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You'd think after like 15 years I'd stop feeling like a fraud when writing posts but I still do which is both a statement on my self confidence and a compliment to how good my partners are as writers
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You'd think after like 15 years I'd stop feeling like a fraud when writing posts but I still do which is both a statement on my self confidence and a compliment to how good my partners are as writers
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Why are you talking about Final Fantasy 10 like that
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Final Fantasy 13 is a top five entry in the franchise but ya'll still ain't ready to have that conversation
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This Bears/Packers game is gonna make me believe in the power of Chicago Pope
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The older I get the more I start to think BBQ potato chips are the worst flavor, actually.
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Bio
Look, I got lost on the way to getting some jajangmyeon and it'd be foolish to leave now.
I've been told I hate everything, and granted I'm probably overly cynical before I watch most things. But maybe more movies and shows can be good first. ;P
I think you'll find that for every bad movie that comes out there are five good ones right around the corner. This year alone we've had:
-Thoroughbreds -Isle of Dogs -You Were Never Really Here -Tully -American Animals -Ocean's 8 -Sorry to Bother You -Mission: Impossible - Fallout -First Man -A Quiet Place -Oh Lucy! -BlackKklansman -Have A Nice Day -Puzzle -Beirut -Disobedience -Love, Simon -Mary and the Witch's Flower -The Miseducation of Cameron Post -Hearts Beat Loud -Hereditary -Searching -Leave No Trace -Eighth Grade -Avengers: Infinity War
I really wish ya'll didn't go all fancy font because now I have to do it too otherwise everyone would think I was lame
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summary
A humanitarian who loves everyone except herself.
brief history
The world seems to have it in for Karen Scaletti but for all the things its taken from her the one thing she has is her smile. A product of the foster care system, Karen never knew her birth parents and given that they didn't want her - so she assumes - she's never felt the desire to track them down; she just hopes they're happy, wherever they are while wondering from time to time if they ever think about her. Passed around from family to family due to various circumstances, most notably a foster family whose Pater familias had a harddrive full of illegal images and videos, Karen didn't truly find a home until she was thirteen. She found it in Willoughby, Ohio, a town noted only for its proximity to Cleveland and its annual BBQ Rib Festival.
Karen had trouble making friends in school at first, given her troubles for the first thirteen years of her life she was accustomed to disappointment, but Willoughby was a nice little town and she was nothing if not determined to make the best of a bad hand of poker. Her first year of school saw Karen not exactly making friends in the traditional sense but she certainly left an impression. It wasn't exactly normal for a Freshman to help with the prom planning and decoration or pep rally decoration or to join the Homecoming committee but Karen was there for all of them, happy to help hang banners or help set up and rearrange furniture or do supply runs; when Karen went to Homecoming she didn't have a date and she didn't dance with anyone other than herself but she was smiling the widest just from looking at the handiwork she put in to make sure the others were having a great time. By the time graduation rolled around, her senior superlative was 'Most Likely to Harbor a Fugitive' as well as 'Best Smile'. After high school she traveled to the east coast to attend broadcasting school.
Being something of a romantic and utterly fond of cheesy romance movies, Karen loves the notion that there's a soul mate out there for everyone even if until recently she was under the impression that it was nothing more than a fancy pipe dream. Karen had always been the type to fall hard and often in unrequited fashion. Overly fond of the 'lipstick lesbian' type, throughout university she pined for various girls and never made a move apart from one time at a party that involved her oversharing and then leaving the party like a mouse scurrying out of the sunlight. The relationships she has had have never lasted beyond the six month period and well into her mid-thirties she'd all but given up to live with her two cats, Raggedy Anne and Haggardly Randi who she loves dearly.
Karen resides in Boston and works as a morning dj on the easy listening station which makes her audience basically the middle aged working men and women of the greater Boston area. When she isn't easing people into the working day with soft jams and her gentle, positive radio voice, she's doing volunteer work around the city. If there's a community event, chances are Karen is involved - and she attends local government meetings as an interested and concerned citizen. She really hopes for the best with her String...but history hasn't been the kindest to Karen Scaletti and even if things don't work out...if there's one thing that's constant in the ever changing world it's the smiling face of Karen Scaletti.
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Emily, birth name Emiri, was born in Yamaguchi but relocated to the United States due to her father, a top level employee at a car manufacturer, having to move for work. The move came at the age where Emiri was old enough to miss Japan and dread moving to a country around the world and away from her friends. Her mother kept saying how they would have to adjust and smile for the father's sake and Emiri was nothing if not a good daughter in that regard. It was something of a culture shock for the young girl and it wasn't even until secondary education that she started to come out of her shell a bit and embrace the change.
Part of that is attributed to Zoey, a friend she made in college who Emily felt a bond with - and not in the red String sort of way that seemed all the rage. Emily was two years older but their friendship was strong to the point where they presently room together. It was during her university days that Emily became more social and outgoing; she was still homesick, of course, but she stopped looking at the new country with a bit of disgust and apprehension. Never mind the fact that her String seemed to suggest that she was exactly where she was supposed to be; she's not exactly a believer in such notions.
The final year of college Emily got accepted into an apprenticeship at Oishi Sushi, a rather well known establishment owned and operated by a professionally trained and ornery sushi chef. Emily, who was a business major, initially found the place in college and used it to get a bit of a taste for home before falling in love with it to the point of changing the course of her career path. Business was not a passion. This was. The apprenticeship is difficult, to say the least, and she's almost a year into it which means she'll start having a more active role in the preparation of the various dishes on offer. Working at Oishi Sushi, noted for its exquisite offerings and authenticity and fresh ingredients, is doing wonders to make Emily not long for a return trip home. Of course, once she takes over Oishi Sushi she might not get a chance to go home again.
She might not fully be over home, but she's definitely where she wants, and needs, to be.
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Appearance Longest hair of the Reese siblings Yes, she wears glasses and yes she doesn't like it when people mention 'oh why don't you get contacts' or whatever. She's the tallest sister of the family at 5'8" Has a thing for long socks
Position Middle Reese Daughter
Secret Not So Secret: Is in danger of having to repeat a year at school if she doesn't pass a summer course
Wouldn't you like to know.
School Grade 11 at Millington High School
Occupation Technically she's the dishwasher at the Queen's Orchid but the only time she ever shows up to the family diner is when she can snag free food without having to work a shift for it. Her other siblings, excepting Meg, get to do the not shit jobs and she thinks it's blatant favoritism and that is something she won't support. She applied online for a position at Planet Rose but they didn't even let her interview when she showed up, something about age restriction. Her most recent attempt at getting a job was at the Roxy Cinema but they wanted her to clean up popcorn and sticky soda in a dimly lit space and if she wanted to clean gross stuff that people left behind she'd just go back to the diner.
Brina is currently unemployed. The world might need ditch diggers but that doesn't mean she'll be the one doing it.
Personality
If the Reese family had a swear jar, Sabrina would account for eighty percent of it; she's at that age. The age where profanity sounds cool and fun and so naturally she uses it almost too much, which of course is a lot less fun now that people think she's doing it as some sort of coping mechanism. It was when Ms. Hayes didn't give her a detention for calling geometry 'fucking stupid' that Sabrina released what a gold mine she was sitting on. In wake of the goings-on with her parents and the kid sister she didn't have time to tease people started treating her different with the whole silent notion of "Oh she's grieving."
Sabrina was never much of a griever but she was quite boisterous and that hasn't changed.
A running joke that Brina has with Meg was that Meg "stole all the brain power" from Brina given that of the Reese siblings, Sabrina is far and away the least intelligent. She's not willfully ignorant and she's not developmentally challenged, she's a bad student and has a hard time applying concepts and retaining them. She uses her fingers to do simple addition and multiplication. But that never bothered her, nor did it bother her when counselors and teachers thought she might have had ADD or a disorder, and when she heard them discussing it in hushed tones with her dad during a conference she had to proudly proclaim that she didn't have a disorder she was just stupid.
Though just because she's stupid didn't mean she wasn't sharp. Book smart was one thing, but book smarts didn't help you understand people the way Brina seems to. Despite her low GPA and test scores, Brina is quite perceptive at times and often surprises people with her comments or suggestions that are never considered or overlooked. Her understanding of people is why she understands that even a few months gone she can use her family's troubles to her advantage. Normally that might strike one as a bit sociopathic but it's more like Brina is exploiting empathy: suddenly getting an F on a test is met with sympathy instead of a stern talking to and that's a gravy train she's willing to ride to potato town. Sabrina isn't a sociopath, she's practically a con artist and the con is making people think she's having trouble with grief.
When it comes to her siblings, she doesn't hate them but she can't shake the feeling that collectively they look at her like the black sheep even before everyone started to be moody and depressed. Because of her way with people, Brina has taken the opportunity to try and use her unique position as the forgotten outlier of the family (her words, no one else's) to get her brothers and sisters to stop caring so much about their dead mom and their likely just as dead father and sister. It likely hasn't worked but someone in the household has to be the loud one. At least until she moves out. Then they're on their own.
Short Bio
It's always hard being the middle child, but Sabrina Reese feels like she's going through life on very hard mode.
If Robin was the problem child then Sabrina was the wild one, the one who would break two plates just because she liked the way it sounded on shattering and then blame it on whoever could take the fall. It was often Megara up until Megara started being all smart. To say she favored either parent or sibling would be untrue. She often mocked - and still does - Abigail for being a clone of their mother which led to a particularly bad moment in the weeks after the suicide where Brina, in a fit of annoyance, shouted at Abigail to "follow in mom's footsteps if you wanna be her so badly!"
That was not a good night for Sabrina Reese.
Sabrina used to think she was adopted since her hair was darker and longer than her siblings and parents and because of her shocking lack of intelligence and social grace and while her parents went out of their way to show Sabrina the birth certificate, she remains not fully convinced still. It's how she explains why she feels like an alien even among her family. Family was supposed to be this grand thing you can rely on, but in Sabrina's case she never really felt like she could - and she still really doesn't despite her trying to be the glue that mends the broken plate that is the Reese siblings of late.
The only thing she felt she got from her parents was her love of music. If Sabrina has one talent it's in music production. For her tenth birthday, Sabrina got a synthesizer and by age thirteen she was putting together crude mixes; she's only gotten better - she's on Soundcloud now - and if there's one thing she does miss about her parents it was the look of, well, pride they had when Sabrina played her first original piece. Sure it was a really bad drum loop with synth noises but dammit the applause and hugs after it felt good. Great, even.
She'd maybe like to feel that way again. Even just once.
Appearance: Olivia wears her mixed heritage as well as she can, with olive skin and medium-length brown hair that match with the sharp features of her jawline which otherwise betrays the softer, more gentler facial features that so often had her pegged as something of an easy target. Her eyes are a muted hazel and if asked she thinks her nose is a bit on the small side though not enough to consider it a glaring flaw with her own confidence and appearance. While not typically into the more pastel colors, Olivia does almost always wear a jacket with dark pink lining - a memento of sorts that stands out compared to her normal day-to-day of black jeans, heeled boots, and shirts obviously purchased from a thrift store.
Personality: Once upon a time Olivia dreamed of following in her father's footsteps and joining the police force - and that's probably where her sense of justice and keen instincts came from, and why they'd skewed over the years. It wouldn't be out of line to say that Olivia is almost unflinchingly dedicated to her own morals and that, combined with her own personal code of honor, has led to a few scraps - most recently causing her to lose a job because of a hunch that her boss was harassing an employee to which she responded by dumping a hot pot of coffee on his head and breaking a finger on the hand that did the groping. It could be seen as maternal, in a way, her sticking up for someone who didn't have the gumption to ask for it.
Olivia maintains a firm belief in acting over waiting, which is to say if she sees or hears about someone she knows or is around being mistreated or abused - often within or without the bounds of the law - she'll do what she can to make sure it gets sorted and reported to the authorities...assuming she doesn't just try and handle things herself. She knows she isn't the law or even the judge or jury but she likes to think she does more for 'the little guy' than people who just wear bracelets and start a conversation. And one day she'll be the law, and she'll do a damn good job if she said so herself.
Background: Olivia was forced to grow up faster than most children but she doesn't see that as a bad thing exactly. She grew up in a single parent household being raised by her papi in a modest one bedroom; more often than not she was given the bedroom while her dad slept on the couch but she would always make sure he had a blanket when he fell asleep watching late night television. Her father was a beat cop who often regaled a young Olivia with stories about life as a cop and it wasn't until she was older and wiser that she learned that eighty percent of the stories were just plot summaries of old cop shows. But she loved that about her dad, the way he told stories.
When Olivia was eight, her father was shot in the line and passed away shortly thereafter. At the funeral she lost count of how many people put their hands on her shoulder and told her what a brave and good man her father was. It was nice, but the words still rang a little hollow for the girl. Olivia became a child of foster care but it took three years for her to come out of her shell and by the time she did she begged her foster parents to let her take up martial arts - she settled on savate.
Olivia never finished high school. She got expelled for getting into fights - she had a bad habit of fighting bullies which only served to make her an even bigger bully in the eyes of the school board. She was forced to get her GED once she realized she needed one to even attend the police academy. When Olviia took the exam she failed despite her physical aptitude exceeding expectations; the psych evaluation was what sunk her as it was believed she was one who would be reckless if it meant getting an arrest and that wasn't what the Angel Grove Police Department needed.
With her dream dashed for the moment, Olivia took to odd jobs. Waitress. A secretary for a hot second. She got turned down for a security guard job and presently works at an auto shop. It's not glamorous but it allows her to keep a roof over her head.
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