Name: Harmony Maxwell Age: 28 Sexuality: Pansexual Gender: Female Portrayed By: Alycia Debnam-Carey Availability: Closed
“I love it here. Oh, yeah, but I wish people would stop dying.”
It isn’t easy being taken away from your family at the age of ten. It’s something that haunts Harmony every day of her life, though she was adopted when she was thirteen by the Maxwell family (they had adopted another girl a few years ago, who was eight by this time) and… they’re lovely. They are, and Harmony doesn’t like to feel ungrateful but she wishes she could just be normal. She’s always missed her mother and has tried to sneak back there a few times since being taken away (mostly while she was still in the system, and once when the Maxwells took her home). Harmony didn’t want a new family, she was still holding onto her old one. Despite her mother having been a serious drug user and not really being able to care for her. Little Harmony had just been worried that her mother would die without her help but she soon settled in well enough, bonding with her adopted siblings, John (who they’d adopted first, years ago), and eight-year-old Adriana.
The Maxwell family lived in a large farmhouse in the countryside, which Harmony thought was nice enough. Large, showed they had money, but it was slap bang in the middle of nowhere and she hated that. Harmony wanted to move to the city, wanted a big group of friends, wanted to be normal. She didn’t like travelling hours on a little bus just to get to school in a town nearby. Her sister was home-schooled and Harmony didn’t understand how Adriana could stand it. They were pretty different, the two of them, despite the bond they managed to grow. Adriana was quiet and content with her life, liked books and trees, and Harmony was a big city girl at heart. John was the one who kept the peace between them so when he moved out after joining the police force, it was hard. It was even harder when he died in a car crash. The perfect family life was shattered and their parents fought constantly and Harmony was worried they would split up and then what would happen? But they sat the girls down one day, explained how being in this house was too hard for them, and told them they were moving away for a fresh start.
Harmony loved Baberton. It wasn’t the biggest place she would have chosen to live but it was much better than a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. There was a school, cafes, restaurants, shops, etc. all within walking distance! It was like a dream and Harmony took to it right away. She made a bunch of friends pretty easily when she enrolled in college, likely due to the fact she’s always been very social and confident despite how she sometimes feels inside in regards to the whole adopted thing. She can be a little bit moody some days, likes to complain about things, and she’s prone to being self absorbed, but people seem to like her anyway. Something that she feels annoys her sister but it’s not like she can help it, right? Adriana just needs to loosen up a bit, put herself out there.
When her sister turned seventeen, she announced that she was pregnant, which shocked Harmony. Not to mention their parents! Adriana wanted to give the baby up for adoption, which made Harmony angry and she was glad when Adriana changed her mind and decided to keep baby Ana, though she doesn’t realise that it’s because she was intimidated by Harmony. She’s pretty interested in finding out who the father of the baby is and doesn’t believe that Adriana doesn’t remember but she tries to be subtle about it so as not to upset their parents, who are still adjusting to this whole thing.
Currently, Harmony is still attending the local college (her parents have this rule that she doesn’t have to pay rent as long as she is in school and the idea of a job is less than appealing). She’s studying a variety of different things but mostly focuses on drama and journalism, which have always been her two best subjects.
Often pretends that Ana is her baby, not Adriana’s. Adriana often leaves Ana with Harmony while she’s out job hunting or whatever she does and Harmony loves that little girl, just like she loves her own. More than just a niece. She plays with her, takes her for walks. She loves taking her out and getting attention from people in the park or the shopping centre. Harmony doesn’t want Ana to grow up feeling unloved or rejected the way she did (her own mother could have fought for her, right?!). Honestly, some days she feels like a better mother than Adriana but that’s not something she can say out loud, is it?
Was on the phone with John at the time of his car crash and feels horribly responsible for his death. She’d been ranting about how unfair it was that their parents didn’t listen to her needs (living in the city, having a social life etc) and the line went dead. Harmony knows that John should have known better than to talk on the phone and drive but if she hadn’t been distracting him, he never would have crashed. She never told anyone it was her on the phone (she’d been in town, in a phone box, not at the house) and the guilt has been eating her up inside ever since.
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