Gender & Pronouns: Female, she/her
Date of Birth: April 25, 1989 (30)
Place of Birth: Newport Beach, California
Neighborhood: Newport Center
Length of Residency: 30 years
Occupation: Exotic Dancer & Dance Instructor at Balboa Island Resort
Face Claim: Inbar Lavi
Since the day she was born, ask anyone and they’d tell you Jasmine Abrams was destined to be a ballerina. As a little girl, she would dance around her parents’ tiny one bedroom apartment, practicing pirouettes, leaps, and constantly wearing her the one tutu she’d been given for her birthday. She would get in trouble for staying up too late watching ballet on pbs. Once she was old enough to ride her bicycle on her own, she could be found sitting outside the local dance studio watching any and all ballet classes. The owner got so used to seeing her there, she eventually invited Jasmine in and gave her a little seat to sit in the corner and watch, so she could get out of the heat. Over and over again, the owner would ask her to join the classes, but Jasmine always declined, despite her obvious desire to. After 6 months of this, the owner went to Jasmine’s parents and asked if they would enroll their daughter. When Jasmine’s father laughed in the owner’s face and sent her away, Jasmine’s mother quietly apologized and explained they couldn’t afford the expensive classes. The owner took Jasmine under her wing though, and started letting the brunette participate in classes for free.
Despite having an abusive, drug dealing father and a mother who couldn’t stand up to him at home, when Jasmine was at the studio she was able to forget everything and dream. She dreamed of a future where she and her mother would leave Newport behind, where they’d start afresh and create a new life for themselves. A life that included ballet. Even at a young age, she never wanted much, just for her mother to be happy and for her to be able to do ballet. When Jasmine danced, these things felt possible, her dreams were reachable. But when she packed up her gym bag at the end of class each day and headed back home, reality very quickly threatened to strangle the dreams out of her.
During her senior year of high school, the owner of the dance studio Jasmine had been practicing at for years, secretly sent in an application to Julliard School of the Arts under Jasmine’s name. This of course, came as a huge surprise to Jasmine a few months later when she received her acceptance letter in the mail. Thrilled beyond belief, Jasmine finally let herself believe that her dreams might just come true after all. After graduation, Jasmine and her mother would finally be able to leave Newport and Jasmine would be able to pursue ballet professionally. Those dreams came crashing down a month before graduation, when her father was given a 30 year to life jail sentence and her mother had a heart attack from the shock. Jasmine immediately had to take on a lot more responsibility at home. By the time fall semester rolled around, she had to defer from Julliard so she could take care of her mom. That one-year deferment turned into another and pretty soon, Jasmine was beginning to feel trapped. Her mother never fully recovered from the heart attack and Jasmine had to take on the role of sole provider for the two of them.
After a year or two of barely making ends meat, and with seemingly no other options, Jasmine turned to dance to try and make a living. She had spent all those years becoming a good dancer, might as well try to use some of her skills at least. She got a job as an exotic dancer at a local joint and turned out to be pretty good. Who knew ballet could translate so well to stripping? Jasmine quickly rose in the ranks and managed to even get a job at one of the best/classiest strip clubs in Newport. Her pretty/innocent face makes her an easy favorite of her clients. Despite her sunshiney, always sees the glass as half full, not empty, personality, Jasmine is actually quite miserable, if she were to ever truly open up about how she feels. When she started out as a stripper all those years ago, she truly believed it was simply a means to an end, a way to make ends meat for a little while. She never imagined that at 30 years old, she would still be doing this. The lack of her dream ever actualizing has really started to take a toll on Jasmine and she’s beginning to wonder if she was ever really meant for something bigger than this.
Positive: Genuine | Good-hearted | Warm
Negative: Cynical | Impatient | Impulsive
Jasmine is incredibly scared of clowns of any kind. Ever since she was a kid, when she would see one, she’d scream. She’s learned to control that reaction a little bit in her adult years, but she still starts to feel really anxious anytime she sees them. Nothing ever happened to cause this, she just hates/fears them so freaking much. IT is literally her worst nightmare. In fact, she refuses to watch movies or tv shows that have clowns in them. She’ll actually cover her eyes if one pops up on screen.
Despite practically being a freaking ballerina AND an exotic dancer, both of which demand a good deal of coordination, Jasmine is extremely clumsy. When she’s not dancing, she trips over her own two feet a lot. She also tends to drop things a good bit of the time and doesn’t always do a good job of watching where she’s going. She simply has too much going on in that head of hers all the time to pay attention to the ‘details.’
Jasmine can also be a bit scatterbrained and with that comes a bit of messiness as well. Not overly so, there’s usually a method to her madness, but it’s just very hard for anyone else to see what that method is. Most of the time, she doesn’t bother even trying to explain it because no one ever seems to be able to follow the train of thought that lead her to put that book in the kitchen cabinet. She’s not really embarrassed about it either. Jasmine lives her life her way and it works for her!
Jasmine Abrams is portrayed by Becca.
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