#hc: adriana diaz

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reintroducing mx adriana diaz or a study in the danger of expectations and stereotypes

adri is the youngest diaz sibling by about 6 years (going with eddie as the middle child) - now 26

as the youngest daughter, adri was likely always going to be spoiled, but the larger age gap certainly added to it. she was and always has been treated as the baby of the family (until christopher at least)

the spoiled youngest is a stereotype adri learns to play into; she knows to play clueless and to blink her doe eyes at her parents when in trouble, but it’s not all great - they expect her to be emotional and not as smart as sophia or eddie, so adri lives to those expectations. 

but discomfort grows as she gets older - once careless parents turn more strict. if eddie’s teenage pregnancy was awful to them, then the idea of another one with adri is abhorrent. she doesn’t cope well with the change. (she blames eddie and their relationship isn’t great by the time shannon and chris are around bc, again, adri isn’t great with change)

she grows up dancing folklorico and traditional ballet. at 14/15, she’s invited to a summer intensive in nyc (a big deal in the prof dance world) but her parents won’t let her go and her big city dreams die with the disappointment. 

so adri decides if she can’t do what she wants, she’ll do what eddie couldn’t (bc lowkey adri is petty as hell). she refocuses on volleyball and one of the few perks of an all girl’s catholic school is all the extracurriculars and sports they encourage look great on college apps. she falls into the ‘perfect daughter’ routine that no one ever expected of her.

by the end of high school, she’s captain of the volleyball team and has a few scholarships lined up at upenn if she plays there. but they don’t cover everything and private out of state uni’s are expensive. since adri wants to go into nursing anyway, she decides to join the nrotc nursing corps program, but her parents forbid it and adri just gives in. they’re fighting her on the move to philly as it is and it starts to dawn on her that they see college as ‘mrs degree’ - a way for her meet a husband and settle down. 

upenn is great for adri - she’s captain of a volleyball team again, a sorority girl, and has an on-and-off relationship that turns serious during their last two years of college. as much as adri didn’t want to meet the ‘mrs degree’ expectation, she and rafael get engaged shortly after graduating. he is actually navy, gearing up for flight school, so they do a small courthouse wedding to make everything easier. 

(adri also comes out as nonbinary between her second and third year of college to very little fanfare. she doesn’t advertise it too much given the sports world at the time. and even now, she’s still untangling if her parents' subdued rxn is actual support, indifference, or disbelief/humoring her.)

like eddie, adri rushes into a marriage. one she has no idea how to navigate between her own new career and raf’s. the moves make her feel unsettled and while fitting in among the navy so’s should bring her comfort, it ultimately doesn’t. it’s just more stereotypes for her to be pigeonholed into. 

in fact, as adri, who started a more content creator style presence on insta as a college athlete, starts sharing more of her experience being a new military spouse, she realizes just how much she hates the little corner of the world she’s fallen into. 

a bad argument leads to adri initiating the divorce - while they were originally on the same page about wanting kids, raf’s insistence on adri doing the whole stay at home thing leads to adri sharing that she’s unsure if she wants kids at all. (something she was maybe in the wrong for keeping it to herself for as long as she did, even if raf isn't necessarily great either.) 

(for more context - they had a pregnancy scare in college. they were on the same page then about the roles they’d take, but while raf’s thoughts stayed the same, adri’s changed as both her nursing and sm careers took off)

so, where does a freshly divorced, semi-influencer end up? la of course. it’s the best of both worlds - content potential and family (rather than moving back to philly with only friends that all knew raf). at least, adri’s smart enough to keep working as a nurse in la too. 

some personality notes: adri tends to be very charming and sweet. she is very easy to get along with but the majority of her relationships are surface deep. in her real life, adri isn’t great at putting herself in others’ shoes. for whatever reason, compassion and sympathy comes easier to her when she’s in scrubs.

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today's hot take: if the show ever gets around to introducing eddie's sisters onscreen, i want there to be a reason why it took so long for either of them to show up. because all we've gotten over the past six years are a few passing mentions from eddie and his family, and i don't want that to be a mistake on the show's part. when it comes to sophia and adriana, i want there to be distance. i want there to be anger. i want there to be resentment.

we know that eddie was parentified at a young age and spent most of his childhood feeling responsible for sophia and adriana only to get his girlfriend pregnant at age eighteen. we know that eddie wasn't ready for any of it — he wasn't ready to get married. he wasn't ready to be a husband or a father. to have his own child as a child. and we know that he did it anyway. and from the minute that eddie held that tiny baby, every single thing that he did was for his son. every single priority that eddie may have had before that was second to the living, breathing embodiment of his heart — christopher.

we also know that part of the reason why eddie didn't want to leave texas when shannon asked him to is because he didn't want to leave his sisters. but eventually he did. he did need to leave. he needed to leave his parents, and he left sophia and adriana there too. and like. it's heavily implied that adriana is much younger than eddie, and given that ramon was never home and eddie was heavily involved in raising her, it's more than likely that she would harbor some kind of resentment towards him for leaving. and obviously he didn't mean to leave her — i feel like that goes without saying, but i want to reiterate it so nobody misunderstands me. but i want her to feel abandoned anyway. i want her to have so much love lying dormant with nowhere for it to go. i want them to have drifted away from each other during the years when he was at war and focused on his new wife and baby and i want to hear that his sisters had to watch him leave again, barely a year after they thought that they got their big brother back.

listen. i know that the diaz siblings are very popular in fic and most people hc that they have a really close relationship but at this point in canon, it's been a full six years since eddie was introduced, and in my opinion we're way past the point where it would feel natural for either of them to be (currently) actively involved in eddie's life. so i hope the show does something with it, because i think there's so much potential for an estrangement/reconciliation arc between them and i'm so excited at the prospect of what it could do for eddie's character.

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introducing miss. adri

 adri is the youngest diaz sibling at 25

 adri is nonbinary. she isn’t particular about pronouns, tending to stick to she/her for ease of use but doesn’t like derivatives of women/girl. (though is fine with being called sister from her siblings but no one else)

 of the siblings, adri gets along the best with their parents. she doesn’t understand why her older siblings have so much tension with them.

 growing up, she was an interesting mix of wild child and goodie two shoes. she did well in school, paired with their parents just generally being more lenient with her, she got away with a lot of stuff that her older siblings were criticized and scolded for. adri enjoys toeing the line with them.

 her relationship with her older siblings is complicated. she idolized them when she was younger but felt abandoned by both of them and that’s one of the reasons she often took her parents side of things.

 adri studied computer engineering at texas a+m (could do something at the dispatch center with this?). her parents pushed grad school, but adri moves back home, claiming to save up money. she lies about applying when deadlines roll around. it’s one of her first major fights with her parents that doesn’t go her way.

 adri’s longest relationship is an off and on relationship with her childhood best friend. they reconnect and start dating in college. she’s a great friend, but a shitty partner, she keeps cheating on him. but they continuously get back together because she stops sleeping around for a time and they both think it won’t happen again. 

they get engaged about a year and a half after college. things are great between them. she really does love him. and her parents are happy. it’s the first time they’ve looked past her lying about grad school.

the diaz parents are supportive of adri re: her gender, but it often falls flat and is misguided. the kinda ‘we just want what’s best for you, we don’t want your life to be harder’ support.

a few months into wedding planning, her mom starts dropping hints about grandchildren and that’s when she realizes her parents don’t really see. instead, they see a ‘cis daughter doing what’s right and expected of her’. she feels trapped in that idea.

this happens around the time the honeymoon phase of the engagement has ended. she loves her fiancé, but her heart isn’t in it. she doesn’t want to make the same mistakes, so she ends it.

when adri tells her parents, it’s an ugly fight. they keep repeating that she’s making a mistake. and adri doesn’t really know how to deal with it, she’s used to her parents’ support, and she doesn’t have that.

so, adri just leaves. decides to drive (which is a little foolish, but at that point she’s like go big or go home) and crash at abuela’s for a few days till it blows over. it’s meant to be temporary, but she ends up staying in la.

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october hcs - day 16: grungy

more grungy flannels, ripped jeans, etc helped adri embrace being nonbinary. she'd never been shy about saying she was attracted to dance because of the costumes, but it took some time for her to make the same connections to athletic gear and scrubs - just this time more for their neutrality and/or masculinity.

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How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why? for adriana

character dev questions

adri's style can be pretty varied and eclectic, switching between grunge and preppy, early aughts influences or whatever decade she's currently into. clothes are fun for adri and major facet of her self expression. she does, though, tend to fall into whatever is popular and trending on insta. that said, more often then not, you'll find her in athletic wear, or overalls and a tshirt - they tend to be her version of gender neutral clothes (or more accurately, how she expresses it).

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goldenrod :   does your muse believe in luck or fortune ?  why or why not ?   where do they believe these things come from ?   adri

botanical hcs!

Realistically, Adri knows the world is a confusing, unfair mix of fortune and luck and advantages. But she is a thorough believer in luck and the universe, some of it is superstition and some of it is Adri just wanting to believe in something good.

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adri+ colors

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Adri was the sorta of kid to shout 'rainbow!' whenever asked about her favorite color. To her, the questioned sucked - how could she be expected to pick just one? Especially if there's glitter involved. There were obvious preferences like bright pinks and neon blues; and now as an adult, Adri sticks to just answering pink for simplicity's sake.

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i feel like 'good luck babe' is adri's theme song

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09.     wish other people thought more about. for adri

a moment in time that they... wish other people thought more about

The Diaz parents were generally more lax with Adri than her siblings as she was the youngest. It's a common enough occurrence in sibling groups and given Adri knew how to sweetly smile and excuse their concerns or punishments, she got away with far more than she should've.

That said, when Adri started high school, the parents forbid her to date. Terrified of another teenage pregnancy, they enforced a strictness she wasn't used to nor did she think was fair. Their fears and nagging followed her to college. Given her relationship with Eddie was already soured and strained by him leaving, Adri cast a lot blame on him and it made it that much harder for them to reconnect.

And then it was like a flip - once she was engaged to Raf, questions about 'growing the family' started. This is a double standard she struggles to articulate, sometimes made more confusing by her being nonbinary, and she often wishes someone else would just figure it out for her.

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basil : does your muse have a love - hate relationship with anyone or anything ? //@ adri

botanical inspired hcs

Yes, but Adri wouldn't be one to admit it. She is very much an optimistic; rather, she is someone who wants to look optimistic. Adri doesn't want to look back on decisions she's made with regret, so she just doesn't. She is stubbornly good natured and hopeful, even when she shouldn't be, because she thinks that's what the world wants her to be.

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hc + music, adri * !

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Adri's music taste is fairly eclectic. There's the standard 90's and 2000's pop and hip-hop hits, heavily influenced by Sophia's and Eddie's playlists. Then there's classical and folk music that she danced to, tinged with nostalgia and childhood memories. Now, it's more club mixes, whatever's popular on the radio and social media.

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so do i switch adri from an er nurse to a flight nurse?

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13.     to do list. for adri

a peak at what's inside...

Adri scrawls stuff on her hands a lot, half habit as a nurse and half learned in college because she constantly lost her planner. She tries using the notes app in her phone, but she doesn't find it helpful unless it's connected to her calendar alerts.

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🥝  :    does my muse have any  ‘  unusual  ’  habits,  interests,  and  /  or talents?  do they hide it,  or are they proud of it?   ( adriana )

fruity hcs!

Adri crochets! She learned as a kid, taught both by their abuela and mom. She switches between projects a lot depending on her interests and her focus, or frustration when something isn't working out. And if there's any shame, it's at the vast amount of yarn she's hoarded over the years. Or, her bin of started and failed hobbies, but she keeps that tucked deep in her closest so no one can see.

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🔥 - adri!

send me🔥+ a word for a spicy hc!

Adri likes loud sex! She doesn't like people who hold back. Moaning, screaming, whatever - Adri wants to hear it.

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following your answer to the adri & pda ask: nonsexually, how does she feel about kissing, holding hands, etc. in front of others? is she okay with it, or does she prefer the intimate moments as such to be kept “behind closed doors”, so to speak?

Send me  🔥 + a word and I will write a spicy headcanon for my muse. (or in this case, not so steamy headcanons lol)

Yes, she adores non-sexual pda! If Adri can't hug or kiss her s/o in public, then what's the point? Life is too short for shyness. The rare times she is more reserved is if she's working (a kiss on the cheek while they meet at reception or something) or around her parents, but otherwise it's very rare that she'd refuse to kiss or hold hands in public.