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。· . ˙ ☀ ⌈ taylor hill + cis female + she / her + the wayfarer ⌋ yo , have you meet that POGUE , 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 , yet ? — no ? well , to give you a little heads up before you do , they’re a TWENTY-TWO year old, CON ARTIST & WAITSTAFF AT THE COSTON CLUBHOUSE and have been living in coston for TWO MONTHS . since i’ve known them , they’ve reminded me of 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 , 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 , 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 , 𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 , 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 . usually they’re quite 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 & 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 but just make sure you keep an eye out for them around town because i heard can be quite 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 & 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 as well so here’s hoping they aren’t the ones to undo this whole peace pact they have going on this summer . but just between you & me , i kinda hope it all falls apart . the rivalry keeps this whole boring town interesting .

gonna make these some short bullets to speed up the process bc i just want these DONE AND OUT

vero was born to a teen mom in some buttfuck florida town that had nothing going for her , they were pretty much just them two doing what they could with what they had . they lived in a little greek neighborhood and young veronica spent most of her childhood being handed off from babysitting neighbor to neighbor pretty free range while her mom worked full time to try and finish school and provide for her kid . literally the definition of “ it takes a village . “

when she was about 4 , her mom decided she wanted a change of pace and spent all of vero’s college fund set up by her grandparents to buy an rv . it was a move that got her cut off from their support and left vero with a childhood that , while the instability would show its later effects , led to her having the time of her life .

her mom took her through the entire US , homeschooling her and making money off of conning whatever poor sap gave her the time of day . it was an example that she always told vero to ignore , “ we only do this because we need to , “ but built a foundation that the impressionable child would never be able to let go of .

they stay put long enough for vero to get high school knocked out , though it’s at five different schools over the course of four years as her mom can never hold an honest job down long enough to keep them stable . at the pushes and prods of getting to know her heritage , her mom begrudgingly hauls them back to florida the summer after vero finishes high school and reintroduces her to a family she hasn’t seen in nearly 15 years . at the question of wanting to know her dad , as it turns out , he was the child of a formidable oil family in southern florida that had come into quite a sum of money . vero , against her family’s wishes , reaches out to him in an attempt to figure something out about herself and her background , and to her surprise , he’s actually excited to meet her .

he has a whole other family but he asks just for a little patience while he figures out how to tell them everything . he’s kind and generous and pretty great of a dude for having never known he had fathered a child with a simple hookup he had had in his youth considering they went to different schools and she ghosted him afterwards . vero’s truly ready to settle down for once and start a life with the family she had finally gotten , until her mom reaches out in dire need of money after crashing the RV following a night of recklessness . vero , getting a cold slap to reality of the life she had grown up knowing , realizes she’ll probably never be suited for the lifestyle her dad wants her to join him in , and relapses into what she knows . she steals a sizable amount�� of money and other things from him , disappearing in the middle of the night from the home he had opened up to her and drops off enough money to her mom to help her get by — making this the last she ever sees of her .

she buys a beat up vintage hatchback and hightails it out of florida , spending no longer than 6 months in any given place . she works small odd jobs and spends her days lounging in the sun and spending nights performing raggedy 90’s karaoke covers and pouring shots into the mouths of random bar - goers , charming the pants off just about anyone who gives her the time of day , usually making off with their wallet or earning herself a sugar parent for a week or so who lavishes her in gifts . it’s not a lifestyle she particularly enjoys , to be honest ; her dream would be to be an artist and own her own trinket store to occupy her time , keeping her for once in one place . but swindling people is all she knows , and part of her identity is the freedom of having nothing to tie her down — admittedly , a lifestyle she doesn’t see herself letting go of any time soon .

so here she is in coston , taking up a job in the swanky coston clubhouse where she gets hit on by more older men with money than she knows what to do with . she spends her afternoons on the beach chatting up whoever glances her way and spending her nights in a shoddy beat up apartment she pays on a month by month lease . two months isn’t much by normal standards , but she’s feeling herself grow comfortable in coston in a way she hasn’t felt in many places beyond that — something the kook / pogue divide threatens to ruin for her and send her packing promptly the moment something goes wrong .

personality wise , vero has a rather laid back , enthusiastic personality and is the type of talker who could sell ice to a snowman . astute and observant despite a hippie - dippie disposition , she gives the illusion of no attention payed while she’s secretly analyzing where in your pockets you keep your wallet , how often you look at your phone , what your insecurities are , etc , and figuring out exactly how to capitalize off of that . though she’s opportunistic , she’s got a heart enough to not take advantage of most people in precarious situations — though her judgement has definitely been skewed before :(

serial liar and never gets called out for it bc she never stays in one place long enough kkwjherjwr but lies about simple things like what her plans are or if she’s already had lunch literally just lies for no good reason ? just has this unhealthy concept that if she tells people everything about herself she’s gonna get screwed over somehow so she wants 2 be the one screwing others over first ? trust issues ig

not a bad person if she would stop just being unreliable lmao ! she’s truly very easygoing and has a natural disposition that wants to make those around her feel good , very nurturing in a sense ? if y’all saw hustlers — ramona , looks out for others and makes them feel important but at the end of the day she’s looking out for herself almost exclusively . it’s not that she wants to be selfish , if anything , she wishes she could feel secure enough to let herself stay close to people and put down roots . she’s just had a pretty shitty experience letting people in and doesn’t want to subject herself to the unknowns of investing in other people . despite being pretty detached and emotionally uninvested , she has a warm , calming demeanor that balances out even the most combative of personalities .

idol is 90’s gwen stefani ( she has a early no doubt cover band that performs at a local bar on friday nights just for her to have something to do KWJEHRJWER ) and twiggy , her apartment is full of those little beaded door things that hang in the doorway , will braid her bangs out of the way when working on a project and looks a whole ass mess , is a pretty talented artist and bases her work , whether paintings , sculptures , or sketches , off of her experiences traveling , has a minidoodle she picked up off the road somewhere in georgia named tate who goes everywhere he can with her .