Kidd — Roleplayer Guild

Alright. I'm sure I'll be tweaking and such as other profiles are posted, but this is what I got so far. 

Piper Flynn Holmes | Female | 24

Lineage:  Japanese-American, Latino.
Fate: Three 
Occupational Status: Mechanic at Jimmy’s Autoshop. Jimmy was an older man who had taken pity on Piper when she arrived in town, begging for a job. She surprised him with her skill, so he kept her around, but he is less impressed with her work ethic (or lack of). She “specializes” in motorbikes (motorcycles, ATVs, dirt bikes), but her skill for cars and trucks is used far more frequently. 

Physical Description:
Piper is of average height for an American woman, but much slimmer and this gives her a small appearance. Her body is lean and straight, almost boyish in figure save for her torso. She has short legs and arms that are a little too long. Over her skin, she has the occasional freckle but most noticeable is the birth mark under her right breast: a dark patch of skin that she’s selfconscious about. Other than these natural pigments, her skin is smooth and clear. Any potential scars she may have gotten from her father have healed well. 

Her mother was Japanese-American, so she's inherited her small nose, light skin, and almond shaped eyes--though in color, they're closer to her father's hazel. When she's in the mood, she accents them with dark eyeliner and shadow to hide the tiredness, but it's not uncommon to catch her going without makeup. There's usually a cigarette between her pink lips and her dark hair is usually unkempt, but falls straight just past her shoulders. In everyday life, she likes snapback hats, plaid flannels, and cozy fingerless gloves. She rarely wears a smile, but when she does, it's surprisingly goofy and crooked.

Psychological Profile:
Piper comes off as apathetic to the point where her disinterest with life could be because she think she's too good for it--especially since she speaks without filter in all sense of the word. And, indeed, the young woman with tired eyes is more likely to intimidate than she is to be intimidated despite her small stature. However, she's simply disenchanted with normal life after the childhood she's had, and slightly exhausted by the fact that most people have not been rudely awakened by the things that go bump in the night. She has the most fun making music, drinking, and taking risks: she'll never say no to a new experience and the ones that frighten her the most are the ones she wants to do again. Piper is also dangerously curious, but she's also street smart: she knows there's a time and place for certain questions. To put it simply, she's tired of life so she seeks out thrills, but she's not quite ready to die despite her self-destructive nature.

Underneath this cool attitude, Piper is scared. She is exhausted. People have suggested she see a therapist, but she doesn’t want to be one of those people (something she had often heard her father say about his anger issues). The young woman stays up late not by choice, but because she has trouble falling asleep—especially in the dark. She won’t tell a soul, but she can only fall asleep with her lights on. Definitely, her near-experience has left her afraid of the potential of the world around her, but she’s unwilling to open up.  In addition to her fears, she has a burning curiosity about her past. She was just a child and was unable to make much sense of it, leaving her with foggy details in adulthood.

Vices:
Drinking: it wasn't uncommon for her to steal her fathers' booze. The pesky teenage shenanigans carried into adulthood, however, and she drinks almost daily.

Smoking: a pack a day causing dark lungs and the nasty smell to always hang around her.

Recreational drug use: less common than her smoking her drinking, but still a problem. This is less something she seeks out and more some of a social thing as she's still young and enjoys parties.

Background:
Piper was born to an upper-middle class couple. From the outside looking in, they were working the American dream: raised in poverty, her father was a big shot in progress, slowly but surely climbing the corporate ladder with his intelligence and charisma. Even though he alone was able to support the family, her mother owned an auto shop as well, and Piper spent a lot of time at the garage surrounding by cars, bikes, and heavy tools. Both her parents were hard workers who enjoyed their work--almost none of that rubbed off on Piper.

Despite the American Family(TM) vibes the Holmeses radiated, all was not well within the household: her father was abusive toward her mother and Piper was often unable to sleep due to their fighting. Needless to say, her mother spent a lot of time at the shop and her father a lot of time at the office. Piper was often with her mother, walking to the garage after being dropped off by the bus at home.

Come one day when Piper was about seven, she started to come home to a babysitter: a nice young man, sure, but she was confused by the sudden change. When she asked her mother about it, the shop was suddenly very busy and she didn't have time to watch Piper while she worked. Being a kid, Piper shrugged it off easily enough and she had fun playing with someone even a little closer to her age. even if he was being paid too much. She didn't give the change much thought and adjusted quickly, as kids tend to do.

However, it turned out that her mother was having an affair--and if only that was the shocking part. One night, neither her mother or father came home. The babysitter stayed the night after a phone call. And the next few days would be charged with confusion and emotion: father Holmes had found out about the affair and attacked mother Holmes. She was lucky, though, the doctors said. She healed better and faster than expected and returned home a couple days later, while he sat in jail.

She was..different though, and Piper couldn't place why at such a young age. Her pale skin had taken on an ashen tone. Her dark brown eyes were red with tiredness. And she rarely smiled or talked. Piper felt like her mother didn't want to see her as often and she was babysat even more often. Then, one morning, Piper awoke to find her mother dead. A wooden stake through her chest. She had been turned into and killed as a vampire.

And then suddenly, things had gone back to..normal. Oddly too normal. Officers and detectives--that Piper didn't recognize from her small town--took over the investigation. With her father in jail, the death was ruled a tragic suicide. Piper's father didn't attack her mother--a strange and dangerous man did. And then everything just...settled down. Piper's father was released, free of charges, to raise his daughter. Piper was given a new babysitter. And life went on, both her and her father painfully missing her mother.

The abuse her mother had faced was turned on Piper, however, and to make it worse, her father picked up drinking. So she would spend her adolescence and young adult life mostly away from home. At a friend's, at the park, where ever. Usually causing trouble, dabbling in alcohol and drugs, too. Her plan was to graduate high school and get out of the small town with horrible, confusing memories. However, she failed junior year and instead of sticking around to try again, she ran away. Her father didn't seem to care and the school was probably happy to lose a troublemaking student, so she was--as far as she was concerned--free.

In another town, she started working as an automechanic. And it's been where she's been since, usually awaking too early from nightmares about monsters: abusive parents, uncaring teachers, and vampires.

Recent Histoy:
Currently, Piper is struggling to keep her job.  While she is good at it, she does not work hard. She shows up late because she has trouble getting enough sleep at night. She takes smoke breaks too often and doesn’t offer friendly customer service. Jimmy’s Autoshop has grown since she was first employed, and now his son owns the small business. She is easily replaceable with employment rates where they currently are. 

While Piper is trying her “best” to maintain this income, she’s quickly slipping. Interviews are being held and Jimmy Jr.’s patience has run thin as a pancake. It doesn’t help that a the auto world is something of a boy’s club. And while Piper doesn’t face a lot of discrimination at work, it’s clear the newer employees—often the ones older than she—do not take her very seriously at times. Her attitude doesn’t help of course: she has a sense of seniority and takes less than kindly or professionally to in-business issues.

"It's fine, I guess," Riddley said to Jacob, watching the strange pair walk away. Jacob had been the lesser of the three problems in her eyes, but she suddenly felt exhausted. It was too early in the morning to deal with drama like this and she was hoping day one would be a lot more lax. "Oh well," she mused aloud. Then she turned to follow Jacob toward the building, her blue eyes flickering about. Her steps were lazy but her movements a little jittery, as if relaxed but alert. 

Candy, however, had been instead throughout the ordeal. Her flock was still gathered around her locker and would be for minutes after the bell rang. She was indulging the girls in petty gossip and fashion advice, but--in all honesty--she felt herself growing exhausted. Maybe this body was a mistake, she thought, resisting to roll her eyes as Karen spouted off some nonsense about pastels in the fall being completely unnacceptable. [color=lightpink][i]Sure, this body has a direct line into the student population, blatant power over most of it, and it's sexy as hell,[i][/color] her thoughts continued, But I really don't care, Karen.

Admittedly the following stunt was unnecessary and badly timed as students were starting to pour into the school. The locker beside Karen suddenly blew open, the door smacking the poor girl in the face. The surprised prep fell back on her ass, crying in pain and surprise. Candy had to refrain from busting out laughing and the rest of the flock waited for her to look concerned before tending to poor Karen. "Oh my gosh, that was weird, are you okay?"

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