LOUGANIS, Dido Evanthia

[dido evanthia louganis]

DIDO EVANTHIA LOUGANIS

FULL NAME: Dido Evanthia Louganis.
NICKNAMES: None
AGE: 29
GENDER: Female
SEXUALITY: Straight.
STATUS: Single.
GROUP: Citizen.
GRADE: N/A.
MAJOR: N/A.
JOB OCCUPATION: Lexicographer.

HAIR: Blonde, and at it’s longest it’s just past her shoulders, but Dido prefers it when it’s resting just above them. She styles it with a loose wave most of the time, preferring it to look livelier than straight.
EYES: Blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: She has one on the back of her neck.
TATTOOS: None.
PIERCINGS: Ears twice.
PLAY-BY: Sarah Gadon!

LIKES: Words, long late night discussions, her book nook, a workout programme, ginger biscuits, kiwi fruit, the time between midnight and dawn, apple crumble, small houseplants, cats, food to go, blankets and throws, leggings, a lunchtime cocktail, body combat, oatmeal, linguistics, seminars, lip balm, summer rain.
DISLIKES: Guns, talking about herself, missing home, warm drinking water, phones at dinner, liars, con men, predictability, bananas, staying in bed, bad endings to good books, food stuck between her teeth, rainy mornings, salted popcorn, cold feet, general anaesthetic, egg sandwiches, clutter.
FEARS: general anaesthetic, being lied to, being bed bound through illness.
SECRETS: Most of her life was a lie, and knowing the truth now she feels good about shooting her step-father. She feels better that he survived, but still wishes that her mother saw through the lies he fed to her.
PERSONALITY: A bookworm, Dido would rather spend her time with fictional friends than with real ones; the fictional ones can never truly betray her. She’s a lover of words, and will take any chance to talk about lexicology, or inject new and even old words into conversations. She’s poetic and enjoys anything that fills this idea. She despises acronyms like ‘yolo’ and ‘smh’ because this text speak generation takes away what she is so passionate about. Dido is soft spoken, but this shouldn’t be taken to mean that she herself is timid or shy. When the mood strikes her she has a voice louder than a thunderstorm, with the fury to match it. Standing her ground, even when it’s the worst choice to make, is not something Dido is afraid of doing. Due to the nature of her youth, Dido is untrusting of strangers and new people in her life. She’s keen to push people away rather than let them in. She’s afraid of being lied to, betrayed by someone close to her again, so it’s just easier for her to believe that she’s better off alone. Her words are her weapons as well as her love, and that, truly, is the best way to describe Dido.

MOTHER: Eithal Louisa Grenwich, 53.
FATHER: Elmir Louganis, 56.
SIBLINGS: Gerity Castor Louganis, 25.
OTHERS: David Lincoln Grenwich, 60.
PETS: Mowgli, Bengal cat of three!
HOMETOWN: Kythira, Greece.
HISTORY: Dido was the first born of Eithal and Elmir. A young couple who fell in love under the Grecian summer sun. They were both from Kythira born and raised, but they only met when they were old enough to know about the world. It had been a warm day and a local market when their paths crossed for the first time. Elmir knew then that he would love the blonde haired beauty for all of time. Alas, the fairy tale ending didn’t last forever for Eithal. She was lured away, manipulated and convinced her life was something entirely different by a man named David Grenwich. That same man changed the life of her children in ways they would never completely recover from. Dido was only six when she first met him. He wore white shorts and a blue shirt, sandals, and smelt like cheap cologne; a smell she can never forget or stand to be around since.

Dido didn’t like him from the very start. She would see him whispering with her mother when no one else was around. They say children are the innocent, but Dido could pick up on the little things; the strain that grew between her parents, her mother being secretive all of a sudden. Then, one day, Eithal collected Dido and Gerity from school early and said there was an emergency. She told them nothing, but they soon found themselves at the airport, greeted not by their father, but by David Grenwich. Eithal told her children that they were going on holiday so as not to cause a fuss when they boarded the plane for America, but the truth was that it was always intended to be a one way trip. David had convinced the naïve young mother that Elmir was dangerous and involved with organised crime in Europe. Eithal had been led to believe that David was the one who could provide help, but only if she followed his every instruction. Even then there were no guarantees that there would ever be a moment when they could live together without looking over their shoulders.

They had a home in Florida at first. Dido running away in the hopes to get back to her father was what caused them to move to Texas. David made a big deal about how they could be traced, found, and then there would be nothing to stop the criminals after them from hurting them all as revenge for trying to escape. Dido grew up moving from school to school, getting used to how they’d take off to the middle of nowhere for days at a time because David said they had to. She knew it wasn’t normal, and she missed her father terribly, but what could a little girl do about it? Everything was just strange for her and Gerity. Nothing got easier. They came home to food being tossed, to their things being washed and scrubbed clean, and things they bought were often taken apart to check for bugs. It was ridiculous.

When Dido started talking about colleges David told her it was ludicrous, that there was no way she would be safe going to school. This was the start of the tension that ultimately led to Dido shooting David. With the pressure mounting and the young blonde demanding answers to their constant moving and secrets, it was becoming harder for David and Eithal to placate the intelligent young girl. When David eventually took the family away right before Dido’s graduation, denying her the chance to enjoy that day in her life. He held them all locked in a motel room, spinning a tale of how they had been followed for weeks. Dido finally snapped, demanding proof for all the stories he had been feeding them for years. David only spun more tales of contacts and agents, people he could call and hear from, those who fed him information and updates. Dido snapped, and while David was in the bathroom, she fetched the gun he kept in the car. She wanted the truth. She wanted to know why her life had been such turmoil and why her father had been snatched from her. Accidentally, while confronting David again, the gun went off. Dido knew nothing about firearms, so handling one when she was so emotional was a recipe for disaster. The bullet was a clean through and through, going straight through his shoulder.

Deemed an accidental shooting by the authorities, Dido was spared any trouble, and found a chance to remove herself from the toxic environment she had been raised in. Gerity, too, was pulled back to Greece by their father who was finally informed of their location after years of searching for his children. Dido tried to talk Eithal into seeing that everything had been a lie, but there was no hope. She was convinced that David was still the one telling the truth.

In the end Dido had to walk away from her mother. It broke her heart, but she also reconnected with her father after ten years of having no one. She went off to college – Berkley – and studied English and linguistics. Words had always fascinated Dido and she knew when she was a young teenager that she wanted to study and eventually become a Lexicographer. Her dreams came true, but the way she was raised had left Dido’s soul scarred and damaged. It made it hard for her to focus on much beyond her studies and then work; her social life suffered for it.

YOUR ALIAS: Kim.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In a forgotten wardrobe.
SAMPLE:

Noooo!

[kim]