Post by Genesis Maxine Swindell on Sept 25, 2018 21:15:17 GMT -5
GENESIS MAXINE SWINDELL
FULL NAME: Genesis Maxine Swindell
NICKNAMES: Gen, Sis
AGE: Nineteen
GENDER: female
SEXUALITY: Straight
STATUS: Single
GROUP: Student.
GRADE: Sophomore
MAJOR: Photo-Journalism
JOB OCCUPATION: N/A.HAIR: glossy dark brown, almost black, shoulder length hair. She generally leaves it down around her shoulders but she does play with it occasionally.
EYES: Hazel but more green.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: none.
TATTOOS: a half dozen little birds flying up her forearm from her wrist, two butterflies on the inside of her left arm, just above her elbow.
PIERCINGS: Lobes once, helix right ear
PLAY-BY: Katie Stevens!LIKES: Candy apples, country fairs, Fall fairs, concerts, festivals, writing, researching, reading, caramel apples, lemon water, breakfast in bed, reading the newspaper, picnics, beer tents, Funko Pop collectables, Collecting Vintage cameras, milk chocolate, country music, rock music, action films
DISLIKES: Romantic Comedies (they're so unrealistic), missing a deadline, roses (they're so common though she appreciates them all the same), plain ol' apples, plain water, black coffee, warm beer, traffic, misplacing her phone, dead end leads, magazine quizzes, tight hats, umbrella drinks, clutter, paparazzi, her bio-dad's super fans, needing a bodyguard, table lamps, cleaning house (which is why they have a cleaning lady come in twice a week)
FEARS: Fish hooks, having a stalker thanks to who her bio-dad is, never getting a job on her own merit and skill.
SECRETS: Her irrational fear of fish hooks stems from her father's obsession with fishing. She'd been about seven and he'd been gearing up to go on a fishing trip with his friends, double checking that his little fishing box was filled with the right fishing paraphernalia. Genesis doesn't even know the correct terms for any of it. She jumped up on the table to ask questions and was promptly yelled at because he'd feared she'd sat on some of the hooks, she hadn't but it had been enough to freak her out a little bit. Then, because he saw that she'd become a little fearful, he'd later tried to teach her how to fish and first allowed her to sit up from the dock where he'd been trying to teach her from so she could see how to whip the hooks out into the water. She hadn't been far enough out of the way and when he'd tossed it back a bit, it had appeared to her to fly right at her face, like some horrible 3D movie. That right there had terrified her into never wanting to do anything that had to do with fishing ever again. Whenever the family went fishing, she stuck back by the house as they lived on the water or sat further away on the beach. Close enough that they could see her but far enough that there was absolutely NO CHANCE of getting one of those hooks accidentally stuck in her somewhere. She hasn't had to speak of it, not really, so she hasn't shared this information with anyone yet.
PERSONALITY: Genesis is a smart girl with a lot of issues she doesn't like getting into. Her bio-dad didn't want her, her step-father wanted to adopt her but couldn't, her big brother was, and still is, her best friend and her siblings, the ones she actually cares about are still only in middle school. She was pulled out of that happy life, where she was a happy girl when her mother died and her bio-dad decided it was time to be a dad. Except, despite the fact that he had two kids at his house with his wife, he didn't know how to be a dad. Genesis was depressed and thought about running away back home more times that she could count. It was only her best friend, Trinity, who helped dig her out. Now she smiles a lot more and talks a lot more and frowns a whole lot less. She isn't scared to be mouthy when she knows it's a joke. She's still a little bit fragile but she doesn't let that show. Besides, she's a hell of a lot stronger than she really knows but her best friends do. She's been described more than once as "sweet and sour" because she can be totally awesome and then totally cranky and bitchy in the blink of an eye; usually because someone's taken a joke just that little bit too far. She's working on it but it's a long process. Genesis likes the idea of romance but at the moment, her world revolves around getting through school and turning New York into her permanent home, with regular trips back to the Virginia home she'd grown up in.MOTHER: Jessica Keyes (nee Swindell) & deceased.
FATHER: Harley Keyes & forty-five.
SIBLINGS: Mathias Keyes & thirty-four
Harper Keyes, eleven
Mason Keyes, eleven.
OTHERS: Henry Michaels, thirty six & bodyguard (live-in) and confidante (best guy friend)
Trinity Holmes, nineteen & Best friend/roommate
She's got a step-mother and some half siblings but she doesn't really give a damn about them
Maxwell Cruz, fifty-four & Biological father
PETS: N/A for the time being!
HOMETOWN: Bumpass, Virginia.
HISTORY: Jessica was a low-level model, earned enough to get through school and quit. She'd met a rocker when she'd been hired to be in his band's music video. They'd hit it off, spent a couple years together, she got pregnant and he decided he wasn't ready to be a father. That was fine. She didn't care. She could raise the baby. He didn't want any part of it. She packed up her things and decided it was time to return home with her unborn baby, her belongings and her degree in Chemistry. She was a brilliant woman who at the moment couldn't actually work in her chosen field. It didn't stop her from returning to Virginia and getting a job at the local high school until she could get a job at the university where she really wanted to be. She got her students to do the work relating to the chemicals, claiming the first-hand experience in it all is the best way to learn about how chemicals react in any given situation. She found she actually loved teaching the teenagers, watching how thrilled they got when they could blow up gummy bears or any of the number of experiments she'd taught them. So when Genesis was born, she stayed on at the school.
Genesis was almost two years old when Jessica met Harley. He was the brother of one of her students, having come in on his parent's behalf, for the parent-teacher meeting she'd set up. She'd known something was going on Mathias' life but he hadn't said anything. And he probably would have continued down that path if his grades hadn't started to slip, proving something was up. Harley was raising his younger brother in the aftermath of their parent's epic divorce. Jess could understand how that would be distracting and suggested after school tutoring by her in any subject he needed help in. She was smart as a whip and knew different tricks to get his grades up. They sorted out a day and time and over the course of the next year, Jess was there three nights a week, helping Mathias work through all the homework he'd been neglecting. It was two months in before she'd had to cancel because Genesis was too sick to be left with her grandmother. Jess didn't want to leave her sick little girl with her mother, though she was well aware Nana Faith could take care of the little sick angel.
No one knew she had a child, she'd kept it pretty well hidden. She'd barely had a baby bump and because she'd been a model and worked out religiously, she'd lost the baby weight almost instantly. Harley had shown up on her doorstep one night after she'd cancelled for the third time in a single week to confront her and she answered the door, covered in baby vomit, an infant in her arms cuddling close to her mama's neck. Instantly the anger drained from him as he offered to take the little girl from so she could clean herself up. He wasn't worried about getting dirty, he could deal with it but it appeared that the sweet angel was all finished being sick and she fell asleep in his arms before her mother returned to the living room. They talked about Genesis and being a single parent to an infant and a teenager and they hit it off really well. Harley asked her out on a date before he'd left and she agreed, once Genesis was feeling better. It took another few days but Jess was ready when Harley came by again to pick her up.
Genesis was four when they exchanged vows and they made their family whole. Jessica had been upfront about who Genesis' father was, how he wasn't at all interested in getting to know his little girl but it hadn't mattered to Harley. Harley loved that little girl like she was his own and nothing would change that. They had their own little ones when Genesis had been about eight but before that, it had been just the three of them as Mathias had graduated and gone on to college, though that three easily and happily moved to four whenever he came home for holidays. Genesis loved her big brother with everything she had. He was the greatest person on the entire planet. She was always happy to see him whenever he came home but as he got older it was less and less. When she was seven, she'd developed her irrational fear of fish hooks and it killed the man she called daddy to know that it was his fault. He went fishing with his buddies a couple times a year and they took it seriously. He'd had all his hooks and lures on the kitchen table to make sure he had enough when she jumped up onto the table to be with her daddy. Out of fear of sitting on a hook and getting it stuck in her flesh, he'd yelled and scared her into tears. Jess hid the smirk as she comforted their daughter but she understood where he was coming from. He didn't want to see her hurt and it melted Jess's heart. Once she was calmed down, Harley promised to teach her how to use everything that was on the table when he got back and she nodded her head. The following weekend, they'd packed up for a quick weekend camping trip and Harley spent a morning on a dock with Genesis, trying to show her what to do. As he'd known she was quite the visual learner, he'd told her to move up to the beach so she could see how to cast the lure out into the water.
She hadn't moved far enough back and it was like some 3D horror film. The hook and lure flung back and Genesis felt like it missed her face by inches, it was so much more than that but for her, she was freaked. She screamed like she'd gotten hit with it and her father dropped the fishing rod to rush over to her. She was fine, he could see that but he could also see that she was terrified now. He would never take his baby girl to the dock outside the house to fish. Every camping trip or a trip to the other side of the lake saw Genesis sitting far enough away from her father that there was absolutely no way of getting hit with the hooks but still close enough that they could talk if they raised their voices. It wasn't what he wanted but it worked for them. When she was almost nine years old, Jess had twins and their little family grew and became something so amazing. It was great and Genesis loved having a little brother and sister to spoil. It was so much fun helping her mom and dad feed them and sing them to sleep. At fourteen, Genesis' world turned upside down. Jess was diagnosed with breast cancer, stage four. She didn't make it the six months the doctor's offered. It was rough but Genesis thought they were making it through when horror really struck. Genesis had never known that Harley wasn't her father. It had never been an issue so neither Jess nor Harley brought it up. For Genesis, Harley was her father. It was that simple. For them. Not for the courts. Maxwell Cruz was a big name rock star who had been keeping tabs on his ex-girlfriend and their daughter despite having no interest. When he'd finally heard that Jess had passed away, he thought it was well past time he got to get to know his daughter. He talked to a lawyer and filed suits and in the end, Genesis was pulled from the only family she'd ever known and shoved into a house with siblings she hadn't known existed and step-mother who would rather use Genesis as a maid than admit she was the spitting image of her father.
Life shouldn't have been rough, after all, she now had access to more money than her siblings or step-mother had brains but she had never expected to be thrust into the spotlight so ridiculously. Her grades and paperwork had all been transferred to the most incredible private school money could buy, where practically all the students had their own bodyguards because the idiots with the cameras, looking for cheap stories, were everywhere. One day she was even accosted outside the school but still on the grounds, forcing her father to hire one for her! She thought it was ridiculous but Henry was brilliant at his job and after a while, it became a bit easier to handle the paparazzi. It helped that Genesis had made a friend in Trinity Holmes, the daughter of another rock star. She'd grown up in the limelight so she was used to it. Still, she helped Genesis out through it all, taught her ways to deal with it and in return, Genesis tutored Trinity in the courses she was failing. It was a good friendship that saw Genesis at Trinity's house over the next four years than she'd ever been at her own. It was hard for her biological father to take but then again, he'd uprooted her from the only life she'd known and expected her to just fit right in with his overbearing and uptight wife and kids, who'd also grown up in the lifestyle. Graduation rolled around and Genesis knew exactly where she was going off to college; New York. Though her relationship with her bio-dad was much better, she still needed to spread her wings and see for herself if she could make it. Plus, NYU had been her only school of choice since she'd been ten years old. She wanted the bright lights and the big, bustling city.
She couldn't stay in the dorms with Henry, as her father said it was his only stipulation; her bodyguard went with her. She didn't disagree and readily accepted. He was her rock when the storms came in. He was the only one that she'd been able to talk to about her mother's passing. He was the one who took her out to the water's edge every year on the anniversary to throw a bouquet of flowers into the ocean. He understood what it was like to lose a parent, though he'd lost his in the war; which war, he hadn't elaborated. She felt they were friends, though he had a job to do and wouldn't hesitate in a second to throw her over his shoulder and carry her out of a situation. He'd done it before and no doubt he would do it again. New York with Henry and Trinity was fun. And it was so much closer to Virginia that she could see her family just about every weekend if she wanted. She spent her first summer away from the home she'd known for the last few years sitting around the lake she'd grown up around before starting back up in school again in the fall, this time as a Sophomore. In a few years, she would be a journalist, looking for her first job in the industry and though she was still only in her second year of university, she was already fielding offers for internships and low-level jobs because of who her father was. It wasn't his name because she didn't share it so she figured it was probably his connections getting the ball of her career rolling and she really didn't want that. She wanted to get a job when she was finished, on her own merit. For now, at nineteen, she was just going to enjoy her life and see where it takes her afterwards.
YOUR ALIAS: Cali.
RULE WORDS: I've got them.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: You can keep on wondering!
SAMPLE:No!
