Name: "Julia Emmeline Masters, but I go by Jules mostly."
Ethnicity: "My grandparents came over from Germany, but Jake and I are born and bred Americans."
Birth Date: "26 September. It was a beautiful day, my parents told me there was never a prettier autumn."
Age: "28. Getting a bit old."
Sexuality: "Well, I lean towards a preference in girls, but I like guys too."
Distinguishing Marks: Julia has 4 tattoos - wood carvings on her right leg, a skeleton on her right hand, a tree on her left shoulder, and Gallifreyan on her neck. She's looking to get a few more, maybe UV and white ink, or even a sleeve.
She has some piercings, a double cartilage and lobe piercing on her ear, and a triple lobe piercing.
Most of her scars are from when she was a child. A few marks on her hands, one across her knee, and her foot.
General Appearance: Julia is pretty in a simple, innocent sort of way. She's slender and tends to fade in with the crowd. She likes to keep her dark hair loose, falling around her shoulders. She's experimented with hair dye, but the results weren't that great, so she keeps to this colour. She enjoys keeping her makeup easy. Depending on her mood, it's either thick eyeliner and dark lipstick, or light colours, sometimes nothing more than foundation.
Clothes are something she enjoys experimenting with more - she tends to take pride in her appearance, and the money she saved up plus what she makes at her job is enough to keep her style going. She likes leather jackets, collared shirts, skater skirts, and occasionally jeans. Her clothes are usually of solid patterns, in varying shades of blues, greys, and whites. Her shoes are mostly heeled sandals, pumps, or flats. Her colour comes in her accessorizing - bangles, earrings, and pendants in bright colours like orange, blue, and violet.
Though she dropped out of college, Julia's not entirely stupid. Her knowledge comes more in the form of art and life skills - she used to major in art, after all, and life is an easier place with her advice and intuition around. She keeps an eye out for the people around her, especially Jake, who has a great track record for getting in trouble. She tends to hover over Jake a little, wanting to know what he's doing, where he is, and such. She enjoys staying up to date on events, needing to know what's going on. This is her way of showing affection - she doesn't really know how to reach out to people and so cares in her own little ways.
Role: Role Two
Skills: Julia is good at art, with her mind for detail and creativity. She's also a great cook, and is an avid reader.
Art Type: Coverup/Reworking
Family and Friends: "Of course Jake is my brother, but everyone here at the studio, we're great friends. Almost like siblings. And then there's Dad, Mom, Blake, Effy, and Lucy."
Known Languages: "I took elementary German in high school, and then some Chinese as an extra class in college. Plus English, of course."
History: Julia's childhood forced her to grow up too quickly. It was her job, as the second oldest child, to take care of her younger siblings, while Blake and her parents were away at work. It was not easy, having to deal with school work, take care of three active children, keep the house in something resembling order and make sure there was dinner waiting when the family of 7 got together at the end of the day. Somehow, they managed to scrape through.
She thought Jake could help when he got a little older, but he was busy getting into trouble at school. Effy wasn't doing so great, either, although Lucy had consistent B's, better than the other two's falling grades. Her parents never had time to attend parent-teacher meetings, so Julia had to turn up, trying her best to look the teacher in the eye and tell her that she really was doing her best, because really, Julia was never the best student herself. She tried to coach the children, but it wasn't easy. Jake, especially, needed the most help, and all the attention Julia placed on him meant she didn't have as much time for the other two girls. Lucy was mature enough, taking care of herself well, but Effy fell in with bad company and started smoking behind the school building during break, eventually getting into drugs without her family's knowledge.
Julia had a little foresight, and in light of the financial trouble her family was always on the edge of, she saved up day by day, dropping coins into a tin tucked under her bed. The girls shared a room, so of course Effy knew about this. She would take money from Julia, a little at a time so Julia wouldn't suspect anything.
Then everything seemed to happen in one particularly hard year for the Masters. Jake got expelled from high school, Blake was arrested for attempted robbery, and Effy had a pregnancy scare with her then-boyfriend. Julia was long gone by then, having gotten an art scholarship to college in the next state over. After that things just kind of bumped along. Their lives were never as hard at that year, and somehow not easier either.
Julia tried to keep the letters she sent home cheery and optimistic, but at college she'd run into a professor that was too unprofessional with her, and she had no idea how to avoid him. The only person she told was Jake, calling him every week, the only person she could be honest with. Eventually the stress got too much for her and her grades plummeted, and she made the decision to drop out of college. She could do her art elsewhere.
Julia called Jake up half an hour after she removed all her belongings from her dorm room, and as it was Jake and Mason were starting up the tattoo parlour. She joined them gladly, and moved in with Jake into the apartment above the parlour. She was back with family.
Other: Julia has no pets because Jake's cats are trouble enough already. She has given up on trying to make them behave - instead, she leaves food out every morning for them to fight over.
