- “I hate you. I’m not saying it as an insult, I’m saying it as a fact. It is 78 degrees outside and I hate you.”
✧ Preferred Age: 3rd born-28 years
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Mariana is a relatively quiet girl. At least, she used to be. Now she is much less reserved with her comments, while still being calm or blatantly speaking her mind in a reserved demeanor as if everything she says is what is right. She enjoyed the luxuries of her life, never having much accountability because she was, in some ways, a middle child. She has issues thoigh controlling her anger and at times will seemingly turn emotions very quickly. It makes being in confrontational situations more difficult when they involve her, depending on the situation.
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✧ Relationship with their father Anthony Blackstone -
Mariana used to be very close with her father. I’m face, he even picked her name. Whenever her mother would be ‘too harsh’ Mariana would go to her father and it seemingly would be remedied as fast as a bonfire goes dim in the rain. But once she became older, grew more opinionated, the forth sibling coming along, she was talked to less by her father and they grew apart. She began feeling a quiet, simmering resentment for him, and once she began having her mental breaks in family conversations, he insulted her, called her crazy, and that broke the relationship completely.
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✧ Profession -
Mariana completely distanced herself from the family business, wanting no part. Instead she wanted something simple, something her family would think is outrageous if they ever found out. She works far downtown at a club as a ‘server’ at a place called “El Diablos Carnival”
I'm the kind of person who doesn't take risks unless I know I can succeed. I don't believe in probability—it's either 100% or 0%; there are no in-betweens. My mother, as overbearing as she was, taught me to seize the opportunity when it presents itself. I think that's a fool's errand. Why risk failure when you can simply buy success? Why set yourself up for the possibility of losing when you can rig the race? All these other people chasing their dreams are idiots, each one of them constantly falling into pits along the way. It's a waste of time. You only get one life, and I intend to keep it as failure-free as possible, especially when there's money on the line.
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✧ Relationship with their father Anthony Blackstone -
I spent my whole life trying to get my father to see that I could bring the family success; that I could take the Blackstone name to even greater heights, put us in places our ancestors have never gone. That old fuck never turned his face to me. He always favored the others. That's the problem with being the eldest child. The youngest get groomed for greatness and the everyone else gets coddled and spoiled. The eldest child gets left to fend for themselves, forgotten and lone; considered a failure.
To be honest, I'm glad he's dead. The only difference between him and any other corpse is the Blackstone name, something he didn't deserve to wield. Now someone else can take the mantle, bring our legacy to the peak of influence, make the world remember the weight of our name—or be crushed beneath it.
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✧ Profession -
No officially documented career status. Rumors among the rich say that Edward is a supplier—of what is unknown.
✧ “Character Strapline” ✧ "I already know I'm on my way to hell- you don't have to point that out." "Hold on, let me write that down in the Sh*t-you-did-not-know notebook."
✧ Second-Born
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Bailey isn't greedy for money, like most. She's greedy for dopamine and greedy for adrenaline. Those two simple things in everyone's life seem to be the hardest things for her to find. With her mass intelligence, everything is boring for her. There's nothing here anymore that she can use to put her brain at work, and so staring into empty space always seems to occupy her time.
She isn't very close with her siblings- she hasn't been from the start, but even more so now that her father has died. At first, like everyone else, she believed it was an accident. Now that she's sure it isn't, how can she trust her siblings when there is a traitor amongst them? How can she trust her siblings when she seems like the perfect candidate to commit a murder?
After her father dies, here you have a case of anhedonia. She doesn't see his death as a cause for PTSD because she doesn't know what triggers it up- But that PTSD caused her to not feel her happiness anymore, to be shut up all the time, to be blunt and sometimes rude. While she's thought about murder before, Bailey never brought up in her head to murder her own father. She thought of pulling off a random murder to feel that slight rush of adrenaline within her, a rush that she hasn't felt in so long. She knows it's childish, but if she keeps it a secret and disposes of the body, how would anyone find out it was her?
That was one year ago, almost exactly one year before her father's death. Nobody knew about her desires, but her rudeness and short personality is an easy lead to one of her siblings investigating her. She wants no part in helping someone investigate her father's murder: she wants a challenge to her intelligence, one she hasn't found in quite a bit. She wants to do it herself. If she finds the culprit, though, would she easily be able to betray her own family? She thinks she would be able to, but in the moment, turning back might seem like a good option.
If she does find something out, she knows her life will be in danger. But if she does find something out, it could take any blame or evidence off her and put it onto someone else. The pros and cons are endless, and Bailey is sure to analyze them to the end. She needs to analyze everything because she knows dead ends are almost always hollow.
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✧ Relationship with their father Anthony Blackstone
Bailey was closest to her father while he was alive, though she wasn't in it for the money. In fact, she despised the fact that most people tried to get close to him because of his money. He was always spending his time distributing funds to those interested in his money. She knew that the spending of his money on other people wasn't a sign of love, it was a sign of wealth: it made her angry.
She didn't really think deep into her relationship with her father, and she didn't get a glimpse of how others viewed her when she was with her father. Now that he's dead, she steps extra carefully around any topic having to do with Anthony because it might lead greater suspicions to her.
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✧ Profession -
Bailey works as a part-time bio-mechanic intern while living off of the family fortune.
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✧ Relationship Status ✧ Single
✧ Faceclaim - Realistic face claims preferred! ✧ // here // except less smiley /hj
Friendly when she needs to be, unless she genuinely enjoys someone's presence which is rare. No one has gotten her to drop her guard just yet, not even her current boyfriend, Samuel. But he doesn't know that. In fact, no one knows. Her genuine self is only alive when she's alone in her home, the type of person who is vulnerable and has emotions far greater than any family, friend, or acquaintance has witnessed, and it's all thanks to her upbringing. But she does put on a hell of a face when she steps outside of those walls. The monthly contributions to charity are made using a different name, partly because she doesn't want to be spammed with newsletters and donations requests, and also to avoid ending up in some shitty online article.
At work, she's just as fierce, though justly and without discrimination. It is how she has maintained her business thriving. Her employees, for a lack of better words, have learned to behave a certain way whenever she's around. Katherine has obviously noticed, and she takes pride in the fact that at least they are wise enough to realize there isn't any slacking.
Her personality is only patient enough for two friends, a couple of women who compliment her persona and whom she suspects also have plenty more hiding beyond the surface.
✧ Relationship with their father Anthony Blackstone ✧
Their relationship wasn’t the best, but it was cordial. She would call him for his birthday, father’s day, and Christmas. They saw each other here and there, but she never went out of her way to go see him simply because she missed him. Growing up, Katherine resented Anthony for prioritizing work over her and her siblings. Whether that was his intention or not, she didn’t care. She wanted a deeper connection with him, a bond that was truly what a daughter/father relationship should have looked like. Instead, she was stuck with the superficial facade, which ended up pushing her further and further away as time went on. Eventually she stopped caring, which most have been obvious to her mother and siblings despite them not mentioning anything. Katherine never bothered to speak up on the times he would forget to call her on her birthday, keeping that resentment inside as her pride forbade her to seek any additional acknowledgment from him.
✧ Profession ✧
CEO of The Blackstone Group, a security firm built by her and mostly funded by her father.
✧ ❝ Oh, darling. The only dirty I abide is in a martini… ❞
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✧ Age - 54 ✧
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Regina’s family, the namesake for her maiden name “Windsor”, is one of the more prolific upperclass families of society. She was raised in a handful of manor houses and spent her childhood between private boarding school, holiday homes and the family’s primary abode of Windsor Castle. Her upbringing was stiff, stale and dripping in luxury. Consequently, she struggles to be genuinely tactile and has a barrier of awkwardness around vulnerability. The impenetrable aura she’s built for herself makes Regina a tough read. She’s inherently cold, calculated and arms-length. Though she’s well versed in upperclass mannerisms; Double cheek kisses, a firm handshake and polite laughter, Regina rarely lets the cool, calm and collected mask slip.
Regina has the kind of presence that makes a room fall silent. Most are in awe of her (apparently) striking beauty which she couples with a sharp tongue and intensely observant gazes. However, lack of human emotive proximity makes a soul lonely and Regina’s shortcomings mean she has very little true friends and love that comes with a price. Her parenting style is strict and demanding. She expects a lot from her children, pushing them to be successful in their own right not through genuine care but in fear of perceived failure. Regina’s vices; cigarettes, alcohol and retail therapy, have become crutches she couldn’t possibly live without. She firmly believes that there isn’t a problem money can’t solve.
✧ Relationship with Anthony Blackstone ✧
- Something of school sweethearts, Regina and Anthony’s relationship began as any promising love story would. They were friends at Eton College who fell in love. Regina allowed herself to be wooed and charmed by Anthony’s irresistible allure. He was everything she wasn’t; Extroverted, confident, loud and bold… Together? They were a force to be reckoned with.
It wasn’t until Regina gave birth to her first child that Anthony began having extra-marital relations. It was then that the marriage began to fray at the seams. Always behind closed doors, because god forbid the neighbours found out, the two began to clash. She was quietly aware of her husband playing away, her attention to detail meant Anthony was unable to carry out his affairs in private. But they had an unspoken rule: Regina knew of the affairs. But they were never to encroach on her day to day life. Provided Anthony continued to fund his wife’s glamorous lifestyle, she would turn a blind eye to his infidelities.
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“Dream job? Oh, no. I do not dream of labour” - Regina has never had an actual “job.” She has passion projects; Art installations, charity fundraisers, interior design. She left Anthony to do all the hard work, helping from behind the scenes where necessary. Though inexperienced in the working world, Regina’s brain is undeniable. She often offered her husband counsel, he would seek her advice on business plans and such. But she’s never had a paycheck… Lest you count the sizeable allowances Anthony would send to her bank account.
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