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[color=#dd99ff][h3]Name:[/h3][/color] Annest Williams
[i](Annie, if she likes you)[/i]

[color=#dd99ff][h3]Age:[/h3][/color] 26

[color=#dd99ff][h3]Appearance:[/h3][/color]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/uMyIIs5.jpg[/img]

Standing at 5’8 and weighing just over 8 stone, Annest is thinner than most. She is physically weak, almost appearing fragile, something she resents but doesn’t truly care enough to do anything about. What she wears out depends heavily on who she is with and what she is doing: if she is alone, she wears whatever clean garments are most comfortable, mostly opting toward loose shirts and baggy pants (a holdover from her time spent travelling); if she is with her family (especially her nephews or grandfather), she appears more presentable, often wearing dresses or fashionable tops and bottoms. If she is working, she will dress the part: full formal for weddings, business casual for portraits, whatever-she-would-have-worn-anyway for local business events.

[color=#dd99ff][h3]Family:[/h3][/color]
[list][*] Donald Williams | grandfather | 83 | retired
[*] Seth Williams | brother | 31 | police officer
[*] Megan Williams | sister-in-law | 30 | secondary school teacher
[*] Jackie Williams | nephew | 5 | P1 student
[*] Noah Williams | nephew | 3 | adorable
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[color=#dd99ff][h3]Occupation:[/h3][/color] Annest is a freelance photographer based out of her family home, specializing in portraiture and wedding photography. She advertises mostly through word of mouth, business cards, and flyers posted in public spaces, as well as a professional website. She also offers a free service for local businesses, taking candid photos during events and making them available to the host at no charge.

Outside of her business, she spends much of her time taking care of her elderly grandfather and young nephews.

[color=#dd99ff][h3]Personality:[/h3][/color] Annest is, for the most part, bubbly and light-spirited. Most people would describe her as “fun to be around”, and she has never had trouble making friends. She is easy to work with, easy to talk to and generally a very easy-going person. She is also very good with kids, and, since moving into the family home, has spent a great deal of time taking care of her two young nephews - not because she has to, but because she wants to.

Despite her comfort in a crowd, she often has trouble keeping close friends, mostly for lack of trying: Annest finds it easier to keep track of relationships when they are indiscriminately kept at arm's length, and she rarely thinks it worth the effort to maintain a close friendship any longer than she feels she has to. There are exceptions, of course; but for the most part, the people who call her friend are not the same people she would lean on in times of need.

Annest is also very impulsive. This is clearly evident in her refusal to take the time to think out major life decisions, but also shows in smaller, everyday actions, occasionally getting her into trouble. In spite of this (or perhaps because of it) she has yet to truly experience regret. 

[color=#dd99ff][h3]History:[/h3][/color]
Annest was born in London, the second child of a Scottish mother and an English father. She spent most of her formative years in the city, spending summers with her maternal grandparents in their large Drumvar home. She loved these trips, and Drumvar was, for a long time, tinted rose in her mind because of them.

She first took an interest in photography while playing with her father’s old polaroid camera: what started as a fun game to play with her friends quickly turned into a full-blown hobby as she spent more and more time obsessing over how she could take better photos, playing with lighting and other techniques as well as reading books and magazines dedicated to photography. She purchased her own camera when she was twelve after having saved for nearly a year, and she spent every moment she could taking photos of herself, her family, their house, the city, anything that struck her.

Two days after her eighteenth birthday, Annest left London without a word. For six years after, she travelled the British Isles and then Europe, living mostly out of hostiles and occasionally sleeping on a friendly couch. To finance her trip, she began freelancing photography, specializing in portraiture and working under the table, often accepting food and lodging for her work. Although it wasn’t always easy, Annest loved every moment of her travels.

Her adventure ended when her camera was stolen in Berlin. Unable to fluently speak the local language and without a steady source of income, Annest decided that her best course of action was to head back to the UK. After finding a phone and someone with whom she could properly communicate, she called her childhood home - to find out that her maternal grandmother passed in her absence, and that her brother was taking care of her elderly and sick grandfather. Devastated, she made her way to Drumvar, arriving three months later.

Her family was overjoyed to welcome her home, and she quickly moved into the family home in Drumvar, setting up a legitimate business and caring for her grandfather and young nephews. Two years later, she has more or less established herself as part of the community; although she still feels somewhat like an outsider in a town that doesn’t quite resemble her childhood memories.

[color=#dd99ff][h3]Other:[/h3][/color] Although she has a passing familiarity with several languages due to her travel, Annest only speaks English and French fluently.


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