Name:
Laylani Amerie Chion
Nickname:
Lani, Layla, Chi, Lana
Age:
Nineteen
Sexuality:
Bisexual but leans mainly toward men.
Laylani Amerie Chion
Nickname:
Lani, Layla, Chi, Lana
Age:
Nineteen
Sexuality:
Bisexual but leans mainly toward men.
Likes: Surfing | Swimming | Tanning | Her big family | Momoko (her dog) | Exploring the island | Local spots | Riding horses | Surfing | The beach | Visiting her grandma | Dehlilah (her horse) | Her friends | The locals | Jogs in the morning | Partying | Living life to the fullest | Dancing |
Dislikes: Rich snobs | Salty hair | Being judged as a tourist | Helping out at the hotel | The pool "Why are there so many pools on an island" | people who look at her family weird | Douche bags |
Fears:
Going crazy like her mom
Losing another family member
Sharks
Dreams:
Buying her own house with her own money and getting her grandma out of the nursing home
Becoming a singer
Falling in love?
Scars/Tattoos/ Piercings:
She has two tattoos one is a feather that curls around the outside of her breast. The other is a dream catcher on her thigh. She also has her belly button pierced, she has her cartilage pierced, and has a piercing on both sides of her hips. She usually wears a thin gold or silver chain to connect her belly button piercing and hip piercings. She has a faint cut over her wrist that is now a thick white line, due to years of healing, which she got hope tattoo'd under it.
Secrets:
Her mom got really unstable after she and her dad got divorced and constantly drank. She tried to commit suicide three times but Laylani's dad or grandmother stopped her just in time. She stopped taking her medication for depression and for her bi-polar disorder. When Laylani was three her mom tried to kill herself and laylani. She slit her and laylani's wrist and cradled her in her arms. But Laylani kept screaming and her dad, who came to pick some of his stuff up found them. She called an ambulance and they saved them but Laylani was now afraid of her mom. When she was six her mom went of her medication again. She went on one of her mood swings and told Laylani to come to her. But since she was scared she refused. Her mom was heartbroken. She went into a closet and grabbed a knife and murmured "I'm sorry baby," before stabbing herself in the stomach. Laylani called 911. When the paramedics arrived Laylani was cradling her mom in her lap and stroking her hair begging her to wake up. Laylani still has nightmares of it.
Personality:
Laylani is definitely a free spirit she loves to just be herself and have a good time. Most of the time she likes to hide her feelings. In most situations people meet her and think she's so fun and sweet and carefree and then they hear the rumors about her and her mom and they begin to distance themselves from her. But once you get to really know her and get past those layers you realize she smiles and laughs and lives because she has to. It's not an option for her. Her whole life people have waited for her to crack, for her to lose it. So everyday she sets out to prove them wrong. They're are some people, the people who knew her mom, who don't let it go but most people see her as the islands dirty little secret. Nobody likes to bring up the past, but only a few have the guts to do it.
Laylani is definitely a partier, she loves to be the life of the party. Sometimes she can be quite reckless. She lives life to the fullest and occasionally that causes her to be in quite a bit of trouble. There has been quite a few times in which she has woken up god, knows where with god knows who. But that's just a part of her life. It helps that her dad usually doesn't say anything about it. Living with a dad who tends to just let you run wild for fear that that'll keep you from hurting yourself is never really healthy.
At times Laylani has a bit of a dry sense of humor. She has been known to crack her fair share of sarcastic jokes. But she only does that when she's around people who get it . She knows many people don't like sarcasm so she respects that. She's also pretty outspoken. She says what's on her mind. Being quite has never gotten anyone anyway. She's not one to hide her views.
She is a dreamer. She's got big dreams that she wants to come true. She wants to be a singer. She got her shot a while ago but when her grandma got put in the nursing home she put her dreams on the back burner. Now she wants to make them come true for her and her grandma. She loves to sing. She constantly sitting in front of her keyboard or with a guitar strumming to her own tune. Its common that you can go to her house, and find her legs dangling off the side of her window sitting on her window seat with a guitar cradled in her one arm and a notepad in front of her, jotting lyrics down. She has a journal full of lyrics. She does sing quite a bit, she performs at parties and galas for high society. But her dream is to move to New York, make it big and take care of her grandma, god knows how she's gonna get her off the island though.
Laylani also known to be a flirt by nature. But that's just her personality. She been known to tease people. She's the type to randomly walk up and hug you, or jump on your back out of the blue. She's an affectionate person. She's the girl, that her friends go to when they're heart broken because she always has chick flicks or horror or any other movie your into, snacks, and a tub of ice cream ready, and a shoulder to cry on. Her family is pretty well known throughout the island even besides her mother. Her dad's side family has a business on practically every street. Good look not finding a Chion somewhere.
Laylani befriends people easily. Though she can be a little wary of other rich people. Her whole life she has been forced to smile and go to functions with her dad. She would fake smiled all day. She resents having to be fake like that. She's been known to lose her temper with them. She's really scared people might remember her from when she was a toddler there.
History:
Laylani was born to a Portuguese woman named Adelina and a Maui named Kabos. After her moms death (Read secret for information),her dad moved off the island and to Aulstralia where one of his hotels were . She and her dad had a strained relationship, she felt like her mom would have taken her medication and been stable . She didn't want to blame him but her heart told her to. As a result her dad spoiled her and gave her free reign. She wasn't a bad child. She was actually pretty good. She got good grades, she wasn't a brat. Her grandma pretty much kept her in line.
She was thirteen when her dad announced he was gay. She was shocked at first but accepted it whole heartedly. When her dad introduced her to his partner Charlie she was ecstatic. She loved Charlie and loved his daughter Elise even more. Charlie and Elise were from Point Piper, Australia where her father had another less known hotel. Charlie also had seven adopted children. And since Laylani and her dad lived in a hotel this wasn't much of a problem.They became one big modern family.
As you can imagine living with ten other people is tough. Her step dad convinced her father that they all needed to move to a real house. So they did. A bedroom house. Her father and Charlie had a room, She and Elise shared a room, the twins shared a room, Tom had his own room, Ana Marie and Mary had a room, Carla had her own room, and her grandma had a room. But they made it work. And for the first time in s long time she was really happy.
As Laylani's grandmother got older she asked her son to send her back to the island, which he did. But when she got sick he had to constantly fly in to the island to see her. This became very difficult so he had to put her in a nursing home on the island.
Laylani begged to go to the island this year instead of going to Poland over the summer, which is where they usually go since Charlie was born in Poland. Her dad resisted but since she had seemed to have improved her party girl ways, he accepted.
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Place of Origin: Calabasas, California
Theme Song: [url=LINK TO SONG]What song do you think explains you?[/url]
Anything else: These pictures inspired me for my bio and I know I love putting faces for names so heres how I picture her family:
Dad:Kabos | Dad's partner: Charlie | Step sister/Best friend: Elise | Twin step sisters: Emma and Ella | Step brother: Thomas | Step sister: Anna Marie | Step sister: Carla | Step sister: Mary | Baby sister: Magnolia |
Laylani has a habit of drinking when she gets awkward or nervous.
