Name: Aria Boughton Occupation: Freelance Photographer Age: 27 Sexuality: Lesbian Species: Vampire Clan/Pack/Coven?: N/A Hometown: Geraldton, Western Australia Relationship Status: Engaged to @autumnshowell Personality Traits: Ambitious, Loyal, Discreet, Obsessive, Insecure
Biography
2002 - A photo of a six year old Aria, missing a front tooth and grinning widely at the camera.
Aria had always been a firecracker of a kid, mouthing off and talking back to everyone who would listen to whatever she had to say. At six years old, she was the very picture of a boisterous spitfire, with very large dreams. Her step-father was much more around than her birth father was and spent many hours wearing her out with playground games, wrestling, and just generally chasing her around the house. Her mother did try, but she spent much of her time at work as a nurse as a local hospital.
2007 - A photo of Aria with a disposable camera, squinting and sticking out her tongue and trying to concentrate of getting the perfect shot.
Eleven was the age that Aria first found her love of photography. Gifted a disposable camera by her mother, she went around and took too many pictures of any and everything she could find. She pretended to be a famous photographer, crouching down to take close up shots of bugs, taking photos of her parents eating and one particularly funny shot of one of her cousins getting smashed in the face with a rugby ball.
2014 - A photo of Aria with her parents boarding a plane. Her parents look nervous, and Aria has puffy red eyes.
Seven years later, when Aria is eighteen - she and her entire family move across the world to New York, partially due to her step-father needing to move to a different position within his company. Aria's excited, but upset over having to leave most of her friends behind. In New York, it's a completely fresh start, but she has college to look forward to.
2015 - A photo of a nervous teenage Aria with a shaky smile, in her dorm room at NYU.
College is more of a fresh start than any of them had planned for. She moves out of her family's new apartment and into the dorm and for the next four years, Aria learns who she is. A failed relationship with a guy, a few girlfriends, a few drunken nights out, and more than a handful of tattoos and protests - Aria Boughton embraces the spitfire that she once was.
2019 - A graduation photo.
Photojournalism was the initial goal. The photos become much more clinical, less snappy, less creative. They get the job done for the money she needs to survive in New York, but she loses steam fairly quickly before the year is up. She stops trying to be something she not and tries to find her muse once more on the streets of New York. She begins a whirlwind relationship that restores her faith in her art, but as quickly as it flamed, it fizzles out. New York begins to feel stifling.
2021 - A photo of a gloomy beach in the Pacific Northwest.
Three years later, she's upended her life - Port Leiry, Oregon was where she landed. Both her mother and father stayed back in New York, settling into their life there wonderfully. The cold seeps into her bones, and everyday she misses home more and more. She starts up a small freelance business doing photography for weddings, parties, and boudoir - at a fraction of the price it's worth. It feels like she's settling, but she's slowly able to find her love of the craft once more. She explores, she finds hidden gems, and she captures the true spirit of Port Leiry.
2024 - A photo of the Olympic Serval at night.
One night after doing some exploration and photographing the Olympic Serval during sundown and after - someone she doesn't recognize approaches on the beach, looking like they're just going for a night time run. They talk, and Aria finds herself trusting the woman immediately.
That was her first mistake.
She doesn't remember the rest of the night, but she remembers coming to in an alley of Port Leiry a few hours later, covered in blood and a distinct lack of heartbeat. Her sire doesn't approach for a few months, leaving her to try and navigate her new undead life on her own.
3/25/2025 Update: Since being turned into a vampire, she has struggled heavily with bloodlust due to her OCD compulsions. She met Autumn, and over a series of chance meetings began to date her- and eventually, on a whim, bought Bookends and moved into the apartment above it. An augury witch, having a vision of Aria's bloodlust causing problems, tries to remove it and it instead removes all of her memories.
5/2025 Update: Daniel Rivkin finds Aria after her killing spree outside of Port Leiry during the early days of her memory loss, and brings her into the fold of Reardon to develop her skills for the clan at the behest of the leader.
CONNECTIONS
PLATONIC SOULMATE (0/1); A friend from college that she’s lost touch with but now are reuniting. they bonded through being in SHADES, a queer student-led club for students of color and their allies at NYU. This connection must be a queer poc!
SIRE (0/1); Aria's vampire sire, who turned her in January 2024. Since then, they have not bee in contact and Aria has no idea who's turned her. This connection is open to discussion and plotting!
CHILDHOOD FRIENDS (0/2); Before moving to New York with her family after graduating high school, she and these two friends were thick as thieves. The three of them were completely and totally inseparable and leaving them behind was one of Aria's first big heartbreaks. Even well into adulthood, she kept in touch with them and they visited each other as often as they could until Aria moved to Port Leiry. Her absence in their life would have been felt, and now, after her memories have been taken from her, Aria has gone totally radio silent.
STEP-FATHER (0/1); Though Aria has a good relationship with all of her parents, she's arguably the closest to the man her mother re-married. He's been in her life since she was six years old, and became more of a father figure to her than her own birth father. He has since gotten a divorce with her mother, on good terms and still remains friends with her, to spend the last quarter of his life as an out and proud gay man.
MORE TO COME.
