Character Name: Nia Valdis Age: 16 Birthday: August 3rd
Personality: Nia is in her own head a lot, and tends to spend a lot of time just thinking. She hates silence though, and has always got her ipod with her to try and fix that. She's learned to be pretty self-sufficiant as neither of her parents are very good at acting parental anymore. She's not good at standing up for herself and she's not good at being ignored. She can get quite needy with the people around her. Loves her mother like mad and emulates her as much as she can.
History: Nia and her twin sister Jo were born to very young parents (teenage needed-permission-to-marry young) and despite their youth, the young family was pretty happy and stable. Both the twins were outgoing and boistrous from a young age, demanding the attention and affection of all they came into contact with. Identical, the two reveled in playing with that as soon as they were old enough to understand what fun could be had.
During the school shooting in their first year at London College, Nia got shot in the thigh and survived, but elsewhere in the school Jo was shot and died in surgery. The family didn't take this well: Michael turned to drinking, Serena became a complete agraphobic. Nia was healing in and out of hospital for six weeks, followed by entensive physical therepy for years. She has big scar on the outside of her left thigh to show for it, and she has numbness in her toes and on that leg. When Nia got out of hospital she found that her parents didn't even tak to each other anymore, and that Michael barely paid much more attention than that to Nia either: he couldn't deal with seeing Jo in her face. Serena still adores Nia though: she's her little girl and only surviving child.