BASICS.
full name: abra oriana notaro. face claim: gemma arterton. gender + pronouns: cisfemale, she/her. orientation: bisexual, biromantic. hometown: philadelphia, pa. united states. occupation: blogger + veterinary technician. employer: for pet’s sake animal hospital. birthday + zodiac: february 3rd, aquarius.
HEADCANONS.
Abra was born in Philadelphia, the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a cop, and her mother an English teacher. Her father was killed in the line of duty when she was very young, and it still surprises her sometimes, the ways in which that incident will creep into her thoughts and feelings. She initially had very little reaction to it because of her age. Her brother was eight, and it made him want to be a police officer to honor his memory, but she had only been three. She has very little memory of her father now, and she wishes she’d had more time to get to know him.
Her family is incredibly tight knit. Her house included her mother, two sisters, brother, Nonna and her, and most of her memories of growing up are happy ones. She’s incredibly proud of her siblings. Her oldest sister is a documentary filmmaker, the most serious member of her family. Her other sister is an artist, and Abra looks up to her for her creativity. She likes to say that there are no black sheep in the Notaro clan, and she believes that’s completely true. Her mother made them feel accepted and loved, and they all accepted each other because of it.
She began writing a positivity blog as a teenager. She’d had friends who weren’t quite as sunny as her personality made her most of the time, and she’d wanted to provide a resource for people who felt similarly. That resource proved useful to her as she entered her twenties and was hit with a bout of depression she wasn’t at all prepared for. It might have been triggered by a relationship that went sour, by the death of her Nonna or because her siblings moved away from home. It might’ve have been because she didn’t quite know what she wanted to do with her life, who she wanted to be. Whatever the trigger was, she started going to therapy while living with her brother, and she focused on writing the blog every day.
She now works as a veterinary technician, a job that allows her to support herself so that she can continue to write her blog. And her written blog has become a vlog too. She posts regular videos that chronicle her life. Recent subjects include her move to Whatever, a place she chose at random on a map of New England. She wanted an adventure, something to break her out of a rut she felt she’d fallen into in Philadelphia. Her siblings were seeing the world, having adventures, doing their own things, and she wanted a chance to maybe do the same.
Abra hasn’t dated much, and those she’s a romantic at heart, she’s honestly scared to try having a relationship with anyone. She’s not entirely sure where that fear comes from, but it feels very real any time she’s asked out or has feelings for someone. She’s not a huge fan of one night stands either, so she tends to avoid sexual and romantic situations despite her desire to have both.
OTHER:
player: heath, any. age: thirty plus. timezone: cst. blog link: (x)