the personality

likes • wine, having money, smoking a joint, yoga, cooking, shopping, dancing, her daughter, chocolate, sprite, card games, horror films
dislikes • abusive men, being made to feel weak, asking for help, not having money, spiders, wasps, humid days, nuts - allergic, running, cats
strengths • her ability to sweet talk men into doing things for her, reading people
weaknesses • her daughter, her past,
dreams • provide a good life for her daughter
fears • losing her daughter, her past catching up to her
overall personality • charming, manipulative, confident, impulsive, guarded, protective, ambitious, assertive, fiery, blunt, organised, intuitive, selfish, calm under pressure, will kick off if she feels threatened

the history

step-father • wyatt jones, 40, probably unemployed / hopefully dead
mother • jodie radley, 43, probably unemployed / hopefully dead
siblings • none
important people • hallie radley, 7, daughter
oliver williams, 25, baby daddy
matthew parker, 39, husband
hometown • Virginia, USA
overall history • - born in virginia

Zara was born and raised for most of her life in Virginia. She was born out of wedlock to parents who were high school dropouts. They had no money, no jobs and were barely getting by in a trailer park. Perfect start to a new-borns life. Fast forwards a few years and her father couldn't handle the responsibilities of being depended on and left her mother to raise their daughter alone. Trying to raise a toddler and hold down a part time job wasn't an easy task and her mother tried her best but she couldn't do it alone and wyatt entered their life. He seemed like a nice guy, came with a job and treated them both well but that didn't last long. He'd been love-bombing them. After he'd gotten his hooks into her mother, his true colours began to show. When he wasn't working, he spent his free time drinking in front of the tv and expected her mother to wait on him hand and foot, greeting her with a backhand if she didn't.

Over the years, her mother developed her own drinking problems, leaving Zara to raise herself whilst cleaning up after them both and making sure they didn't choke on their own vomit. At thirteen, her already shitty life became worse when Wyatt began molesting her. It went on for about a year until she finally cracked. She'd finally had the courage to tell her mother, only to be kicked in the gut at her response -s he already knew and told her to get over it. Zara waited until they were both blind drunk on the verge of passing out on the couch one night, took what little money was lying around the trailer, packed her bags and left the pair to rot in hell together. Wyatt had a lit cigarette in his hand when she'd walked out the door and she half hoped karma would intervene but she didn't stick around to find out.

On her way out of town, she robbed the cash from a corner shop with a gun she'd taken from Wyatt's draw before catching a bus out of town. She spent the next year hopping from state to state, stealing to survive before ending up in Massachusetts where she met the love of her life at a bar. She'd intended to steal from him but she found herself falling for him the more she spoke to him. They were both drinking away their problems and ended up hooking up which resulted in Zara getting pregnant. Oliver's parents didn't approve, mainly because their barely out of high school son had knocked up a 15yr old and because they had high hopes for their son's future and a teen pregnancy was sure to ruin that. Adamant they were having the baby, Hendrix moved Zara into the house. Things were going well until she was almost ready to have the baby. Oliver's parents started talking about adopting the child and raising it as their own which would allow them both to still live their lives whilst still having their daughter in it. Zara saw through it though, she knew how they felt about her. They had money and the second she signed her baby away she knew they'd eventually turn Oliver against her and kick her out.

What hurt the most was Oliver actually considered it. She had no choice but to leave. She wasn't giving her baby up, not for anybody. She found a motel, managing to work in exchange for a room and ended up giving birth alone to a baby girl. Zara eventually got kicked out a few months later when she was caught trying to steal from people's rooms which caused her to almost lose her daughter to social services. She got back together with Oliver and proving to them that she could provide a safe & stable home for a baby. Oliver spent his time working or at college while she was at home raising Hallie. In order to earn some extra cash to help pay the bills, she got a job in a strip club. The job eventually caused tension between the two and they ended up splitting up again but would still hook up occasionally.

Over the years Zara learnt how to embezzle money from the club and joined in with other girls on drugging men who were known to have money. They'd drug him, give him a lap dance then add an extra zero or two when he was paying on his card. The guys were too fucked up to notice and by the time they did, the majority of men wouldn't bring it up because they didn't want their other half knowing what they'd really been doing on a friday night. It was an easy way to make extra money, until a guy died. She hadn't been the girl who had drugged him but she had been the one to take his money. Scared of losing her daughter, she quickly packed up her life and fled to the other side of the country to avoid any repercussions.

At eighteen she set her sights on the owner of the new strip club she worked in. She was running out of cash and she needed to security for her daughter. He was older, handsome, stupidly rich but a cocky bastard, which actually made it easier to get her hooks into him. Within six months they were married. She was his new toy to show off. It would have been easy enough to stay with him, have a good life with no money worries but he was a complete sleaze. He treated women like property and didn't even hide the fact that he cheated on her. Utterly pissed off, she managed to get into his bank account while he was away and transfer most of his money into her account. She hadn't left him penniless since the asshole had assets and investments but she'd definitely made a dent. Zara then did what she does best, packed up her life and ran away - ending up in England for a fresh start, settling in the small town of Hickstead, hopefully somewhere her past won't catch up to her.

the role player

alias • pepsiiii
age • 28 unfortunatley
other characters • don't be lazy, go find out