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BASIC INFO
FULL NAME AND GRADE: Bria Madeline Scott, 11th
DOB & AGE: August 11th, 1993. 16.
PLAYED BY: Jessica Lowndes
HOMETOWN: Vancouver, BC by way of Boston, Mass.
SURVEY
• What is your character's current situation? What are some things they want? Bria is currently attending Ivy Grove Academy and has been since the start of her grade 11 year... a compromise struck between her and her father after circumstances forced her to move from Vancouver with her mother to Boston with him and his ‘replacement family.’ Bria hadn’t heard from her father once since she was three years old and resents him more than a little for that. Coming to the school was a compromise... keeping her in the state and technically under his care without her having to live with him fulltime. As for what she wants? A lot of it is a complete impossibility at this point... a normal childhood with her mother at home in Vancouver. The only thing she really wants at this point is to graduate high school and go home to Canada. The rest of it she’ll take as it comes. She is so used to just working to stay afloat that she hasn’t really stopped to think what she wants out of life.
• What conflicts are they facing? Bria’s life is actually far less conflicted now than it was in Vancouver as far as she’s concerned. When she lived with her mother there was an endless conflict between her school and home life, her public and private one... because she knew if people knew the way they lived, social services would take her away from her mother, so Bria did whatever she could to keep things together, including finding ways to make money herself as soon as she was old enough. Now that she’s in the states her biggest conflict is that her dad wants to have a relationship with her and she wants no part of it. Well, that and making sure that nobody at her fancy boarding school finds out where she came from in terms of upbringing.
• What are their conscious motivations? Other than her constant desire to pass her classes, graduate and return to Canada? There’s the fact that if she flunks out of Ivy Grove she’ll have to attend a public school and live with the ‘replacement family’ in Boston. She’s trying very hard to unlearn the habit of being as invisible as possible and has joined many activities that will attract the spotlight since coming to the school as a result. However at the same time she’s very conscious of not letting people know the life she left behind or why it had to be left behind.
• What are their subconscious motivations? This is the stuff she wouldn’t admit to even when asked. There are few things Bria longs for more than to be accepted, loved, and taken care of. Those were things she sorely lacked growing up and that she’s learned not to expect from people. She probably wouldn’t even know what to do with them if she got them, but it’s a lot of what drives her.
• What factors have significantly influenced them in the past? There’s quite a few things that all somehow fall under the umbrella of ‘her mother.’ Saying her mother is the biggest single influence in her past would not be understanding things at all. Her mother had what Bria is now convinced was undiagnosed and untreated Bipolar I disorder, probably coupled with the depression that she could clearly identify. As a result her mother wasn’t exactly the most functional member of society and she was constantly getting fired and she and Bria in turn evicted from crappy apartment after crappy apartment. It forced Bria to be the grown-up in the relationship even as a child and she is probably one of the most meticulously organised people you’ll ever meet as a result. A messy room would likely give her panic attacks she spent so much time making sure the house was impeccable should anyone bother checking.
Another huge factor is her father walking out on them. She never quite got past that abandonment, which is at the heart of her issues with him now, as well as with trusting people in general. Adding the issues with her mother to that and it’s easy to understand why she never dated back in Vancouver... though it makes her feel mildly pathetic to be sixteen and have never had a boyfriend.
• What factors are significantly influencing them now? Aside from a desire to spend as little time with her dad and his new family as possible? She feels like she was never really living life back in Vancouver and she wants to stop just existing. That’s why she’s trying so hard to get out and do things and not hide away constantly. Being friendly, sociable and meeting people is important to her after being isolated for so long.
• How do they see themselves? Generally speaking? Undeserving of the things she craves in life. Like there must be something fundamentally flawed about her to end up with the life that she has lead so far. However, she also sees herself as studious, respectful, organised. Creative, emotional, caring... nothing is ever simple to Bria.
• How do others see them? In Vancouver? They barely noticed her enough to see her as any one thing or another. Within the school... she’s likely seen as a bit of a bookworm with an artistic flair because she’s always so involved with performing arts. Her grades are still in the low A/high B range at best, though so nobody would confuse her with a teacher’s pet.
• What are some of their likes and dislikes? (Not just material or tangible things. Likes and Dislikes about other people, situations, or life in general.) She loves singing... it’s something she’s always done to cheer herself up, rainy days that would depress most people are actually her favourite type of weather because it reminds her of Vancouver. She likes Hockey, specifically the Vancouver Canucks, though she’d probably root for any Canadian team the Stanley Cup was on the line. She dislikes super hot temperatures, snobby people, math and feeling completely alone. She used to wish she had a little sister but she can’t bring herself to like the one she has because to Bria her sister is the good daughter, the one that was deserving of the love, attention and nice things. She really dislikes feeling like she owes her dad anything.
• What are some of their insecurities? What do they dislike most about themselves? The big one is worry that people will find out about her mother, about the way she grew up and look down on her completely. After all, she didn’t have the silver spoon upbringing that most kids who get to attend boarding school do. She’s fully aware that she grew up well below the poverty line and the pendulum has now swung in the opposite direction. At the same time though, she always worries that it could all go away in a second and all she’ll have to rely on is herself. She just hopes she’s 18 by the time that happens so that she doesn’t get bounced around the foster care system of a country she doesn’t see as hers. What does she dislike about herself? That varies by the day but typically it’s that she doesn’t feel worthy of anything good and it frustrates her to no end when she starts thinking like that.
• What are some of their strengths? What do they like most about themselves? As far as she’s concerned? She’s very skilled at keeping people at just enough of a distance that they don’t pry into her life and she tends to like it that way. Her organisational skills are almost comforting to her. She can relax when things are squared away exactly as she should be, which tends to serve her well in basically all areas of her life be it keeping her dorm clean or making sure she finds time for all her school assignments between rehearsals and club meetings. She is very self-reliant and has almost always been able to find a way to get what she needs when she needs it. She prides herself, possibly a little too much at times, on being independent and not needing anyone but herself. What she likes about herself is in a different ballpark all together. She likes that she’s compassionate, caring, and on a frivolous level that she has a decent singing voice.
• If your character could go back in time to change only one thing about their past, or someone else's past, what would it be and why? This one is so easy that it’s almost funny if it wasn’t so sad. She’d make it so her father never left because she’s utterly convinced that if her father hadn’t walked out on her when she was a toddler – if he’d stayed and they could have been a real family, one that didn’t change addresses like most people change toothbrushes – then maybe things would have been better, maybe her mom wouldn’t have gotten so sick, and then she would still be alive.
• What is your character's relationship like with their parents and/or family? As far as Bria is concerned she doesn’t have a relationship with her father or the ‘replacement family’, nor does she have any desire to have one at the moment. She feels too much hurt and resentment over the fact that he left when she was two years old and from the age of her sister promptly started playing house with somebody else, and has given them the best of everything money can buy while she and her mom moved from slum apartment to slum apartment and she spent her time after school scrounging for money just to eat and buy thrift store clothes. Her relationship with her mother, while screwed up by the fact that the parent/child relationships were reversed, was better as far as she’s concerned. Her mother, for almost sixteen years, never tried to leave... which is more than she can say about the father who didn’t even try to know her.
• If your character had just three wishes to be granted, what would they be and why? First wish would be a guarantee she wouldn’t turn out like her mother. Sick and suffering until she just couldn’t take it anymore. The idea that that’s possible scares her more than anything in the world. Second wish would be to find true love, someone who understands, respects and loves her that she can trust within reason isn’t about to just walk out the door. The third wish... to always have a comfortable life. She’s not opposed to working hard to get it, but she doesn’t want the same stress-filled life for any of her future kids that she went through... wondering if they’re going to get to eat that day, if they’re going to come home from school to find an eviction notice on the door, things like that.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Bria Madeline Scott was born August 11th of 1993 in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland/Greater Vancouver area. Her home life was unstable right from the get go and she moved on average once every three to six months for the first five years of her life, though mostly staying in the same area.
Long before Bria had started school - she was barely two - her father had basically checked himself out of the picture. By the time she was five she was left with more to deal with more than most adults are capable of handling. Her mother suffered from undiagnosed bipolar disorder and depression, and frequently lost jobs as a result of bouts of depression so bad that she couldn’t get out of bed for days. But when things were good? When she was up? Everything was perfect in little Bria’s world. Despite the fact that these times were few and far between, she kept her grades at a fairly solid B average, and bought in whatever extra money she could by babysitting and getting a paper route as soon as she was old enough. It may not have been enough to keep them from getting evicted a few times, but it was enough to put a few scraps of food on the table and to buy second hand clothes when she had worn out or out grown something.
This more or less became the status quo well into high school, and having more than a little tinge of embarrassment about her life, she rarely saw her friends outside of school never mind invited them over to her house. She could never be sure the type of mood she was going to find her mom in when she came home. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, Bria became somewhat manic about controlling the things she could. Her room was always immaculate. Her grades as good as her limited time would allow… she never slacked on the studying. She never let on that her home life had been coming apart at the seams for as long as she could remember… she never really had time for dating, but that didn’t mean she didn’t develop a crush or two on some of the guys in her class. She’d deny it if anyone said it to her face, but she was giving up before even getting in the game on that front, sure that the second they found out what her life was like they’d run for the hills. She probably should have given them a little more credit, but the past is the past, and her life in Vancouver is like a nightmare she can’t stop reliving now.
After writing final exams in June, Bria came home from school to find her mother laying in the tub with her wrists slit. At that moment none of the other stuff mattered. Any hope of pretending she was a normal kid shattered. Having no other relatives in town, Social Services tracked down her father who was now a high-priced lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts. Before she really even had a chance to mourn the life she’d worked so hard to hold together, she was whisked off to a different city, different time zone, different country to live with a man who had abandoned her when she wasn’t even three years old.
She was understandably less than thrilled with the whole situation, and basically sees the system of her home country abandoning her to a family she didn’t even know and couldn’t begin to understand why her father wanted her there. The whole summer passed and she still felt like a stranger trapped in a house with her father, stepmother and 15 year old sister. The more time went on the happier she was that she'd talked him into getting her into any boarding school that would take her by the end of July. Ivy Grove was going to be a true, complete fresh start for her.
RANDOM FACTS
~ Loves the Vancouver Canucks and has since she was a little girl, despite a few less than stellar seasons.
~ Swims like a fish. There were few things she liked more about her home city than being so close to the ocean.
~ Doesn’t have a use for the vast majority of video games. They’re a frivolous waste of time that she never had the luxury of enjoying.
~ Not a huge fan of being forced to live with strangers with similar genetic coding. She especially resents when her dad and stepmom try to tell her what to do.
~ Absolutely terrified of extremely large dogs after being bit as a child.
~ Can be more than a little on the blunt side, especially now.
~ Generally a very friendly, smiley girl, if a little wounded right now.
~ Loves artistic and creative endeavours… writing, drawing, photography, singing, dancing. Even cooking.
~ Doesn’t have the slightest clue what she wants to do with her life and that sort of makes her feel like a failure.
~ Keeps what happened to her mother a secret from as many people as possible.
~ Will quite likely move back to Canada after she graduates high school.
~ Has surprisingly healthy eating habits for a girl who has essentially raised herself.
SCHEDULE
ONE AP English Language
~homeroom hour~
TWO Advanced Euro. Studies
THREE Resisters-&-Revolutionaries: A History of Dissent in the US
FOUR Choir
FIVE Lunch Period
SIX French III
SEVEN Astronomy
EIGHT Dance
ACTIVITIES
Thespian Society
Key Club
Dance/Drill Team
Fall Musical ( title undecided )
FULL NAME AND GRADE: Bria Madeline Scott, 11th
DOB & AGE: August 11th, 1993. 16.
PLAYED BY: Jessica Lowndes
HOMETOWN: Vancouver, BC by way of Boston, Mass.
SURVEY
• What is your character's current situation? What are some things they want? Bria is currently attending Ivy Grove Academy and has been since the start of her grade 11 year... a compromise struck between her and her father after circumstances forced her to move from Vancouver with her mother to Boston with him and his ‘replacement family.’ Bria hadn’t heard from her father once since she was three years old and resents him more than a little for that. Coming to the school was a compromise... keeping her in the state and technically under his care without her having to live with him fulltime. As for what she wants? A lot of it is a complete impossibility at this point... a normal childhood with her mother at home in Vancouver. The only thing she really wants at this point is to graduate high school and go home to Canada. The rest of it she’ll take as it comes. She is so used to just working to stay afloat that she hasn’t really stopped to think what she wants out of life.
• What conflicts are they facing? Bria’s life is actually far less conflicted now than it was in Vancouver as far as she’s concerned. When she lived with her mother there was an endless conflict between her school and home life, her public and private one... because she knew if people knew the way they lived, social services would take her away from her mother, so Bria did whatever she could to keep things together, including finding ways to make money herself as soon as she was old enough. Now that she’s in the states her biggest conflict is that her dad wants to have a relationship with her and she wants no part of it. Well, that and making sure that nobody at her fancy boarding school finds out where she came from in terms of upbringing.
• What are their conscious motivations? Other than her constant desire to pass her classes, graduate and return to Canada? There’s the fact that if she flunks out of Ivy Grove she’ll have to attend a public school and live with the ‘replacement family’ in Boston. She’s trying very hard to unlearn the habit of being as invisible as possible and has joined many activities that will attract the spotlight since coming to the school as a result. However at the same time she’s very conscious of not letting people know the life she left behind or why it had to be left behind.
• What are their subconscious motivations? This is the stuff she wouldn’t admit to even when asked. There are few things Bria longs for more than to be accepted, loved, and taken care of. Those were things she sorely lacked growing up and that she’s learned not to expect from people. She probably wouldn’t even know what to do with them if she got them, but it’s a lot of what drives her.
• What factors have significantly influenced them in the past? There’s quite a few things that all somehow fall under the umbrella of ‘her mother.’ Saying her mother is the biggest single influence in her past would not be understanding things at all. Her mother had what Bria is now convinced was undiagnosed and untreated Bipolar I disorder, probably coupled with the depression that she could clearly identify. As a result her mother wasn’t exactly the most functional member of society and she was constantly getting fired and she and Bria in turn evicted from crappy apartment after crappy apartment. It forced Bria to be the grown-up in the relationship even as a child and she is probably one of the most meticulously organised people you’ll ever meet as a result. A messy room would likely give her panic attacks she spent so much time making sure the house was impeccable should anyone bother checking.
Another huge factor is her father walking out on them. She never quite got past that abandonment, which is at the heart of her issues with him now, as well as with trusting people in general. Adding the issues with her mother to that and it’s easy to understand why she never dated back in Vancouver... though it makes her feel mildly pathetic to be sixteen and have never had a boyfriend.
• What factors are significantly influencing them now? Aside from a desire to spend as little time with her dad and his new family as possible? She feels like she was never really living life back in Vancouver and she wants to stop just existing. That’s why she’s trying so hard to get out and do things and not hide away constantly. Being friendly, sociable and meeting people is important to her after being isolated for so long.
• How do they see themselves? Generally speaking? Undeserving of the things she craves in life. Like there must be something fundamentally flawed about her to end up with the life that she has lead so far. However, she also sees herself as studious, respectful, organised. Creative, emotional, caring... nothing is ever simple to Bria.
• How do others see them? In Vancouver? They barely noticed her enough to see her as any one thing or another. Within the school... she’s likely seen as a bit of a bookworm with an artistic flair because she’s always so involved with performing arts. Her grades are still in the low A/high B range at best, though so nobody would confuse her with a teacher’s pet.
• What are some of their likes and dislikes? (Not just material or tangible things. Likes and Dislikes about other people, situations, or life in general.) She loves singing... it’s something she’s always done to cheer herself up, rainy days that would depress most people are actually her favourite type of weather because it reminds her of Vancouver. She likes Hockey, specifically the Vancouver Canucks, though she’d probably root for any Canadian team the Stanley Cup was on the line. She dislikes super hot temperatures, snobby people, math and feeling completely alone. She used to wish she had a little sister but she can’t bring herself to like the one she has because to Bria her sister is the good daughter, the one that was deserving of the love, attention and nice things. She really dislikes feeling like she owes her dad anything.
• What are some of their insecurities? What do they dislike most about themselves? The big one is worry that people will find out about her mother, about the way she grew up and look down on her completely. After all, she didn’t have the silver spoon upbringing that most kids who get to attend boarding school do. She’s fully aware that she grew up well below the poverty line and the pendulum has now swung in the opposite direction. At the same time though, she always worries that it could all go away in a second and all she’ll have to rely on is herself. She just hopes she’s 18 by the time that happens so that she doesn’t get bounced around the foster care system of a country she doesn’t see as hers. What does she dislike about herself? That varies by the day but typically it’s that she doesn’t feel worthy of anything good and it frustrates her to no end when she starts thinking like that.
• What are some of their strengths? What do they like most about themselves? As far as she’s concerned? She’s very skilled at keeping people at just enough of a distance that they don’t pry into her life and she tends to like it that way. Her organisational skills are almost comforting to her. She can relax when things are squared away exactly as she should be, which tends to serve her well in basically all areas of her life be it keeping her dorm clean or making sure she finds time for all her school assignments between rehearsals and club meetings. She is very self-reliant and has almost always been able to find a way to get what she needs when she needs it. She prides herself, possibly a little too much at times, on being independent and not needing anyone but herself. What she likes about herself is in a different ballpark all together. She likes that she’s compassionate, caring, and on a frivolous level that she has a decent singing voice.
• If your character could go back in time to change only one thing about their past, or someone else's past, what would it be and why? This one is so easy that it’s almost funny if it wasn’t so sad. She’d make it so her father never left because she’s utterly convinced that if her father hadn’t walked out on her when she was a toddler – if he’d stayed and they could have been a real family, one that didn’t change addresses like most people change toothbrushes – then maybe things would have been better, maybe her mom wouldn’t have gotten so sick, and then she would still be alive.
• What is your character's relationship like with their parents and/or family? As far as Bria is concerned she doesn’t have a relationship with her father or the ‘replacement family’, nor does she have any desire to have one at the moment. She feels too much hurt and resentment over the fact that he left when she was two years old and from the age of her sister promptly started playing house with somebody else, and has given them the best of everything money can buy while she and her mom moved from slum apartment to slum apartment and she spent her time after school scrounging for money just to eat and buy thrift store clothes. Her relationship with her mother, while screwed up by the fact that the parent/child relationships were reversed, was better as far as she’s concerned. Her mother, for almost sixteen years, never tried to leave... which is more than she can say about the father who didn’t even try to know her.
• If your character had just three wishes to be granted, what would they be and why? First wish would be a guarantee she wouldn’t turn out like her mother. Sick and suffering until she just couldn’t take it anymore. The idea that that’s possible scares her more than anything in the world. Second wish would be to find true love, someone who understands, respects and loves her that she can trust within reason isn’t about to just walk out the door. The third wish... to always have a comfortable life. She’s not opposed to working hard to get it, but she doesn’t want the same stress-filled life for any of her future kids that she went through... wondering if they’re going to get to eat that day, if they’re going to come home from school to find an eviction notice on the door, things like that.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Bria Madeline Scott was born August 11th of 1993 in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland/Greater Vancouver area. Her home life was unstable right from the get go and she moved on average once every three to six months for the first five years of her life, though mostly staying in the same area.
Long before Bria had started school - she was barely two - her father had basically checked himself out of the picture. By the time she was five she was left with more to deal with more than most adults are capable of handling. Her mother suffered from undiagnosed bipolar disorder and depression, and frequently lost jobs as a result of bouts of depression so bad that she couldn’t get out of bed for days. But when things were good? When she was up? Everything was perfect in little Bria’s world. Despite the fact that these times were few and far between, she kept her grades at a fairly solid B average, and bought in whatever extra money she could by babysitting and getting a paper route as soon as she was old enough. It may not have been enough to keep them from getting evicted a few times, but it was enough to put a few scraps of food on the table and to buy second hand clothes when she had worn out or out grown something.
This more or less became the status quo well into high school, and having more than a little tinge of embarrassment about her life, she rarely saw her friends outside of school never mind invited them over to her house. She could never be sure the type of mood she was going to find her mom in when she came home. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, Bria became somewhat manic about controlling the things she could. Her room was always immaculate. Her grades as good as her limited time would allow… she never slacked on the studying. She never let on that her home life had been coming apart at the seams for as long as she could remember… she never really had time for dating, but that didn’t mean she didn’t develop a crush or two on some of the guys in her class. She’d deny it if anyone said it to her face, but she was giving up before even getting in the game on that front, sure that the second they found out what her life was like they’d run for the hills. She probably should have given them a little more credit, but the past is the past, and her life in Vancouver is like a nightmare she can’t stop reliving now.
After writing final exams in June, Bria came home from school to find her mother laying in the tub with her wrists slit. At that moment none of the other stuff mattered. Any hope of pretending she was a normal kid shattered. Having no other relatives in town, Social Services tracked down her father who was now a high-priced lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts. Before she really even had a chance to mourn the life she’d worked so hard to hold together, she was whisked off to a different city, different time zone, different country to live with a man who had abandoned her when she wasn’t even three years old.
She was understandably less than thrilled with the whole situation, and basically sees the system of her home country abandoning her to a family she didn’t even know and couldn’t begin to understand why her father wanted her there. The whole summer passed and she still felt like a stranger trapped in a house with her father, stepmother and 15 year old sister. The more time went on the happier she was that she'd talked him into getting her into any boarding school that would take her by the end of July. Ivy Grove was going to be a true, complete fresh start for her.
RANDOM FACTS
~ Loves the Vancouver Canucks and has since she was a little girl, despite a few less than stellar seasons.
~ Swims like a fish. There were few things she liked more about her home city than being so close to the ocean.
~ Doesn’t have a use for the vast majority of video games. They’re a frivolous waste of time that she never had the luxury of enjoying.
~ Not a huge fan of being forced to live with strangers with similar genetic coding. She especially resents when her dad and stepmom try to tell her what to do.
~ Absolutely terrified of extremely large dogs after being bit as a child.
~ Can be more than a little on the blunt side, especially now.
~ Generally a very friendly, smiley girl, if a little wounded right now.
~ Loves artistic and creative endeavours… writing, drawing, photography, singing, dancing. Even cooking.
~ Doesn’t have the slightest clue what she wants to do with her life and that sort of makes her feel like a failure.
~ Keeps what happened to her mother a secret from as many people as possible.
~ Will quite likely move back to Canada after she graduates high school.
~ Has surprisingly healthy eating habits for a girl who has essentially raised herself.
SCHEDULE
ONE AP English Language
~homeroom hour~
TWO Advanced Euro. Studies
THREE Resisters-&-Revolutionaries: A History of Dissent in the US
FOUR Choir
FIVE Lunch Period
SIX French III
SEVEN Astronomy
EIGHT Dance
ACTIVITIES
Thespian Society
Key Club
Dance/Drill Team
Fall Musical ( title undecided )