Post by opal on Mar 11, 2013 20:20:42 GMT -5
love you like a pack of dogs
ok bear with me for a moment
opal's parents were always very overbearing, sometimes to the point of gross abuse. they did this because (partly they were crazy tbh) her older brother had not fit their vision of perfect and - due to a complication during opal's birth - they could never have another child aka ""chance"". so they placed all this weight on opal's shoulders to be perfect. it's shaped her into a very dependent and uncertain person with no applicable real life skills.
her brother peter was more or less just crazy. he was five years older than her and involved with the tunnel vipers. opal totally idolized her reckless brother and he swept her under his wings, getting her entrance into the gang despite her gender.
that was around opal's seventeenth birthday. for two years he was a bad influence leading to opal almost killing herself while playing with guns numerous times, a dozen apartment fires, etc. he was always just very careless basically.
so there's this other dude (i know guys are banned rn but i'm patient) who was her brother's best friend. he'd probably be around 22-25 currently bc her brother would be 24 IF HE WERE ALIVE ahem anyway he was best friends with peter, kind of his keeper if you will. basically he kept him from DYING LIKE TWENTY TIMES and he thought opal was a total cutie and probably saved her butt from her brother's indiscretion a half a dozen times as well.
in my mind he'd be the kind of guy that thinks he's a night in shining armor. he's probably deeply disturbed in his own right but justifies himself as being a defender of the weak. a robin hood who probably does much worse than steal from the rich, and he doesn't think of the easy way to solve a situation - just the most efficient.
cue her brother getting into some STICKY SITUATIONS between gangs and most likely betraying something about the vipers to someone who should not know ANYTHING ABOUT THEM. if anyone had found out it would mean deep shit for peter, and maybe even worse for opal due to bad rap girls have in the gang. at this point this dude (brother's friend u kno) he's like well this isn't good and opal's cute i'm just going to shoot her brother and make it look like regular gang violence so no one finds out what just happened (except opal saw this all happen)
see like ok clearly he's not right in the head to make a decision like that in the first place but idk I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS IDEA and it seemed enticing that would mostly just be the basis for them and you know she lives in her dead brother's apartment and he's probably appointed himself her protectorate or something idk (and he's probably also convinced that she """owes""" him something)
idk i just HAD THIS IDEA so yup (i like shinji from persona as a face but he has like no icons that's basically just the sort of appearance i was thinking of when i thought this up but i'm probably open to anythaaang)