Breeanna Zinn

Breeanna Reneé Zinn () (born July 18, 1984) is the part-time matriarch of the household splitting her time with Ava in Fort Wayne and her own home in New Haven (later the far northeast side of Fort Wayne). She is also the paternal step-grandmother of Alisan, Christina, and Pia and the maternal step-grandmother of Michael II, Leah, and Elian as well as the mother of Lyssa, Sierra, Leeland, and Jessica and stepmother of Ava's daughter Tabitha Zinn. Breeanna was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and raised on her family's cattle ranch until 1996 when they moved to Lafayette, Indiana. Breeanna is a meteorologist and scientist in Fort Wayne, specializing in Earth and Physical Science despite having a terrible grasp of the concept's latter. Breeanna resembles in appearance the live-action version of Kellie Martin character from Queen of the Willis. Despite boasting of her intelligence, she has been the victim of manipulation. She has darker blond hair and often wears different outfits.
In a coincidence, Breeanna is almost the exact opposite of Ava and a stark contrast to Ava's first girlfriend, Amanda Davidson. Depicted as restrained and safe, Ava is said to be wild and reckless. Breeanna was denounced by Caprice and Ella at first, arguably due to the jealousy that Ava had been in previous relationships. However, Caprice and Ella soon warmed-up to Breeanna, developed a family relationship and noticed she had qualities that Amanda sorely lacked. In the sixth season, Breeanna marries Ava and becomes known as "Breeanna Zinn."
==Appearance==
She has been said to be beautiful (mostly by herself and Karly) despite being considered frumpy by most others due to her hair. She is an average framed woman standing at about 5'6".
===Arrest===
On June 7, 2024, Breeanna Zinn was arrested and charged with assault and battery after she admitted to beating up several people at Preston Pointe at The Inverness after her transgendered wife's application was denied due to her income being insufficient.
==Personality==
Breeanna's most well-known personality traits is her highly inflated ego and sense of pride. While she is often willing to help others, Breeanna can often cause things to turn sour when she tries to take charge of things from assuming she knows better than others despite qualifications and background or her pride refuses to allow her to admit when she's wrong. This often causes Breeanna to fail to see when she has done something wrong and admit to it until she is confronted with the truth or until it is nearly too late to reverse the damage.
Pride: Breeanna is well known for her immense sense of pride. She often takes great pride in even the smallest matters which causes her to inflate her own ego. Although this is one of her more negative features, there are times when she will admit to her own pride and admit she was wrong but often does not learn anything from it or will twist things around so that people will apologize to her instead of the other way around. Her pride and ego often cause con artists to easily talk Breeanna into a scam when she is easily swayed by their flattery.
Intelligence: While Breeanna is a smart person, what Breeanna thinks she knows and what she actually knows is a common source of plot drama in the series. She will at times appear to think she is smarter than highly trained or highly qualified personnel and will attempt to make herself seem better than them even though she has no knowledge or skill in those particular areas. Breeanna does appear to have a large vocabulary as she is skilled in Scrabble. Because of her pride and job as a meteorologist, Breeanna believes herself to be so fluent in science that she is more fluent than gifted scientists and has claimed, on several occasions, that the people of medicine do not know science very well. However, her physical science skills are rather poor, but she refuses to acknowledge this. Because she believes she is so good in science, Breeanna will at times believe that science is similar enough to meteorology and think it is possible to forecast science. 
Self-Esteem: Breeanna is heavily implied to have low self-esteem and therefore heavily cares about what her family and others think of her. She is suggested to suffer from low self-esteem due to her tense relationship with her abusive father who endlessly criticized everything Breeanna did throughout her life. When Breeanna's authority is challenged even in the slightest, she will usually act out in petty and childish ways as well as using profanity. Breeanna has been shown numerous times to be concerned about being a fitting and/or cool parent and has been shown to be influenced by cooler/more fun parents and willing to do what she can to be just like them so that she can be viewed in a better light by others and possibly become an inspiration to others to do the same until she eventually comes to her senses. During times when she is faced with the reality that she may not be as "gifted" as she believes, she will go into a state of depression and will do what she can to bring herself back up to her own standards.
Motherhood: Breeanna is a caring and supportive mother to Lyssa, Sierra, Leeland, and Jessica and has self-proclaimed herself to be one of the best mothers in Fort Wayne. There have been times when Breeanna is shown to struggle with the thought of Lyssa, Sierra, Leeland, and Jessica growing up and not needing her anymore. Anytime she believes they're in trouble, she will not hesitate or let anything stop her from helping them. 
Her mothering has extended to Caprice and Ella after taking her in by default and helping them in many aspects. While she often tries to help Caprice and Ella see she is brighter than she thinks, it was shown in "Terms of Enragement: Preston Pointe Your Luck to Newburyport Apartments" that Breeanna felt she needed to fight Caprice and Ella's battles for them even though Breeanna was the one at fault.
Sports: Atypical for most women, Breeanna Zinn has been a fan of the Carolina Panthers football team since their inaugural season in 1995. She is also a fan of the UNC Tar Heels being an alumnus of University of North Carolina herself. After graduating from Lafayette Jefferson High School in 2002 and attending UNC-Chapel Hill, due to North Carolina's status as a college basketball hotbed and local teams Duke and Sorensen's alma matter North Carolina being mainstays in the tournament, NCAA tournament games are consistently among the highest-rated programs in Chapel Hill-Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville and Charlotte television markets during playoff season.
Since Breeanna and Ava began dating in 2022, Breeanna has also occasionally supported Indiana's Indianapolis Colts NFL football team and the NBA's Indiana Pacers, though neither Breeanna nor Ava have been able to attend or even watch NBA games since most Pacers games have moved to cable. Although Indianapolis and Breeanna's nearby hometown market of Charlotte, North Carolina both have NFL and NBA teams, neither Charlotte or Indianapolis does not have an MLB nor an NHL team, yet Indianapolis has the WNBA's Indiana Fever whereas Raleigh has the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes. Breeanna is also a fan of the Durham Bulls minor league baseball team and its Major League Baseball affiliate Tampa Bay Rays and convinced Ava to watch and attend baseball games (it is noted that Ava did attend a Louisville Red Birds baseball game in 1992.
==Biography==
Breeanna Zinn was born Breeanna Reneé Sorensen on July 18, 1984, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to Veronica Craft (1950-2009) and Phil Sorensen (1945-2023). She has a younger brother named Jim Sorensen (b. 1986). When she was 12, the family moved to Lafayette, Indiana after her father took the sports director position at WTOR in Fort Wayne in 1996 while her mother took a job at NoSirGifts in Marion, Indiana. 
After graduating from Lafayette Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Indiana in 2002, she returned to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to attend the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and graduated in 2006.
As Breeana Sorensen, she was previously in a relationship with Harrison Bokamp (now Harmony Bokamp) when she attended Tecumseh Middle School and Lafayette Jefferson High School from 1997 to 2002. The relationship ended after the 2002 Lafayette Jefferson High School prom due to Bokamp arriving an hour late. She would not be in another relationship until September 2022. She is also a good friend to Dustin Keller, fellow Lafayette Jefferson alumnus who went on to play for the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets.
Breeanna began a relationship with Ava Zinn on September 23, 2022. It is notable as Sorensen became the first significant other of Zinn as Breeanna is the junior partner surpassing Amanda Davidson, who held that record since 1993. As Ava Zinn is already a grandfather of three grandchildren, Breeanna Zinn became a stepgrandmother to Alisan, Michael, and Leah (and later Pia and Christina). Two months later, on November 21, 2022, news of the relationship became public, in a YouTube post by Ava Zinn, it was revealed that she and Breeanna were expecting a baby and confirmed two days later on November 23, 2022. The child will be Breeanna's first, but the seventh for Zinn, who has two children with Amanda Davidson (Samantha and Thomas, both deceased), two children with Elisa Everman (Tiffani and Sheryl, both deceased), one child with Angie Nieves (Tabitha), and one child with Kymberly Alvaraz (Kenneth, deceased). This makes Breeanna one of the relatively few women who became a step-grandparent before becoming a parent. In December 2022, Breeanna revealed that she will be giving birth to a daughter, Sierra Alexandra, in August 2023. On July 21, 2023, however, Breeanna gave birth to twin girls Sierra Alexandra Zinn and Lyssa Cassadee Zinn. On September 22, 2023, Breeanna quietly married Ava Zinn and began using "Breeanna Zinn" that day.
On May 24, 2024, Breeanna revealed she is expecting two more children (fraternal twins--son Leeland Hank Zinn and daughter Jessica Karen Zinn). They will be Breeanna's third and fourth child but the ninth and tenth for Ava.
==Character==
===Intelligence===
Breeanna's inflated ego and irrepressible intellectual confidence leads her to believe she is vastly more intelligent than she actually is. 
This is not to say, however, that Breeanna is unintelligent, as her natural curiosity and high motivation often lead her to resolve a plot crisis with sheer effort; for example, her knowledge of legal proceedings allowed Ava to filibuster an unpopular law from passing. A clever act of sabotage led Golfview Apartments to admit to defeat, and she managed to outsmart a conman who had ripped her and a number of other Fort Wayne residents out of massive amounts of money through fake degree programs.
She has been a meteorologist and scientist for a long time. She uses meteorology tools often speaks like a meteorologist, although many of her forecasts are blatant, obvious facts.
===Relationships===
*Ava Zinn: Breeanna's transgendered wife. She is shown to be very dedicated to Ava but at times is frustrated with her lack of showing emotions towards herself or others. Even though Ava is very capable of handling herself, Breeanna does not hesitate to threaten others in order to keep her safe and one example was "giving a piece of my vagina" to Tara Fike in “Ava’s Got Her Wicked Game On” and even beat up a property manager in “Terms of Enragement: Preston Pointe Your Luck to Newburyport Apartments”. Despite her obvious love for Ava, Breeanna has kept secret from her that she had been sexually intimate with another man (presumably Harrison Bokamp) prior to them dating. Because of Ava's tendencies to 'sweep in and rescue' Breeanna when she is in a difficult situation, Breeanna will not always ask for Ava's help when she is in over her head until nearly the last minute. 
*Lyssa, Sierra, Leeland and Jessica Zinn: two sets of twin children with Ava. Most likely due to the difficulties she and Ava had trying to get pregnant, Breeanna often acts in a mother hen/mama bear manner toward Sierra, Lyssa, Leland, and Jessica. She is not afraid to baby them but also will not stand for any disrespect or bad behavior she shows to family or others. She will at times act more like friend towards them than a mother which sometimes backfires in whatever situation they are in together. Still, she is a very loving and caring mother to her children.
*Caprice and Ella: As a result of being in a relationship with Ava, Breeanna became co-owner of Ava's respective cat and dog by default. Breeanna was denounced by Caprice and Ella at first, arguably due to jealousy that Ava had been in a relationship since ending a relationship with Marti McDaniel. However, Caprice and Ella soon warmed-up to Breeanna, developed a family relationship, and noticed that she had qualities that Ava's previous significant others sorely lacked.
*Tabitha Zinn: Breeanna's stepdaughter and Ava's daughter. As a result of marrying Ava, Breeanna became Tabitha's stepmother. Like Caprice and Ella, Breeanna was denounced by Tabitha at first, arguably due to jealousy that Ava had remarried after 22 years. However, Tabitha soon warmed-up to Breeanna, developed a family relationship, and noticed that she had qualities that Angie sorely lacked.
*Ashli Zinn: Breeanna’s adopted stepdaughter. 
*Kenneth Zinn: Breeanna’s stepson.
*Jim Sorensen: Breeanna's brother.
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