Brooke Carolyn Archer
You can call me:
Brooklyn
My age is:
23
I was born on:
June 21st
I was born in:
South Orange, NJ
I have been homeless for:
8 years
Role:
The Bitch
Guarded | Passive Aggressive | Sensitive | Strong | Hardworking | Independent
Brooklyn is undoubtedly a hard worker. She's currently working two jobs and really doesn't mind the hustle since it pays off. She's determined, strong-minded and willing to take on new challenges, so long as there are perks for her. That too, is probably a big part of who she is. Brooklyn has been out here long enough to know that there's no use in helping people unless she's going to benefit from it as well. She definitely has trust issues, but she would deny that it really interferes with her life because she isn't seeking new friends. There's no need to share her life story or become best friends with someone when she couldn't care less if they disappeared the next day. Out here, she's learned to keep her guard up and not get too close to too many people because it'll just end in disappointment. She sees the mindset as being realistic but some claim it's closer to pessimism. Even if it is, why should she be optimistic? Almost an entire half of her life has been filled with hurt and she doesn't expect it to change anytime soon.
Besides being guarded, she definitely can come off as simply being a bitch. She's witty but sarcastic, and isn't innocent of saying things that she knows will provoke arguments or negative reactions. A lot of the things she does are calculated. She says and does things expecting a certain reaction from people and likes to see how far she can push people until they snap. She knows it's a poor character trait and she's the type who can dish it but can't really take it. She does a good job at acting like the things people say to her don't faze her, but she does take a lot of things to heart. Her emotions are generally internalized though, so unless she's arguing with someone she's extremely close with, she won't cry or show any signs of vulnerability. Instead, she'll spend days alternating between feeling guilty for whatever she did, and trying to convince herself that she shouldn't feel guilty - that if she starts to feel guilty, it'll show that she's weak and cares too much.
Her bad side may be more prevalent but there is a sociable side of her too. She has a heart and if one of the others ever needed her help, she would be there to give it to them. She wouldn't want them to speak of her doing a good deed ever again, but she'd probably be there to lend a hand if needed. Although she doesn't show this side of her with the others, Brooklyn is pretty wild. She's calmed down a lot compared to how she was a few years ago, but she's still spending at least one or two nights getting wasted at clubs after work. Alcohol and drugs (usually cocaine or weed) are her releases, and in addition to spending more money than she should on that, she also has a bit of a shopping addiction. If she was less impulsive when it came to those two habits, she would undoubtedly be able to support herself with at least a studio apartment.
Some things I like are:
Shopping | Alcohol | Silence | Warm weather | Heels | Being busy | Cliché Romance
Some things I dislike are:
Thinking about her family | Accepting responsibility | Waking up early | Being broke | Winter
Fears:
Brooklyn's biggest fear is dying on the streets. She doesn't want this to be her life and what she's remembered for. She's been homeless for longer than she ever would have imagined and is scared that she might never be able to get her life in order. Besides that, she's terrified of the idea of being raped, and she hates needles.
Dreams:
When she was a little girl, she'd tell you that she wanted to be a ballerina or a nurse and back then, she probably had the potential to become at least the latter. Now, her biggest dream is to get out of New York. She loves the city but wants to restart her life, and there's no way that she can do it here with all of her bad habits stemming from what the city life has to offer. Eventually, she would love to have a family but for now, moving somewhere warm would be a good start.
There isn't much to say about Brooklyn's childhood. She was born as Brooklyn Carolyn Archer and lived in an average New Jersey suburb with her mother Andrea, a registered nurse, and her father Larry, a professor at a local university. When she was six, she became the older sister of Julia Grace Archer. Nothing noteworthy really occurred until the night of her aunt's wedding. Brooklyn was fifteen at the time and every the ceremony, had opted to spend the night at a friend's house. Her parents had arranged for Grace to also stay with a friend but at around three AM that morning, she was homesick and the friend's parents requested that her parents take her home. Larry and Andrea were enjoying themselves at the wedding, and clearly, they went overboard. In their defense, neither had planned on driving that night until they got the call about Grace, but both were old enough where that excuse couldn't excuse Larry driving drunk to pick up Grace. On their way home, Larry ran a red light and their car was T-Boned by a truck. The entire back half of their minivan was torn off and although the other driver, Andrea and Larry walked away with a few scrapes and bruises, Grace didn't. After a few hours on life support, she was declared brain dead.
Brooklyn woke up the next morning to find out that her sister was dead and her father was being charged with vehicular manslaughter. Her mundane life was turned upside down and this would just be the start of her troubles. Her father had been released from jail on bail but would never reach his court day. About a week after the crash, he committed suicide. The weight of having killed his youngest daughter was too much to bare and he didn't think that he deserved to be alive if he had taken that chance away from his baby. It's probably a pain that can't be understood unless you're experiencing it, but Brooklyn saw his move as being selfish. He had already caused her an immense amount of pain and now he was just going to die too? Her father had robbed her of her sister and now himself as well.
Not surprisingly, the whole ordeal really ruined Brooklyn's youth. She was broken in ways that couldn't be fixed and no amount of therapy or antidepressants that her mother forced on her could help. Eventually, her mother gave up trying. She was dealing with something that was equally, if not worse, than Brooklyn, and although she couldn't bring herself to take as extreme actions as her late husband, she didn't want to deal with reality either. She turned to alcohol for comfort, never went back to work after taking a personal leave and eventually ended up moving in with a man she had met at a local bar. Andrea's personality had shifted so dramatically that Brooklyn didn't see her as her mother anymore. She was nasty, degrading and sometimes even violent and her deadbeat boyfriend wasn't much better. By now, Grace was eighteen, had graduated high school a week earlier, and was sick and was desperate for an escape. After one particularly painful night of having to listen to her mother claim that had she been a better sister to Grace and invited her to spend the night with her and her friend, none of this would have happened, she left.
With a backpack stuffed with two outfits and around two-hundred-dollars, she boarded a train to New York City. Her first stop there was a small restaurant, Finnegan's Irish Pub. She wasn't used to the homeless life and wouldn't realize that spending twenty-dollars on a meal wasn't resourceful, but honestly, at this point, Brooklyn was still considering returning home in a day or so, when the runaway life got old. However, when she found out that the pub was hiring waitresses, she inquired with the owner and was given a job on the spot. After (sheepishly) explaining her situation to him, he offered her a small room above the bar as a temporary home. It was supposed to be an office but he rarely used it, and at the time, was living a few blocks away in an apartment with his wife. It was supposed to be a temporary living situation, but Brooklyn only moved out a year later, when Finn's wife divorced him due to his alcoholism and he was forced to move out of their home. He needed the space and Brooklyn wasn't going to overstay her welcome, but he did offer her the bar's basement. As drab and dark as it was, she made it work. She had no other choice, but because she knew Finn was struggling financially, she found work elsewhere. His pub's business had been poor and she knew that it would be pushing it to ask him to consider to pay her and house her for free.
She began waiting tables at a diner a few blocks away and here, her life took a turn for the better. One of the other waitresses she worked with got her a night job at the strip joint she worked at. It was definitely something that started off as being out of her comfort zone, but the money was worth it. The money was so worth it. It was the first time in her life that she was making a lot of money and she couldn't handle that change for a while. Nearly every night after her shift, she would hit up some of the most expensive clubs in the city. Drugs, alcohol and sex became her favorite pastimes and it took a lot of nights stumbling home drunk and passing out in cabs for her to learn that her habits were reckless. Even now, she still is a bit of a party girl, but with age, she's grown a lot more responsible.
A few weeks after she moved into Finn's basement, the man given a job to another runaway, Alex Moreno. Although she was hesitant, she agreed when he asked her if she would be comfortable sharing the basement room with the boy. Less than a month later, she was dating him, and their relationship lasted a good five years. Brooklyn really loved Alex, and she still does. However, she just didn't feel like the relationship was going anywhere and one night after being quite intoxicated, she started an argument with him about how he had no future and didn't actually love her if he refused to provide. It was overblown, unnecessary and offensive, but the next morning, her pride was still too strong to admit any fault in the argument. The couple separated and even though everyone assumed it would be one of their normal fights where after a few days, they'd be back together, it didn't happen that way. Brooklyn packed up her stuff and ended up spending a few weeks in a hotel and the rest with a girl she works with. Now, she's decided that if anyone should have to move out, it should be Alex. She lived at Finn's first and shouldn't have to waste her money avoiding him. Besides, she's still convinced that it was his fault that they broke up in the first place.
Job:
Waitress by day, stripper (or exotic dancer, as she prefers) by night
5'8, 125 lbs
Eye color:
Blue
Hair color:
Blonde
Other:
Scars, piercings, tattoos, etc.
Face claim:
Amber Heard