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[Mia Testardo]

( Mia Lillian Testardo ! )

Name: Mia Lillian Testardo
Nicknames: N/A
Age: 19
Date of Birth: May 26
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Played by: Michelle Branch

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( You see I've got this american love ! )

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Height: 5’6”
Weight: 125 lbs
Physical Description: Though she is plagued with a slow metabolism Mia rarely has to worry about her weight as she is also not much of an eater. Thanks to this Mia has a fairly nice figure with a thin waist. None of her body is especially toned or muscled, but she is thin enough to make sure there is no sagging of fat or skin so the fact that she is not toned doesn’t do too much to place against her, especially her stomach. Her stomach, however, is still probably her most hated feature. Due to her pregnancies along with her time without a home and losing a dangerous amount of weight her stomach and hips are covered in stretch marks that are quite noticeable. However, the pregnancies also gave her the hour glass figure she does like about herself. We all know having children generally makes ones hips really start to show and her breasts will never go back down in size, they are now probably a decent D cup, though she doesn’t like that they don’t look nearly as young as they used to, but what can you do?

Mia’s hair is dark in color, either dark brown or black, depending on whom you ask. It generally is made of large waves and is very thick against her head, tending to overpower her face when it is kept down, which is usually is unless she is working, when it’s in a tight bun on the top of her head. Though she does try to keep it in good health, she will often forget to get it trimmed so is sometimes plagued with split ends which tends to cause the ends of her hair to look rather frizzy, but she does try. Her face, when not covered in hair, has some pretty nice skin. Sure, she is still young and from time to time, when she is highly stressed, will break out a bit but beyond that there’s not much she has to worry about. Her nose is a little big for her face and because of that her eyes are far set. They are also a little small when it comes to height, but are fairly wide and almond shaped. Her cheek bones are normal, maybe slightly more high set than those of most women and her lips are plump even without make up, through from side to side they are kind of small. She tries to avoid smiling, however, because she hates her smile, and has good reason to. It wrinkles up her nose and makes her eyes even smaller than they already are. It also makes her cheeks look fat and her lips go crooked and her gums show. All in all, she tries to avoid big smiles, especially in front of the camera, because of that.

Speaking of makeup, she wears some but not too much. She doesn’t feel the need to hide all her skin in order to leave the house, but does like to look nice. A little foundation and cover up goes a long way, though. That and eye liner, and sometimes a little eye shadow but that’s pretty rare. Her eyes are in fact hazel, a mixture of green and brown, but are often more on the brown side. Due to that she tries to pull out the green with her makeup, but that doesn’t do much. Doesn’t stop her from trying though. However, she will never try to color coordinate her eyes with her clothing. She wears whatever she likes, as long as it’s fairly conservative. No one wants to see her stomach, in her opinion. She will often wear tank tops or something that falls off her shoulders because she does like how that looks on her, but either way she is often seen in her work uniform, which isn’t exactly flattering.

Mia arms and legs are normal in length, as are her hands and feet fairly normal in size for her 5’6” frame, well, her feet may actually be a little big, as in wide, but she has been pregnant twice so who knows. She has scars on her lower lip, if you really look, from the snake bite she had pierced into her lip when she was younger, and scars from when she fell onto cement as a young child on her knees, but who doesn’t have childhood scars? Beyond that, though, she doesn’t have much. She doesn’t like pain. Well, her shoulder doesn’t really tell people that. She has a tattoo of flowers on her right shoulder that doesn’t extend down her back, but does on the front a bit. She doesn’t go out of her way to hide it except when she is at work.

Physical Flaws:* Weird looking smile (either looks very forced, even if it’s not, or wrinkles up her nose and close her eyes)
*Defined stretch marks on her stomach
*Far looking upper arms

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( A brand new black hole in the solar system ! )

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Likes: *Sex
*Children
*Money
*Animals
*Being Held
*Music
Dislikes: *Being deserted
*Death
*Her Grandparents
*Being unable to do anything for other homeless people
*Being yelled at or contradicted
Overall Personality: How does one describe Mia? She is definitely not shy, in any way, shape or form. She will walk up to anybody and simply introduce herself, especially any male. Outgoing may be something you would want to use. She doesn’t care if people are staring at her, in fact she loves it. Attention is something she lives for; in fact she hates being ignored for any reason. She is known to go to surprising expenses for even just a simple glance in her direction.

Though talking to people is obviously a pass time she greatly enjoys, trusting the people she talks to doesn’t always come so easily. It doesn’t show in many ways, but trust is something that takes a while to earn with her. She won’t give very deep details about her life to anyone who doesn’t need such a personal intake, which is very close to no one in her mind. She will also never press for an in depth past from the people she speaks to, though the question may pop up if she thinks it will help her figure them out.

Just because she doesn’t trust people does not mean she doesn’t enjoy them being around, or even closer if she can manage that. The girl is definitely a flirt, doing whatever possible to get a guy to talk to her. It matters little who he is or what he is. Seducing males is pretty much her absolute favorite thing to do. A slut some call her, but in reality the term hurts her, a lot. The only reason she does this is because she really does long for some one to be close and to even feel like someone does care. In her reluctant mind, it doesn’t matter if a person really does care about you, or want you around; it’s okay as long as it feels like it. This personality trait of hers is also great for getting into a warm bed for the night, instead of a cold, hard park bench.

Those inner feelings are very well hidden, though. All through her life Mia has trained herself as an actress. Though she isn’t wonderful at the art she can certainly hide any and all emotions that pass through her head. This includes everything from fear to grief to anger. It is just a natural thing to her. She can also fake pity or sorrow if the need would ever arise, though this she does hate to do.

Then we have her simple stubbornness. If she sets her mind on something out Mia will find a way to get it. Giving up or giving in is never a choice in her mind. Believing someone else is right will never happen with her, even if it is completely obvious that she had it wrong from the start. Finding a way to make her way work is something she does a lot of, for her way is always the best, even though half the time she had no clue what she is doing. If you can deal with this need to be right, she can be a very easy person to get along with in the end. Kindness isn’t something she is lost to, at all. She just knows what she wants and will find a way to get it.

One of Mia’s strongest qualities is that she is simply selfish. Though not as bad as she once was, she will almost always put herself before anyone else. She does know when to stop accepting kindness and all, but she will milk people for all they’re worth without making it known what she is in fact doing. Over time she did learn what that she couldn’t grab things as much as she did in fact want to do, for before this was much worse.

All in all, Mia is a kind person and is quite easy to get along with. Being as outgoing and ready for the world as she tries to be certainly helps with all of this, no one can deny her of that. She is definitely an individual and no clone at all, but at the same time she isn’t someone that people find overly obnoxious or weird. Mia is just who she is, time to accept that now.

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( I'll dig my grave but I just can't stand to step inside ! )

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Family: Kayla (Finch) Testardo – mother – deceased
Steven Testardo – father – deceased
Lucas Michael Testardo – son – deceased
Inga (Austen) Finch – maternal grandmother – out of contact
Joshua Finch – maternal grandfather – out of contact
Pets: Kerr – male cairn terrier – Craig’s dog
Home Town: New York, New York
Job: Waitress at Cinzetti’s
History: Mia Lillian Testardo was born to Kayla and Steven, their first child and the apple of their eye, especially since the first ten years of their marriage were plagued by the inability to conceive a child. Mia was conceived and born of a natural process and even since her birth her parents were very careful not to allow her to get hurt. Mia grew up spoilt and behaved with the best of them. She got good grades in school and always enjoyed hanging out with her parents. Her mother taught her how to cook, which she did enjoy, and her father taught her about yard work, which she didn’t enjoy nearly as much. Everything was great and the small family was happy, until disaster struck.

Quite suddenly, when Mia was fourteen, Kayla came down with a mysterious illness. It hit hard and fast and before they could ever diagnose what was wrong Kayla was dead. Mia and Steven were devastated, but Steven tried his hardest to be strong for his daughter through the funeral and the year following Kayla’s death. Holding in his emotions, however, ended up being his downfall, as well as Mia’s when all is put into perspective. Instead of outwardly showing his grief Steven turned to alcohol. Mia herself was never aware of his addiction and he was basically the father she had always known the two lived together fairly well for a while, Steven being a caregiver, bread winner and father by day and a pathetic drunk by night. While drunk he would sleep around with whatever women were at the same bars he was at and his life just fell downhill. Luckily, Mia never knew about his night trips and she never will either.

One night, when Steven was driving home from his favorite bar, like he did almost every night even though he was always wasted, his once steady hand and solid mind steered him wrong due to the influence of alcohol. Thinking something was in the road he jerked the steering wheel to the side and ran right into a large tree. Luckily, no one else was injured in the accident, but Steven was killed on impact. After his death Mia’s maternal grandparents quickly came to the area to care for her through the funeral. Luckily, Mia was well protected over what had actually happened for she was still just a young girl. After everything was over Mia went to live with her grandparents, across the country in southern California.

It was around then when Mia’s downward spiral began. She dressed differently, including getting multiple peiricings, began self harming and drinking and dyed her hair black. She began running around with the “wrong crowd” and was soon pressured into having sex with any male figure that came before her, after the first had tricked her into believing he cared for her but in reality, it was only a bet between friends. Either way, Mia continued sleeping around, at the chance of her grades, and right after she had to admit it made her feel great, but not even two days later she would feel horrible and disgusting once again and need another guy to lift her back up. She once came down with Chlamydia, which was when her grandparents found out about her life style. The STD was cured with antibiotics and, despite her grandparents making her go to their Catholic church every day after school; she still found the time to continue with her life style.

When she was only seventeen Mia found out she was pregnant. Who was the father? No one really knows. She hid from everyone until she was about five months pregnant, when her grandmother noticed the telltale baby bump. Mia had always been small and hiding a pregnancy wasn’t something that was going to happen. It was then that her grandparents kicked her out of the house. They did give her money to stay in a very rundown apartment, which she did for the time being. All of Mia’s “friends” turned their back on her when she became pregnant and now she was totally alone, and no one wanted to have sex with a pregnant girl. It was only then that she realized her way of life wasn’t everything she always wanted and decided she needed to try and turn her life around.

Mia took out her piercings, sold her clothes to good will and with the money bought new from the same place, she dyed her hair back to as close to the natural color as she could get and finally did everything she could in school. She ignored the cruelness of the other students and was determined to graduate high school and get her grandparents to realize that she could be responsible. She tried very hard in school for the next month, when, on her way back to her apartment, which she was about to get evicted from due to lack of money, when she suddenly felt a pain she had never felt wrap through her body. Luckily, she wasn’t too far away from a hospital and managed to get there only slightly after her water broke. She had never had a prenatal appointment, so the whole birth thing was very difficult and the baby wasn’t as healthy as he could have been, obviously. He was born three months early, with a lot of trouble to the mother as well.

Mia recovered and for a month the hospital did everything they could to keep young Lucas Michael Testardo alive with the help of donations, but in the end he was just too long, Mia had been too small and he was unhealthy and Mia had to go through yet another death in her family. She know didn’t even know what to do, she had been hoping her grandparents would feel bad for her child and allow her to move back in, but now she couldn’t do that, so she fell back into her old routine. She finished up high school, barely passing but she did graduate, but that didn’t help much with the whole money thing. She had been evicted from the apartment and for a while stayed on a few couches, but in the end she got kicked out of all of them because she couldn’t get a job (not for lack of trying) and ended up on the street.

During her time being homeless Mia spent all day, every day trying to find herself a job. She got two in the time she was homeless, but was fired from both due to coming in dirty and not presentable. She knew she had to keep trying though, and that’s what she did. To get the money and food she needed to live she came up with a new plan. She would find men, usually leaving a club, slightly drunk and get them to take her home. She would sleep with them, even though it rarely pleased her because she was no longer easy to please, but it got her a bed for the night and food when she snuck out in the morning, and sometimes money if she could easily find it. Sure, she felt bad and disgusting, but she couldn’t think of what else to do.

Finally, one of the men she slept with, Talan McInnis, was jogging one morning and found her sleeping on a bench. He stopped and offered her to come back to his house so he could make her breakfast, which he never had a chance to after their night together. Mia was starving so took the option and once they were at his place Talan offered her a place to stay. She denied for a while, but Talan wouldn’t really take no for an answer and Mia had a place to stay for a while. Talan was also the manager of a restaurant and got her a job as a waitress there. Mia worked harder than she had even worked and managed to become very good at her job.

While she was walking home from work one night she ran into another man she had once slept with. This was one of the few men she remembered, the two of them had a connection, she hadn’t wanted to leave in the morning and now he was here again. He offered her back to his place, which she took, and she ended up staying the night there after the two of them had sex again. The next morning they established they were in a relationship before he took her back to the restaurant for her morning shift. That man was Craig Blackwood.

Mia and Craig have now dated for about a year and a half, give or take, and though they have been through a lot including Craig cheating and the two of them breaking up and Mia finding another man, they are back happily together, which Mia moved into Craig’s house. Mia is pregnant again, something neither of them wanted. The news tore Mia apart, she was terrified but now she at least knew who the father was and has moral support from her friends and Craig himself. The two are now determined to raise their baby together.

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( Big hearts are for breaking ! )

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Name: Legaleen
Age:18
Experience: 5 years?
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