Name: Nika Darling
Age: 21
Gender: Cis Female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Major: Fashion
Physical description:
Typical Scandinavian features, with silvery ice blonde hair, pale brows, and a fair, peaches and cream complexion. Warm honey brown eyes and soft, pouty lips. Her short stature (just about 5'0), rosy cheeks, and slightly chubby form give her a sort of cherubic, youthful appearance. Petite but curvy, with a plump, buxom figure.
Nika's style is a mix of strega/modern witch, boho, and casual goth. Lots of flowy layers, maybe a clean, simple tee, and slouchy cardigans in a consistent color palette of black, grey, and cream with some pastels thrown in here and there. (Examples seen
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Personality:
Nika is a kind, artistic free spirit. She has a very warm and loving nature, always wanting to make others feel good. Her personal mission in life is to make everyone around her feel special and loved. She is very caring, accepting and non-judgmental, making her a great listener to unload your troubles to or confide in with a secret.
Nika comes off as a breezy, laid-back bohemian type. She gives off an earthy, witchy vibe; a neo-hippie quality evident in her penchant for nature, peace, love, and all manner of new age garbage like healing crystals and oils.
Strengths:
Affable, outgoing, and creative. Loves to compliment and cheer others up. Loyal friend.
Weaknesses:
Growing up wealthy, she never really learned to budget. As such, she's pretty bad with money and can be a reckless spender. Shiftless, unambitious, avoids work at all costs unless it's something she really enjoys doing. Can be possessive; jealous type.
Head Canons:
Loves lingerie; wearing, designing, and creating it, and would be thrilled to make it her profession if she could be assed to put in the work required.
Has taken dance classes all her life, with a particular love for ballet. It's been her lifelong secret dream to pursue ballet professionally, but never believed she could pull it off as she always lacked the standard thin, lithe dancer's body customary in ballerinas.
Despite her irresponsible ways, Nika longs to be a mother someday, if she can get her act together.
Hopeless romantic. Is a sucker for shy, quiet types. Gets attached to people very quickly, and will fall for nearly anyone that shows her attention.
Blushes easily with embarrassment or any other strong emotion.
Always daydreaming.
Likes:
Funny people, lounging, lingerie, lounging around in lingerie, fashion, drinking, parties, meeting new people, traveling
Dislikes:
Running, sports, being single
Backstory:
Nika had a very priveleged upbringing, growing up in a posh Upper East Side loft, the only child of two successful artists. She has always been impulsive to a pernicious degree, bouncing from one half-cocked whim to the next like a manic pinball, never actually following through or accomplishing anything. If she does manage to start a new endeavor, she can't help but sabotage it immediately. It wasn't uncommon for Nika to ditch boarding school, and now college for days at a time, running off to some exotic locale with a new lover or friends she just met. These chaotic relationships fizzle out quickly, and soon enough she's back home, ready to blissfully start the cycle anew. The Darlings' laissez-faire approach to parenting always allowed this behavior to go unchecked, leaving her free to self destruct into adulthood.
She seems unaware, or unwilling, to face the full extent of her issues; she'd describe herself as merely "flighty." Her parents constantly bailing her out of trouble means she rarely has to deal with the negative consequences of her actions, shielding her from the reality that she's a colossal fuck-up.
Nika has arrived at 21, embarking on a new year at Hartley with a string of failed classes and relationships in her wake. Will she finally buckle down and get serious about her degree this year? Or will she flunk out once and for all, free to flutter off on her next flight of fancy?
