NIALL, Montana Harper

[Montana Harper Niall]

MONTANA HARPER NIALL

FULL NAME: Montana Harper Niall.
NICKNAMES: Nana
AGE: twenty four
GENDER: female
SEXUALITY: Straight
STATUS: Single
GROUP: Citizen
GRADE: N/A.
MAJOR: N/A.
JOB OCCUPATION: Window Dresser.

HAIR: Long dark brown, falling well past her shoulders with a natural wave. She's done highlights but it's mostly remained her natural colour.
EYES: brown.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: A couple from work but none with a good enough story to tell.
TATTOOS: None.
PIERCINGS: Just her ears.
PLAY-BY: Troian Bellisario!

LIKES: Aerial yoga, acrobatics, designing, colour palletes, jogging, bath bombs, long soaks in the bath, drinks with friends, drawing, Starbucks, oversized scarves, painting, the Harry Potter franchise, wax melts, curling up with a good book, whisky -neat, converse, field hockey.
DISLIKES: misplacing her water bottle, her designs not working the way she wants them, reality television (actually most television, she's not home much), cheesy romantic comedies, ignorant pricks, bullies, cheap red wine, greasy fast food, vegans, cleaning, iced tea, fake plants (for her house).
FEARS: Falling down the elevator shaft at work, someone smashing the window she's working in, bears.
SECRETS: Her mother is a famous set designer based out of London. She didn't want to get by dropping her mother's name so she's not told a soul.
PERSONALITY: Montana has always been a bit of a determined spirit. Her brother had her up and running around with him when she was barely a year old and she never quite learned how to walk. She went from rolling to running in the blink of an eye and Nana wouldn't have had it any other way. She has simple tastes for herself but her designs are the most extravagant things most people walking down fifth avenue will ever see and her home reflects that. Because her job entails so much work, she's basically a workaholic without ever really meaning to be one. She spends her days dreaming up designs for her various displays and she spends more than a few nights a months switching one design out for the next. There was a while there when her family actually wondered if she even had a pause button because she was always on the go but of course she learned how to step back and take some time for herself. For all the work she's done in one city, Montana isn't the kind of person who can't just sit still; which is why there's a map on her office wall with pins in it, telling a tale of all the places she's been and a list pinned right next to it of all the places she still wanted to go. She's American by birth but British by nature with that well known dry sense of humour to go with it and a twisted little accent all her own. She spent more time in England than she ever did in America growing up thanks to boarding school but there was enough time spent to warp her adorable English accent into something a little more awkward.

MOTHER: Maxine Weller & fifty.
FATHER: Hamilton Niall & sixty.
SIBLINGS: Austin Niall & Twenty six.
OTHERS: Augustus Weller & fifty three, step-father.
PETS: Akita & French Bulldog!
HOMETOWN: Born in New York but grew up between there and London, England (mostly England).
HISTORY: Maxine had been in New York to study when she'd met Hamilton. He'd been a producer for the theatre and she'd been a newly contracted set designer. She was young and fresh and Hamilton found her endearing. It was a bit of a game for a while as Maxine wanted to prove her worth, proved that she belonged with the title she'd been given. Eventually though he succeeded in sweeping her off her feet and just before they said "I do", Maxine told Hamilton that she was pregnant. After that, they married quickly and were quite happy. She gave birth to a healthy and happy baby boy and life was a messy roller coaster but they were happy. Two years later, she surprised him again with another pregnancy. This time she brought a little girl into the world and life just seemed complete. It was around then though that a theatre in London had been headhunting Maxine and she was missing home terribly. So after some talks, they decided they would move. For the next ten years, life seemed pretty damn good; to the outside world. But Maxine spent too many hours at the theatre and Hamilton felt like he was getting nowhere in his life.

Montana was ten when her parents sat her and Austin down to tell them that they were divorcing. And because they didn't want them around for the nasty bits so they would still love them both, they were being sent off to boarding schools! They were sent off to the best boarding schools in the country and with Maxine being who she was, some baroness or lady or something somewhere along the way thanks to an ancestor that no one could remember leaving behind a title that wasn't worth it's weight in tea. But it was still technically "royal" and so the children were welcomed with everything but the damn red carpet. Nana hadn't cared about any of it. She was a daddy's girl, everyone knew it, and not just because he was able to work from home more than their mother but because he actually set aside time for his children. Nana knew, if she had been asked which parent she wanted to live with, it would have been her father, no questions asked. And her parents knew Austin would have the same answer which was exactly why they were shipped off to school. Montana wasn't an idiot, even at ten.

Off she went to school and she was depressed as all get out but she was assured she would get over that once she was used to her new surroundings. She met friends for life at the school of course, but it really wasn't the same because she only got to see her family over the holidays and even those had to be split up between parents. After that first Christmas, post divorce, Nana decided she would always visit her father in New York for the Christmas break however and was able to from time to time, after she'd made friends at school, brought them with her. School life did fly by though thanks to good classes, various trips and field hockey and if felt like before she'd really done anything, she was searching out her next school. She had known since that first Christmas that she would attend an American school and so she applied to as many as she could find. With her grades and qualifications, she received acceptance letters from nearly all of them, only one informing her that she'd missed the deadline but they would happily welcome her the following year.

Montana didn't want to wait. Austin was already in New York and Montana didn't want to be in the UK any longer. She took the offer from Columbia's school of Arts and away she went. She moved back into her father's brownstone and started classes shortly after moving in. She had always been a creative soul and both of her parents had thought she would end up doing something in the arts. Her father had hoped she would become a producer or a writer like him but Nana wasn't into that aspect. She did however love drawing and design. She loved the feeling of different materials and the dynamics of throw pillows. So she thought when she was finished school, she would go into interior design. And then she landed an entry level position on a design team for a very well known department store. Before she was even in her senior year, she'd been given a window of her own to decorate differently each month and then the countdown to Christmas saw them changing every night. The pay was great for a university student so she wasn't about to complain about the bothersome hours around the holidays.

Once she graduated, her boss offered her up the chance of a lifetime. The head of the department wanted to have a little contest and wanted Montana to lead one of the four teams. Each team was supposed to decorate a window and the one mentioned most would get a nice little surprise. The surprise as Nana and her team found out was the department itself. The owners were opening yet another store in California and had wanted the senior team to go and oversee it all, which left the flagship store in New York with openings. At twenty two, Nana found herself the head of the New York design department. She had hoped for the job but had expected it to take a good twenty years not twenty seconds. But like they had said when they'd offered her the job, she had a good eye for designs, everyone loved her and she had a commanding presence that made people listen to her and believe she was much older than she was. It was a bit undertaking at first but now at twenty four, it feels like she's always had the job and it feels so easy now that she's figures it all out! She's still quite young, despite her big executive job so she does enjoy letting loose every once in a while but she's also starting to think that maybe she really should be looking for the one. It doesn't hurt to look, right?

YOUR ALIAS: Caliente!
RULE WORDS: I've got this.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In a book, on a shelf in the cupboard under the stairs.
SAMPLE:

Nope!

 

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