Vanessa Chambers (Ness/Nessa)

Female

Eighteen

Garden Snake

Heterosexual

Currently single

+ Spicy foods
+ Cats
+ Star gazing
+ Drawing objects (not people)
+ Cutting out and collecting words from magazines
- Interruptions of her schedule
- Wet socks
- People telling her to relax
- Wasting time or money
- Rainy weather

When Vanessa was 10 years old, her mother succumbed to post-partum depression. Being the eldest of five, Nessa, who from the time she could walk had always possessed a very low tolerance for tomfoolery, became very mature very quickly. Her father was poor and uneducated, thus leaving him with a low paying job and a tendency to lean a bit too heavily on his eldest daughter when it came to helping with the younger children and keeping the house in order. She learned exactly what a lack of planning for ones future would result in-- and in her father's case it was a fucked up liver, too many mouths to feed, and a painfully obvious lack of money.

As soon as she turned 14, Nessa began searching for a part time job. She wasn't entirely unpleasant back then, but she didn't allot much time for friends. Eventually her tendency to always put work and money before play started to take it's toll. As a result, Vanessa grew up with many acquaintances in place of friends. Mostly undeterred, she used the extra time to challenge herself in both her academics and her artwork. Inspired by space, spray painting stars and nebulae soon emerged as her niche.

Academically, she took business classes and excelled in math above all. She began selling her artwork and was soon bringing in almost as much money as her father, though she never told him this. A large portion of her wages went towards spackling gaps in her family's finances. Always on the look out for the best paying summer jobs, Vanessa was one of the first to apply when she found the position at Camp Kanarock. Hugging her father and siblings goodbye, she jumped into her recently-purchased-and-anything-but-new little car and set off to claim her fortune.

Kyle Trager

Male

17

Cactus

Heterosexual

Single

+ Spending time outside
+Playing video games
+Smoking weed on occasion
+Watching television
- School
-Being forced to do things
-People who are too emotional

For much of Kyle's life his family wasn't in the best of spots. They lived in a nice enough place, but things always seemed a little tight. That all changed though when his grandfather died. Apparently he had a lot of money, and luckily Kyle's mom was his favourite daughter, so after that money wasn't so tight. Often times Kyle feels lucky he grew up without all that money, it taught him respect and humility. Now money wasn't an issue so his family could go on more vacations, and just do more in general.

Kyle doesn't do the best in school. Mostly because there seems to be an endless torrent of take home work from his perspective. He's fine doing school work while at school but when he goes home that should be his time. His lack of care for a lot of things is what made his parents push him in to a summer job. At least this was something Kyle figured he wouldn't mind much. He'd be outdoors and alone, kind of, for the summer.

Felix 'West' Westbrook

Male

Eighteen

Doe

Bisexual

Single

Being born to two rather wealthy parents wasn't so bad, was it? Felix was born to two upper class parents. He was raised among two siblings, a brother and a sister. He was the youngest child, and in his parent's eyes, the one that was lacking. Thinking that their youngest child would be a disappointment to the family. They were right, but they caused the problem. With their way of thinking, they bore down on Felix, pressing him to do the best he could and follow very strict rules. He did as he was told, at least until he grew into his teens. That's when he couldn't take it any longer. He started to rebel against his parents, pushing back against them, showing he would take any more. He would be who he wanted, no matter what they thought.

Through his life, Felix had always leaned towards music, and with his parent's wanting him to be cultured and well off like them, he was forced into classical lessons. Though when he picked up his first guitar and got himself into lessons for it, he took right to it. When he was going through school, he would do all he could to get into music classes, wanting to learn more, finding he soon wanted to be a musician. He found his dream in traveling the states, playing wherever he could to entertain others.

Throughout school, he was usually picked on and teased for being the rich kid, and left alone. He did well enough in classes, keeping his grades up so he wouldn't get an earful from his parents. Once his rebellious 'faze' kicked in, he let his studies go as well as he could, for himself, not anyone else.

Once nearing his last year of high school, Felix had ended up moving out his home, living out of his car that he had saved up so dearly for (after his first electric guitar, of course). He couldn't take their nagging any longer and following his dreams seemed to be the best way to show his family he would be his own person. He would make his dreams reality. Now, he just needed money, something to get a little start off. When he caught word of the positions at Camp Kanarock, he jumped right on the opportunity, knowing that it would be the boost he would need, and from the sounds of it things would be pretty easy.