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by honey 3/29/2021, 4:26 pm
> Basics
+ Name: Holly Ellis Eames
+ Age: 20
+ Gender: Cis female
+ Sexuality: Bisexual
+ Eyes: Dark brown
+ Hair: Naturally dark brunette, but she chopped it and dyed it silver-blonde
+ Height: 5' 2"
+ Skin tone: Fair
+ Ethnicity: Caucasian
+ Body structure: Slender and compact, not overly muscular, but she has strong legs and wiry arms from swinging a sword (although she prefers daggers)
+ Other details: Face claim is Kiernan Shipka
+ Place of birth: London, England
+ God parent: Flora
+ Legacy of: Cupid (and honorary legacy of Fortuna lol)
+ Mortal parent: Arthur Townsend (and Thomas Eames)
+ Abilities: If she stays still in one place (outdoors) for too long (typically from ten to fifteen minutes and longer) flowers begin to sprout up near her within a 3 foot radius, without her meaning them to. She can't control it, which is why she tends to seem busy because she moves around a lot, when she's just trying to prevent a sudden rose bush from breaking through solid ground.
+ Powers: She can make flowers grow anywhere, really, there doesn't even need to be good soil. She doesn't know about this yet, but she could even grow flowers inside of a person (effectively killing them of course), although it would take a great deal of power and energy to do so and could even be deadly to her. Growing flowers or killing them on command takes up some energy in of itself (probably can only do it once every five posts or so).
+ Pets: She has one light gray tabby cat named May, gifted to her right before she left to go to camp
> Details
+ Personality: Holly knows how to get what she wants. She's graceful and poised on the outside, every inch a lady, but sharp and intelligent. Holly might have ended up a spoiled brat, but her parents raised her better than that, and she'd had to learn to manage the sometimes cut-throat qualities of school and society in general. People could be cruel, and they sometimes tried to hurt her by using the fact she had two fathers against her, so she grew tough skin, unaffected by others' idiocy. She has a lot of traits from her fathers, as opposite as the two men are. She's ambitious and something of a perfectionist - her greatest role model is perhaps her Dad, sensible and cool-headed, rarely seen out of his suits and neatly slicked back hair. On the other hand, she's charismatic and charming like her debonair and smooth-talking father, with his gung-ho attitude and quick, suave smiles.
+ Flaws: She can be haughty and crafty, calculating. She wants to be great like she perceives her fathers to be, so out of a misguided attempt to receive more approval from them (especially Arthur) she doesn't allow very many people to get actually close with her, more preoccupied with becoming better as she is.
+ History (life before CHB): Holly was born early on a crisp December morning to Arthur Townsend, (unwitting) son of Cupid. Arthur had never known whom his father was, and was never really interested in finding out in the first place. His whole life, he wasn't affected by monsters and unaware of any powers he might have received from his godly parent - as far as he was aware. He did have an old scar on his side from a vicious attack by a rather strange dog when he was little, and throughout his life people often let him do what he wanted if he looked at them through his eyelashes or smiled at them enough.
Something of a genius, he skipped several grades growing up, speeding through school and landing a nice job for a big company, where they quickly transferred him to Dublin at almost twenty-five. Some months later, he met Flora on his way to a company party when he passed by her at a flower shop, and invited her to go with him on a whim (and he never did anything on a whim). They went home together and saw each other a couple of times after that, before he was sent off to London. He'd mostly forgotten about the entire affair, until he opened the door to his small flat to a knock and found Flora at his doorstep. After a moment where he tried to figure out how she'd found him and why, he finally focused on the bundle in her arms.
Once he'd gotten over that initial shock, Flora explained what she was and who Arthur's father was, and the precautions he might need to take going forward with their daughter. Exactly one week away from Christmas, he'd held the baby in his arms and glanced at the berries on branches of the tree hanging over his window, and named her Holly. He'd never been an overly creative man.
True enough to Flora's warning, as Holly grew a little older, strange occurrences became less uncommon for the Townsends, and Arthur struggled with work and caring for and protecting Holly. When Holly was almost four, Arthur met Thomas Eames, a colleague a few years older than him. They didn't get along at all, at first. They were both very good at their jobs, in very different ways, and butted heads with a rivalry that buzzed its way around the offices. It didn't help that Arthur refused to call Thomas anything other than his surname, or that Thomas refused to call Arthur anything other than darling.
Until Arthur was forced to bring little Holly to work one day, and seeing the father and daughter together melted Eames' heart (honestly, though, he'd fallen in love with Arthur as soon as he'd laid eyes on the son of Cupid). Frantically looking for someone to look after Holly because he had a series of complicated meetings, Arthur had had to accept when Eames offered his help. Several hours later, Arthur had rushed back to Holly to find her playing happily in Eames' lap, and it had been hard to pull the two away (for a variety of reasons - Holly kept trying to throw her arms around Eames' neck and squish his cheeks with her tiny hands, Eames looked heartbroken at the thought of parting from her, and Arthur didn't want to admit that the combination of Eames' damned roguishly good looks and Holly's adorable cuteness was devastating) until Eames nonchalantly offered his babysitting services if Holly ever needed it again.
One thing led to another, and about two years later when Arthur got assigned to transfer to Massachusetts, Eames proposed and they moved to Waltham, Massachusetts together. It turned out that Eames was from old money (he would neither confirm nor deny whether or not he was distantly nobility), and would spare no expense for his loved ones, and said old-money-family couldn't deny it to him after Arthur and Holly Townsend became Arthur and Holly Eames.
Holly never wanted for anything. Eames worked from home but mostly traded in his career to become a full-time Papa (as Holly called him), and although Arthur was away at work mostly every day, she grew up incredibly loved by both her fathers. They lived in a spacious but somehow cozy brownstone in the city, in something like high society.
It began to dawn on Arthur that the dangerous occurrences that sometimes chased Holly when she was little, had more or less entirely disappeared, and when he confided in his husband, telling him everything about Holly's real mother. Eames admitted that he was a grandson of Fortuna, and he'd been sent off to a camp in California, and through an accidental quest and risky heroics, had earned her blessing and protection over his immediate family, and therefore Holly had it as well. Monsters would rarely dare to come near Eames' family.
But as Holly grew into middle school, she grew into her gifts and powers, and her situation became more dangerous. Arthur and Eames agreed that it would be best that she learn to defend herself and be safe in the same camp Eames had gone to, and although it was incredibly hard, they decided to send her to camp at almost fourteen (a folder stuffed full of recommendation letters from those who had known Eames, and of course a glowing and vaguely threatening one from Eames and Arthur themselves).
Holly, being very close with her fathers, accepted. But some part of her is still secretly upset and worried, and believes that maybe they're not satisfied with her, that they want her to be better than she is, and that's why they've sent her away from them. In almost everything she does, she's trying to prove to them that she's worth their love and pride, not realizing that she already has it unconditionally.
+ Cohort: 1st Cohort
+ Notes: yes I know same sex marriage wasn't legalized until later but let me live
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