identity: female, cisgender, bisexual
family: howard alvarez (father, deceased), vera harris (mother), adelaide harris (twin sister), isabel harris (daughter)
occupation: hobby witch and car mechanic.
traits: passionate, affectionate, sensitive, indulgent, impulsive, loyal, honest, spunky, defiant.
interests: cars, egyptology, cats, naval history, movies, witchcraft
typology: esfp, 6w5, sanguine
zodiac: leo sun, taurus moon, virgo rising
height / build: 5'3", slender
eyes: warm brown, left pupil larger than right
hair: dark brown, hip length
features: tan skin, freckles + moles
health: BPD, autism, ADHD, chronic migraines
warning for mentions of sexual trauma, pedophilia, incest, child abuse, drug abuse – the marriage between howard alvarez and adrienne harris is one of turmoil. alvarez meets harris at a business function, as she is the daughter of a business partner. she is freshly seventeen, and he is far older than she, yet he decides then and there that he wants her.
they wed months after meeting, as adrienne has fallen pregnant. it is not her choice to sleep with him, nor is it her choice to give him children, but it is impossible for her to say no. at eighteen she gives birth to twins elizabeth and eleanor. they are two beautiful, healthy girls.
however, wife and children are required to grow up early. soon into the marriage, adrienne turns to pills to cope with the incessant abuse from her husband, and to tune out the things he does to their daughters. as he had done with adrienne, elizabeth and eleanor immediately are subject to his inappropriate interest in their bodies. at the age of seven, elizabeth is made aware of her role as a woman in society.
growing up, elizabeth is the rowdier twin; she is loud, disobedient, and promiscuous. she learns quickly that the more problems she causes, the less abuse eleanor receives. it is a sacrifice she wishes to make. howard is cruel and unforgiving, but the pain of knowing eleanor experiences it as well is worse than the pain of the experience itself.
at fourteen, she fights back. during one of howard’s fits, she attacks him; he attempts to coerce her into performing oral sex, and rather than obey him, she bites. it enrages him; half because of the pain, and half because of her incessant disobedience. while he heals, she is locked in her bedroom, and the moment he can punish her he does. he tears her from her bed, suddenly, in the middle of the night, and bends her over the side of the bathtub. there is a razor in his hand, and with it, he shaves her head. this event will live with her forever; into her adulthood, she refuses to let anyone who isn’t a lover or a relative touch her hair.
at seventeen, like her mother, elizabeth is pregnant. the father is a nameless man she met once, who promised her he would take care of her. a hormonal elizabeth begins to scheme; her father has abandoned her, her mother and sister are forced to pretend she doesn’t exist. living for once on her own, she forges her own connections, and locates a hitman, to whom she gives all her savings for one task: eliminate howard. killing him was the only thing she was able to think about, from the moment she learned what killing was.
it was an easy task, and when it was done it seemed as though all, finally, was beginning to improve. the funeral was attended by no-one, and his wife and daughters were the recipients of a very large inheritance. with the money, the family reunited, and each sought their own path of improvement; adrienne, now going by vera harris, began attending therapy and rehab, while eleanor, now adelaide, and elizabeth, now rhiannon, both used it to fund their independence. rhiannon, specifically, purchased an apartment, and used the money to live comfortably and raise her daughter.
in her twenties, she briefly tried college. she attended for exactly one semester before dropping out. this is not to say however that she is uneducated; she took matters into her own hands, and pursued many different technical degrees. as one with adhd does, she would fixate and learn everything she possibly could about various topics, and now holds several licenses and permits for random jobs. her preferred profession, and one of her special interests, is to work as a freelance car mechanic. she owns four vehicles; a black 1987 buick gnx, a red 1988 pontiac firebird, a red 1990 mazda miata, and a black 1997 mazda rx7.
under construction .
note: inclusion of these themes in rhiannon's backstory is not endorsement and i am not a proshipper.
