Name: Nico Laird

First Year at Camp?: Yes

Sex: Female

Camper or counsellor?: Camper

Age: 18

Appearance: With pale skin and jet black hair coupled with her dark makeup many would mistake Nico as a goth. Her eyes are a piercing blue, contrasting heavily with the darker tones of her appearance. She can often be seen wearing band tees and military boots coupled with an old German military jacket she bought from an online surplus store a year or so ago. Probably the least noticeable but most shocking part of her appearance are the lines of self harm that pattern the tops of her wrists. She keeps these hidden at almost all times, whether it be through a jacket or a wristband.

She's planned to get a tattoo for years but due to disapproval from her parents and a lack of money she has been unable to. As for piercings, that's a different story. Her ears are pierced, although she hardly ever wears earrings. She does however wear her nose piercing, which goes through her right nostril.

Items: a portable cassette player coupled with a few cassettes she's picked up from gigs and music stores over the years.

Personality: Nico could be described as introverted but that's not really doing justice to her actual personality. While she can come off as quiet at first, she can be rather loud after getting to know people or just interacting with new people while people she knows are around. The thing she loves most in the world is music, when listening to a song she loves she can often be seen dancing and singing along, although this is a rare occasion as her music taste is a little more...refined than what is played on the radio. By which I mean she's a hipster.

However, everything is not all bright with Nico. She has a history of self harm stemming from her time in highschool, something which she is less eager to show and talk about. Furthermore, she often drinks heavily when there's a party and it's likely that she'll either be curled up in the feral position almost being sick or just plain asleep by the end of the night.

Also if you call her a goth or an emo or anything similar you are likely to get an eye roll and the cold shoulder.

Short History: Nico was born in Ontario, Canada to possibly the strangest pair of parents someone could ask for. Her father was the former lead guitarist for an unsuccesful punk band turned architect and her mother was a preppy popular girl turned real estate agent. It's fair to say her upbringing was a bit of a war between the cliques, of which her dad obviously won.

However, due to her rather gothic appearance growing up she would often be bullied in highschool. Bullying which started out small and just began growing and growing until it led Nico to self harm. At this point her parents were in despair, it was only when her mother was offered a job in the states that life seemed to turn good again.

To make sure that Nico makes friends and starts to fit in with American culture they sent her to a summer camp, something which Nico is less than happy with.