Post by reilly halina blake gordon on Dec 18, 2013 17:51:21 GMT -5
REILLY HALINA BLAKE GORDON
FULL NAME: Reilly Halina Blake Gordon.
NICKNAMES: Rei.
AGE: twenty-two.
SEXUALITY: bisexual.
STATUS: single
GROUP: student
GRADE: junior
MAJOR: astrophysics
JOB OCCUPATION: Planet Hollywood Host.
HAIR: naturally blonde and just on her shoulders now. She plays with it when she’s not in work and occasionally dyes it, depending on how she’s feeling. There’s a few layers in there too.
EYES: green.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: She has a faded one on the back of her left hand; a burn from her childhood.
TATTOOS: She has a sun rising over the ocean on her left forearm to remind her of ‘Frisco, and she has a feather tattooed on her right shoulder blade too. She has a tattoo of a Russian doll on her thigh too, reminding her of home.
PIERCINGS: Her earlobes are pierced twice, her tragus and forward helix are pierced in her right ear and she has her septum pierced too. She tends to keep a clear retainer in it though because of rules at work..
PLAY-BY: Scarlett Johansson!
LIKES: bar atmospheres, smoothies, gory horror movies, horror movies, sci-fi, her twisted sense of humour, movie trivia, space, scientific discussions, physics, old cars, documentaries on space, Jogo do Pau, rock concerts, tattoo parlours, taekwondo, books by Bret Easton Ellis, late nights, rebelling, “real” people, sitting on the roof, her journal, Halloween, energy drinks, the fall, Russian literature, swimming, loud music, motorbikes, feeling alive, scented candles, throws, fabric prints, headbands, funny hats, scarves, mermaids, apple juice, feathers, massages, fried rice, sushi, the moon, meditation, Spring Break adventures, puppets..
DISLIKES: flip-flops, hip-hop music, cold fries, cooking, wrapping presents, getting injured, missing garbage day, questions, panic attacks, criticism, over-eager guys, paper cuts, beef, cold showers, elevators, greasy hair, romantic movies, people thinking that they know her, losing track of time, spin classes, being the centre of attention, having her privacy invaded, fireworks, technology not working, people assuming things, ferris wheels, blue ink pens, torn concert tickets, hiccups, chocolate ice cream, predictability, strawberries, theology, being preached to, orange juice, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate.
FEARS: explosions, someone getting close enough to hurt her again, hospitals.
SECRETS: Before she moved to New York, Reilly was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for severe PTSD.
PERSONALITY: The first thing people notice about Reilly is that she comes across as secretive and slightly on the defensive side. They wouldn’t be wrong either. She works hard to keep her past a secret, often acting like there was nothing to tell about her life before New York. She may seem quiet most of the time, but she does have a sharp tongue when someone gets on the wrong side of her. She’s confident and doesn’t really like it when people waste time with something or skip around the edges out of fear. Reilly is incredibly intelligent but doesn’t boast about it. In fact, she’s amazingly modest. She doesn’t believe that it should matter what her IQ is or what she studies, so she can get a little testy if someone passes comment on it or judges her in some way because of it. She does enjoy socialising, so long as the topic is light or there’s loud music to distract her and she cannot be the centre of attention. Reilly suffers from panic attacks at times, even now, so she tries to avoid any situation where this can happen which is usually firework displays or anything of the like. She prefers to keep busy whether it’s by working, her studies or one of her many hobbies. She often grows frustrated at herself if she’s feeling weak or particularly jumpy, and this can make her prone to snapping at others when she doesn’t mean to. Once she feels like she can trust someone, she’ll be a loyal friend, but trusting is not something that comes easy to a girl like Reilly. She’s been hurt before and won’t be again, if she can help it. She’s never been romantic, always criticising fairy tale ideals and those stupid chick-flick movies where everything is unbelievable perfect by the time the closing credits roll. She’s had relationships, but they’ve left her jaded and it’s about time that someone came along and changed that, though it wouldn’t be easy. She’s got a dark sense of humour and often her jokes leave people feeling uneasy and leaves Reilly feeling like she has to hide behind a mask of sorts. She’s got a rebellious side to her too, and she’s really no stranger to trouble. She’s a lot calmer than she used to be, but Reilly does still enjoy the occasional drunken night on the town. Sometimes, she can go a little too far and she needs someone to pull her back and stop her from doing something dangerous. She is there for her friends, but it’s usually in a quite unique way and it’s not always obvious. She’s a strong character, but feels like she has to keep all of her demons to herself. Once someone gets her to open up a bit, she’ll probably find that she can really put her past behind her and look forward to her future. She can hide her emotions well, but typically likes the life she has going for herself in New York, though she’s scared of showing that too much in case something ruins it for her. All in all, she plays her cards close to her chest and she needs someone to force their way in to see that it doesn’t have to be like that.
MOTHER: Lena Oksana Gordon, 46.
FATHER: Shaun Ryder Gordon, 47.
SIBLINGS: Lydia Jane Gordon, 25
Kristopher Ryan Gordon, 18.
OTHERS: Roman Hathaway, 24, ex-boyfriend of sorts
Doctor Tyler White, 34, psychiatrist.
PETS: Billy & Stu, Sugar gliders!
HOMETOWN: Labinsk Russia.
HISTORY: Shaun met Lena when he was taking a semester abroad in college. He fell in love with her instantly and once his graduation was out of the way, the young engineer got a job in Russia and moved there to marry her in a whirlwind affair that soon resulted in a baby girl named Lydia. Three short years later came Reilly Halina Blake, who got her middle names from both her maternal and paternal grandmothers. The family resided in Labinsk, Russia and the children were raised learning to speak both English and Russian, though Russian was their dominant language for many years. Kristopher came along when Reilly was five and the happy little family was complete. Lena worked from home, writing articles for a local magazine while Shaun went to work each morning. Reilly started school, made excellent grades and overall had quite the happy childhood, aside from the occasional fights with her siblings and need to try and bend the rules as much as she could, all because of her curious mind. Life was good, but when Reilly was thirteen and walking home from school alone a car bomb went off nearby and the little girl was knocked unconscious from the blast.
She was okay, overall. A small burn had scarred her left hand only slightly and she had a few scratches from debris on her body, along with a mild concussion, but she seemed fine in every other sense. When doctors spoke to the family about how it might affect her mentally, Lena and Shaun made the decision to move to San Francisco, where Shaun was originally from. They felt it was safer there and the best way to protect their children. At first, Reilly didn’t seem to be phased by what had happened back in Russia, too young to really understand all of the problems that had been happening there. Her parents kept an eye on her and things appeared to be okay after the initial move was over. Reilly never mentioned what had happened to her and just seemed to get on with her life. Doctors assumed that she had to be okay dealing with it, since she showed no signs of trauma other than her physical injuries.
As Reilly got older and the teenage years crept upon her, she struggled to really find a balance or a way to fit in. She had an accent, spoke a different language and had grown up in an entirely different culture. It was a big change and not one that she fully understood at first. Being smart, she made good grades with relative ease, but it also made her prone to boredom during classes and more likely to act up in the classroom. Some of her teachers were surprised by the explosion of personality that came out of her sometimes. She didn’t really fit in with most of the kids, constantly craving adventure and wanting more out of her life. This need drove her to rebel more and she soon fell in with a not-so-good crowd that included 17 year old Roman Hathaway. He was the high school’s resident bad boy and Reilly was drawn to him almost immediately the day that she met him. He provided her with an adrenaline rush, a fake ID and a lot of bad habits.
It became common for Reilly to break curfew, defy her parents, swear loudly in her native tongue and generally turn into quite the troublemaker, drinking and partying and all the time allowing Roman to manipulate her more and more, turning her into quite the little rebel. She, surprisingly, managed to keep up her decent grades, though they weren’t as pristine as they really ought to be. She found it fun to tease the teachers about it whenever they returned her assignments and was a regular visitor to the principal’s office and threatened with suspension and expulsion more than once. The problem was that aside from her tongue, Reilly managed to keep most of her trouble outside of the school grounds and hours.
Shaun tried to sit her down and calm her down more than once, but to no avail. He tried to talk her into colleges, reminding her of all the dreams she had when she was little, but nothing seemed to work. Reilly was under Roman’s thumb and thought herself overly in love with him, though they were never exclusive and she did meet and hook up with a few other guys and girls once she was eighteen. It was all for the rush, shamefully.
This reckless and wasteful lifestyle lasted for another two years until Reilly was twenty. During this time, her parents kicked her out for the sake of Kristopher and she began couch surfing in the places where her friend’s lived, though it was hardly a good lifestyle. She drank, partied and narrowly evaded arrest on a number of occasions.
One night changed all of that though. They were all hanging out in some abandoned lot and Roman let off a firework nearby, close to a can that already had a roaring fire going in it. The explosion of the firework caught Reilly off guard and unleashed a memory she had never thought back on. She began having flashbacks and nightmares about that one day in Labinsk when the car bomb had exploded. She became withdrawn from the people who were supposed to be her friends and it didn’t take them long to abandon her. Roman called her horrific things, ignored her pleas for help and turfed her out of his apartment, saying that bringing her into his circle had been a fun game, but at the end of the day, she was useless and more of a mess than he was willing to deal with. She was remembering things she didn’t even recall the first time around, like the screams of other people in the street, one man on fire and other horrific things that just sent her deeper into the hole.
She was homeless for a few days until Kristopher saw her on his way home from school. Reilly was distressed, anxious and extremely hyper-alert. He convinced her to come home to the family and she did, but it wasn’t enough. She got worse, developed insomnia, started crying out in the night and panic attacks became frequent occurrences for her. It was on the fourth of July when her family finally called for help. The sound of the fireworks sent her into a frenzy and she was lashing out, refusing to let anyone get close to her. She has no really recollection of this day, but she remembers what came next.
Reilly woke up in a hospital. She had been committed to a psychiatric hospital so that she could be assessed and monitored. It seemed obvious to the doctor’s that she was suffering from PTSD, but when she woke up, Reilly refused to talk to any of the doctors, the psychological effects of her condition making her believe that they were responsible for the bomb all those years ago. She was kept in the facility, as the doctors believed that she could be a danger to herself or others. It seemed that any stimuli that triggered a flashback were also what triggered Reilly into lashing out aggressively. It should have been easy for her to recover from, but the panic attacks didn’t stop and loud bangs frightened her, hindering a lot of the progress being made. Medication eventually began to work on Reilly and once she got over fearing everyone at the hospital, it became easier for the doctors to use the cognitive behavioural therapy on her. Really, it was all thanks to Doctor Tyler White that Reilly began to make a recovery. He would sit with her in the day room and just talk to her, even if she didn’t reply. He got to know her pretty well, and once Reilly came to trust him, she began to cooperate with the cognitive therapy and took the first steps to getting better. It wasn’t so easy, but after living in the hospital for close to eight months, Reilly was allowed to go back home to her family. She still had to return twice a week for therapy sessions and the doctors prescribed her with anti-anxiety drugs to keep her calm as this seemed to be the biggest problem she had left to conquer.
Back home, Reilly changed. The whole experience had been a horrible dose of reality for the young girl. She became a lot more reserved and quiet, apologising to her family for everything she had done and put them through. The twenty-one year old found it hard to open up to new people, scared of where she might end up if she did trust them. She became defensive of herself and wary of people’s motives. She wanted to take this chance and really do something with her life. She had the grades still, and while a top school was out of the question, she would still be able to find a course. Reilly waited though, and attended her appointments each week, working to make a full recovery. The doctors taught her techniques and used therapies to help her put the trauma out of her everyday life. It was slow progress, but Reilly was soon walking out of her final appointment with a sense of hope about her future.
She applied to NYU to study astrophysics, like she always used to talk about when she was a kid. Her parents wanted her to stay closer to home, but Reilly insisted on getting out there and proving to herself that she could cope. She didn’t like thinking about what her life could’ve become and knowing that she really had no one when she needed them most of all, was excruciatingly painful. She didn’t remember all that much about her episodes, but she did vividly remember the last time she saw Roman and what he had said; she never wanted anyone to speak to her like that again or say those things. She knew she had almost destroyed her future by being a foolish teenager, but now was the time to right those things.
After making the move to New York, Reilly got a job as a hostess, but it took some time to adjust to it all. Loud noises rarely bothered her anymore, but fireworks were still enough to bring on a panic attack. Luckily, they were rare and few, but Reilly is still prone to them now and it makes New Year an unbearable time. Once she settled in, more of her older personality shone through. She still kept herself reserved and didn’t like sharing details about her life with others, scared of judgement and criticism. However, she started going to concerts and bars and found that she loved both. She didn’t act as crazy as she did back in high school, but she does slip up from time to time, leaving her on the brink of doing something crazy and needing her friends to pull her back and stop her. She likes to feel alive and still does some silly things to feel that rush, but she’s calmed down a lot compared to what she used to be like.
Sometimes, life can still get the better of her and hiding away seems like the better option, but Reilly tries to push through it, though she’s wary of trusting people in case they lead her down a bad path again, hurt her or use her past against her. Now a sophomore, Reilly is starting to find her feet in the city and starting to think more about her future, though it’s baby steps. She’s still defensive and can come across as distant, but that stems from a hell of a lot more than the PTSD. For now, she’s trying to focus more on herself, her schooling and keeping herself going through each day. She still has a lot of issues to overcome and even with a doctor and a therapist on speed dial, Reilly doesn’t always feel like it’s going to be an easy journey to make alone.
YOUR ALIAS: KIM.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In the night sky.
SAMPLE:Pssh!
