Board Thread:Creation Box/@comment-26270049-20150406125353

Gender: Bigender (she/her pronouns)

Birthday: December 18, 1996

Face claim: Debby Ryan

Family/Housemates: Crystal Mitchell (aunt), Wyatt Mitchell (older half-brother), Bree Henley (brother's fiancee) / Blackwood Home for Teens

Address: 73 Patterson St, Blackwood Mountain

Personality:

Kennedy is very spaced out and almost always high. She's very boastful at times, but she lies a lot and doesn't know if other people can tell that she's joking. She'll try almost anything if she hasn't already tried it and this gets her into trouble a lot. She mainly takes drugs to numb herself and to distract her from thinking about the things in her life which made her this way. She's had a lot of experience going in and out of hospitals and has attempted to end her life on a number of occasions, sometimes out of a serious craving to not feel anything and other times because she wants to tempt fate and see how many times she can survive.

She's very blunt and to the point, often making other people uncomfortable with how openly she talks about things she thinks about, such as death and sex. She also has trouble filtering things between her brain and her mouth and is known to start talking over people or change the subject when she thinks of something to say. As a result, she doesn't have an awful lot of friends. She dropped out of high school at the age of fourteen after her sister killed herself, and she only went back to community college because her aunt begged her to, but she found it a lot more intriguing than her old high school classes. Sometimes she'll show up to classes she isn't enrolled in just to see what they're about and other times she'll skip college altogether and find something else to do with her time.

History:

Kennedy was born in December 1996 approximately eight minutes before her younger sister, Eliza. Her mother, Kathleen, had moved in with her aunt, Crystal, about four years prior to the girls' birth when she was seventeen and pregnant with her son and Kennedy's older half-brother, Wyatt. Growing up, Kennedy was a happy baby and she would play a lot and laugh at almost anything, especially silly faces. She and her identical twin were also very mischievous and would play a lot of tricks on people when they worked out that they could confuse people.

In school, Kennedy wasn't as bright as some of the other kids, especially not as bright as Eliza, and she became very grumpy. Her mother was very ignorant to her kids' needs, however, and she hardly seemed to notice or care that Kennedy didn't like going to school. She would just tell her that she had to go and that was that. While her aunt was a lot more understanding and listened to her, she was almost always busy working to try and support her sister and her sister's three kids. When she was home, a lot of arguments were sparked between Kathleen and Crystal, where Crystal would tell Kathleen to either get a job or look after her kids, and Kathleen would retaliate by telling her that she was a grown adult and she knew how to take care of her kids.

When Kennedy was eleven, her mother started dating a new guy named Bradley, who she now only refers to as Mr. X. He would sneak in at night after her mother took her sleeping pills and took turns inappropriately touching both of the girls, and convinced them that they would get in big trouble if they said anything to their mother or their aunt. This went on for about five months until one day when Crystal noticed him walking out of the girls' room after coming home late from a date and quickly put two and two together, threatening to call the cops on him if he didn't immediately leave her house. This sparked another argument between Kathleen and Crystal when Kathleen had the nerve to tell Crystal that she stepped out of line and that it wasn't her job to tell him to leave. Crystal took her sister to court and filed for custody of the kids, seeing as her sister was neglectful. She eventually won custody and kicked her sister out.

Kennedy struggled to deal with not having her mother around, but she later realized she just missed the extra person being there and the familiarity of having her mother around. To make matters worse, kids at school found out about her mother losing custody of the kids, and started teasing both of the twins over this. Her brother, Wyatt also got bullied, but she ever saw it happen to him, other than the occasional black eye from when he stood up to his bullies. Crystal deliberately moved the girls to Barfield High School when they started high school, hoping that a new area might give them the fresh start they needed. It worked for the most part, until Eliza got harassed even more when she was fourteen and some guy spread her nudes around the school after she refused to have sex with him.

After months of being called a slut and a whore and being ridiculed, Eliza eventually killed herself, overdosing on her antidepressants. Kennedy was staying behind to help out in the art rooms when her aunt showed up to tell her about what happened, and Kennedy initially refused to believe it, saying that it was a cruel, sick joke. When she eventually saw her sister on the stretcher in front of her, she couldn't stop crying and she didn't eat for three straight days until she eventually passed out and had to be put on an IV. After getting out of the hospital, and getting home, she quickly packed a small bag of things and ran away to the only place she could think of - their grandfather's old cabin at the back of his property. It was musty and dark and full of cobwebs and she hadn't been there since she was seven, although from the looks of it, no one else had been either.

Her aunt and brother called the police to send out a search party, but her brother was the first to find her, noting that he remembered when she used to always hide there in hide and seek when they visited. He took her home in time for her sister's funeral, where she could say goodbye. While she did enjoy the closure of saying goodbye, she absolutely hated seeing her extended family and listening to them talk about how much she looked like Eliza. She also couldn't stand to look at her, thinking it would be just like seeing herself lying in the coffin.

She went home and for a few weeks she didn't want to go to school, and no one forced her to. She was lucky in the sense that summer vacation was coming up shortly and she would have even more time off, but unfortunately after summer vacation ended, she still didn't want to go to school, but her aunt knew that she couldn't get away with letting her off school forever, and sent her there anyway. As she expected, she hated it, and she ditched classes whenever she could. A few times, people would start off a conversation by calling her Eliza, then quickly correcting themselves, but by that point Kennedy had already had enough of them. She eventually attempted suicide in September of 2011. However, her brother found her and forced her to throw up the pills, before taking her to the hospital on his own. When her aunt arrived, she realized just how much Kennedy hated school and agreed to let her drop out of high school on the proviso that she finished through online home-schooling.

Kennedy continued to do her home-schooling but it was clear she didn't care about it, only doing it to keep her aunt happy. Her brother moved out in 2013 after deciding to move in with the girl he'd been dating since he was seventeen. Kennedy realized just how lonely it got being home on her own. She started wandering around during the day and she met a few other people who had connections to drug dealers, so she started spending more time with them. This gave her more connections to people who hooked her up with fake IDs and invited her to parties she'd never even heard of before. She made a few acquaintances who she never spoke to other than occasionally asking if she could sleep on their couches.

One night in late 2013, Kennedy was holding back the hair of one of her acquaintances as they threw up behind a dumpster when some guy pulled up alongside them and asked how much it was for a good time. Even though a lot of voices told her it was a bad idea, Kennedy went with the man and had sex with him, making one hundred dollars on the first night. As she continued going to parties, she slowly worked out how to tell the other prostitutes and she began to hang out with them, hoping they could give her some useful advice. Once she became used to this, she managed to save up enough money that she could show it to her aunt Crystal and tell her that she didn't need school anymore because she had a job.

Her aunt, being as clever as she was, knew what Kennedy was doing, and while she knew that it was a bad idea to tell Kennedy what to do, she tried to convinced Kennedy into doing something else with her life. Kennedy reacted badly and decided to leave home completely, spending her nights on stranger's couches or in stranger's beds. She eventually made a friend, Yumi Tsukino, who was going by Angel originally. At first Yumi just hooked her up with a drug dealer who gave free drugs to people who had sex with him. After running into each other a few more times, Yumi eventually found out that Kennedy was homeless and insisted that Kennedy moved in with her.

They slowly became each others' best friends and Kennedy trusted her with things that she didn't even trust with Wyatt or her aunt, like the confessions about Mr. X and how she sometimes had hallucinations where she saw Eliza in the mirror instead of herself. Yumi told her about herself as well, and how her dad's gambling problem eventually lead to him gambling his daughter off to the highest bidder and how they both ended up here together. Yumi didn't tell Kennedy about her ovarian cancer, however, and how she was afraid of dying a slow painful death from cancer. Yumi killed herself in November 2014 after lethally overdosing on heroin. Kennedy found out about her cancer later in a suicide note and the part of her will where she gave all of her belongings to Kennedy.

Kennedy spent the months following, slowly selling off Yumi's belongings to buy lots of alcohol and drugs to keep herself numb. She eventually got evicted from Yumi's apartment after failing to pay rent for a month, and she found herself on the streets yet again. Her brother found her one day, and took her in and cleaned her up and let her stay on his couch on the condition that she remained sober. Kennedy struggled with withdrawal and eventually caved in and got high again. Her brother regretfully asked her to leave, because she was scaring his fiancee who had to witness her own mother die from a drug overdose and wanted nothing to do with drugs. Crystal offered Kennedy her old room back as well, but Kennedy knew that would mean going back to school, which she didn't want.

Crystal and Kennedy eventually came to a compromise when Crystal found out about Blackwood Home for Teens and said that Kennedy could live there but begged her to at least try and get her high school equivalence from community college in case she ever changed her mind about what she wanted in life and it was too late. Kennedy finally agreed that she would show up to her classes which she had been enrolled in since fall and hadn't been attending.

Describe your character in a word. Troubled

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