B A S I C S
Brooklyn Grace West
Nickname:
Brooke
Age:
25
Birthday:
January 21st
Sexuality:
Heterosexual
Hometown:
South Orange, NJ (Age 0-15)
Westfield, NJ (Age 15-18)
New York, NY (Age 18-25)
Occupation:
Dancer at a strip club
Waitress at a diner
P E R S O N A L I T Y
Positive Traits:
Hard working, Motivated, Independent, Loyal
Negative Traits:
Passive Aggressive, Defensive, Petty, Unforgiving
Personality:
A lot of people, friends or enemies, would tell you that Brooklyn has a tendency to be a bitch, and she lives up to that reputation. Even she'll admit it. Brooklyn is the type of person who doesn't pretend to like someone or something if she doesn't. The honesty that she possesses could be admirable, but she tends to take that honesty to a level of being unnecessarily blunt and cruel. She definitely has a habit of stepping on other people in order to make herself feel higher up. She's frequently standoffish, and not someone who makes a good first impression, but it's usually done on purpose. She doesn't want anyone to think that she is their friend, because she doesn't want to have to deal with the social expectations that come with friendship. She hates having to give out advice, even to people she loves, because she hates feeling responsible for other's feelings. It's hard for her to accept responsibility for things to begin with, but given that she's secretly a very secretive and insecure individual, it's all the more harder for her to feel like she might be responsible for ruining someone else's life when they trusted her to help. Though she doesn't exude the most welcoming of vibes, she also isn't extremely aggressive. For the most part, Brooklyn does her own thing. Her passive aggressive and catty sides will rear their heads if you bother her, if she feels like you're stepping on her territory, or calling her out, or challenging her. Here or there, she'll mutter a provocative comment if she's bored, but she isn't picking fights with every person she sees. In her mind, most people just aren't that important.
Most people only see the negative traits that she has, because she tends to be emotionally closed off from the world. She opens up to very few people, and even then, there are things, like her past, that she just will never get into. She prides herself in being strong and in control of her emotions, so she really does her best to never get emotional. If she does, it's usually when she highly intoxicated, and usually comes to the surface in the form of anger and shouting about how much she hates people, or more rarely, crying about how unfair life is to her. Though she tends to be hard around her friends as well, Brooklyn has some admirable traits, such as how self-reliant, independent, hardworking, witty, and protective she is. No one can say that she isn't hardworking, and she's the kind of girl who will gladly work for anything she wants or needs, on her own, without relying on or expecting anyone else to get it for her.
Likes:
Shopping | Alcohol | Silence | Autumn | Candles | Being busy | Cliché Romance
Dislikes:
Thinking about her family | Accepting responsibility for her mistakes | Being broke | Winter | Apologizing | Surprises
H I S T O R Y
History:
From birth to the middle of her fourteenth year of life, Brooklyn led a very average life. Her father worked as a lawyer, and her mother as an account, giving them enough finances to feel secure. When she was seven, her family grew by one, as her little sister Kate was born. Most of her childhood was spent trying out extracurricular activities, making friends, enjoying her family's company, and being your average child. Things only strayed off of this average, yet appreciated path, on the night of her aunt's wedding. Brooklyn and Kate attended the church ceremony but were sent to separate friends' houses that night while their parents attended the after party. The plan was for the girls to sleep over their friends' houses, and Brooklyn did, but a little past midnight, Kate became sick and the friend's mother called their parents to pick her up. Rather than call a taxi, Brooklyn's very intoxicated father insisted he would go to pick her up, drop her off at his parents' house, and then return to the party. He did manage to get to the friend's house to pick her up, but on the way to his parents' house, he veered into incoming traffic. Kate was killed immediately, and the driver of the car they hit clung to life for three weeks before his family decided to pull the life support.
Being a lawyer, her father had enough connections to get out on bail before his trial began, and during that time, he killed himself. He couldn't live with two peoples' blood on his hand, let alone when one of them was his daughter. Plus, the idea of spending a life sentence in prison made his existence seem futile. Brooklyn saw it as selfish. Within six months, her sister died, her father died, her mother fell into a deep depression, and they lost their home due to the mounting legal costs associated with her father's case. She had no time to grieve for one thing before another bad thing hit, and it took a major toll on her level of trust for everyone. When she was in her seventeenth year, her mother married a man, who Brooklyn really only knew well enough to know that he doubled as an alcoholic and a mechanic. She disliked the man, she disliked her mother for marrying him, and for moving on so quickly. She needed time to sort things out, and no one was giving it to her. It was like she didn't exist, and she hated it. After many arguments with her mother, who quickly took to her new husband's drinking habits, and the man, Brooklyn packed her bags and left. She had her high school diploma but no college education so when she ended up in Manhattan, she didn't have many real job options. She ended up becoming employed at a strip club that she still works at to this day. During her time in New York, she took various waitressing jobs as well, and one of them linked her to an older divorced man, Finn, who owned a small pub downtown. He felt for Brooklyn's situation and allowed her to live rent free in his basement when she got in an argument with her roommates and had to move out. Eventually, she met Nick, a boy who had been hired as a dishwasher at the pub soon after her. He worked primarily as a drug dealer, but the restaurant job helped him get by, and with Finn's approval, he began living in the basement with Brooklyn. When Finn suddenly passed away of a heart attack, he left Brooklyn a small amount of money (since the rest went to his biological kid) and that two thousand dollars helped with her and Nick's first month of rent when they moved in with Cara and her brother. It was supposed to be a place to stay temporarily, since Cara was only doing a "good deed" by allowing them to take up her extra bedroom for a month since she knew Nick only through him selling drugs to her friends in high school, but clearly, they managed to overstay their welcome. Brooklyn was convinced that her relationship with Nick was going to last forever, and that was saying a lot, given that Brooklyn had never really opened up or loved anyone before Nick, but lo and behold, it didn't. He cheated on her with Cara two months ago, and once Brooklyn found out a month ago, he left.
A P P E A R A N C E
Height/Weight:
5'8, 125 lbs
Eye color:
Blue
Hair color:
Blonde
Face Claim:
Amber Heard
