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rexdyourmind · 17 days ago

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* 𓆏 how you doin', explorer? woah ... no need to get all shaky, 'kay? just gonna throw some easy questions your way! nothing too serious — standard procedure, comprende? so, first things first: thalia rojas, twenty-five, former camper & counselour ? awesome, awesome ... you wrote in your application that ─ oh my! ─ you see yourself as imaginative and paranoid? sheesh, talk about a killer combo. oh, yeah, and let's not forget your abilities: photography, smoking weed, baking, painting & skateboarding. well, aren't you just a jack of all trades? but even the strongest oak in the forest has a soft spot, right? the ocean and trypophobia (fear of circle clusters) ... woah, hey, this is a judgment free zone! scout's honor! welp, looks like we're ready to wrap this up. ah, wait! knew i was forgetting something. remember to slip that strawberry shaped lighter into your bag. oh, how do i know about that? pssht, you told me, silly! see you 'round camp. [ pinterest ]

GENERAL

full name: thalia rojas nicknames: lia, thal (her favourite) skeleton: a living statue gender/pronouns: she/her age: 25 birthday: february 20th 1967 zodiac: pisces gender: female pronouns: she / her sexual orientation: pansexual hometown: creeks nest, north carolinacurrent residence: harlem, new york city occupation: baker (unemployed currently but has plans to open her own bakery) family: antonia rojas (mama), hannah newton (mom), thomas jacobs (father)

APPEARANCE

face claim: rachel zegler height: 1.57m (5'2") hair: dark brown, just past her shoulder, side part left or right handed: left tattoos & piercings: here. - one of thalias roommates are a tattooist (the girl loves to surround herself with creative people). the tattoos are mostly on her arms.

BIOGRAPHY

forever an anxious child, thalia struggled with the simple task of living her life. she would cry when dropped off at school - when she was much too old to do so - and she would often cancel plans at the last moment as she simply couldn’t leave the house. her mothers did what they could for her. they tried to coddle her, to coax her out of things. they took her to see doctors and got her some medication. while it worked a little, it still wasn’t enough.

eventually, when thalia was fourteen, her parents out of ideas, they sent her off to summer camp. they hoped that it would help her to be in a situation where she had no choice but to socialise and get to know people. thalia screamed and cried from the very moment she was told that she was going but her mothers stood firm. so, in the summer of 1981, thalia packed her bags and went to camp hollows river.

the first couple weeks at camp was a massive culture shock for thalia. she would find herself getting burnt out halfway through the day and struggle through the afternoon and evening activities. she would sleep later - when allowed - so she could recuperate. she was trying her hardest - she wanted to make her mothers proud of her - but it didn’t seem to get any easier for her.

eventually, though, things started to turn around at camp - thanks to her roommate there. they invited thalia along with them and their friends. they were having a small get together in the cave with some of the others there at camp. and as much as her social anxiety told her no, no way, thalia had always found herself intrigued as to where her roommate went in the evening and why they always returned smelling like they did. so, thalias natural curiosity won out and off she went.

surprisingly, thalia had the time of her life. that night was the first time she smoked a joint. it wasn’t until the next morning when she came to realise that she hadn’t felt that familiar knot in her stomach - the knot of anxiety that had been her companion for as long as she could remember. so she asked her roommate if there was a way that she could get more. if she had more, maybe she would be able to get through the summer after all. it opened her up and helped her get all of the ideas that were in her head, out on paper - painting, poetry, photography.

she had always longed to be a creative person and that summer, her creativity was truly able to be unleashed. it unlocked something in her that she carried forward from that day.

after that first summer, her mothers noticed a marked improvement in her behaviour. they saw their daughter beginning to flourish. thalia started to socialise more, she actually found herself a friendship group - people who understood her on her bad days and championed her on her good.

she went back to camp for the next couple summers, solidifying the friendships that she had made there that first year. her last year at camp was 1986 - just before she went off to college. she had friends who died in the ‘87 massacre.

moving away from her home town after losing friends was a god send to thalia and she truly excelled in college. she went to new york university and flushined in the big city. going somewhere that no-one knew her and she could be the newer, more confident version of herself was exactly what she needed. she went to parties, she socialised, she worked in the coffee shop and she made sure to get her head down and did well in class.

once she had graduated, thalia got an apartment in harlem with a couple friends and worked her ass off. she worked numerous odd end jobs - waitressing, barista work, bartending - none of them really stuck with her. she'd often turn up to work in paint stained uniforms and spend her shifts daydreaming of what she'd create once she was home. it wasn’t until she got a job at a bakery - when she was 23 - that thalia finally had the feeling that this was something she had to do. she loved baking. another creative outlet to help calm her mind.

thalia quit the bakery around 2 months before camp 1992. she has managed to save a little bit of money and is intending to start up her own bakery. but first - thalia wants to return to the place that had given her a chance to live the life she always dreamed. she wants to return to the place where she lost her friends and lay them to rest. she wants to return to camp hollows river.

HEADCANONs

thalias mama and her father dated and were broken up before antonia knew that she was pregnant. before thalia was born, antonia and hannah met and fell completely in love. hannah agreed to raise her daughter with her and from the moment thalia was born, the love was instant. they introduced thalia to her bio dad when she was three and whilst he was a very nice man, the relationship has never really thrived. he's a family friend and that's it. it's all either of them really want.

she was a camper at camp hollow's river from 1981 - 1986. she would have been found either in the art building or in the cave with some friends. you would never find her near the forbidden forest unless she had been forced.

although she has had both boyfriends and girlfriends in the past, thalia doesn't think that she has ever been in love. she is a serial monogamist. she has been single for the last six months and it has been the longest that she's been single since she was fifteen years old.

all things creative fulfil her, painting is her number one. she feels no more herself than when she is locked away in her room with a canvas in front of her and she's making something beautiful. she will often be found with her camera around her neck, though.

ever since she was young, thalia has wanted to play a musical instrument. she is constantly picking up different instruments but has never actually learned how to play then properly. she can play a few chords of a guitar, a couple basic songs on keyboard and she can do a mean mary had a little lamb on recorder.

she and her roommates have a black persian cat called astrid. despite it being the everyones cat, thalia is the one to look after it 99% of the time. astrid is what she will miss the most whilst at camp.

has a major dr pepper addiction. it's genuinely all she drinks throughout the day ... and she wonders why she has headaches all the time. definitely not from lack of water ....

inside the arts building, thalia is a wonderful counsellor. she's patient with the kids and is a brilliant teacher. outside? not so much. she struggles whenever she has to discipline a child and cannot keep up when they're running wild. catch her having a deep conversation in the corner with one of the older kids whilst the rest of the place is burning down. she would be blissfully unaware.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

'the other part of my soul' - camp bestie, basically! can have just met this summer or known each other from previous years at camp (she was there from '81 - '86). this person is someone who just ... gets her. they compliment one another. a platonic soulmate, if you will. [ open ]

'love you like a sister' - thalia is an only child and has never had that sibling feeling but she craves it. this person and thalia probably seem a bit more like frenamies to the untrained eye - always bickering and snipping at one another but when push comes to shove, they would defend each other to the ends of the earth. the closest she has ever had to a sibling [ ramón ]

'we'll always have summer' - someone that she met at camp (in '85 or '86, probs) and they had a summer romance. can have ended mutually at the end of summer or they tried long distance for a little while and it didn't work out. we can work out the details! [ callum ]

'i don't get you' - no matter how hard these two try, they just ... don't get along. it's not like they're tearing each others hair out but rather they just do not understand one another. they probably steer clear from one another. [ open ]

'from another life' - growing up, thalia lived in creeks nest. this person would have been her very best friend when she was a kid. probably one of the few people who she was actually friends with in the town (she was a bit of a loner growing up). they grew apart a little over the years but there will always be a soft spot there. at least from thalias side of things. [ isla ]

'take a load off' - although she smokes a lot less then she did when she was younger, camp can get the better of her sometimes. it's not a super deep friendship but they'd smoke together (away from the eyes of the kids and probably other councillors) and just shoot the shit. they'd talk about whatever was on their mind, free from judgement. it's a little safe space for one another [ mara ]

'a little piece of home' - for the last seven years, thalia has lived in new york city. she went to nyu and never left the city. this person is someone who she knows from there - maybe they met in passing at the bakery, maybe they were an old boy/girlfriend of one of her roommates, whatever! it's a pretty open connection which we can work out together but just someone who reminds her of home. [ open ]

and anything else we can think of! friends, acquaintances, enemies, fwb... anything!

#*.・𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂 : intro #hellas.intro #// okay this got so long i'm sorry !!

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