Name: Pele
Bookworm
Age: 17
A single child from a well-to-do family, her parents spend all their time at work, and she retreated into her books to earn their attention and respect, sacrificing her social skills for academics and awards. This tactic was successful... until her mother died on a business trip. her father took this hard, very hard. He lost his job, and began drinking into excess. His brother learned what was happening and moved in, looking after him and trying to help console him, as well as making sure he didn't drive himself and Pele into destitution. However, her father still didn't recover, and in a drunk driving accident, he got both himself, and her uncle, killed. Pele now lives with her aunt, who, irrationally, blames Pele for what happened to her husband. Pele is still the heir to her family, very knowledgeable and skilled, and will have a large amount of resources available to her soon when shes comes of age to inherit, but she doesn't have access to it yet, is grieving, is away from her home, friendless, and only half-heartedly accepted at most by what little she has left and is currently living with.
At this point, Pele spends most of her time hiding. at school, she focuses on her books, the things that used to bring her love and joy. after school, she stays in the library, continuing her studies as long as she can, which is why she was so late going back to her aunt's. she's always that late, never coming back before dark if she can avoid it. when she gets home, she hides on the Net in her room, furthering her studies on computing and robotics, her parents fields. She ends up spending every day reading, studying, and mourning. alone.
always alone.
always.
and forevermore.