Is that KENZIE HORTON? Wow, they do look a lot like NINA DOBREV. I hear SHE is/are a NINETEEN year old FRESHMEN who are studying UNDECIDED at Luxor University. Word is they are a REGULAR student who is AGAINST The Unhinged. You should watch out because they can be INSECURE and SELF-DEPRECATING, but on the bright side they can also be PROTECTIVE and FRIENDLY. Ultimately, you’ll get to see it all for yourself.
Ugh oh. Here we go. Cally is trying to update Kenzie’s intro.
TW: domestic abuse, death, depression, mental breakdown, drugs, alcohol, and accidental overdose
So, Kenzie was born to Neil Horton and Maggie Horton in Brooklyn, New York, though her history is far darker than that. As was revealed by The Circle during the 2020 prom, Kenzie’s biological father is not her dad that she always talks about it. Her mother was in a very abusive relationship with a man for several years. She was too afraid to leave until she became worried about someone else being hurt. When Maggie got pregnant and after suffering more abuse from her boyfriend, she finally left and went to the cops. Neil Horton happened to be the officer who took her initial statements and due to his kind heart, he helped her out. At first, she went to a women’s shelter, but her ex found her there, so he moved her in with him. As he worked on her case and cared for her, they fell in love. However, Maggie didn’t think she deserved someone like him. Eventually, her ex was convicted and went to jail and she felt free of him. And when Kenzie was born, Neil was there the whole time, as he had been throughout the entire pregnancy. He cut the umbilical cord and was the first person aside from Maggie to hold her. He cried and instantly loved that baby. He suggested to Maggie that his name be on the birth certificate so that her ex would have a harder time trying to get custody or anything down the road, which was one of her fears. And he was so dedicated to Kenzie already that she agreed. Over time, Maggie opened up to Neil and began to let herself really care about him. And eventually, they got married. They were incredibly happy together until six years ago, when he was shot in the line of duty and passed away.
A little more info on her parents. Maggie had a pretty rough life. She grew up with just her mom and a long line of her mom’s boyfriends. She often saw abuse in her own home. She moved in with a boyfriend when she was sixteen to get away from her mother. She moved to New York after that relationship exploded and though she couldn’t afford college, worked hard to earn some money so she could one day. She loved art and wanted to study it. Eventually, she began dating Kenzie’s father and lived with him, going through the abuse and controlling nature of that man. She was able to take college classes then, but her boyfriend wouldn’t let her study art like she wanted because he said she wouldn’t make any money, so she started taking nursing classes. Later on after Kenzie was born, she got her nursing degree and began working. Neil grew up in the historical and rich Horton family. His mother was an heiress and socialite and his father ran a company that owned many other companies, essentially. However, Neil was not interested in the money and following in his father’s footsteps. He wanted to help people. He joined the Marines out of high school and once he returned, he joined the police academy. When he took Maggie in and told his parents he was taking responsibility for Kenzie, they told him he should dump her, that she was using him and would take his money and leave him with a child that wasn’t even his. He stopped seeing them for several years because of that. After he and Maggie were married, they eventually came around, missing their only son. They grew to love Maggie and Kenzie.
Kenzie grew up knowing about her biological father, but she hated him. She never wanted to meet him or know him. She saw the way her mom reacted to things sometimes and saw her crying at times and she felt like it was her fault, like she was a reminder of all the bad stuff. So she tried to make sure she would never be anything like him. She adored Neil and thought of him as her real father and he raised her like that. He taught her self-defense, teaching her a lot of things about fighting and survival he learned from the Marines. He taught her about protecting people and doing the right thing. Kenzie ended up being a lot like her father, but she learned her kindness and motherly tendencies from her mom, who was always kind to everyone. After her father died, she was really devastated by it. As was her mother. She spends every birthday morning at her dad’s grave, telling her about her life. She still misses him every day. She made it through thanks to her mom and grandparents.
Kenzie’s grandparents want to spoil her, but her parents never wanted her to depend too much on money, so they made agreements with her grandparents. They pay for her tuition at Luxor, the school her father and many Hortons attended. They also have a college fund for her as well as an inheriitance for her future. They also bought her a car and supply her a monthly allowance as well as an emergency credit card, though she tries not to use too much money at times. Her grandfather died a year or two after her father, but her grandmother Alice Horton is a force to be reckoned with.
Kenzie is a tall, adventurous, outgoing, and sporty girl. She loves to be outside and explore, camping, working out, sports, and food. She has a huge stash of candy in her room at all times because she has a huge sweet tooth. She often bakes cookies and sweets for her friends as well. She makes friends with everyone she meets, or tries to. She usually finds ways to worm her way into the hearts of even the toughest people. She is 5′11″ and hates it at times. She can be very competitive, but also just loves to have fun, which is why she doesn’t really play many sports aside from cross country and equestrian at school. She is also very much the protective friend. She will do anything to keep the people she cares about from being hurt. She will always have your back no matter what. Because she knows very much how to fight, she has gotten in a couple, but most of the time, she tries to stop fights, using her skills to keep people from fighting. Kenzie is also a huge nerd. She loves books more than anything and has hundreds in her room. She works hard to get the highest grades she can, though she suffers from dyscalculia, which makes math hard and usually has a math tutor. Another skill she has is knitting and crocheting, which she learned from a neighbor back home who always babysat her, so people often get homemade sweaters and stuff for the holidays. She is a huge animal person, often rescuing animals or just playing with wild ones. She usually volunteers at an animal shelter close to home. She has two cats that live with her mom, Victra and Sevro. Sevro is a cat that she kept in her dorm room throughout her entire junior year.
Now, Kenzie also has some bad parts to her. She can be very insecure and cover it up with false confidence. She tries to be perfect and feels like a failure if she isn’t or if she thinks she has let anyone down. She also has a bad history with dating. Most guys she had crushes on would call her ugly or think of her as too much of a guy because she was a tomboy. Or even that she was too tall. The guy she lost her virginity to lead her on for a while until they had sex and then told his friends that she was begging him to sleep with her. She has mostly had failed relationships after that, though she did sleep around a bit. Then there was the throuple. She hooked up with two guys and liked them both, and they liked her and each other. So they decided to try and all three date. Kenzie tried hard and did research to try and make it work. For a bit, they were happy. But it eventually imploded. They felt like she was trying too hard to take care of them and lots of other stuff, which ended it. And Kenzie spiraled a bit. She fell into depression and, because she felt like her friends were annoyed with her being sad, she pretended to be happy, with the use of alcohol and pain killers. And she ended up having an accidental overdose at a masquerade ball. She was held at the hospital and after talking with therapists, diagnosed with depression. She began seeing a therapist weekly and taking antidepressants. She slowly got better, but she was still holding in a lot of issues, like with her biological father. She had a few more breakdowns and eventually spoke to her mother about a lot of issues. Now, she is dealing much better with things, but still struggles at times.
Kenzie is a tomboy through and through, so she isn’t always good with things she deems as ‘girly’ such as makeup and dressing up, which is where she relies on her more fashionable friends to help her with. She is confident sexually and in many of her skills, though will make self-depreciating jokes about the things she isn’t good at. She isn’t looking for a relationship currently after breaking up with her long-distance boyfriend, but is down for hookups. She drinks and sometimes uses weed, but not often, considering her accidental overdose before. She has four tattoos, which are all based on books. Her first was at seventeen and on her left shoulder. It is a wolf head with the worlds ‘hic sunt lupus’ and her father’s Marine number surrounding it from the Red Rising series. She has a healing run from the Shadowhunters books behind her right ear, which is for her saying she is healing from her mental issues. She has the saying ‘she was no lamb, she was a lion’ on her wrists from The Beautiful. She has her ears pierced, both nipples pierced, and a cartilage piercing.
Her mother has been dating a doctor at her hospital, Derek Price, for almost two years. He liked her for years, but Maggie was hesitant to date him. Kenzie likes him and now, her mother and Derek are engaged. Derek is divorced and shares custody with his ex of his 11 year old son Nash.
For school, Kenzie is an undecided major. She has no idea what she wants to do in the future. But currently, she is taking Literature, Human Biology, Psychology, World History, and Women’s Studies. Her extracurriculars are National Honors Society, Events Committee, ASL, Book Club (President), Films Club, GSA, Equestrian (Eventing), and Cross Country.
