Rosemary Josephine Reynolds was born to two loving parents in Bridgeport, Maine. She was a bit of a miracle child for her parents, as she was accidentally conceived many years after her sister was born. Her mother had been told she couldn’t have any more children, and yet here Rosemary was coming into their family thirteen years afterward. From a young age she had looked up to her siblings, especially Olivia who she saw almost like a second mother. The two fought a lot at first, but then became closer as time went on. Although, sometimes she found it hard to relate to the others as they were so much older than she was. At every point in her life her siblings were already several steps ahead of her. Even still, family had always been important to the young girl as she spent a lot of time with not only her immediate family but also her grandparents.
As a child she could often be found on her family farm. She loved to play around in the sheep pen and make sure all the animals were getting attention. The woman was a natural with animals from a young age, and used to say that she wanted to be a veterinarian when she was older. Her favorite animal of all was the horse that her father purchased for her, which she could be found brushing and petting multiple times a day when she got a chance. It only made sense that she eventually went on to enter horse shows with the mare, and won many awards. Each step of the way her family supported her how they could.
In high school, Rosemary’s interest shifted slightly. She became more involved in clubs at school, and started to have a pretty active social life. She was the type of girl that people couldn’t help but like to be around. While she spent time with her parents, she started to grow more independent and realized that she wanted to see what the world could offer her. The young woman set her sights on going away for college so that she’d be able to be her own person for a while. She’d thought about maybe going to school internationally, but decided against it as she was scared to be that far away from home.
Instead she ended up going to Emory University where she could be a few states away from her home, but still on the same side of the country if anything went too badly. Which was good because she made that multi-day drive home many times in order to see her family. In the four years that she spent in Georgia, she studied business. While there she also joined a sorority where she fell into the habit of drinking probably a little more than she should, and spent a few more mornings hungover than she wanted to admit to.
After finishing college, Rosemary decided to move back home. She wanted to put her degree to use and decided to become a wedding planner as she always loved attending weddings. She thought there was something magical about getting to help people out on the happiest day of their life. The woman had always been a bit of a hopeless romantic. She was certain it was from watching the love between her parents her entire life.
living situation: owns a house (the same one from her childhood) in old bridgeport. used to live with her little brother but since he in in college, it’s just her and the animals/plants she rescues
sexual orientation: pansexual
religion: believer (not subscribed to any organised religion or organization)
occupation: manager at emerald bay inn
fears: disappointing those around her, losing her loved ones, fire
hobbies: painting, sculpting, sewing, cooking
likes: art, animals, plants, taking care of others, traveling
dislikes: revealing of personal life, broken promises, hospitals
languages spoken: english, french
height: 5′8
instruments played: ukelele
tattoos: none (yet)
piercings: ears
favorite color: yellow, pink, green
favorite food: new orleans cuisine (almost everything she cooks is recipes she learned while living in nola)
allergies: none
right or left-handed?: ambidextrous (was left-handed but was forced to use right from a very young age and became ambidextrous as a result)
parents: edward & ann savoy
sibling(s): one younger brother, addie is his legal guardian since age 21
pet(s): too many to count/in constant rotation
𝖡𝖴𝖫𝖫𝖤𝖳 𝖯𝖮𝖨𝖭𝖳𝖲 (𝖿𝗎𝗅𝗅 𝖻𝗂𝗈 𝗌𝗈𝗈𝗇)
tw: abuse, negligent parenting, child endangerment, arson, death mention
born and raised in bridgeport
parents are... eccentric to say the very least. the mom comes from a wealthy english family and dad is a conman/accountant, the two met when addie’s dad moved to england during college, married almost instantly. they moved to bridgeport from england before addie was born after her dad tried to scam addie’s mom’s family. the grandpa bought them a nice, big home in old bridgeport.
growing up, addie’s parents continued trying to scheme people while in bridgeport. they would rub shoulders with the wealthiest of families who always got charmed by addie’s father into hiring him to look at their finances and he would steal from them. they would spend so much time partying and networking, addie had to pretty much raise herself.
addie’s little brother was born when she was 8. and although the savoy parents tried to keep it together and raise him, pretty soon they went back to their old tricks and addie had to step in and help raise her little brother.
as her father’s ‘business’ and ‘name’ began to crumble as his friends realized he had been robbing them, the neglect of the savoy children only got worse to the point where addie had to get a half-time job after turning 15.
one night, at age 16, while the family was in their vacation home in long island adelaide was woken up by her little brother telling her their house was on fire. the police and the firefighter brigade came to help but it was already too late, the house was 80% lost. the family had to return home 3 days later and upon their arrival, adelaide called her best friend asking for help. he appeared and adelaide took her brother, a bag and left without saying a word to her parents. once the two savoy siblings were safe, addie broke down. the fire had been provoked and planned months ahead by her parents, who needed the insurance money to pay for some bills they were late on and she had been forced into silence. scared of what her parents may do, adelaide made a plan at the same time they were panning the arson. the night the house burned down, she took her car, some of the stuff she had packed previously, her little brother and drove to new hampshire.
she began home schooling her little brother (although she didn’t had the opportunity to finish high school) herself with the fire occurring a few months before graduation. she also got as many jobs as she could to try and provide for her little brother.
the savoy siblings remained in new hampshire for only a few months before paranoia made adelaide grab their things and move again. the next state they moved to becoming massachusetts and history repeated itself a couple months later, when the siblings had to move again. they lived and traveled across the united states, living in 12 different states in the span of 5 years.
the siblings moved to nola a month before adelaide’s 21st birthday. adelaide got a job as a bartender. a maid in a hotel and a waitress in a span of a month. the day of her birthday, she met an old rich lady who quickly warmed up to adelaide and after learning about her working situation, offered her a job as her care-taker. adelaide and her brother moved in with her a few weeks after.
as the three of them began getting close and learning about eachother, addie’s employer offered to help her fire the best lawyer in new orleans to fight for her brother’s custody against her parents. the lawyer, after hearing the story of the savoy siblings and seeing some of the proof adelaide had gathered throughout the years against them for fraud insurance and child endangerment, urged her to bring the story to the state and help them form a case against the savoy parents. within a few months the parents were convicted and after a difficult process, adelaide could get her brother’s full custody.
they lived in nola for five more years until adelaide’s employer (who in their time shared had become family to them) passed away, leaving everything she had to the savoy siblings.
tired of running away and with their newly found wealth, the savoy siblings finally returned to bridgeport. adelaide used some of the money to buy back their childhood home to bring it back to life and saved the rest for her brother’s education as she didn’t want any money she hadn’t earned herself.
within a week of returning to her hometown, adelaide found a job as a maid at emerald bay inn, where she has been working to slowly but surely escalate in the field. now, she is the manager of the hotel.
adelaide is also a painter and sculptor, knows how to make clothes (had to learn during the trying times and she sometimes still tailors and uses her expertise to help friends) and gardens. the savoy siblings foster injured and sick animals in their home whenever they get the chance.
𝖯𝖤𝖱𝖲𝖮𝖭𝖠𝖫𝖨𝖳𝖸
Most days, Addie is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, the kind of girl who smiles at everyone she meets and greets strangers with a smile on the daily. She likes making people around her happy. She thrives when people around her shine.
However, she can be very closed off and go as far as to be very deceitful? I mean, she is sharp, even though people don’t think she is because they write her off as a “southern belle” type, but what most people don’t know is she can be cunning whenever she sets her mind on it, she learned from a very young age how to take advantage of everything she had to get what she had her mind settled on.
The one thing she cares the most about in the world is her brother. The boy is pretty much her own and has been since the day he was born, she would stop at nothing to make sure he is fine and he is happy.
Her hobbies include painting and sculpting (which she makes some money off of), gardening (the savoy sibling’s home is a glorified zen garden by now) and designing (she sometimes uses this skill to make clothes for selling to friends and acquaintances).
Loyal to no end, good god. It takes a lot for her to feel comfortable with someone to call them her friend but once she does, she is the most loyal friend. Also the mom friend, no matter how close you are. If it’s even a little bit chilly outside and she sees a stranger shivering she WILL give them her sweater, has medicine and candy on her at all times.
She can be quite impetuous and extremely curious to the verge of being noisy, but never in a malicious way, unless you mess with someone she cares about.
Whatever you throw her way, she’ll land on her feet.
living situation: owns a nice home that he shares with his dog, pollux.
sexual orientation: demisexual
religion: believer but doesn’t subscribe to any religion
occupation: owner of the pitch/writer
fears: leaving the world worst than he entered it, hurting people.
hobbies: musical theatre, camping, reading,
likes: see above + nature, cooking, history, volunteering, sports.
dislikes: talking about his past
languages spoken: english, spanish, french, japanesse, italian, russian
height: 6 feet
instruments played: guitar, piano
tattoos: a phoenix on his back, a minimalist tattoo from the song ‘from eden’ by hozier where the word idealism sits in a small prison and it’s located on his left ribcage, the date of his mom’s passing and his sibling’s disappearance on his chest, the phrase ‘when i was drowning, that’s where i could finally breathe’ from the song clean by taylor swift on his right forearm.
piercings: n/a
favorite color: blue, red, green
favorite food: pie
allergies: n/a
right or left-handed?: right-handed.
parents: robert warren & alycia reynolds
sibling(s): a younger sibling, whereabouts unknown (there may be more half siblings, who knows?)
pet(s): a four year old labradoodle named pollux
𝖡𝖴𝖫𝖫𝖤𝖳 𝖯𝖮𝖨𝖭𝖳𝖲 (𝖿𝗎𝗅𝗅 𝖻𝗂𝗈 𝗌𝗈𝗈𝗇)
tw: substance abuse, abuse, child neglect, family separation, injury overdoze and death mention
he was born in hermosa beach, california and is the son of a former ballerina and a mechanic. however, they both had quit their professions by the time alex was born to produce and distribute illegal substances. his mother was a bridgeport native and when he was a kid, he used to visit quite regularly until his mom and her family got into a big argument and she swore to never come back
they started to use too very soon, so alexander’s entire life revolved around drugs from very early on in his life. he had to learn to be responsible and care for himself and his parents at a very young age and that proved to be beneficial when their sibling was born and alex soon enough had to take care of an infant due to his parents falling right into their addiction.
the patriarch started getting violent towards the entire family and those around them could see it so one day after receiving an anonymous call and while alexander was in school, child services arrived to the warren household and took the youngest warren.the father used this as his emergency exit and he too, left.
when alexander was sixteen, he came home after a party to find his mom unconscious and was pronounced death on her way to the hospital. it was later revealed that she had overdozed. after a few months barely surviving, alexander finally reacted. he finished high school a year later on top of his class and was later accepted in nyu
he decided to major in criminal justice and minor in drama, later on he got a phd in criminal justice and got enlisted in the fbi at age 23. it was during this time in his life where he met the person he thought he would spend the rest of his life and asked them to marry him. to his surprise, they said yes.
a couple years passed and alexander excelled at his job as an agent. he was told if he kept the good work he could make it as an executive director before 30. however, he was already doubting his life path. it all came crumbling down after two incidents: one when all the agents in his division and their families were threatened, causing alexander to freak out about his involvement with his fiance and culminated on them breaking off the engagement and their relationship altogether.
shortly after the breakup, the second incident caused him to spiral down: during a high profile case a mistake was made. a mistake that nearly caused him his life. it all culminating in him deciding to end his (fairly, short but extremely taxing) career in the fbi and start anew. alexander decided then to move to bridgeport, the one place that watched his mother grow. he used his experience to consult some cases after quitting and ultimately, wrote his first crime novel.
his first novel was published and received incredibly well, becoming a new york times best seller within a few weeks of its release. his publisher offered him a contract for other two books connected to his first novel, to create a crime saga and a possibility of a movie adaptation. alexander of course, accepted happily and delivered the second one within a few months.
with some of the money he got from his book deals, alexander opened the pitch
he got a labradoodle puppy around 4 years ago and is now trying to write his third book although it had proven as unsuccessful as his love life, although he remains hopeful and open minded in both fronts.
𝖯𝖤𝖱𝖲𝖮𝖭𝖠𝖫𝖨𝖳𝖸
For the most part, Alexander is a very loving and caring person. He genuinely cares about making those around him happy, he is very protective of those he loves, sometimes to a fault. But he always has good intentions, unless you hurt someone he loves, then he can be hell on earth and he has the FBI on his side so really, don’t cross him.
He can get VERY hot-heated, he is a very passionate guy when something really interests him.
He’s basically tired ???? all the time??? he doesn’t sleep that much but he’s getting better at it now that he doesn’t sleep alone) but yeah, big part of his personality, either tired or drinking coffee.
Kind of a mess, he tries to hides it because he has kids that depend on him now and he is like, a respectable professor but, yeah.
Honestly, just a very tired old golden retriever with an awful past he is still trying to deal with.
Oh, look! It’s [SYLVIA LAWSON]! I heard they’re [48], a [FEMALE], use [SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [ONE YEAR] and are actually from [TULSA, OKLAHOMA]. They are currently working as a [PHYSICAL THERAPIST] and living in [LIBERTY HILLS]. You know, I personally think they look like [JESSICA CHASTAIN], but that’s crazy, right?
Triggers in Bio: bigotry, cheating
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to very religious parents. Her dad was a baseball scout and her mom was a college professor, so she grew up loving baseball and became a huge Texas Rangers fan when her brother started playing for them
Was a good girl, was a cheerleader, and got good grades, but she wasn’t happy. She became happy when she met Trace.
They got married right out of high school and went to UNC for college. Sylvia was going to go to law school but that changed when she got pregnant. She changed to a business degree and went to work when her daughter was old enough to go to school. She was a stay at home mom before that.
Sylvia and Trace had marriage problems including cheating and a. lot of accusations, but they never divorced because it was frowned upon. Despite everything, they went to marriage counseling and it saved their marriage
Now, they are in a good place since moving to Bridgeport. Sylvia works at the flower shop, she has a creative side she finally feels comfortable letting out. She is also Leanne Rhodes’ assistant and she loves that job as well.
Sylvia still feels like there are parts of her that she hasn’t explored yet, seeing as she grew up in a home where self expression wasn’t encouraged.
However, she is much happier than she has been in a long time
Oh, look! It’s [TABITHA DYER]! I heard they’re [45], a [FEMALE], use [SHE/HER] pronouns, have been in town for [TWO YEARS] and are actually from [CINCINNATI, OHIO]. They are currently working as a/an/the [MANAGER AT MERMAID’S ALCOVE] and living in [OLD BRIDGEPORT]. You know, I personally think they look like [CARLA GUGINO], but that’s crazy, right?
TW: MURDER, DEATH
Was born & raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Has a much older sister so she spent a lot of her childhood on her own.
Was never really that close with her sister due to the age difference, but was devastated when she was killed due to the fact that Valeria had to witness it.
Tabitha was always very close with her niece Val since they are only a few years apart, and it broke her when Val was left to look after her siblings. Tabitha was only 14 at the time and couldn’t really do much about it, but she tried to help when she could.
When she was 18, she left Ohio and moved to Arizona. She attended Arizona State University and studied business management.
After graduating, she traveled all over and never really put down roots anywhere.
From a young age, she was sensitive to the supernatural/spiritual world. She works at Mermaid’s Alcove as the manager and also does tarot card and palm readings out of her home in Old Bridgeport. She has lived in town for two years.
Some of the older residents in Bridgeport think she’s a witch lol
Has a reputation of not being able to settle down in terms of relationships. She usually doesn’t get in them because of commitment issues. She’s the gone the next morning kind of girl
WANTED CONNECTIONS
Friends
Hookups
Crushes
Regulars at the cafe
Tarot card/palm reading clients
Her ex: She did actually date him/her for a couple of months and started to develop real feelings and broke up with them
place of birth & time in Bridgeport: Three years. [ Born in Ohio]
district: Downtown bridgeport.
occupation: Full time free spirit. Part time Cashier for Gas and Go
Faceclaim: Aubrey Plaza
triggers in headcanons: Drugs, sex, murder, pregnancy
Her father was very abusive towards her mother and their house growing up was a constant crossfire. When she was twelve her father’s abuse ended in her mothers death. She was a witness to it and would never forget hiding in the closet with her siblings. Afterwards she went to live with her grandmother. She was a strict woman who never really understood Val and her way of thinking. Valeria was always a free spirit, she wanted to grab life by the balls instead of letting it rule her. To live for her mother.
Her father was very abusive towards her mother and their house growing up was a constant crossfire. When she was twelve her father’s abuse ended in her mothers death. She was a witness to it and would never forget hiding in the closet with her siblings. Afterwards she went to live with her grandmother. She was a strict woman who never really understood Val and her way of thinking. Valeria was always a free spirit, she wanted to grab life by the balls instead of letting it rule her. To live for her mother.
When she was sixteen she ran off with her best friend from school and never looked back. They lived out of their car and traveled around, becoming groupies for various artists. She spent those years trying drugs, having lots of sex and exploring.
It was at one of the rager groupie parties that she hooked up with a professional racer and would discover weeks later she was pregnant. She vaguely remembered his face but couldn't recall his name. She decided to keep the baby and traveled with her best friend to Hawaii to stay with her friend's family. It was there and gave birth to her beloved baby girl , Elikapeka. For the first time since losing her mother, Val knew true love. She wasn’t sure how to parent in the least, but she loved her kid and did her best. It became her and Eli against the world, until she later met Cairo. She wasn’t interested at first, but he grew on her, and seeing how good he was with Eli warmed her heart. They lived in Hawaii for a few years until Valeria’s spirit grew restless and Cairo went back overseas. They kept up with calls and letters for a while, but long distance and miscommunication got to them in the end and they broke up. Valeria continued to travel around the states with Eli, raising her on the road meant lots of schools and some homeschooling. But also lots of adventures and priceless memories. Val took several odd jobs as they town hopped. For a while she thought Eli liked it too, but as she grew older she could see her daughter longed for roots and stability.
Valeria has always struggled with planting roots and committing to relationships.
She feels safer being on the go due feeling trapped in her troubled childhood
She loves her daughter to pieces and would drop everything for her at any moment.
Her daughter Eli is her best friend.She has always treated her as an equal and struggled to enforce any real rules. She chose to let her daughter run free and learn from life by adventure and experiences
In some waysEli is more mature than her, she admires her daughters level headedness and wisdom
Likes eatery coffee
Expert at peeing in a bottle on the side of the road
Uses cynical humor to cope with past traumas
Likes living every day to the fullest
Spontaneous adventures are her favorite thing. She hates planning.
Has a half sleeve of tattoos on her right arm and wants more
Likes to read romance novels
Collects broken things
Present
Eli’s persuasion won her over in the end, and Val agreed to put down roots in Bridgeport, MA. For the first time in years she owns a house that isn’t on wheels. Which is odd for her. She’s also has a steady job, also strange. She’s trying her best to make Eli proud and be more adult and parent rather than a friend, but it’s a daily struggle. She wants to buy an old school bus and convert it into a home on wheels. She has also reconnected with Cairo, they are giving it another try. She loves him, but isn’t sure how to express it well sometimes. She heard from a cousin recently that her father may be getting released from prison on parole which has her a little anxious. She doesn’t want him showing up for any kind of reunion with her and Eli.
BIRTH NAME : Matthew Alexander Wheeler
ALIAS / NICKNAME : Matt, Matty
AGE : 28
DATE OF BIRTH : April 30, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH : Bridgeport, ME
RESIDENCE : Old Lymemouth
TW : Bullying, parental disappointment
EDUCATION : High school diploma
OCCUPATION : Manager at Critical Roll
GENDER : Male
PRONOUNS : He/Him
SEXUALITY : Bisexual
FACECLAIM : Joe Keery
HAIR COLOR : Brunette
EYE COLOR : Hazel
HEIGHT : 5′11″
BUILD : Fit
SCENT : Degree Ultraclear
TATTOOS : None
PIERCINGS : None
BEAUTY HABITS : Has a hair routine he does to make it look nice, shaves daily
ZODIAC : Taurus
TEMPERAMENT : Sanguine
HOGWARTS HOUSE : Hufflepuff
ELEMENT : Air
FATHER : Hank Wheeler
MOTHER : Michelle Wheeler
SIBLINGS : Older brother
PARTNERS : TBD
CHILDREN : None
INSPIRATIONS : Steve Harrington (Stranger Things), Will Byers (Stranger Things)
BIOGRAPHY
If anyone was to look at the Wheeler family, they would think they were a “cookie cutter” family on the outside and think that it wasn’t like that on the inside. However, it was. They were a happy family with his dad a police officer and his mom a stay-at-home and the only fighting that ever really happened was between Matthew and his older brother; like siblings usually did. He never had a complaint, though, and as he grew, they all supported his interests.
As he started school, he was one to sit in the front of the class and answer all sorts of questions. He was good at most subjects, but as he started to get bullied for being a “nerd”, he started being a little more shy about his intelligence and sat in the back. He didn’t have many friends and his brother would end up beating up anyone who bullied him, his days outside of school were mainly spent playing video games and eventually, getting into Dungeons & Dragons.
By high school, he had joined a Dungeons & Dragons club and started getting close to his teacher, Brady Levitt. He looked up to the man and he was also into D&D so it made everything worth it. He was still getting decent grades and once graduation came around, he had numerous options of where to go to school, except he didn’t. He didn’t know what he wanted to do and so, he started working at his former teacher’s shop. This quickly became an issue between him and his dad as the older man thought he should be going to school to get a degree in something, but Matthew found it pointless if he didn’t know what he wanted to do.
As the years went by, he moved up at his position to be a manager and got his own apartment in Old Lymemouth. He’s very content with his life and has been thinking about possibly getting a business degree to help more at the shop. One can still find him doing D&D every week at Critical Roll and feels he could work there forever.
Education: BAs in Journalism and Political Science
Occupation: Executive Producer at News World
Gender: Female
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Sexuality: Pansexual
Face Claim: Amber Stevens West
Biography: (TW parental absence/neglect, single parent, drug use)
Tara was born to free-spirited parents who were really still children at heart themselves. Dena and Johnny Strong were traveling the country together visiting music festivals and enjoying trips both on the road and via ecstasy. When Dena unexpectedly fell pregnant, the pair took it in stride, looking at raising a child as another great adventure. The idea of settling down never entered the picture for the two who were much more focused on finding their next great journey. Unfortunately, Dena’s excitement quickly deteriorated once Tara was born. Johnny, on the other hand, fell in love with his baby girl and was ready to change his life after the first moment he met Tara. This presented a massive strain on their relationship, eventually causing it to brittle and then snap. Dena fled, writing Johnny a “Dear John” letter, which he would later laugh at the irony of. She took off, running from the life she’d never intended to fall into. Johnny chose to return home to a place he had vowed would forever remain in his rear-view mirror ever since he left at 18, Portland, ME. But, children have a funny way of changing your world. So Johnny buckled down, made amends with his family for the sake of his daughter and remade himself into a reliable, practical guy.
Tara has spent her entire life trying to prove to her father, but more to herself, that she was worthy of his sacrifice. She’s done everything she can to try and be the perfect daughter. As a teenager she never acted out, keeping her nose clean and always in a book. Johnny worked hard to support himself and his daughter which often meant Tara would come home to an empty house after her school day or extracurriculars ended. Never liking the quiet, the young girl got very used to simply turning on the news. The strong, confident voices of anchors beaming through the television screen to convey truth: good, bad, or ugly was a comfort to her. Tara loved the idea that someone, or even just a show itself could present the facts and offer people support in hard times. Typically Johnny would get home from work later at night to find her passed out on the couch with CNN or NBC still playing.
Her father raised her to be an independent person who could handle whatever life planned to throw. In his spare time he made sure Tara would grow up to be a woman who could look after herself whether that meant patching a flat tire or understanding how to caulk a bathtub. He was practical, and Tara took that practicality and ran with it. While other kids were dreaming about going to space or lassoing bucking broncos her crayon sketches were of men and women in suits, delivering the honest truth to camera. While the news fascinated her, Tara was never interested in being on camera, she wanted to run the show not say the lines. And that path led her to a pursuit in producing the news for television. This took her first to Georgetown University in DC for dual degrees in journalism and political science and then onto Columbia. When she finished her master’s degree, Tara dove straight in first working as a production assistant from CNN out of New York City. After a few years, she decided to take a risk and leave one of her dream networks to pursue more experience in producing by going to a small local station in her home state. While for now Bridgeport is merely a stop on Tara’s step ladder back towards primetime international news, the town is slowly but surely growing on her.
