closed w/ Ariella @pasiphaedemetriadevil
"... Not trying to look fabulous... Got a serious crick in the neck..." When Sikes really got a good look at the woman, she didn't think she could compete anyways.
"Since I got your attention, though, what's a good place for hush puppies around here?" The other seemed very beach-worthy to Sikes, so she only assumed that the other was a local.
Sikes had never intended to be at the seaside at all and yet here she was. The true nature of a drifter, suppose. Just drifted in one day. Though not quite in the maritime sense of the word.
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if sugar daddy puen is the reason talay made laser vision correction and got rid of the glasses forever I'm suing him :)
HONESTLY GENUINELY TRULY SINCERELY LITERALLY SERIOUSLY HOPING THAT TALAY IS JUST MOMENTARILY WEARING CONTACT LENSES FOR PRACTICALITY BECAUSE HE LOOKS SO GOOD AND SOFT IN GLASSES AND I REFUSE TO BELIEVE WE'RE NEVER GONNA SEE HIM WEARING THEM AGAIN
ALSO I KNOW PUEN DEEP IN MY HEART OF HEARTS SO IM SURE HE LOVES TALAY IN GLASSES JUST AS MUCH AS WE DO IF NOT MORE AND WOULD NEVER ENDORSE LASER VISION CORRECTION (unless talay really really wanted it because we know puen will always support him and can't deny him anything.. in that case IM SUING THE WRITERS)
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Name: Sikes
faceclaim: Lauren LaVera
age: 28 (thread dependent)
Gender: Female
Pronouns: She/They
Relationships: Questioning
Occupation: Odd jobs, bounties & monster hunting, vigilantism
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Likes: Sleeping, eating, artwork, costume-making
Dislikes: People who act without reason,
Positive traits: Brave, Bold, Independent
Negative traits: Dogged, Risk-taking, Unpredictable
Backstory:
Sikes. That's the only name she's ever known and it started by being cast as the villain in a lame-o middle school production of Oliver Twist for the stage.
She was just a kid from the streets, one day sneaking into the cafeteria to cop some food at the behest of her anguished stomach. No one knew where she came from, who her parents where, and it was days until anybody asked.
Sikes lived at the school for months, eventually moving in with and being adopted by one of her teachers and his wife; unlike most of the other teachers, Mr. Larroquette saw past Sikes' rough edges and found a brilliance he'd known in no other student during more than a decade's worth of placid pedagoguery.
Fast forward three years. Mrs. Larroquette was pregnant with a baby boy, and Mr. Larroquette was late for their daughter's thirteenth birthday. After waiting up for several hours, Sikes decided to call off the celebrations... Seeing the disappointment on Sikes' face, and knowing her husband had the family's only car, mother volunteered to take a walk to the store for milk and muffins. Eventually dad would show up, toting the cake with candles that he was supposed to have stopped off for at the bakery. Or so they thought.
Newly teenaged Sikes fell asleep to the sound of the TV, waking when she heard her mother return.
The curly-headed vibrant woman she knew and loved was a pale shadow of her former self, clinging to life, her burgeoning stomach cut wide and brutally emptied of its unborn child.
With the help of three neighbours, Sikes and her mother made it to the hospital, and Mrs. Larroquette's life was spared... The same could not be said for Mr. Larroquette.
News of the beloved teacher's death soon spread throughout the community, inspiring search parties and fundraisers spanning the country. Sikes gave up the hope of ever seeing her father again, and it was just after her sixteenth birthday that she started displaying signs of multiple personalities...
The doctors chalked it up to the trauma of almost losing her mother, as well as actually losing her father, and the brother she never had the chance to meet.
Her mother, on the other hand, was not entirely convinced. After all, no one knew what had happened to Sikes during her ten years of life before Singleton School. That said, Mrs. Larroquette did not give up on loving her daughter and, tragically, that devotion would last until her untimely death at age 45. The obituary said simply: Accidental. But Sikes knew the real reason for her mother's death, and that was the phantom pains located at the womb, or, the site of the youngest Larroquette's murder. The pain, both physical and mental, including that of her husband's disappearance, drove Mrs. Larroquette to a very deliberate suicide.
Now 28, Sikes is once more living the life of a vagabond, feeling more related to her literary namesake than ever before.
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