( bethany joy lenz, forty-six, she/her ) did you know that christine “spike” nelson is in toronto? wow, time really has flown by since graduation. do you think they still remember having emma when she was so young? i know she graduated in 1992, but i heard since then they’ve been running her own hair business. they were always kind-hearted, but also had a tendency to be hard-headed too. i heard they still request just like heaven by the cure at above the dot’s karaoke night.
FULL NAME: christine nelson
NICKNAME: spike
BIRTHDATE: 20 september 1975
FAMILY: emma nelson ( daughter ) & jack simpson ( son ) / archibald “archie” “snake” simpson ( husband / tbd if someone picks up snake )
GENDER & PRONOUNS: cisfemale & she/her
SEXUALITY: spike is heterosexual. though she had moments where she’s experimented with her sexuality and thought that maybe she might be bisexual, or even more fluid in her sexuality, she currently still labels as heterosexual and doesn’t see herself as being with a woman.
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: spike has a few tattoos, and a couple of small burn marks on her arms from when she started hairdressing. but nothing big and bold that you would really notice unless you truly were looking to pay attention to that sort of thing.
HAIR COLOR: as a hairdresser, spike has had many har styles, but her current hair is her natural brown color and straight. no longer stylized in a punk rock way like her nickname
christine was born to a young single mother and never really got a whole lot of everything. her mother worked hard for the two of them, and spike was...well, a bit rebellious trying to make sure everything she did was worthwhile for some time. but, of course, things didn’t go exactly as planned when after her first time having sex she wound up pregnant. she didn’t know what to do and how to react or anything, because she was so young and didn’t know if she could even handle being a mother. but, firmly believing that no matter what her boyfriend at the time believed, it was her choice to do what she wanted, spike went through with her pregnancy and became a mom at the tail end of her middle school career with the support of her mother and other friends around her.
of course, things weren’t easy. her boyfriend wasn’t there for herself or the baby and it wasn’t exactly his fault but it was hard to see him living his life while she felt like she was struggling to keep her head above water most days. studying and keeping everything up with her daughter, it was a lot of work. while for a while shane paid some child support money, it got more complicated after his accident and left spike worried about what to do with everything she might need. and also about what might be coming for her in the future when it would be the world ahead of her and her daughter.
graduation came and she felt like she was able to live her life, but she was working as a beautician and taking care of emma still. she always knew it would be hard work, but balancing it now that she was out of school she thought it would be easier.
for some time it was, until emma hit her pre-teen years and spike was faced with the realization that she not only raised a mini-me, but a mini-caitlin in some ways too, and it was a lot to handle. while spike was still young and trying to live her own life--falling in love for real once more--she was struggling with how emma was going to handle everything too. and maybe things didn’t pan out the way they would have in a perfect world, but why would they?
she wound up pregnant once again before her wedding to snake and worried about what he might say about the pregnancy, she kept it a secret. it was the worst secret she might have kept and caused a fight. instead of getting married in the dress she’d picked out she wound up getting married in one of her old favorite band t-shirts and jeans, to the man she loved since high school and it was one of the best days of her life.
of course, that didn’t mean everything was perfect. she still had to deal with troubles of raising a teenager, and a new baby, and also having a husband for the first time.
eventually spike opened up her own salon business with money she’d been saving over the years and it’s been going well lately, but she’s still living paycheck the paycheck.