TXC: Nicole

Something for myself~
I have serious problems with my internet connection lately, but I was lucky enough to to see the journal which announced that TXC is open for enrollments. ;A; 
And I couldn't help myself! xD
Here's my girl for ~ I'm back to RP groups ahaha-- HELP.

I N T R O D U C T I O N

_{Name: Nicole Hughes
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Gang status: Runner
Occupation: Life guard
Birthday: 10th of November
Height: 160 cms}

P E R S O N A L

Personality:
_{Nicole is very friendly and charming, she likes meeting new people and talking about random things. She's open about herself, and doesn't have anything to
hide. However, because of this, she expects others to be like this too. She can make a joke out of any situation, and is also the kind to laugh at anything, be it funny
or not. She shows herself as very happy and out-going. She is quite intelligent, and while talking with others, not only she enjoys it, she also observes them, trying
to find out what kind of people they are. This is the quality that made her be a runner for her gang.
She is very sly, though, and she doesn't mind using people for her own good, as she is a selfish human being. She has to get really close to people so she wouldn't see them as "useful material". One of her worst personality traits are her moody part, the fact that she can now be laughing, and in 10 mins making a whole drama queen scene for something of no importance. And her arrogance. She sees herself above others and she loves herself to the point of obsession. Because of this it is hard for her to accept others in her life. She expects everbody else to accept her in their life, as if they HAVE to, though.
Nicole can also be very bossy at times, wanting people to do as she wants and if things don't go her way, well, you'll have to deal with the not so nice part of her.
She rarely gets angry or violent, she prefers to use sarcasm, irony and words with a terrifying calm face on, to make others feel bad. She has anger issues, and even
though she doesn't get angry everyday, when she does, it could only mean harm for her. She isn't a big threat for others, as she isn't physically strong but she can,
indeed, hurt herself.
She has a weakness for money, possessions, looks, social status and such. She's very materialistic, and it's basically what she wants the most. She would do anything she can to get what she wants. And because of her open-minded point of view on life, there are only a few things she wouldn't do.
Nicole usually acts like a diva, like she's the shit and looking down on others. With classy gestures, in contrast to her trashy way of dressing, she's a huge mess.
There's nothing more important to her than being seen the way she shows herself to the world.}

Positive personality traits:
<sub>- Calm
- Friendly
- Charming
- Optimistic
- Intelligent
- Open-minded
- Self-confident
- Motherly (With kids and youngsters. She simply can't help but look at kids with a smile on her face. As for youngers, specially non-coloured ones, she can't help but think of herself at their age, and she would gladly help them if they need to or chat with them.)</sub>

Negative personality traits:
<sub>- Sly
- Bossy
- Moody
- Selfish
- Greedy
- Sarcastic
- Arrogant
- Materialistic</sub>

Hobbies/Talents:
 _{Reading psychology books. It started with her weird passion of observing the people around her, and it continued after she learned the basics of psychology at school.
Swimming: She does not only love it, she practices it since she was a child, and she's good enough at it to work as a life guard and make a living out of it.
Music: She loves listening to music, and it's hard for her to not have her headphones with her, to listen music whenever she can.
Dancing: Specially when she's home alone. She loves street dancing, specially hip hop.
Taking walks around the city, also hiding and getting information-- be it useful for the gang or for herself. She is a good spy.
Cheating, specially at card games. xD
She loves eating all kinds of food-- Cooked by others, of course. 'Cause she swims everyday, she has no problems with eating meals with alot of calories.
She is a good listener, and she can also give good advices to others. When it comes to herself, though, she's a real disaster.}

Weaknesses:
<sub>- Her younger brother, Axel: She loves him so much, she doesn't even know what she'd do if something happened to him.
- Her overly self-confident attitude: It makes her overestimate herself many times, specially in front of others, embarassing herself when having to do things she's not good at.
- Weed: She first tried it when she was in highschool, and did it to calm herself, as her anger issues were hard to control back then. Now she just can't give up
on it. She needs to smoke her daily ciggarette or else, she would start to shake and feel ill or anxious
- Anger: When angry she literally loses herself. She becomes very aggressive, despite being physically weak, which can only lead to her not thinking straight and
hurting herself. She can't express herself in words when angry, she can only blabber, which makes her even angrier. [She's a lost cause xD]
- Fear of dogs: She didn't have a horrible experience involving dogs except that she was bitten by one when she was a kid. The bite wasn't even enough to get her to the hospital or leave her with scars, but to her, they've always been big, strong and dangerous. Even the smallest puppy is like a great danger to her. If she's in a dog's presence for too long, she starts to lose concentration, to think of said dog and of how it stresses her out, to shake and sweat and the only thought she can manage to make up is that she has to get out of there. Being in closed spaces with dogs scare her much more than walking into a dog on the streets.</sub>


B A C K G R O U N D

Family:
Diane Ross - Mother - Deceased
_{Diane was a prostitute who ran away with Garret Hughes, Nicole's father, at the age of 18 (despite him being 8 years older than her) in hopes of escaping her life
style. She died at the age 20, right after Nicole was born, because of complications during childbirth. She never loved Garret, but she held a deep respect for him.}
Garret Hughes - Father - 50
_{Garret is an alcoholic father who is never home, but that somehow managed to raise his daughter by himself for more than 10 years, when he married again. Despite him having a family, he still can't give up his old life style, his drinking and gambling habits, as they were the only things besides Nicole that stopped him commit suicide after Diane's death. Nicole loves and respects him, he and her younger brother being, probably, the only people she would give up on her selfish self for.}
Karin Wagner - Step Mother - 38
_{Karin is Garret Hughes' second wife, a very quiet woman with whom Nicole has no relationship at all. She is the only one working in the family, ever since Nicole moved away. She invests all of her gains in her family, as for her, it is her only treasure. She doesn't seem to realize how bad the situation is, and only chooses to see the good part of it. She is madly in love with Garret. Nicole doesn't actually like her, but does, for Axel's good, give her money.}
Axel Hughes - Step Brother - 11
_{Axel is Karin and Garret's son. He and Nicole are very close, and they are not only siblings, but also best friends. Axel admires her and wants to, some day, become part of a gang, just like her. Nicole is very protective of him.}

Other important people:
Eva Brown - 68
_{An old lady, neighbour of Nicole's, who used to come and look after Nicole when she was younger, while Garret was away. She's kind and motherly, and loves Nicole as much as she loves her own daughter.}
Clara Brown - 36
_{Eva's daughter, owner of a food shop from the neighbourhood. She is Nicole's best friend, despite being much older than her, and she had a great impact on Nicole's life. She was the one to teach Nicole how to swim, swimming being what she likes to do the most.}

Bio:
(0-5 years):
  _{Nicole was born to Garret Hughes and Diane Ross, the later dying shortly after her birth. Despite her birth being what caused Diane's death, Garret never thought of giving up on her, taking her home and raising her by himself. She had a great childhood next to him, and since she never knew what it's like to have a mother, she never felt the need of a woman in her life. For her, having her father next to her was enough. During these years, Garret was also her only friend and play mate.
He used to be away for days, and many times, she had Eva Brown, a kind neighbour, coming in to see if she's alright.}

(5-10 years):
  _{During these years, Nicole started to go to school, like any other normal kid. She started to get more involved with other people, making friends, going out to play and missing her father less.
It also when she started to realize what money actually mean. She didn't care about it at start, but seeing how other kids have more toys, better clothes, she wanted to have them, too.
Garret couldn't offer her what she wanted, specially 'cause he needed all the money he could get for alcoholic drinks and gambling, his situation getting worse and worse. While growing up, Nicole started to also realize what her father's situation was, judging and blaming him, 'cause to her, it was his fault that she wasn't at the level of the rich kids.
   She was looked down to for being one of the poorest kids, and she started to lock herself away from other people. She started to appreciate, and visit Eva more, and it was then when got to know Eva's daughter, Clara, who was a teenager at the time. Once, when she had a day off, Clara took Nicole to the pool. It was her who taught Nicole how to swim.
The pool turned into her refuge. She started to go there whenever she wanted to relax and get away from the world. She loved to swim so much that she ended up going there almost everday.
But besides Clara, she didn't have any other friends. And obviously, Clara was working and couldn't spend all of her time with Nicole. She was the lonely chick who, when she was alone, had no other occupation but to watch the people around her, finding out things about them by the way they acted. She thought of it as being a creepy hobby, and never shared it with anybody.}

(10-15 years):
  _{She came to realize how helpless her father's situation was, and her prejudices started to fade away, making space for pity and the will to help him. She started to think less of others and focus more on herself. Her hobby at the time was reading fashion magazines at Clara's place, daydreaming of herself dressed like the models from said magazines, and getting alot of attention. It suddenly turned into her greatest wish to become like that. And there was nothing she wanted more than to fullfil it.
   Nicole started to be popular in school, being the rebellious, independent chick who didn't need friends to be awesome. Once, while she was skipping school, taking a walk around the city, she saw something that changed her life forever. She was 15, her life didn't have any other purpose than her wanting to impress others with her presence. And she saw a small group of older guys, in their, maybe, mid twenties wearing purple fighting another small group, wearing green. She could easily spot the green wearing ones; they were part of the Green Tigers, gangsters. She was curious about the other guys, so despite knowing it's dangerous, she got closer to the fighting groups and hid, to watch what was going on. The fight ended up with the greens running away while the purples were screaming out of happiness for their victory.
   She left the place as quickly as possible, but she couldn't stop but thinking about them. The next day, she went to the same place, hoping to see any of the guys, but nobody was there. She didn't give up and she kept going there everyday, until she saw one of the guys at a bar. She waited for him outside and she approached him as soon as he left the bar. She asked him about the other day, and he, despite finding the situation funny, explained to her that he was part of a gang who goes against the Green Tigers. To her, the Tigers were all rich kids who looked down on others. Going against them was an appealing idea. She asked the guy, much to his amusement, if she could join them. He told her that she was too young to join, but if she wanted and could wait 'till she turned 15, she could do it as a Pre-Junior. It was music to her ears, and she agreed immediately.
    Nicole joined the Purple Lions at the age of 15 as a Pre-Junior. She loved being in a gang, as it made her feel strong. It was also when Garret started to come home more often, as he married a woman, Karin, who Nicole couldn't accept in her house. But she started to give more attention to this woman as her belly started to grow. She was going to have a brother! She didn't know how to react at start, but one thing she knew for sure: she wouldn't let him live a miserable childhood, like hers. She would give him money, and use her status as a gang member to protect him from the bullies. After Axel was born, she started to look at life with other eyes. She loved herself, yes, but she loved him more. Being left to take care of him while Garret was away and Karin was working, she was the one to get to see him saying his first words, taking his first steps. And she is not ashamed to admit that watching him grow up was the most precious gift he could ever give her.}

(15-20 years):
   _{At the age of 16, she started to work at Clara's shop in summer, since the later said she would love to have her there, as they would not only work, but also have fun together.
   During her highschool years, she discovered a new passion, the psychology. It worked well with her uncool habit of observing people, and it made her realize that it was actually, more of a good ability of hers. She never liked to study, however, she had good marks at psychology, and not only that, but she also started to read psyschology books in her spare time. It gave her confidence, and motivation to start "practicing" it more. Sometimes, she went out for days, wandering around the city to collect information. She was good at it, and even better at using it in her favor.
   Nicole officially joined the Purple Tigers as a runner at the age 18. But before joining, she had serious troubles to choose what she wanted to be in the gang. She knew she couldn't be a Streetfighter or a Battler, because she simply didn't have the physical strenght for it. She could've been something else, but it wouldn't be something she was good at. She would've been average, nothing special, and the simple thought of it was killing her. She then decided to be a runner as it was, as she says, her only talent, the only way she could make herself useful for the gang.
As her taxes descreased, her self-confidence increased. She liked the strong feeling it gave her, and she soon took advantage to move away from home, to a one bedroom aparment. She didn't like the life style she had while living with her family. It wasn't matching her personality. She promised Axel, though, that as soon as she will be gaining enough money, she would take him with her.
   She didn't go to an university as she never liked studying, always ending up with her losing motivation and slacking around, even though she did think of studying psychology. But she quickly gave up on the thought. She wanted to do something related to her first love: swimming. She decided to talk to Clara, who is still her best friend, and ask for her advice. Clara told her that she should take a course that would allow her to either be a life guard or a swimming teacher.
Months after attending said course, she found herself lucky enough to find a job as a life guard at one of the biggest and most beautiful pools in the city-- that is owned by the Purple Lions, which means that she is also well paid. About her new job, Nicole has only good words to say. She loves it, as she likes to say, she doesn't have much to work and she receives alot of attention, which she enjoys, there.}

(20-24 years - NOW):
  _{In the past 4 years, Nicole has matured enough to take both her jobs at the pool and in the gang more seriously. But she still has the same life style, only caring about herself.
She spends her time running around to find information for her gang, working, shopping and take care of her looks. She likes her life in the city, and never asked herself what's outside of it.
From now and then, Nicole visits her father's house, just to see if he's there and to bring presents to Axel. She also borrows money to Karin, so she could pay her taxes and debts. She knows that if she wouldn't use the word "borrow", Karin would never take them. Through these last years, she started to appreciate Karin more, realizing how selfless this woman is, and how she is always ready to give her life for the sake of her husband and son. Her relationship with her father stayed the same as always. She isn't trying to help him anymore, as she knows it's literally impossible. She tolerates him, talks to him as if nothing wrong's going on-- But deep inside, she knows he's destroying himself. As for Axel, she is influencing him so he would join the Purple Tigers as a Pre-Junior as soon as he turns 15.
   She still doesn't have many friends, Clara still being her best friend.
But she doesn't have any major cares, and for now, all she wants to do is enjoy her life. She's young, she made herself a good life-- And that's all she needs to know. She doesn't have any plans, living the moment is all that matters.}

Gang history:
_{Nicole first joined the Purple Lions as a Pre-Junior, in order to be cool and have money. After she got to be an official member, at the age of 18, she matured enough to take her job in the gang more seriously. For her, the Green Tigers never existed, she despises people born with everything they could ever want, and this is how she sees all of the Tigers. She's always been a Purple Lion at heart.}

W E A P O N S

_{Weapon 1: A baseball bat. She doesn't always carry it with her, specially not when out, working as a runner.}

A D D I T I O N A L    I N F O

<sub>- Her gang tattoo is in the middle of her back, and big enough to cover half of it. She is very proud of it and she shows it off very often. Not as often as when
she was younger, though.
- She loves tattoos. The only one she's got so far is the gang one-- but she definitely wants to get some more.
- She has a deep, low voice, but it goes quite high when she's irritated-- which annoys the heck out of her.
- She does radical changes in her looks very often.
- She has a small waist and big hips, which she loves, so she only wears high waisted pants to show it off xDDD
- She wears oversized jackets and hoodies all the time, specially when out in a mission. For some reason, she feels safe with them on.
- She is bisexual: She dated both genders till now, despite not having many relationships so far. She has nothing to complain about any gender. She has never been in a long term relationship, though, because there wasn't anybody good enough for her, she would say. [Actually, nobody could stand her twisted personality xD]
- Being short and thin, she looks younger than she actually is. During her teenage years it used to upset her alot-- hell, she tried hard to look cool and mature, and then some random dude would just say "Oh, you're like 13, right?" She is still annoyed by it, but thanks goodness, she isn't mistake for an underage kid anymore.
- She is not complexed about her height, in fact she jokes about her being "cute sized" alot, but she would've loved to be a bit taller.
- Her favourite colour is, ironically, purple.
- She uses the word "fuck" way too much xD
- She sucks at cooking, she would literally burn the kitchen if she tried to cook. So she "survives" by buying half-cooked food and the microwave is her best friend. This means that she doesn't have a well balanced diet and she often ends up in the hospital, diagnosed with lack of different vitamines/minerals.</sub>

R E L A T I O N S H I P S :
TBD