[CHAR] Birchmont Home for Children and Teens (ALWAYS OPEN)

[Rusalka]

Nataliya

"What do you want, loser?"

Наталия

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Name:

Nataliya Zalchenkov

Age and Birthday:

16; October 12, 1985

Gender:

Female

Personality:

Nataliya can either be your best friend or your worst enemy, depending how you fare around her. She's a bit of a smartass and doesn't like being told what to do, constantly clashing with authority. She isn't much for speaking, but when she does, she speaks in a thick Eastern European accent.

Likes:

-Loud Punk Rock & Heavy Metal music
-Coffee
-Cute boys & girls (bisexual)
-Cigarettes
-Junk food
-Getting high and/or drunk
-Video games
-Playing guitar
-Taking pictures of random things and saying it's art
-Sleeping in late
-Snow
-Skateboarding
-Not wearing pants sometimes

Dislikes:

-Authority
-Religion
-Having to get up early
-Doing chores
-When people try to act better than her
-Talking about her parents
-Snakes
-High places
-Summer
-Bullies

Bio:

Nataliya's parents immigrated from Ukraine to escape the Soviet Union. They lived in Detroit for about a year when Nataliya was born. Her father worked for a construction company while her mother worked as a teacher during the day...and a prostitute during the night while her father worked late.

Not only that, but Nataliya's father also had a compulsive drinking and gambling habit, putting the family deeper into crippling amounts of debt. Soon, he discovered his wife had been selling her body for money on the side, money she had been using to fuel her drug habit. A fight broke out between the two, which ended with her mother shooting hr father to death. Nataliya was only six years old at the time. She still remembers to this day the look on her father's face when the gun went off and he clutched his chest pouring blood.

After Nataliya's mother was arrested and charged with first degree murder, Nataliya was placed in the care of the Birchmont Orphanage. She grew up wild without any parental guidance, and she was constantly in trouble with the orphanage staff. None would want to adopt her, as she always looked mean and meddlesome. By sixteen, Nataliya has already been arrested three times by the police. Once for assault with a deadly weapon (a staff member tried to rape her allegedly, so she bashed him over the head with a lamp). Again for minor in possession of marijuana. And once more in 2000 for minor in possession of alcohol and public intoxication. (she was caught with a girlfriend of hers in the park, drunk and skinny dipping in the park's pond) The orphanage wants to get rid of her, claiming she is nothing but a bad seed, but by law they cannot remove her unless she is adopted. Guess they'll just have to put up with "Naughty Nat" as they call her.

[Oliver]

Felix

Age and Birthday: 6, December 31st
Gender: Male
Personality:Felix is painfully shy and cripplingly anxious, and unable to speak. He communicates using sign language and occasionally writing. Why he doesn't talk is a complete mystery, as no one's really sure where he comes from. He startles very easily and doesn't really trust anyone. He's hypersensitive and often cries over small things. He's very good at solving puzzles and logical problems, but panics in social situations.
Likes:

• Organization
• Coloring
• Drawing
• Board games
• Puzzles
• Toys
• Candy
• Dogs

Dislikes:

• Being touched
• Direct eye contact
• Bright lights
• Loud noises
• Eating

Bio: Felix was found at the age of four years old one July evening, left for dead by the side of the highway, heavily drugged and with a slit throat. Fortunately none of his arteries had been severed by the cut and he was able to be rescued by paramedics. He was in a coma for a few days before he woke up, and was seemingly unwilling to cooperate with the police and answer questions about his family or where he was from. They eventually traced him back to a divorced couple, the ex-wife of whom was currently living near Camp Point, Illinois. The ex-husband and his new fiancee had been found murdered in his home in Birchmont, Minnesota, and their son, who the ex-wife had taken custody of, was reported missing a few hours before Felix was found. Naturally, their son matched Felix's appearance, and was soon proven to be Felix with DNA testing. His murderous mother, Edele Coleman, is now serving a life sentence. Felix unfortunately is left without anyone to take care of him after his father's murder and has been placed in the local Birchmont orphanage.

[DriveEMOut]

Jack

Name: Jack Girn

Age: 16

Birthday: 1, 1, 1985

Gender: Male

Personality: Brooding, Dark, Cynical. He speaks in a very English accent, and often tries (and fails) to use American slang.

Likes:
Dark Humor
Death
Watching Plane Crashes
Listening to Metal
Reading an Apocalyptic Book
Forensics
Autopsies
Corpses
Salads

Dislikes:
Living People
Conversations
Pop Music
Waffles
God(He's a scientologist)

Bio: Raised in an abusive home, Jack had tried his best to stay positive and maintain good grades, even if he was in elementary and middle school. When his parents started to beat his brother, he snapped. He and his brother gathered supplies and backpacks, and ran away. Two years after, when Jack was 14, his brother died of sickness. He started to go into a downward spiral, and got more and more morbid. He had managed to stay at public school after running away, and a bartender took him in his brother in for a bit, but he eventually left them behind. When the police saw Jack cradling his brother's cold body, they placed him in the Birchmont Orphanage. Everyone seems to avoid him, with his dark mutterings and joy at tragedy. And who could blame them?

[Ejected]

Val

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"Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are."

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║ Name ║

Valentina Marie Wilkerson

║ Birthday & Age ║

December 12th, 1985.
16 years old.

║ Gender ║

Female

║ Personality ║

The Positive:

• Trustworthy
• Creative
• Laid-back
• Loyal

The Negative:

• Blunt
• Short-tempered
• Stubborn
• Sarcastic

Every since Valentina was a child she's been a more introverted girl, especially after the trauma that she's experienced. She would rather chill at home by herself than hang out with others or attend a party ("Unless there's weed.") When it really came down to it, she knew that the only person that would ever have her back was her brother. Because of this, she's never let anyone in, nor does she plan to. Over the years she has battled with depression and anxiety, so she's learned how to mask her emotions when around others. When talking to Valentina, one could expect to hear at least one snarky or sarcastic comment. She is very apathetic, blunt, and at times can be a bit too honest. She doesn't make friends easily, but once she does she proves herself to be a very trustworthy and loyal friend. Val has always been a clever and intelligent girl, and does exceptionally well in both math and science.

║ Likes and Dislikes ║
+ R&B music
+ Singing
+ Basketball
+ Spicy foods
+ Staying up late and playing video games.
+ Math
- People (most of them, anyways.)
- Crowded spaces
- Most country music
- Gossip
- Having to wake up early

|| BIOGRAPHY ||

Valentina and Malik were born in Brooklyn, New York, just three minutes apart. From the very minute they were born, the twins were neglected. Growing up in the hood was hard, especially when their father was a cold-hearted drug dealer, and their mother a prostitute. They had to look after each other as they grew older, and learned to take care of themselves. By four years old, the twins knew how to steal their food from local grocery markets, and by the age of eight they were shoplifting things they needed from other shops. Their parents were never around much, therefore they did not have much guidance. As a result, the twins did poorly in school, and eventually fell into the wrong crowd of people. By the time they turned twelve, the twins were selling drugs behind their middle school and participating in other illegal activities with their crowd. Valentina had always been good with numbers, so she handled the money while Malik did the dealing.

Val was thirteen years and three months old when her mother's "man" touched her for the very first time. It was two o'clock in the morning, the twins had been sleeping, when the much older man came home from the bar. Drunk and violent, he made his way into Val's bedroom, and forced himself on her. She tried to push him away, which resulted in him blacking her eye. This continued on for several months before Val finally worked up the courage to tell her school counselor. CPS was called, and just a few hours later, Val and Malik were taken away.

From that point on, Val and Malik have bounced from foster home to foster home, none of them ever being a good fit. Over the course of three years, the twins have been in twenty different homes. Unsure of how to cope with her pain, Val turned to weed and alcohol for happiness. This, however, only brought her temporary happiness. "Once the high is gone, the depression hits." She's been hospitalized once before after getting drunk and attempting suicide. Now, sixteen years old, Val is three months clean. She'll drink a beer and smoke weed every now and then, but tries her best to stray from the "hard shit." She now lives in a home in Minnesota, while her brother is in a group home in Ohio. They call each other every night, mostly so that he knows that she is alright. "I don't know how I'm going to manage without him by my side."

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