#lenakaplan

[weniightmareyou]

tana + lena

@lenakaplan​

Tana was sitting in a coffee shop at a table by the window, the sun spilling in on an iced coffee and the napkin she was doodling song lyrics on. Her phone was tucked between her ear and shoulder, and she made affirmative sounds every now and then to whoever was on the other end. Her father must have realized he didn’t have her full attention because the next question came out more snappish than the others, and she rolled her eyes. “Yeah, I’m writing it down.” She totally wasn’t. They both knew he was going to text her the details as soon as they got off the phone.

Her gaze fell on a familiar figure, and she brightened. "Have to go, I'm meeting someone!" she lied, offering a hurried goodbye before she hung up. She was definitely going to pay for that later, but she really didn't need another lecture about after-care for her mother's surgery that hadn't even happened yet. She might not be a doctor like her parents had hoped, but she wasn't an idiot. "Saved by the Lena! Wish I would have thought of that ten minutes ago."

[valerieayoade]

closed starter for @lenakaplan ♥

"wait, so — where are we going again?" val asked as she turned around to triple check she had actually locked her car and to take a fifth and final look at the street sign so she would engrain her parking spot into her mind. "you just told me, too." the woman sighed, giving her friend a pleading look. "guess i'm just too excited to be going out to dinner with my favorite girl again. i feel like it's been forever since we've gone out just the two of us, hasn't it? was the last time... what, iceland?" she asked as she walked alongside lena, following her without really thinking of the direction. "i'm so glad you're here too, you know. it's nice having a friend in a new place, but it's even nicer that it's you." val added, with a wide smile.

[lalekaplanbrody]

@lenakaplan

Lale couldn't begin to count the number of times she'd had to pull Lena back from the proverbial ledge, she'd used to keep track in some meaningful way for reasons she was unsure of, now she just expected it like the sun setting and the moon rising. It was what it was- so when she peered in her guest room to a slumbering sister she held coffee between her palms and eyed her a moment before she did what needed to be done and pressed play on the alarm buzzing sound she had on her phone. A small smile as she bounded into the room setting the coffee and pain meds down on the nightstand. "Wake up and brush your teeth." She sang lovingly jostling the bed to wake her sister.

[bennettjrbrody]

HISTORY | HEADCANONS | CONNECTIONS | SOUNDTRACK

.・゜゜・　　・゜゜・．.・゜゜・　　・゜゜・．.・゜゜・　　・゜

﹆ basics;

Full Name:  Bennett James Ryan Brody

Nickname/Preferred Name: Ben, BJ, Badger, Bro

Age: thirty two

Birthday:  September 30, 1990

Zodiac: Libra sun, Aquarius moon, Taurus rising

Sexual Orientation:  Most likely heterosexual

Relationship Status:  Married to Lale Kaplan-Brody (2009)

Children: Berkan James Jordan Brody (b. 2008); new baby due 11/2023

Religion: Does hedonism count?

Neighborhood: Ocean Colony

Occupation: Civil Engineer, The Morris Group

﹆ background;

Place of Birth: Half Moon Bay, CA

Hometown:  Half Moon Bay, CA

Education: B.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford (2014) 

﹆ physical;

Faceclaim: Sam Claflin

Eye Color:  Brown

Hair Color: Green

Height:  1.8 m (5'11")

Weight:  81kg (180 lbs)

Tattoos, Birthmarks, Scars, etc: tbd; various R knee scars from 3 surgeries (2011-12.)

﹆ relatives;

Father:  Dr. Ryan Daniel Brody (b. 1965, m. 1989)

Father’s Status: Alive

Father’s Occupation: vascular surgeon

Mother:  Johanna Bennett Brody (b. 1965, m. 1989)

Mother’s Status: Alive

Mother’s Occupation: clinical psychologist

Siblings:  Tana Alice Elizabeth Brody (b. 1994)

﹆ connections;

full listing

Tana Brody, sister; @tanabrody

Lale Kaplan-Brody, wife (m. 2009) ; @lalekaplanbrody

Lena Kaplan, friend & sister-in-law; @lenakaplan

Evie Morris, friend, emotional/physical affair; @evangelinemorris

Drew Hayes, neighbor; @drewhayes

Devon Aiello, friend, affair #1; @devonaiello

﹆ personality;

Positive Traits: intelligent, charming, discreet, accepting

Negative Traits: deceitful, guarded, reckless, moody

﹆ personality assessments;

Zodiac: Libra☀ | Aquarius ☾ | Taurus ↑

MBTI: INTP-T

Enneagram: Core Type 4 (The Individualist)

Love Language: physical touch

Harry Potter house: gryffindor

﹆ Timelines;

History/Biographical

Dash Chronology

﹆ Headcanons;

Full page here

One of the foundations of his relationship with Lale was redirecting money from the trust supporting her and her sister into her sister's hands so her sister could leave.

His original major in college was statistics after a 'mathematics of sports' class sold him on it. His loose plan was to apply for an MBA program after his professional football career had ended. The end came sooner than he thought and he never applied anyway.

Has minimal sensation in the lower part of his right leg following his college knee injury and, sometimes, if he's tired or he's had too much to drink, he stumbles as he walks.

Due to his physical limitations, most of his exercise is 'gentle', including swimming, yoga, pilates, and light weights. Gone are his days of surfing, hiking, running, and dead-lifting (and sometimes he misses them.)

He drinks whiskey if he's sad and tequila if he's feeling amorous.

Calls his wife La or Lala, and his son Bear.

In spite of his father's football-playing history, Bear is very into baseball, thus breaking Ben's heart a little.

Since moving back to Half Moon Bay, Ben and Lale have been homeschooling their son both because they can and it works better for their family, and also because he plays baseball competitively.

Lale taught him how to cook and, while he generally keeps it simple, he doesn't hate it and isn't terrible at it.

He is a voracious and speedy reader of basically any genre. He averages about 100 books per year.

Is more likely to come up with some random science experiment or project for himself and Bear than to suggest they, say, watch a movie

﹆ Biography |  tw: teen pregnancy, infidelity, injury mention

Ben was born in Half Moon Bay, CA to Ryan and Johanna Brody, an old-money couple who were still both in medical and graduate school when he was born, respectively. The good news was they could afford a nanny so at least someone paid attention to him; the bad news was they relied on the nanny exclusively to do so and he never really bonded with them very well.

His sister was born four years later and met the same basic fate, with the exception that they stopped bothering with nannies when his sister was twelve. Ben had already historically been her entire support system, but when the last nanny left to have her own children, he got his drivers license exclusively so he could support Tana with her own lessons and interests.

Throughout all this, Ben pushed at limits and pushed them hard, getting away with all sorts of bad behavior because he was charming and his family was rich. When he hit high school, he was a competent football quarterback who kept their high school team afloat; it just enabled his ability to do whatever he wanted -- have sex, drink, dabble in drugs -- and get away with it. He was also a strong student in math and hard sciences in particular, so his grades never suffered consequences when he acted out. This fueled his father's lifelong expectation that Ben would follow in his footsteps as a surgeon, the school performance being the only part of Ben his father ever paid any mind.

By the time he was 17, Ben was dating a sweet girl named Lale. By the time they'd been together six months, in spite of being smart and using protection, she was pregnant. It was a devastating and confusing time as she decided to keep their baby and what few goals he had rearranged themselves.

During football camp, knowing what was coming down the pipe soon enough and how much he wanted to get the fuck out of dodge, Ben switched football positions from quarterback to safety, in order to make himself more marketable for colleges, working hard and distancing himself a little from his teammates with his introversion and singular focus.

Their son, Berkan, was born in December of his senior year. Ben spent most of his time in the winter and spring interviewing with colleges and arranging distance-based campus tours while caring for their infant as his girlfriend struggled to catch up and finish school. He was determined to be more open and hands-on than his own father from the start, but he couldn't say he immediately fell in love or anything. It was all really hard and he was pretty isolated, and he wouldn't do it over again for anything, honestly.

Accepted a football scholarship to Stanford with early-signing during the winter of senior year.

He and Lale married in a simple ceremony just before it was time for him to start football camp in Palo Alto, and moved to the city as a family of three. This decision was largely made based on financial support from his father and the strings that were very much attached to the money.

He suffered a devastating knee injury during the fall of his junior year, requiring multiple surgeries and much rehab before he could walk. Not only was it career ending, it took him about a year to recover to the point he could function. It was absolutely a physical, mental, and emotional rock bottom for him.

In the midst of all of it, he had a sexual encounter with the football coach's daughter, @devonaiello, that did help restore some of his physical confidence, but did not keep his marriage on stable ground at all. In addition, when he didn't redirect to a medical career, his father threatened to cut off the support they'd been receiving from the Brodys until they were ready to stand on their own; Ryan also suggested he would hold Ben accountable to repay the years worth of expenses that had already been covered unless Ben did something to keep his shit together.

He then proceeded to have sex with @evangelinemorris after her grandmother's funeral when they were both emotional. In the intervening years, he hasn't talked to anyone except Evie about this because he's pretty sure he's allergic to the amount of change and upheaval the information would cause.

Spent several years working in San Francisco, supporting his wife as much as he could while she finished a post-grad degree, and ignoring his relationship with his parents as much as humanly possible.

Is back in Half Moon Bay due to issues surrounding Lale's childhood home and the Brodys taking over the property.

Has accepted/is just starting a job at The Morris Group, working with Evie. Is genuinely excited to be around her more and also really nervous about how he's going to fuck things up.

[jackson-darby]

WHERE: davie's locker. WHO: @lenakaplan & jackson.

Jackson wasn't even really a gym bro. Yeah, occasionally he'd rock up to Davie's Locker when he had excess energy to burn, but those moments used to be few and far between. Lately, though, he'd been showing up in more and more outrageous looking swimming trunks in the off chance he ran into Lale again. He didn't know why he was committing so hard to the bit.

Well, okay, he did if he decided to self-reflect for long enough to know he was actively avoiding all of his very real and very pressing problems by distracting himself with any and everything he could think of. But he'd decided not to do that, actually, so a small collection of ugly ass swimming trunks he was collecting instead.

It hadn't paid off since he'd started it, always seeming to show whenever she wasn't there. But he spotted her almost immediately near the back where she was racking weights. Her back was to him which only made him grin as he snuck up behind her. Once he'd made it just behind her, he spoke, announcing his presence with both hands firmly planted on his hips to showcase his obnoxiously orange and pink and lime green Hawaiian swim trunks. "I know my swim trunks are kind of your thing, but try not to get all hot and bothered while I work out, okay? Eyes up here."

[santiagosarto]

@lenakaplan

santiago shrugged as he took a bit of his fries that were in front of him then offered her one. "i'm not going to lie to you... i dont know half the time what is going on at my rescue ranch or whatever my wife calls it." he confessed. "it is her world and i just live it. happy wife happy life kind of thing." he explained. "but the reason i asked you here today is because i wanted to get her a gift and i figured maybe you could help."

[joaquinni]

@lenakaplan

"you owe me a drink after that." joaquinn had told her. "that had to be the most weirdest.. embarrassing thing i have ever had to go through." he teased. "but really.. i need a drink like now."

[halfmoonbayroleplay]

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[lunabenoit]

@lenakaplan

San Francisco Carnaval

Glitter stuck to her face, and the bright colors were like a sea for her to get lost in-. The event was wild, the music could be felt in her veins, and Luna was only caught in it all because she was forced into the city to drop off some counterfeits at the behest of the man who fancied himself her boss. She needed to wash the bitterness away and as she moved with the flow of the party that took over the entire street Luna pushed through knocking over a slushy green drink, "What's a girl gotta do to get a drink-" She sighed shaking the liquid from her shoe and nodding to the woman nearest, "You look like you know where the good drinks are."

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