Board Thread:Creation Box/@comment-4199666-20140824122353

Gender: Female

Birthday: January 27, 1990

Face claim: Monika Raymund

Family/Housemates: She lives with her dog, Flick. She also spends a lot of time with her parents, Carolina and Amos and is the widow of her husband, Philip.

Address: 122 Riverside Road, Blackwood Mountain

Personality:

Nayana is very strong and independent-minded, and grew up in a household where her father would regularly verbally abuse her mother while nobody ever stood up to him. For a while, she thought this was normal and that it always happened, but she never liked it happening. When she found out that it was abuse, she finally developed the nerve to stand up to him, and she hasn't taken abuse ever since then.

In high school she was very popular, particularly amongst the boys, whom she regularly beat at sports. She became very competitive at sports after she started getting praised by her father who finally showed some respect to her. She's always making people laugh, and although she had a few boyfriends, she was never much of a flirt, preferring to keep just friendship company.

History:

Nayana grew up in Barfield in a working class family, and they never had to worry much about money thanks to a load of inheritance on her father's side of the family. Her mother was actually the second wife of her father, after his first wife died in 1982. She knows she has three half-siblings, but she has never met them in her life. She spent a lot of time with her mother as a child while her father was working, and although she knew her father wouldn't approve of it, she would always ask her mother if she could go out to the park with the other boys and play with them.

From a young age, she always loved sports. She also loved when all the kids at school would tell her dirty jokes and she would go home and tell them to her mother only for her mother to laugh and her father to tell her it wasn't ladylike of her. She was also very bright in school, despite never studying and not being overly motivated with her career choices. She knew she wanted to get a property up in the mountains like her Uncle Norm, but she never thought twice about how she was going to afford it.

She also got selected for a lot of sports teams in high school, but seeing as she could only take up two, she joined the track and athletics team as well as the baseball team. She could have easily made captain of the baseball team, but unfortunately for her, her coach was still very bigoted and didn't think a girl could do it, let alone a Hispanic girl, so he chose the next best boy. Nayana eventually told her mother about it, who marched her down to the principal's office to tell him about what the coach had said, and after getting him fired, Nayana has never let anyone mistreat her since.

She also befriended a few guys in high school, including Josh Stamos (who has since disappeared off the map) and her future husband, Philip Hawke, who initially asked her to sit with his friends after she managed to pitch a no-hitter at baseball practice, impressing all of them. She finally graduated high school in 2008, finishing fourth in her grade, and undertook advice from her mother that she should do a course in hospitality until she decides what she wants to do, because there are always jobs in hospitality. She enrolled in a two year course while most of her male friends decided as a group to join the army together.

Slowly but surely, they all started to drift apart, however, Nayana made sure to make time for her friend Philip, who had started to become a bit depressed being away from home for so long. Every time he went on leave, the two of them would spend as much time as they could together, except when Philip was busy spending time with his girlfriend Alicia. Nayana also decided to get a job, this time deciding to join the fire department so she could help out like all of her friends were.

After six months of Philip and Alicia maintaining a long distance relationship, they eventually broke up, and while trying to help him get over it, she somehow ended up sleeping with him, making things awkward between them for a while. He obviously returned to the army, and while they were apart the two of them had plenty of time to think on their feelings, before eventually deciding that they were the closest either of them had to a relationship. They started dating long-distance, and after a year, Philip proposed to Nayana, saying that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. Nayana obviously agreed and much to the dismay of her father, she married him a year later on the 28th of April, 2011, and the two of them bought a house up in rural Blackwood Mountain. Nayana got a second job, bartending at Specks to help pay for the house, and the two of them adopted a Kelpie cross pup and named him Flick, so he could keep Nayana company while Philip was overseas.

Their happy family life was short lived, after Nayana received news on October 18th that her husband had been killed in action in Afghanistan. She was devastated by the news, and for a month she didn't leave the house, with her mother dropping by daily to help take care of her and making sure she kept working through it. Her father even came by a few times and offered to go drinking with her, seeing as he didn't know any other way to reach out to her.

She slowly started piecing her life back together, first returning to her job at the bar, then meeting up with her firefighter friends every weekend for lunch, occasionally meeting up with some of her old high school friends who were still in the army and also felt bad about Philip dying. After six months off duty, she returned back to her job at the fire department, and started going for 3 mile runs with her dog every day. She's now picked up a normal routine again, occasionally going on dates that her friends have set her up with, however she has trouble making a relationship last for more than a month.

Describe your character in a word. Strong

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