; it felt less constricting than being tied to any one person. She’s attracted to any and all genders, though she tends towards men for the most part. She dislikes putting any sort of label on herself for it. Though she’s had serious relationships before Enna, his proposal makes Lexi realize that she doesn’t know if she can do the whole ‘white picket fence’ fantasy. Currently, Lexi finds herself mostly confused and unsure as to what she actually wants for herself with any kind of romance. Considering she just ran off from a proposal, she thinks she’ll be grappling with this for awhile.
POWERS & ABILITIES: Lexi is very much human, but is often teased by her friends as ‘Pixie Girl,’ given her magpie-inspired outfits and tendencies in hoarding everything glittering and shiny. She is well-aware of the supernatural element; aside from Wren and Rian, she has a fair amount of friends and lovers both of the siren and witch variety. While she has no powers of her own, Lexi has in fact encountered magic before, when she was cursed by an overzealous fan after a solo concert.
PLAYED BY:Emilie Autumn