Layna Victoria Branton
||Nicknames||
Sparrow (called this by her father)
||Age||
22
||Gender||
female
||Sexuality||
heterosexual
||Occupation||
college student
||Family||
Jonathan Branton (father)
Annabelle Branton (non biological mother)
Grayson Branton (oldest half-brother)
Felix Branton (older half-brother)
5'5''
||Weight||
124 lbs.
||Hair Color||
black
||Eye Color||
green
Sweets: Anything that tastes sweet she'll love. She does favor subtly sweet things though.
Chai-Tea: It's her favorite type of tea, served iced or hot or even in milkshake form when the kitchen has the instant type.
Wine with Dinner: Her favorite wine is Vouvray, but any glass of wine a dinner will make her happy.
Doing things on her own: She likes the feeling of accomplishing challenges on her own.
Soft Blankets: When it's cold, she likes to wrap up in a soft blanket.
Blue colored flowers: Especially roses or tulips.
Quiet music: She likes having quiet music playing while she's studying or working on homework.
A Clean Room: It makes her feel like things are going well when she comes home to a clean bedroom.
Cherry Blossom Scents: Air fresheners, candles, perfume, anything that smells like cherry blossoms.
||Dislikes||
Coffee: No matter how much sugar is put in it or how much the coffee taste is masked, she cannot stand coffee.
Peas: She's never liked peas, no matter how many times she's been forced to eat them..
Fast food: She has only ever tried it once, but it makes her gag just thinking about it
Rumors: She hears a bunch of them all the time, and since she knows what it feels like to be the subject of a rumor, she hates them.
Loud People: People that feel the need to shout over other people, just irritate her for reasons she can't describe.
Being out in a thunderstorm: Not only does she hate getting wet in the rain, she also feels uneasy during thunder storms.
Assumptions made about her: Most of them end up being wrong and rude.
Strong Scents: Like, when someone puts on too much perfume or cologne. They give her a headache.
Being Woken by loud noises: She prefers not waking up to the sound of an alarm or any noise.
Crowds: They make her anxious.
Layna doesn't remember her biological mother at all, but she knows that she wasn't the child of Annabelle Branton, it was pretty obvious when Annabelle would constantly scream that she wasn't Layna's mother. Annabelle wanted nothing to do with Layna, so Jonathan raised Layna himself. Layna didn't really mind being raised completely by her father, but as a small child she had a hard time dealing with the fact that the lady her father was married to hated her. She didn't spend a whole lot of time in the family home as a child, she was constantly by her father's side and that meant they were mainly at the company or at meetings. Everyone that did business with Jonathan Branton knew Layna pretty well and adored her. She learned a lot about the business at a young age, and wasn't too bothered by the thought of what her father was doing for money. Probably because she couldn't exactly process everything that was going on, and her father still hid quite a bit of what was going on from her.
As Layna grew up, she spent more time with her father than either of her siblings. Felix didn't mind this much, but Grayson didn't like it at all. Neither did Annabelle. So, when Layna was about ten years old, she wasn't allowed to go on business meetings or go to the company with her dad anymore. She was told that she was old enough to start taking care of herself, though in a household with plenty of staff members that did everything for you that didn't mean much. After she was done with school, she was no longer picked up by Jonathan and brought to work, she was picked up by a driver and brought straight home. She didn't talk to the staff very much, and mainly just kept to her room or went out to the gardens to play by herself. The only staff member of the Branton Estate that she talked to at all was the cook. She'd wander into the kitchen to learn how to cook, but the head cook had taken a liking to the young child and started letting her taste test all his dishes, and hang out in the kitchen for as long as she wanted.
Layna, now 22 years old, made her way into a very prestigious college. Obviously, mainly because she had the money and the Branton family had donated quite a bit to the college. She was fine with that, she was there to get a double major in both Business and in Computer Science. She knew what her father's plans were already and knew it was better to be prepared for the time when she took over. But, when her father announced it to the rest of the world, it seemed to spark something else. It would still be years before Layna took over as CEO, but that didn't seem to matter to the man that attacked her. She was pushed into a new world altogether, now having to deal with the press at every corner and the possibility of another attack.