~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
[ IXC A NXO N L YXB YXJ O J O ]
[ C O M P A N YXB YXT I N A S H E ]
[ W I L DXT H I N G SXB YXA L E S S I AXC A R A ]
[ S E XXW I T HXM EXB YXR I H A N N A ]
Dษชแดสแดษขแดแด Cแดสแดส โฆ #C35817 || Tสแดแดษขสแด Cแดสแดส โง #730800
X
X
X
X
X
Michaela Arielle Vaughn
N I C K N A M E S
Mickey, Kayla, or Layla {Common; the first is the main one that most people refer to her as} || Siren {Common; picked up by college friends she made last year when they realized how many fell for her after hearing her sing} || Lux or Lux Lyfe {Stage and radio personality name}
G E N D E R
Female
A G EX:XD A T EXO FXB I R T H
19 : January 22
A S T R O L O G I C A LXS I G N
Aquarius
S E X U A L I T Y
"I'm pan, simple as that. Of all the things I'm gonna worry about in my life, who I take in my bed really isn't that big of a deal. Girls, guys, girls who transition into a guy - I'm kinda down for it all. And if I happen to get more than one in my bed, well, shit, I'm hella down."
Pansexual
E T H N I C I T Y
50% Creole {Father} || 25% French {Mother} || 25% Polish {Mother}
M A J O RX:XM I N O R
"I mean, I'm in college now. I know most people who knew me before are a bit surprised, but I had to get serious about my future at some point. Plus, I took one class in poli-sci and I knew I needed that somewhere on my resume, so here we are."
Broadcast Communications w/ Minor in Political Science
O C C U P A T I O N
"I auditioned for the station freshman year and they made sure to make me apply for this year, so I'm doing something right. I still DJ here and I've got a new fanbase in Miami, but I did take up doing other people's braids and sew-ins."
Radio Personality at Fulton University's radio station, Fulton U Hot 103.4 || Freelance DJ || Part-time Hair Stylist
5'6 : 135 lbs
B O D YXB U I L D
Spoon Shape: Pear
E Y EXC O L O R
Hazel
S K I NXC O L O R
Peanut butter brown
H A I RXC O L O R
While Michaela's naturally curly and perpetually medium length hair is naturally a cocoa brown shade, during senior year of high school, Michaela dyed it black and hasn't looked back since. Which means that her typically hairstyle, braids, have a base color of black as well. Michaela's been seen in a plethora of braided hairstyles: Marley twists, individual braids, micro-mini braids, etc. And she's even styled her hair while having the braids installed with her typical white-blonde, red or even brown colors interspersed. However, when she feels like giving her roots a rest from being tugged or that her hair just needs to breathe, it's not uncommon for her to wear her hair out, either in its naturally loosely curly state or straightened.
G E N E R A LXA P P E A R A N C E
Michaela may not be considered a conventional or standard beauty in comparison to other young women her age, but there's denying that she's a beauty nonetheless. She might be considered of average height and stature with her five feet six inch frame, but that's perfectly fine with her. She wouldn't exactly favor being any taller than she already is. Michaela has what is considered to be a spoon body shape or, most commonly known, a pear shape, in that her hips are wider than her bust and her waist can seem smaller than both. It just so happens that there's a notable and smooth slope from her waist to her hips, resulting in the formation of a rather rounded, toned and plump derriere for her frame. Mickey isn't what you would consider a health nut or a gym enthusiast; she'll run go on a light run, maybe, twice per week, but even she would tell you that that's if she decides to get up. Yet and still, there is some definition in her arms and legs, and her butt, as she has had to move sound equipment to and from various venues when she's DJing or when the school's radio station is supposed to be at an event representing. Majorly though, much like with her abdominal area, there is only a slight imprint of abs forming as you can simply call it a soft expanse of skin, nothing quite special but definitely still slim. The beauty then, not just in the appreciation of her curves that others have been wont to show, comes in her face where she holds almond-shaped hazel eyes that appear a deep olive shade on most days, but lighter and with a ring of brown when catching a wayward beam from the sun. It's in what her mother has called peanut-butter brown skin that's smooth and blemish-free, baby soft from the way she cares for it, in those thick but delicately arched eyebrows, or even in that heart-shaped mouth with kissably-plump pouty lips. It could be in her aesthetic: the braids complimented by a nose piercing, pierced earlobes, a double helix piercing in her left ear, and a graduate lobe piercing in her right ear. Either way, there's no denying there's something...pretty about her. Exotic, if you ask the right people.
F A S H I O NXS E N S E
As a few uppity African-American students at Fulton have admitted to her once or twice before in the last year, they don't want to look "too black" in a predominantly white institution. And well, to put it bluntly, Mickey doesn't care for all of that. She has a rather urban style, that much she can admit. It has been influenced by her California living and there's no denying the indie imprint on her wardrobe as seen in the multi-colored long skirts or shorts she has worn, but she's not ashamed of her look nor does she choose to hide it. And it helps that it makes her stand out, even amongst the Zetas, and that it's garnered her a band of secret admirers. Which, of course, strokes the ego she likes to claim doesn't exist. There are days when she's girlier than the day before and since attending college, she has been more prone to wearing dresses than she ever had before, but Mickey doesn't really see herself changing for anyone. And since she's not even truly going into the professional world as in with Fortune 500 companies or even law, she doesn't see the need to do so.
Eats foods like pizza, strawberries, ect. backwards โฆ Is a very tactile person and has a habit of touching people rather casually, though it's more intimate if she knows them personally. (ie. for someone she has feelings for, she'll put a hand at the small of their back or she'll have a hand rested on someone's shoulder if they're just friends.) โง Blurts out a lot of sexual innuendos or everything she seems to say has some kind of sexual connotation. โฆ Has at least five cups of tea per day. It's for her vocal chords, but also because Mickey really likes tea. โง Flirts like it's her religion. Unless her attention is expressly unwanted, nobody's safe. The more she feels for you or the more a person reacts results in stronger flirtations.
G R E A T E S TXJ O Y S
Music: Before there was anything else, there was music for Mickey and she doesn't see her life without her career being musical. If she's not singing, then she's playing for other people. โฆ Food: She grew up with a part-time chef of a mother and being forced to help, specifically with baking as that is her specialty. โง Genuine Friendships: For Mickey, no matter how social and energetic she seems, she knows who her real and close friends are, and they're like family to her at this point. They're the ones most privy to her loyalty. โฆ Parties: You would think getting high would beat a party, but Mickey can get high off of the energy of a really good dance party. It probably helps that she can get a quick contact high, but she loves the vibration of the music that touches her toes and then spreads upwards.
G R E A T E S TXF E A R S
Losing her voice: Everything rides on her voice; her ability to communicate, sing, dazzle - without her voice, Mickey really would have no purpose. โฆ Disappointing her parents: She acts like she doesn't care, but Mickey wants to prove that she's being productive with her music and her major, especially to doctors as parents. โง Catching an STD or, worse yet, HIV: Mickey might be a touch promiscuous, but she's in no way not careful. Unless she trusts you, a condom is always at play and when she has been in a relationship, tests were taken. โฆ Zombie Apocalypse: She likes adventures, but this isn't one she wants to be a part of.
G O O DXP E R S O N A L I T YXT R A I T S
Witty โฆ Carefree โง Vivacious โฆ Perceptive โง Loyal โฆ Engaging โง Open-Minded โฆ Intelligent โง Daring โฆ Sensual
B A DXP E R S O N A L I T YXT R A I T S
Tactless โฆ Blunt โง Sarcastic โฆ Intolerable โง Flirtatious โฆ Rebellious โง Enigmatic โฆ Stubborn โง Impulsive โฆ Shameless
L I F EXP H I L O S O P H Y
โIf you were a bird, and lived on high, you'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, you'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!โ - A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
The one thing that needs to be acknowledged and accepted first, above all things, is that Michaela isn't everybody's favorite cup of tea once off of a stage or away from a turn table. While some might find that others find them intolerable and want to change some aspect of themselves in order to please those other individuals, Michaela has discovered this fact, laughs very boisterously in your face about it, and then revels in it. She warns in advance and makes no excuses about it - she can be a lot to handle. While she is not one of those people who believes that life is a complete joke, she also isn't one to find every little thing as serious. She's carefree in that sense. Her life is her life and while she won't say that she's grown up with the most golden of spoons in her mouth, she has acknowledged that she grew up with the privilege to not actually give a flying fuck about other people and their expectations. People are going to spend your entire life nitpicking the different parts of you that they either like or don't like, she has already surmised. And the one thing she is not going to do is waste her time trying to conform, fix herself or even try to please anyone. So, if it happens that her rapid-fire, quick-witted and sarcastic self has rubbed you the wrong way, unless Michaela genuinely feels as though she might have insulted you or truly hurt your feelings, expect not a single fuck to be given. She's shameless, after all.
While being such a free-thinking and vivacious individual is always a good thing, the reason that not many can truly say they completely hate her but also that they completely love her is that Michaela never knows when to stop. Or, it would appear that way. Another thing that needs to be taken into account is that while she does have a tendency to lean towards being reckless and daring in that every day is an adventure she should not hesitate to take, Michaela has a devil-may-care attitude combined with the fact that she is far more calculated than people give her credit for. Classmates and certain staff members tend to forget that this is the intelligent girl - both book-wise and street-wise - who could have been classified as a nerd, and cursed any forced classifications to hell if she didn't get to pick for herself. She's not stupid. While Michaela likes to say that she just does shit on the drop of a dime and doesn't give a care in the world, what it is is that she doesn't always act without thinking. She just likes seeming that way and she's human; of course she has her impulsive moments. They just don't dominate her every-day. Again, she knows people are going to always have something to say, so why not be the one who controls whatever the say? So, if she happens to get detention today because her perceptive self read the living daylights out of her professor and in her typically blunt manner called him or her out on it in the middle of class, at least she can say that people saying whatever they plan to say about her is of her own volition, and not their own. In a twisted way, she controls people's perceptions of her and she likes that kind of power. It's fun, heady and she's always looking to push the realms of what is acceptable. Like going to class high and seeing what's going to happen.
Others might speculate that Michaela has had a bad home life or blame her tendency to stay away from commitment due to a previous heartbreak. The truth of the matter is that she has always been detached and just a touch enigmatic. Teenagers go through a phase where their parents and the adults around them find them hard to read for awhile, partly due to their emotions just being haywire as they try to discover themselves. This is not a phase - this is a way of life for Michaela. She loves her parents deeply, even if it seems that she is accepting their affection without being as open in her emotions as they are. It's just how she is, simple as that. She knows how to be in relationships and to love without fear; she lives the majority of her life fearlessly, why would she approach something as pure as love with fear? She's just not one of those freely emotion-giving people. She's not afraid or anything of that nature of relationships. She just hasn't found a person she's willing to settle for completely, or people considering the fact that she has the capacity to love more than one person without fear of people judging her for not conforming to society's love of monogamy. At the end of the day, despite her seeming abhorrence towards commitment and depending on everyone else due to her independent streak, Michaela knows a thing or two about loyalty and no one would ever have to worry about her being theirs - whether as a friend or lover. They just need to accept that she likes her freedom as well, and her occasional signs of being flirtatious. After all, she's a complete package. You just can't accept one part of her and not like the other.
Icy cold bottle of beer โฆ Most drinks with rum inside them โง Producing her own music โฆ Horror, Paranormal, & Sci-Fi films โง Motorcycles โฆ Cooking her own food โง New Orleans โฆ Marijuana โง Parties โฆ Mozzarella Sticks โง Brownies โฆ Sex, especially really good sex โง Afro-Punk โฆ Deadpool โง Criminal Minds, Supernatural, AHS, HTGAWM, & Teen Wolf โฆ Singing โง Partying โฆ Getting high โง Feeling the thrum of the music through her veins โฆ Her braids โง Intense Makeout Sessions โฆ Finding new, exciting places โง Getting into a little trouble โฆ When people are easy to rile up โง Having friends older than herself โฆ Threesomes โง The Beach โฆ Sleeping while naked โง Honeydew Melon โฆ Video Games โง Flirting โฆ Mac n cheese โง DJing โฆ Playing the guitar โง Fireball Whiskey โฆ Cocoa Butter โง Chai tea โฆ Sexual explorations and discoveries
D I S L I K E S
Super girly drinks โฆ Clowns โง Being told what to do โฆ People Who Try Too Hard โง Hot Beer โฆ Having to deal with hangovers โง Sheet music โฆ Mandatory school subjects โง Cigarettes โฆ When people tell themselves they can make Cajun cooking โง When adults break up other people's fights โฆ Misogynoir โง Coffee โฆ When people are too sensitive โง Beyonce {And her ridiculous Beyhive} โฆ The invasive-ness of social media โง Conformity โฆ When people thinks she cares about their opinions โง The Kardashians โฆ Guilt Trips โง Boring people โฆ Clingy lovers โง STDs โฆ White chocolate โง Chick Flicks
X
X
"True story - I never gave a flying fuck about Greek life, I'm being real. My Dad pledged Alpha Phi Alpha, so if anything, I should've found a black one to join if I were going to join in the first place. But in all honesty, it just so happened that I vibed with people who happened to be Sigmas and Zetas. One of the people who oversaw my audition for the radio was a Sigma and he's been a bit of a mentor, I guess. Whatever. The point is that I just really hung out with the few that I originally met, vibed with them and Jaz at the tent during the organization fair, and then Jaz and I were doing Rush Week together. Haven't regretted it since. The Zetas and Sigmas are some of the dopest people you'll ever meet, so talented and amazing and chill. I don't really have a problem with any of the other houses cuz they do them and we do us, but then again, that's how I feel about everyone...so it is what it is."
Mickey never really cared about other people's perceptions of her since she's the type to just not care or even remember your existence unless it benefits or entertains her. What she will say about Greek life at Fulton is that a member's house does not dictate who she's going to be friends or cool with. It might be because she's a part of a generation who's slowly starting to not give any fucks, but she's also not here for the legacy of pussyfooting around an Alpha or Beta. She'll flirt with whomever she wants, sleep with whomever she wants, and sit anywhere on campus with anyone she wants. It makes her no difference. You'll just have to learn to deal with that blue and gold she's repping.
P L A N SXA F T E RXC O L L E G E ?
"Ummm...nothing's particularly secure, but I have been thinking that this radio thing might actually be...well, a finite thing. I was always good, even back at high school, with getting connections. Keeping in touch with people. Just vibing. So, it wasn't always just me DJing back then, but also networking. Which is how I landed working with Fulton U's radio. But then, I had an internship back home with 107.9 and it wasn't really much, but one of my bosses thought I'd be good with actually being on the radio, playing music and making announcements and really selling myself as a radio personality. I kinda wanna infuse that with a bit of my political science background, so there's that. I like the vibe of Emelie Sande, Janelle Monae, and Solange, where some of their music have been politically charged. But I do want to start with the radio first and really breaking into that, and making connections with the music biz from that standpoint."
The number one assumption is that Mickey wants to be the next big singer. It's a good dream and yeah, she has the capacity for it. She dances, sings, writes her own songs, and even is good with mixing beats. Why do you think that she's the number one DJ at a Zeta party? However, she is interested in intertwining the political education she has acquired with the media and her music, so she wants to start with being on the radio just as a personality.
โฆ Diamond Vaughn โฆ โฃ Biological Mother โฃ Living
X
โง Henry Vaughn โง โฃ Biological Father โฃ Living
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA {Newborn-12} || Manhattan Beach, California, USA {12-17} || Miami Beach, Florida, USA {17-Current}
H I S T O R Y
Considering the fact that Michaela was born in the Deep South, it should come to no surprise that within the Baptist community her white mother Diamond was raised in, that there was some deep-seated racism rankling just below the Southern hospitality they like to be known for. No matter how carefree she seemed and still does seem, Michaela was never unaware of that little fact. When Diamond admitted to becoming interested in an African-American man completing his residency while she was attending a nearby university, her parents were in absolute abhorrence in the face of the developing relationship. It was a stressful time for both of her parents, though Mickey would never be a witness to this hostility. In fact, other than a few occasions where her grandmother proved to be less hostile in her racism than her grandfather, Mickey hasn't exactly been able to officially meet either of them, let alone develop a relationship of any kind. Her father wouldn't even let Henry into their home to meet them, let alone actually attend her wedding. They even threatened total exclusion from the family, which meant loss of any financial support, if she further continued to strengthen their relationship. Needless to say, Michaela was born to parents - one without emotional or financial support from her family, and the other who had always been the caretaker of his own - but who were determined not to allow bigotry to keep them from being together. For all her flippant mannerisms, Michaela would tell you to this day that her parents were her original OTP and she would die shipping them. Luckily, though, while Henry was working and doing his residency and studying, Diamond had already had a small catering company as a side hustle since she was fifteen. Diamond Delicacies, then, would be a shared venture for both mother and daughter once Michaela turned twelve. Not that Mickey really had a choice since it was either that or a perpetual state of grounding. And she's bold and she actually has even tried being flippant towards her mother, but there's no way in hell she could deal with having to sneak out when she can do something that would get her mother off of her back. Besides, it wasn't like she disliked helping with the catering company, especially the baking part. Diamond had a gift, sure, and a knack for being a business woman when it came to being a part of the food industry (particularly with the clientele who wanted to have the luxury of gluten-free or even lactose-free desserts without the loss of that home-baked flare, but it was Mickey who really put it down with the baked goods. Of course, her involvement didn't exactly keep her out of trouble like her mother would have preferred.
While people presumed that she would be interested in medical school considered her father became an orthopedic surgeon with a sub-specialty in spinal surgeries and her mother eventually became a radiologist, Michaela's biggest and most-turned to outlet was music. She was known for being a DJ at different parties for friends and occasionally for friends of friends depending on the venue in California, though it's a very low-key thing for her as she participated in a lot of Underground scenes, much to her father's chagrin. He had liked the idea of her making her own money and being independent, but it's hard to be extremely proud when your only baby girl comes home on the weekend at four o'clock in the morning. However, he wasn't the parent to judge as he had done a lot in his younger years and was never the one to really scold her; that was all Diamond. Once she became a student at Crossroads Academy upon her family's move to California, it was apparent that Michaela was never going to be one of those popular Crossroads girls and she damn sure didn't want to be. She just wanted to live her life and do whatever the hell she wanted to, even at the chagrin of both professors and classmates who wished they could do what she does. It is her soft sweet vocals with an underlying and powerful register and range, combined with the fact that Mickey is a shameless flirt, that has earned her the name Siren. It is her ability to mix darker, heavier music with dance tracks and the like that makes Lux Lyfe successful. She approaches her artistry with raw instinct, sensually dulcet tones, and a technologically savvy mind that can keep the party going, even for the A-Listers if they decided to get their heads out of their asses and stop sneering down their noses at people as unattractively as they do. It's just that, when Lux and Michaela both get a little excited and she spends a bit too much time in detention for making a professor sweat under the collar or lose their patience that Diamond politely needs to bring her back to some semblance of control with forcing her to make their famous bread pudding or banana pudding. One thing to be noted, though, is that despite how much Michaela likes to roll her eyes at the uppity bitches she shares dorms and classes with - no matter how much she snuck off of campus for parties and the like with the older crowd partly to have fun and partly because it's entertaining to see staff members' reactions, at the end of the day, she did like Crossroads. She loved the friends she made. She just likes a little havoc as well.
Which is why it surprised her that some part of her had wanted to join a sorority, though the one she joined really isn't a shock at all. Mickey had honestly come to Fulton University because she knew she would at least have her two best friends with her. She could have stayed in California, if she waned to. It also helped that she had never been to Florida before last year, and so the idea of a new location excited her. Also, there was no denying that she could go nowhere without getting a good scholarship or five, and so Fulton was a good choice. Mickey discovered some things about herself, specifically about what she wants to possibly do with her life that doesn't necessarily have to do with solely performing. Which had been a thing of contention between herself and her mother, who really wanted her to take taking over Diamond Delicacies seriously and getting a bachelor's in business. Fulton educated her and fulfilled her thus far in a way that high school had not, so she considers it one of her better choices in life. And Zetas? Well, they were the best choice.