( selena gomez, 26, cisfemale, she / her ) Was that VIDIA MARSDEN? I heard a rumor they work for the FAUST family, but who knows for sure ? They can be a bit CAUSTIC & BLUNT, but I also heard they can be CHARISMATIC & GREGARIOUS. Youâll usually find them at TAKEDOWN GYM in their spare time, when theyâre not being a FAUST CAPOREGIME / OWNER OF THE BLUE ORCHID. You may want to keep an eye on that one!
tw: domestic violence, domestic violence towards a pregnant woman, alcoholism
Full Name:Â Vidianna Adora Marsden Nickname(s):Â Vidia, Vidi Age:Â 26Â Birthday:Â July 15th Zodiac:Â Cancer Occupation:Â Owner of The Blue Orchid (a luxurious spa). Gang Affiliation:Â Faust (as a Caporegime)
- F A M I L Y -
Father:Â Emilio De Silva Mother:Â Georgia Marsden Children:Â Has a two-year-old daughter named Angelica
Ex-FiancĂŠe: Malcolm (prison)
- P E R S O N A L I T Y -
(+) Affable, Gregarious, Charismatic, Perceptive, Motherly (-) Caustic, Cunning, Impatient, Blunt, CautiousÂ
Vidia is a very motherly type of character - her maternal instincts are constantly on overdrive, so she will literally smother you with mama energy if sheâs given the chance. She absolutely loves children and sees anyone younger than her as someone she needs to care for...despite that rarely actually being the case.
Very meticulous and likes organization over being disorganized, and that includes everything - from her daily schedules, to her living space, to the rules of the Fausts, etc. Literally, unorganized chaos drives her crazy. Organized mess, on the other hand - that is the chaos that she thrives on.
She is mostly quite easy to talk to and to get along with, but she is also very stubborn and will fight and go toe-to-toe with someone if push come to shove.
Also, she does have a dark and sadistic side to her - violence and blood bring it out in her. She loves it. Odd, given her passed experience with such things, but she says that fighting and killing or watching someone else fight and kill - it keeps her grounded and reminds her that she wasnât weak or someone who took anyoneâs shit laying down.
- L I K E SÂ Â /Â Â D I S L I K E S
Likes / Interests:
Being a mother
Reading
Ice Skating
Boating
Hair & Makeup
Running her business
Dancing
Going to the gym and working out
Huge foodie
Cooking
Baking
Dislikes:
Unorganized rules
Mess
Feeling useless
- B I O G R A P H Y -
Vidia Marsden was a young woman of many talents, raised in an extremely wealthy household where ambition and success was revered. She was encouraged from a very young age to dip her toes into as many pools as possible, and thatâs exactly what she did, starting with dance classes at five and gymnastics at six - both of those she continued with up until she was out of high school. She took an interest in cooking and baking when she was also very young, and was taught to know her way around the kitchen from her familyâs live-in cook, Lucinda. Those lessons she still maintained and worked on, to this day. She absolutely loved being in the kitchen - when she was stressed or angry, and needed to work off steam, you will most likely find her in the kitchens, making something (or in a gym somewhere, hitting shit).
When she was a little bit older, around nine, she started taking an interest in learning about makeup and hair, having accompanied her mother to The Blue Orchid - one of the many spas that her family owned - on numerous occasions. She fell in love with cosmetology and the whole process of cutting and styling hair, and the flawless application of makeup and how transformative both could be. Sheâd been utterly transfixed.
In high school, she played tennis and joined the cheer squad her freshman year, whilst participating in a handful of school committees, such as the yearbook and dance committee, and the student council as the treasurer (freshman and sophomore year), and then the president (junior and senior year). She wasnât by any means the most popular girl in school - never wanted to be, either - but she was very well liked, all the same. She had a natural charisma about her that people seemed to be drawn to and that kept her friend circle large and ever growing.
Born in Los Angeles, California, but was raised in Chicago, Illinois.
Daughter of two extremely wealthy individuals. Her father, Emilio De Silva, was a well to-do hotshot attorney based in Los Angeles, California, while her mother, Georgia, was an heiress to a mass fortune - more specifically, a multi-million dollar corporation that specialized in luxury spas and individual hair & nail salons, world-wide.Â
The company, Marsden Spas Corporation, was established in Los Angeles in 1928, by her entrepreneurial great-great grandfather, R.D. Marsden, and has grown exponentially over the decades, with hundreds of their new businesses sprouting up all over the country and even a few globally. Destination spas, day spas, mineral spas, med spas...and a plethora of hair, nail and cosmetic salons.
Vidiaâs parents were never married. In fact, when she was five, the two of them split up, and instead of staying in Los Angeles, Georgia took Vidia and moved the two of them to Chicago.Â
After the split, Vidia hardly ever saw her father. Once every few years, heâd have her flown over to southern California to spend a holiday with him, and he called maybe three or four times a year, if that. They didnât really have much of a relationship during her childhood - Emilio was far too dedicated to his work to be a real father. He showered her with gifts and money from afar, but the parental dedication just wasnât there. He loved her, but it was rare that he told her that.
When her maternal grandfather died from a heart attack, all of the responsibilities of running the family business fell onto Georgia, and to Vidia, who was set to inherit it all after her.
After high school, Vidia went to cosmetology school and studied business on the side. She already had very impressive hair and makeup skills and a deep knowledge for skin care, after spending a childhood around experts in those fields, learning and being mentored. It was her niche and she absolutely loved it.
When she was eighteen, she was introduced to the Fausts but she didnât join the mafia until the following year. (looking to plot this out with someone, before I expand on the reasons that she joined).
After graduating college, she got a job at the The Blue Orchid as a hair and makeup artist whilst jumping in when needed to help her mother run the corporation as a whole.
At the age of twenty-two, Vidia met her now ex-fiancĂŠe, Malcolm. The two dated for two years before he finally proposed and they were set to get married...but then things just seemed to change with him. He drank a shit ton more than he ever had in the years sheâd known him, and with that, his anger became explosive and volatile - it was like he had turned into a completely different person overnight. He was very irritable and easy to anger; the complete opposite of who sheâd initially fallen in love with.
It didnât help that she found out she was pregnant not long after the proposal.Â
At the time, she assumed he was just going through something at work that he just wasnât telling her about and it would go away once whatever it was was resolved. Sheâd had no idea that it wouldnât actually get better but rather it would escalate so badly.Â
Vidia was a strong and independent woman, who swore she would never allow a man or anyone to lay a hand on her more than once. It wasnât in her nature to be so docile that she would take a beating laying down, and then come back for more and expect shit to be any different. Up until the point where she realized this was that type of situation, he hadnât laid a single finger on her. His words had been his weapons.
It was his one and only physical attack on Vidia, that landed him in prison, her on life support and their daughter Angelica to be born several weeks prematurely. It had been the first and last time he had hit her - and it literally damn near killed her.
She hadnât even seen the attack coming. Sheâd been in the process of making dinner when Malcolm came home, stumbling, drunk out of his mind and in the foulest mood sheâd ever seen him in, and understandably, sheâd been pissed. After all, this had been the new routine for months and she was sick of it, so she did what any normal, hormonally pregnant girlfriend would have done in that situation - she raised her voice - and thatâs when he hit her. And then hit her some more.
She spent three weeks at the hospital in recovery over the attack, the first several days fighting for her life over the internal trauma heâd caused. Once she had recovered, and both she and her newborn daughter Angelica were released from the hospital, Vidia moved into the Faust Manor, where sheâs lived ever since.
At the beginning of 2020, her mother officially stepped down as CEO of the company, wanting to do other things before she got too old, and this forced Vidia to take up the mantle as head of Marsden Corporation.
- W A N T E DÂ Â C O N N E C T I O N S -
Faust Affiliates - Obviously. Sheâs been with the gang for seven years, so sheâs bound to have known many of them for quite some time.
Best Friend(s) -Â Vidia is a more or less friendly person, especially within the Faust circle or when sheâs around civilians, so I would love to have some deep friendship connections for her.
Little Sister / Brother Type - Someone younger than her that she absolutely mothers to death, whether they want her to or not.
Employees for The Blue Orchid -Â That would be dope, having a few of the stations within the spa manned by in-play characters.Â
Employee Suggestions:Â receptionist, massage therapists, hair stylists, colorists, nail technicians, spa attendants, spa concierges, wax specialists, estheticians, cosmetologists
Love Interests
One-Night Flings
FWBs
Enemies / Rivalries
LITERALLY OPEN TO ANY SORT OF CONNECTIONS