[name_f]Calpurnia[/name_f] ’ [name_f]Cia[/name_f] ’ [name_u]Sequoia[/name_u] Brechin (24) is Emmy’s older sister, who’s also been involved in gossip. She is currently in law school. She remembers the gossip paper was really crazy at school. She’s heard one of the students in Emmy’s year tried to make a website for the school gossip after the paper was removed but got caught and suspended and had to take it down. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] knows which student did it but won’t get involved with that, since it’s the school’s job and not hers. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] worked for the school paper but she wasn’t the one who wrote the gossip, she was the one who wrote the comics for the paper. She was popular because she was funny and a breath of fresh air in the newspaper. To be fair, some of the stories couldn’t be avoided, especially if they were on the news, especially when the basketball team got a new point guard after the old one was in a high-speed chase. The thing with these gossip writers in the paper at the time is that they often joined, thinking joining would make them immune from gossip themselves. This wasn’t necessarily true, they’d be part of stories sometimes and the usual revenge for having a story written about them was to gossip back about the writer who wrote it. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] herself hadn’t been free from rumours, she almost lost a scholarship when the paper falsely stated she prepared for big finals by smoking.
While that was the main drama on [name_f]Cia[/name_f], she herself has a juicier secret after high school, she’s had an annulled marriage. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] eloped to a man when she was 19 and he was 21, despite only dating for 3 months, because he told her that he wanted to get away from his “toxic” family and used pity to get her into marrying him. He claimed he would be “safer” being married to her but the marriage was annulled when [name_f]Cia[/name_f] learned he had married someone else prior to her and was still legally married to the other woman when he eloped [name_f]Cia[/name_f]. She got the marriage annulled and couldn’t trust him on anything. In terms of his family he claimed was toxic, [name_f]Cia[/name_f] doesn’t know anything about them since he never introduced them to her and claimed that was because he wanted to get away from them. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] approaches him with caution but usually just avoids him, although she’s not quite sure whether his family is good or bad, especially with the rampant crime around town. The only person she knew from his family was his brother, who was her own age and was close to her a lot following the annulment, but she hasn’t seen him in years now and nobody talks about him.
[name_f]Cia[/name_f] is supportive of Emmy’s identity and pronouns. She can’t really blame [name_f]Emmy[/name_f] for getting excited by juicy stuff, had [name_f]Cia[/name_f] not been exposed to her high school paper when she was a teen, [name_f]Cia[/name_f] would have wanted to personally know it as well. She admires [name_f]Emmy[/name_f] making the school a more accepting place for people regardless of genders and sexualities. It’s just the turnaround the school needs. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] enjoys that [name_f]Emmy[/name_f] is so kind to [name_f]Melina[/name_f] and has been close to her for so long, helping her in terms of her paternity. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] is glad she knows her father as much as she can and he’s nicknamed her CIA given their mutual interest in crime studies. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] isn’t as outgoing as her sibling but still retains a touch of her popularity and is close with some of the people she went to school with. Some know she’s been married and annulled before, including the Epsoms, but they understand [name_f]Cia[/name_f] doesn’t want to make that her whole life. Like [name_f]Melina[/name_f], [name_f]Cia[/name_f] loves [name_m]Garfield[/name_m] as well, reading a lot of [name_m]Garfield[/name_m] and being inspired by that when she wrote her own high school newspaper comics. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] enjoys watching [name_m]Garfield[/name_m] & Friends and has read the vintage [name_m]Garfield[/name_m] comics. [name_f]Cia[/name_f] even nicknames her former brother-in-law “ [name_m]Lyman[/name_m] “ because he’s just like [name_m]Lyman[/name_m], talking to her and being a friend in her life and then…disappearing with no explanation and everyone giving the vibe that he never existed in the first place.