(1) **Name:** Lydia Collins **Age:** 24 **Appearance:**  **Personality:** If there is one word to describe Lydia, it would be compassionate. She just cares a lot. About everything and everyone. She's almost like a mother figure to those around her. Still, there are often times when she is the one that needs comforting and protecting and in those moments she is childlike and sincere. A little vulnerable too, though she doesn't like to admit it. She's always eager to help if she can and believes that if you have the opportunity to do good, you should do it. Her patience can be thin at times but she is also stubborn and passionate. She will not give up on something she has started if she knows that it is possible for her to finish it. She doesn't like to fail others, or herself and her determination is often contagious. She's not perfectionist but she will always give her best when she can. She likes to please people, but only if there someone she cares about. She will not give her efforts for someone that she does not like or has done her wrong. There's a more playful and flirtatious side to Lydia, too While it's important to be serious when the situation matters, she also thinks that it's good to goof off and mess around too. It's important to her that she's enjoying her life and having fun even through all the darkness and bad times. Otherwise, what's the point? You've got to make the most the little time you have. She likes to make the best of every situation put in front of her, despite the fact that it sometimes gets her into a little bit of trouble. After all, having fun doesn't always allow one to follow rules. **History:** Lydia grew up the only child to two loving parents and for most of her childhood, she was happy and sheltered from the wrong in the world. It was when she was thirteen that her father lost her job and after a year of struggling financially, he took to alcohol. He would spend hours at the local bar instead of searching for some way to support his family. Soon enough he began to take his frustration and anger out on her mother. He would hit her and abuse her verbally and she took it. Lydia was terrified but had no idea what to do. It wasn't until she was fifteen that things changed. She tried, as she always did, to soothe the arguing one night but got in the way. Her father struck her and the change in her mother was instant. She packed up their things, told her father that they were leaving, and brought her to her grandmother's house. Things were better then but money was still an issue. Lydia found a summer job when she turned sixteen and kept it on once school started again, eager to help out her mother and her grandmother. She studied hard and went to college before getting a job as a Kindergarten teacher. She adores children and loves her job but is glad of the long break she gets over summer. She had planned a surprise holiday for her ex boyfriend but they broke up before she could give him the news. It was for the best, either way. He had been cheating on her and she had no time for people like that. She believes that honesty is the most valuable thing in a relationship and she wasn't willing to give him a second chance. If she wasn't worth his full attention before, she doesn't want it now. Still, now she's stuck with a trip she's not sure she should go on anymore. It would do her good to get away but she doesn't want her money to go to waste.

**Name:** Steven Anderson **Age:** 26  **Personality Traits:** Surprisingly loud and humorous, bring any attention to him he wants, even though he's never truly sure if he has it or not. A nice guy, just loves to live life and enjoys it. **Little Biography:** Steven had a good life growing up, an only child; money thanks to his parents jobs and friends. A childhood most people could only dream about, until one day his world changed. Caught in a house fire, he helped get his parents out but at the cost of his sight. At the age of twenty Steven was unable to see anything. But that didn't stop him from living life. He became accustomed to his way of life and welcomed it with a open arms and the humorous personality everyone came to understand as his own. He gave up his right to drive but found companionship with his new seeing-eye dog [Rocky](http://www.anythingpawsable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/original-795x350.jpg). It's a rarity to find him without Rocky, even when he goes to work. What does this blind man do you might ask? Well he's a massage therapist. Don't laugh until you've had a massage from someone who can name every muscle in the body and, even though he can't point it out on a chart, he can put his finger directly on the part of your body that you're asking him about. He loves his job, he helps people feel better and loves life. Just... every now and then, his parents get a bit overprotective and stick their noises too much into his life for him to be able to spread his wings. It's worry, sure but he's not getting the freedom he wants because of his limitation to be able to travel.