Pixie (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} _pixie_dust) wrote,@ 2011-07-29 21:53:00 |
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Character Information
Name: Pixie
True Name: Melissa Anne Northman
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Birthday: May 2, 1996
Greatest Ambition: To survive and make sure her kids have a safe and bright future.
Physical Description: Hair: A little longer than shoulder length, naturally wavy chestnut colored hair that she sometimes straightens, curls, and/or lightens. Eyes: hypnotic, caramel colored doe-eyes. Average height of 5’ 6”, soft facial features and pouty lips make Pixie absolutely, irresistibly adorable and kissable. But her voluptuous body is far from innocent looking.
Distinguishing Marks: A pixie tattoo on the small of her back; another tattoo on the inside of her left ankle of a pumpkin with a lady bug sitting on top.
Sexual Orientation: Bi
Single or taken: Single
Best friend: TBD
Personality: Pixie has been through a lot in her lifetime and it’s made her sharp and controlled but also caring and understanding. Being one of the oldest in the Lost Girls, Pixie tries to keep an eye out for the others and always an open door for them to come in and talk whenever they need it. She's a good balance to Saga. Being a mother has helped her with being nurturing towards others and you'll never find a more devoted dmom than Pixie. But she does have a hard side; she’s been in the business of hooking, stripping, selling it a very long time and she knows how to drop a man to his knees with either just a look, or a strong right hook if need be.
Personal History:
Melissa Anne Northman was born into the lap of luxury on May 2, 1996. Her mother had instant fame from singing pop songs in the 80’s while her father, Charles Northman, inherited his wealth from old family money, very old. From day one, Melissa was sheltered and spoiled, given everything she wanted but never facing consequences for anything she did wrong. This pattern continued all the way up to high school.
Melissa was very popular, had all the right friends, wore all the right clothes and was even dating the quarter back of the football team when she started 11th grade. Everything was perfect until her high school won the homecoming game, and she and her boyfriend found her house to themselves. They of course did whatever two spoiled, hormone filled teenagers did: took complete advantage of the situation. But one sun-shiny day in October, Melissa’s perfect, rich and spoiled world crashed around her perfectly pedicured feet. The family doctor informed her and her parents that Melissa was 3 ½ weeks pregnant.
For the first time in the Northman residence no one was allowed to come over and her parents actually grounded Melissa, not allowing her to back on school grounds until after an abortion. The Northmans were afraid for their reputations; it was just too scandalous for their 15 year old daughter to be having a baby. But Melissa refused the surgery, and for the first time thought of something besides herself and status. Having chosen to keep the baby, Melissa was sent away, essentially thrown out of her parent’s lives and their world entirely but thankfully taken in by the only relative who would still acknowledge her existence, her cousin Tina.
Tina lived in Las Vegas, Nevada and was cast out of the family when she refused to go to Harvard, Yale, or Oxford as was expected of someone of her “breeding”. But she was making well enough money working through acting and dancing school in Vegas so sharing her cozy two bedroom apartment with her cousin was fine with her. However, she felt the spoiled rich kid needed to learn some responsibility before the bundle of joy came into the world, so Tine forced Melissa to get a part time job as a waitress and had her help pay rent. Not only that, but Melissa had to attend public high school. Melissa was in hell. In school there were fights among students almost every day, and she had to actually do her own homework if she wanted to keep her grades up. At work, she had to put up with annoying and picky people and be on her feet the whole time. To top it all off, Melissa was getting bigger and bigger every month.
On July 2, 2012, after 19 painful hours in labor, Melissa gave birth to an 8 lbs, 16oz baby boy, Jordan. She never felt more love in her life than she did in those first moments of holding her new born. In the months following, Melissa continued to work through high school, graduated with honors, and eventually picked up a full time waitressing job at a nearby Hooters. Tina finally graduated college with her degrees and the night she went to give her last goodbyes to her job, she decided to take Melissa with her. Finally Melissa found out what paid the rent and college tuition. Tina had stripped her way through school.
When Melissa watched how much money one girl could get an hour, just one hour, she knew she wanted in. Part of her had always missed the good life, and yes, she loved her son dearly, but if she could take care of her son and have a Louis Vinton hand bag too then all the better. May of 2014, just after her 18th birthday, Melissa took Tina’s spot at the strip club, and with her curvaceous looks, she hit it big time in no time. Within 4 months, Jordan and his mother moved into their own apartment right on the Vegas Strip, and Melissa had taken on a new persona at work, becoming a sweet fantasy on stage as Pixie. Of course with every job come hazards. A year later, Pixie had to take some off from the stage because she had become pregnant from a “special client” that she had spent “extra credit” time with. While she got paid at minimum $1,000 more per hour for her “extra curricular” with certain clients, she decided to be much more careful after Gabrielle was born on March 11, 2016.
Pixie’s manager, George, didn’t care one bit about the kids, even babysat a few times because Pixie had become such an asset to him and his club. But good ole George got himself into some trouble with a really bad drug lord, and pretty soon, George was no more, leaving the club in the hands of the very mean, very powerful drug lord. He made many changes to the club and the girls that worked there. Many were thrown out into the street, their assets seized and if anyone tried to say anything to the authorities, they “disappeared”. Luckily, Pixie stayed right where she wanted, except now her “extra credit” was mandatory to anyone the new manager directed. Pixie did her best, better than her best, but she still had two kids to take of at home, so she ran a little late at times.
Joaquín, Mr. Drug Lord/Manager, didn’t like the tardiness of anyone, and decided to investigate Pixie’s entire life. One night in April 2017, Pixie came home from a client and found the live-in nanny dead and her children missing. A note was left saying, “Let’s see how you perform without your distractions. Tell no one, or you’ll never see them again.” Fearing for her children’s lives and her own, she packed up what she could but knew she had no money to leave with; everything was tied up with the manager. But she had her wits about her, and the heart of a mother lioness out for blood so she followed a few leads. She learned that three drug dealers had taken her kids to a safe house in Phoenix, Arizona. Pixie then decided to get the police involved and sweet talked Phoenix PD to help her get her kids back. They surrounded the safe house and the dealers, afraid of getting shot at, let the kids go. 4 year old Jordan and 1 year old Gabrielle were seized from the home and returned to their mother.
Pixie then decided to try and head back home to Albuquerque. Her kids needed some stability in their lives. So the three visited their family in the big city, but bought a home in the northern town of Taos, New Mexico. She wanted calm, relaxing, and a steady pace after the ordeal she went through with losing her kids. But that calm wasn't to last. A few months later, in the winter of 2017, the first wave of disappearances happened. She was on the phone with her mother discussing the upcoming Christmas visit, then suddenly, she was talking to herself. Her father picked up the phone and something to the extent of "Sh.. she's gone.." Turning on the news, Pixie learned that it happened all over the world and began to feel a bit panicked. She immediately grabbed her kids and went to the grocery store to stock up on everything from food to toys. She locked the house up really tight, and held her kids close to her while they slept. She was NOT going to lose them again. Her biggest fear was played on once more a few weeks later when the disappearances happened again. By that time, Pixie had already disconnected her phone, internet, and cable lines, fearing whatever "it" was would find her and her children. Her only voice from the outside world was a battery operated radio. On it, she heard the worst news ever. Nuclear bombs had demolished every major city in the U.S. Pixie fainted, waking up a few minutes later to her son shaking her, and her daughter crying. Pixie snapped back into survival mode.
She packed her things up and packed her kids up and began moving. She knew if anyone survived the bombs and the vanishings, they'd be on the move, and not all of them would be friendly. But so long as there was numbers, there would be safety. So she left Taos and headed out along Interstate 64 until she came across her first town with people, Angel Fire. But something about the leaders reminded Pixie a little too much of Joaquín. Rememebering how that ended, Pixie moved along til she found a town with friendly looking people. The town was Eagle Nest, and the people, she learned later, were really two different tribes: The Lost Girls and the Aesir. Always having an affinity for women, Pixie chose to stay and join The Lost Girl's tribe. After evaluating Pixie's skills, it was suggested that she'd make better tribal income as a Red Light District worker. That suited Pixie just fine, it gave her during the day to be with her kids. So here she is now, five years later, surviving.
Birth Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Blood Family: Father- Charles Northman-Deceased; Bomb
Mother- Tiffany Northman- Missing; First Wave
Son- Jordan aka Pumpkin(11)- alive and well
Daughter- Gabrielle aka Lady Bug(8)- alive and well
What tribe do they belong to if any?: The Lost Girls
How long have they been with that tribe?: 5 years, give or take some months
Personal Strengths: She’s very caring, honest, and motherly. She doesn’t flinch at the sight of blood and she’s always willing to listen. She can also be seen as Mother-type-figure to the rest of the tribe. However, she doesn’t take shit either. Her looks, even without trying, can stop a straight man's heart.
Personal Weaknesses: She has a soft spot for kids, and the expensive things, even with the world semi-coming to an end, she still would choose a Cashmere sweater over plain old cotton.
Personal Skills and Training: She’s been dancing/stripping/workn’ it since she was 18, she is a damn expert. On any given day, and if she really wanted, she could turn the head of every straight male and bi or lesbian female in all of Eagle Nest and Angel Fire combined. She can also cook and sew, domestic things she does with her kids.
Job that they have in the tribe or whatever they do to keep themselves alive if they’re alone: Red Light District lady.
PB: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Plot ties
Plot tie 1: Find love/steady companion
Plot tie 2: Her son's mischievous attitude getting her into trouble
Plot tie 3: Her children never finding out what she does for a living (or maybe they do?)
Character Information
Name: Pumpkin
True Name: Jordan Luke Northman
Gender: Male
Age: 11
Birthday: July 2, 2012
Greatest Ambition: To have fun and see how far he can get with stealing
Physical Description: straggly longish brown hair that his mother needs to cut, green eyes and always a mischievous smile on his face when mom's not around
Distinguishing Marks: Has a few ligature scars on his wrists and ankles from when he was kidnapped
Best friend: His sister, Lady Bug
Personality: He's a snarky soon-to-be 12 year old who is just starting to notice girls. He loves practical jokes but gets very protective of his sister. Lately he's been sneaking out and stealing from the Aesir.
Character PB: Josh Hutcherson
Character Information
Name: Lady Bug
True Name: Gabrielle Marie Northman
Gender: Female
Age: 8
Birthday: March 11, 2016
Greatest Ambition: To make as many friends as possible. :)
Physical Description: pretty shoulder length brown hair, like her mother's, and light brown, sometimes hazel eyes. Usually has her hair braided by her mom.
Distinguishing Marks: Has a scar on her knee from falling from a low tree branch when she was 4.
Best friend: Her brother, Pumpkin, and her mommy! :)
Personality: She's a dreamer and a story teller. She loves to play dress up in her mommy's clothes, and she can keep just about anyone captivated with fairy tales she makes up herself. She appears to be one of the last innocents left after what happened with the world, but she has been known to have nightmares about the time she was kidnapped.
Character PB: Bailee Madison