gabrielle
queen of angst
A one on one roleplay between Stone Fox and Gabrielle;
Torture happens in small, dark rooms in countries with names you struggle to spell.
This is just mildly unpleasant.
This isn't heroism.
Heroism happens in churches that are also schools, performed by teachers with no names and no place to stay.
This isn't loss.
Loss happens on fields filed with poppies, in hospitals buzzing with flies, in distant deserts and late at night when there's no good reason for the phone to ring.
This is just longing.
This isn't important.
Important happens on bended knees and is breathed on last breaths with hands clutched tight, hearts tighter.
This is just a distraction." ↳ Pleasefindthis, The truth behind glass mountains.
Your oldest fears are your worst ones. Save your own life.
This was no accident.
"You cannot kill me here. Bring your soldiers, bring your death, your disease, your collapsed economy because it doesn't matter, I have nothing left to lose and you cannot kill me here. Bring the tears of orphans and the wails of mother's loss, bring your god damn air force and Jesus on a cross, bring your hate and bitterness and long working hours, bring your empty wallets and love long since gone but you cannot kill me here. Bring your sneers, your snide remarks and friendships never felt, your letters you never sent, your kisses never kissed, cigarettes smoked to the bone and cancer killing fears but you cannot kill me here. For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction. Because you cannot kill me here." ↳ Pleasefindthis, The place I'm in.
Welcome to the island of Key Biscayne, Florida.
South of Miami you have the island of Key Biscayne. With clear waters, white sands, sunny days, and palm trees surrounding, how could you not enjoy the scenery? Coconut and palm trees stand with the island's lighthouses in abundance. Grasses soft in appearance border between the sand and the foliage, moving with elegance in the wind. There is a beautiful shoreline wherever you turn, Miami in the distance, and five miles of near seclusion here. Majority of the island is set aside with the protection of county parks, leaving a small portion for homes, and there aren't many. It's the perfection sectioned off from the rest of the world, holding its beauty for those who know of it.
Stone Fox's
Aster was born into a working class family in Cardiff. She was the only child of her family, and at the age of eight she witnessed her parents get divorced due to constant arguments concerning their financial situation. Aster stayed with her father because of her mother’s fascination with alcohol consumption and grew up in a household or strict rules and discipline. There was very little empathy from her father, who was a hardworking but very emotionally distant man who simply wanted his daughter’s safety and well-being. However, his obsession with protecting her and ensuring she would fare well was counterproductive and drove Aster away from him both physically and emotionally.
Despite that, Aster’s father had a plan, a good one. He knew a man, the owner of the business he worked for and he knew that the man had seen Aster several times. The girl had given a good first impression to the man, who was looking for a bride for his son. Arranged marriages had been out of fashion for a long time, but knowing that he could offer a better life and future for Aster, he struck a deal with the business owner without his daughter’s approval. In return, he was promoted and Aster, once she was eighteen, was invited to travel to America where her future husband, Thomas Hale, was living. The first time Aster saw him was on their wedding day at the altar and was shocked to find out that Thomas was a man bound to a wheelchair due to a genetic condition.
With their marriage came all sorts of perks: big house, nice cars, a new life in America, pretty clothes, shiny high heels, champagne from France… But while all of that was nice, it did little to resolve the tension between Aster and Thomas. Her feelings towards him were very mixed: she despised him for having agreed to marry her without her knowledge, but also felt that she couldn’t be angry or unpleasant with him due to his disability. In fact, it was his disability that made her tolerate the intolerable marriage with a man she had no feelings for, for the next six years. The majority of the time, Thomas was unaware that Aster harboured a deep dislike for him and swallowed her act and lies entirely.
The final straw, however, came when Thomas insisted on having a child. Aster agreed reluctantly to this, but behind her husband’s back she was making sure to get her dose of birth control each day without telling him. Getting pregnant and giving birth to his child, was out of question to her and she feared what she could and would do if a child did enter the picture. Thomas, thinking the problem was in him and his disability, eventually grew depressed from their failed attempts. From there on, their relationship has gone downhill, and the mask of happiness and peace that both have been desperately trying to keep up is about to fall.
Gabrielle's
<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2015_06/8bf19cd4662098dc9135add164a73e5a.jpg.358702575b5daae82cbd5bbb59f3e6e0.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="54738" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2015_06/8bf19cd4662098dc9135add164a73e5a.jpg.358702575b5daae82cbd5bbb59f3e6e0.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p> Adrian Theo Rodell. 19 years. 6'0"
Early childhood to Adrian was nothing near perfection. He and his family, which consisted of only his mother and himself, resided in a small apartment. As things would go his mother would eventually find someone to replace the empty role in their lives which would play as a father and husband. After two years they were married, and Adrian was three at the time. Of course there would be those rough times found in life, but to a small child like Adrian things couldn't have been better. He was a happy child, blissfully unaware of his parent's arguments, the overdue bills, the nights spent with his step father being in a bar rather than with them... Yet you have to keep in mind that his world was made up of things entirely centered around things such as toys and if he could manage to have dessert for breakfast such as any child's life should be.
By the time Adrian was soon to be turning six years old, things had changed drastically. While she was out jogging early in the morning, Adrian's mother was killed in a hit and run. The death had an immense impact on him and his stepfather. It should be a given that with the death of his beloved wife, depression had fallen onto him. Adrian was too young to completely understand the circumstances of his situation, but one thing was very clear: his mother would never come back from that jog of hers.
After it had happened Adrian was brought from aunt to aunt, cousin, uncle, etc. It was nothing ideal for a child. A month of this had passed until Adrian was brought back to his stepfather. Depression seemed to rule his stepfather, and things couldn't have appeared bleaker whenever he'd been laid off from work. It may not have been the best thing to do, but that was when he seemed have reached his limits. He packed Adrian's things and brought him to a relative's home, leaving the six year old there after a long goodbye. The man Adrian had known for as long as he remembered had disappeared after that night.
Issues around custody over Adrian ensued, but in the end the matter was settled. Adrian went to live with his mother's brother, Marcus, who lived out in the country on the outskirts of Houston. Overall it was the good, stable environment that Adrian had needed, but of course a good home doesn't exactly mean those within it are happy. For reasons completely unknown to Adrian, Marcus became addicted to methamphetamine whenever Adrian was twelve years old. Being the child he was, of course Adrian didn't understand the odd behavior that quickly followed his uncle's addiction. Things had quickly deteriorated at that point from a suitable environment for a child to something that CPS would never tolerate. With an addiction to feed, it was only a year after Marcus had first became addicted that all of their horses were sold off as well as some of their acres of land and furniture. Marcus also met his wife, Brittany, in this year. She of course was also a meth addict with skills of cooking meth and prostitution. She provided a ways of income for the family with selling her body and drugs. It lessened the cost of Marcus' habit, and the family finally had some extra money.
At this age Adrian was starting to get a very clear understanding of what was going on in the environment he had to live in. With the way he could recite Brittany's meth recipe, how could he not know what type of situation he was in? Their house was a mess. It smelled like ammonia. They never seemed to have food. The people he lived with seemed to be entirely out of their minds. The list could go on. It gets a little hard to ignore the fact after two years, but even so, Adrian did nothing about it. He learned how to live without complaints and to take care of himself. It became as if he and the people he lived with were simply neighbors, not one household, and that was probably a more accurate description of their arrangement with the way he lived in the shed beside the house.
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