Michaela Arielle Vaughn
| Nickname(s) || Stage Name |
Kayla, Layla, Mickey, Siren || Lux Lyfe or Lux
| D.O.B || Star Sign |
January 22 || Aquarius
| Age |
17
| Nationality |
African-American
| Sexual Orientation |
"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
| Relationship Status |
"Relationships aren't bad. Monogamy, when it's not some patriarchal bullshit, isn't bad. I just don't do them. If I wanted to be tied down and all moony over someone, I'd do it. But I don't. I like being single and doing what I want - doing who I want. If you can manage to snatch my little ass up, then baby, I'm yours."
Single
| Clique |
C-List || Rebels
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Michaela considers herself to be of average height and stature with her five foot and six inch and one hundred thirty-five pound frame, which might seem a bit larger than the standard about-to-be eighteen year old, but there is nothing overweight about this slim young woman. With her body measurements at 34-24-36, Michaela has what is considered a spoon shape and while she doesn't make it a habit of being fit for the sake of wearing a bikini, for the sake of keeping up her lung capacity for singing, she does her occasional round of exercising, particularly crunches and abdominal work in general, to keep her tummy tight and flat. Her thighs might be just shy of being thicker than few other girls at school, but her curves are nothing for her to ever have felt ashamed about. Besides, she has had too many people between those soft yet firm thighs - and hands on that softly rounded derriere - to ever be ashamed of her body. It may not be perfect to everyone, but it's perfect enough for her to not hesitate and indulge her sweet tooth. And walk around with her bountiful of mid-driff tops.
While her medium length naturally wavy hair is cocoa brown, last year she dyed it black and has yet to go back. Perhaps it is because the darker hair accentuates her bright, almond-shaped hazel eyes, which appear to be greener than brown on most days, but are her favorite features as she has been told that they make her seem far more innocent than she actually is. Her skin is naturally a light brown, darker than an olive complexion, but blemish-free and clear and tans easily under the California rays. Her lips are naturally pouty, without the need of makeup to enhance them, and full. Her hair typically is styled in her favorite Marley twists, which typically consists of black hair with white twists interspersed, or whichever color fits her mood. However, she is also known for using brown hair as the base and adding in red and white strands. Michaela also has a nose piercing in her left nostril, the standard earlobe piercing, and for only her left ear, she has a double helix piercing. In her right ear, she has a graduate lobe piercing and double helix piercing.
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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.
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❤ Most drinks with rum inside them ❤ Producing her own music ❤ Pranks ❤ Motorcycles ❤ Cooking her own food ❤ New Orleans ❤ Marijuana ❤ Parties ❤ Mozzarella Sticks ❤ Brownies ❤ Sex ❤ Afro-Punk ❤ Deadpool ❤ Criminal Minds, Supernatural, AHS, HTGAWM, & Teen Wolf ❤ Singing ❤ Partying ❤ Getting high ❤ Feeling the thrum of the music through her veins ❤ Her braids ❤ Intense Makeout Sessions ❤ Finding new, exciting places ❤ Getting into a little trouble ❤ When people are easy to rile up ❤ Having friends older than herself ❤ Threesomes ❤ The Beach ❤ Sleeping while naked ❤ Honeydew Melon ❤ Video Games❤ Flirting ❤ Mac n cheese ❤ DJing ❤ Playing the guitar ❤ Fireball Whiskey ❤ Cocoa Butter ❤ Green Tea
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✘ Clowns ✘ Being told what to do ✘ People Who Try Too Hard ✘ Beer ✘ Having to deal with hangovers ✘ Sheet music ✘ Mandatory school subjects ✘ Cigarettes ✘ When people tell themselves they can make Cajun cooking ✘ When adults break up other people's fights ✘ Misogynoir ✘ Coffee ✘ When people are too sensitive ✘ Beyonce ✘ The invasive-ness of social media ✘ Conformity ✘ When people thinks she cares about their opinions ✘ The Kardashians ✘ Guilt Trips ✘ Boring people ✘ Clingy lovers ✘ STDs ✘ White chocolate ✘ Chick Flicks
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New Orleans, Louisiana
| Place of Residence |
1200 10th Street, Manhattan Beach, CA
| History |
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. 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. 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.
By the time Michaela had turned twelve, in fact, her rebellion towards society had already been slowly developing. It had started really young. Because Michaela had shown such a love for singing and music in general at a young age, Diamond had started allowing little Michaela to compete in beauty pageants. It was her first foray into understanding how other opinions, particularly those of a society whose main hobby is being judgmental and bigoted, have to be ignored for the sake of self-preservation. She was always picked on by the other girls because her nose was a bit bigger, her lips were fuller and larger than theirs, and because little Michaela was on the chubby side. It took her years, after the baby fat had begun to melt off and her features really grew on her, to just not care. And when Michaela honestly stopped caring, that was when Siren came into existence. Or, as she is known on YouTube and a few Underground scenes, Lux Lyfe.
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 is known for being a DJ at different parties for friends and occasionally for friends of friends depending on the venue, though it's a very low-key thing for her. Once she became a student at Crossroads, 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 sneaks 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 does like Crossroads. She loves the friends she has made. She just likes a little havoc as well.
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| Face Claim |
Kiana Lede
| Singing Voice |
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