ArynMae20This was the story of a lifetime, and it was all hers. Alexis Darwin stood in front of Rudy, the pudgy, middle aged editor of The Weekly Chronicles. His icy blue eyes, set oddly into his wrinkled face, stared at her inquiringly as he waited for an answer. But Alexis couldn't form any kind of response, even though she wanted this story more then anything in the entire world. She wanted it so much that her body felt stiff as it anticipated the exposure that she could receive, given that she did a good job. Alexis looked at her boss, who sat back in his computer chair, round stomach bulging out, and stared at her. He raised a bushy, grey eyebrow at her in annoyance. "Darwin!" His impatient voice snapped. "Do you or do you not want to take on the Snow White story?" Yes, she really did want it. However, for some reason she felt wrong and she couldn't figure out why. Alexis pushed these unpleasant feelings away, a skill she had pretty much mastered already in her life, and nodded towards her boss.
"Yes, I want it." She tried to make her voice light and carefree as she watched Rudy lean forward and rest his face in his hands. "Good. This case is big, really big, and lots of people are going to be curious about it." Alexis nodded, of course they already were. She had heard the whispers, seen the morbid interest in the eyes of everyone in town, including herself. "It's your job to give them what they want, make it informative, yet riveting. Use eloquence, write this as if it were not just news but an engrossing story. I want you to sell this." The continuous bobbing of Alexis' head was giving her a head ache. "Okay, perfect. I can do this, you won't be disappointed." Rudy's mouth twitched into a grim smile. "I better not be. This is all riding on you, Darwin." He paused, looking down at his worn out, leather watch. "You have a page in this week's issue, I want it on my desk by Friday." His voice was distracted, as he pulled himself out of the chair and started to gather his things. "I suggest you start now. Make it good." Alexis grinned, a real smile that had been a stranger to her face for so long. "I will. Thanks, Rudy."
Once outside his office, she checked the time herself. It was nearing midday, a time where she would usually be taking a break and having lunch. Yet, she made a beeline for her small cubicle and opened up her old, beat up laptop. The thing certainly wasn't pretty, and it didn't always run well, but it got the job done. Nimbly, she created a new document and stared at the blank page. She was excited, sure, but also apprehensive. This wasn't just some bullshit story on a small scale town crisis, this was the recalling of the life, and of course the death, of a teenage girl. Alexis chewed on the delicate flesh of her lower lip as her fingers moved aimlessly above the keyboard. Where to start? How to start? Her mind reeled, she wanted facts, she wanted drama, she wanted something so shocking and captivating that would have people so horrified they would have to read it. To do that, she realized, she needed details.
Her twitching fingers that were waiting readily above the keyboard moved slowly towards the gleaming, black office phone. she had the numbers of all kinds of businesses written down and plastered to the wall so it took her no time at all to find that of the police stations. Punching the number into the phone she waited in silent suspense for someone to pick up. Three sharp rings later, a kindly sounding woman greeted her. "Hi. This is Alexis Darwin, reporter for The Weekly Chronicles. I'm calling to request an interview with the lead detectives on the Sierra Williams case. If you could get one of them on the phone that would be great." Alexis' free hand found a pen that was sitting, discarded, on her desk. Absently she started twirling it between her fingers, as she waited nervously and eagerly. 'This is it.' She thought. 'This is the big times, the real deal.' A small, pleased smile came over Alexis' face, while somewhere in the deepest corners of her mind something was trying to warn her that this was all more then it seemed.
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Vicier said
Sierra Williams is her name and honestly? I couldn't think of a place to set it, I got nothing when it came to the name of a town. Andrea is more like me than people think, haha. I'm honestly from Australia, I want it set in America somewhere but I don't know where, loll
Okay, thanks! It doesn't matter that much for the place, I'm just trying to think of a name for the newspaper. I'll just call it The Weekly Chronicles or something :p
I have a couple questions that I didn't think of before! What's Sierra's last name and where is this set, like the name of the town?
Vicier said
Hope I did okay on the first post, took me hours to get it the way I wanted it to be
Well I thought it was good
Wow, I'm really loving this idea. I'll take on the last experiment, if you don't mind!
Vicier said
Don't know who Tarintino is..? -eye twitch-
I, uh... no....
Wait a second... Quentin Tarantino? Like, the director? Haha, I don't know why I thought that it was someone on here...
MST3K 4ever said
Hey this sounds like it's right up Tarintino's alley!
I'm not sure who this is... but I feel like they are awesome!
Vicier said
After finally waking up and reading though your CS (time zones man, their a bitch...), I will accept your character as the reporter; I didn't see the one before, but the detail you put in is great. Good work.
Yay, thanks!!
No, seriously! I started re-doing my CS and actually found that I like her much better this way. So really you would be making things go faster by posting your CS!
Not that I don't want to be your partner MST3K 4ever, you seem pretty cool and I'm really glad that you have good hygiene and that you aren't a cannibal. Although if you were we could probably make a cool movie out of it and call it UR D3SRT... just saying, that would be pretty awesome XD
Not that I don't want to be your partner MST3K 4ever, you seem pretty cool and I'm really glad that you have good hygiene and that you aren't a cannibal. Although if you were we could probably make a cool movie out of it and call it UR D3SRT... just saying, that would be pretty awesome XD
Catalpa said
Oh well, since there are already 2 detectives I guess a 3rd one would be dispensable. Just going to play the spectator role then.
Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry, I thought I read through everything to make sure I wasn't taking a spot that anyone else wanted, I must have missed your post in the IC. I will rework my cs and make her the reporter or something instead. God, I feel like such an idiot!
*Edit: I re-did a couple things about Alexis she is no longer a cop and instead a reporter! There are also some little things about her personality that changed and some parts of her bio!
Name: Alexis Marie Darwin
Alias/Nickname: She was given the nickname “Lexi” by her parents when she was just a kid, she hated the 'flighty' sounding name and often her older brothers would use it to torment and annoy her. Only those closest to her still call her Lexi.
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Occupation: Reporter
Family/Friends
Mother: Jane Elizabeth Carter-Darwin (62, decased. Retired medical practitioner)
Father: Philip James Darwin (63, lives Minnesota with his new wife Shelley. Retired medical practitioner)
Siblings: Tobias James Darwin (35, married and living in Ontario, Canada with his wife and three kids. Works as an architect), Carter Lucas Darwin (33, living up the bachelor lifestyle. He has lived in LA for a little over ten years and is a very successful director)
Partner: Her marriage ended quite messily and very abruptly, leaving Alexis shaken and even fearful.
Friend/s: As a kid, Alexis had her share of friends, even though they mostly liked her because she had money. Now, she prefers spending time by herself or working. Therefore, Alexis doesn’t necessarily have ‘friends’, mostly just acquaintances who she will sometimes pass the time with.
General Information
Current Goal: Trying to further herself in her career, no matter what the cost. Also trying to work through and get over some personal trauma that proves most difficult to “get over”.
Talents: Alexis is a very talented writer. As a child she dreamed of being an author, a dream that she still someday wishes to fulfill. She is also very musically inclined and is quite knowledgeable.
Fears: Herself. Alexis is scared of her own feelings, thoughts and desires. The last time she let her fanatical wants control her, Alexis was hurt pretty badly. She does not want to go back to that vulnerable state that she has finally (somewhat) escaped from. She also fears betrayal, more then anything else, and will stop at nothing to protect herself from it.
Personality: Amiable, eloquent, cunning and bold. Alexis Darwin is, on the outside, a perfect example of what a reporter should be. She is dedicated to her work and to giving a story that is both informative and engrossing. However, off the screen she has a wall that she puts around herself. Alexis doesn’t allow people to get to know more then her surface personality. Because of this, people will often find her cold and angry when they try to get to know her more. Suiting, really, because Alexis is a remote person who can’t stand other people seeing her weaknesses and flaws. Her fear of letting other people in certainly protects her from the turmoil that some people can cause, yet it does nothing when it comes to forming friendships. Instead of trying to make friends, Alexis buries herself in work as a way to escape from her darkest, most unpleasant secrets.
Inner Personality: Despite her chilling persona, a desperate, heart broken woman lives inside Alexis. A woman who craves the attention and love that was deprived from her during her awful marriage. She wants to let everything out, to tell people everything about her life and explain to them why it is that she has to be so distant, but if she did that she would be exposing herself to pain and betrayal by those she opens up to. Her fear of betrayal is worse then her need of companionship, so she keeps all her feelings hidden deep within herself.
Secret: Alexis’ most haunting secret is in all ways related to her last, and only, relationship. Her husband, a seemingly kind, gentle and perfect man, was abusive, mean-spited and down right awful. The reason that this has been kept a secret for her is because the one time she managed to build up the courage to tell her mom, Alexis was told to “get over it” and “suck it up”. She had to coach herself through leaving him and making a new life for herself.
Biography: Alexis had a very normal childhood. Her parents had waited until later on in life to start a family, so that by the time kids rolled around everything would be financially stable and their children would never have to suffer. What Mr. And Mrs. Darwin never anticipation was the petty jealousy of young girls, and even though Alexis may of had every material good a child could ever want, she still longed for a true friend who didn’t pretend to like her because her family had money. Yet, Alexis grew accustomed to the fake, spitefulness of her peers and chose to tough it out. She forced herself to make friends, unfortunately hers were the kind that you had to watch out for or else they would stab a knife in your back without a second thought. Alexis suffered through high school, thanks to a very kind psychiatrist who loved to dole out pills for all sorts of marvelous illnesses that Alexis apparently had, and in her graduating year she found her passion in writing and reporting.
This is when Alexis’ life took a turn, in her first year of college she met a kind, funny and handsome man named Oliver Williams. The two quickly fell in love, and their whirlwind romance concluded in a picture perfect wedding only three months later. Everything happened quickly, and no one ever questioned the motives behind Oliver’s actions. To everyone in Alexis’ life, he was exemplary. However, Alexis soon learned that this was not the case. After a year of post-marital bliss, Oliver changed. It started out small, he would fume over things like the quality of their diner or if Alexis put things in the “wrong” place. Over the course of their ten year marriage Oliver’s small fits of anger turned into burst of violence and rage. He made his wife feel weak, powerless, inconsequential. He controlled who she saw, what she did and the last straw for Alexis was when he tried to make her quit her job. Alexis was finally at a good place in her career, which had been unstable before she was hired by a magazine company based out of her home town, She was proud and happy about her accomplishment, that is until Oliver told her that she must quit her job. There was no room for debate, especially after Oliver’s fists came into play. That night Alexis packed up a small suitcase and left, scared and broken. She spent the night at a dingy motel, not getting a wink of sleep because all she could imagine was Oliver, bursting through that door and dragging her back home. Fortunately that never happened. The next morning Alexis quit her beloved new job and moved far away. Luckily something was finally going her way and Alexis got a job at a low budget newspaper company that reported on all of the town's news. Although it wasn't much, Alexis was fine with it, at least it was far away from her ex-husband and she at least had the distance as a barrier.
The calls, emails, texts and letters that she had consistently received from her tormentor stopped almost a year ago, however Alexis still lives her life constantly on edge, never quite feeling safe.
Theme Song:
Other
Likes: feeling safe, working, reading, writing. silence
Dislikes: , The sound of her phone ringing, free time, the night
Name: Alexis Marie Darwin
Alias/Nickname: She was given the nickname “Lexi” by her parents when she was just a kid, she hated the 'flighty' sounding name and often her older brothers would use it to torment and annoy her. Only those closest to her still call her Lexi.
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Occupation: Reporter
Family/Friends
Mother: Jane Elizabeth Carter-Darwin (62, decased. Retired medical practitioner)
Father: Philip James Darwin (63, lives Minnesota with his new wife Shelley. Retired medical practitioner)
Siblings: Tobias James Darwin (35, married and living in Ontario, Canada with his wife and three kids. Works as an architect), Carter Lucas Darwin (33, living up the bachelor lifestyle. He has lived in LA for a little over ten years and is a very successful director)
Partner: Her marriage ended quite messily and very abruptly, leaving Alexis shaken and even fearful.
Friend/s: As a kid, Alexis had her share of friends, even though they mostly liked her because she had money. Now, she prefers spending time by herself or working. Therefore, Alexis doesn’t necessarily have ‘friends’, mostly just acquaintances who she will sometimes pass the time with.
General Information
Current Goal: Trying to further herself in her career, no matter what the cost. Also trying to work through and get over some personal trauma that proves most difficult to “get over”.
Talents: Alexis is a very talented writer. As a child she dreamed of being an author, a dream that she still someday wishes to fulfill. She is also very musically inclined and is quite knowledgeable.
Fears: Herself. Alexis is scared of her own feelings, thoughts and desires. The last time she let her fanatical wants control her, Alexis was hurt pretty badly. She does not want to go back to that vulnerable state that she has finally (somewhat) escaped from. She also fears betrayal, more then anything else, and will stop at nothing to protect herself from it.
Personality: Amiable, eloquent, cunning and bold. Alexis Darwin is, on the outside, a perfect example of what a reporter should be. She is dedicated to her work and to giving a story that is both informative and engrossing. However, off the screen she has a wall that she puts around herself. Alexis doesn’t allow people to get to know more then her surface personality. Because of this, people will often find her cold and angry when they try to get to know her more. Suiting, really, because Alexis is a remote person who can’t stand other people seeing her weaknesses and flaws. Her fear of letting other people in certainly protects her from the turmoil that some people can cause, yet it does nothing when it comes to forming friendships. Instead of trying to make friends, Alexis buries herself in work as a way to escape from her darkest, most unpleasant secrets.
Inner Personality: Despite her chilling persona, a desperate, heart broken woman lives inside Alexis. A woman who craves the attention and love that was deprived from her during her awful marriage. She wants to let everything out, to tell people everything about her life and explain to them why it is that she has to be so distant, but if she did that she would be exposing herself to pain and betrayal by those she opens up to. Her fear of betrayal is worse then her need of companionship, so she keeps all her feelings hidden deep within herself.
Secret: Alexis’ most haunting secret is in all ways related to her last, and only, relationship. Her husband, a seemingly kind, gentle and perfect man, was abusive, mean-spited and down right awful. The reason that this has been kept a secret for her is because the one time she managed to build up the courage to tell her mom, Alexis was told to “get over it” and “suck it up”. She had to coach herself through leaving him and making a new life for herself.
Biography: Alexis had a very normal childhood. Her parents had waited until later on in life to start a family, so that by the time kids rolled around everything would be financially stable and their children would never have to suffer. What Mr. And Mrs. Darwin never anticipation was the petty jealousy of young girls, and even though Alexis may of had every material good a child could ever want, she still longed for a true friend who didn’t pretend to like her because her family had money. Yet, Alexis grew accustomed to the fake, spitefulness of her peers and chose to tough it out. She forced herself to make friends, unfortunately hers were the kind that you had to watch out for or else they would stab a knife in your back without a second thought. Alexis suffered through high school, thanks to a very kind psychiatrist who loved to dole out pills for all sorts of marvelous illnesses that Alexis apparently had, and in her graduating year she found her passion in writing and reporting.
This is when Alexis’ life took a turn, in her first year of college she met a kind, funny and handsome man named Oliver Williams. The two quickly fell in love, and their whirlwind romance concluded in a picture perfect wedding only three months later. Everything happened quickly, and no one ever questioned the motives behind Oliver’s actions. To everyone in Alexis’ life, he was exemplary. However, Alexis soon learned that this was not the case. After a year of post-marital bliss, Oliver changed. It started out small, he would fume over things like the quality of their diner or if Alexis put things in the “wrong” place. Over the course of their ten year marriage Oliver’s small fits of anger turned into burst of violence and rage. He made his wife feel weak, powerless, inconsequential. He controlled who she saw, what she did and the last straw for Alexis was when he tried to make her quit her job. Alexis was finally at a good place in her career, which had been unstable before she was hired by a magazine company based out of her home town, She was proud and happy about her accomplishment, that is until Oliver told her that she must quit her job. There was no room for debate, especially after Oliver’s fists came into play. That night Alexis packed up a small suitcase and left, scared and broken. She spent the night at a dingy motel, not getting a wink of sleep because all she could imagine was Oliver, bursting through that door and dragging her back home. Fortunately that never happened. The next morning Alexis quit her beloved new job and moved far away. Luckily something was finally going her way and Alexis got a job at a low budget newspaper company that reported on all of the town's news. Although it wasn't much, Alexis was fine with it, at least it was far away from her ex-husband and she at least had the distance as a barrier.
The calls, emails, texts and letters that she had consistently received from her tormentor stopped almost a year ago, however Alexis still lives her life constantly on edge, never quite feeling safe.
Theme Song:
Other
Likes: feeling safe, working, reading, writing. silence
Dislikes: , The sound of her phone ringing, free time, the night
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