Post by indigo leigh bennett on Dec 18, 2013 11:48:23 GMT -5
INDIGO LEIGH BENNETT
FULL NAME: Indigo Leigh Bennett.
NICKNAMES: Indi, Indi-Leigh.
AGE: twenty-five.
SEXUALITY: straight.
STATUS: single (Divorced)
GROUP: citizen
GRADE: N/A.
MAJOR: N/A
JOB OCCUPATION: Prof. of Graphic Design and Video Game Artist.
HAIR: Naturally her hair is brown, but Indi has had various shades of red hair for the last several years with no plans of changing it. It’s long, past her shoulders and if she has time in the morning she’ll style it either straight or into soft waves. Rarely does she put it up unless she’s angry or working hard in the studios.
EYES: green.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: She has a few that are mostly faded and hard to see, but there’s one running down her left side over her ribs and another at the top of her forehead, usually hidden by her hair.
TATTOOS: She has the Squall Lionheart symbol tattooed above her right wrist, a floral skull on her left thigh along with a snake wrapped around and a set of Alexander wings on the top of her back..
PIERCINGS: Her ears three times and a navel piercing
PLAY-BY: Susan Coffey!
LIKES: video games, sketchpads, frogs, computer animation, concept designs, chipotle southwest sauce, fantasy/sci-fi movies, quirky bars, mint hot chocolate, chai crème Frappuccino, working in the studios, rooftops, helping to choreograph sequences, baggy vests, kohl eyeliner, open waters, comic books, superheroes, the idea of immortality, medieval tales, scarves, winter, take-out, nail polish, surprising people, dream analysis, fireflies, fresh plants, model sculptures, chili fries, coconut lotion, cool showers, Japan, manga, abandoned buildings, research into horror.
DISLIKES: parades, people who stop dead in the middle of sidewalks, closed-minded people, cooking, perfectionists, neat freaks, her ex-husband, over-priced designer labels, people keeping secrets from her, students questioning her methods, being hurt, flying, feeling too warm, her mom lecturing her, hospitals, fizzy sodas, warm juice, running out of supplies, nights out that end dully, spoilers, knotty hair, airports, kiwi fruit, video game snobs, bar fights, torrential rainstorms, football, big earrings, unrealistic romantic books and movies.
FEARS: airplanes/flying, falling in love again, going blind.
SECRETS: She married “the love of her life” at nineteen and divorced him a year later. It’s not her proudest moment to date and she never brings it up with the people in her life now since she’s tired of already hearing lecture, after lecture about it.
PERSONALITY: Like you’d expect, Indi is friendly and will talk to anyone, especially her students outside of her classroom and especially if they’re passionate about the things she loves. She’s enthusiastic and encouraging not just in her professional work, but in life in general; she’ll always tell someone to chase their dream or grab the extra chocolate sprinkles. She’s witty, but her sense of humour seems to range from brute sarcasm to nonsensical ramblings. Indi is ambitious but quite childish at the same time; she loves playing video games just as much as she loves being behind the scenes of them! She can be stubborn at times and had a habit of pushing people when she thinks they’re being too closed off. With the one exception of her marriage, Indi is pretty much an open book and can’t stand it when people close to her are keeping secrets; it’s the one thing that makes this cool-headed girl erupt like a volcano. She’s imaginative and creative and believes in those two things more than anything else. Despite everything, Indi is jaded, especially when it comes to romance. She thought she saw her happy ever after, but it was all a horrible lie and since then she’s struggled to have any faith when it comes to commitment. It spread slightly to other areas of her life, but it’s her art and keeping busy that keeps her from losing it altogether. She’s confrontational whenever there is something bothering her, but likes to put on a tough act to stop people from finding out her vulnerabilities. As a professor, she’s quite unconventional and it’s not uncommon for students and her colleagues to question some of her methods at times, but Indi seems to know what she’s doing; she just likes people to let go sometimes.
MOTHER: Nicole Claire Bennett, 54.
FATHER: Isaac Christopher Bennett, 55.
SIBLINGS: Blair Francesca Bennett, 30.
Ruby Elizabeth Bennett, 28.
Micah Allan Bennett, 26.
OTHERS: Zachary Liam Stone, 29, ex-husband.
PETS: Lola and Tony; Green Tree frogs!.
HOMETOWN: Polson, Montana
HISTORY: Indigo was the last child born into the Bennett family and she rounded off their little family nicely with three older siblings already running around the lake house home that Isaac had inherited after the death of his father, two years earlier. Despite the influences from her older siblings as she grew up, Indi managed to find her own styles and hobbies in the world. Where Blair was fashion conscience and Ruby had her books while Micah spent most of his time with sporting equipment, Indigo soon found herself completely at home sitting on the veranda of the family home with a blank book and a box of crayons, looking out over the serene view of Lake Flathead.
At school her best friends was a lovely, welcoming group that were quite the mix with some of them being really quiet and others being quite loud and boisterous. Indi was very close to her siblings, but it was this group of friends who really helped her find her passion in life. One boy introduced her to video games, another to comic books. One of the girls brought make-up into her life when she was older, while another gave Indi her first glimpse into dolls – which later manifested into collectible figures. Her siblings had their own influences too, but art was the one thing Indi introduced to the rest of them and it was a talent that just kept on growing as the little girl got older and began to make those dreams and wishes for “when I grow up…”
In high school, Indigo blossomed into an independent girl capable of making her own choices and decisions, even with the looming pressure of her peers constantly being pushed on her. She still kept in touch with those old friends once they drifted from the mismatched group to form other cliques, but some of them still remained Indi’s nearest and dearest for those hard high school years. She spent free hours in the art classrooms, scribbling away in her sketchbook and did consistently well in the classes that allowed her to express her creativity; like art, English and drama. The rest of the subjects Indi managed to scrape by with a nice average grade and never really caused any alarm, apart from when teachers found her book to be full of sketches and doodles of the things around her, from video games, or the depths of her imagination. Indi simply couldn’t switch it off to focus on something mundane like historical facts and figures. It was clear to see where her passion was and no one tried to tell her otherwise. She got a few stinging remarks from girls who didn’t see the fun in video games and midnight releases, but nothing to really cut deep. Indi was a confident young girl who didn’t do something for the popularity or the trends; she did it because she liked them.
When Indi was seventeen she was flying to her grandparent’s home in Boston, a little later than most of her family due to some school commitments. It was only a flight a few hours later, but the small passenger plane had problems mid-flight and had to perform an emergency landing. Indi doesn’t even know what the problem was, but before the plane could land, the oxygen masks had dropped and things had gotten considerably worse in the passenger cabin of the plane. She had panicked, knowing no one else around her and in that panic accidentally unclipped her seatbelt. As the plane struggled to stay in the air, Indigo fell from her seat, cracked her head on the seat in front of her and blacked out. It was only later two days afterwards that she finally woke up in a hospital in Salt Lake City with her worried family gathered around her bed. It seemed that while her injuries hadn’t been life threatening, she had managed to badly cut her side on some interior debris as the plane managed to crash land on the runway and there were a few other scrapes and bruises adorning her body. The blow to the head had left her disorientated for little bit as she recovered from the concussion, but Indi was living her life again with ease in very little time at all. The only thing that was different now was that she chose to drive everywhere, even if it took her a few days; nothing was ever getting her back on a plane again.
She knew what she wanted to do with her life, did the necessary research and chose the right courses when it came to college applications. Indi was accepted into a few scattered across the country, but wound up accepting an offer in New York to study graphic and visual design at one of the schools that already had good connections with graduate employment and internships that she could pick up at any time after her freshman year portfolio was complete.
During the moving process, Indi met Zach and instantly there was a connection there. She had dated in high school, but this felt different. Zach lived in the same building that she was moving into and had just graduated college with the idea of going into architecture; he had a job lined up at a small but promising company. It wasn’t too long before Indi thought herself head over heels in love with him. She stuck with college, worked on her portfolio and projects, but spent more time with Zach, agreeing to marry him after only eight months of dating. She had never been a hopeless romantic in her life, but she honestly thought this was the real thing and the diamond ring on her finger only made her more certain of that. Her family were concerned, her father most of all, but her mother was gushing and keen to plan such a big wedding that Indi didn’t want. Eventually, the happy couple married in city hall, with just a few witnesses to keep it official. She had never thought of her wedding before and didn’t want to waste the time planning and fussing over everything.
Sophomore year started and Indi was now Mrs Stone and couldn’t be happier, until the internship letter landed on the doormat of the apartment the married couple now shared. With a good company keen to push Indi’s work further and bring her into their offices to develop more of an understanding for the video gaming industry, the redhead spent more time on her art and stealing moments with Zach whenever she could and wasn’t too exhausted for a date night. Her career had been everything she had dreamt of for so long that it was ridiculously hard to say no to a phone call asking her to come into the offices, even if she knew she’d be on an evening of coffee runs and hanging around the copy machine. Still, she thought everything was fine with her marriage, even when Zach seemed to be working late and answering his phone in a separate room. It was only on a rare day off from college and work when Indi found the piece of lingerie that definitely wasn’t hers “discreetly” tucked under his side of the mattress. She confronted Zach when he got home and he finally admitted to having an affair with someone at work since Indi was “never around when he needed her to be”. Indi thought he understood how much her dreams had meant and after all the encouragement he had given her to chase the internship and focus on her art, she thought he was happy. It was only after he hesitated in answering her question of “can we fix this?” did Indi see that there was no point in wasting her time trying to fix something when he hardly seemed invested anymore.
She packed up her things, moved into the student dorms for her junior year and filed for divorce, her dad helping her pay the legal fees despite never approving of the wedding; he just wanted Indi to be happy. Her mom was much less forgiving, believing Indigo should’ve fought harder and worked to save her marriage to that “lovely man”. She thought that Indi ought to have given Zach a second chance since they were both young and allowed to make a mistake or two along the way, but Indi didn’t want to listen.
Instead, she buried herself into her studies and the internship, which was great for her portfolio which kept expanding and improving the longer Indi worked on it, some nights even passing out with the pencils in her hand or her head on the laptop. Zach tried to talk to her, but Indi didn’t want to face the man who had broken her heart. She had felt so foolish for rushing into love like that and she wasn’t about to make the same mistake again.
Finally, she graduated her college of choice and rolled straight into a position on the concept art team of the company she had spent three years interning with, slowly building up details and skills to use. As part of the team as a beginner, it was only a few of her ideas that were used and they were tweaked by the more senior designers to suit certain parts of the games the company was making, but just before Indi turned twenty-four she got to design the primary characters for the launch of a new series. With the amount of hours she spent bent over a design table or hunched over a laptop it was impossible for her work to go unnoticed. It was hard work and she lost track of how many nights she passed out on the break room couch, but watching her designs go from paper to the computers and then through the rigorous animation process that often had her snatching away other designers to help perfect poses and movements, it was worth it.
During the summer of post-production when she kind of took a backseat and relaxed, she went to represent the new franchise at a number of events for game promotion and gave a few guest lectures for potential students who wanted to get into the video design career branch. During this time, one the heads of administration at NYU mentioned the expansion of the graphic design courses at the university and mentioned that if Indigo was interested, there might be a job there for her. She loved working with her video game team though and it took a lot of consideration and talking with her bosses, but eventually they came to a great arrangement; Indi would accept a teaching spot at the school and work with the assigning of internships and finding “fresh talent” to bring to the company. She still worked for the company, spending quite a bit of time there when she wasn’t teaching graphic design. The ideas for a sequel to the first game she fully worked on are still being batted about, but in the meantime, Indi and her team are working on several little projects, though she does distribute a lot more of the work to her colleagues now, rather than carrying it all on her shoulders.
Her teaching methods are unconventional and she doesn’t officially take a class until September, but she’s ran a number of taster workshops for potential students who are still mulling over electives. She spends more time running into the office and working about there, but Indi doesn’t mind balancing the two parts of her job for now. She’s only teaching certain classes once semester starts up and she’s not one for worrying about sacrificing a few evenings to help out a student or to put in the hours at work. If she can find a couple of great designers or programmers out of her classes, then it’ll all be worth it.
YOUR ALIAS: KIM.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In the night sky.
SAMPLE:Pssh!
