Brandy Reed's Questionnaire

Brandy lives in the foothills west of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee, an area so rural that no designated town or city claims it. She lives on a small plot of land just off the road, in a single-wide trailer that looks precariously balanced on the hill it is on. She lives there because that property was left to her in a trust by one of her deceased parents. Being an orphan as long as she could remember, Brandy was in the foster care system, but the state officials hadn't let her know that she had her own house. When she found out, she went into debt to a lawyer to become an emancipated minor as early as the courts would allow.

Brandy is a gas station attendant/clerk. It's nothing fancy, it barely covers the bills enough to qualify for emancipation, and it barely is paying off the legal fees from getting emancipated. It is enough to do that, but she gets food from EBT and survives mostly off of what other government welfare programs she can get on for assistance, adding to her kitchen using church food banks and the like. She mostly spends what little cash she has after bills on gas getting to and from work and blood from the butcher shop when she can afford to splurge so that she doesn't have to go hunt it by herself on her meager hunting skills.

Brandy thinks the few good things in her life are because the supernatural exists, and thinks everyone should be able to get a piece of that. She wants everyone to be, in some small way, at least a little bit supernatural like she is. Deep down, it's really because she doesn't want to be alone in the world. This is the same reason she wants to find supernatural roommates; that way, she can have people close by who accept her and her house for what they are. Brandy is too young and naïve to believe that she will have to kill anyone or even die to achieve this goal; she hasn't even considered it yet. Beyond that, there isn't much she wouldn't do for it, though. even hurting people to MAKE them better is acceptable.

There are two; the first being that not long after she hit puberty, she discovered that she needed to drink blood in order to keep from going catatonic and that sunlight is intolerable now, the second being later when she found out the house she inherited is magically containing a much larger area on the inside. In point of fact, these two things are the main motivating force for Brandy, as to her, they make life worth living. The fact that she's a dhampir with no supernaturally beneficial capabilities yet has completely escaped her notice, as the "cool factor" has yet to wear off for her. 

Cameron Hyder Esq.: Brandy's lawyer, who got her emancipated. She's in debt for the incurred legal fees to him, but she's not mad. She got out of two years of foster care and got her house because of him, so she thinks it was worth it.

Chris Vasquez: Her former foster parent, the one she remembers the most, not for good reasons. He's the reason she wanted out of the foster care system on her 16th birthday, and paid out the nose in legal fees to do it.

Tabitha Johnson: In an area where "next door" can be literal miles away, Tabitha Johnson still manages to be the classic girl next door. She's pretty, but not unapproachably so, she's kind but no nonsense, maybe a little naïve. She's Brandy's only real friend, but Brandy wants SO much more than that. To Tabitha, Brandy's just her sarcastic goth buddy, and it will likely never be more than that.

Brandy Reed spent the entirety of her memorable childhood in the foster care system of the state of Tennessee. Her parents did when she was a baby; the only inheritance they left her besides the house she now lives in is her biology: half-vampire, half-human. She attended public schools in low-income, rural districts and was not well-liked because her biology prevented her from ever fitting in. It was tolerable when she was young, although she was a known biter, but when she hit puberty, several changes set in beyond the usual; she found sunlight completely intolerable, and she started getting cravings for raw meat, and eventually just blood. She was not allowed to drop out of high school until she became emancipated, but she was not one who ever felt welcome in scholastic halls once middle school began either. No, childhood for Brandy Reed ended early, and she never truly looked back.

Brandy certainly feels infatuation, although maybe never true love. Tabatha Elizabeta Charlotte Van Sterling II, the lady Brandy hopes will turn her into a full-blooded vampire... and perhaps more, but in truth, Brandy thinks she's already trying to punch above her weight class as it is. Strangely, while Brandy finds the idea of Tabatha being her vampiric "sire" glamorous, she doesn't imagine it will go any further than that. When it comes to romance, she actually still has her heart set on a different Tabitha; Tabitha Johnson, who was, until Brandy's recent move, her neighbor. (But she is starting to wonder if that's under her station now...)