✦ CHASE SUI WONDERS, CISFEMALE, SHE/HER ✦ SCOUT LEI-ROTH the TWENTY-SEVEN year old has been in Hidehill for THIRTEEN YEARS ( OFF AND ON ). Whispers on the streets are that the BOTTLE GIRL AT ENVY who lives in HIDE SQUARE are said to be OPEN and SELF-SABOTAGING but I guess we’ll find out for ourselves.
tw: infidelity, drugs, alcohol, divorce, broken home, parental issues/neglect
full name: scout lenda lei-roth
date of birth: february 28th
star sign: pisces
place of birth: palo alto, california
family: lei delun (father), nadine roth (mother), open (half-sibling), open (half-sibling)
sexual orientation: pansexual
religion: agnostic
tattoos: she has a few, though all fairly small. her first was a smiley face she got while underage. the first official was a set of butterflies off a flash. she collected a few more over the years: one on her spine, another finger, and a quote on her right arm. the latest however, is a groovy text at the crook of her right elbow.
style: oversized t-shirts worn in place of dresses, faux leather mod boots, mini skirts, hand-me-down hockey jerseys, denim cutoffs, silk nighties paired against thrifted leather jackets, fun graphic tees that cause heads to turn, itty bitty crops, mesh tops, thrifted skirts giving y2k, mini bohemian dresses, chunky doc martens
red wine stained lips, glitter you can't get out of the carpet, the warmth of a spotlight, towering over a crowd as you dance atop the bar, hands on your ankle begging you to come down, twelve missed phone calls from mom, mascara stained cheeks, butterflies in your chest, the thrumming of club music, a sparkler lit liquor bottle, hyper-fixating on a cellphone screen as you beg for a text to come through, making best friends in a nightclub bathroom, glitter pen scribbles in a journal, lighting a candle to make it all feel better, kissing your friends on the lips, clothes abandoned on a bedroom floor, being so-and-so's sister, knees bruised in the name of attention, & the false feeling of love.
scout was born into chaos. her father, a big shot developer in palo alto, had gotten his mistress pregnant and thus his first marriage ended officially just days before scout popped out of the womb. hated by some from her very first breath.
she never did get to see her father in a functional relationship. the first one deteriorated before she was born, then her own mother got thrown to the curb before scout had the chance to enter preschool, ditched for a younger, more naïve version. but even the third wised up to her father's ways, beating him to the divorce-punch come inklings of yet another affair. three marriages. a kid each.
scout couldn't say much of her half-siblings relationship to their shared father, but her? it was like screaming to a void. nothing came in return.
as if her parental problems weren't already shaky enough, the mother situation felt like trauma three-fold. first, the one that saw her as destruction. next, her own, there but only just. after all, it was hard to look at the spitting image of your worst heartbreak. and then came the last, the outlier. the one scout struggled to accept, struggled to like despite herself. funny how that third wife was the one that tried to include her most.
her youngest sibling had gotten into showbusiness young enough, becoming a childhood star in the midst of elementary school. it was something cool for awhile, something scout even bragged about... until the fame increased and it wasn't some fun fact. suddenly she was so-and-so's sister, not scout. always living adjacent to a fictional character, too beloved for people to turn off their blinders.
whilst supporting her sibling(s)— always content at sitting in the wings reading a book as the camera rolled, even the first to offer up running lines— scout could only handle so much of being overlooked. the only way she knew how to shine despite not being the star of the family was to become the problem. everyone liked a project, right? she wasn’t so invisible when they had to come pick her up off of the front steps of her apartment, unsuccessful in getting her keys to “work” after knocking back countless shots. or when there was video evidence of her dancing on the bar at moon. or that one time she’d called from jail. a misunderstanding, really.
scout self-identifies as a mess. she may be chaotic, but she's not delusional. she'll warn you too. 'proceed with caution.'
before you ask, yes, she has tried therapy. in fact, she's in it now, though the lady isn't who she'd've picked. but, you know, daddy's money. scout's true therapy sessions are poured into her journal: a collection of poems, collages, and diary entries. she's always been a creative but it's been an art she's held to her chest. there are times when therapy sessions come as drunk bathroom chats in the club or 3am soul sessions on a battered couch while passing a bong. scout isn't shy about her feelings or her issues. she knows she has them, fairly obvious too.
it was her frequent club hopping that landed her at envy as a bottle girl. she'd been working the day shift at verdure before, surviving mostly off the brunch shifts and money from her father ( one of the only ways he shows care ). then after a particular night out, the urge of another bottle girl, some tequila, and a sense of "fuck it", scout applied. she was showing off sparkler-adorned bottles of belvedere a few days later. mixing business with pleasure. fun some days, toxic the next.
skateboarding is her main form of transportation. it became a personality trait after she rewatched sleepover in her twenties and saw julie in that red dress being the epitome of cool. does she have her license? yes. car? no. should she be trusted behind the wheel? hard no. she's befriended too many curbs and panics come merging. when it comes to the road, scout is very much a passenger princess. it's better for everyone that way.
scout is a crier. and she’s not too shy about it. in fact, she has been known to openly get her groceries with mascara stains still on her cheeks. but sometimes a bitch just needs to get her emotional support cheez-its.
one of her few commonalities with her father is hockey. it was the sport that captured his interest back in the day, the first one he'd seen live after immigrating. red wings versus the bruins. that game determined their rival as a household years and years on. scout grew up on the red and white, on the shared glow of the television screen, on the play-by-plays from her father— hockey always remaining the time he spoke to her most.
scout lived in and around palo alto for most of her childhood before moving to hidehill for the first time at fourteen when her father opted a go at nashville— thinking "a change might do him good." that change lasted all of three years and then it was off to LA. showbusiness baby. scout left to ASU under the pretense of getting an education... only to drop out within her third year. she's tried her own hand at acting after that with no luck. she took a hop, step, and a jump before landing in new york. an unfortunate roommate situation had her retreating to hidehill ( by grace of that third wife ) within 6 months. despite liking hidehill, scout was a girl that couldn't sit still and so she took off again and for two years bounced between guest rooms, special friends beds, and hotel rooms before her father's guest house in LA became home. it was when she started to feel her roots begin to dig into the soil that scout packed her suitcase once more. then it was hidehill. again. a questionable choice given the latest happenings but it was the closest thing she had to home on the east coast. and scout needed some sense of belonging [ in short... PALO ALTO to HIDEHILL to LA to TEMPE to LA to NYC to HIDEHILL to TRAVELING AROUND to LA to HIDEHILL ] girly made moves.
plenty more in my head but won't write anymore. anything else please ask me <3
general connection ideas: best friends, friends, ex-friends, childhood friends, friends she met in other cities, pseudo siblings, family friends, coworkers ( ex @ verdure or current at envy ), classmates, exes, fwb, one night stand, tinder match, one-sided crush, enemy, annoyance, party friends, regulars at the club, mom-type/responsible friend that tries to keep her in check, neighbor, supporters of her bad behavior, plenttyyyyy more.....
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