Camila Cañizares

[Cicada]

Name: Camila Cañizares Santamaría
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
School: George Hunter High School
Hobbies and Interests: Agriculture, horticulture, fishkeeping, DIY ethic, business and entrepreneurship, sustainability, swimming, hiking, parkour, exploration, volunteering, cooking, foodie culture.

Appearance: Camila is 5'6", a woman of Hispanic descent, with a fair skin tone that is generally bronzed evenly due to extensive tanning. She weighs 130 lb. on average and her body is of an hourglass shape, though not dramatically so as she is not curvaceous as much as she is generally small in silhouette. She has a slightly stocky profile, with a torso that is longer than her legs. Her legs and shoulders are athletically developed, with gently muscular contour.

Her face is a short and even circle and highly symmetrical. She has a soft chin and fairly undefined cheekbones, and a little baby fat stubbornly clings into this area of her face. Her nose is small and button-like, with a bridge that vanishes shy of her eye-line. Her lips are full and shapely, and naturally a pale pink. She has a distinct gap tooth in her smile, slightly off-center on the upper row of her teeth. Her eyes are a dull and dark blue, almost indistinguishable from the pupil unless one is attentive enough. She has good skin complexion for her age and has never had to deal with acne breakouts or other skin conditions. Her black hair is grown out to rest against the blades of her back, and this long it becomes fairly wavy in distinct, fist-size tresses. She usually styles it back into a simple ponytail.

Camila cares little for fashion. She will occasionally indulge herself on a whim with light and feminine wear, but the sundress or frilly blouse is sparingly represented in her wardrobe. For the most part she wears rough-and-tumble clothes, dusty and damaged jeans in neutral tones like blue and black. For her tops she pursues either plain and monotone color tees or short-sleeve button-ups, and her clothes tend to be light cotton to deal with heat and ventilation issues. Camila rarely wears makeup, though she is knowledgeable enough to pull off a full look in the rare instance that she deems it appropriate. She tends to wear hiking boots, steel-toes, or other supple footwear, and she uses a simple fiber drawstring backpack universally in place of other accessories like purses.

Her voice is airy, naturally middling in pitch, and with a slight Cubano accent, with a tendency to under-pronounce any final syllable 's'. Her enunciation and projection are fairly developed, and she can reliably speak abnormally loudly as she deems fit. Camila has an unabashed habit of openly speaking to herself in public in either of her native tongues. She speaks fluent Spanish.

Biography: Camila Cañizares Santamaría was born October 3rd of 1999 in Baptist Hospital, Miami, the second child and first daughter of Nicolás Cañizares and Lismary Santamaría de Cañizares. Young Camila lived in a cramped apartment, one of three shared among a number of her extended family. The entire enclave of about fifteen had made it to the country in the early 90s as economic refugees, Cuban bourgeoisie escaping a political system that didn't favor them. Camila's family members were businesspeople and doctors, her own parents were former analysts for the state bank whose positions had been eliminated by a restructuring prior to their deciding to flee.

Camila's early years were pleasant. She hit all her developmental milestones at expected ages. The few blocks around Camila's apartment were friendly, with a strong influence and flavor of her parent's homeland. She had plenty of friends and was a bustling sort, eager to explore and get out of the house, and often the leader in the neighborhood games between the many other children she was on close terms with. She did not attend preschool, as her parents did not know this option was available to them. Camila however, would be strongly developed with her English from a young age. Her parents, who themselves had struggled for years to reach business fluency, insisted upon it. Though Spanish was still the casual language around the home, Camila would develop a reputation among her friends in the neighborhood for being particular with her English, a fact she was sometimes teased for.

Camila was almost about to enter Kindergarten, with her fifth birthday upcoming, when a major shift occurred in her life. The richest members of the family had made a number of investments to maintain financial security, but a particularly ill-advised one had been farmland: the family had invested in thirty acres against the Chickamauga in Tennessee, buying from an insolvent farm that had been about to close. The farm had been entrusted to one of Camila's uncles by marriage, husband of one of the initial investors in the land. His management eventually went under, the farm was bleeding money and the financial stress had jeopardized the marriage. Months of heated debate Camila was only occasionally even aware of eventually ended with her mother and father agreeing to turn around the farm's sagging cash flow. Though not farmers, the two of them had been growing restless in Miami, as they hadn't been able to find jobs that sufficiently challenged them. They were considered the family's brightest, and most likely to be capable of handling the turnaround. Thus, Camila would be attending Kindergarten in Chattanooga's suburbs.

Rebuilding the failing farm was an all-hands-on-deck affair, as for the sake of profitability the farm had to be rebuilt completely. Camila had been excited to share her home with farm animals, however this promise from her parents would never materialize as the farm’s acres were shifted into fields and orchards. Camila’s daily chores were age-appropriate but extensive: as soon as she was able she would till and harvest and do basic field inventory. Her responsibilities were exhaustive by the time she’d hit puberty: she’d be handling tractors, directing field hands, and so on. From a young age Camila grew used to lacking for free time: her parents allowed her to have an easier day if she had school activities or dates with friends, but besides this she was kept busy and learned to keep a tight schedule and sleep efficiently.

The family was tight knit as such a small unit. Camila’s elder brother Martín was separated from her by over five years, but the two would bond over their home duties and Martín took a pride in having his little sister under his wing. Nicolás and Lismary were kindred spirits who took to their new lifestyle well and inspired young Camila with their steady, loving relationship and their brusque and efficient approach to business that they’d impart on her in language a child could understand, economic maxims Camila has memorized to this day. The home remained cozily Cubano in aesthetic, and the four speak fluent Spanglish when together and without guests in the home.

In school Camila was sometimes out of place but her personality was too forward, bullies would avoid her because she wasn’t an easy target and had little patience for being excluded. She thrust herself into various social groups and provided good social value: her roaming spirit and natural bend for leadership meant she was excellent in entertaining her peers, often leading long rambling trips into the wilderness of suburban Chattanooga fearlessly.

Camila in turn was easily impressed by some of her other peers who she respected and cherished; she is loathe to give up on early childhood friends, to this day, even if they have moved schools or states since then. Her stubborn and self-determined nature is positive in this regard, at least in theory, as she often defines individual relationships on her own terms. Her family was frugal and socially low-class due to the profit margins of the farm being razor-thin, Camila herself exuded her lifestyle in her behavior. She was thrifty and didn’t follow trends, but she was often bullish enough to win friends from any sort of background.

For example, Camila’s parents were only Roman Catholic culturally, and no longer paid lip service to their faith. Camila herself went along with this, but meeting Claudeson Bademosi and being strongly impacted by his kindly nature and spirit inspired her in kind. She attended service with him and soon formally declared herself Protestant, her brother inspired shortly thereafter to follow. She couldn’t attend Sunday School as her family could not justify the monthly fees, but she would do church activities on weekends when she had the time, and was integrated into the local parish very well. She had a taste for volunteering and she often led small groups of children her age in caretaking for the church lawn and topiary. She was praised by the adult leaders of the volunteer groups for her initiative and knowledge, and she internalized her ability to reach out and help others of her own volition and ability, continuing as she aged to develop a strong sense of pride and self-sufficiency.

Camila was and still is an early morning waker. She liked to get some of her farm chores done early, and while waiting for the sun to be high enough for her to need to make the walk to school she developed a routine of swimming the nearby river or mentally mapping the undeveloped acres that the family had access to. Swimming and hiking were Camila’s easy hobbies, in her own words, relaxing activities that she didn’t need to invest a lot of her mental energy into. She often crashed richer friend’s homes when they had pool access, and she briefly considered a YMCA swim team, though she ultimately decided the fees and practice schedules were too much to commit to.

In the later stages of Camila’s elementary school years her ambitious nature would have its first field test. She’d been alternately asking and pestering her parents for the right and support to implement her own vision and project: she’d found an area she believed could support a fish pond near the river, inspired by late night documentaries about fish farming that her parents had been idly discussing as a potential future revenue source for the farm. They acquiesced and provided her start up capital they expected to be paid back. Camila manually built two modestly sized fish pools with Martín’s assistance, over the course of six months she carefully selected and bred sunfish, goldfish, koi and so on sourced from nurseries all over the state. She marketed on the internet and in schools and fairs to the local market, and after that six months were up she was able to pay back her parents. She only turns modest profits that she often turns over to her parents rather than personally spending it, she considers the fish ponds part of the farm. However, she takes great craftsman’s pleasure in running the ponds entirely by herself, even if the project is limited in scale. She has expanded to five pools of fish and continues to do semi-regular business via word-of-mouth and local connections.

When Camila entered middle school Martín graduated to college. He attended Austin College in Texas, a private liberal arts college with ties to the Presbyterian church, a decision Martín credits Camila and Claudeson Bademosi for as in the intervening years since converting he’d become significantly devout in his faith. Camila was proud for her brother, but his decision also made her budding, maturing mind come into confrontation with a certain fact: she hated school and academics. For most of her primary education she’d come to only exert effort and try in classes if she instinctively understood the subject, otherwise she couldn’t be bothered. She’d had friction with her parents over her subpar, middling grades. At this time in her life as she graduated to middle school she finally decided to make it clear that she intended to take over the family business or otherwise pursue her own independent entrepreneurship. Her parents and herself came to a practical understanding, that Camila’s focus was elsewhere and she simply didn’t intend to be a college-bound girl, though they agreed likewise on the caveat that Camila had to maintain good enough grades to get into college as an option. She does study, but sparsely, she only puts in as much academic effort as need be and she has when she can get away with it cheated on essays and tests.

Camila likewise did not engage much with clubs and extracurriculars within school. She developed a habit and preference for spending as little time on campus as was possible, to the point where she would even use other libraries besides the school library when doing research. She considered herself too occupied with her farm duties, and preferred spending her free time elsewhere in general. In eighth grade Camila was reported by her Social Sciences for accumulating five days of unexcused absences. The consequence of detention periods and parent teacher meetings led to a businesslike contract between Camila and her parents. She'd take care of her attendance from then on despite her misgivings, in exchange for her continued freedoms on the farm.

As she graduated into high school and continued to mature Camila’s plans in life were fairly set in stone and she began to broadly explore her chosen path in life accordingly. Bold and energetic as she was she continued to develop her business acumen, though she’d have less success than her small fish business in future endeavors. She’d try to license the brand of her family’s produce for local stalls in markets that could develop their local reach, however she ran into limitations that even her force of personality couldn’t overcome. She takes failures in her stride and considers reaching out and searching for deals in her community to be a pet hobby.

Her attendance to church was also reduced, as she began strongly questioning the tenants of organized religion, deeming it too stifling and limiting in scope. Her friends noticed that her extroverted and impassioned tendencies took on an argumentative bend, Camila unconsciously began to enjoy being contrary for the sake of it as it amused and thrilled her when she could get away with it.

More notably she decided to use her private knowledge and connections to her advantage and took the bold initiative of cutting a piece of the nascent marijuana industry starting in her Sophomore year. Her venture was illegal per law in Tennessee, and additionally her parents were also not in the know, as she built the nursery for her venture in the wooded areas of the family land only she knew well.

She cultivated individual plants, ambitiously breeding her own strains based on her developed horticultural knowledge and research. Due to expenses and lack of funds she could only purchase few seeds via online dealers that she screened through word of mouth as she networked with other local dealers. Her secrecy as she began to develop was not iron tight, and despite her lack of clientele she has already been caught by her parents who were tipped off by a particularly loudmouthed client. Her parents were more cautious about this venture than her other more legal ones and refused to allow the growing on the farm proper for liability reasons, she moved the nursery deeper into the woods accordingly, too stubborn to give up the project despite the set back. Presently she continues, but considers her two years to be developmental as her connections and product are not developed enough for her to enter the market fully. She only deals small amounts sparingly and has yet to recoup her initial investment, as she'll often also give away her product for free for favors or to test her growing efforts.

Camila’s high school experience is generally focused, given her strong and particular ambitions. She maintains a good relationship with her parents but one evolved into professional ground, as each party tries to honestly critique the other and Camila’s parents are quietly proud of their daughter, whose perceived maturity they hold in high regard. Her branch of the immediate family is generally considered distant from their old enclave in Miami, on friendly terms, but wildly diverged between the elder child being engaged in theology for an unfamiliar religion and the family generally growing attached to their job and environment. Camila has been to Miami two summers since moving away, and generally considers her extended family unfamiliar and only distantly useful connections to have, and she questions the use of otherwise being swayed by the pull of her own heritage and culture beyond how it’s immediately applicable in her home life.

Camila is friendly but distant in school, holding an openly expressed disdain for most academic pursuits that she considers wasted time and often being willing to give her peers critique to the point of coming off as something of a bully or otherwise, even if she personally does not perceive herself as such. This is of course secondary to her anyways, she often slips through school without being too bothered about her social status or lack thereof.

Her few positive engagements in school are often tangential, teacher anecdotes or blips of information that will settle in her mind and quickly inform her still developing business sense. As a farm girl with a strong sense of her local land she always felt sensitive to conservationist efforts. She felt a certain practical disdain for the effects of these considerations onto profits and livelihood, a dichotomy she still balances to this day, but her love for nature born of exposure combined with what knowledge she bothered to take to heart in her classes led to her developing approaches she hoped would be more sustainable, a more progressive and future-looking mindset she often tries to wrestle with while considering her daily activities and business plans. Through discipline she is a strong recycler and often cleans areas during her lonely wanderings in town or outside.

Camila’s growing independence and self-determined schedule led to her picking up particular habits in her day-to-day routine, mainly that she often cooked for herself and her family, rotating duties with her mother. Her agricultural knowledge was easily developed into an intuitive cooking sense, she tends towards a blandly hearty palette given her family’s default cupboard. Cooking was of secondary importance to her as she considered it a difficult talent to leverage in her drive for accomplishment, but she entertained it as at least a hobby where she didn’t have to hustle, or could muse on her more mentally intensive plans and activities in a low-stress environment. She developed a strong affinity for food over her high school years as such, and found a comfortable home in the kitchen to supplement her lonely time on the farm, especially as her chores often stole away her time and forced her into solitary pursuits.

Her social life did lead her off the farm at irregular intervals. Through some friends she is at least willing to attend parties, often with the practical motive of trying to find new clients that will be interested in her drug peddling. She’s a social presence at once odd and endearing, while she’s odd in how she’ll talk to herself or often be unavailable she’s also unabashedly so. Lacking shyness and often taking initiative and responsibility with her self-direction she has social capital in her own way, and she’s far from a social martyr.

Her social web has led her to adapt her stubborn tendencies in at least some sense. As she spends more of her off-time than ever in town and civilization she often observes a certain restlessness in more urban settings. She handled this energy with pursuits that she believed integrated her existing persona handily. For example, her physical prowess became an interest in freerunning and urban exploration, with her quick feet and stamina being trained into a propensity for parkour and navigating urban landscapes. She enjoyed the idea of trespassing into areas she shouldn’t be, and Chattanooga slowly became a playground much as her own local neighborhood was, one far larger than she had much more work to do with, work she enjoys earnestly for it engages her goal-oriented nature. Often she tries to rope sympathetic friends into exploring with her, otherwise, explorations and ramblings about are her after-hangout activities until she is needed at home. She has yet to be caught in a sticky situation beyond occasionally being shooed away from a site she's lurking around the edges of by guards, though she's somewhat restless and eager to get more bold with her explorations in the future despite well-meaning advice from friends.

She also noted that her interest in food and modest access to disposable income gave her an opportunity as a reviewer. She wouldn’t let her relative inexperience as a creative writer arrest such a potential and she started a blog, using her connections made in farmer’s markets and through her parents to put her foot in the door in restaurants. This particular pursuit came in the summer before her Senior year, thus she is still a budding blogger with no formal publications to her name, but her blog has a small and active community of locals and her energy allows her to engage her audience effectively with events and discussions. Her tastes and interests are broad, and her writing style, while sparse, has a certain charm in its characteristic simplicity. Her friends are often aware of her pursuits, and the rumor mill tends accurately reports that Camila can often hook up those interested with discounts or free meals at restaurants given her growing sway in the local area. These engagements have opened at least some of her lost heritage, at least in inspiring her to explore more of her Hispanic heritage in cuisine, though her explorations of it are colored by her lifestyle and she often elects to not follow the recipes.

Thus, Camila has entered her Senior year as a developed personality, sometimes off-putting but always interesting to hang out with when she’s willing to afford the time to socialization. She has a decent family life and decent school life, her poor grades and disdain of class time aside. She has not dated and has no care for making any inroads on that front, indeed she correctly suspects she is asexual and mostly aromantic due to her sheer lack of interest, but that same lack of interest has made her inquiries into the matter underdeveloped. She has branched out from her church- though keeping her closest friends from there- and now volunteers on her own time in local wilderness preserves, and is considering non-profit initiatives, drawing up business plans often related to environmental issues she has done usually cursory research into.

She enjoys her life strongly, and believes she is steering her own destiny and has many options and potentials for the future.

Advantages: Camila is energetic, practically minded, and strongly self-sufficient and will likely bring this energy into her survival attempts. She has the physical stamina and endurance to reduce the impact of the wilderness environments on her survival chances.
Disadvantages: She is stubborn to a fault and often quickly makes up her mind and rarely affords her initial thoughts further introspection, a tunnel-vision sort of mindset that can lead to her making poor decisions in the short and long term. Her lone wolf tendencies may limit her own perception in terms of alliance opportunities. She’s argumentative and doesn’t readily perceive the risks in being so, leading to a potential social stress point that could put her in danger.

[VoltTurtle]

Hey Cica~

I'm the staffer that has Camila today. Unfortunately, she is temporarily DENIED pending some changes. My comments are in teal, as always.

and slightly accented with a Cubano accent

This would probably read better as "and with a slight Cubano accent".

tendency to underpronounce any

I thiiiiiink "under-pronounce" is the correct way to write that.

and often loudly the leader in the neighborhood

The inclusion of "loudly" here seems... off, for reasons I can't quite place. I'd suggest just removing it.

as soon as she was able she would till and harvest, do basic field inventory

Were you going to list something else here? It just terminates awkwardly. If you weren't, replace the comma with an "and".

Nicolás and Lismary were kindred spirits who took to the spirit of their new lifestyle well

The repetition of spirit here reads awkwardly. Try dropping "the spirit of" to help with flow.

She had a taste for volunteering, particularly at this age she often led small groups of children her age in caretaking for the church

I don't think the "particularly at this age" really adds much to the sentence, and sorta disrupts the flow. Go ahead and delete it.

she personally names each fish while raising them

This reads as tacked on to the paragraph it's in and is a bit unnecessary for a profile, either delete it or move it so it fits better.

where she developed a reputation in high school for cutting classes to the extent that she could get away with it

Developing a reputation for cutting class sounds like something that school officials would alert her parents about. Schools (especially in the south) take truancy really seriously. Address that or cut this.

More notably she decided to use her private knowledge and connections to her advantage and took the bold initiative of cutting a piece of the nascent marijuana industry starting in her Sophomore year. Her venture was illegal per law in Tennessee, and additionally her parents were also not in the know, as she built the nursery for her strains in the wooded areas of the family land only she knew of. She considers her secrecy as necessary and takes steps to ensure few know that she grows what she deals. She also up to present considers her two years to be developmental, her business instinct leads her to not yet consider her connections or product to be developed enough for her to enter the market fully. She only deals small amounts and has yet to recoup her initial investment.

Have there been any investigations about this, either by actual law enforcement or just school officials? Has she only narrowly avoided getting caught, at times? Does she only deal outside of school, to avoid attention? You need more details about this, since being a drug dealer is very risky.

Also how did she actually get the seeds? Cannabis seeds are pretty hard to come by, even in states where it's legal.

She enjoyed the idea of trespassing into areas she shouldn’t be

Did she ever get caught trespassing? If so, what happened?

...and that's it. Post back here when you've addressed everything I've pointed out and I'll give her another look.

[Cicada]

Alright, we dance this dance again!

Spoiler!

Name: Camila Cañizares Santamaría
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
School: George Hunter High School
Hobbies and Interests: Agriculture, horticulture, fishkeeping, DIY ethic, business and entrepreneurship, sustainability, swimming, hiking, parkour, exploration, volunteering, cooking, foodie culture.

Appearance: Camila is 5'6", a woman of Hispanic descent, with a fair skin tone that is generally bronzed evenly due to extensive tanning. She weighs 130 lb. on average and her body is of an hourglass shape, though not dramatically so as she is not curvaceous as much as she is generally small in silhouette. She has a slightly stocky profile, with a torso that is longer than her legs. Her legs and shoulders are athletically developed, with gently muscular contour.

Her face is a short and even circle and highly symmetrical. She has a soft chin and fairly undefined cheekbones, and a little baby fat stubbornly clings into this area of her face. Her nose is small and button-like, with a bridge that vanishes shy of her eye-line. Her lips are full and shapely, and naturally a pale pink. She has a distinct gap tooth in her smile, slightly off-center on the upper row of her teeth. Her eyes are a dull and dark blue, almost indistinguishable from the pupil unless one is attentive enough. She has good skin complexion for her age and has never had to deal with acne breakouts or other skin conditions. Her black hair is grown out to rest against the blades of her back, and this long it becomes fairly wavy in distinct, fist-size tresses. She usually styles it back into a simple ponytail.

Camila cares little for fashion. She will occasionally indulge herself on a whim with light and feminine wear, but the sundress or frilly blouse is sparingly represented in her wardrobe. For the most part she wears rough-and-tumble clothes, dusty and damaged jeans in neutral tones like blue and black. For her tops she pursues either plain and monotone color tees or short-sleeve button-ups, and her clothes tend to be light cotton to deal with heat and ventilation issues. Camila rarely wears makeup, though she is knowledgeable enough to pull off a full look in the rare instance that she deems it appropriate. She tends to wear hiking boots, steel-toes, or other supple footwear, and she uses a simple fiber drawstring backpack universally in place of other accessories like purses.

Her voice is airy, naturally middling in pitch, and with a slight Cubano accent, with a tendency to under-pronounce any final syllable 's'. Her enunciation and projection are fairly developed, and she can reliably speak abnormally loudly as she deems fit. Camila has an unabashed habit of openly speaking to herself in public in either of her native tongues. She speaks fluent Spanish.

Biography: Camila Cañizares Santamaría was born October 3rd of 1999 in Baptist Hospital, Miami, the second child and first daughter of Nicolás Cañizares and Lismary Santamaría de Cañizares. Young Camila lived in a cramped apartment, one of three shared among a number of her extended family. The entire enclave of about fifteen had made it to the country in the early 90s as economic refugees, Cuban bourgeoisie escaping a political system that didn't favor them. Camila's family members were businesspeople and doctors, her own parents were former analysts for the state bank whose positions had been eliminated by a restructuring prior to their deciding to flee.

Camila's early years were pleasant. She hit all her developmental milestones at expected ages. The few blocks around Camila's apartment were friendly, with a strong influence and flavor of her parent's homeland. She had plenty of friends and was a bustling sort, eager to explore and get out of the house, and often the leader in the neighborhood games between the many other children she was on close terms with. She did not attend preschool, as her parents did not know this option was available to them. Camila however, would be strongly developed with her English from a young age. Her parents, who themselves had struggled for years to reach business fluency, insisted upon it. Though Spanish was still the casual language around the home, Camila would develop a reputation among her friends in the neighborhood for being particular with her English, a fact she was sometimes teased for.

Camila was almost about to enter Kindergarten, with her fifth birthday upcoming, when a major shift occurred in her life. The richest members of the family had made a number of investments to maintain financial security, but a particularly ill-advised one had been farmland: the family had invested in thirty acres against the Chickamauga in Tennessee, buying from an insolvent farm that had been about to close. The farm had been entrusted to one of Camila's uncles by marriage, husband of one of the initial investors in the land. His management eventually went under, the farm was bleeding money and the financial stress had jeopardized the marriage. Months of heated debate Camila was only occasionally even aware of eventually ended with her mother and father agreeing to turn around the farm's sagging cash flow. Though not farmers, the two of them had been growing restless in Miami, as they hadn't been able to find jobs that sufficiently challenged them. They were considered the family's brightest, and most likely to be capable of handling the turnaround. Thus, Camila would be attending Kindergarten in Chattanooga's suburbs.

Rebuilding the failing farm was an all-hands-on-deck affair, as for the sake of profitability the farm had to be rebuilt completely. Camila had been excited to share her home with farm animals, however this promise from her parents would never materialize as the farm’s acres were shifted into fields and orchards. Camila’s daily chores were age-appropriate but extensive: as soon as she was able she would till and harvest and do basic field inventory. Her responsibilities were exhaustive by the time she’d hit puberty: she’d be handling tractors, directing field hands, and so on. From a young age Camila grew used to lacking for free time: her parents allowed her to have an easier day if she had school activities or dates with friends, but besides this she was kept busy and learned to keep a tight schedule and sleep efficiently.

The family was tight knit as such a small unit. Camila’s elder brother Martín was separated from her by over five years, but the two would bond over their home duties and Martín took a pride in having his little sister under his wing. Nicolás and Lismary were kindred spirits who took to their new lifestyle well and inspired young Camila with their steady, loving relationship and their brusque and efficient approach to business that they’d impart on her in language a child could understand, economic maxims Camila has memorized to this day. The home remained cozily Cubano in aesthetic, and the four speak fluent Spanglish when together and without guests in the home.

In school Camila was sometimes out of place but her personality was too forward, bullies would avoid her because she wasn’t an easy target and had little patience for being excluded. She thrust herself into various social groups and provided good social value: her roaming spirit and natural bend for leadership meant she was excellent in entertaining her peers, often leading long rambling trips into the wilderness of suburban Chattanooga fearlessly.

Camila in turn was easily impressed by some of her other peers who she respected and cherished; she is loathe to give up on early childhood friends, to this day, even if they have moved schools or states since then. Her stubborn and self-determined nature is positive in this regard, at least in theory, as she often defines individual relationships on her own terms. Her family was frugal and socially low-class due to the profit margins of the farm being razor-thin, Camila herself exuded her lifestyle in her behavior. She was thrifty and didn’t follow trends, but she was often bullish enough to win friends from any sort of background.

For example, Camila’s parents were only Roman Catholic culturally, and no longer paid lip service to their faith. Camila herself went along with this, but meeting Claudeson Bademosi and being strongly impacted by his kindly nature and spirit inspired her in kind. She attended service with him and soon formally declared herself Protestant, her brother inspired shortly thereafter to follow. She couldn’t attend Sunday School as her family could not justify the monthly fees, but she would do church activities on weekends when she had the time, and was integrated into the local parish very well. She had a taste for volunteering and she often led small groups of children her age in caretaking for the church lawn and topiary. She was praised by the adult leaders of the volunteer groups for her initiative and knowledge, and she internalized her ability to reach out and help others of her own volition and ability, continuing as she aged to develop a strong sense of pride and self-sufficiency.

Camila was and still is an early morning waker. She liked to get some of her farm chores done early, and while waiting for the sun to be high enough for her to need to make the walk to school she developed a routine of swimming the nearby river or mentally mapping the undeveloped acres that the family had access to. Swimming and hiking were Camila’s easy hobbies, in her own words, relaxing activities that she didn’t need to invest a lot of her mental energy into. She often crashed richer friend’s homes when they had pool access, and she briefly considered a YMCA swim team, though she ultimately decided the fees and practice schedules were too much to commit to.

In the later stages of Camila’s elementary school years her ambitious nature would have its first field test. She’d been alternately asking and pestering her parents for the right and support to implement her own vision and project: she’d found an area she believed could support a fish pond near the river, inspired by late night documentaries about fish farming that her parents had been idly discussing as a potential future revenue source for the farm. They acquiesced and provided her start up capital they expected to be paid back. Camila manually built two modestly sized fish pools with Martín’s assistance, over the course of six months she carefully selected and bred sunfish, goldfish, koi and so on sourced from nurseries all over the state. She marketed on the internet and in schools and fairs to the local market, and after that six months were up she was able to pay back her parents. She only turns modest profits that she often turns over to her parents rather than personally spending it, she considers the fish ponds part of the farm. However, she takes great craftsman’s pleasure in running the ponds entirely by herself, even if the project is limited in scale. She has expanded to five pools of fish and continues to do semi-regular business via word-of-mouth and local connections.

When Camila entered middle school Martín graduated to college. He attended Austin College in Texas, a private liberal arts college with ties to the Presbyterian church, a decision Martín credits Camila and Claudeson Bademosi for as in the intervening years since converting he’d become significantly devout in his faith. Camila was proud for her brother, but his decision also made her budding, maturing mind come into confrontation with a certain fact: she hated school and academics. For most of her primary education she’d come to only exert effort and try in classes if she instinctively understood the subject, otherwise she couldn’t be bothered. She’d had friction with her parents over her subpar, middling grades. At this time in her life as she graduated to middle school she finally decided to make it clear that she intended to take over the family business or otherwise pursue her own independent entrepreneurship. Her parents and herself came to a practical understanding, that Camila’s focus was elsewhere and she simply didn’t intend to be a college-bound girl, though they agreed likewise on the caveat that Camila had to maintain good enough grades to get into college as an option. She does study, but sparsely, she only puts in as much academic effort as need be and she has when she can get away with it cheated on essays and tests.

Camila likewise did not engage much with clubs and extracurriculars within school. She developed a habit and preference for spending as little time on campus as was possible, to the point where she would even use other libraries besides the school library when doing research. She considered herself too occupied with her farm duties, and preferred spending her free time elsewhere in general. In eighth grade Camila was reported by her Social Sciences for accumulating five days of unexcused absences. The consequence of detention periods and parent teacher meetings led to a businesslike contract between Camila and her parents. She'd take care of her attendance from then on despite her misgivings, in exchange for her continued freedoms on the farm.

As she graduated into high school and continued to mature Camila’s plans in life were fairly set in stone and she began to broadly explore her chosen path in life accordingly. Bold and energetic as she was she continued to develop her business acumen, though she’d have less success than her small fish business in future endeavors. She’d try to license the brand of her family’s produce for local stalls in markets that could develop their local reach, however she ran into limitations that even her force of personality couldn’t overcome. She takes failures in her stride and considers reaching out and searching for deals in her community to be a pet hobby.

Her attendance to church was also reduced, as she began strongly questioning the tenants of organized religion, deeming it too stifling and limiting in scope. Her friends noticed that her extroverted and impassioned tendencies took on an argumentative bend, Camila unconsciously began to enjoy being contrary for the sake of it as it amused and thrilled her when she could get away with it.

More notably she decided to use her private knowledge and connections to her advantage and took the bold initiative of cutting a piece of the nascent marijuana industry starting in her Sophomore year. Her venture was illegal per law in Tennessee, and additionally her parents were also not in the know, as she built the nursery for her venture in the wooded areas of the family land only she knew well.

She cultivated individual plants, ambitiously breeding her own strains based on her developed horticultural knowledge and research. Due to expenses and lack of funds she could only purchase few seeds via online dealers that she screened through word of mouth as she networked with other local dealers. Her secrecy as she began to develop was not iron tight, and despite her lack of clientele she has already been caught by her parents who were tipped off by a particularly loudmouthed client. Her parents were more cautious about this venture than her other more legal ones and refused to allow the growing on the farm proper for liability reasons, she moved the nursery deeper into the woods accordingly, too stubborn to give up the project despite the set back. Presently she continues, but considers her two years to be developmental as her connections and product are not developed enough for her to enter the market fully. She only deals small amounts sparingly and has yet to recoup her initial investment, as she'll often also give away her product for free for favors or to test her growing efforts.

Camila’s high school experience is generally focused, given her strong and particular ambitions. She maintains a good relationship with her parents but one evolved into professional ground, as each party tries to honestly critique the other and Camila’s parents are quietly proud of their daughter, whose perceived maturity they hold in high regard. Her branch of the immediate family is generally considered distant from their old enclave in Miami, on friendly terms, but wildly diverged between the elder child being engaged in theology for an unfamiliar religion and the family generally growing attached to their job and environment. Camila has been to Miami two summers since moving away, and generally considers her extended family unfamiliar and only distantly useful connections to have, and she questions the use of otherwise being swayed by the pull of her own heritage and culture beyond how it’s immediately applicable in her home life.

Camila is friendly but distant in school, holding an openly expressed disdain for most academic pursuits that she considers wasted time and often being willing to give her peers critique to the point of coming off as something of a bully or otherwise, even if she personally does not perceive herself as such. This is of course secondary to her anyways, she often slips through school without being too bothered about her social status or lack thereof.

Her few positive engagements in school are often tangential, teacher anecdotes or blips of information that will settle in her mind and quickly inform her still developing business sense. As a farm girl with a strong sense of her local land she always felt sensitive to conservationist efforts. She felt a certain practical disdain for the effects of these considerations onto profits and livelihood, a dichotomy she still balances to this day, but her love for nature born of exposure combined with what knowledge she bothered to take to heart in her classes led to her developing approaches she hoped would be more sustainable, a more progressive and future-looking mindset she often tries to wrestle with while considering her daily activities and business plans. Through discipline she is a strong recycler and often cleans areas during her lonely wanderings in town or outside.

Camila’s growing independence and self-determined schedule led to her picking up particular habits in her day-to-day routine, mainly that she often cooked for herself and her family, rotating duties with her mother. Her agricultural knowledge was easily developed into an intuitive cooking sense, she tends towards a blandly hearty palette given her family’s default cupboard. Cooking was of secondary importance to her as she considered it a difficult talent to leverage in her drive for accomplishment, but she entertained it as at least a hobby where she didn’t have to hustle, or could muse on her more mentally intensive plans and activities in a low-stress environment. She developed a strong affinity for food over her high school years as such, and found a comfortable home in the kitchen to supplement her lonely time on the farm, especially as her chores often stole away her time and forced her into solitary pursuits.

Her social life did lead her off the farm at irregular intervals. Through some friends she is at least willing to attend parties, often with the practical motive of trying to find new clients that will be interested in her drug peddling. She’s a social presence at once odd and endearing, while she’s odd in how she’ll talk to herself or often be unavailable she’s also unabashedly so. Lacking shyness and often taking initiative and responsibility with her self-direction she has social capital in her own way, and she’s far from a social martyr.

Her social web has led her to adapt her stubborn tendencies in at least some sense. As she spends more of her off-time than ever in town and civilization she often observes a certain restlessness in more urban settings. She handled this energy with pursuits that she believed integrated her existing persona handily. For example, her physical prowess became an interest in freerunning and urban exploration, with her quick feet and stamina being trained into a propensity for parkour and navigating urban landscapes. She enjoyed the idea of trespassing into areas she shouldn’t be, and Chattanooga slowly became a playground much as her own local neighborhood was, one far larger than she had much more work to do with, work she enjoys earnestly for it engages her goal-oriented nature. Often she tries to rope sympathetic friends into exploring with her, otherwise, explorations and ramblings about are her after-hangout activities until she is needed at home. She has yet to be caught in a sticky situation beyond occasionally being shooed away from a site she's lurking around the edges of by guards, though she's somewhat restless and eager to get more bold with her explorations in the future despite well-meaning advice from friends.

She also noted that her interest in food and modest access to disposable income gave her an opportunity as a reviewer. She wouldn’t let her relative inexperience as a creative writer arrest such a potential and she started a blog, using her connections made in farmer’s markets and through her parents to put her foot in the door in restaurants. This particular pursuit came in the summer before her Senior year, thus she is still a budding blogger with no formal publications to her name, but her blog has a small and active community of locals and her energy allows her to engage her audience effectively with events and discussions. Her tastes and interests are broad, and her writing style, while sparse, has a certain charm in its characteristic simplicity. Her friends are often aware of her pursuits, and the rumor mill tends accurately reports that Camila can often hook up those interested with discounts or free meals at restaurants given her growing sway in the local area. These engagements have opened at least some of her lost heritage, at least in inspiring her to explore more of her Hispanic heritage in cuisine, though her explorations of it are colored by her lifestyle and she often elects to not follow the recipes.

Thus, Camila has entered her Senior year as a developed personality, sometimes off-putting but always interesting to hang out with when she’s willing to afford the time to socialization. She has a decent family life and decent school life, her poor grades and disdain of class time aside. She has not dated and has no care for making any inroads on that front, indeed she correctly suspects she is asexual and mostly aromantic due to her sheer lack of interest, but that same lack of interest has made her inquiries into the matter underdeveloped. She has branched out from her church- though keeping her closest friends from there- and now volunteers on her own time in local wilderness preserves, and is considering non-profit initiatives, drawing up business plans often related to environmental issues she has done usually cursory research into.

She enjoys her life strongly, and believes she is steering her own destiny and has many options and potentials for the future.

Advantages: Camila is energetic, practically minded, and strongly self-sufficient and will likely bring this energy into her survival attempts. She has the physical stamina and endurance to reduce the impact of the wilderness environments on her survival chances.
Disadvantages: She is stubborn to a fault and often quickly makes up her mind and rarely affords her initial thoughts further introspection, a tunnel-vision sort of mindset that can lead to her making poor decisions in the short and long term. Her lone wolf tendencies may limit her own perception in terms of alliance opportunities. She’s argumentative and doesn’t readily perceive the risks in being so, leading to a potential social stress point that could put her in danger.

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