HATTER, Poppy Lexa

[Poppy Lexa Hatter]

POPPY LEXA HATTER

FULL NAME: Poppy Lexa Hatter.
NICKNAMES: Lollipop, Pops
AGE: Twenty Two
GENDER: female
SEXUALITY: Straight.
STATUS: Single
GROUP: Student.
GRADE: Senior.
MAJOR: Veterinary Studies.
JOB OCCUPATION: Owns Hatter's Teaposium.

HAIR: Long dark brown. She usually leaves it unless she's at the café and then she'll put it up.
EYES: Dark Blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: Tons from her childhood, only some worth any stories though and none all that impressive.
TATTOOS: None currently.
PIERCINGS: Just her ear lobes once.
PLAY-BY: Marie Avgeropoulos!

LIKES: Crochet, soft yarns, strawberry scented candles, small dogs, birds of prey, outdoors, training Chester, checking out film sets, animals, cheesy pick up lines, bar coasters with funny quotes on them, tea, her shop, shoes, bubbles, honey garlic chicken wings, potato salad, colouring, fancy cocktails, dancing, bendy straws
DISLIKES: eggs, BBQ crisps, arrogant men, crime novels, reality television, fakes, sleepless nights, failing a test, making a mistake in her crochet and catching it too late, cliff hanger endings, small spaces, crowded elevators, using a hundred words when a handful would do, the smell of beer, steak so rare it's still mooing
FEARS: the café going bankrupt, never becoming a vet/full fledged trainer, small spaces
SECRETS: Poppy is scared she'll become a failure at training animals for television and films. She doesn't want to disappoint her father but since she's constantly compared to him and her brothers, she worries, despite the fact that she has the skills and determination to go far.
PERSONALITY: Don't let her slight figure fool you, Poppy is a force to be reckoned with. She's a determined young thing with a good head on her shoulders and a heart big enough for what life will throw at her. She likes the idea of romance thanks to all those movie sets and the books she reads but she's never really been pursued before so she's also a bit scared of what that would be like. She's pretty damn feisty and won't let anyone belittle her, outside her family anyway. Her father says something and she tends to cave, which was a secret reason behind her moving across the country to attend a school her parents hadn't fully approved of. She had wanted to become an independent woman and in her eyes, the only way she was ever going to do that was to leave them all behind. She had her uncle of course, but he was the total opposite of her father though he was equally eccentric in his own right. So Poppy is quite the quirky character but she never apologises for it. She really does love who she is, oddities and all, which probably isn't as refreshing a sight as she thought it might be in a place so freeing as New York City. But that's not going to stop her from turning that sunshine smile and sweet personality out into the world. She's been told more than once that she's a mad as a hatter and as ridiculous and lame as it is, she loves to hear it. It's a particular point of pride.

MOTHER: Nadine Hatter & 65.
FATHER: Patrick Hatter & 65.
SIBLINGS: Wesley Hatter & 35
Mae Granger & 33
Nathan Hatter & 27.
OTHERS: Henry Hatter & 68 & Uncle.
PETS: Chester & Hawk!
HOMETOWN: Los Angeles, California(Well, technically outside it but close enough).
HISTORY: It's hard to believe the twenty two year old is the owner of Hatter's Teaposium. Or maybe not when her family is figured into it all. Born and raised in the capital or quirk, Poppy Lexa Hatter and her siblings probably didn't have a hope in hell of being anything normal. Their mother, Nadine was the owner of a small but profitable shop selling yarn and everything that went with knitting and crochet. She taught classes in a back room that was also used as a cosy place to sit and work when classes weren't in session. Their father, Patrick played with animals all day. He was a trainer, specialising in birds of prey and his pets were in more than a few blockbuster hits in the theatres. Poppy liked her upbringing. When she wasn't in school, she was either at the shop working with her mother, crocheting away behind the counter or helping people pick out the best yarn for their project, or on the rare occasion and her favourite part, helping a newbie collect all the materials they would need for their very first project. She'd been crocheting since she'd been old enough to hold the hook so she knew quite a bit. And if she wasn't at the shop, she was with her father, either on set or at the sanctuary training. Her favourites were the owls that he worked with quite a bit though there was a hawk they had named Chester who had taken to Poppy in a snap when he'd been rescued and brought to the centre. A few of the trainers had trouble with him but he just flew straight to her and ate the seed in her outstretched hand.

Each of her parents thought she would end up following them but they were only half right. Poppy did want to train animals. Hell, at sixteen, she already had all the proper permits and certificates required to handle and train birds of prey, a licence that was extremely difficult to come by. So it made sense that she would follow down that path. But she was the quirkiest of all her family members when she decided she wanted to go away for school. Her parents didn't understand how they'd raised such a rebel, and to them, going to school across the country in New York was rebelling. Her two older brothers didn't even go to school, they got their qualifications just like she did and followed their father in taking care of animals, her older sister went the way of her mother and found a love in the knitting shop, also having forgone extended schooling. But when she told them her paths for school, they liked her ideas and let her go. She was a year into it when the opportunity of a lifetime came calling and Poppy answered it. Her uncle had a restaurant in New York and that had been where Poppy had been working to pay for the extras she didn't want to ask her parents for.

The restaurant was doing well but Henry wanted to make a big move and instead of selling the place, he offered it to Poppy, provided she had a game plan for it. She did and he allowed her to see her vision come to light. He provided everything she would need to turn the fancy restaurant into the bistro café that she dreamed of. It was quirky and clever and playful and Poppy was excited. Most of the staff had stayed on so she hadn't needed to hire anyone new which was a blessing. And now two years later, Poppy is juggling a booming business and her classes to become a veterinarian, specialising in large scale birds and various other wild animals. She's already got the in she needs to become a proper trainer and her eyes on a lovely piece of property just outside the city where she can keep the animals and nearly the money to purchase it already. As much as she loved California, New York held a spot in her heart that she had realised it would. Poppy kept getting calls about Chester the entire time she was away at school. He would not be trained by anyone else and it was troublesome for the staff so Patrick called his youngest daughter up at her uncle's house and asked them both a serious question; if he got the hawk to New York, with all the proper paperwork and licences, would they take him. Henry said as long as Poppy took care of him, it was fine with him and she promised she would.

Having Chester in the city also gave Poppy more work because now that the hawk was in the city, there were studios there who were interested in using him. Poppy didn't mind the ulterior motives her father had because it meant she could have her hawk in the city with her and shortly after his arrival, her phone was lit up like the sky on the fourth of July with inquiries and requests to have Chester in this and that. Poppy hadn't thought there would be much of a market for hawks in the city but then, filming wasn't always in the city and she occasionally had to drive out of town to the set. It was fun and quite the experience so she knew without a doubt that even if the tea shop didn't make it more than five years, she would easily have a place as a trainer. She's finally in her senior year now and so close to the end of it that she's concerned about how she'll fill all that extra time she'll have on her hands! Will she spend more at the café or will she book more time with Chester whilst also getting in the required permits and things for the training facilities she's got her eyes on.

YOUR ALIAS: Cali.
RULE WORDS: I laugh at the rules!
WHERE YOU FOUND US: I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you.
SAMPLE:

I really don't feel like it at this moment in time. Please, try asking again later!

 

[Cali]