NORA LEVIN
full name: nora alexandra levin
pronouns & gender: she/her, cis woman
birthday & birthplace: may 3, 1995 (30); aurora bay, ca
location: ocean crest apartments
time in aurora bay: born & raised, left june 2013, returned november 2022
sexuality: bisexual
occupation: bartender/actress/who knows
@aurorabayaesthetic
about.
nora is the only child of josephine levin (nee burke) and henry levin, the youngest grandson of aurora bay founder charles levin. nora's been in a lot of therapy when it comes to her relationship with her dad, and at the end of the day she's pretty much just a classic case of mild generational trauma playing itself out. henry always felt insufficient next to his big brother james, so his grip on his only daughter tightened as she grew up.
she never put up with it, though. something inside of nora just prohibited her from being the well-behaved golden girl her father had always wanted. as a young kid, it made her a little loud, definitely sort of bratty, but as she got older and her father tried to tighten the leash, it came in handy. she's always been able to see through her father's facade and finds it a little pathetic in her adulthood; his grievance is so clearly not with her, but with the people who'd made him feel inferior next to his brother growing up.
teen nora was a bit of a wild child. she knew she came from old money and knew she didn't love what it did to her family — giving her father this unearned sense of superiority — but she'd also grown up with it and didn't know how to live her life without it. so spent recklessly as a 'fuck you' to her dad. he gave her a credit card, she maxed it out by bankrolling every kegger using a fake id she also bought with the credit card. she bought herself a car when she turned 16, treated herself to hotel rooms and room service whenever she got into fights with her parents, and so on.
when she graduated high school, she had no intention of going to college. she did okay in school, but just didn't think that her next four years would be best spent behind more and more desks. she got into a knock-down, drag-out fight with her dad over it on the night common applications were due, after he discovered she hadn't filled out any of them. what she wanted to do was be an actress in new york. she's always been captivated by great performances in movies and on the stage, and some of it was about the idea and allure of fame.
she dug her heels in, told her father it would be physically impossible to get her onto a college campus. instead, she proposed a compromise: get her to new york, see how she was doing in a year, and if it wasn't good enough, she'd come back and go to college. it was sort of an objectively stupid thing to do, but she was eighteen and stubborn and didn't know any better. eventually, henry actually agreed. he co-signed for a tiny studio in chinatown the summer after her high school graduation, and paid her rent for the first year, but otherwise cut her off.
nora ended up staying for almost nine years. having to survive alone in the city as an eighteen year old activated a part of her brain she didn't even know was there. she worked waitressing jobs between auditions and lied about how old she was everywhere she went. she was only able to stay as long as she did without having to honor her father's wishes for her to come home because she was pretty good at booking commercials which also kept her afloat.
but toward the end, in mid to late 2022, the little work she had started to dry up and so did her money. things were looking a little desperate — she was barely holding onto her apartment — so when her father called to check in, she thought about lying but chickened out. she loved new york, she loved her life, but it wasn't tenable anymore. so she moved back home with her tail between her legs.
she's been back since november 2022, bartending at the four leaf and just trying to recover her pride. she's living at home again, and her dad's unsurprisingly been a real asshole about things. he's trying to get her to enroll in courses at AB college, but she's not having it at all. after she crashed out in such spectacular fashion, she's just trying not to feel like a failure everyday and figure out what's calling to her next.
family.
mother: josephine levin (nee burke)
father: henry levin
cousins: liza levin, sterling levin, lucy driscoll
tidbits.
still has yet to actually grow up and throws parties at her family's big aurora bay drive house when her parents are out of town, like she's sixteen again
grew up very close with her cousins liza and sterling. despite her dad being younger than james, henry had nora first, so she's the oldest of the three and feels a very big sisterly kind of responsibility to them. them and their daughters have really been the only good things about being back in AB
sometimes drives uber in the lexus she bought herself at 16 to keep making her own money. honestly give me people she hits it off with in her uber, bc she's definitely a chatting driver
basically is very fun, irreverent, unfailingly loyal to the people closest to her, but is also completely directionless, stubborn, and defensive (especially when it comes to what the fuck she's going to do with herself outside of bartending and uber driving, bc she really doesn't know)
connections.
cousin of @thelizaxlevin, @sterlingxlevin, @lucydriscoll
cousin-in-law, friends w/ @wesxevans
in a platonic throuple w/ @firefighterrojas, @maverick-liu
lifelong partner-in-crime w/ @aiden-stevens
high school exes w/ @atticus-cortes
tried to steal the same scarf once, now has split custody and also sometimes hooks up with @cricketcampbell
high school fwbs w/ @ulyflynn
former fwbs, coworker, friend of @esmaxdemirci
childhood friends who fell out of touch w/ @priyaxdesai
dumb idiots who kith sometimes w/ @fxckaubreycarson
childhood friends/doers of dumb shit w/ @maura-cortes
catty rich bitches w/ @cavenshh, @victoriaxsanchez
family friends w/ @bradley-banner
roommate of @screamqueen-slater
