Board Thread:Creation Box/@comment-4199666-20150106121704

Gender: Female

Birthday: October 30, 1995

Face claim: Crystal Reed

Family/Housemates: Tony Escalera

Address: 14 Topaz Avenue, Miduna Beach

Personality:

Although she comes off as very bubbly, cheery and easy-going on the surface, Stella's never truly felt alright with who she is. She pretends to come off confident so people won't ask her if anything's wrong. She does a lot of stuff which comes off as childish, mostly when she wants attention which she's too afraid to ask for. She can also be very lazy and usually prefers for other people to do stuff for her.

She's never been very bright in school, and to make up for it, she started playing to the ditzy 'girls just want to have fun' stereotype, which worked well for her during high school. Her sister, Holly, was the only one who knew that she hated not being smart enough at school, and Holly helped her study enough until she could graduate, but other than that, Stella's been mostly on her own.

History:

Stella was born in Miduna Beach in 1995, in Miduna Beach to Tony and Faith Escalera. Her father was working as a high school drama teacher in Miduna Beach High School, and her mother had put her dreams of owning her own cupcake shop on hold to take care of her two daughters, Holly and Stella. Stella and Holly were very close for the first four years of Stella's life, and would play together a lot, even though Holly did once ignore her for three months after she accidentally fed their pet dog poisonous berries.

In 1999, her younger sister, Maria was born. Although Stella didn't know it at the time, this was when her parents really started arguing after Maria was born with a much darker complexion than either of their other children. Faith became irate at the accusation and started taking her anger out on Holly whenever Holly would ask what was wrong, belittling her and complaining about how she didn't help out at all. It took Stella a few years to realize that the way her mom was treating Holly was hurting Holly, and so Stella made it her mission to always try and be supportive for Holly when she was feeling down.

At school, Stella always found it hard to focus. She liked being loud and moving around. She was very adventurous and didn't like to stay indoors, but slowly and surely that attitude was drilled out of her after countless parent-teacher interviews repeated the same thing. That Stella needed to focus more and that she wouldn't get far in school. Stella started to hate school and never wanted to go back there. She couldn't understand why her older sister loved it so much, but still continued to go anyway.

By the time she started high school, her sister Holly had practically taken over the role of caregiver. Her mother had decided to start up her cupcake business and dedicated all of her time to doing that, and Holly was responsible for making sure Maria and Stella didn't trash the house while she was out. Stella lavished in the lack of restrictions on her and while she originally spent her time doing stuff she wasn't allowed to do when her parents were in charge, she eventually got bored of doing that everyday and resolved to sitting in her room on tumblr to waste the time.

In 2010, Stella befriended a new girl who had been accelerated up into her math class; Nina Lim. Nina and Stella became fast friends despite their almost polar opposite personalities. Nina acted as a sort of moral compass for Stella, keeping her on the right track. She also befriended Wyatt Butler, and the two of them would mostly spend their time together getting up to mischief.

In 2013, Stella was hit with the news that she hadn't passed enough of her classes to graduate, and she was forced to repeat her senior year again. Thankfully she did have a friend, seeing as Nina Lim was still in the grade below her. Although Nina was a genius, she never once put Stella down for repeating or made her feel like she was dumb, unlike Stella's parents and distant relatives who made it somewhat of a joke.

Right before her graduation in 2014, Stella had managed to meet a guy at Club Zoo, after making out with him because it was his birthday. Despite the abruptness of their first meeting, they did end up speaking more and started dating. She also tried to convince her friend Nina Lim to throw a small party after their prom, with the promise that she, Aaron and Wyatt would clean everything up. Things got out of hand, and Nina told Stella that she didn't want to speak to her again, seeing as Stella was the one who had said that Nina could trust her. Stella was devastated to lose her best friend, but eventually grew to accept it.

It helped a little that her sister Holly had recently moved out into her own apartment, so that Stella has somewhere to stay when she didn't want to go home. Her parents started arguing even more after Holly moved out when they were forced to deal with doing all the things they'd always just expected of Holly. Stella's parents eventually hit a breaking point while arguing about the cost of Maria's dance trips. Faith said that she was taking Maria to Los Angeles to be a famous dancer, leaving just Tony and Stella alone. Stella's dad stopped taking her bowling on weekends like he had been doing since she was young, and the two of them drifted apart to a point where they only speak if they see each other. Mostly it's just idle chit chat, but sometimes the two of them will argue when their stubborn personalities clash. It doesn't help that Stella looks a lot like her mother too.

In November of 2014, Stella finally got a proper chance to get out of her house after her older sister, Holly, broke her leg and needed Stella to help her get around places. Stella was actually more than happy to help because it meant she had a reason to get out of the house, and her and Holly finally caught up again.

Describe your character in a word. Misunderstood

How your character would describe him or herself in a word: Weird 