Austyn Croft is 43 years young with a birthday on April 10th. She hails from Milford, Nebraska but now lives in New York, New York. She is an Officer With The NYPD and looks a bit like Kate Moennig.
Full Name:
Austyn Casey Croft
Pronouns:
She/Her
Gender:
Cis-Female
Sexuality:
Lesbian
3 Positive Traits:
+ driven + organized + confident
3 Negative Traits:
- hardheaded - sarcastic - steely
Biography:
triggers: drug abuse, alcoholism, death
Austyn was born the third of four children to Andrea and Jeremiah Croft. Her older sister, Macey, was born when their parents were barely out of high school. Almost eight years later, her older brother, Landon, would be born. Three after that, Austyn, and three more after that, Bennett. Austyn was always in her older brother’s hair and, for the most part, he didn’t mind. He taught her to play guitar and appreciate good music. However, he also got her high, gave her alcohol on top of that high, and then let her loose on the world. It was what he had done for himself and he only felt right passing it on.
To say Austyn was very much a sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll kind of child would be an understatement. She was the kind of person that got by in school by the skin of her teeth. Was caught smoking under the bleachers with a bottle of alcohol in middle school. It wasn’t like there was much to do in Milford, Nebraska anyway. Her parents owned a farm and she worked it and worked it well. She was better when it came to using her hands than using her brain. And her ability with a guitar proved that. Most of the time she could hear a song a handful of times and be able to play it without little help at all. She ran track somewhat consistently through middle and high school because they wouldn’t let her play football.
The one thing Milford always seemed to have a lot of, was parties. Bonfires, house parties, didn’t matter, they had them and they had them frequently. Like much of the population of her high school, Austyn attended them regularly. Between the drugs and the alcohol and an appearance that just screamed dyke, making out with girls at these parties was easy. Not that it seemed anyone believed she was actually gay, unless they weren’t straight either. At one of these parties in her freshman year, she fucked Landon’s girlfriend, who later broke up with him for reasons she didn’t feel the need to discuss. Austyn fucked her a few more times before she went off to college and was never heard from again.
One night in her senior year, just before winter break, Austyn got caught completely crossfaded, by her father. She was following in her older brother’s footsteps and Jeremiah Croft wasn’t having it. He gave her an ultimatum, get her shit together, or get out. Not really wanting to get disowned, Austyn got clean and sober, making that Christmas her worst Christmas, ever. But, no one ever really noticed. She’d always been the miserly sort, so her mood worsening in her sobriety didn’t really faze anyone. In fact, no one knew she got sober. But, it certainly caused a riot when, the day after graduation,
Austyn left for Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Boot Camp. It was while she was in the military that Austyn really got to know her younger brother. She’d known he was gay from a young age, but he’d put up his walls and did everything he could to be a masculine man. At least until he went to college and was more capable of being himself. Which is when Austyn connected with him properly. They’d had being gay in common, but it hadn’t exactly established much of a bond between them. Something about writing letters back and forth had drawn them closer and when Bennett had introduced Austyn to his boyfriend, Christopher, she’d been proud.
In 2004, via surrogate, Ben and Chris would welcome son Logan into the world and Austyn would become an aunt for the second time, Macey and her husband having had a child a few years before. Austyn wouldn’t be able to come home from deployment until months after Logan was born, but she received plenty of pictures to bide her over. And she thoroughly enjoyed receiving them. Roughly five years later, via surrogate again, they’d welcome daughter Casey into the world. Once again, Austyn would be deployed. However, this time was different. The men had expressed that they were naming their children after their favorite heroes but for the life of her, Austyn couldn’t figure out what big name hero was named Casey. It was then that they revealed the child had been named after Austyn, as her middle name is Casey. In her excitement, Austyn let out a scream so loud anyone within earshot was worried that she’d actually been shot. Austyn was there, however, when Ben and Chris legally got married in 2011, as well as when Remy was born in 2014.
While in the Marine Corps, Austyn moved up the ranks quickly and efficiently. She was good at what she did and it gave her purpose. She knew what she was doing with her life and she thrived. She dated a bit, here and there, but it was primarily just fucking. Being a lesbian in the military had its downsides and she was careful about who she told what. Her life was one worth living, though. She was an aunt, she loved her work, and there really didn’t feel like there was anything missing, even without a partner to share her life with. Most of the ones she did find were in the military and the ever present fear of getting a call that they’d died in combat, millions of miles from, just sat too heavy.
At the age of 43, ranked Master Gunnery Sergeant, after 25 years of service, Austyn gave it all up. Not because she wanted to, but because she had to. Bennett and Christopher had died in some sort of accident, whether in or out of a car no one was actually sure, in June of 2019. Their three children weren’t wanted by any other immediate family, Christopher having been disowned and no one else on Bennett’s side wanting to take them. So, Austyn did. She retired, uprooted her life and moved from San Diego to New York City, all to keep family, in the family. She managed to find work with the NYPD and did her best to adjust to her new life. Raising three children between the ages of 4 and 17 was going to be her hardest mission yet, but she was ready, she had to be, for their sakes.