Felicia Quinn

Name: Felicia Quinn

Age: 16

Sex: Female

Sexuality: Pansexual

Bio: Felicia spends most of her time keeping to herself. She doesn't really have a plan for her life and takes each day as it comes. She's a hobbiest musician an has ultimately decided that's probably the direction her career will take her since she feels music just comes naturally to her. She's a fairly emotional teenager who likes to deflect her problems with humor because she believes life is too short to get bogged down in all the details. Anything she can put off for the next day she will if it means another day of just enjoying life and she refuses to buy into any lifestyle that she deems stressful in any way. She holds a naive belief that she can find a way to live a stress-free life in a way nobody else has before by rejecting society's traditional views on work and hustle.

While she won't let herself be bogged down in stressful situations, she hates nothing more than anyone needlessly spreading negativity. She won't hesitate to shout at somebody across the room to fuck off and has gotten herself in trouble more times than she can count for it. With her values on stress-free living, it drives her mad to see other people intentionally trying to make another's life more stressful for no reason. She sees stress as a killer and the enemy of humanity and has decided to take up war against it. Metaphorically, of course.

Her parents are both alcoholics. Her mother was driven to alcoholism by her father's abusive nature. She and her mother both had to suffer through a lot of misogyny from her father. Felicia's conception was a result of her father impregnating her mother as a means of guilting her into staying in the abusive relationship and forcing her to feel obligated into marrying him due to her religious upbringing. The knowledge of the circumstances of Felicia's birth makes her especially suspect of manipulative people and incredibly suspicious around men.

Though she pities her mother's situation, she still can't help but resent her for putting up with her father's cruel treatment for so long. She's never been able to talk sense into the woman who just allows him to treat them both like animals. Felicia herself has been insulted, hit, and even had opportunities sabotaged by her father.

Due to having to endure her father's abuse along with her mother's neglect, from a young age she's had to learn to find joy in life by her own means. She avoids her parents most of the time and often makes jokes at their expense to find some sense of humor in her twisted environment. She spends a lot of time playing her acoustic guitar (not pictured) in abandoned buildings or at friend's houses.

When she's not in her room or playing her guitar, she's mostly roaming the streets of her hometown. She's learned a lot of street smarts over the years. She's extremely quick to take a suspicious stranger down when they approach her with intent to attack. She's privy to keep valuables secured and she can hold her own in a fair fight. She also knows when to give up and let things go so as not to let things escalate, but mostly avoids any possibility for that to happen. For the most part, though, these things are unlikely to happen as she often befriends most people she meets. She's naturally very charismatic much like her mother supposedly was when she was young. She loves to get to know people and is surprisingly forgiving despite her inability to forgive her parents. She believes they are simply incapable of changing.

She follows slightly in her mother's footsteps. She is somewhat religious as she finds the mercy of God to be a source of peace and a means to forgive and forget her own mistakes as well as those of people around her. She wants to one day be able to face her parents peacefully, but she's ultimately lost hope in her ability to communicate with either of them. Her mother just brushes her off and her father only gets angrier. So, she just assumes it's not her place to help them.

Unlike her mother, however, she believes strongly in trusting that her path would not involve constant stress and anxiety, or subjecting anyone around her to such a fate. She follows her faith in a unique way to most. She focuses less on abstaining from things she's not supposed to do and more on leaning into God's mercy, understanding, and forgiveness. This pattern of belief often leads her astray, but she doesn't allow herself to be concerned with that. She often rejects the opinions of other Christians in favor of her own personal relationship with God, even when she is in the wrong. And she was certainly anything but clean, as she was no stranger to shoplifting from chain supermarkets and other petty crimes in her younger days, though she was very mindful of who she stole from. And being friendly with so many people meant she was no stranger to drugs and alcohol, either. But she quickly came to realize how badly certain drugs were affecting her and chose to stay away from them, a lingering addiction to cigarettes and alcohol does still tug at her occasionally, especially when hanging out with the wrong crowds.

People are often surprised to find out about her faith. She's fascinated by tattoos, she's openly pansexual and regularly flirts with both sexes and she's no stranger to the bedroom, either. She sees sex like a game, a challenge to see who can outlast the other. She usually wins. But she isn't a slut by any means. She has a lot of respect for her body and only puts out to men and women she feels she can trust on a personal level.

Among her many friends, one in particular has always stood out to her: Gina Sumpter. Something about the girl intrigued her. She met Gina in her freshman year when they had a Theatre class together. Gina was very quiet, reserved, and a bit nerdy. She always thought her shyness was endearing, especially the way she'd get red-faced and start stuttering when she didn't know what to say next in a scene. But it seemed to bother the girl a lot and she suddenly quit the class.

Felicia was concerned when she noticed the girl stop appearing and started to seek her out in the halls and cafeteria. The two started to talk more and she came to understand Gina was very much the opposite of herself. Where Felicia didn't care much at all about things like grades and making mistakes, it seemed to mean the world to Gina. It almost hurt to watch Gina beat herself up so badly over even the smallest of mistakes.

The whole issue reached a boiling point their Sophomore Year when she noticed Gina start to break down over something as silly as getting a B on a test. It hurt too much to watch Gina worry herself sick over something so meaningless, so she forced Gina to let go of everything for the rest of the day. She took the girl out for a day of relaxation. They ate together, loitered around some stores, and settled down at a local park where they would share some small talk, mostly Felicia talking to Gina about random things she liked while playing some music on her guitar.

The ending of that day was always magical to her. She remembered looking up and seeing Gina smiling at her. It had struck her then how she'd never seen the girl smile before, and how sweet her face looked. That one smile caused feelings to stir in Felicia she'd never experienced before and she quickly developed a crush on her. From that moment, Felicia decided she wanted to fight to protect that smile.

Unfortunately, as quickly as it came, it seemed to fade. Suddenly the next day Gina started seeming to avoid her as much as possible. She could never understand why. She'd helped her to feel happy like she'd never felt before. For one day she wasn't a total robot! She knew that smile wasn't fake, so she desperately wracked her brain to try and figure out why in the world Gina would suddenly avoid her so harshly. Who or what was so deeply woven into her head that she couldn't keep pursuing the things that made her happy?

Felicia would go on to try and stay close to Gina, who would continue to try her best to ignore her. They would occasionally make small talk, but it just was never the same. Like Gina was always keeping her at arm's reach. It broke her heart not just because of her newfound love for the girl, but because she understood that there was something seriously screwed up going on in Gina's life to mess with her priorities so bad. The girl just went right back to worrying herself sick over due dates, tests, and homework and all Felicia could really do was just accept that she must have a completely different worldview than her. She tried her best to go back to the way her life was before but always kept Gina in her eyes, hoping she could find some opportunity to help her.