Board Thread:Creation Box/@comment-3058106-20160123191521

Gender: Female

Birthday: March 13, 1986

Face claim: Lenora Crichlow

Family/Housemates: Winston Baptiste (dad), Aubrey Baptiste (mom), Douglas & Wayne Baptiste (older brothers). She lives alone.

Address: 62 Flynn Street, Barfield

Personality:

Violet has always been a very happy woman. Ever since she was a child, she's always tried her best to brighten people's days and make them feel better. She still always does this and hopes she can make people's days when they come in for the morning to her bakery. She's very gentle and kindhearted. Some have said over the years that Violet doesn't have a mean bone in her body, although she definitely does. It takes a lot for her to be mean to other people or lose her temper, as she hates doing either of the two. She also can sometimes be very sensitive, especially if someone is criticizing her or being a rude, obnoxious customer.

She's also been very outgoing for most of her life. Throughout high school and her early twenties, she would talk to just about anyone and make friends with anyone. However, after Theo's death she hasn't really been very outgoing. Violet is still of course very friendly towards all she meets, but she no longer is making friends with strangers all the time. She's become much more closed off from the world and is perfectly fine with that. Sometimes she wants to get back to making friends, but then she decides it's easier the way she currently is.

Violet is very compassionate and devoted - whether that be to her friends or her work. Either way, her focus is always on what matters to her. She is always there for those she cares about and has been known over the years to drop everything and help people out. She hates seeing people hurting and will do almost anything to help them. She can also be overtrusting and people will sometimes use this to their advantage. They know she'll do almost anything for them, so they'll convince her to do sometime for them. She has gotten hurt over the years by people she considered to be friends, but they didn't really consider the same thing.

History:

In 1979, Aubrey Kingston and Winston Baptiste met each other in a neighborhood bar in NYC. Winston was originally from Trinidad and had only recently moved to NYC while Aubrey had moved from England to NYC during her teenage years. They began dating and in 1980 officially married each other. They continued living in NYC until 1983, two years after their first son Douglas's birth. They decided to move to Barfield for a sense of someplace new and a nicer, smaller place for their son and future children to live. They had a second son in 1984. On March 13, 1986, they had their daughter Violet Baptiste. The family had a nice, large house in Barfield as Aubrey was an orthodontist and Winston worked as a chef for a very five star restaurant.

Growing up in the Baptiste household was a nice life for Violet and her two elder brothers. The siblings did often fight and argue, but were still very close with each other. They did almost everything together at all times. Violet loved spending time with her brothers - whether that time be spent playing with her dolls or their action figures or outside in the backyard. They were still always together. As Violet got older, she began to try and spend more time with her father. She loved whenever he came home and cooked for the family. She would spend her time in the kitchen watching him cook and convincing him to let her help. She may have been only six years old, but he would get her a stool to stand on so she could help stir whatever he was cooking. She loved feeling as if she was doing something important and helping him. Violet's older brother Wayne would also spend his time in the kitchen helping their dad cook.

When high school came around, Violet's parents sent her to Harrington Grammar School. They believed that the private education would offer better academics for her than public school. They had also sent both of their sons to the school. In high school, Violet did her best to make as many friends as possible. She was a rather outgoing individual and wanted to participate in as many school activities as she could handle. She joined a few different clubs where she started making new friends. Her sophomore year one of her friends in one of her clubs convinced her to try out for the cheer squad. Her friend was already on the squad and thought it'd be great for Violet to join. At first Violet wasn't really interested in trying out. She was a cheerful, enthusiastic person, but she knew she wouldn't be able to chant all the time and memorize all the moves they had to do. Still, her friend continued trying to convince her and she did try out. When it came time to announce who made it, Violet wasn't on the list. She felt relieved, but pretended like she was disappointed around her friend.

Violet's academics were also decent in high school. She wasn't exactly the smartest person in class, but she managed to always get honor roll. She wasn't ever really interested in any school subjects though. People would sometimes ask what she wanted to do with her life, but she would always say that she didn't really know. She wasn't interested in college either and wanted instead to skip out on going. For a while she tried to convince her parents to let her take a gap year and not attend a college right after high school graduation, but they wouldn't have it. They believed it was a horrible idea and wanted her to focus on her education and future career. In the end, Violet decided to simply attend Barfield Community College and hope to find something that interested her.

During college, Violet got a job as a waitress at a little restaurant in Barfield. It wasn't her idea of an ideal job, but she still enjoyed it some of the time. One day during work, she met Theo Grenier. Theo had been waiting on his date to show up for their first date, but she never showed up. Violet was always talking to him and when it came near to the closing hours and he was one of the only people in the restaurant, she spent more and more time just talking to him. Before he left, he gave her his number and told her to call anytime. At first, Violet wasn't planning on calling. She wasn't sure what she would even do if she did call him. A few days later, she finally decided to call him. They set up a date at a restaurant near his house and they went on their first somewhat official date. Violet learned all about Theo and how his parents were both originally from France. His parents had moved to the area to work as professors at a nearby university. They lived in the mountains and almost three hours from Barfield.

When Violet was twenty-two and Theo was twenty-five, the two decided to get married. It was a little ceremony with only close family members and friends. Neither one wanted anything to extravagant and wanted something more simple. A few months before the wedding ceremony, they decided to open a bakery together. They called it the Baptiste-Grenier Bakery. They moved into the apartment above the bakery and began working on getting the bakery ready for opening. It took two months to get everything completely set up and ready. They had the grand opening for the bakery a week after they got back from their honeymoon. At first business was slow, but it soon sped up as they became more popular. After almost a year of business, they hired two new people to help with the business.

When Violet was twenty-seven, she and her husband went to go visit and stay with Theo's parents. They were going to stay there for a few days to celebrate the new year with his parents and family. His parents lived in a little house in the woods, a little ways away from the town. After a few days, Theo’s parents asked if he would go get a few little groceries for them and he of course obliged. He left the house and drove into town to get what they needed. While he was in town, a sudden blizzard came through, but had not yet reached the town. Violet tried to call Theo to tell him to stay where he was and not head home because she knew the way was dangerous, but she had little to no connection in the area and the power was out at the cabin. Theo started driving back to the cabin and was caught in the storm. He was going to keep driving, but decided it would be best to stop. As he was pulling to a stop, another driver on the road was speeding through and crashed right into Theo’s car, sending Theo’s car rolling off the side of the hill. He was found the next day and was just barely alive. He was immediately sent to the hospital. After a week, he died in his hospital bed as Violet watched.

Of course, Violet was completely heartbroken. She wasn't sure of what to do next. For about two months, she rarely ever took care of the bakery. She instead hired a third person to help out and she rarely left her apartment. The only person ever on her mind was Theo. Finally, she decided to get back into the habit of working. This was mainly to distract herself from thinking about him. She was constantly baking and serving people in the bakery. It was almost robotic as she no longer felt the joy of baking. Whenever she would go back upstairs to her apartment, she would feel strange and odd. She would look at only the emptiness of her apartment without Theo in it.

After almost two years, Violet slowly started to get better. She started feeling happy and relaxed while baking and cooking once again. The three people working for her were also able to notice a change in her character and the four started to become friends, as they saw each other almost all the time. Violet also hasn't dated anyone since Theo and isn't really planning on it. Some of her friends want her to get back out there, but she isn't really interested in doing anything.

Describe your character in a word. Energetic

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