lexi hartwood

ll 22 ll ll Sunrise Drive In & Theatre Employee/Local Neighborhood Asshole) ll

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emily alyn lind, pansexual, cis female + she/her ― hey look, it’s lexi hartwood! they’re twenty-two years old, they’ve lived in shrike heights for five years, and they’re currently working at sunrise drive in and theatre . i heard they’re pretty self destructive, but i think they’re so emphatic at the same time. can they make it out alive? || 

tw: death mention (very brief), depression (brief), addiction (brief)

lexi hartwood was the only child born to mrs and mr hartwood. she has an older sibling that was adopted into the family when lexi was five years old, her sibling being nine at the time, and she adores them with her whole heart. the hartwood’s didn’t have much but what they did have they were not shy to share with those around them; a trait that for a brief period of time was passed down to lexi as well. if there was one thing everyone agreed with when it came to lexi hartwood, even from birth, it was that she had a light in her that wanted to shine bright.

growing up she was extremely close to her mother. she would often join her mom on long car rides while she searched for a job or went to interviews. lexi can tell stories of all the times they would get lost, they would laugh, but eventually with their teamwork they always found their way back home. she wasn’t ashamed to say her mother was her best friend either, often the two would also go to the theatre together and watch film after film (though sometimes their double features came at the price of one). things for lexi, and all the hartwoods, would change entirely when lexi was twelve years old. (death tw) her mother passed from an illness she simply never recovered from (end tw).

her father was very attentive to her and her sibling at first, but he soon dove into work and his whisky a bit more than looking after the family he had left. she was never too sure how her older sibling felt about their father’s detachment but lexi simply accepted it and adapted to the changes as best as she possibly could. although she didn’t speak much about it, the passing of her mother hit her extremely hard. there are nights even to this day in which she finds herself crying and asking ‘why?’. she’s taken on lighting a candle every night for an hour and allowing herself that time to just cry, laugh, or vent to her mother and she has found that’s helped her cope a bit.

NOW: now a days she works at the movie theatre inside of the shrike mall, a job she decided to take up because it reminds her of the fond memories she shared with her mom  at the movies once upon a time. despite her darker look these days, sarcastic, dry sense of humor, lexi still has a heart of gold buried deep within her. she’s very much into horror, rock and roll, and anything space related you can think of. she’s the kind of person you call up at 3am and be assured she’ll pick regardless if she is asleep or not. (addiction tw) one day at the age of nineteen she went to a party and was introduced to the drug she is now dependent on. she’s turned to snorting blow in order to help her numb the sadness she still feels over the loss of her mother. (end tw)

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 for: open ( @shrikestart​ ) location: outside one of shrike mall’s side entrances

change was a feeling that herself and those that resided in shrike heights, colorado were all too familiar with. things in shrike heights were frequently changing, hell, half the time she swore things magically either disappeared or appear in the middle of the night. but the one thing that hasn’t changed for her since she arrived to the town was her job at the sunset theatre & drive in and the routines she has gotten herself into while on the job. depending on what station she was working that day, lexi had different things she did throughout the day to help the time go by more quickly. one of them was stragically planning out a smoke break, but it’s not like her boss hasn’t caught her doing it a couple of times on the job anyway. how she hasn’t gotten fired yet was beyond her, but she was also thankful for the chances given to her. still, it didn’t stop her from taking said smoke breaks. today was no different, except this time she had decided to go the side of the mall rather than smoke up alone in the projector room of the theatre (although that was kind of a blast as she got to see various bits of movies while she toked). 

‘you’re not smoking out here, are you?’

the voice of lexi’s boss at the sunset theatre & drive in rang out behind the building, where lexi was taking an indulgently long break. the back door opened and the manager poked their head out, looking between their employee and the person standing with them. “no one’s smoking out here, boss dude. we’re like, zero percent interested in that stuff. swear on my life,” she assured her manager, who gave them the ol’ stink eye after hearing lexi’s strained voice, but still went back inside. the cloud of smoke that exploded out of lexi was thick and potent, leaving her coughing, laughing, and extending the joint she’d been hiding behind her back to their partner in crime, “i swear some people need to stop being so uptight about this. the world is going to shit, you’d think they’d want us to be as relaxed as possible. not to mention my shift ends in like thirty anyway,” she scoffed, shaking her head, “anyway, thanks for not blowin’ up my spot. you want a hit? and don’t think i’ve forgotten..i’m still going to sneak up to the projector room before i clock off today. yeah, yeah, the boss would be pissed if they found out. but, what’s the point of working at a theatre if i can’t show off the cooler bits of the job once in a while, hm?”

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May flowers grow in the saddest parts of you.

Zainab Aamir (via quotemadness)

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