Nicknames: Most just call her by her first name, Zara. Those she is more familiar with will often shorten it to Za or Za-Za.
Age: 26
Home Town: New York City, New York
Sexuality: Straight
Personality:
Zara is as cold as ice. She doesnât feel, doesnât become over-emotional or allow things to affect her. She doesnât do big shows of emotion, or even simple expressions of feelings. Someone could be telling her the saddest story and sheâd be able to just stare blankly on at them, expression hard as stone, unaffected by what sheâd been told. Itâs not that she doesnât care, she just doesnât know how to comprehend their feelings, and so she finds it easier to remain a blank slate. People often find her disposition unnerving, but to Zara, itâs her safety net. She hates other people thinking they know how she feels or what sheâs thinking. She tries hard to remain unreadable, even to the most intelligent and intuitive of people. The only time Zara elicits any kind of emotion is when sheâs acting. But, getting genuine emotion out of Zara is like trying to draw blood from a stone.
Zara has been described as âpersonality-lessâ, her blank slate nature makes people think that possibly she doesnât have a particular personality of her own. Some pass this off as her just being exceptionally boring, but others see her for what she really is; an incredibly complex, and actually quite damaged girl. Her voice rarely expresses any emotions of her own, making it almost deadpan and even toned. She only speaks when she absolutely has to, and even then she doesnât use flowery language to express herself, instead preferring the simplest words to tell people what she means. Itâs virtually impossible to get any world views out of Zara, she will never readily express her opinion and if asked for it, itâs unlikely to be anything particularly strong. When given a choice, she will choose the easiest or most convenient option. Many see this as either avoidance or laziness, but in actual fact, this couldnât be further from the truth.
Despite Zaraâs desire not to be understood by others, there is nothing she likes more than watching others. Her quietness affords her plenty of time, stood at the edge, looking in, watching others. Sheâs very observant and has learnt to gain lots of information from peopleâs simplest actions. Reading people is what Zara considers her own personal gift. Her greatest feelings of achievement donât come from her acting or what sheâs achieved in her career, but what she can tell through watching people. Sheâs actually an exceptionally intelligent girl and, if required, her knowledge of people would allow her to manipulate just about anyone. She sees through even the most superficial of people to what is really the truth. In a way, she is her own worst enemy. If she were ever to meet anyone who was like her and could really see the truth about people, Zara would be terrified of them.
History:
To the outside world, Zaraâs young life looked idyllic. Her father, Jeremy, worked in the lucrative fuel industry and money was never a problem for their family. As a child, Zara always had the best of everything. Their house was huge and beautiful, kitted out with all the modern conveniences. They had plenty of land, yet they still lived in a good location. Zaraâs bedroom was what every little girl dreamed of and she was never short of toys to play with. Her mother, Annette, previously poor, struggling model with no skills of her own, taken in by Jeremy to be the perfect, obedient trophy wife, although sweet, was ineffectual and weak. She dutifully fell into line for her husband and would never ever speak out against him. Zaraâs brother, Philip, was four years her senior. He had been bred since a young age to follow in his fatherâs footsteps and take over the highly successful family fuel business.
But Zara, the girl, served a different, much more untoward purpose to her father than a daughter should ever have to. The girl was his play thing. His beautiful little child who wouldnât tell a soul what he did to her. She was seven, the first time heâd opened the door of her room, when everyone else was asleep, whispering softly to stay quiet, that he wouldnât hurt her. At first, he would just touch her. But as she grew older, he would often force himself upon her, doing unspeakable things to his child. Zara knew, even then, that what her father was doing to her was wrong, but she was so frozen with fear that she never found the words to tell him not to. She couldnât stop what he did to her, couldnât prevent her fate. She just stayed quiet as a mouse, like heâd instructed. He told the child not to speak a word of what had happened to anyone else, that it had to remain their little secret, because no one else would understand what theyâd just shared. So Zara stayed quiet, her whole life. She didnât tell a soul what heâd done. In school, she began to take Drama classes, and it became her respite. All the emotions she was feeling yet was prohibited from expressing to anyone, she was able to pour out through a character, someone else who wasnât really her.
When Zara was seventeen, her father died, very suddenly, hit by a bleed into the brain that killed him instantly. But it wasnât the sense of relief she expected it to be, the weight wasnât lifted from her young shoulders. Of course, she was no longer being abused by him anymore, but his death buried the secret. It made it a thing of the past, something she couldnât bring up. Now, she was trapped with the secret forever, having it haunt her for the rest of her life. She gained a place at a university to study drama, and here she was spotted for her first role. She played a new love interest to a popular young star, and from here she became a household name. Since then sheâd dabbled in modelling and movie acting, but television has always been her thing. When Zara was offered a role in XOXO, she saw it as the perfect opportunity to further her career and continue burying the secrets of her past.
Character Age: 17
Character Personality:
Being 'The Party Girl' is a role that Zara loves. She enjoys allowing her wild side to take over and the role doesn't require any huge show of emotion a lot of the time, which Zara, although she knows it's only acting and so that's different, prefers.
Her character is a complete wild child. She loves to drink and party, and even dabbles in drugs. She has no qualms over having casual sex with complete strangers and she's at her happiest when she's out somewhere with loud music, lots of people and plenty of alcohol. Hannah hates following the rules and sees herself as somewhat of a free spirit. She's reckless, and always open to trying new things. She's a nice girl, but having fun is her number one priority, and nothing will change that.
Character History:
Hannah is a relatively well liked character on the show. She was born into money, and lots of it. As a child, she was allowed to run errant , doing as she pleased. Hannah and her mother never really saw eye to eye, but she was her father's only daughter and she was little daddy's girl, doted on and adored by her father. He gave her everything she could possibly want in life, and then some. In his eyes, she could do no wrong. But all Hannah's problems in her life have been of her own doing, simply facilitated by her father's money. In her teenage years, Hannah discovered the wonders of drunken sex, and never looked back. Her character has been pregnant, but ended up having an abortion. She's also spent a short time in rehab, attempting to recover from alcohol problems, unfortunately, it didn't stick.
