Sunshine Dockery

Eighteen

Female

Inner Circle (not officially, but she is privy to information)

Stripper, Courtesan

|Seductive|Manipulative|Secretive|Flexible|Sly|Strategic|

|Disloyal|Insecure|Loose Morals|Pessimistic|Lack of Strength|

If you asked her, Sunshine wouldn’t be able to tell you much about her parents. When she was around the age of two, they died – how? No clue. All she knows is somehow landing in the hands of Mrs. Dockery – Mrs. Dockery won’t tell her how, of course. On occasion, Sunshine asks if she knows her parents, and Mrs. Dockery always vehemently denies it. Out of confusion, Sunshine then proceeds with the typical “then how do you know they are dead?” And Mrs. Dockery answers with such a certainty that Sunshine stops asking. Mrs. Dockery was always secretive, she lived on the outskirts of the Outer Circle in squander and owned a small store of paraphernalia that was mostly useless. Though Mrs. Dockery had always told Sunshine to live an honest living, Sunshine knew by the age of seven they wouldn’t be able to survive off of the store alone, so she took to stealing and placing it in the store’s cashier – until Mrs. Dockery caught her and gave her a lecture.

Around the age of fifteen, Sunshine began to rebel against Mrs. Dockery lenient yet-still constricting rule and so she took to riding motorcycles of Inner Circle spoiled bad boys and making out with leather-clad girls on patios.

It was when she was sixteen that she met Aaron Jacobs. At that point, it became a wild ride for Sunshine. Wild rides at night with her cheek pressed against a leather back, the whiff of wood and spice, hair whipping into her eyes – it was intoxicating. She followed him like a lost puppy and he showered her with his rough affection, caressing her cheek with a calloused hand. He never wanted her out of his sight and he was protective of her, like a warm shield she could hide behind forever. Until he saw talking to Bucky, the eighteen year old boy down the street, and dragged her to an alley and yelled and threatened her until his voice was hoarse. Sunshine didn’t take any heed to it, just figured it was jealousy flaring, and so she bid her time, only bothering to talk to others when he wasn’t around. It worked, for awhile, and she ignored the warning signs, allowing him to dictate her life, blind with a love that had no love in it. When it was her seventeenth birthday, her friends threw a party for her in a basement and she arrived in a cute, but rather short, black dress. However, when Aaron saw her, his eyes ran red and he dragged her into a closet and slapped her across the face before forcefully kissing her, all the while questioning her integrity and calling her names that women should never be called. This emotional and physical relationship went on for several months, Sunshine too scared to leave him, believing no one else would love her if he left. One particular day, Sunshine ran to Mrs. Dockery’s house after a particularly brutal beating over a broken plate and Mrs. Dockery held her close to her breast, whispering comforting words. With Mrs. Dockery behind her, Sunshine stopped seeing Aaron – she never told him, afraid he would hurt her, but she began avoiding him and always stayed in a public space.

After she turned eighteen, Sunshine figured it was time to get a job and she managed to get one as a stripper/courtesan at The Golden Hour, a popular stripper club for the wealthy. Here, Sunshine quickly became a favorite and often found out Inner Circle secrets.