Name: Flora Lavinia Sunn
Nicknames: Flo [uncommon]
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Homosexual
Ethnicity: White American
βSeven devils all around meβ
Flora looks like the classic Addams Family goth girl. Her pale skin contrasts her dark hair and attire perfectly. She's 5'4" with an average build and a naturally pleasant expression on her face. She has black hair (With a streak of blonde on the right) that reaches her mid-back. She has a tattoo of a comic panel on the inside of her right wrist. She loves playing with makeup and rarely goes out without at least winged eyeliner. Her ability to apply eyeliner is a talent she's very proud of. She also takes great pride in her fashion sense; finding endless ways to keep her goth style fresh and interesting. Black dominates her wardrobe, but she's not at all averse to color. She always tries to look her best unless she's just sitting around at home, making her look much more together than she really is.
Secret:
Flora suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia. She experiences hallucinations (mostly auditory, sometimes visual), delusions (she believes that others can hear her thoughts), and paranoia. Her tattoo talks to her. And hates her.
Personality:
Since her high school years, Flora has gone through a complete 180 in terms of personality. As a teenager, she was bitter and misanthropic, but as an adult, she's friendly and positive. It wasn't a total personality change, though. Her bad attitude as a kid was largely forced. Happy Flora was still there, but Angry Flora was ignoring her. As she became more mature (and an eventual decrease in the severity of her condition), she became much more comfortable showing positive emotions. It's still very possible to catch her in a bad mood, though. If that happens, God help you. If something pisses her off, she reverts to her old biting sarcasm and undying frustration. The good news is that she rarely gets to this state, having grown a much longer fuse since childhood. Overall, she's pretty creepy, but pleasant; like a kooky Halloween decoration.
Weaknesses: She's not comfortable talking about her problems, preferring to bottle them up.
Fears: She's afraid of people finding out too much about her. She was always taught that if anyone knew about her illness, the family's image would be ruined. She doubts that would happen, but she still keeps the secret.
βMe? Well, Iβm well. Well, I mean Iβm in Hell.β
Mental illness is common in the women of the Sunn family. Floraβs grandmother was depressed, her great-grandmother was afraid to go outside, her great-great-grandmother was narcissistic, et cetera. Her mother (who married into the family) would tell her, βCrazyβs in your blood. β Of course, nobody knew this. Despite the family's rather high standing in the town, the unfortunate tradition has been a highly kept secret. When her symptoms started to show while she was in middle school, Flora learned her familyβs way of dealing with their problems: grin and bear it and donβt you dare tell anyone.
Around this time, she discovered goth culture and immediately fell in love. Feeling strange and different from the beginning, she was very at home among the weird and creepy. However, it took a while for her to really find her stride, spending the remainder of middle school and all of high school as a rather obnoxious scene kid. No one really liked her, and she didnβt like anyone else. Her bad attitude was exacerbated by frequent hallucinations, mostly auditory and occasionally visual.
When she started having feelings for women, she told her mother, and was greeted with the same advice she got when her symptoms came. She grew up ashamed of herself, and that never really left.
After moving out, she really mellowed out, allowing herself to be positive and open about her sexuality. Since then, her family moved away too, so she doesn't have to worry about what they'll say about her being openly gay, but the fear of telling anyone about her illness is still there in full force.
Other:
She used to hate her name, thinking it was too cheery-sounding for someone so dark. Now, she enjoys the juxtaposition.
Sheβs entirely sure that nobody is going to recognize her once she comes back to Smithbrook. She hopes she makes a better impression than she did in school.