Mar. 16th, 2012 at 12:54 PM
you want your independence, but you won't let me let you go FULL NAME: Natalia Eleanore Westbrook NICKNAMES: Natalie, Nat, Talia DATE OF BIRTH, AGE: January 2nd, 22 SEXUALITY: Heterosexual OCCUPATION: Concert Violinist RESIDENCE: 2 Bedroom Apartment Suite at the Octagon Residential Building MARITAL STATUS: 'Betrothed', open relationship with ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} canderton. FAMILY: Dalton Boyd Westbrook (Father) Genevieve Eleanore Westbrook, nee Spencer (Mother) Personality, Appearance, and Hobbies you think that you're the sun. the whole world revolves around you Personality Everyone assumes that Natalia was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and her life has been incredibly easy. That might have been the case when she was younger, but it has not been so for a long time. Stress sanded away parts of her personality until now, they are hard to find anymore. Glimmers of what they used to be. Not many people notice that she is so much more subdued than she was when she was younger, but if they notice, they don't say anything. Natalia is not particularly mean-spirited. She tends to be a little quiet, and can say things without thinking. On occasion, she can be downright rude in her criticisms, but she has always been the brunt of her mother's critiques, and she does not quite realize how negatively they are taken by others. She strives for perfection in herself and pushes others toward it. Talia has a lot of social anxiety but she has been long since trained not to show it. She can become downright robotic in conversation if she is nervous, and it's a hard thing to break herself out of. She will be perfectly polite, always trying to say the right thing and be personable, but she's just not naturally talented at it. Natalia's two biggest flaws are her negative relationship with food (she suffered from bulimia when she was younger, and though she has not relapsed, she has never been completely healthy) and her fear of abandonment. She strives to hide her problems and flaws because she fears if someone knows about them, they will leave her. This was reinforced by her parents sending her to private school after her bulimia was revealed. Though she clearly needed help, and she knows it, she feels as if they were ashamed of her and that was why they sent her away. However, despite her problems, Talia is not a mean girl. Often, she is quite successful in projecting the idea that she is perfectly happy and healthy. And now, at age 22, she is as happy as she has ever been, but her past haunts her. She especially hides it from Charles, the boy she's been promised to since she was very young. She feels that she does not deserve him and is downright terrified that if he knew the truth, he would abandon her too. And she's not sure what she would do if she lost him. Appearance Natalia is a natural blonde, though it tends to get a little darker around the roots during the winter, and bleaches when she's out in the sun in the summer. It has varying lengths throughout her life but it is currently on the long side. She has fair skin, and vivid green eyes. She tends to get a smattering of freckles, whether she likes it or not, and no matter how much sunscreen she applies. She is a pretty girl but her looks can be considered childish, even if she's 22 years old, plenty old to have lost the last of her baby weight. She never grew past 5'2, and she has always been incredibly small, weight included. She has formerly had problems with an eating disorder, a well kept family secret, but she has not relapsed in years. However, that is not to say her relationship has done a complete 180. She is still well under the suggested weight for girls her age and height. Talia dresses incredibly formally, even when she doesn't need to. She comes from a wealthy, upper class family, and the way she dresses has always reflected her means in life. She dresses quite modestly, has an affinity for lace and bows, and doesn't show much interest in fashion. Her mother has bought most of her clothes for her, and usually her only sense of style is brought out in the accessories. Hobbies Talia has varied interests, but the most obvious one is music. She is an accomplished violinist but she is also quite talented at the piano. She has always had a gift for playing, one that she uses to great success. She enjoys listening to and attempting to play many different kinds of instruments. She has other scattered hobbies. She enjoys sailing, because it is relaxing. She likes to go horseback riding, and was even on the Equestrian team at her private school. She loves to be out in nature, enjoying the sights and sounds. A strange talent is one she has learned over the years of watching and working with her father. Though she is not particularly business minded, she's quite capable at fixing, repairing, and building things. Surprisingly so. She's seen the inside and the outside of most of the construction jobs her father has worked on, and it has given her an inside knowledge of the craft. History. you wanna test the waters. you left me on this empty shore Natalia Holbrook was brought into the world quietly the day after a raving New Years Eve party thrown by her parents. Her mother has stated many a time that pregnancy was the worst time of her life, and her mother has kept true to her word and never had children again. Some say that she had her tubes tied to make sure, but the fact is her parents had stopped being intimate far before Natalia had been born. Natalia was a quiet baby, beloved by her father and tolerated by her mother. She lived a fairly happy life in the Upper East Side of New York. Dalton Westbrook, current CEO of a family business called Westbrook Construction, was the third generation in said business. It had always been profitable, and Natalia was considered Old Money by her friends at private school. Her mother was a fashion designer, with little acclaim but plenty of arrogance. Her mothers true occupation was gossiping and attending parties, and both of these she did with her daughter at her side. The Westbrook and Anderton alliance was struck long before Natalia's generation, but evidence of it was clear, even from when she was very small. The Anderton boys were always around. They were invited to the same parties, they often came to the townhouse for dinner or vice versa, they would summer in the Hamptons together. Natalia began to understand at a very young age that certain things were expected of her, as the daughter of a powerful, rich man. She was in second grade when it dawned on her that her mother would always seat her next to Charles, or ask her to hold his hand, or ask them to lean close to each other for a picture. Even at such a young age, she was aware there was a reason for it, as one day her mother let it slip. One day, you and Charles will be married. It's meant to be. Such a young girl really does not understand the impact or the meaning of getting married. As Natalia grew, she started to understand it more. There was never a point where she resisted the idea. She had grown up with Charles, and their parents had always pushed them together. She liked him, he was incredibly sweet and he'd always been nice to her. She wonders sometimes if he realizes what she's known for so long. She has never introduced him as her 'boyfriend'. But she knows that one day they will be together. Because of this knowledge, Natalia never strayed far into the dating pool. It would only make things difficult, she decided. Besides, Charlie was already perfect. She could hardly find someone better than him. Nat was not exactly the height of popularity at the expensive private schools she attended, but she got along with her classmates fairly well. While other girls sat and day-dreamed about boys they saw in magazines, Natalia thought of what it might be like to be married to Charles. Even as she watched him grow up, it never seemed to click perfectly when they were both young. Natalia got good grades, and was for all intents and purposes a good girl. Her mother pushed her hard, keeping her impeccably groomed and constantly criticizing her weight. Natalia had always struggled with the motivation to eat, and her mother only made it harder. She struggled with bulimia for about a year before her father caught on. She was sent away to 'private school' in order to fix her 'problem'. It was the first time she had ever been away from her parents and her extended family, the Anderton's. From age 15-18, she only saw her parents on holidays. It was a strange, isolated world, and she did not thrive in it. Her graduation was a godsend, because it meant she could return to society as normal. She found, however, that at eighteen, society was much more difficult than it had been at fourteen, when she could sit in a corner with Charles and pretend the rest of the room was not there. Now she was expected to pay attention, always know who she was speaking to, and exactly what to say to them, and most importantly, precisely how to say it. However, when placed in Julliard, Natalia thrived. She had always been extremely talented with music. Violin was her forte, piano second. She had always found it easy to sink into the music and escape with it. It was much easier to be at a party if someone would just ask her to play something, because she could communicate so much better with an instrument under her fingertips. She graduated a year early, and at the top of her class. Though she has little need to work, she does so as a concert violinist. She does small shows around the country, and though the spotlight can be troubling for her nerves, she loves it. Their are only two parts of her life that are currently not as she would like them. Firstly is her responsibility with her father's company. She knows that she is expected to have some fun with her music and then return to the fold and learn exactly how to run the company. She is to be the fourth generation and she needs to uphold their legacy. She is terrified of disappointing her father but the fact is she doesn't have much of a mind for business. She's not sure that she can do it. Secondly, her 'relationship' with Charles. She feels as if she can see it now, that he is someone she wants to marry. He is the same that he has always been, sweet, genuine and unaffected. But she does not feel like she has gone through the years unchanged. She knows that when her parents saw her flaws, they sent her away for three years. If Charlie knew, what were the chances of him still believing her capable of marriage? She desperately hides her flaws from him, unaware she is pushing him away. They are in an 'open' relationship, but Natalia is not sure she wants to see anyone else. i would wait a lifetime for you. A long time ago, there lived a family of four. A father, his new wife, and his children from his first marriage: Hansel, his son, and his daughter, Gretel. Times were hard and food was scarce, and his new wife was a cold woman. She demanded he lead his children deep out into the woods, and abandon them. Hearing their plan, Hansel collected small white pebbles and kept them in his pocket. When they were led away from the house, he dropped a trail of pebbles to follow later. After their parents abandoned them, he and his sister followed the trail back. Their father was delighted, but their stepmother was angry her plan did not work, though she tried to hide it. When food became even more scarce, she convinced her husband to try her plot again. This time, however, the door was locked, so Hansel could not go outside to collect those shiny white pebbles to lead them home. Instead, he crumbled their only serving of bread to make a trail of crumbs to follow. Unfortunately, they were lead so far away from home, the birds of the forest had begun to eat the trail of crumbs, and the children were lost in the woods. They roamed together for a time, only able to eat some berries they found in the forest, when they happened upon a house made of candy, cake, and all sweet things a child loves. Hansel broke off a piece of the roof, and Gretel nibbled on a pure sugar window pane. The witch who lived in the house heard them and invited them inside. For a time, they lived happily with her, sleeping in her beautiful home and having not a care in the world. However, it was not to last. The witch trapped Hansel in a cage, and made Gretel cook fine food for him, telling both that she would eat him when he was fat. The children were petrified. Hansel was forced to eat more than he could stand and Gretel got hardly any food at all. However, the children were clever. The witch had bad eyes, and when she came to check how much Hansel had grown, he would offer a bone, fooling her into thinking he was not fattening up at all. Eventually, the witch grew tired of waiting, and decided she would eat him anyway. She brought Gretel to the house, instructing her to lean deep into the oven to check if it was hot enough, intending to push her in and eat her too. Gretel, however, feigned confusion, and asked the old witch to show her how. The witch did so, and Gretel pushed her in, locking the door shut behind her. She freed her brother, and they both collected pearls and precious gems from her house, before they ran through their woods. They managed to find their father, and their step mother had since passed away. The small family lived happily and comfortably for the rest of their lives. Talia has some similarities to her past. She has grown up with a bad relationship with food, eating far less than she should, because of pressures from her mother. She is clever and is quite good at feigning stupidity, though she is far from that. Natalia greatly fears abandonment, after it happened to her not once but twice in the story. Lastly, she tends to rely heavily on others, even if she has the capacity to take care of herself. She is often just not brave enough to try. Natalia has not really had any sort of visions or dreams about her past, not yet. The closest she has come was a dream about a moonlit path, the light catching on a few small, white stones... out of character. 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