Becca Abigail Faythe

Becca is a pretty girl in her own way. She stands at roughly 5'4" and has a slender body. She doesn't have any muscle to be found on her though seems to still be pretty capable of defending herself. She has the natural curves of a fifteen year old girl but has no excess body weight. Her skin is a soft, fair shade that most would consider 'pale'. Her skin (face, neck, chest area) is flawless. She has blue eyes, that seem to be one of the first things people notice about her, which are a bright but translucent color. Her lips are full and pouty normally colored in reds, wines, or black. In general her body seems normal until one gets a good look at her wrists (provided she isn't wearing a ton of bracelets). If someone were to get close enough to her to see there are a number of healed scars on her lower arms/wrists and usually a few fresh ones. She's been a recovering SI for three years but has her slip ups, especially with the change of schools. Her hair is blackish-brown and kept that shade with occasional streaks of some Manic Panic color thrown in.

In terms of her clothes she is most certainly of the Goth persuasion. She doesn't dress like the crypt keeper type goths on TV and in movies, but favors dark colors with victorian accents. Her two favorite styles of said Goth fashion are victorian and steam punk. Her outfits vary by her moods and she can be seen in a little bit of everything; from victorian-style dresses and skirts to jeans and a band tee. Her shoes also depend on her outfit, but she has her favorite monster boots on most of the time. In terms of makeup she likes dark but with a hint of color. Bracelets are normally loaded up on her wrists to keep the scars and cuts from showing.

When she is on her medication Becca is really easy to get along with, though is prone to severe mood swings when off of it. She is a good kid and rarely misses a dose of her mood stabilizers so she hasn’t had a full-blown spell of either mania or depression in a few years. She is really different from the way most people perceive her. She may dress like she just spent the night dancing in a graveyard, but she is really a friendly, happy, perky, and fun person to be around. Though when off her medication Becca becomes withdrawn and quiet. She'll often slip into crying and bouts of total isolation. She is a completely different person off her meds. She is prone to anxiety attacks and depression when she doesn't take her meds and often attempts suicide. She still self injures.

She has an almost child-like enthusiasm about life, spending every day living like it’s her last. Though given her constantly battle with bipolar disorder and the downswing of depression, it very well could be. She does come across as a sweet, caring girl, overly caring even. She is naive when it comes to people who smooth talk her and seems to be willing to trust all too quickly. Though she is closed off from the world at times, her emotions are always on her face.

She is also a hopeless romantic, dreaming constantly of love. Another thing you'll soon learn about Becca is her love of all things dark and dreary. She's been in love with Goth since she first saw Bela Lugosi's Dracula when she was four years old. Soon after Halloween became the holiday she lived for, and after that? Well, her obsessions with vampires and werewolves and things that go bump in the night have become what she lives for.

She is an animal fanatic and refuses to tolerate animal abusers and has gotten physical several times with people who she’s seen hurt animals or children. She supports peace over violence but isn’t above blowing up if you do something that really upsets her. She is also going on six years being a vegetarian and cites it as one of her best decisions ever. A creative soul, she is rarely seen without a notebook and a pencil stuck behind her ear. She loves to write and draw and can be found usually doing one of the two.She likes to help and becomes anxious when things are out of her control. She doesn’t like seeing people hurt and has a bit of a ‘mother hen’ complex. She is also very protective of people she loves.

Becca Abigail Faythe was the first child of Derrick and Sarah Faythe, adopted when she was three months old. Derrick was a pastor at the local Methodist church and her mother was a Sunday school teacher and local art teacher. The two knew well what they were getting into adopting a child whose previous home life included extensive drug use before, during, and after pregnancy with poor prenatal care and lack of nutrition. Indeed when they got poor Becca she was under weight, suffered from bad lungs, and was confined to a heart monitor due to her heart having stopped three times. The two were told they would be unable to have children and thought it was God's will for them to adopt the tiny infant. Though shortly after they were able to have Breanna, Becca's sister who is younger by two years.

Growing up Becca seemed an entirely normal child..well that is what Sarah would tell you anyway. Since she had never had any other children she failed to notice Becca's early obsession with vampires, bats, spiders, and graveyards. She saw it as her little one being wise beyond her years. Which, in a sense, wasn't entirely untrue. Becca is functioning at a high intelligence level and always has. Becca had a habit of having to hug everyone she came in contact with though that was quickly shamed off by the other adults. She began walking, talking, and reading early, too. By the time she was four she was functioning on a first grade reading level which soon blossomed into her obsession with reading. As a child Becca was prone to bouts of moodiness that the doctors shrugged off as late-set 'terrible twos'. Neither of her parents saw it as the early warning signs of Bipolar. These became even more prominent after the deaths of her Nana when she was four, her cousin when she was seven, and her uncle at eight.

By the time Becca hit first grade she was known by every staff member of the local library and loved for her cheeky, bubbly personality. At the age of seven Becca saw a TV show talking about the study of psychology and decided she must learn about it, though she had no idea what it was. The ladies' at the front were shocked when little Becca decided she wanted to read a psychology book. In her little southern town it wasn't common for anyone to be checking out the psychology books much less a second grader. But they found her one that she just gobbled up and soon she became obsessed with it, as well. An obsession, like reading, never went away. She also was entered into a school writing contest by her teacher and won first place. She began to write as an source for the pain and sadness she felt at losing her cousin and uncle within ten months of one another. The cousin who had been like a big sister to her growing up.

In fifth grade she discovered goth. Her moods had begun to plummet and she found a site online talking about depression and somehow ended up on a website about goth. It peaked her interest and her aunt took her to buy her first pair of combat boots, some gothic-band tees, and Tripps. She was the emcee at her talent show that year decked out head to toe in black and goth fashion. At the end of that school year her dad got a new church assignment and they moved several hours away to Blue Woods, GA. The county they lived in was one where everyone had known everyone since diapers and they were very close knit. When Becca came in dressed goth and a whirlwind of activity it shocked the other kids which soon turned into confusion and then a-typical redneck violence. At first it was only name calling but within a couple of weeks turned into people beating her up every single day. She regularly came home with bruises and bloody noses that she took care of before her parents saw.

The crack and crumble of her faith came in seeing the people who went out and got drunk every night, did drugs, slept with other's husbands and wives, and the kids at school who bullied her act a certain way in the church then a different way in public. She decided that all of them were hypocrites and began seeking new religions. Around this time she also became a vegetarian and got involved with several grassroots organizations. Aside from fixing her stomach issues and her sickness it made her mind clearer to think. And think she did. A second then third suicide attempt occured before her Freshman year of high school. After hospitalization it seemed Becca was getting better. She even was put on medication and continued her therapy. But when she was fifteen her parents had enough. They were sick of the way she was dressing, her resentment towards religion, paired with her outright refusal to have anything to do with the church led to her being given an ultamatum; either she get her act together and get back in church or she would be kicked out of the house. She ended up kicked out two weeks later. Her Aunt Brook in Chicago was the next call she made and she was invited out to live with her. Becca's laid-back, relaxed previously-a-hippie aunt has been a source of love and care she's come to crave, even though her life feels meaningless at times, she's thrown herself into life here and tried to make a fresh start. She's even met an amazing boy named Demetri whom she's come to call her best friend.

Did one for Alix! :3