Year in School: Sophomore
“Marriage” Partner: The Genius Bruiser
Aribella is the oldest daughter, and biological daughter, of two dedicated scientists. Her parents had been working years on different bio chemical experiments, until suddenly they found out that they were about to have a child. Their experiments had been put on hold, only until they could find some time to work around their baby.
Ari had always been raised to do what she wanted in life. Her mother had busted through the male dominated field she worked in, showing Ari to never doubt what she can do.
When she was six, her parents adopted the daughter of a friend that had passed away, giving Ari the little sister she always wanted. She was happy to have a sister to teach everything to, and help empower to live her best life.
It wasn’t long into school that everyone found out that Ari was just as smart as her parents. She excelled in school and things were easy for her, academically. Socially, was a completely different story.
She had a group of friends for a while, but eventually they all started to drift apart and she was on her own, except for her sister. One of the hardest parts was that she always had a crush on one of them, Charlie. He was way out of her league and she never believed he would ever want to be with her, but even she could resist.
As she got older, her voice got louder and she was constantly trying to fight for the things she believed in. She was holding protests and staging sit ins at thirteen, fighting what she could in hopes to make things right. If she had the right to do what she wanted, she was going to be sure that everyone did too.
Along with her voice getting louder, so did her anxiety. Her anxiety has been something she has been insecure about her whole life. For the most part she can keep some control on it, but every once in a while it gets too much and she goes through some serious panic attacks.
Graduating with honors, she was able to get into any college she could, but she ended up going River Valley University to be a little closer to him. At least she was able to continue with her major of choice.
When she found out about this class, she was outraged. She tried to protest it and fight it as much as possible. However, no matter how much she fought and refused, she knew she didn’t have a choice. What was worst was who she was stuck with.
Charlie and her hadn’t said a lot to each other since high school, and now she’ll have to try and keep her feelings as down as possible. There was no way he was going to feel the same way about her, so she would have to fight it.
The Genius Bruiser – Aribella has known Charlie for a while. Grew up with him even, but as a lot of childhood friendship go, eventually they drifted apart. Went their own ways in life and ended up in different circles. Even when they were kids she had a crush on him, thinking he was cute just like every other girl. However, she never thought to act on it. Whether you want to blame her anxiety or bad view of herself, she never believed he would like her, so she moved. Now it’s years later and she’s been partnered up with him in this horrific project. Forced to face those feelings and those thoughts of what ifs.
The Politician – This anti-patriarchy warrior found out what he did and wanted to do everything she could to shame him, but it was her friendship with The Warrior that stopped her. She let it be what it was, but when someone tries to talk about it, she doesn’t shy away from voicing her opinion. From making sure that people know that it’s not okay and how this shows how messed up things are.
The Warrior – She’s known her since they start school, actually finding some peace knowing that she had such a close friend. Ari usually wasn’t someone who got a long with a lot of people, but there was just something about her that she found some comfort in. During this whole class she knows she’ll need someone to lean on a bit, outside of her sister.
The Kid (wanted connection) – Ari’s sister is someone that she can always talk with and probably the only person she knows will be there forever. Her sister had grown to have a voice of her own, but that doesn’t stop Ari from constantly wanting to push her sister to do more. Speak her mind more and say more. She knows sometimes she can be overbearing and motherly, but it’s just because she wants to know that her sister is living the best life she can.