#also i beg that his parents actually named him smoker and its not a nickname

[yellowistheraddest]

your tax money goes to support his smoking addiction and so he can play with rocks

[courageouscami]

CAMILLE O’CONNELL STATS

ORIGINS & FAMILY:

Name: Camille Meryl O’Connell ☀

Nickname: Cami - prefers going by it.  

Birthday: October 10th. 🎂

Age: 26.

Gender: Female.

Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee. USA.

Places Lived Since: She’s traveled around a bit but hasn’t settled down anywhere aside from Tennessee and New Orleans up until now.

Nationality: Irish-American. ☘

Parents’ Names: Liam O’Connell & Eileen MacGowan.

Number of Siblings: One twin, named Sean. Deceased. ☠

Relationship With Family: It’s Complicated. She loves her parents and they love her, but relations have been strained ever since Sean’s death, two years ago. Cami dissolved her grief in alcohol for a few months afterwards, and it added tension to an already difficult situation.

Happiest Memory: She has plenty from her youth, but visits to or from Uncle Kieran were always among the highlights. ❤

Childhood Trauma: She doesn’t really have any traumas that date back to her childhood. It was a fairly normal upbringing, although at the hands of a domineering and emotionally-distant mother, and a father who was pushed a little more to the background. The main trauma she’s experienced in her life was the loss of her twin Sean, two years ago, in a murder-suicide spree at St. Anne’s, in New Orleans. 

PHYSICAL:

Height: 5'6”

Weight: A lady never tells. 🤷

Build: Rectangular. ₞

Hair Color: Blonde.

Usual Hair Style: A little below shoulder-length, for the most part. Her mom used to force her to keep her hair waist-length when she was little, so as soon as she hit her teens she got a haircut and never looked back.

Eye Color: Light green. 👀

Glasses? Contacts?: Has a tiny bit of presbyopia and a set of reading glasses at home, but rarely makes use of them unless she’s really tired.

Style of Dress/Typical Outfit(s): Her style tends to lean towards comfy, loose-fitting indie-chic in muted, earthy tones. Also wears a lot of jean fabrics, whether in the form of jackets, vests, or pants. Here’s an example.

Typical Style of Shoes: She loves comfortable ankle boots with reasonably-sized heels.  👢

Jewelry? Tattoos? Piercings?: Her jewelry is usually fairly minimalistic so as not to interfere with her lifestyle. She does wear a key necklace that’s been passed down to her by her Uncle Kieran, although she has no clue as to its significance beyond being some type of family heirloom. She has a single tattoo (below) near her wrist that says ‘Irie’; a  word in Jamaican patois meaning “I Respect I Eternally”. This relates to knowing and staying true to oneself. She has regular ear piercings, but that’s about it. Once got her eyebrow pierced in highschool but her mother forced her to remove it and let the skin heal over, and she never went back to it after that. In retrospect, it didn’t really suit her.

Scars: Three; one on the anterior side of her right thumb, from peeling potatoes. The second’s a scraggly line along her thigh from a minor collision off an ex’s motorcycle, and the last one’s from the surgery she had to set her arm, which she broke at the age of six when she took a tumble off a tree while playing in the woods with Sean. 🌳

Unique Mannerisms/Physical Habits: Used to lip-read with Sean when they were little, and so has a residual tendency to glance at people’s mouths as they speak. Unconsciously rubs at her neck or runs her hand through her hair when she’s nervous or anxious.

Athleticism: HAHAHA no. 😂

Health Problems/Illnesses: Insomnia, Survivor’s Guilt. 💤

INTELLECT:

Level of Education: BSc in Psychology, Master’s in Abnormal Psychology, currently working on her PhD + therapist license. Ψ

Languages Spoken: English and a very rudimentary, high-school level of core Spanish.

Level of Self-Esteem: Medium. 

Gifts/Talents: Is an empath, a good listener, can be very persuasive, knows how to lip-read, sorta ambidextrous, plays the piano. ♫

Mathematical?: Absolutely not. 😂

Makes Decisions Based Mostly On Emotions, or On Logic?: She thinks they’re heavier on the side of logic, but they actually skew in favour of emotion, most of the time.

Life Philosophy: 

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.— C.G. Jung

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.— Maya Angelou

The world isn’t awful, people aren’t awful. They want to be good; something makes them bad… Something breaks them down, makes them snap.  — own musings 

Religious Stance: Raised Catholic. ✞

Cautious or Daring?: Daring, Sean was the cautious twin. ☢

Most Sensitive About/Vulnerable To: 

Optimist or Pessimist?: An optimist, but not naively so. 🌈

Extrovert or Introvert?: Extroverted when it comes to most topics. Introverted when it comes to opening up about certain heavier topics related to herself. ◑

RELATIONSHIPS:

Current Relationship Status: In an on-again, off-again relationship with Marcel @marcelxthexking.

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual. ♂♀

Past Relationships: None in New Orleans.

Primary Reason For Being Broken Up With: Too Stubborn, has a tendency to be late to everything, mercurial/doesn’t know what she wants.

Primary Reasons For Breaking Up With People: Has a tendency to gravitate towards the Broken Ones, the Rebels Without a Cause, and that doesn’t work out too long in a relationship. Hopes her next relationship won’t follow that same pattern. 💔

Ever Cheated?: No.

Been Cheated On: Yes.

Level of Sexual Experience: She knows her way around. 

Story of First Kiss: They were in grade 2, his name was Raj, it was a dare, but she’d had a crush on him since highschool. It didn’t last. 💋

Story of Loss of Virginity: It happened on a boat. She’d happily recount the story if asked. ⛵

A Social Person?: Definitely.╰☆╮ If she’s too quiet, something’s wrong.

Most Comfortable Around: Her uncle Kieran @fatherkieran​, Davina @littlestxwitch, Hayley @crcscnt, Marcel.

Oldest Friend: Hayley, in New Orleans.

How Does She Think Others Perceive Her?: Inquisitive, empathetic, friendly, sarcastic, stubborn, nosy, determined, indecisive, witty. 

How Do Others Actually Perceive Her?: Probably about right. ➹

SECRETS:

Life Goals: To figure out what made Sean go crazy on the night of his death, so she can finally put the tragedy behind her. To finish her PhD, become a licensed therapist and help people with their problems. 🎓 ✍

Dreams: To own her own office, to be happy, to live life to the fullest.

Greatest Fears: Losing her mind like Sean did before he went on a murder-suicide spree two years ago. 🧠

Most Ashamed Of: She had a roommate back in her undergrad days who was dating an abusive boyfriend. Cami begged her to seek help from the police, the dean, or anyone else who'd listen. Her roommate was too scared and one night, when Cami saw the boyfriend hitting on a freshman at a bar, she took matters into her own hands. She smashed a beer-bottle in his face and tackled him, enraged that he was getting away with his abusive behaviour. The night ended with an arrest and a charge laid on her which was embarrassing enough, but what makes her feel the most shame is the fact that a part of her couldn’t help but feel satisfaction for feeding the guy a dose of his medicine that night.

Secret Hobbies: Binge-watching reality TV shows is a guilty-pleasure.

Crimes Committed (Was she caught? Charged?): She has a DUI that she absolutely regrets, and an assault/battery charge that regrets a little less, read above.

DETAILS/QUIRKS:

Night Owl or Early Bird?: Night owl.

Light or Heavy Sleeper?: Depends on the night, if it’s a good one - heavy sleeper. ✲

Favorite Animal: She likes most creatures, except insects. If she had to be an animal, she’d choose a bird though, so that she'd be able to fly.

Favorite Food: Anything that’s probably bad for you in the long-run. 🍔

Least Favorite Food: Oatmeal, or anything with cilantro.

Favorite Book: One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fahrenheit 451, and Charlotte’s Web, among others.

Least Favorite Book: Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). She thinks it warped the field of psychology by association and stigmatized the study for decades afterwards.

Favorite Movie: Gattaca, A Beautiful Mind, Matilda, and Casablanca among others. ☾

Least Favorite Movie: The Room.

Favorite Song: Depends on the day, but she generally loves jazz, and classics from old bands like the Beatles. One of her all-time favourites is ‘As Time Goes By’, from Casablanca.

Favorite Sport: If she had to name one, likely rock-climbing or martial-arts or something a little more unconventional. She’s not super into the more popular ones that they all had to do in school. 

Coffee or Tea?: Coffee, to get her through the day. ☕

Crunchy or Smooth Peanut Butter?: Crunchy.

Type of Car He Drives: She doesn’t have one T_T

Lefty or Righty?: Right handed. ๑

Favorite Color: Blue, and if it comes to clothing choices - earthy tones.

Cusser?: Yes, although usually it’s for the sake of humour.

Smoker? Drinker? Drug User?: Moderate drinker.

Biggest Regret: Not seeing the signs leading up to Sean’s death/being able to prevent his suicide.

Pets: Had a cat when she was studying in university back in Memphis, named ‘Her Highness’. 🐈 Had to give the cat away to a family member when moving into her strictly no-pets apartment in New Orleans, so no other pets currently, although she’d like to get a dog one day.