adria arjona / 31 / cis woman —have you noticed that ALONDRA NARVAEZ is back in town? the HOCKEY COACH is apparently pretty DETERMINED, but SHE can also be a little INFLEXIBLE. SHE is always blasting NATURAL by IMAGINE DRAGONS, as it makes them think of something from their past. i hope the ARIES has a better time here than most. — (enci / 27 / she/her / gmt+1)
PAST
trigger warning: mentions of drugs, alcohol
Alondra was born and raised in Hail, her parents coming into the country a few years before she was born, wanting to live the American Dream and a better life for their family and Alondra's older sibling.
Alondra has always been the jock of the family, interested in every sport she could stumble into, but from a relatively early age she was drawn to skating and then consequently hockey. Her parents were worried for her first, but she insisted and kept insisting until she was let to try at least.
She turned out to be a pretty big talent from the get go and with the dedication and work she put into it, she became the best player in the town - to the point where she had a bright future ahead of her, very strong possibility to becoming professional and going the distance. The American Dream her parents hoped for, embodied by her, and they were so proud.
And then came the accident - it was the typical, boring story. Alondra got her driving license and thought she was on the top of the world until she swirled off of the road and right into a tree. Nobody was involved, she was the only person in the car and she was the only person who got her - hurt enough that her potential career was over before she could even begin it. And she had so much promise.
To say that she didn't take it well would be an understatement. Everything she's never experienced before - alcohol, parties, drugs, sex -, she burried herself into all of them to cope. There was nothing left to keep her from them anyway, why not just go all out. Nobody could really tame her or help her.
In the end her parents and her older sibling managed to do one thing: convince her to apply to college and get out of the town. It was what helped her get her shit together for the most part - the changed scenery, new people, new experiences. She was never really good at academics, she never actually finished college, but it was still enough to come back as a collected person.
Her old coach was getting old at that point, hired her to be an assisstant coach and she worked as one for several years alongside her coach, so close to what she could have had yet so far still. And when her coach retired, she took over and now coached all ages to hockey.
PRESENT
These days Alondra presents herself as somebody who has it all figured out. She went through hell and back and she came out better for it, dedicates herself to teaching the new generation, is personable and bubbling and smiling and tries to live her best life.
In reality, she is still very much thinking about the what ifs and has a self destructive streak about her - if she can make life hard for herself, she absolutely will, whether that means sleeping with a parent of one of her kids she coaches or picking a fight with her own parents about absolutely nothing. She is trying her best, but that isn't always the best tihng she can do.
Dyson Bergeron was one of those she trained and she still hasn't been able to wrap her head around what happened, how could a young life, a young star die so quickly, in such a horrible and sudden manner.
HEADCANONS
She is called Lolo by her family members
She started hiking and running after her accident and irregularly, but goes swimming sometimes too
She is bisexual
When she was 20, not too long into her spiraling, she went on a bender with a woman and merely after a few hours of knowing her, they eloped and got married - it got annuled relatively quickly but there was a time when she wondered what would have happened if it didn't
She ends up falling asleep on the couch more often than in her bed and sleeps better there
Her family owns a little restaurant where they sell traditional Puerta Rican food, most the family recipies the parents knew and cherrished
POTENTIAL CONNECTIONS
People she is training (younger characters potentially?) or the family members of kids she is training
People she grew up with, those who knew her before her accident and saw her after - everyone witnessed the toll it took, but they saw into it in a deeper level
Hiking buddy maybe?
Hook up / exes of any kind
People she maybe worked with in her family's restaurant over the years
Honestly anything and everything, I am down to clown
