BELLAMY, SEATTLE QUINN

seattle bellamy

general

member group-- high school student
middle name-- quinn
nicknames-- none
age-- seventeen
birthday-- july 12th, 1997
sexuality-- homosexual
play by-- freya mavor
likes--
cigarettes, horror movies, pretty girls, fire, and tattoos
dislikes--
her immediate family, being ill, bigotry, authority figures, whiners
strengths--
drawing (wants to become a tattoo artist if she can get her shit together), a strong shoulder to lean on, very perceptive, great sense of humor, intelligent
weaknesses--
reckless, no ambition, temper, pyromaniac, possessive
fears--
that one day her daughter will come searching for her and realize her mother is a complete loser, growing up and becoming an adult, and that she'll wind up alone forever
habits--
plays with the curls of her hair as she speaks, fidgets constantly

personality

I. TALENTED. seattle is quite talented when she puts her mind to it. she's always been a proficient drawer, even in primary school. she specializes in black and white portraits of people that are so accurate it's eerie. she prefers not to tell her subjects that she's drawing them, instead using her quite good memory to note the details. her memory is almost photographic although not quite, and as such her portraits almost always have something slightly off about them unless she views her subjects continually. she thinks that if she could eve get the motivation she would be a great tattoo artist, since tattooing is something that's fascinated her for her entire life. she doesn't have the typical look of a tattooer, but since when has someone else's judgement ever stopped seattle from going for what she wants? in the same vein of talented, seattle is able to catch on to subjects very quickly and apply them properly, although it's her lack of ambition and desire to do much of anything that doesn't interest her immediately that prevents her from delving into this talent and really using it.

II. LAZY. seattle is, for lack of a better word, extremely lazy. while she has every ounce of prospect that a person could have, it's the trying to get things done that hinders her. if something isn't directly benefiting her or capturing her interest at all times, seattle is liable to toss it to the side and promptly forget about it. this has led to her picking up many little things, such as playing the guitar or starting anna karenina, only to drop it a short while later when it becomes too tedious for her to continue. this affects her friendships, which can dwindle to nothing if the other person loses seattle's interest or they don't put in enough effort. it also extends into her schoolwork. if seattle put her nose to the grindstone, there's no doubt that she's intelligent enough to be in the top percentage of her class. however, as it is, she is barely skating by in most classes and is the bane of her teachers' existence. she'd rather spend her class period drawing or texting someone in lieu of actually learning. her grades are never better than the occasional b, which is almost always achieved in art-based courses. even then, she's liable not to turn in her work because it never got finished, since the assignments are often not on target with what she wants to do.

III. CHARMING. how has seattle not been booted from the school entirely or rejected from every group of friends? her charm, that's how. seattle has a way of making the person she's talking to feel like they're the only person in the room of importance. she uses her wide, affable smile to draw people in and then keeps them there with her piercing blue eyes. she knows exactly when to interject in a conversation to make it appear that she's listening, although for the she's probably just looking to get someone to keep her amused for a while. this isn't to say that she's not genuine, for most of the time she is attentive to the other person because she finds learning about new people to be fascinating. she is able to use this charm on boys to get them to do what she wants - as if she'd ever sleep with another one in her life - and on her teachers when they threaten to fail her straight away. her charm can sometimes be misconstrued as flirting with the other girls at school, although they would certainly know if she decided to set her sights on them. romance is just about the only area that seattle is motivated in.

IV. EMOTIONAL. seattle is, for the most part, a happy person. it's rare to catch her without a smile on her face, she's so content. however, lurking underneath that peppy exterior is someone entirely different. seattle has a bit of a temper, and "a bit" is an understatement. she has days where she wakes up and feels so irritable that she might set the world on fire. other days, she cries for no reason and finds it hard to get out of bed. she worries that she may have bipolar disorder, which only furthers her need to be as happy as possible when dealing with other people. she has yet to breathe a word of this thought to anyone, for fear that they'll put her on some kind of medication and make her feel like a drugged out zombie. so for now, to deal with the moods that are anything but cheerful, seattle turns to pyromania and smoking. she loves a good cigarette and almost always has a pack of them and a lighter on her person. sometimes she'll tuck one behind her ear and hide it under her mass of curly hair to get away with having them in class. the pyromania is something that she turned to without meaning to. one day she set a piece of paper on fire in her dorm room and she was hooked ever since. she never sets large fires, for fear that she'll burn the dorm down, but a piece of paper or an old book are always in danger of going up in flames.

V. FEARLESS. seattle has no real fears to speak of. the normal ones that people have, like fire or clowns or spiders, all seem too trivial to her for her to really worry about. there are bigger fish to fry, as she likes to say, and so wasting her time on that sort of thing is just tossing her life away. even the more serious ones, like death and what happens in the afterlife, are of no consequence to her. this leads to her doing things like jumping out of a second story window to escape a particularly angry girl or taking drinks from strangers who look just a bit too dodgy. in short, if it's a reckless thing to do, seattle will probably do it without a second thought. it's not that she doesn't care what happens to her, except that's exactly it. she lives in the moment and subscribes to the religion of spontaneity. hey, if she doesn't die doing it, it'll make a great story to tell later, right?

history

I. PREGNANCY. when seattle was in her early teens, around fourteen years old, she was still in denial of her sexuality. she had fallen in love with her best friend, a lovely girl named camilla, but she knew that if she acknowledged that then she would not only lose her best friend but commit social suicide in her small england preparatory school. so she decided that to throw off the rumors and the mean girls in her school - whom she would fight behind school without a problem, except they always seemed to gang up on her and leave her bloody and bruised - she would date a boy. or several boys. she soon became known as the promiscuous girl versus the girl who might be a lesbian. she wound up catching the eye of one of the more popular boys in her class, a fellow named brad, and they began to go steady. brad pressured her into having sex one day, saying that he loved her and he would make sure they had protection and didn't she want to be a real girl? and seattle, young, naive, and still feeling the pressure from the rest of the school, agreed to go along with it. it was messy, painful, and a memory that she prefers to block out. instead, she likes to say that she's still waiting to lose her "real" virginity to a girl who properly loves her and isn't just using her for social climbing. brad lied to her about using proper protection - and how was she to know? she was a scared virgin who was more worried about herself splitting in two than what a condom felt like - and she wound up pregnant. as soon as brad found out, he ditched her and went back to his old girlfriend. shortly after her fifteenth birthday, seattle gave birth to a little girl who was swept away in a semi-open adoption. that meant that seattle could visit abigail, as her adopted parents named her, under supervision. she visited once and then never went again, finding the whole experience too painful and depressing. now she worries that abigail might come searching for her mother someday and realize that she was a complete loser who had no right having sex, let along having a child.

II. EMANCIPATION. seattle's parents had her at the tender age of sixteen. her father completed school while her mother dropped out to take care of her. they were married when they both turned eighteen and seattle was nearly two years old. her mother had picked her name out of an "unusual baby name" book, thinking that it was romantic, being named after a far away place in america. niamh was a second generation irish girl who was never going to go anywhere but london, and this was her way of thinking that her baby could have a better life than she and her husband ever would. however, the stress of being a young parent who lost her best teenage years and schooling to a baby took its toll on niamh. her husband with a wandering eye and penchant for going home with blondes who looked nothing like plain niamh took their toll, and she began to drink heavily. this resulted in her completely neglecting seattle unless seattle made a fuss, at which point niamh would either scream, hit her, or burn her with a cigarette that she often lit one off of another. fred was never home to stop these events from happening, instead choosing to "work overtime" whenever he could. this meant he was down at a bar or off with one of his many mistresses. seattle endured this, more often than not acting as niamh's caregiver than the other way around, until she turned sixteen years old and was able to legally file for emancipation. she was granted this motion as long as she moved in with her aunt and uncle, two very nice people who were shocked at the allegations - which were proven true - about their sister and sister-in-law. they decided to help seattle start anew and sent her to maine to enroll in boarding school. being free from the burden of her parents has led to seattle swinging from one end of the spectrum to the other: instead of being a surly, stressed, sad teenager robbed of her chance to grow up, she became a reckless, wild, flirtatious teenager aiming to make up for the years she lost.

III. AMERICA. moving to america was something that seattle never anticipated. however, her aunt and uncle were firm in the fact that they wanted her to experience something good in her life for once, and that they felt that being tied to london would make it hard for seattle to move on. so they bought her the necessities for a trip overseas, paid for her to enroll in atherton pryce hall, and loaded her onto an airplane shortly before her seventeenth birthday. when seattle arrived, she wasn't ready for the culture shock that she was going to face. suddenly she was "exotic" and "desirable" to people, with her mop of curly hair, freckled face, and bright blue eyes. most of all, people mooned over her accent, which was thick and utterly impossible to hide. with every colloquialism from home that came from her lips, people would fawn over her. she began to realize that she could use these things to her advantage, and so she became a tiny bit more manipulative than she would have ever been without being in america. it took her a bit to find some solid friends and to find her footing at the school, but now she feels as though america, and more importantly main, has always been her home. she can hardly remember what it was like in london. this is why she has a tattoo of the london skyline on her shoulder, to always remind her of where she came from and what she never wants to go back to.