Anjun "Jun" Bradford

August 22, 1999, 17 years old

Male & Bisexual, though he isn't open about.

Adoptee, Atheist, Liberal, Artist

He works at the campus library while also selling prints of his stuff online.

The first thing about Jun is how pretty his face is, with his thick, wavy, shoulder length black hair that frames his deceptively delicate face, high cheek bones, slanted brown eyes, and thin lips. His skin is pale, not in a pasty sense but not tan either. At first glance his body fits the figure his face presents, sans his above average height of six feet nothing, with his weight of 140 pounds. In truth his figure belies his litheness and muscularity, hidden if not for Jun's propensity to wear simple, loose shirts. Perhaps it is a way to tell the world that, hey, he's someone that shouldn't be messed with.

He often wears simple clothing, seemingly to give a finger to fashion and style. Simple colors and utilitarian styles make up the majority of his closet, save for the occasional dress piece that he is obligated to have. The only thing that Jun splurges even a little on is his jackets, which is odd considering how little he generally cares for his clothing. Biker, fleece, bomber, you name it he probably has at least one.

Under his clothing, however, Jun hides scars from his childhood. His upper thighs and back are dotted with cigarette burns and there are two Chinese zheng characters scarred in between his shoulder blades , souvenirs from the orphanage his foster parents saved him from. Jun hides them as best as he can, but he tries not to let on how much they bother him.

What You See:
To the outside world, Jun puts up a detached and polite front to those he isn't close to. That is not to say that he fakes a personality, but rarely does his other half show when he's like this. In a way it's his "professional" face, one meant to keep distance between him and the other person(s). This leads to an air of aloofness that makes it difficult for others to interact with him and not feel as if he's not really paying attention to the conversation. He is hesitant to give definite promises to people, with holds information, and passively tries to end conversations as quickly as possible. For the most part this is limited to anybody outside his group of friends and adults he's comfortable around.

What I Know:
When in the presence of people he feels comfortable with, his personality changes drastically. In particular his sense of humor appears, which can only be described as a slightly more sarcastic, punny, and erudite Cards Against Humanity. However, he still does not like giving definite, always leaving a way out of anything he does. He wears his cloak of urbane crudity proudly to cover his heart. That heart is that of a scarred and bruised romantic, selfishly selfless towards his relationships. He will always put others before himself, with little more than a quip or dismissal, even to his own detriment.

Without a center, Jun would just drift off in seclusion or wanderlust. He will occasionally "disappear" from any interaction for days at times, ignoring any form of communication save verbal, only to reappear in a conversation at random. He brushes off any attempts to dig into his disappearances with ease, but will hide behind his shield of snark to fend off determined attempts.

As well, as the the traumatic experience of almost being raped as a child still scars him somewhat even ten years after the event. For example: he flinches when ever he sees or smells cigarettes, he dislikes staying in poorly ventilated areas, and he really doesn't like it if his hands are forced behind his back. He has recovered remarkably, though, all things considered and he recognizes how lucky he was and is to even be able to have any sense of "normalcy". He has also repressed his memories, and even lost the ability to speak, read or write Chinese, though he can still understand the language.

Perhaps the truest part of his self is that romantic, the one that persists despite his cynicism. The part of him that wants his friends to be happy, the part that believes the life is the meaning of life, the part that, despite himself, always tries to see the best in everyone.

Jun knows his faults, and though he wishes he could be more honest, he knows that all he has are masks.

Jun just wants do something where he'll be able to do something he likes while enjoying the other thing he likes. So far that translates to, "I don't gotta do squat till next year."

Right, so Jun's story begin in Harbin, China in the year 1999 when he was born to an unknown mother and left in an orphanage. As he grew up, he was picked on due to his looks and small size. When he was five, however, something changed. The orphanage's director took an interest in the young boy and befriended him, giving him little gifts and treats until the day it happened. He had called Jun to his office that smelled like cigarette smoke and had forced him to strip. There was little the boy could do as the man took his time, smothering his cigarette out on his legs repeatedly. Every time Jun cried out in pain, the man would cut his skin to form Chinese tally marks. It was after the tenth mark that a miracle happened. A woman came barging into the room, demanding to see the orphanage director. What followed was a localized media circus that barely made touch with the US.

That woman was Dr. Harriet Reynolds-Bradford, wife to retired Iraq War veteran Sergeant Samson Bradford, who had gone to Harbin to find a foster child after it was found that she was barren after she had been treated for cancer at the age of thirty. She quickly took the scarred boy back to her childhood home of Westworth, Colorado and raised her as her own. All three members of the family have lost something, which tied them together; Jun his innocence, Harriet her fertility, and Sam the sight in his left eye and the lives of his men. The three of them helped the others heal their wounds and move on in the ten years they have lived together.

Jun's that one smart kid that you can't decide if you like or if he's just some smarmy asshole. He's the most likely to get that obscure reference that the English or History throws in, while also tossing in his own two cents and tidbits. He's also known for his horrifying humor, joking about anything from the ineptness of the Fourth Crusade to implying(read:mocking) "Westworth's distressingly small gene pool" to creating a limerick off the top of his head about the futility of life and how the sweet release of death is the only thing worth looking forward to. The final thing he's known for is challenging someone to a match of chess-kickboxing and winning, albeit barely.

Samson runs a gym that Jun trains at and Harriet works at the local hospital.
He wears his hear long in honor of his foster mom, whose hair was about that length when they met.

Madison Elizabeth Nichols

January 14th, 2000. Sixteen

Heterosexual Female

|| Queen Bee || Bitch || Homeschooled || Liberal As Fuck || White Girl || Fashionista || Probably going to rule the world ||

Currently Unemployed

By all conventional standards, Madison is beautiful. She's slender, with a body that implies she works out and eats healthy. Her hair falls just past her shoulders, silky and dirty blonde. Her deep blue eyes draw you in, and make you feel as if you are the only person she could even dream of thinking of. Her skin clear, except for the smattering of freckles across her nose, something she shares with her brother. She's not nearly as tall as him though, standing at about 5'5".

Fashion wise, Madi dresses to impress. She puts a solid hour, at least, into her outfit everyday, always making sure that she leaves a lasting impression in peoples minds. She prefers to wear dresses or skirts, though she's not adverse to skinny jeans or even the occasional pair of leggings. She often toes the line between conservative and revealing, a fact which is not lost on her in the slightest.

What You See:
To the outside world, Madison Nichols is cold and calculating. She can be sweet and caring, but only towards those she's close with, and to most people, they appear to be on her bad side. Most people wonder how in the hell she and Oli are related, let alone twins. While Oli is outgoing and openly affectionate, Madison has a cold shell, and it doesn't seem to melt easily.

While most can't say they particularly enjoy Madison, plenty respect her. She's very intelligent, well known for making the honor roll every year, and she's a great leader. She's a planner and a doer, and she knows how to get shit done. No one can say otherwise. She just isn't particularly open to much help, and is, as Oli sometimes says, "a bossy bitch who can't let anyone help." He got grounded for that one.

Now days though, Madison is clearly not the person she used to be. Her confident stature is gone, and she doesn't bite back with her usual quips. While plenty of kids hated Madison for one reason or another, it's hard to summon any loathing for her now.

What I Know:
In truth, Madison Nichols is a girl wracked with insecurities. She's a major control freak, but only because she's terrified of failure and letting people down. She also has a deep seeded fear of commitment, and because of this, her trust is hard to earn. She is, deep down, a caring girl, and loyal to her friends, she just finds it very hard to express such feelings. All of this is only known to her closest friends, or her family. Madi would rather have the rest of the world see her how they want to, rather than as the mess she really is.

Madison aspires to become a foreign diplomat, traveling to many different countries. After that she'd like to get a job with the State Department, then become the Secretary of State, and should all go well, the first female President of the United States. Dream big they say!

See Oliver Nichols

Currently, Madi isn't involved with any extra curricular activities. However, last year, she played on the soccer team, and she's always served on the dance committee.

The Queen Bee, who's doesn't fly nearly as high as she used to.

Madi has always excelled in History and English like her brother, although her art skills aren't nearly the same. She actually does rather well in all of her classes, though Art gives her a little bit of trouble, and she's always had to put in more effort than normal with Chemistry.

She is best friends with the history teacher.

Mackenzie Maya Lin

August 13, 16

Female
About eighty five percent sure that boys are for platonic things only. Interested in the same sex.

Slacker | Troublemaker | Voice of an Angel/Mouth of a Sailor | The Siren of Westworth High | Non-Devout Catholic | Self-Proclaimed 'Cauc-Asian' Because 'Mackenzie' is "White people names."

Recently employed at the combination bowling alley/arcade. She gives out the shoes and kicks the people off the dancing game.

There's nothing immediately eye-catching about Kenzi's height or general appearance; her features tend to speak for themselves what with her pale complexion and blemish-free face. Some have said that Kenzi's eyes are quite striking, but she believes it's just because they are wide and rather expressive. Someone once told her that it was odd to see her dark green eyes but that same person was being kind of racist at the time and Kenzi didn't really know any better. She's just always had expressive, forest-green eyes; over the years she's managed to bring attention to them with the proper application of makeup. She goes for emphasis, though heavy makeup is so not her style.

In fact her style is a bit more...naturalistic in tone. Or, in truth, a bit more 'urban' though she loathes to use such a generic term herself. No one can deny that she has a distinct and certainly striking sense of style that gravitates towards the 'wear a big shirt so it looks like you don't have pants' end of things. Typically Kenzi is found adhering to no real sense of fashion while still coming off as stylish, to a certain degree. Thrift store casual is a style, surely. Kenzie hates when people are married to their outfits which is why she is so uncaring about her own clothing. The only time she dresses in a presentable, formal manner is when she's singing with the choir...and even then only because it's 'mandatory'. On colder days, Kenzi will don a hooded jacket while still sticking to her 'pants that are technically shorts but christ and large shirt' dress. It's not as if her legs are particularly worthy of being shown off in such a manner, she just feels like the look suits her. If not her personality.

Kenzi's hair is of frequent medium length and often chestnut in color. It's her natural hair color as well, which always draws suspicious glances. She's not particularly fussed about her hair, it's just sort of there, and most of the time it's covered by various hats and headwear anyway. She keeps her bangs straight and the style of cut to a bob, thus ensuring that her plain featured face is on full display for the adoring population. It's appropriate, however, given that her face is so expressive.

Her height and weight are, much like the rest of her, are average. Five foot two and slender with no real curves to speak of; she had been describe as having a 'boyish' build to her. She's still not sure what that means. Kenzi doesn't flaunt it not because she thinks she don't got it, but because she hates when people think they can use their looks to excuse a lack of personality. Kenzi doesn't want people seeing her and making a 'would fuck' judgment. Not that it would matter much, considering her preferences and all. She may not put a lot of stock in fashion or makeup or accessories, but at least at the end of the day Kenzi goes home happy knowing that she's authentic.

And how many high school kids can truly claim that.

What You See:
There she goes to the principal's office again. What did she do this time? There's a reputation Kenzi has and like most reputations it's hardly a good one. Whenever there's an incident at school that has no culprit, most turn to Kenzi as the scapegoat. Sometimes for good reason, but most of the time because she's an easy target for it. There's a noted lack of respect for authority due to her reportedly telling multiple teachers to fuck themselves with a colorful term for human genitalia and being caught twice tagging a wall. Rumors surround Kenzi like flies around...well you know the expression. While it's certainly true that her mouth has no filter, no one seems to stop and consider the sheer amount of issues they attribute to Kenzi. If she truly did half of the things she was blamed for she'd most likely be expelled or even in jail at the moment. But of course that doesn't concern those who are quick to point fingers. Kenzi is the perfect target because of well known incidents in the past, most recently her little stunt at the talent show.

Many assume she'll drop out before the end of the year. Others have a bet going on whether or not she'll be arrested. And still there are those who wonder how the hell she managed to become the top soloist in the choir. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and plenty of staffers who have supported these rumors still remember the last time a Lin wandered the halls.

What I Know:
While it's true that Kenzi has a bit of a vulgar mouth, the reality of the matter is that Kenzi is a confused person. She has two very different forces in her life and is slowly realizing that she can't make them both happy and doesn't quite know what to do. Standing at the crossroad of life that is maturity was never supposed to be this difficult. Kenzi isn't sure that she's ever made a decision for her own sake and her run-ins with authority and the talent show incident were her way of doing something that she wanted to do. Despite the claims that she'll be a dropout, Kenzi is in the top percent grade-wise in her year, a fact that she keeps to herself. She could be in the running for Valedictorian if she maintained. It's not that she's unhappy, it's just that school is about the only place she can actually be true to herself, even if that puts her at odds with others because of her attitude.

While she isn't going to mouth off to teachers unless provoked, Kenzi still gets into trouble over seemingly nothing; again because of her reputation and that of the Other Lin as well as her uncertain nature, Kenzi accepts the punishments even when she didn't do the crime. Because that's what's expected of a Lin. The Lin Legacy, in other words. Slowly but surely she's starting to learn that in the end it's her life, not anyone else's. She can be her own person. She can do what her heart desires.

Kenzi isn't sure that she even has friends, just people that take advantage of her reputation to remain under the radar and blameless. In all honesty, she's a deeply lonely person who still wants to find her voice. Ironic, considering her place on the choir, where she's known for her almost angelic voice.

The immediate dream is to perform at graduation. Not like the performance at the talent show, but a genuine one. The more important dream is to stop living in the shadow of others and stick up for herself. Otherwise known as maturing.

Ultimately, though, Kenzi wants to pursue her true love: using her voice to actually say something. Not as just a singer, but as a performer...a rap artist ideally, but just being able to perform without the pressure from outside sources would be the greatest accomplishment of her life.

The Lin Women, as they've become known, didn't get their start in Westworth. The matriarch, Amber, lived in San Francisco for a time and gave birth to her first daughter, Kim, in the state. After a rather messy divorce from her husband, a music scout for a now-defunct record label, Amber took her daughter east and ran out of gas in Westworth. Amber never re-married but entertained a fair amount of suitors, all of whom dropped all contact when it became clear that Amber was pregnant.

Mackenzie still doesn't know who her father is.

While Amber managed to settle down and devote her time to raising her children by finding secretarial work (thanks to the boss taking a deal of pity on her) [/indent, she decided that her children shouldn't have to go through the same struggles. No parent wants their kids to be worse off, after all. Unfortunately, her new hours meant less time at home which meant it fell to Kim to be a parental figure for Mackenzie. Kim seemed like the cool older sibling when Kenzi was growing up, always looking out for her and making sure no one made fun of her...but the honeymoon didn't last long.

By the time Kim was in high school, Mackenzie was already starting to emulate her big sister. Wearing the hand-me-downs and trying to be just like her big sister. And why not? Her big sister was a more active presence in her life. Kim, meanwhile, was leaving a legacy at Westworth High that followed Kenzi to the present day. Rarely a day went by where Kim wasn't in trouble for something, vandalism, theft, sex in the bathroom, smoking, dealing, a laundry list of offenses that she just managed to skirt around. People knew it was Kim but there was never just enough proof to pin it on her.

Amber, fearing that Kim was going down an all too familiar path, tried to intervene. This only led to a fight that Kenzi overheard, culminating in Amber striking Kim and Kim striking back. Kenzi's opinion on both of them changed; but her love of her sister and her mother continued to pull at her. Kim dropped out in her senior year in spectacular fashion: by telling the principal and the student body what she thought of the school at an assembly. People say that Kim went out streaking, but it was really more cursing and shrieking. Kim has since moved in with a bunch of similar minded adults.

Amber, not wanting Kenzi to follow in those footsteps, took a more active role in Kenzi's life, making choices for her and limiting her interactions after a vetting process. It was Amber who forced Kenzi to join the choir; Kenzi was forced to join an extracurricular and the choir seemed the least serious. Kenzi has since been unable to tell her mother about her dreams and goals in life, not that Amber would hear any of it considering her overbearing sort of attitude. Kenzi doesn't want to go through life without making decisions for herself, only recently realizing that her entire life had been dictated by the two older people in her life.

With the choir, she at least has begun to learn that she genuinely enjoys singing. Amber wants Kenzi to be educated, get a stable job. Kim wants Kenzi to live the anarchy, hedonistic life. Kenzi just wants to be herself.

Soprano in the Choir. Noted for being chosen to do a lot of solo work during concerts.

Even before the incident at the talent show, Kenzi had a reputation that stemmed from her older sister's time at the school. Since then Kenzi has done little to break away from that reputation; as such she's considered to be nothing more than a rude, vulgar troublemaker. Not the class clown or those sorts, but the type of student who would just as soon start a fight or fail a drug test. But of course, reputations aren't everything. Her nickname 'Siren of Westworth' is both because of her vocal ability in the choir and because of a little joke 'if there's a Siren at Westworth, Kenzi's in the backseat'.

Her best subjects are English and Music
Her worst subjects are Chemistry and Gym

She still hasn't apologized for the 'Talent Show Incident'. She doesn't think she did anything wrong.