rose newton

Rose Newton's mother experienced a psychotic break and abandoned her and her father when she was 11. Rose's older sister, Charlie, with with her to bring their mother back home. They kept connected through frequent calls, until these updates suddenly died, leaving Rose unsure about Charlie and her mother's well being.Her father, a habitual deadbeat and chain smoker, lacked the reliability and responsibility needed to parent her. His priorities were skewed, his number one necessity being a carton of reds and a twelve-pack. This financial instability forced Rose to dumpster dive. She turned trash into useful things, and this practice led her to loving the idea of old computers. Rose turned herself into a technician, mastering both the hardware and software bits of the computer.Her computer knowledge secured a place at Midtown Science High School. This was a milestone she wanted badly, not just because it was a great school but also because her uncle's position as the principal. Her freshman year, Rose clung to the hope that her uncle would sweep her away and become a new father to her, escaping her from her prison at home. However, as time passed and things stayed the same, the reality set in that her dreams were just that--dreams.

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deathly minds

QUINN MARION

Quinn Marion's life was marked before she was even a year old. She shared a family-like bond with the family of three across the street, and the couple's paralleled son became her best friend. Their friendship and his family was the only love she'd ever known. At the age of 10, Quinn was home alone was four men came into her home, mistaken for the home of some bigshot CEO, she was left traumatized and assaulted. Eleanor, her mother, took it upon herself to teach her how to handle a gun, and she instilled a sense of self defense and ground-standing. She lived a quiet and normal life with her mother and second family. She lost everything at 16 when the world started eating each other.

JAIME DELORE

Jaime Delore was a miracle from birth. His mother, no matter how hard she tried, could not get pregnant. So from the moment they found out he was pregnant to the moment he was born and every moment after, he was cherished and loved by his parents with everything they had because he was their miracle. Before he was one, he and his parents had moved to a house in a new town for a fresh start. There, they bonded with the likes of a mother and daughter who lived across the street. Growing up, there was this clear distance in his parents that never went unnoticed. He was always loved, but he never appreciated exactly what he had because there was always something missing in him. He found that piece in his best friend Quinn Marion. Unbeknownst to him, a couple months before he was 16 his mother was diagnosed with cancer. His parents left for a diagnostics center, disguised to him as a honeymoon getaway. That was right around the time the world went to shit.

ANTHONY MORALES

Anthony Morales was born to his father when he was 19 years old. Finally Migrating from Columbia to the States, his father met his step-mother, who immediately he took a rocky relationship with. Anthony lashed out at her, created problems for her, and did everything he could to make it clear he did not like her. This created a distance between he and his father, and a very obvious lack of connection between he and his step-mother. It wasn't until she had her first child with his father that he started to build that relationship back with his family. He cared for his little sister as if she was his own, and this started a connection between he and his step mother. By the time she had her second child, his brother, he had helped build back his perfect family.

ADA JENNER

Ada Jenner's life started in the Center for Disease Control because of her mother's awful habit of making work her home. She built her life with a strong and powerful reputation at the CDC so simply by association, Ada Jenner was basically a celebrity amongst nerds and scientists who spent entirely too much time at their jobs. Both her parents took everything into their work, so much so that they stopped prioritizing their daughter and this did not go unnoticed by her. Her mother, at the least, tried to include her in her life but her father almost seemingly completely severed any intimate connection for the two. For her entire life, she counted on her mom to pull her dad out of those moments when he forgot he had a daughter, and those moments were the only memories she had fondly with him. With hopes that she'd follow in their footsteps, Ada's parents had expected her to try to pursue STEM, she pursued the complete opposite. She went to a university nearby, but this only disappointed her father further, doing absolutely nothing to gain his approval and love. When the dead started rising, her mother was one of the first to fall. This broke her father, and this destroyed Ada. The only thing her father cared about anymore was the cure. He was obsessed with the idea that the TS-19 sample, her mother, would be that cure.

BOOKER J. JEMISON

DEATHLY MINDS ━ c. grimes