ABOUT SERAFINA —
Name: Serafina 'Sera' Antonio - Montgomery Age / D.O.B. : 46 years old / August 23rd, 1975 Gender, Pronouns & Sexuality: cisfemale, she/her, bisexual Hometown: Morgantown, WV (USA) Affiliation: Cortázar Cartel Job position: Funeral Director | Accidental Member of the Cortázar Cartel Education: High School Graduate — nothing further Relationship status: Widowed Children: One child — aged ~ 30 years old. Positive traits: Maternal; Eqloquent; Loyal; Witty; Compassionate Negative traits: Acquisitive; Impulsive; Self-Righteous; Mistrusting; Stubborn
— BIOGRAPHY
tw: teenage pregnancy, emotional & physical abuse, and death.
- Born to a somewhat well-off family— her father was always travelling for work, leaving her mother alone with their newborn. Her mother ended up entering Sera into pageats as an infant, all it took was one gold medal for the woman to continue entering her daughter into any and all pageants. (Serafina became a puppet for her mother to live her dreams through). She ended up being a little too good at the pageant work— accumulating a grabbag of theatrical talents, knowing how to woo a handful of regular judges.
- Right around this time (age 15ish) she met a boy named Henry, but her mother refused to let a boy stand in the way of her... daughter's dreams. As soon as she noticed the distractions (dropping spinning plates, missing steps in choreographed routines, being unbothered when missing notes during vocal practice, the usual), she banished the boy from her daughter's life.
- Banish smanish. Sera continued sneaking around with Henry— midnight car rides, sneaking around backstage at the theatre during pageants and productions. Everything was working well, just until it wasn't.
- Two weeks before her 17th birthday, Serafina realized something wasn't right. And she was correct— the butterflies and nausea she was feeling about an upcoming Broadway audition weren't due to nervousness. Or, maybe they were. But, they were mostly due to the fact that she was pregnant.
- Sera and Henry hid the pregnancy long enough to drain her life's worth of pageant money to a new bank account, while Henry had slowly stolen money from his family's bakery. The two curated a plan to escape their broken homes, and once they reached their goal funds they ran away to a small town near New York just around the time that Sera would've been auditioning on Broadway.
- Being newly 18, Henry found odd jobs around the town, eventually landing himself a gig at the local funeral home. He attended school in the mornings, worked in the evenings. Sera stayed home with the baby until she turned 18, then found a job at a local club to work nights— putting her pageant talents to good use. Maybe her mother would be proud.
- Henry ended up interested in all things mortuary science, switched his studies around, and stayed with the home after college. He'd built such a strong bond with the head Mortician, who happened to be a single, older man, and upon his sudden passing, Henry found that the home had been given to him. Now running the home, Sera was able to stay home full time with their child. They held a small wedding right around this time, to celebrate all of the good things coming their way.
- Once Henry had the means, they moved and opened a new funeral home in a more populated part of the city. At this time, their child began to act out in school. Sera, having no experience in the field of parenting outside of pageant-coaching, tended to coddle the child (in Henry's eyes). There was always an excuse for their behavior, always something that dismissed the issues at hand, and Henry's more authoritative personality towards their child violently clashed with Sera's. This was where the fault in their marriage began. Henry became an unrecognizable monster when he was upset with Sera and their child— which, created his ideal family dynamic.
- Henry began taking business trips, allegedly teaching morticians around the country and looking to monopoloize on his... business. Sera never questioned a thing, only happy to have Henry out of the home for longer periods of time seemed to result in an eerily peaceful air in the home, only until something set him off. It was just enough for them all to survive— Sera celebrated the day that their, now adult, child had moved from the home. Their safety from the wrath of Henry was guarunteed as they navigated adulthod. On the outside, they were a picture-perfect family, but only mere threads held the family together.
- Years later, on their way home from a dinner party, Henry posed the idea of a divorce to Sera. Upon sheer disbelief that the man she'd grown up with, lived her entire life beside, was so willing to quit their marriage— and if anyone was going to request a divorce, it was going to be Serfina. She argued, but Henry was too far gone, already having acuired the papers. Refusing to believe that her life was officially crumbling, and now on paper, Sera grabbed the steering wheel for her husband to pull over, and ultimately he won the tug-of-war, sending the car barrelling into oncoming traffic— silencing Henry's side of the argument... eternally.
- Now widowed (is it still widowed if you were divorcing soon, but nobody knew?), Sera was in charge of the funeral home and its staff. In no time at all, secrets revealed themselves. Pandora's Box had been opened. Various affairs throughout their marriage, working with the Cortázar Cartel on concealing shipments, covering up gang-related deaths— everything that Henry had ever told her was suddenly a lie. The funeral home staff, unphased by another death, had no intentions of halting their work. Sera knew that she either had to work with them, or she'd be joining Henry in the afterlife. She was thrown headfist into an entirely foreign world, learning the ropes of the other life her husband lived.
— WANTED CONNECTIONS / PLOTS
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