Claim: Olivia Lufkin Player's Name: Mia Character's Name: Olivia Lufkin Character's IJ:comatosebunny Nationality: American What are they from? Solo singer
Human/Mutant/Vampire: Vampire Ability: NA Background:
When Gustaw married Yoshiko, he thought he was simply marrying into an American-Japanese family with many traditions and a long history on both sides of the Pacific. He didn't know that he was signing on for a lifetime of keeping secrets and keeping tabs on children who, for reasons they never shared with their parents, preferred to move halfway around the country rather than fall into line.
It was a character trait they inherited from their mother, he believed, resigning himself to the permanent tension in the family from the moment his oldest turned sixteen. Which isn't to say that she had been manageable before that. On the contrary, Olivia's talent had always been to annoy and aggravate, to stick out like a sore thumb at parties where her mother's family still performed the tea ceremony and where she made absolutely sure to raise a ruckus.
It didn't get any better when her brothers were born. With four and six years difference between them, they somehow found a middle ground and formed an alliance designed to exclude adults from their world. When one got in trouble, the others were often equally responsible. When one was punished, the others cried right along with him (or, as it was more often the case, her). It was Olivia who led them, every time. And whether it was to cover for her when she snuck out her bedroom window or whether it was to plant thermometers under a lightbulb to feign a fever and stay home from school, their partnership bore its fruits.
When she turned sixteen, Olivia was given a choice. Stay in Seattle and behave, or go to New York and learn what it really meant to be on her own. She picked New York, even if it meant leaving her bothers behind. She tried to explain that she needed her freedom, that their mother's ways were stifling, but they didn't understand and by the time she made it to boarding school in New York, their relationship was permanently damaged.
It was in New York that she learned to cope with her 'disability' as her parents - and her doctors - had previously dubbed it. Left to fend for herself, she learned the hard way that the slightest change in the intensity of the sun could live her with burns all over her face. That she needed dark glasses and curtains on her windows to get through the summer.
On more than one occasion she wanted to give in. Go back. The last two years of high school that she had dreamed so much about had proven to be a waste and a harrowing experience, but she couldn't make herself admit she had done wrong. She had been intentionally difficult, a bad daughter, but she would as soon chew glass than go back to that life.
She graduated with few friends and a nickname that changed her. If kids were going to call her 'the vampire' then that was what she would be. She died her hair. She moved into an apartment by herself without knowing how to make rent and enrolled at university without knowing what to major in.
Three years down, she sleeps in a coffin (for kicks) and isn't any closer to solving those very pressing questions. What money her dad doesn't send her she makes playing barkeep at the Scratching Post. Sometimes she goes to class. Sometimes she drafts letters to her folks. More often than not, she plays at making her home a lair worthy of Anne Rice. Her friends love it, even if her landlord does not.
Preferred RP Style: paragraph over IJ and/or AIM Anything Else: Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.