If there was one thing that Daphne knew for a fact would always be true, no matter what happened in her life, it was that Padstow was always going to be the same. Small as fuck, and always boring. The Florence demonstrated this very clearly - No, she hadn’t spent a lot of time there as a teenager, or anything, but it had the classic small town feeling that she’d spent so long trying to get away from. And, as if to really drive home the point that this town was never going to change, she looked up from her beer to see - Was that who she thought it was?
“You’re still around?” She said, with a slight laugh and a raise of her eyebrows. There was no reason for her to be judging any of her old classmates for sticking around, not considering her current situation, but she really couldn’t help it.
i just saw daphne fitz at the florence. don’t you think she looks like fola evans akingbola? anyway, she’s a twenty nine year old photographer, and she moved away, but came back three months ago to live with her parents for financial reasons. she did graduate in 2007.
Hi! I’m Dove, and this is Daphne, and I’m just in general super excited about this group. Here’s a lil short breakdown of Daphne’s life in bullets -
She was put into foster care when she was very young, and when she was five, the Fitz’s, who were her foster parents, adopted her. Her family was very loving and supportive, but growing up there was nothing Daphne wanted more than to get the hell out of Padstow.
She was a good student, and worked very hard in school, but she wasn’t necessarily the “teacher’s pet” type. Daphne was more of the student who argued with the teacher, and got her fair share of detentions. She didn’t like school, but she did like learning, and she knew that she needed to get good grades and study if she wanted to get out of town.
After high school, she moved to Juneau, Alaska to major in marine biology at the University of Alaska. During college, she started getting into photography, specifically wildlife and nature photography. After graduation, she got a research job but quit to do freelance photography. She’s traveled all over the country and outside of it as well for her work.
Six months ago, she had her last job, and spent three months looking for more work before she ended up moving back to Padstow to live with her parents. She’s been doing some photography, but nothing she really enjoys, and not enough to get her own place.
Some potential connection ideas : Friends from high school, someone she had a kind of competitive relationship with (trying to be top of the class, that kind of thing), exes (I think Daphne probably only had one or two relationships in high school, maybe someone she broke up with before she left for college and didn’t really contact after that), childhood friends, someone she had an antagonistic relationship with in school, and I’m definitely open to other ideas!
