Name ; Scarlet Axelia
Nicknames ; Scar, Lee
Birth date ; February 23rd, 1983
Hometown ; Seattle, Washington
Current Location ; Sol Point, Saint Claire
Pronouns ; She/her/hers
Mirror image ; Katie McGrath
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Trigger Warnings: Implied Abusive Foster Homes, Parental Death, Parental Abuse, Car accidents. Homophobia, Self Defense Murder, Police Corruption
Scarlet only has vague memories of her parents, but she holds them very close to her heart. Snippets of a once happy childhood, dancing in the rain, and BBQs in the backyard when the rain finally stopped. Born in the Seattle area, it was just after Scarlet’s eighth birthday that the seemingly constant rain caused the car accident. A driver lost control of his car and slammed into the family car on the way home from the local art museum. This accident would kill both of Scarlet’s parents and leave Scarlet an orphan with scars that would last her entire life.
`After that day, Scarlet bounced around foster homes, never seeming to find quite the right fit. The crash left her withdrawn and with strong anxiety anytime she was in a car for extended periods of time. This didn’t make her the most desirable kid for most foster families, even those that fashioned themselves as the saviors of those less fortunate. Scarlet soon learned some families were nicer in their rejections than others, and it was best to keep her head down and her mouth shut to avoid the worst of people's wrath. Despite her plans, Scarlet couldn’t stop herself from standing up for other children when the caretakers would lash out at them, taking blows and harsh words so others wouldn't have to. When Scarlet became a teenager she had given up hope forever finding a good home once again, and was just pationaly biding her time till she could run away from it all.
Years after the accident, and bouncing around the entirety of Washington State it seemed. Scarlet finally found a slightly more permanent home once again. A wonderful single mother by the name of October Axelia. October had made it her mission to take the less desirable kids from the foster system and give them a home worth having. Firmly believing that love and having someone genuinely on their side could change many kids’ entire lives. Scarlet being one of those kids that October decided to take under her wing. Scarlet appeared to all the world as a withdrawn teenager who hardly talked by the time October found her. Stubborn and Quiet and battered down by the world.
Finally given a stable place to live, and a guardian who seemed to give a single fuck about her. Scarlet excelled at her studies, but stayed fairly withdrawn from the world. Struck in her own head with the nagging fear that something would take everything from her if she got too comfortable. That is until she met Danny. Danny was outgoing, a track star, everything Scarlet wasn’t. The two were forced to be Science Lab Partners, Danny having been late and Scarlet being the last person left. Scarlet fell head over heels in love in the way teenagers do. Danny in many ways was her gay awakening. Danny slowly started to take down the walls Scarlet had built and Scarlet guessed that she seemed to find something worth loving. The two started dating not even a month after that first meeting.
What Scarlet didn’t know about was Danny's home life. Scarlet slowly learned about the pressure Danny's dad put on her, and the punishments that came when Danny didn’t meet those standards. How people never noticed the scars and the bruises because her father was an upstanding member of the community. It was right before graduation when Scarlet’s world was turned upside down again. She and Danny had been dating for close to two years, before Danny's father finally found out about the two of them. The two girls had been keeping their relationship a secret for the very reason Dannys father was violent and horribly homophobic.
Scarlet received a phone call in the middle of the night, a panicked Danny describing how her father found out and charged at her. She had grabbed the nearest object and slammed it onto his head. Danny had called the cops,still trying to do the right thing out of the vain hope that it would work out. Immediately after she called Scarlet, scared out of her mind and unsure about what her life would turn into. Danny knew that this could be really bad, having turned eighteen the week before, and wanted to say goodbye just in case.
Scarlet watched as her first love received what she deemed as an unfair trial with members of the community not hearing what one of the most beloved men in the community did, and a lawyer that didn’t give a shit and was overworked. Scarlet was forced to watch as her world was taken from her once again. She was left searching, searching for some sort of meaning in a world she deemed as cruel. She fell into a deep depression, taking a year off of school, delaying her admission into Harvard. Scarlet spent most of her year curled up in bed, unable to bring herself to do much of anything else.
Scarlet found her purpose in her anger and despair. She found it in the pursuit of justice and helping those caught up in a fundamentally broken system. Scarlet had seen her foster siblings and her first love go through a system that didn’t give a fuck about them and Scarlet was determined to take that corrupt system that was built to destroy people, and find a way to save the few people she could. Innocent People were charged or convicted all the time, with unjust sentencing, and Scarlet was determined to help those the system fucked over, as well as doing whatever she needed to get herself into a position where she would never lose someone again.
Scarlet ended up going to Harvard University for her undergraduate and then Yale Law School. Scarlet kept her head down and worked hard, adopting a life style that swung wildly from sex with random strangers, and drinking to forget the nightmares to studying her ass off and scoring top of her class. Scarlet graduated in the top five of her class in both schools, moving to Saint Claire unable to move too far from her adopted family. She had heard about the town from one of her uncles' ex boyfriends. It had enough money in the area for Scarlet to have enough clients to sustain her while having enough marginalized people that Scarlet could follow her passion of helping people.
Scarlet started by serving a variety of clients, from many wealthy clients at high costs, and those who she charged a single dollar for her services because she knew they couldn’t afford more. Over the years Scarlet slowly built a reputation for herself as an exceptional lawyer for those who needed one. A decade after she moved to Saint Claire Scarlet was able to open her own firm, with her as the head lawyer. Over the last three years of it being open Scarlet has grown it to have several experienced lawyers on her payroll, and a few up and comers as well as a multitude of assistants and paralegals.
