(ALEXA DEMIE, FEMALE, SHE/HER) VANESSA DIAZ the 30 year old lives in ROOM 1002 on FOOR 10. It is said that they have been here at Ellswick Tower for 1 YEAR. The ACTRESS and SOCIALITE is said to be CHARISMATIC and JUDGEMENTAL which makes sense when you think about how they were the GIRLFRIEND to Devon Carrington, who was just found dead. {GABI, 27, AEST, THEY/THEM.}
TW Death, Drugs & Alcohol, Trauma
Basics
Full Name: Vanessa Rose Diaz Nickname: Nessa Age: 30 Gender & Pronouns: Cis Women, She/Her Sexual orientation: Bisexual Faceclaim: Alexa Demie Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Dark Brown Height: 5'5 DoB: June 8th Zodiac Sign: Gemini Occupation: Actress and Socialite
Positive Traits: Charismatic, Charming, Loyal, Sociable, Independent Negative Traits: Manipulative, Gossipy, Stubborn, Materialistic, Two-Faced
Story
Vanessa Diaz was born to actress mother Aurora Sinclair and director father Santiago Diaz not long after an exposed long term hidden romance between the two hit the front of magazines and newspapers. Both had tried to keep the pregnancy out of the public eye in fear of it becoming a wild public spectacle and potentially ruining each others careers, Aurora taking a "hiatus" from acting and Santiago "spending time to develop his next big project". But unfortunately someone close to them had leaked the pregnancy to the media, they had ideas on who it could be but never found out who.
When Vanessa was 4, Aurora was offered to play the lead role in a romance/horror movie called "Love Hurts" with Santiago directing it. While a little hesitant as she didn't want all her time to go into acting again, she missed acting as it was something she loved to do so she agreed and production started. During the movie Santiago asked Vanessa if she wanted to do a tiny role and of course she said yes. All she had to do was hand out flowers to actors as a background character but she never felt more happier then being in front of the camera.
During the night of the movies premiere, Vanessa was at home while her parents went to go attend. But on the way the limo they were arriving in had been in a terrible car crash killing both Aurora and Santiago. This left Vanessa all alone, leading to being taken in by Santiago's brother Pablo, his wife Maria and his 2 sons Mateo and Enzo moving to San Verano, california.
With her parents gone and being taken in by Pablo, she became a sudo daughter to him and Maria in which they would spoil her, especially Maria who always wanted a daughter. With Vanessa being so young when her parents died it wasn't hard for the adjustment thought she did missed them, Pablo and Maria made the transition as easier as it could be. They never tried to replace her parents and made that known to Vanessa but still treated (and spoiled) her as one of their own.
During her childhood, it was quite obvious she inherited her mothers acting talent as she loved to perform in her schools plays and had a big personality. She loved being the center of attention and became popular at school because her charisma and her famous parents, she would regularly use this to her advantage.
As she reached teenagerhood she became more of a wild type, she loved to party, drink and use drugs on the regular. With her party life style she never focused on her academics and would of failed all her classes if she didn't manipulate or pay people to do her homework and class work. While she didn't do most of her work she wasn't stupid, she was quite smart in the things that mattered to her like the performing arts and her charisma help her make connections with people.
During high school she would take on small acting roles, starting to grow her portfolio and grow a following online until she was able to get a lead role in a indie horror movie at the age of 17 that gained her a lot more fans and open more acting opportunities leading her to drop out of high school. At 18 she moved from San Verano, California to Los Angeles and perused her dream of being an actor just like her mother.
With her parents name behind her, her list of small movies on her resume and being able to get in contact of the talent scout who had helped her parents, she was cast as one of the main characters on a slice of life ensemble show about a group of young people living in Santa Barbara and their day to day lives. The show became a huge success with teens and young adults with Vanessas character becoming a fan favorited and Vanessa shooting into popularity. The show went on for 8 seasons and during the breaks Vanessa was able to do some secondary roles in movies and cameos in other shows. When the show concluded she continued to work.
During her time in Hollywood she continued to live the party life as she did in her teen years, the only difference was people were now handing her drugs and alcohol. During a party where she was extremely intoxicated and high, she got into a huge fight with an actress she worked with in the past. Before the fight could get worse they were separated and the woman had left the party, which left Vanessa to continue to drink and party. The next day she saw that actress and herself all over social media, finding out that after the woman had left the party she had driven home and got into a car crash. This event broke Vanessa, not only because reminded of her parents death but the loss of a talented person she had respect for even if they weren't on the same page.
After this social media had compared Vanessas parents and the actress, some even blamed Vanessa for the death. This is when Vanessa was ready to leave Hollywood, she wanted to act not be blamed for someone's death so at 27 she moved back to San Verano, California and moved in with Pablo and Marie for a while. Her love for performing never went away and she never intended to stop acting but for now she wanted to live more peacefully with family.
At 29 she moved into the Ellswick Tower, right between her 2 cousins on the top floor. During her moving she bumped into one of the residents Devon Carrington. She gave him the look over and thought he was cute before she convinced him to help her move things just to give her an excuse to flirt with him. Vanessa and Devon became close and started a best friends with benefits relationship before after a night together Devon had straight up and asked Vanessa out. Vanessa didn't hesitate to say yes because she liked him too, during their relationship nothing changed besides she got a draw in his closet but they were both happy to have each other even if it didn't last long. 2 months after they got together Devon was found dead, Vanessa had emotionally shut down.
Vanessa has dealt with do much loss in her life that Devon was the final straw and now keeps everyone at arms length, she struggles to make personal connections and keeps a mask up at all time. She enjoys the attention of Devons death but will only cry "pretty tears" and never let anyone know how she really feels about it, hopeless.
Headcanons
Vanessa dislikes anyone who tries to take attention away from her
She is a member of the velvet curtain and always tries to be the lead
When she's bored she just enters her cousins apartments unannounced
Considers going back to Hollywood everyday after Devons death
For "work" she spends most of her time at events and making connections with people to get sponsorships and campaigns
She released an album during the height of her career, she forgets she has one
While having a large following on insta and twitter, she only really does promo work and posts random selfies
She feels negative towards the women Devon has hooked up with because of her needing to be important and attention
She has campaigns with Covergirl, Mac and Mark Jacobs
While she tries not to get emotionally attached to people, shes quite popular and has many friends but they are surface level friendships or business related. Only her cousins and very close friends understand her and get to see the real Vanessa