CAF. With a twist

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tw: parental death, drug use, depression

[name_u]Levi[/name_u] [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] [name_u]Parker[/name_u], formerly [name_u]Anderson[/name_u] (20) is the eldest of the 6 siblings, and usually the person who has to clarify the large age gap between himself and his brother - who’s likewise college bound - when compared to the 4 youngest children. The two eldest [name_u]Parker[/name_u] siblings were actually adopted by their mothers’: [name_u]Levi[/name_u] having been 10 when he was fostered by them. It would be 3 years before he was legally adopted - by then, he’d been joined by his brother and [name_f]Mila[/name_f] - as Levis’ mom’s wanted him to be absolutely certain about remaining with their family, instead of it being gratitude that guided him, following a series of failed placements.

When he was just 9 months old, Levis’ mother died from a drug overdose, and his father absconded shortly after, being so overwhelmed by addiction that he couldn’t afford to raise a child. While he had a brief placement with his biological paternal grandmother after this, she likewise proved unsuitable, given her association with dealers coming to light, and [name_u]Levi[/name_u] was taken into care shortly thereafter, when no other members of his extended family proved suitable.

The [name_u]Anderson[/name_u] family history of addiction, depression and poor priorities is something that haunted [name_u]Levi[/name_u] a lot growing up. He was scared of becoming like his father, meaning he was often considered a clingy, anxious child, and now he’s grown up, loyalty and reliability are highly valued traits to [name_u]Levi[/name_u] still. At 9 years old, he was diagnosed with depression, and still engages with counselling to this day, having been encouraged by his moms’ to continue. He hates to be seen as pitiful though, and once broke off a friendship when he realised someone merely saw him as a means of looking good.

Studying music at college, [name_u]Levi[/name_u] plays bass, flute and piano. His younger siblings love pestering him with questions about covering their favourite songs, but usually [name_u]Levi[/name_u] caves in the face of these demands, although there’s a few songs he’s heard looped so many times on family road trips even his patient heart can’t handle hearing them performed once more.

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Warning for drug use and parental death (aforementioned) and life support.
[name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] [name_u]Cairo[/name_u] [name_u]Parker[/name_u] (4) is the penultimate sibling, whose middle name is derived from the honeymoon destination of his parents. He is younger than [name_f]Mila[/name_f] and [name_u]Levi[/name_u] but older than the final [name_u]Parker[/name_u]. He is the one who asks [name_u]Levi[/name_u] the most about covering songs, seeing that [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] loves songs and picks up new melodies left and right when songs play. However, he’s not the one who dances the most to songs, that’s [name_f]Mila[/name_f]. He considers [name_m]Tam[/name_m] and [name_u]Liam[/name_u] like brothers to him too when he’s looking for someone older outside family who is still very much a kid. [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] loves childhood and often doesn’t relate to adults, but feels warm around his parents and older college-age brothers.

He’s overheard from another [name_u]Anderson[/name_u] about some of the things the family struggled with but doesn’t quite understand their view. He knows drugs are bad but couldn’t name a single drug - which everyone is fine with for now. He’s often been a comfort to his adult brothers when he wants to but doesn’t realise the depression is due to their mother’s death by drug overdose. Also recently, an [name_u]Anderson[/name_u] mentioned their paternal grandfather was put on life support after suffering an overdose himself due to what they go through. [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] hopes [name_u]Levi[/name_u] is coping through music since he really wants [name_u]Levi[/name_u] to be happy and his music makes [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] happy.

Currently [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] focuses on his role being elder brother to the one youngest [name_u]Parker[/name_u] sibling, but doesn’t take the role too seriously. He’ll act one minute like he’s a boss and the next minute go back to playing with clay. He sometimes still eats the clay which his parents tell him to “stop or no more clay,” which quickly gets him to stop. [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] also really likes glitter, even though the glitter is usually something [name_f]Mila[/name_f] uses, but he’s been a good boy this week and got his own can of glitter. Hopefully he doesn’t dump it all immediately in his room…like last time. He and [name_f]Mila[/name_f] and the younger siblings love bedtime stories and all huddle together by the parents to listen to them every night. Except when Levi’s home - then they want to be sung lullabies.

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Billie-Lee [name_f]Augusta[/name_f] [name_u]Parker[/name_u] is the youngest of the [name_u]Parker[/name_u] siblings, at only 3 months old. Whenever [name_f]Mila[/name_f] and [name_m]Tam[/name_m] have playdates, one of her mothers and her go around to, as they Billie-Lee and [name_m]Caspian[/name_m] are so close in age. She is a very wriggly child, who won’t stop moving until she falls asleep. Her giggly nature and constant smiles mean the whole family adore her. She is named after her great-grandmother [name_f]Augusta[/name_f], who her mother is extremely close to.

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[name_m]Wolfram[/name_m] “ [name_m]Wolfie[/name_m] “ [name_u]March[/name_u] [name_u]Parker[/name_u] (5) is the 4th sibling, older than [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] and Billie-Lee. [name_m]Wolfie[/name_m] and Billie-Lee enjoy having similar month-like middle names although Wolfie’s is more literal – it’s the month his mothers got married! He loves having two siblings to call “little” but never uses this in a demeaning way. He and [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] are just one year apart so he really gets along with him but loves Billie-Lee for her cute charm. He’s been there for the two older boys but doesn’t know what they’re going through at all and unlike [name_m]Tennyson[/name_m], he didn’t overhear anything going on. He just assumes his older brothers have “bad days sometimes”. [name_m]Wolfe[/name_m] loves Levi’s talent and thinks [name_u]Levi[/name_u] should be a famous rockstar. That’s what [name_m]Wolfie[/name_m] wants to be when he grows up! Sometimes [name_m]Wolfie[/name_m] dreams of being a famous celebrity although admittedly he doesn’t have much talent. He doesn’t really understand the hardships of being a celebrity but his mothers just let him dream on anyway, even if that results in a lot of bad singing and noisy tambourine playing in the house. [name_m]Wolfie[/name_m] gets happy and loves seeing his older brothers come home from college, giving them a big bear hug. The men don’t mind it as much as the little kids, especially since his bear hugs can feel like a tackle to them! [name_m]Wolfie[/name_m] is also a fan of blowing bubbles and he got a bubble blower recently that blows big bubbles – his new fave “luxury” item!

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tw: disappearance, abandonment

Sans [name_m]Diego[/name_m] [Martinez] [name_u]Parker[/name_u] (18) is the second eldest sibling, who’s just followed Levi’s footsteps and is now at college, majoring in geological sciences. [name_u]Wolf[/name_u] thinks this is a bit dull when compared to [name_u]Levi[/name_u] - rocks are only cool when stars are involved, not really the ground - but it just amuses Sans to hear his input and thoughts rather than causing any offense. His fascination with the natural world can’t be disrupted by anything, having started when he began painting landscapes in art class at school, and he developed an interest in the formations behind the mountains, canyons and caves he loved to study and depict. Usually he’s a laidback, quieter person as it is: quite refreshing for his moms’ given the excitable younger siblings he has, although Sans’ love of sarcasm isn’t always the most helpful at family gatherings, and [name_u]Levi[/name_u] encourages this of course.

Something Sans openly hated growing up - and in truth he’s not entirely comfortable with even now - is questions about his biological mother. People are aware of [name_u]Bela[/name_u] Martinez because of her 8-year disappearance. After dropping then-4-year-old Sans off at a local childminder’s house, [name_u]Bela[/name_u] vanished: the woman who was minding Sans being the one to call the police after she didn’t return an hour past the time she claimed she’d be back from work to collect her son. By this point in time, Sans’ father was long gone - and now he’s grown up, the young man has no interest in locating him, in spite of his moms’ offers to help him look should he choose - and there were no appropriate extended family members available or able to take him in, which led to foster care for the boy.

When he was 12, police managed to locate her in [name_u]New[/name_u] Mexico, where she’d started a new life. Why didn’t her son get taken along for this? It was inconvenient trying to flit with a small chold. He’d been with the Parkers’ for 2 years at that point, and to say Sans handled it poorly would be quite the understatement. Sans was devastated to hear [name_u]Bela[/name_u] had merely wanted a new life without any responsibility, worsened by the fact she offered to take back custody of him, as if they could pick up from where she’d left him that [name_u]July[/name_u] afternoon all those years prior. He began fighting at school and threatening to run away should social services attempt to reunite him with her, leading to no enforced meeting happening. [name_u]Bela[/name_u] can be attributed to why Sans can’t handle immature personalities that well - kids not included - as they remind him of her attitude towards life, and how she went into absolute denial about his pain and feelings of betrayal to spare her conscience.

Sans has spoken to his birth mother on the phone but he’s always curt and guarded. He’s confided in his girlfriend - who uses she/they/it pronouns - a fair amount during this time, as well as [name_u]Levi[/name_u]: the brothers’ having a natural bond given they’re both adopted and a little more cynically inclined than their younger siblings. Sans and his significant other met at science camp, as he didn’t want to date anyone from his high school given the questions about [name_u]Bela[/name_u] Martinez, and while he worried university could separate them, it’s obvious to everyone who sees them together how well-suited and serious they mutually are about one another.

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Warning for disappeared parents, strict adoptive parents, and virtue signaling.

[name_f]Saira[/name_f] “ [name_u]Sai[/name_u] “ [name_f]Qadria[/name_f] [al-Shamma] [name_m]Francesco[/name_m] (18) is Sans’ girlfriend, who was adopted themself as a young child. She wants to have good memories of her adoptive parents but she’s felt they’ve fallen into the same toxic ways her cousins [name_m]Zio[/name_m], [name_f]Gigi[/name_f], and [name_f]Bree[/name_f] were in. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] has no kids and didn’t use TikTok but their parents were strict in other ways and had an entitled mentality. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] had to treat them as authority more than actual family and was expected to listen and obey them without expecting to get listened to in return. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] knew they didn’t have a right to complain to their parents, their parents constantly perceived themselves as Sai‘s heroes. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] was born in Iraq and her parents adopted her from an agency after learning her story. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] feels they adopted her because they wanted to use her as a virtue signal that they’re great people for giving a better life to a child from a third world country. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] felt it wasn’t exactly true that they were as good-hearted as they showed themselves and was tired of being used as a prop. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] is thankful for them however and tells them this a lot, sometimes out of true thanks and sometimes out of fear. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] agrees with [name_u]Levi[/name_u] a lot on his decision to break off a friendship with someone using him to look good, relating on a personal level, yet not quite broken all contact with her parents. They’ve convinced their cousins to break the cycle by the previous [name_m]Francesco[/name_m] generation to not be toxic, controlling, or fake to children.

[name_u]Sai[/name_u] genuinely admires their boyfriend Sans and stays by him on the uncomfortable past he had. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] doesn’t always understand Western culture so she was confused by the people in Sans’ Los [name_u]Angeles[/name_u] high schools nicknaming him “San Diego”. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] doesn’t mind the city of San [name_m]Diego[/name_m], it’s less harsh than the few highschoolers who called the absent [name_u]Bela[/name_u] Martinez “Carmen Sandiego”, which [name_u]Sai[/name_u] didn’t get the reference on, and was shocked when Sans told her the reference. She’s well accustomed otherwise although most TV shows she watches are mixed in culture. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] is glad their adoptive parents weren’t Islamophobic or transphobic despite their strictness but they feel they don’t have to give into their parents’ little game of using them for their virtuous benefit. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] actually doesn’t know what happened to their birth parents, having been taken into the agency after they went missing. It’s something they often lay awake at night in fear due to not knowing but also something they shut out of their mind a lot to avoid pondering too much and psyching themselves out. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] enjoys science and was also surprised by the fact they got a boyfriend out of it, believing that finding love at camp was just a “teen movies and TV thing”. She finds the mysterious reasons [name_u]Bela[/name_u] Martinez left for a new life in NM to be crazy and while it would be interesting for a movie or TV, she sees Sans’ perspective and finds it horrifying on his account to be 4 years old and not see his mother come back for him that day. She and Sans like to go on dates to the library and observatory but also enjoy going outside, having a nice date by a waterfall recently. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] doesn’t attend the university that Sans does, instead studying physical sciences at a private Muslim university, but they definitely support Sans’ decisions to stay close as a couple even with separations like these. [name_u]Sai[/name_u] is also really talented at windsurfing, something that’s taken a long time for her to learn, but has been an outlet to really help herself be free.

Gigi was created by @almondmilk.
Bree was created by @25vbrandeberry.
Zio was created by me.

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cw: deadbeat dad

Madiana " [name_f]Annie[/name_f] " [name_f]Corinne[/name_f] [name_m]Francesco[/name_m] (1) is Bree’s daughter and Sai’s cousin, who recently celebrated her first birthday! Getting cake, gifts and seeing her family was absolutely the greatest occasion for [name_f]Annie[/name_f], who’s happiness lasted for weeks following the day itself. The party was held at her Aunt Gigi’s house, and gathering all the cousins together turned out to be great - especially as it also helped prepare her for celebrating the first birthday of her twins subsequently. Uncle [name_m]Zio[/name_m] in particular was a life saver for his sisters’, keeping [name_u]Bennett[/name_u] and [name_f]Sienna[/name_f] entertained so they didn’t feel overshadowed by their younger siblings and cousin.

Things haven’t been easy for Annie’s mom, [name_f]Bree[/name_f]: not just because of how her ex decided to behave but the judgement a teen single mother often receives has been something she’s weathered since giving birth. The fact her older sister chose to adopt when she was 19 created more stigma aimed at [name_f]Bree[/name_f], with people accusing her of planning the pregnancy to ‘compete’ with [name_f]Gigi[/name_f] - thanks to her public profile - something that caused a lot of strife for her, and that was on top of insensitive and invasive questions. [name_f]Bree[/name_f] was supported by her close friends though, who [name_f]Annie[/name_f] cherishes just as much as her aunt and uncle, always being excited to see them.

Recently though, her paternal grandparents learned of Annie’s conception and birth, which led to them contacting [name_f]Bree[/name_f] to ask about possibly becoming active presences in her life. Annie’s biological dad was attending a boarding school at the time he met [name_f]Bree[/name_f], and it was only after a friend of his visited that they learned about the drama surrounding their son…and of course, Annie’s existence. [name_f]Bree[/name_f] hasn’t come to a decision yet: she’d love for [name_f]Annie[/name_f] to have further family support - as her own parents have never been particularly understanding or compassionate - but doesn’t want her daughter being forced to be around the man who still is living in denial about being a parent.

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Bennett’s credited to @CherryBomb50

Sienna’s credited to @wandering_willow

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[name_m]Apollon[/name_m] [name_u]Courtland[/name_u] [name_u]Anderson[/name_u] (16) is the friend of Annie’s father, who’s clued him into the fact that he should step up and his daughter was recently born. He has one biological paternal cousin of his own, [name_u]Levi[/name_u], although he completely understands why [name_u]Levi[/name_u] was adopted seeing the family dynamic himself. It’s made him respect [name_f]Gigi[/name_f] for adopting but hasn’t made him turn against [name_f]Bree[/name_f]. [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] was actually not the best kid growing up until teenage years, especially with school, since he was a slacker. He’d often turn in assignments from previous years and reuse them for assignments – which ended awkwardly when he forgot to read the old assignment before turning it in…and he forgot to change the date and the paper was dated last year, with a completely wrong month and day! He’s convinced his slacking is why he was taken to boarding school at 16, but Apollon’s trying to tell himself it’s worth it. While he wasn’t necessarily a responsible person, he’s definitely not the “get girls pregnant” type of guy, so he was surprised his friend was that type. But [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] insisted that his friend should just be honest and he doesn’t care if his friend is “that type” as long as he owns up and does the right thing. Deep down, [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] knows he’s glad he isn’t in that situation but if he was, he would’ve taken his role as soon as possible. He finds [name_f]Bree[/name_f] a nice enough girl and respectable enough person despite her circumstances.

[name_m]Apollon[/name_m] has discussed with Annie’s paternal grandparents, since they knew him since his childhood friendship with Annie’s father. Admittedly they did not trust [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] was a good influence at first but they’ve warmed up to him year after year and sense the two have potential to keep up a great friendship. However they worry he’s not too committed to anyone, whether a friendship with [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] or a parenthood of [name_f]Annie[/name_f]. Why is he so hesitant to do his job? [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] supports his friend but believes Annie’s paternal grandparents have the right to be involved in her life if they want to. Although he doesn’t like his own paternal grandparents, he sees a wonderful sense of responsibility for them that he and his older sister never really saw. What are the chances they’d simply get involved without having their son get involved? According to [name_m]Apollon[/name_m], next to zero. They really feel for [name_f]Bree[/name_f], especially given her family life and feel she’s been nothing but kind as a mother to [name_f]Annie[/name_f] and just in need of a lot of help and support. [name_f]Bree[/name_f] and [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] are not as close seeing they didn’t know each other, but [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] is bonding better with [name_f]Bree[/name_f] and seeing it from her side without trying to invoke anything about his friend unless she says it first. [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] is currently a portable gaming expert and has a passion for hard rock but he also has a sense of cleanliness and always keeps his space tidy. He hopes the best for [name_f]Annie[/name_f], appearing at the baby shower even though his friend didn’t, and he’s hoping the next time he sees [name_f]Annie[/name_f], it’s with a more active upbringing for her.

Levi was created by @I_meme_it.

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[name_f]Perdita[/name_f] ’ Ditto ’ [name_f]Bonnie[/name_f] Delmoyer (16) is Apollon’s sort-of-girlfriend - they don’t have a proper label for their relationship, but it’s easier using those standard labels rather than trying to explain the ins and outs of never having a serious commitment while maintaining a unique closeness in spite of this. She has been the main person Apollon’s confided in about convincing Annie’s dad to step up, and really, Ditto isn’t surprise that this is the best shot at responsibility they could push.

When she tried mentioning it, he became very defensive, and Ditto isn’t the sort of person who has the energy herself to fight over and over about something, especially when it will impact her and Apollon’s relationship. The two met once he began attending boarding school, as Ditto attends the closest local school, which is something of an alternative academy, focusing more on teaching practical skills and encouraging artistic pursuits rather than conventional academics, something Ditto’s always been upfront about preferring.

She personally is interested in knitting, crochet and metalwork from the perspective of crafting jewelry, which is actually in the family: Ditto’s father is a respected jeweller, and he’s mentioned on a few occasions handing his business to his eldest child, should she be interested in following his path professionally. The nickname Ditto stems from that when she was a toddler, [name_f]Perdita[/name_f] was obsessed with repeating everything her mom said, and it’s something she’s been happy to let stick. This also meant both her younger sisters’ had to get likewise off-beat cutesy nicknames but really, no-one’s complaining.

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[name_f]Philou[/name_f] “Polly” [name_f]Malgosia[/name_f] Delayer (14) is Ditto’s youngest sister. [name_f]Polly[/name_f] has recently started to learn Polish at her high school to get closer to her roots. [name_f]Polly[/name_f] often feels forgotten and feels that it’s unjust that her two eldest sisters get to take over their parents’ businesses.

[name_f]Polly[/name_f] is often seen as the most rebellious of her sisters and has recently started seeing a guy from the brother school of her all-girl school but doesn’t know how to tell her parents and sisters.

[name_f]Polly[/name_f] really wants to go into marketing or pursue her interest in synchronized swimming, something she and her closest sister do together.

[name_f]Polly[/name_f] has recently learned that her mom is expecting a baby and is very excited to be the first sister to know!

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[name_f]Pelagia[/name_f] " [name_f]Busy[/name_f] " [name_u]Alba[/name_u] Delmoyer (15) is the middle sister and resident voice of sarcasm, usually as a means of voicing her opinions without giving away anything she considers too revealing. She’s also always on the move - be it visiting her friends or arranging sleepovers with her maternal cousins, a trait that appeared the moment she could walk, and of course it led to her nickname following in suit, with this excess energy leading to [name_f]Busy[/name_f] eventually pursuing swimming as an outlet. This is how she became involved in learning synchronised routines, however when pushed, [name_f]Busy[/name_f] admits this is actually in tribute to her paternal granny, who’s Polish-American and force of personality of course adored by her granddaughters, with their own displays of stubbornness being affectionately attributed to her in the words of their dad.

While the most academic of the trio, having a natural head for accounting [hence Mr Delmoyer’s suggestion she go into business with Ditto should his firstborn decide to take over the jewelling business], [name_f]Busy[/name_f] isn’t devoid of an artist side. She attends the same school as Ditto, preferring to learn at her own pace, and absolutely adores two things most: self-expression through styling and gardening. At home she’s got her own vegetable patch, which she first started tending age twelve with the help of her mom, and she also knows the language of flowers, something [name_f]Busy[/name_f] uses to keep private matters just that for her close friends and older sister.

[name_f]Busy[/name_f] has the clearest insight into the relationship between [name_m]Apollon[/name_m] and Ditto, which she jokes fills her own romantic hole; although in reality she’s disinterested in pursuing any kinds of romance. What means the most to [name_f]Busy[/name_f] right now is her friends, who she cherishes, although this enthusiasm is why there’s a bit of a divide in the sister’s dynamic. Attending the same school means [name_f]Busy[/name_f] and Ditto naturally have more chances to integrate their friend groups, and some of the extremely wealthy girls’ Polly’s friends with are the exact opposite of the working class students her sister’s are closer to, with distance forming to avoid arguments starting should multiple groups congregate at the Delmoyer home at once.

Aside from calculating her own expenditures to save money from her weekend job - at a sporting goods shop where she can give lots of feedback on the swimsuits practicality - [name_f]Busy[/name_f] can usually be found with the family guinea pigs: [name_f]Honey[/name_f], [name_u]Almond[/name_u] and [name_u]Pepper[/name_u]. She absolutely adores them and is always feeding them little treats grown in the school garden, being very protective of their well-being, and this less cynical side always warms the hearts of her parents, who are used to their second born being a bit on the cynical side. What Busy’s clearly excited for is pursuing her drivers license next, having already started observing when she’s in the car with someone else to figure out how to pass her test. It’s not that she wants to escape home frequently, however the option of exploration is something she’s ever drawn towards.

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Samona “Shane” Bambina Dariosi (15) is a good friend of Busy’s, the two of them growing close through their love of swimming, their heritage, and always having something to do. As the daughter of the coach of their swim team, [name_u]Shane[/name_u] has been swimming since…before she could walk. She met [name_f]Busy[/name_f] in preschool, after moving to the USA from [name_f]Italy[/name_f]. The two of them have been close ever since, though they grew apart in middle school, [name_u]Shane[/name_u] joining the more “popular” group of girls. The popular group is made up of the more wealthy boys and girls at the school, but [name_u]Shane[/name_u] isn’t that wealthy, and has started working as a babysitter and part-time teacher’s assistant, in order to get some money for college. She still really enjoys Busy’s company and they spend a lot of time together at swim and in their shared classes.

[name_u]Shane[/name_u] was born in [name_u]Florence[/name_u], [name_f]Italy[/name_f], and moved to the US when she was 3. [name_u]Shane[/name_u] has 3 siblings, an older brother (17) and two little siblings who are 6 & 8. [name_u]Shane[/name_u] loves taking care of her little siblings, especially doing her little sister’s hair. [name_u]Shane[/name_u] is really into skincare, makeup, and hair styling. While she wants to pursue swimming or teaching in her future, she is also considering being a hair stylist. She also wants to travel and start a family, teaching her kids about their heritage and teaching them Italian.

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[name_f]Chiara[/name_f] [name_f]Valentina[/name_f] Dariosi (6) is Shane’s youngest sister, the two are very close and [name_u]Shane[/name_u] often does her hair and plays with her. [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] is in second grade with her best friend and cousin [name_f]Pia[/name_f]. Both [name_f]Pia[/name_f] and [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] take Italian classes after school with an older lady who recently moved to the US to be closer to her family. [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] has recently started art classes and has been adamant that she wants to become a fashion designer! She and her mom made her Halloween costume together.

[name_f]Chiara[/name_f] has recently started modeling for her mom’s clothing boutique something neither [name_u]Shane[/name_u] nor her brother were interested in. [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] is often forgotten due to her brother’s special needs and often needs to compromise with her parents.

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Curizo " [name_m]Curt[/name_m] " [name_m]Ottavio[/name_m] Dariosi (17) is the older brother of [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] and [name_u]Shane[/name_u] and firstborn of their parents. [name_u]An[/name_u] aspiring architect, Curt’s artistic inclinations have been present since he was a toddler and drawing on the walls was his favourite thing - although his parents are very relieved he now focuses on paper instead of paint jobs they worked so hard at. He usually comes across as unshakable and never phased to the youngest two Dariosi siblings, although [name_u]Shane[/name_u] can confirm [name_m]Curt[/name_m] has a stresshead side to him: namely when it’s exam season, as he’s quite the perfectionist when it comes to grades, knowing they’re so important for the career he hopes to pursue.

There was undeniably a shift in the family dynamic when Curt’s brother was born with cerebral palsy, as their mom and dad had to adjust a lot of things around the home to ensure he was comfortable, never mind the doctor’s appointments and classes they attended to make sure he was supported to the fullest capacity. When [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] was born two years later, more compromises had to be made, and Curt’s acknowledged to his parents that he did feel some envy of his youngest siblings, as they required the bulk of attention. [name_m]Curt[/name_m] handled this by spending a lot of time with his best friend, who comes from a much smaller household, and he’d also confide in [name_u]Shane[/name_u] a lot, even if he didn’t initially understand why she was so happy to babysit rather than seek out independence.

He can empathise with Chiara’s feelings of being ignored, a recent occurrence thanks to their brother’s physical condition becoming more complicated, once again shifting the dynamic. As she’s so young, and being the baby naturally has its perks, [name_m]Curt[/name_m] does get why [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] feels so overlooked, as the shift in attention must undeniably be jarring and hurt more. She’s a bit hesitant to open up to [name_m]Curt[/name_m] right now - he’s a boy and knows ‘only boy things’ after all - but the time she gets with him is slowly winning his youngest sister over.

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sorry if anything seemed preachy or anything but as someone with a younger sibling with special needs this is personal to me and something i wanted to talk about based on my experiences✌

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Warning for ableism and anti-vaccination.

[name_m]Luan[/name_m] [name_m]Eustacio[/name_m] [name_u]Cruz[/name_u] (17) is Curt’s best friend, third-generation Equatorial Guinea immigrant, and someone [name_m]Curt[/name_m] can count on. They’ve had a friendship since childhood, when Curt’s gerbil ran away and [name_m]Luan[/name_m] spent the entire day looking until the two found the gerbil. [name_m]Luan[/name_m] is from a small household, just him and his parents living in the home currently, and they speak [name_f]English[/name_f] alongside Spanish and Portuguese. [name_m]Luan[/name_m] knows a small amount of [name_u]French[/name_u], having this as another language in his country, but he doesn’t actively speak this given he’s not the best. However if he were to read a paragraph in [name_u]French[/name_u], he’d be able to get the basic idea of it, even if he doesn’t quite know all the words, especially obscure words that only fluent [name_u]French[/name_u] speakers would say. [name_m]Luan[/name_m] isn’t super exuberant with what he says, in fact if he’s too exuberant on a subject, it’s usually because he isn’t like that at all. Once a bunch of classmates were talking about a midnight premiere movie that many of them wanted to go see and he talked a lot about how excited he was. Truthfully, he was never going to watch it and he’s not a night owl at all. However given his nature, he talked so exuberant about the movie when everyone else was, talking about the hit musical numbers and exclaiming the actors’ names and how great they did. People believed him but [name_m]Curt[/name_m] silently chuckled because he knew [name_m]Luan[/name_m] did not really see this movie. Sometimes he uses his exuberance for mockery, such as when a classmate stated her future kids will not be vaccinated and [name_m]Luan[/name_m] chimed in, “Oh that’s SUCH a good idea! I’m tired of all the LIES! People who get them are much too EDUCATED! People who get them trust DOCTORS when we should do our own RESEARCH and create our own FACTS!” He then proceeded to act like an idiot in front of her when in actuality, he is not an anti-vaxxer.

In reality, he hates people who lie about vaccines, and this is something he feels as a person who has autism. He’s been diagnosed with Asperger’s but he basically uses the terms interchangeably. He feels he likely has this as a result of being a child born to older parents, but he doesn’t fixate on the cause nor does he feel it should be a reason to dissuade older parents from having a baby if they want to. Likewise, he’d never blame the Dariosi mother for any pregnancy-related concerns that could have caused the cerebral palsy, instead not focusing on that cause as it’s none of his business. He’s tried to help through the challenges of the youngest Dariosi brother but is trying to be fair to [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] too, avoiding ableism before it starts. [name_m]Luan[/name_m] 100% sees the young brother as a person and not as a disability, and is willing to talk about him without bringing his disability up all the time. [name_m]Curt[/name_m] and [name_m]Luan[/name_m] do a lot of “boy hobbies” together as [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] insists, but he also enjoys cooking and is in support of the activity getting more unisex. He’s a fierce supporter of protecting Western African gorillas and preserving their habitats, a motivation sparked by both sides of his grandparents. [name_m]Luan[/name_m] is open to talking to [name_m]Curt[/name_m] about a lot of stuff and knows his role as eldest can be a little stressful, something [name_m]Luan[/name_m] doesn’t experience himself since he’s not the firstborn sibling. While he’s the only one who lives with his parents, he has an older brother nearly a decade older than him who has since moved out. His brother is dating [name_u]Angel[/name_u] [name_u]Sullivan[/name_u] but has yet to meet her son. [name_m]Luan[/name_m] has met [name_u]Angel[/name_u] last month when she did his makeup for Halloween and his family has met and supported her. Luan’s brother however, has not met her side of the family yet and he’s nervous but [name_m]Luan[/name_m] has been nothing but supportive of his older brother. He and his brother have gotten closer over the years which he credits that happened “since the moment my brother stopped babying me”.

Angel was created by @szinkle.

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[name_f]Luna[/name_f] Abernathy [name_m]Rye[/name_m] [19] is someone who knows of [name_m]Luan[/name_m] via their mutual interest in protecting Western African gorillas. While the two aren’t really ‘friends’ per se, they work well together at the rallies and meetings they’ve attended together and have laughed about the similarities in their names and how they’re both made up of the same letters, just in different orders. The two have yet to talk about it, but they also share the similarity of having an older sibling who’s ten years older, although [name_f]Luna[/name_f] has a few other older siblings as well. Luna’s parents had three children, who are currently 34, 31, and 29, and felt they were all done having kids. Only for Luna’s mom to suddenly find out she was pregnant at the age of 41.

Due to her late arrival into her family, [name_f]Luna[/name_f] always felt a bit out of place. This would lead to her eventually gravitating towards more alternative interests such as agriculture and conservation. She’s in her first year of college right now and majoring in environmental science. She’s also president of the environmental club at her school which is where she met her current partner.

She’ll make trips back home to visit her family now and then, but she really feels as if she fits in better at school than she ever did back in her hometown. It’s not that she doesn’t love them, she’s just happy to have found her tribe and would rather be comfortable than nostalgic. Her and her mom text fairly often too, so she feels that that connection maintains her ‘familial duties’ well enough.

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[name_f]Felicity[/name_f] " [name_f]Lissy[/name_f] " [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_m]Anderson[/name_m] (5) is Luna’s niece. Her mom is Luna’s 34 year old sister. [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] has two older siblings aged 9 and 7. She thinks her eldest sibling is entirely too serious and doesn’t have enough imagination. The middle sibling tends to enjoy chasing and scaring her so they argue a lot. She thinks it would be fun to have a younger sibling but her parents aren’t having anymore kids. [name_f]Lissy[/name_f] doesn’t mind too much because she gets to play with her younger maternal cousins. She isn’t very familiar with [name_f]Luna[/name_f] since she’s away most of the time now but [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] likes that their hair is kind of the same color. She’s also very admiring of Luna’s many bracelets and wants some of her own. She asked her dad to pretty please bring her some when he gets back from his latest business trip. [name_f]Lissy[/name_f] is not impressed with how much her dad has to be away because she loves him a whole lot.

[name_f]Felicity[/name_f] is in kindergarten and enjoys being around so many other kids. She likes telling the other kids facts about Western African gorillas, facts she knows because she pesters [name_f]Luna[/name_f] with questions whenever she visits. [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] really loves animals and she wants five cats, two dogs, and three birds. Her parents met that request with a resounding no but did get her a hamster who [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] dotes on, even if he’s only a consolation prize. [name_f]Lissy[/name_f] has named him Crunch and is going to bring him to the next show and tell at school. Her older sibling and their friends decided it would be fun to scare her a few days ago so [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] stuck mud in their backpack. She was very happy when she heard a scream this morning upon the mud being discovered.

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[name_m]Spencer[/name_m] " [name_m]Spence[/name_m] " [name_m]Zachariah[/name_m] [name_m]Anderson[/name_m] (9) is Lissy’s oldest sibling, the one who she considers extremely serious, an assessment that amuses their parents a lot. By most people’s standards, [name_m]Spence[/name_m] isn’t particularly serious, he’s more the sort of person invested in what personally interests him. For [name_m]Spence[/name_m] this is the environment, specifically protecting it, and he’s been learning all he can. Endangered animals have especial meaning to [name_m]Spence[/name_m], and he’s curretly drawing all of them to stick on his wall, a project that’s taking a lot of time as he wants each image absolutely perfect.

This is another reason why [name_m]Spence[/name_m] seems a bit stern to his sister, as he’s not as interested in the idea of a pet thanks to how devoted to wilder animals he is right now. He’s also been introducing this to the middle of the [name_m]Anderson[/name_m] siblings, as [name_m]Spence[/name_m] remembers talk of the importance of education from one of his favourite conservationists, so his family seems a good place to start: especially his occasional partner in crime!

Recently [name_m]Spence[/name_m] and his best friend wanted to go on a protest march they heard of, however his parents wouldn’t allow this given his age. His best friend’s big sister - who’s fifteen - went though, and she took a plaque the pair painted, something that cheered [name_m]Spence[/name_m] immensely. That weekend instead was spent with the duo going to a local sanctuary alongside Spence’s best friends dad, and it surprised his parents that he got a gift for both his siblings with his pocket money, something to help bring the trio closer together [much to the joy of Mr and Mrs Anderson].

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[name_f]Olive[/name_f] [name_f]Fenella[/name_f] Rye-Thornton [29] is [name_m]Spence[/name_m] and Lissy’s aunt. She’s their mom’s younger sister, but not the youngest one, that title of course goes to [name_f]Luna[/name_f]. Of all their siblings, [name_f]Olive[/name_f] and [name_f]Luna[/name_f] were closer compared to the older two, but still they were never really the best of friends. However [name_f]Luna[/name_f] did send [name_f]Olive[/name_f] a baby gift for Olive’s upcoming little one who’s due in three months. It was a macramé wall hanger for the baby’s nursery which [name_f]Olive[/name_f] happily hung up above the changing table. She’s a little nervous about transitioning from ‘fun auntie to children’ to ‘mama of her own children’ but her older siblings, who also both have children, have been a great support.

She relates to various members of her family in different ways, she’s often considered very serious much like [name_m]Spence[/name_m], she’s very passionate about certain causes like [name_f]Luna[/name_f], she’s a bookworm like her 31 year old sibling, and a bit of an insomniac like their father. That last aspect is something that actually brought her and her spouse together, both of them were in line for a late night snack at a 24-hour convenience store and happened to both be reaching for the same bag of pretzels and the rest is history. That same brand of pretzels have actually been a major craving for [name_f]Olive[/name_f] during her pregnancy. It also seems that her unborn child is following in her night owl footsteps as well considering when [name_f]Olive[/name_f] finally gets into bed to try and go to sleep for the night is when her and her spouse are always able to feel the most kicks from their baby-to-be.

While they’ve chosen not to find out the sex of their baby until delivery, what is known is that they’ll probably end up with some kind of Scottish middle name like [name_f]Olive[/name_f], [name_f]Luna[/name_f], and their other siblings have. It is a family tradition, although funnily enough there is no Scottish blood in the family!

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[name_m]Julian[/name_m] ’ Ant ’ [name_m]Timothy[/name_m] [name_m]Anderson[/name_m] (7) is Olive’s younger nephew and the brother of [name_m]Spence[/name_m] and [name_f]Lissy[/name_f], who’s dedicated to reenacting [name_m]Scooby[/name_m] Doo in whatever way he can: see scaring [name_f]Lissy[/name_f] as [name_m]Spence[/name_m] is wise to his methods. Having a passion for horror isn’t easy for Ant, as he’s the only one of the trio who’s inherited an interest in scares from their dad, something he laments to his friends often. Outside of the friend group he appears a natural leader and the sort of person who doesn’t have worries, but around those he trusts, there’s a very empathetic quality to Ant that can be overlooked.

In the eyes of his sister, Ant just goes around being annoying - especially where she’s concerned - but privately he’s more creative and has written his own scary stories, not that anyone’s allowed to read them, bar his best friend (and even then it’s an occasional allowance). Sometimes he draws pictures to go alongside these tales, but he’s not got any faith in his art really, so those aren’t shown to anyone.

While they’re close at home, Ant’s glad to have made his own friend group away from his brother, as living in Spence’s shadow is something he feared a lot in childhood. His older siblings’ always seemed so certain about the future and his plans, so Ant sometimes has felt an urge to emulate [name_m]Spence[/name_m], but the fact he now has his own hopes - writing horror stories has helped undo this fear. At the insistence of their mom, Ant’s also been less of a nuisance where Lissys’ concerned, and her new hamster has helped with this, as while he can be blase when it comes to terrorising people, he wouldn’t dare upset Crunch.