tw: trauma, brief mentions of cancer, implied domestic abuse
Diamantia [name_u]Jameson[/name_u] [17] is the eldest of the [name_u]Jameson[/name_u] kids, often called ‘Demand-tia’ by [name_m]Lachlan[/name_m] on account of her ever present controlling attitude. Of all the fights in the [name_u]Jameson[/name_u] household at least 80% are started by her, the other 20% are probably started by the sibling between her and [name_m]Lachlan[/name_m], the sibling that the 12 year old boy considers to be “Almost as mean as Demand-tia.”
As pictured here, she’s a pretty heavy smoker and has been since she was 13. It was one of the first habits she picked up after the death of her parents. Her grandparents have tried everything that they can think of to get her to quit from showing her those scary anti-smoking PSAs that feature people who have tracheotomies or those voice box thingies as a result of throat, lung, or other cancers caused by smoking, to literally bribing her with cash. None of it works. No matter how many times they take away her fake ID, throw away her secret stashes, or hide her wallet. She always ends up walking in the front door after school with a cigarette dangling from her lips. Though she’s not a total hellion and only smokes in her room or outside, not around her siblings.
Her first cigarette was given to her by her current best friend who’s a year older than her and is described as a “Terrible girl and a bad influence.” by [name_f]Celine[/name_f] and [name_u]Jerry[/name_u] though that only fuels Damantia’s desire to hang out with her more. Her best friend is also troubled, or rather traumatized. She was born to a single mom who had a string of boyfriends who were always nothing but trouble. Something about a terrible temper always attracted her mother to them. So now the girls are well bonded and often travel around town causing chaos and leaving plumes of smoke behind them.
Being the oldest Dimantia has the most memories of her parents and took their deaths very harshly. Her parents unique choice to not give her or her siblings middle names was something that she used to be very proud of. She once loved how it made her so special, but now resents it as just another thing that makes her different from the other kids in her grade. Dimantia absolutely despises how people know her and her siblings as ‘the ones with the dead parents’ and couldn’t stand the hush that would fall over the room whenever she entered it for about a solid year after their deaths. It was part of what inspired her to give them something to talk about, hence her transformation from the formerly bubbly and bright 13 year old who was a star on the gymnastics team that she once was before her parents died.
While their relationship isn’t great, there’s an understanding between her and her other siblings, particularly [name_m]Lachlan[/name_m] and his desire to run away. A few times she’s seen him running down the driveway with a backpack and a bike and not said a word to her grandparents. Dimantia knows exactly how he feels and would love to leave it all behind too.
She’s counting down the days until she’s 18 and can leave to go live on her own. She and her friend are planning on getting a van and traveling the country in it so that they’re never tied down. Her grandparents often try to convince her that running away from her trauma isn’t going to solve anything, but that typically only leads to more fights.
Things have grown more and more tense in the house ever since Diamantia, her best friend, and some other kids, were busted for getting drunk and vandalizing the school with some ‘specific language.’ [name_f]Celine[/name_f] and [name_u]Jerry[/name_u] managed to help her avoid jail time, but that’s not to say that they aren’t preparing a punishment of their own. Whatever they have in mind though, they better prepare for the fight of a lifetime from their eldest granddaughter who has every intention of going down swinging.