❝ a riot of raven curls framing her face, abandoning years of expectations to make her own way; figuring shit out while half falling apart, torn between old love and a fresh start; piles of manuscripts she still needs to read, a desk still cluttered with cups of yesterday’s coffee; bare lips, bloodshot eyes, monday movie nights, refusing to cry.
NAME: Marisol Velasco Suarez
NICKNAME(S): Mari
AGE: Thirty
RESIDENTIAL AREA: Gastown
OCCUPATION: Editorial Assistant
LENGTH OF TIME IN VANCOUVER: Native
BIOGRAPHY | CONNECTIONS | STATS | PINTEREST
basics.
BIRTHDAY: tbd as per usual
PLACE OF BIRTH: Vancouver, British Columbia
GENDER IDENTIFICATION: Cis Woman (she/her)
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
POSITIVE TRAITS: Sociable, Ambitious, tbd.
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Confused, Remorseful, tbd.
family.
MOTHER: Paloma Suarez Delgado
FATHER: Xavier Velasco Perez
SIBLINGS: Luciana Alvarez (half sister)
OTHER: tbd
tldr.
born and raised in the kitsilano neighborhood in west vancouver, mari had just about everything (material) a girl could ask for. her father is a prominent attorney and her mother is the heiress to a chain of retail stores.
pretty much from the start her parents had a very concrete plan in place for mari’s life. what she’d wear, what social circles she’d run in, where she’d go to college, the kind of man she’d marry, etc.
they never really stopped to ask whether any of it was what mari actually wanted, and they sure as hell didn’t expect her to fall in love with someone wholly opposite of their approved little checklist.
still, she and elijah navarro were together from junior year of high school until approx. four years ago when, as he was preparing to propose, she finally succumbed to the pressure from her parents. her father basically played with her head, convinced her just enough that elijah might be with her for all the wrong reasons, and - when he threatened to freeze her out of her own inheritance unless she ‘protected the family name’ - mari caved and called things off.
it took all of 0.00009s for her to realize she’d made the absolute wrong decision, but at that point it was already too late. having broken their trust and destroyed their relationship, she accepted that she needed to stick with the bed she’d made.
they haven’t spoken since that night, and mari’s just done her best to carry on with life - even if she’s pretty sure part of her will always love him, always feel like they have unfinished business.
after finishing law school she immediately began working at her father’s firm, but after a particularly brutal argument she finally found her back bone and quit the job she never loved or wanted in the first place.
it took some time, but about five months ago she moved out of kitsilano for a change of scenery, found a job at a friend’s start up publishing company, and has been living in gastown / working there ever since as an editorial assistant.
possible connections
childhood friends, new co-workers and contacts in the publishing industry, roommates (1-2), neighbors in gastown, tinder dates/ one night stands / fwbs from within the last 2-3 years, cousins (must be of at least half mexican descent), friends she shared with elijah who may or may not have some feelings about how abruptly she left him, former co-workers from her father’s law office, etc.
