✦ MELISSA BARRERA, CIS FEMALE, SHE/HER ✦ AMELIA LEON ALVAREZ, the THRITY-ONE year old has been in Hidehill for NINETEEN YEARS AND HAS BEEN BACK FOR A MONTH and was a STRANGER to Jade Parker, the missing person . Whispers on the streets are that the MECHANIC AT QUICK FIX AND BARTENDER AT CADILLAC who lives in HADLEY PARK. is said to be GENEROUS and IMPULSIVE but I guess we’ll find out for ourselves. { MARIE, 27, EST, SHE/HER. }. .
triggers: immigration, deportation, murder
Stats
Character Name: Amelia Carmen Leon Alvarez
Age: 31
Birthday: April 11, 1991
Gender/Pronouns: Cis Female, She/Her
Sexuality: Lesbian
Face claim: Melissa Barrera
Occupation: Mechanic @ Quick Fix & Bartender @ Cadillac Lounge
Neighborhood: Hadley Park
Birth Place: Tijuana, Mexico
How long they’ve been in Hidehill: On and off for 29 years. Just came back after being away for about 10 years. She’s been back for a month
Currently lives: Hadley Park
Inspo: Spotify | Pinterest
Personality
Mel is quieter now - she’s seen too much.
She can put up a good façade and blend in when needed, but she is trying hard to walk the straight and narrow now
Amelia still has a wild spirit - always has and she loves to have fun. Trouble just seems to find her
She is a Latina which means she’s loud and loves to dance. She has a fire that burns with in her and she’s trying to figure out how to let it burn bright again
Tequila is the way to her heart.
She is a grease nut - love fixing up bikes and cars. Her father taught her everything she knows.
She’s proud of her roots and everything her family did for her. Mexico runs in her blood and she lets it be known.
While she has her Honda, she loves riding her bike more than anything. She feels free when she rides it.
Key Points:
triggers: immigration, deportation, murder
Immigrated from Mexico when she was 2 years old and received her DACA permit when she turned 18
Parents were deported back to Mexico when she was 18.
Dated Emilia Lord from when they were 18-21.
Cheated on her when Em turned 21 and Em left her.
She ran away to Las Vegas after the break up and met Ledger Jackson. They quickly became very close friends - partners in crimes.
With her father sick, she was the sole provider for her family in Mexico. She needed extra cash and began to steal cars and sell them for parts.
Deals went wrong and in an act of self-defense, she killed someone.
Ledger took the fall for the murder, knowing this could get her sent back to Mexico and her family would suffer.
Eventually, she sought legal help and confessed to the murder once it could be proven as self-defense. Ledger was let out and she went to prison.
She’s just been let out and has moved to back to Hidehill. Wants to pay Ledger back for taking the fall and supporting her family while she was in jail.
Now that she’s back, she wants to work things out with Emilia but doesn’t know how to even start. They haven’t spoken in a decade.
She was a STRANGER to Jade Parker
Biography.
triggers: immigration, deportation, murder
Amelia Carmen Leon Alvarez was born in Tijuana, Mexico on April 11, 1991 to Carlos and Andrea Leon. Tijuana was not a safe place to live and her parents wanted a better life for her, one with more opportunities.
Though dangerous, the young family sought out the help of “coyotes” and crossed the border of United States when Amelia was only two years old.
Through some help from friends in America, they travelled to Hidehill and settled down in Hagfield. Her father rented out a space for the small family to live and in exchanged her provided labor for the farmer they worked in.
Andrea, on the other hand, traveled to Hindley and cleaned houses for a living in the gated community. They didn’t have much - but their family was united and better off. That’s all they wanted - the hope of so many immigrants.
Eventually, her parents obtained fake documents and were able to become a little more independent, even though they often still tried to keep a low profile. They moved to Hove Lake when Mel was about 10 years and her father began to make his own out of the fishing business there and provided fish to Hidehill, along side other fishermen.
That’s where Amelia first saw Emilia but the two girls kept a distance. It wasn’t until they were in high school did they really start to see each other. Their friend groups melded together and by the time they were both 18, they had fallen head over heels in love with each other.
With the brightest light in her life, also came unmeasurable darkness. Shortly after they started dating, someone had ratted out her family’s secret. They were undocumented.
Her parents were deported but Amelia had been left behind. Her DACA status had saved her from being sent to her homeland - a land that would never feel like home.
Em was everything to Amelia and after losing her family, she knew that she needed her girlfriend more than anything. Their relationship is what kept her grounded - she could see a bright future together. Full of laughter, happiness, kids - the whole thing. The life her parents had sacrificed so much for. Mel worked hard to help her family and devoted herself entirely to Em. Her life wasn’t perfect, but she was making it work and it got better every day. She knew that Em was the one she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. They dated for three years in pure bliss before everything went to shambles.
If asked, Mel still couldn’t give an honest reason why she let this happen. She could blame it on the horrible news she had gotten earlier in the day - her father was had fallen sick, very sick - or she could blame it on the copious amounts of tequila she had taken to numb the hurt. Or maybe even the realization that she could never give Em the life they wanted when she had to support her entire family back in Mexico now. But regardless of the reason, Amelia had found herself after a few drinks (a lot of drinks) in the arms of someone else rather than out celebrating her girlfriend’s 21st birthday.
Emilia found out and she ended things, completely blocking her out.
With no family and the love of her life gone, Mel fled from Hidehill.
She landed in Las Vegas and that’s where she met Ledger. It struck her odd that they had never spoken till then, especially given they both were from Hidehill but their friendship was an easy one. They became inseparable - they were two sides of the same coin. They spent a lot of time in the shop - whether at the auto shop she worked out or at the tattoo parlor he worked at and eventually, she grew to trust him and shared her story. All of it. He was her ride or die - her partner in crime. They were tied at the hip. They got into trouble together and always got out of it together. It was the best life and probably the best friendship she’s had in her life.
At this point in life, she was the sole provider for her family. Her family was poor in Mexico and with her father having fallen ill, she was responsible for sending money over to support them. She was the only one who could but being a mechanic didn’t always pay well.
So, she eventually got into a bad crowd. She began stealing cars and selling them for parts. Her hands got dirtier and dirtier until her life was anything but what she pictured. But she was helping her family and that’s all that mattered.
Until things got really bad. She still can’t quite wrap her hand around the event - the sequence being blocked out. But getting involved in a bad crowd had consequences and when a deal went wrong, someone was sent after her. In an act of desperation, Mel found herself with blood on her hands and very dead body on the ground.
It was self-defense, she swore when Ledger walked into the scene. But they both knew that no one was going to believe someone like her. Instead, this would revoke her DACA permit and get her deported and imprisoned in Tijuana. Who would look after her family then?
Go. When Ledger told her to run, she did, vowing to pay him back somehow for taking the fall and saving her.
She ran and ran but eventually, there is no where else to run. Mel sought the help of a group of lawyers who specialized in helping immigrants like her in hard situations. Eventually, she was able to confess and get a reduced sentence when they were able to prove it was self-defense. Ledger was released and she took his spot. Her eyes tearing up when he promised to look after family while she was finishing her sentence.
Amelia has just been released from prison and her record is ruin. She’s on probation and she knows that one wrong move will have her sent back to Tijuana so she’s walking a very fine line.
After being released, she decided to come back to Hidehill for a fresh start and though, it feels a bit too sad for her at times, she knows it’s right thing to do. She has to pay Ledger back for everything he’s done for her and when she catches sight of Emilia - very much still the love of her life - still in town, Mel knows she’s made the right choice.
She only hopes it’s not too late to make amends with Emilia.
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