Age: 19
gender:female
Favorite Food: Pizza (all the necessary, healthy ingredients, dairy, wheat, vegetables, meat...heaven!)
Favorite Books: Infinite
Authors I admire: Alice Walker, Terrance Hayes, Langston Hughs, Toni Morrison, Christopher Paolini, Jk Rowling, A few of my friends, Margeret Walker, Uchechi Kalu, Stephen King...Myself!
Bio: I live in New York where I attend private college. I'm studying creative writing and I think I've been studying it all my life. The supernatural has always been a huge deal for me; it's always been in my life, in my art, in my mind. I think if I stopped writing I would stop breathing and therefore I write to live, sometimes I breath too much.
Trinity is a story i've worked and reworked for nearly three years now. It's come a very long way from the handwritten, note-scribbled version that will never see another woman's eyes. (haha) I'm putting this in my bio because the story is such a big part of who I am.
Amber Taylor: Amber is a character based on myself I've also done the best I could at making sure she wasn't the main character. Amber has stayed the same since I created her; a reflection of me. So, when i first wrote this in high school, Amber was punk rock. I'm much less of a badass, I have to admit. Amber is the extreme of me when I'm with my friends. Completely uncensored, uncaring and reckless. I've learned I would ideally like to live like Amber, but her way of life will get me killed. In the old story she was and still is, very self conscious about her powers and I think I compensate for her lack of amazing powers by giving her attitude. Now, she brings the hip hop culture to the table, which is great since most people don't associate that with Wicca. Amber also struggles with her christian beliefs; how she was raised vs. who she has become now. Her power has always been of phasing and astral projection; runes wasn't something I considered until much later, after reading CITY of BONES. I needed it to be more realistic. Amber hasn't changed much since high school. She's still defying the laws of social etiquette. She's gotten a little more political, I think, but is still probably the most immature of the group. She wears less black than she did in high school but has the same funky style.
Grace Hollows: Grace is an original creation. She is, technically, supposed to be the main character. In the old story, the lead girl who always jumped into battles was named Nara,was Sri Lankan and took after my best friend in personality. Nara had energy powers that looked like rainbow balls. Sad, I know. I decided it was much too easy to have these iconic characters that fall so easily into the reader's palm. I also had never written for a white character before and decided it would be good to try. Also, In the Prequel to Trinity, which is Trinity Rebirth and also unavailable, Grace and the girls are in high school. Grace is the opposite of what I've witnessed most lead girls to be. She's not out going or popular, she's a loner and keeps to herself-labeled weird by everyone in school. When she starts hearing voices she has emotional moments where she thinks she's going absolutely nuts and won't tell a soul. When she finds out she's a witch, things make a little more sense but her life gets harder from then on. Grace shares some traits I can identify with, which is necessary if I'm going to write for her. She lives with a grandparent as her only source of family, she refuses to wear anything but black, and she loves to write and day dream. In this current story which is published on this site it is after the death of her grandmother and Grace has become very sad and completely unlike the how she was in the first story which was cute and fun. Right now, this early in, Grace might be one of the least liked characters since she's much too into herself to compete with the loud personalities of her two sisters. Later, things will change and Grace will have to get rid of her fear and sorrow.
Mercedes Toshida: Probably the most controversial character I've ever created-in the creation itself. In the old story, Mercedes was named Yanelle and based on a friend of mine. Yanelle was the psychic one and also the punk who was always heard whimpering and cowering even though she was the most powerful. Yanelle had been the pretty girl, the girly girl and frequently spoke in spanish. In the older version of the Prequel, Mercedes was straight goth (While grace wore black and Amber was punk rock and also wearing black). She wore huge boots and gothic jewelry and had bangs. Kind of emo. When I redid her she was very bohemian, with wide legged cargo pants, her hair in an upsweep, henna tattoos all over her arms and wore earthy tones. I tried to keep her from being too hippy or too ditzy and made her into a normal child whose parents had raised her Wiccan. Therefore she was very outcast and used to playing by herself. Having met Amber and Grace, friends her mother would approve of, she becomes much happier. Mercedes was orginally japanese and then when i changed her from being goth i decided to go for japanese and something like Sri Lankan because no one is really just one race any more and the japanese culture has become such a trend now. She also used to speak in japanese alot which I stopped. She dresses in a gypsy or hippie style now that she's out of high school and, due to the fact that she's so happy to be free from her mom's bossy ways, Mercedes has become her mother, instructing the other girls on Wiccan ways just because she needs order. Mercedes, out of the other three girls, is probably the least unsure of who she is.
Damien Ashcroft: Technically, Damien was made for this story. However, in my original story the girls worked in a magic shop as clerks (I was a big fan of tokyo mew mew at the time-they also transformed into costumes. eyeroll). The shop was run by an old man named Agistus and a young wizard apprentice who worked with him named, i believe, Sean. Sean had dreds too but wasn't as charming or attractive as Damien will be. Damien is also not a wizard because in this world wizards don't exist in the same sense. Damien is a vampire because, and I kid you not, I was watching Interview with the Vampire and considering Louie and Lestat's relationship (maker to made) and wondered out loud to my coven sister, "I wonder who made up vampires..." I made that statement under the assumption that vampires don't exist. Well what if someone watched...I don't know...The craft (ew) and wondered who made witches up? As if we don't exist? So I thought, maybe there are vampires out there who just don't fit the hollywood stereotype of what it means to be a vampire. So I created Damien not only to replace Sean but to give me an outlet to take on another fantastical creature and try to make him as real as possible. Therefore Damien doesn't fit the mold of the pale, only-come-out-at-night vampire. He's black, and walks around perfectly in the day light with the help of sunblock. He doesn't have super strength; he's a skilled martial artist. He feeds off of blood, sexual energy, large crowds etc. Real vampires, or people who call themselves vampires, don't have super strength, speed or immortality. He has heightened senses to an extent but can't do things like read when it's pitch black. Bright lighting seems brighter and smells seems stronger. Damien is a vampire because he has a serious desire for blood/energy generated by other people. I modeled him off of what I found out about people who really call themselves vampires.
Claudia Welsh: Claudia is also an original character. Made to replace Agistus but without any similarity. Claudia, I think, represents for me a woman who just never quite grew up, or wanted to. She's verging on midlife crisis maybe? She really loves the girls and admires them but is a little jealous and is therefore living vicariously through them. I think the idea of being foreseen heroes is amazing and everyone in the story either wants to kill them, be them or be with them. Claudia is also very intelligent, behind her child like exterior. She's been studying the craft since she was ten years old but not because of her parents. She, I imagine, knew a witch around her age with a natural magic. The witch used to taunt and tease her and so Claudia decided to learn on her own to defeat this witch and defend herself. She's been learning and studying ever since. While I don't think Claudia is the type to be bitter about not having natural magic she can be, of course, still longing for it.
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