| | H I S T O R Y | |Philippa's parents divorced when she was three years old. Custody was set up without any court battles, and so she lived mainly with her mother during the week, and her father on the weekends. Not that he was every fully around. He was to busy working, wooing, and campaigning. So weekends were spent mostly under the care of a nanny, or at a fancy schmancy daycare. Week days with her mom were a different story entirely, since her mother chose to work from home until Pippa turned five and started kindergarten. Days were spent at the beach, or baking, coloring, dancing and singing around their condo in Burbank. She was the flower girl at her father's wedding to Aurore. Much to her mothers displeasure little Pippa got along with Aurore rather well. When she was six Aurore urged Pippa into modeling, which was also something her mother was not a fan of.
She was seven years old when her little brother Oscar was born, and Pippa's fame as child model was reaching its peek. She was the cover model for Alalosha twice, walked for a dozen runway shows, and was becoming well known in the LA fashion world. When her mother got a new job in New York City there were lots of arguments over which parent she should live with full time. In the end Pippa moved across the country to the big apple with her mom. Custody changed to spending the summers in California at her fathers, and the rest of the year in Staten Island with her mother. She started school at Columbia Prep and started taking piano lessons at her mothers behest, this is where she discovered her love for music. She took up the drums later that year.
Her modeling career had been on hold while in NYC without Aurore's eager guidance and connections. It also abruptly ended when she was nine, after coming home from summer with her hair bleached blonde. Her mother was furious when she saw little Philippa's hair and eyebrows dyed. Needless to say the shit storm that followed resulted in a traumatic haircut, and her mother forbidding her to model ever again. Camilla was born a few months later, and Pippa's mother begrudgingly let her go to California for spring brake to meet her new baby sister.
Her mother started going out with a Rodney Diaz when Pippa was ten. He was a closeted alcoholic, and worked in IT at her mothers office. Pippa didn't take very well to her mom's new beau, and did her utmost to piss him off at every turn. She even squeezed packets of soy sauce into the keyboard of his laptop in an attempt to make him leave. But even with all her efforts at trying to brake them up, he still moved in six months later. Her mother was stupidly in love with the man. It baffled Pippa since all she could ascertain about Rodney was that he was a homophobic, loud mouth, know-it-all, with a obnoxious since of humor, and love of booze, football, and guns.
He came with baggage in the form of two delinquent teenage sons, a jealous ex-wife, and some megalomania. His sons Drew and Marcus were what Pippa would come to refer to as garbage humans. Drew was the older of the two. He enjoyed violence, and already had a record at fifteen. Marcus was a klepto with an obsession with knives. Thankfully the boys lived with their mother in Jersey, and Pippa was only stuck with them on the weekends. As close as she had been with her mother, Rodney Diaz was driving a wedge between them. Drew was scary but he treated Pippa like air, and spent the majority of his father's visitation time sneaking out or locked in his bedroom watching porn. Marcus on the other hand was thirteen and excelled at making Pippa feel small. He spent most of the weekend playing nice in front of the grown ups, but physically tormenting Pippa behind their backs.
Life went on and Pippa's love of music expanded. She spent the majority of her allowance on books, and stocking up on drumsticks since she kept braking them. Unlike her younger half siblings, and contrary to Rodney's opinions, Pippa was not growing up as privileged and indulged as Oscar and Camie were. Her mother mainly worked pro bono as a child advocacy lawyer, and even with the help of child support via Pippa's father, NYC rent wasn't cheap. Her mother's parenting philosophy was basically raising Pippa up to be a positive, free-thinking, independent feminist. Essentially this meant Pippa had to get straight A's for allowance, and to take drum lessons.
She started writing her own songs when she was eleven after taking up guitar. She spent countless hours writing songs about her friends, being a tween girl, and her feelings. If she was not hanging out with her friends, playing drums, or reading in her room, she was usually hiding out in her nook on the rooftop of her apartment building. Less time in the presents of Rodney and her infatuated mother the better. She won her school talent show two years in a row, and her passion for music exploded. When she entered middle school her mother got Pippa her first subway pass, and said as long as she was responsible, kept her grades A's, and was home before seven she had free rein.
Early puberty was tough on Pippa. Her small group of friends split up in seventh grade, leaving Pippa a loner for the rest of the year. Holly, and Kirby ditched her for lipstick, popularity, and boys. Ryan ended up snubbing her and hanging out with the delinquent kids. And Jerry decided that Pippa was not worth his time now that he lost the braces and baby fat. Socially Pippa had never been a shy one, most of her teachers would have described her as hyper, and loud. But middle school drama, popularity, and cliques were not kind to the thirteen year old drummer girl with shaggy blue hair, no boobs, and rainbow braces. Marcus also was becoming even more of an issue, and without friends houses to sleep over at on the weekends Marcus was home she was stuck with him.
Happily her mother broke up with Rodney once his drinking problem got so bad he was fired, and he refused rehab. He moved out and this brought harmony back to the house. Her mother even got her a kitten, as a strange way of apologizing for all the drama caused by Rodney, and the Diaz boys. Pippa named the fluffy black cat Onyx. 8th grade was all together better once she made friends with Clyde and Myra who moved into the apartment across from her. They were older by two years, but they let her tag along to concerts, and hangout with their other friends at the skate park.
Pippa was never the athletic type and gave up learning to skateboard after braking her arm. Two surgical pins and a series of florescent pink casts became her signature accessory for the year. Middle school came to an end and she was actually look forward to being a high schooler. Unfortunately both her parents decided without her knowledge that Pippa would attend their Alma Mater, BHHS, and live in Beverly Hills with her father. She got her cast and braces off just in time for the big move to LA. Living with her father and family full time was very different then the fun filled summers she had grown up with. Now there were rules, requirements, and expectations. The first things to be outlawed was her wacky colored hair. Two bottles of bleach resulted in a trip to Aurore's hair dresser after melting Pippa's blue hair into an green yellow mess. Thankfully she came out with her natural dark brown locks in the end.
Ninth grade at BHHS officially started, and she quickly became friends with a few other oblivious ninth graders. She even tried out for cheer-leading while trying to fit in with the crowed her father deemed acceptable. Yes she could do the splits, and had energy to spare but she was never meant to be a cheerleader. She ended up twisting her ankle and falling on top of the cheer captain. She seemed to be lacking in all this valley girl pep that was going around. Thankfully five months into ninth grade she became best friends with ____, and abruptly stopped trying so hard to be the posh society girl her father wanted her to be. She really missed New York for a long time. Even though she would be spending all her school brakes, and the whole summer there from now on, she still missed her friends, her bedroom, her mom, and her cat. The chill energy of LA was very different from the electric one of NYC.
The summer before tenth grade was one full of change. She spent it back in New York with her mom. Went to her first college party, and lost her virginity to Clyde on the rooftop of their building. It was a fleeting summer romance that ended as soon as she flew back to LA, and other then that she has yet to have another romantic relationship, unless you count a handful of one night stands. Tenth grade and most of this year Pippa has really come into her own, and is enjoying high school to the fullest. Unfortunately home life has taken a turn, after she accidentally eavesdropped on her fathers phone call, and found out he was taking bribes by keeping BHHS students records clean in turn for favors from their influential and wealthy parents. And then she learned her mother is getting back together with the bastard Rodney.
| | F A M I L Y | |Father: Harold Donovan - Age 50. BHHS Alumni. Graduated from Dartmouth. He was a hot-shot attorney right out of law school. He quickly joined his father's corporate law firm in Boston and made it big. After his father refused to make him a partner in the family firm, Harold moved to LA and started his own practice. He became the highest paid, and most sought after criminal attorney in LA. Now he is a criminal court judge. He has major political ties, and plans to run for office in the near future. Harold is a slick, abrasive, cocky, coldhearted careerist who hungers for money and prestige.
"Innocent people can't afford me." - Harold Donovan
Step Mother: Aurore Donovan
nee Catroux - Age 37. Aurore is originally from France. She signed with Limitless Models when she was 16. Her fame skyrocketed over night after she signed a four-year, multimillion-dollar contract with Bellerose, which gained her international recognition. She became the It girl of the 2020s. She moved to LA when she was 24. She married Harold Donovan when she was 26, and retired from modeling after the birth of their son Oscar. She has participated in a number of unsuccessful ventures, including a short lived acting career, a fashion magazine, and stint as a reality TV host. A year after the birth of Camilla, she launched her own luxury fashion brand called
Verre. Verre is a thriving brand at the moment, and is becoming synonymous with brands like Burberry, Chanel, and Prada. She is a Hollywood socialite, and celebrity.
"Darling, you've got more issues than Vogue." - Aurore Donovan
Half Brother: Oscar Donovan - Age 10. He is a clean cut, self-assured, smart ass, and a self-professed fiscal conservative. Oscar loves anything and everything related to tennis. He is very competitive, and type A like both his parents. Oscar is known to be a sore loser, and willing to cheat to win. He spends at lot of time with his friends at the country club, and on the tennis court with his professional coach Bruno. He is a part of his prep schools Tennis club, and on the honor roll. He is the ring leader of his friends at school, and enjoys tormenting the
"poor" kids at his elite elementary school. gets along fine with Pippa, but he thinks she is weird and they are not very close. He tends to be very snarky, and entitled. He thinks his little sister is an annoying horse fanatic.
"Well I don't play video games, so if you want to hang out with me, you have to do what I do." - Oscar Donovan
Half Sister: Camilla Donovan - Age 8. She can be quite mischievous and sometimes a little bit cheeky. Sometimes she may seem bossy, but for the most part, she is a nice girl. Camie looks up to Pippa and thinks that her big sister is cool. She has been obsessed with horses since she could walk. She takes riding lessons five times a week. Has two of her very own horses Starlight, and Goliath. Spends most of her time playing with her horse figurines, or at the stables. As well as riding lessons, Camie takes dance, violin, and golf classes after school, and she often wishes she has less to do. But she is a perfectionist, and encouraged by her mother to be best at everything. She competes in equestrian competitions, and is part of her schools orchestra.
"I wish I had been born a thoroughbred! Or maybe an appaloosa! No no defiantly a Akhal-Teke, they're shinny!" - Camie Donovan
Mother: Monica Philips - Age 42. BHHS Alumni. She was a nerdy scholarship student at BHHS. Monica was valedictorian of her high school class, and got a full ride scholarship to Brown. She met Harold while interning at his father's firm. They got married when she was 23. Two years later Pippa was born and they moved to LA. Monica later graduated from UCLA with a masters degree in law. Her marriage began to rapidly go down hill after she started her career. They divorced when Pippa was three. Four years later Monica moved to New York City. She works as a child advocacy lawyer and does pro bono work on the side. She raised Pippa to follow her heart, and be free spirited. Monica sent Pippa to live with her father in LA so she could attend BHHS, but she was hesitant since she dislikes her ex-husband.
"The sun will come up, tomorrows a new day." - Monica Philips
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